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This is true today but doesn't have to be in the future. Technologies change. Patents expire. There will be a 6g after 5g. I'm not sure who will own the pat
by snarfy 9y ago
This is true today but doesn't have to be in the future. Technologies change. Patents expire. There will be a 6g after 5g. I'm not sure who will own the patents on it. Most likely one of those two companies for sure, but you never know. Apple could invest the R&D and come up with something much better than we have today, and we all end up with Apple radio chips in our phones instead of Qualcomm.
- j605 9y agoQualcom and Broadcom create prototypes even before standards are finalized so it is very difficult for an outsider to get in the game.
- dmitriid 9y agoApple created it's own 64-bit ARM chip before the specification was ready.
- madeofpalk 9y agoTechnologies change by Qualcomm inventing new ones and patenting them.
- philfrasty 9y agoDo they have both exceptional engineers + patent lawyers? Or is their IP stack purely through acquisitions?
- newusertoday 9y agothey definitely had exceptional engineers in the past, irvin jacob and andrew viterbi practically invented cdma while everyone else was going with tdm/fdm based systems.
- dis-sys 9y agopeople used the exact same argument when transitioning to 4G, they hoped that Qualcomm could lose the 4G battle so they could pay less qualcomm tax. what actually happened?
- kalleboo 9y agoFor those interested in the patent landscape around mobile, this blog post has a rundown of the biggest patent holders for 5G-related technologies. The biggest ones are Qualcomm, InterDigital (a NPE), Nokia, Ericsson and Intel. http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/03/31/5g-mobile-networks-next-big-battleground/id=67632/ http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/03/31/5g-mobile-networks-next...