Qualcomm employees shown:
Gail O’Toole, Bryan Gurganus, Nakul Daggal, Manish Tripathi
% = Gross Margin
Fiscal 2006, 2007 and 2008 results presented reflect the impact of share-based compensation related to our adoption of FAS 123R.
Qualcomm believes that access to advanced wireless voice and data services improves people’s lives, and we have been dedicated to delivering that for more than two decades. Our enabling technologies and unparalleled engineering and business development support services are vital to the evolution of wireless and are helping to make mobile connectivity more accessible to people everywhere.
With more than a billion units shipped worldwide annually,(b) the mobile phone has emerged as the world’s most popular device, surpassing sales of other seemingly ubiquitous consumer devices like televisions and computers. (c)
At the heart of every mobile phone, data card, wireless embedded laptop and network base station is a semiconductor chipset. iSuppli reported this year that Qualcomm continues to be the number one wireless chipset supplier in the world today.
In addition to developing and supplying industry-leading chipsets, Qualcomm also has a global licensing program that enables licensees to design, manufacture and sell a vast array of wireless devices based on Qualcomm’s extensive inventions and innovations.
Qualcomm licenses its technology worldwide to over 155 companies covering a variety of products that implement every major wireless standard (e.g., CDMA , WCDMA (UMTS ), TD-SCDMA and OFDM /OFDMA ). Qualcomm intellectual property provides our global licensee partners with many advantages and leads to more choices, faster time-to-market and more affordable products for consumers. Reflecting the success of our strategy, more than 3,500 different wireless device models (d) based on the CDMA technology pioneered by Qualcomm have been introduced cumulatively into the market.
(b) Source: Informa Research Services
(c) Source: Informa 2008
(d) Source: CDG and GSA, Oct 2008
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