Qualcomm

San Diego semiconductors

Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and telecommunications company best known for developing mobile phone chips and wireless technology standards.

The company's Snapdragon processors power most Android smartphones.

Qualcomm holds extensive patents on cellular technology, particularly CDMA and 5G, making it a major player in licensing disputes: Qualcomm supplies chips to Samsung and Apple.

wireless

5G

Current mobile network standard

  • 4GFourth-generation mobile technology
  • LTEWireless broadband standard
  • Wi-FiWireless network standard

Bluetooth · connectivity · spectrum · bandwidth · signal · mobile · broadband · modem · RF · telecommunications

semiconductor

modem

Digital-to-analog signal converter

chip · microchip · transistor · circuit · CPU · GPU · integrated · fabrication · wafer · die

corporate

NASDAQ

Electronic securities exchange

revenue · patents · merger · acquisition · shareholders · board · earnings · dividend · IPO · subsidiary

Categories
Opposites
chip architecture rivalry

QualcommIntel

Semiconductor corporation from California

Apple · AMD · vertical integration

business model in tech

QualcommApple

Cupertino tech giant

Samsung · Xiaomi · Google

wireless standards approach

Qualcommopen standard

Unrestricted technical specification

Family

quality, communications

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Rated G