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Qualcomm

Qualcomm Incorporated () is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards.

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Qualcomm is an American technology company based in San Diego that designs and makes the semiconductors and software that power wireless communications in phones and other devices. The company is particularly important because it owns key patents for mobile technologies like 4G and 5G, giving it significant influence over how modern wireless networks operate worldwide.

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28 sections

Contents

History
Early history
1990–2015
2015–2024: NXP, Broadcom and Nuvia
2025–present: Further acquisitions
Wireless CDMA
2G
Early history
Holy wars of wireless
International
Manufacturing
3G
4G
5G
Software and other technology
Early software
Other technology
Developments since 2016
Patents and patent disputes
Broadcom
Nokia and Project Stockholm
Recent disputes
Apple
Federal Trade Commission
Operations and market-share
See also
References
External links

Founded by Irwin Jacobs and six others partners, its initial research into code-division multiple access (CDMA) wireless cellular technology was funded by the sale of a two-way digital mobile satellite communications system known as Omnitracs.. After a heated debate in the wireless industry, CDMA was adopted as a 2G standard in North America, with Qualcomm's patents incorporated. Afterwards, there was a series of legal disputes about pricing for licensing patents required by the standard.