QUALCOMM WORKER FOUND DEAD FOR 3 DAYS Supervisors at Qualcomm's regional headquarters in San Diego, CA are trying to determine why no one noticed that one of their employees had been sitting dead at his desk for three days before anyone asked if he... — read more 

Ragson is anti-innovation and wants to devalue patents. Patents aren't an asset subject to bubble pricing, like say, the housing market. Patent licensing reflects the will of two consenting adults, and are the most efficient and liquid of markets. If... — read more 

Many people complained about the overheating issues of Qualcomm's flagship SoC, so Google decided to add a fire warning icon next to the apps and games from the Play Store that require a lot of resources... — read more 

All your bases belong to China. Typical of companies in america. In the pursuit of winning over business in China, make short term concessions like transferring jobs and tech know-how to overseas. Then, wait a few years, for your competitors to catch... — read more 

No guarantee that the Q will keep paying dividends when times get rough. Employees already have too much vested in the Q (their primary source of income in an area with only one major tech employer), so no need to hold on to so many shares as well... — read more 

Keep up the good work everyone great things are to come.

Qualcomm acquired CSR plc for $2.5B. The deal will close by end of summer 2015. Although CSR was profitable in 2014, it did not meet the revenue and profit target, so the bonus is half of past 2 years. What do you Qualcomm people think about the... — read more 

Has anyone ever been invited to HR to "discuss their problems" when they merely requested information?

As an engineer that had the opportunity to work at various telecom companies, including Qualcomm, I've noticed that a great company that once starts with "A players" ends up eventually hiring "B players" as the company gets bigger, which in turn ends... — read more 

There are a few sets of companies which have made chip design cheaper as well as easier. ARM has allowed virtually any company to make processor. IP providers are more standard now with TSMC/ARM and others providing standard libraries to everyone... — read more 

It seems like everybody and their uncle has an apps processor / LTE modem bundle. It's gonna be a quick race to the "good enough performance" finish line. Mobille chipsets are fast becoming a commodity item.

The Company has a tough time as Intel from one side & MediaTech from another side are pushing while long-term customers like Apple and Samsung are going away. To make share-holders happy for the short time, Qualcomm lay offs engineers that are doing... — read more 

Shouldn't the company be more concerned about not having water at corporate headquarters and in silicon valley than anything else right now? Shouldn't we build out massive desal plants so that the state can maintain current water consumption rate... — read more 

With Samsung and Apple using there own Apps processors and companies such as Intel providing modems, Qualcomm is ffinally facing some real competition. Where will QCOM'a growth come from now that rivals are eroding Qualcomm's mobile market share?

Are there still groups at QC run by and for engineers? Or is it time to throw in the towel and try to join program management? After all, they seem to be revered as gods while engineers are treated as commodity.

The useful career life expectancy of engineers these days is between 21-41 years old, if you can even make it to 40ish. A lot of engineers have already figured out plan B is to using that 20 years to accumulate as much money as possible and invest it... — read more 

QC LTE lead is being chipped away slowly. It is now below 80% market share. QC is not in danger of losing the lead any time soon, but the problem is in growth. A single digit percentage growth means QC valuation stops growing, like what happened to... — read more 

"iPhones will ship with Intel LTE chips inside in 2016" http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/10/iphones-will-ship-with-intel-lte-chips-inside-in-2016/

Google is #1, topping the list of America's best companies to work for. Again! Also on the list: Cisco, numerous smaller tech companies, several banking firms, insurance companies, at least 5 (count 'em dudes!) law firms, and the "Whole Paycheck"... — read more 

Walk into any lab and it's all T badges, half of them pink. It's the future of Qualcomm as the IP portfolio is thinned out by flat LTE networks and modems grow into more and more a commodity like WiFi modems. The glory days are over.

There is no promotion of competition (typo) through heavy handed licensing. Look at the IC industry, Ericson, Freescale,TI, Broadcom, Nvida, and so on, all quit mobile business. In fact, it is the licensing practice that prevents competition, when QC... — read more 

Mollenkopf gave Bloomberg several predictions, like ARM would replace Intel in PC’s and servers. Is he driving QC down a path of head on collision with Intel? Will there be casualty and more layoffs on QC side?

Have a great weekend!!!

CorpIT laidoff 20 people today. CorpIT has.been laying off small numbers of people around every review period for years now. CorpIT has to be one of the worst dept to work...

It's sleek, it's really fast, battery life is much better. And the best part of it is that Samsung did this without using a Snapdragon processor in it, which is a remarkable achievement. This definitely is an ante up for everyone else to step it up.

Heard rumors that a few people in modem teams in WT/Q are being put on PIP. Can anyone here confirm? What alternate option or package do they get if any?

Will the smartphone go the way of the pc with same tired feature set upgrades, commoditized parts, Asian OEMs undercutting each other resulting in razor thin margins etc.

Most of the time I can't understand what they are saying. The other times, they aren't listening to the problem(s) I am describing because they are too busy reading from a script and don't think. The rest of the time, I get a "I can't do anything... — read more 

I, for one, welcome with open arms the Too Big To Jail crooks at BofA and their shiny 4 billion dollar credit line. Maybe this means a dividend hike! That would be an extra hard slap in the face to the people just let go. Next thing you know, Carl... — read more 

Should I take it or use it to negotiate a promo? Anyone have experience in doing this?