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Qualcomm's R&D budget is around 25% of net sales. Google, Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft (for example) are considered big spenders, but they only spend 12-15% of n
by hajile 9y ago
Qualcomm's R&D budget is around 25% of net sales. Google, Cisco, Intel, and Microsoft (for example) are considered big spenders, but they only spend 12-15% of net sales (apple spends 2.2% of net sales on R&D).
Qualcomm sounds a lot more fair and reasonable than any of the other multi-billion dollar companies I know of.
- AlphaSite 9y agoActually don’t they spend 5-7%? It’s not huge percentage wise, but it’s still 10billion.
- hajile 9y agoMy number was taken from another source (I lost it). You can get higher or lower numbers by comparing to other things. For an apples to apples comparison (latest Qualcomm data I found was 2015) gives 3.4%. http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-hit-81b-in-2015-suggests-continued-work-on-massive-project http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/10/28/apple-rd-spending-...
- threeseed 9y agoUsing a percentage to compare R&D budgets is incredibly stupid. If I own a company with 100K revenue and spend 5K on R&D that doesn't make me more innovative, relevant or noteworthy than Apple. It's all about the amount and quality of R&D that is important.
- pwinnski 9y agoPercentages for something like this are borderline-meaningless. Qualcomm spends an average of 1.325B per quarter, and peaked in 2014 with 1.429B.[0] Apple spends an average of 1.959B per quarter, but that has been steadily rising to 2.937B last quarter.[1] [0] https://ycharts.com/companies/QCOM/r_and_d_expense https://ycharts.com/companies/QCOM/r_and_d_expense [1] https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/r_and_d_expense https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/r_and_d_expense