11/18/2009
Bloomberg TV – Hong Kong
Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — Qualcomm Inc., the world’s biggest maker of handset chips, is in talks to supply products for use in Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Chief Executive Officer Paul Jacobs said.
“We continue to discuss it, but haven’t made it yet,” Jacobs said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong today. “Hopefully, in the future, we will have the opportunity.”
Qualcomm seeks to join suppliers including Toshiba Corp. and Infineon Technologies AG to win chip orders for the iPhone, one of the two top-selling smart phones in the U.S. in the second-quarter, according to researcher NPD Group Inc. The San Diego-based company already sells semiconductors for handsets that use Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile technology, and Google Inc.’s Android software, Jacobs said.
“We talk to everybody in the industry,” Jacobs said. “We are very strong in the smart-phone market.”
The iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry Curve were the best-selling smart phones in the U.S. in the second- quarter, NPD Group said in August.
Qualcomm will next year start selling chips for mobile phones that support China’s domestically developed TD-SCDMA, or time division synchronous code-division multiple access, technology, according to Adrian Fu, a Hong Kong-based public relations manager at the chip company, who attributed the information to Jacobs.
China Mobile Ltd., the world’s biggest phone company by users, had 1.66 million users for TD-SCDMA service on Sept. 30, according to its Web site. The Beijing-based carrier has more than 500 million subscribers to its slower second-generation, or 2G, network.
Qualcomm rose 32 cents to $45.83 at 9:48 a.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The stock had advanced 27 percent this year before today.
