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It's puzzling to me that Qualcomm has managed to get to the position now where it is virtually a monopoly provider for ARM chipsets that support LTE. A lot of d
by zmmmmm 13y ago
It's puzzling to me that Qualcomm has managed to get to the position now where it is virtually a monopoly provider for ARM chipsets that support LTE. A lot of discussion happens about standards essential patents wrt Motorola and Samsung - surely that equally applies to Qualcomm and the other chip makers (not least of all Samsung) should be able to readily license these patents and build competitive chipsets?
- wmf 13y agoIt may be more that Verizon and Sprint require CDMA and Qualcomm has a monopoly on that, so if you want to support Verizon you need Qualcomm and once you've designed that version it's easier to also use Qualcomm for the AT&T version as well.