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Qualcomm pays $975 mln, resolves China antitrust dispute
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> Qualcomm Inc has agreed to pay China a fine of $975 million, the largest in the country's corporate history, ending a 14-month government investigation into anti-competitive practices.
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> The deal also requires Qualcomm to lower its royalty rates on patents used in China, the U.S. chip-maker said in a statement.
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> Qualcomm cut its full-year earnings estimate because of the fine, which it said would cost it about 58 cents per share, but it raised the lower end of its revenue forecast slightly.

Qualcomm
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Qualcomm, Inc.
QualcommLogo.svg
Type
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: QCOM
S&P 500 Component
Industry Telecommunications equipment
Semiconductors
Founded San Diego, California, U.S. (1985)
Founder Irwin Jacobs
Andrew Viterbi
Franklin Antonio
Adelia Coffman
Andrew Cohen
Klein Gilhousen
Harvey White
Headquarters San Diego, California, U.S., Coordinates: 32.8952°N 117.1957°W
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Paul E. Jacobs
(Executive Chairman)
Steven Mollenkopf
(CEO)
Derek Aberle
(President)
Products CDMA/WCDMA chipsets, Snapdragon , BREW, OmniTRACS, MediaFLO, QChat, mirasol displays, uiOne, Gobi
Revenue Increase US$ 24.87 billion (2013)[1]
Operating income
Increase US$ 7.16 billion (2013)[1]
Net income
Increase US$ 6.85 billion (2013)[1]
Total assets Increase US$ 45.52 billion (2013)[1]
Total equity Increase US$ 36.09 billion (2013)[1]
Number of employees
26,000 (2013)[1]
Slogan Enabling the Wireless Industry
Website https://www.qualcomm.com

Qualcomm Research Center in San Diego, California.
Qualcomm Incorporated is an American global semiconductor company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. The company headquarters are located in San Diego, California, United States. The company has 157 worldwide locations. The parent company is Qualcomm Incorporated (Qualcomm), which includes the Qualcomm Technology Licensing Division (QTL). Qualcomm's wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), operates substantially all of Qualcomm's R&D activities, as well as its product and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. In November 2014, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf announced at the company’s annual analyst day meeting held in New York City that the company is planning to target the data center market with new server chips based on ARM technology and plans to make them commercially available by the end of 2015.

Contents [hide]
1 Corporate history
2 Acquisitions
3 Mobile phone standards
4 Satellite phone network
5 Legal issues
5.1 Qualcomm's role in 3G
6 Products
6.1 Software
6.1.1 Management & Diagnostic tool
7 Services
7.1 QChat
7.2 QChat Working
7.3 QChat and Sprint
8 Locations
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Corporate history[edit]
Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs, USC MIT alumnus Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder.

In 1990, Qualcomm began the design of the first CDMA-based cellular base station, based upon calculations derived from the CDMA-based OmniTRACS satellite system. This work began as a study contract from AirTouch which was facing a shortage of cellular capacity in Los Angeles. Two years later Qualcomm began to manufacture CDMA cell phones, base stations, and chips. The initial base stations were not reliable and the technology was licensed wholly to Nortel in return for their work in improving the base station switching. The first CDMA technology was standardized as IS-95. Qualcomm has since helped to establish the CDMA2000, WCDMA and LTE cellular standards.

In 1991, Qualcomm acquired Eudora (email client), a PC mail client that could be used with the Omnitracs system. The acquisition also associated a widely used email client with a company that was little-known at the time, Qualcomm.

In 1997, Qualcomm paid $18 million for the naming rights to the Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, renaming it to Qualcomm Stadium. The naming rights will belong to Qualcomm until 2017.[2]

In 1999, Qualcomm sold its base station business to Ericsson, and later, sold its cell phone manufacturing business to Kyocera. The company was now focused on developing and licensing wireless technologies and selling ASICs that implement them.

In 2011, Qualcomm announced that Steve Mollenkopf has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of the company, effective November 12. Promoted to CEO on December 16, 2013.[3]

CFO Bill Keitel retired and was replaced by Applied Materials CFO George Davis on March 11, 2013.[4]

Vista Equity Partners took over the Omnitracs business from Qualcomm Incorporated in November 2013.[5]

In October 2014, Qualcomm wrapped up a deal for chip maker CSR Plc for a fee of $2.5 billion, beating its biggest rival Microchip Technology.[6]

