76 Facts About Qualcomm Incorporated

Qualcomm Incorporated was created in July 1985 by seven former Linkabit employees led by Irwin Jacobs.

Qualcomm Incorporated grew from eight employees in 1986 to 620 employees in 1991, due to demand for Omnitracs.

Qualcomm Incorporated was operating at a loss in the 1990s due to its investment in CDMA research.

Since the base station division was losing a year, profits skyrocketed in the following year, and Qualcomm Incorporated was the fastest growing stock on the market with a 2,621 percent growth over one year.

Around this time, Qualcomm Incorporated established offices in Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

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Qualcomm Incorporated announced Steven Mollenkopf would succeed Paul Jacobs as CEO in December 2013.

Mollenkopf said he would expand Qualcomm Incorporated's focus to wireless technology for cars, wearable devices, and other new markets.

Qualcomm Incorporated announced its intent to acquire NXP Semiconductors for $47 billion in October 2016.

Qualcomm Incorporated extended a tender offer to NXP at least 29 times pending Chinese approval, before abandoning the deal in July 2018.

On January 6,2021, Qualcomm Incorporated appointed its president and chip division head Cristiano Amon as its new chief executive.

On January 13,2021, Qualcomm Incorporated announced it would acquire NUVIA, a server CPU startup founded in early 2019 by ex-Apple and ex-Google architects, for approximately $1.

In March 2022, Qualcomm Incorporated acquired the advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving software brand Arriver from the investment company SSW Partners.

In June 2022, Qualcomm Incorporated acquired Israeli startup Cellwize through its investment arm Qualcomm Incorporated Ventures.

Qualcomm Incorporated indicated that its licenses with Arm cover custom-designed processors.

In mid-1985, Qualcomm Incorporated was hired by Hughes Aircraft to provide research and testing for a satellite network proposal to the Federal Communications Commission.

Qualcomm Incorporated further developed the CDMA techniques for commercial use and submitted them to the Cellular Telephone Industries Association in 1989 as an alternative to the time-division multiple access standard for second-generation cell-phone networks.

Qualcomm Incorporated-supported CDMA standards eventually unseated TDMA as the more popular 2G standard in North America, due to its network capacity.

Qualcomm Incorporated conducted CDMA test demonstrations in 1989 in San Diego and in 1990 in New York City.

Qualcomm Incorporated entered the Russian and Latin American markets in 2005.

Qualcomm Incorporated formed licensing agreements with Nokia in Europe, Nortel in Canada, and with Matsushita and Mitsubishi in Japan.

Qualcomm Incorporated entered the Chinese market through a partnership with China Unicom in 2000, which launched the first CDMA-based network in China in 2003.

Qualcomm Incorporated was forced to expand into manufacturing in the 1990s in order to produce the hardware carriers needed to implement CDMA networks that used Qualcomm Incorporated's intellectual property.

In 1994, Qualcomm Incorporated partnered with Northern Telecom and formed a joint partnership with Sony, in order to leverage their manufacturing expertise.

Also, in March 1997, after Qualcomm Incorporated introduced its Q phone, Motorola initiated a lawsuit for allegedly copying the design of its Startac phone.

In December 1999, Qualcomm Incorporated sold its manufacturing interests to Kyocera Corporation, a Japanese CDMA manufacturer and Qualcomm Incorporated licensee.

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Qualcomm Incorporated responded by refusing to license its intellectual property for the standard.

Qualcomm Incorporated agreed to license its CDMA patents for variants such as WCDMA.

Qualcomm Incorporated claimed to own 38 percent of WCDMA's essential patents, whereas European GSM interests sponsored a research paper alleging Qualcomm Incorporated only owned 19 percent.

Qualcomm Incorporated consolidated its interests in telecommunications carriers, such as Cricket Communications and Pegaso into a holding company, Leap Wireless, in 1998.

Qualcomm Incorporated initially advocated for the CDMA-based Ultra Mobile Broadband standard for fourth generation wireless networks.

Qualcomm Incorporated halted development of UMB in 2005 and decided to support the LTE standard, even though it didn't rely as heavily on Qualcomm Incorporated patents.

Qualcomm Incorporated became more focused on using its intellectual property to manufacture semiconductors in a fabless manufacturing model.

Qualcomm Incorporated announced it was developing the Scorpion central processing unit for mobile devices in November 2005.

Qualcomm Incorporated won a government auction in India in 2010 for $1 billion in spectrum and licenses from which to offer broadband services.

In 2001, Qualcomm Incorporated introduced Brew, a smartphone app development service with APIs to access contacts, billing, app-stores, or multimedia on the phone.

In 2004, Qualcomm Incorporated created a MediaFLO subsidiary to bring its FLO specification to market.

Qualcomm Incorporated built an $800 million MediaFLO network of cell towers to supplement carrier networks with one that is designed for multimedia.

Qualcomm Incorporated created the FLO Forum standards group with 15 industry participants in July 2005.

Qualcomm Incorporated rebooted the effort in 2013 with LTE Broadcast, which uses pre-existing cell towers to broadcast select content locally on a dedicated spectrum, such as during major sporting events.

