04/07/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
A federal judge in San Diego found that six attorneys who represented Qualcomm Inc. in a high-profile case against Broadcom Corp. should not face sanctions for mishandling evidence, but sharply criticized Qualcomm employees for withholding information from the lawyers.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Major, ending an evidence-handling flap that [...]
03/02/2010
Unstrung
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM) has started laying out the details of its upcoming 3G femtocell chipset, which supports both CDMA and GSM standards, on its QCT Connect Website.
The CDMA pioneer is listing a number of technical features for the upcoming chipsets:
A combined radio chip and 3G baseband controller
Support for 3G CDMA standards [...]
02/01/2010
IDG News Service – TAIPEI BUREAU
U.S. wireless technology developer Qualcomm plans to build a research and development center in South Korea and invest in Pulsus Technologies, a local chip maker.
The R&D center is being built in cooperation with South Korean academic, government and corporate institutions and will focus on next generation mobile communications technology, [...]
01/19/2010
Techradar.com
Lenovo’s Skylight netbook is just one of a whole host of emerging devices now powered by Snapdragon
Snapdragon mobile device chips have a competitive advantage because of their integrated 3G and wireless capabilities, believes Qualcomm.
In a technology briefing with TechRadar, the company added it would be announcing a 1.5GHz dual-core version of the Snapdragon [...]
01/08/2010
Wall Street Journal
Qualcomm has come to market with a display technology called Mirasol that it expects to power next-generation, color e-book readers. Mirasol relies on so-called Imod technology, which uses ambient light to generate images and colors.
Unless you’re Stephen Hawking, the scientific details will make your nose bleed. But Qualcomm says that e-readers with [...]
01/07/2010
IDG News Service – San Francisco Bureau
GlobalFoundries is likely to start manufacturing semiconductors for Qualcomm, the companies said Thursday, adding a major customer for the chip foundry as it looks to expand.
The companies have reached a nonbinding agreement under which GlobalFoundries will initially offer Qualcomm access to its advanced 45-nanometer and 28-nanometer manufacturing technology, [...]
01/07/2010
Bloomberg News – San Francisco Bureau
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s biggest personal-computer maker, is testing Qualcomm Inc.’s Snapdragon chip for use in a scaled-down personal computer, a challenge to Intel Corp.’s dominance in the processor market.
Hewlett-Packard is demonstrating the computer at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, San Diego- based Qualcomm said [...]
01/05/2010
Seoul Economic Daily
“When it comes to a business, you always have to look and say what are other people not-what do they believe-what’s wrong about they believe and then find another area. You need the blue ocean.”
Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, leader of mobile chip industry had a interview with Seoul Economic Daily [...]
12/15/2009
SinoCast
SHENZHEN, Dec 15, 2009 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) — QCOM — Patterning sixteen Chinese partners such as Huawei Technologies and ZTE, Qualcomm staged a partner conference in China on December 4, during which Qualcomm president disclosed that the company derived 23% of its total sales from China last year, adding that with telecom [...]
12/15/2009
CNET News.com
The Google phone will use what is probably the fastest smartphone chip on the planet and become the first non-Windows smartphone to tap into this kind of processing power.
The Google phone’s Snapdragon processor is one of the fastest smartphone chips.
Conspicious among the Google phone’s leaked specifications is the Snapdragon processor from Qualcomm. [...]
