Percentages 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 spe

Percentages 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