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 Headquarters in San Diego, California | |
| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Telecoms equipments Semiconductors |
| Founded | July 1985 |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | San Diego, California , U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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| Products | CDMA/WCDMA chipsets, Snapdragon, BREW, OmniTRACS, MediaFLO, QChat, mirasol displays, uiOne, Gobi, Qizx, CPU |
| Revenue |  US$35.82 billion (2023) |
| US$7.788 billion (2023) | |
| US$7.232 billion (2023) | |
| Total assets |  US$51.04 billion (2023) |
| Total equity | US$21.58 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | c. 50,000 (2023) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | qualcomm.com |
| Footnotes / references Financials as of September 24, 2023[update].[1] | |
Qualcomm Incorporated (/ˈkwɒlkɒm/)[2] is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware.[3] It creates semiconductors, software and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4G,[4] CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards.
Qualcomm was established in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs and six other co-founders. Its early research into CDMA wireless cell phone technology was funded by selling a two-way mobile digital 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.[5] Afterwards, there was a series of legal disputes about pricing for licensing patents required by the standard.[6]
Over the years, Qualcomm has expanded into selling semiconductor products in a predominantly fabless manufacturing model. It also developed semiconductor components or software for vehicles, watches, laptops, wi-fi, smartphones, and other devices.
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