He was about to secure a business deal that would have ensured Qualcomm's success worldwide, but he got too caught up in wrestling sharks in Australia.
@previous (B)
Was this around the time he was advising Crocodile Dundee on knife policy?
@previous (A)
Yes! He actually invented the knife back in his younger years, so he was the best person to do so.
@OP
Putting Planet Earth aside for a momento.
Five of the top seven carriers in the U.S. use CDMA: Verizon Wireless, Sprint, MetroPCS, Cricket, and U.S. Cellular. AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM.
Most of Planet Earth is GSM
There are good and bad CDMA and GSM networks.
Now for us who own Qualcomm stock...3G GSM is also actually a type of CDMA. And all forms of GSM have to pay royalties to Qualcomm for use of multiple patents. In fact Broadcom a major player in WiFi sued the hell out of Qualcomm and won big (but Qualcomm has so much green cash in bank +15Billon green it no matter LoL)
Current GSM" is actually a CDMA technology, called WCDMA (wideband CDMA) So Qualcomm is most pleased that GSM is used all over Planet Earth as cash flows n flows n flows to Qualcomm no matter which technology is used.
Then there are the Chips for GSM only or CDMA only and Chips from Qualcomm that do both at same tyme. Plus the Key advantage Qualcomm Snapdraggon chip has over the others. One chip that does wot others take 3 chips 2do.
Its not just real estate space..It power from battery.
Its more Planet Earth wise Confucious re 4G cause for a major good 4G n I dare not tell ya whats beyond the 4G LTE - The fact is CDMA ain't the full way to go long term ...well not exactly as it has been cause in the long run it will be has been after 2020 or so.
Ya want the full scoop well as much as I am allowed to share?
OFDM, OFDMA (OFDM Access) and MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) Qualcomm much to the pain in ass for GSM n everyone else has over 1200 Patents on such technology. Its what all digital television uses.
Its the real future but bottom line is when it cums to getting that last
bit bytes out of Spectrum the laws of Physics can not be disobeyed and on paper CDMA had pushed those close to the limits.
Qualcomm in fact started out b4 even Qualcomm with OFDM OFDMA for precursor company Linkabit. But decided that CDMA had more to offer back THEN. (Spectrum not avail for OFDM OFDMA)
So OFDM, OFDMA with CDMA integrated, takes it so close to the ultimate line - at the very edge of Shannon's & Nyquest theory, that any other breakthrough only ends up in long term Patent fights for which I suspect will make attorneys so damn rich it will drive more peeps into law patent biz.
Real deal is - any form of upgraded GSM which now is just a name cept for that sim card diff - Silly when one can carry on key ring the equiv or just pull in software from cloud - Future will have no silly Sim lol
But C back and still the problem for Planet Earth is Spectrum blocks - OFD variants need HUGE HUGE Blocks of contiguous spectrum so until that's a go Planet Earth then improvements will be slow.
No matter which way cause Qualcomm is rather large
Then and this drives Intel Corp pure insane - They decided to stick with CPU power hungry originally MS compatible - Brits ARM - with say Google Android driven by Qualcomm well hell its the standard.
So now let me end this with Chips. Chips for bunny rabbits n toys n phones n gamers you name it Chips - Add up all the chips by everyone for everything - Two years ago Qualcomm was ranked only number 9 in world wide manuf for EVERYTHING TOTAL - Then last year #5 and now LMAO - With largest growth and poor Intel is still trying to find a way in2 Cells n Tablets n Notebooks and oh wait they decided maybe Qualcomm was rite to go with ARM after all.
And Qualcomm not be so dumb as to make the parts - They let IBM n Intel and (not supposed to say) but its on web - They are Fabless and Intel wants to be as well total - Sorry u asked?
One hell of a company to work for - One hell of a Professor Irwin Jacobs was for me at MIT first n then UCSD later and one hell of a founder of Qualcomm n friend cept we are at odds re him fuckin KPBS and attempt to fuck up Balboa park for all the rite reasons in all the wrong ways but funny how recently after I lobbied the hell out of him at dinner he pulled his money out of the Balboa park fuk up
er dank ya for lettin me Rant