In June 2011, Qualcomm Incorporated introduced AllJoyn, a wireless standard for communicating between devices like cell phones, televisions, air-conditioners, and refrigerators.

The subsidiary doubled its employee-count by acquiring HealthyCircles Inc, a healthcare IT company, the following May Qualcomm Incorporated life was later sold to a private equity firm, Francisco Partners, in 2019.

In 2016, Qualcomm Incorporated developed its first beta processor chip for servers and PCs called "Server Development Platform" and sent samples for testing.

PC Magazine said the release was "historic" for Qualcomm Incorporated, because it was a new market segment for the company.

Qualcomm Incorporated created a Qualcomm Incorporated Datacenter Technologies subsidiary to focus on the PCs and servers market.

In 2017, Qualcomm Incorporated introduced embedded technology for 3D cameras intended for augmented reality apps, and developed and demonstrated laptop processors.

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In 2000, Qualcomm Incorporated formed a joint venture with Ford called Wingcast, which created telematics equipment for cars, but was unsuccessful and closed down two years later.

Qualcomm Incorporated acquired the wireless electric car charging company, HaloIPT, in November 2011 and later sold the company to WiTricity in February 2019.

Qualcomm Incorporated started introducing Snapdragon system-on-chips and Gobi modems and other software or semiconductor products for self-driving cars and modern in-car computers.

In 2020, Qualcomm Incorporated hired Baidu Veteran, Nan Zhou, to head Qualcomm Incorporated's push into AI.

Since many of Qualcomm Incorporated's patents are part of an industry standard, the company has agreed to license those patents under "fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory" terms.

Qualcomm Incorporated says its patents are more expensive because they are more important and its pricing is within the range of common licensing practices.

In 2005, Broadcom and Qualcomm Incorporated were unable to reach an agreement on cross-licensing their intellectual property, and Broadcom sued Qualcomm Incorporated alleging it was breaching ten Broadcom patents.

Qualcomm Incorporated alleged Broadcom was using litigation as a negotiation tactic and that it would respond with its own lawsuits.

Qualcomm Incorporated sued Broadcom, alleging it was using seven Qualcomm Incorporated patents without permission.

In September 2006, a New Jersey court judge ruled that Qualcomm Incorporated's patent monopoly was an inherent aspect of creating industry standards and that Qualcomm Incorporated's pricing practices were lawful.

In June 2007, the ITC ruled that Qualcomm Incorporated had infringed on at least one Broadcom patent and banned corresponding imports.

However, an engineer's testimony led to discovery of 21 JVT-related emails Qualcomm Incorporated lawyers had withheld from the court, and 200,000 pages of JVT-related documents.

Qualcomm Incorporated's lawyers said the evidence was overlooked by accident, whereas the judge said it was gross misconduct.

Qualcomm Incorporated alleged the six companies were colluding together under the code name Project Stockholm in a legal strategy to negotiate lower rates.

Qualcomm Incorporated filed a series of patent-infringement lawsuits against Nokia in Europe, Asia, the US, and with the ITC.

In July 2008, Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated reached an out-of-court settlement that ended the dispute and created a 15-year cross-licensing agreement.

The Securities and Exchange Commission started an investigation into whether Qualcomm Incorporated breached antibribery laws through its activities in China.

In late 2016 The Korea Fair Trade Commission alleged Qualcomm Incorporated abused a "dominant market position" to charge cell phone manufacturers excessive royalties for patents and limit sales to companies selling competing semiconductor products.

In late 2018 Qualcomm Incorporated paid a settlement to Taiwan for in fines and a promise to spend in the local Taiwan economy.

In January 2017, the Federal Trade Commission initiated an investigation into allegations that Qualcomm Incorporated charged excessive royalties for patents that are "essential to industry standards".

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Apple alleged Qualcomm Incorporated was engaging in unfair competition by selling industry-standard patents at a discount rate in exchange for an exclusivity agreement for its semiconductor products.

Qualcomm Incorporated filed counter-claims alleging Apple made false and misleading statements to induce regulators to sue Qualcomm Incorporated.

Qualcomm Incorporated sued Apple's suppliers for allegedly not paying Qualcomm Incorporated's patent royalties, after Apple stopped reimbursing them for patent fees.

Qualcomm Incorporated petitioned the International Trade Commission to prohibit imports of iPhones, on the premise that they contain stolen Qualcomm Incorporated patents after Apple's suppliers stopped paying.

Qualcomm Incorporated filed suit against Apple in China for alleged patent infringement in October 2017.

The following month, Apple counter-sued, alleging Qualcomm Incorporated was using patented Apple technology in its Android components.

In June 2022, Qualcomm Incorporated announced the company had won its appeal against $1+ billion European Union antitrust fine.

Qualcomm Incorporated appealed to the Ninth Circuit, which reversed the decision in August 2020.

Qualcomm Incorporated develops software, semiconductor designs, patented intellectual property, development tools and services, but does not manufacture physical products like phones or infrastructure equipment.

Qualcomm Incorporated is a predominantly fabless provider of semiconductor products for wireless communications and data transfer in portable devices.

Qualcomm Incorporated provides licenses to use its patents, many of which are critical to the CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA wireless standards.