I grew up in San Diego and at the time being involved with technology meant living in Qualcomm’s shadow in one way or another. So I tend to agree that being th

I grew up in San Diego and at the time being involved with technology meant living in Qualcomm’s shadow in one way or another. So I tend to agree that being the reference mobile SoC vendor outside of Cupertino is pretty on brand for their absolute top priority. At Qualcomm if it doesn’t make dollars it doesn’t make sense as we used to say. And good for them! After a brief flirtation with the idea of becoming a pure play CDMA patent troll they seem to have gotten back to their roots and started doing engineering again. It’s a cool company.