Fast Fashion in Chips? Mediatek beats Qualcomm
The Wall Street Journal had a great profile of Indian handset company Micromax yesterday. It was one of those articles I love – comparing one company’s model to that of […]
The Wall Street Journal had a great profile of Indian handset company Micromax yesterday. It was one of those articles I love – comparing one company’s model to that of […]
Yesterday, Avago announced it was going to acquire Broadcom. These are both big companies, and their combination puts them squarely into the top five of global chip companies. As I mentioned in […]
I had an odd conversation recently. Speaking to a friend at Qualcomm, he said that the management team there was really worried about Jana Partners’ activist attack on the company. […]
Last week, activist fund Jana Partners published a letter calling on Qualcomm to take several steps to improve shareholder value. (I know I am late in writing about this, but […]
One of the clearest trends over the past few years has been Qualcomm’s dominance of the LTE modem market. I have written about it a bit in the past, and […]
I recently had the chance to catch up with a few contacts from China who think the end is in sight for Qualcomm’s troubles with the government, but timing is uncertain and will likely result in a reduction in royalty rates.