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Qualcomm will be investing $400 million (Rs 3,000 crore) in setting up its largest campus outside its San Diego headquarters in Hyderabad, IT minister KT Rama Rao's office said on Saturday.
The Times of India
The filing is the latest salvo in that dispute, designed to put pressure on Apple to settle.
CNBC
Nokia today disclosed its licensing fee for 5G standard essential patents: EUR 3 (U.S. $3.48) per device, a flat rate notably lower than 5G licenses announced by rivals Ericsson and Qualcomm.
Venturebeat
It will work nicely with the company's next-gen modems.
engadget
Qualcomm may have recently unveiled its 700-series chipsets, but the competition is just heating up. MediaTek is unveiling a new series of chipsets too.
Digital Trends
Qualcomm's veep of data centre technologies, Dileep Bhandarkar, has left the company, it appears.
The Register
A federal jury in Texas ordered Samsung Electronics to pay $400 million to a South Korean university for infringing one of fundamental patents related to double gate FinFET transistors. The same jury found that Globalfoundries and Qualcomm had infringed the same patent, but the two companies were not ordered to pay damages.
Anandtech
Qualcomm has denied rumors that the company is considering exiting the data center processor business.
ZDNet
The ruling clears an antitrust roadblock caused by trade tensions between the US and Beijing
South China Morning Post
"We are not looking at strategic options. We are not selling. We are still focused on it."
Reuters
Jacobs's new company, XCOM, will focus on 5G wireless technology but still doesn't have a business plan.
CNBC
The chip is AI capable and built using 10nm process technology.
Company release
Qualcomm Technologies has announced the formation of Qualcomm AI Research, a cross-functional, cooperative effort that encompasses all of the cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) research taking place across the company.
Company release
Samsung Electronics is in talks with several smartphone makers including China's ZTE to supply mobile processor chips, a senior executive said, a move that will bring it in more direct competition with larger rival Qualcomm.
Reuters
Qualcomm is preparing to give up its push to develop processors for data-center servers, an effort that sought to break Intel's hold on the lucrative market, according to a person familiar with the company's plans.
Bloomberg
China's antitrust regulator has approved Qualcomm's joint venture with a unit of China's state-owned Datang Telecom Technologyto design smartphone chipsets, people familiar with the matter said, a win for the US chip maker amid escalating US-China trade friction.
Wall Street Journal
Apple is expecting Intel to supply 70% of the modem chips inside the new iPhone models, which will debut this fall, and-if all goes well-plans to rely on the company for 100% of the modems in next year's iPhones, a source with knowledge of Apple's plans says.
Fast Company
Qualcomm accumulated a $125m legal bill in the three months to March and the chipmaker warned its costs would rise further in the coming months, as it prepares for a number of courtroom battles against Apple and US regulators.
The Financial Times
Qualcomm Inc reapplied for approval from China's Ministry of Commerce for its acquisition of NXP Semiconductors NV, which demanded a July deadline for closing the deal as regulators required additional concessions to give it approval.
Bloomberg
Though Qualcomm first evaluated non-headcount expense reductions, it concluded that a workforce reduction is needed to support long-term growth and success, a company spokesperson said.
Reuters
Facebook is building a team to design its own semiconductors, adding to a trend among technology companies to supply themselves and lower their dependence on chipmakers such as Intel and Qualcomm.
Bloomberg
China is slowing reviews of multibillion-dollar takeover deals being pursued by Qualcomm and Bain Capital, people familiar with the matter say, as US-China trade tensions escalate.
Wall Street Journal
7nm+ design libraries are not available yet, and thus design engineers at Apple, Nvidia or Qualcomm (to mention a few) are not expected to have a holistic (to borrow the terminology from ASML) view on cost/ benefits of 7nm+ with EUV.
Barron's
Paul Jacobs, the ousted chairman of Qualcomm, is making progress in lining up enough funding to offer to take the chipmaker private, and could make the bid within a few months, according to a person familiar with his plans.
Bloomberg
Qualcomm's vision intelligence platform features the company's first family of system-on-chips (SoCs) purpose-built for the Internet of Things (IoT) using 10nm FinFET process technology.
Company release
Nvidia cracked the list of top 10 semiconductor vendors by sales for the first time in 2017, joining Qualcomm as the only other strictly fabless chip supplier to attain that distinction last year, according to market research firm IHS Markit.
EE Times
NXP Semiconductors, the target of a $44 billion takeover by Qualcomm that is awaiting approval by Chinese anti-monopoly regulators, has sold its stake in a Chinese chip-design joint venture.
Reuters
Several packaging houses are developing the next wave of high-density fan-out packages for premium smartphones, but perhaps a bigger battle is brewing in the lower density fan-out arena.
Semiconductor Engineering
In the deepening trade negotiations between China and the US, the bargaining chips are quite literally chips.
TechCrunch
In the latest complication for Qualcomm, China's regulators are seeking more protections for local companies before approving the US chipmaker's proposed purchase of NXP Semiconductors, according to people familiar with the matter. That could jeopardize Qualcomm's bid to survive as an independent company.
Bloomberg
MediaTek, Cirrus Logic, and Xilinx could all be on Broadcom's shopping list.
Motley Fool
Broadcom executives said the company is eyeing fresh potential targets for acquisition, just days after US President Donald Trump quashed the company's proposed $117 billion hostile takeover attempt of rival Qualcomm.
EE Times
The move comes days after US President Donald Trump blocked Broadcom's $142bn hostile bid for the San Diego-based company over national security concerns.
The Financial Times
Company release
Talluri joins Micron after nine years at Qualcomm, where he most recently served as senior vice president of product management, responsible for the company's Internet of Things business and, before that, its mobile computing platform
Company release
President Donald Trump has blocked Singapore-based Broadcom's proposed US$140 billion takeover of rival US chipmaker Qualcomm on grounds of national security. His order cited "credible evidence" that a takeover "threatens to impair the national security of the US".
BBC News
Intel is considering a range of acquisition alternatives in reaction to Broadcom's hostile pursuit for Qualcomm that could include a bid for Broadcom, according to people familiar with the matter.
Wall Street Journal
Qualcomm's shareholders will no longer be meeting Tuesday to weigh in on Broadcom's unsolicited takeover bid for the U.S. chipmaker.
Fortune
Qualcomm has introduced the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 700 Mobile Platform Series, designed to exceed what is expected from today's high-tier mobile experiences, with features and performance previously only available in the premium Snapdragon 800 Mobile Platform Series. Advances to be expected in the 700 Series include on-device AI supported by the Qualcomm Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine, and improvements to camera, device performance and power.
Company release
Qualcomm has dropped its objections to being acquired by Singapore's Broadcom and is willing to agree a deal with its rival chipmaker if it raises its takeover offer to $160bn including debt, according to people involved in the negotiations.
The Financial Times
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