Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company, as well as the largest fabless chip supplier in the world, based in San Diego, California.
Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by UC San Diego Professor Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included ...
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Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company, as well as the largest fabless chip supplier in the world, based in San Diego, California.
Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by UC San Diego Professor Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Franklin Antonio. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Parviz Nazarian and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder.
In 1990 Qualcomm began the design of the first CDMA-based cellular base station, based upon calculations derived from the CDMA-based OmniTRACS satellite system. This work began as a study contract from AirTouch which was facing a shortage of cellular capacity in Los Angeles....
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