Acquisitions[edit]
Date announced/
publicly reported Company Business Value References
November 1997 Now Software Calendar and scheduling software Not disclosed [7]
January 2000 SnapTrack Cell-phone tracking software $1 billion [8]
March 2001 FleetAdvisor Fleet management software Not disclosed [9]
September 2004 Iridigm Display Corporation Display technology $170 million [10]
September 2004 Spike Technologies Semiconductor design services $19 million [11]
October 2004 Trigenix Cell phone user interface tools and apps $36 million [12]
August 2005 Elata Mobile content software $57 million [13][14]
August 2005 Flarion Wireless Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Access $600 million [14][15]
January 2006 Barkana Wireless Inc. Radio frequency circuits $56 million [16]
August 2006 Qualphone IP-based Multimedia Subsystems (IMS) $18 million [17]
November 2006 nPhase machine-to-machine (M2M) software Not disclosed [18]
December 2006 Airgo Networks Inc. Wi-fi networking Not disclosed [19]
December 2006 Bluetooth assets of RFMD Bluetooth $39 million [20]
November 2007 Firethorn Holdings Mobile banking services $210 million [21]
December 2007 SoftMax Noise cancellation for mobile phones Not disclosed [22]
March 2008 Xiam Technologies Ltd Content-targeting software $32 million [23]
January 2009 AMD handset division Graphics and multimedia software $65 million [24]
February 2009 Digital Fountain IPTV and mobile video Not disclosed [25]
April 2010 Tapioca URL-linking Not disclosed [26]
September 2010 WiPower Wireless charging pads for mobile devices Not disclosed [27][28]
October 2010 iSkoot Software for social media feeds on mobile devices Not disclosed [29]
September 2010 Sandridge Fabless multicore processor designs Estimated $55 million [30]
January 2011 Atheros Wi-fi networking $3.1 billion [31]
February 2011 Sylectus Wireless technologies for fleet management Not disclosed [32]
May 2011 SolLink (50 million shares) Flat panel displays $40 million [33]
June 2011 Rapid Bridge Configurable semiconductors (LiquidCell) Not disclosed [34]
July 25, 2011 GestureTek (some assets) Gesture recognition software Not disclosed [35]
September 2011 Bigfoot Networking Networking Not disclosed [36]
September 2011 Integrated Device Technology (a division) Video IC design division $60 million [37]
November 2011 HaloIPT Wireless charging for electric vehicles Not disclosed [38]
December 2011 Pixtronix Inc. Fabless MEMS displays $175–$200 million [39]
June 2012 Summit Microelectronics Programmable power integrated circuits Not disclosed [40]
August 2012 DesignArt Networks Miniature Wi-Fi access points Not disclosed [41]
November 2012 EPOS Development Ltd (some assets) ultrasound technologies for device input Not disclosed [42]
May 2013 Orb Networks Streaming video software Not disclosed [43]
May 2014 Wilocity WiGig semiconductor products Estimated $300 million [44]
January 2014 HP Patents 2,400 patents related to Palm, iPaq and Bitfone Not disclosed [45][46]
June 2014 Black Sand Technologies Inc. Power amplifier technology for wireless devices Not disclosed [47][48]
September 2014 Stonestreet One LLC Bluetooth Protocol Stack provider Not disclosed [49]
Oct 2014 CSR plc. Bluetooth for Automotive, Audio, and IoT Not disclosed
Mobile phone standards[edit]
Qualcomm pioneered the commercialization of the cdmaOne (IS-95) standard for wireless cellular communications, following up with CDMA2000, an early standard for third-generation (3G) mobile.

Today, the company is the leading patent holder in advanced 3G mobile technologies, including CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and its evolutions; WCDMA[50] and its higher-speed variant known as HSPA and its evolutions; and TD-SCDMA; as well as patents on 4G. The license streams from the patents on these inventions, and related products, are a major component of Qualcomm's business.

In June 2011, Qualcomm announced that it will be releasing a set of application programming interfaces geared to give Web-based applications deeper links into hardware.[51]

Satellite phone network[edit]
Main article: Globalstar
Beginning in 1991, Qualcomm participated in the development of the Globalstar satellite system along with Loral Space & Communications. It uses a low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation consisting of 44 active satellites. The system is used for voice telephony via hand-held satellite phones, asset tracking and data transfer using mobile satellite modems. The system was designed as a normal IS-95 system, and used the satellite as a "bent pipe" or "repeater" to transfer cellular signals from the handset to the terrestrial base station. Unlike the Iridium system, which routes phone calls between satellites, the Globalstar satellite must always be able to see both the handset and the base station to establish a connection, therefore, there is no coverage over the Earth's poles where there are no satellite orbits. There is also no coverage in locations where the large Globalstar base stations are not in view (some locations in the south atlantic, for examples.) Some of the Globalstar hardware is manufactured by Qualcomm. Like other satellite phone networks Globalstar went bankrupt in 1999, only to be bought up by a group of investors who are currently running the system.