Qualcomm

Qualcomm is the American Entreprise which invented technology CDMA, technology impossible to circumvent in Mobile telephony. It is specialized in the design and the manufacture of solutions Télécommunications, in particular of wireless telecommunications. In 2007, it became one of the large companies of information the technologies and the communication.

History

In 1985, seven American professionals of the trade of telecommunications create Qualcomm, on the model of a Startup. Their objective consists in putting on the market of the solutions improving quality of the communications. The activity begin with the supply of services with the large actors from the market.

Success settles in less than five years. In 1988, Qualcomm conceive, produced and market one of the systems still current of follow-up of fleet of vehicles, known under the OmniTRACS mark. The following year, in 1989, it invents the technology CDMA which is quickly adopted by all industry.

In 2006, it is classified in five the first hundred companies according to Standard & Poor' S and '' Fortune ''. It is also rewarded like “company where it is good to work”.

Trades

It designs, develops and manufactures components necessary to the realization of solutions of telecommunications. These components are essentially printed circuits and software. In addition to technology CDMA, it controls technology WCDMA and more generally all principal technologies of the mobile telephony of third generation, known as 3G.

Produced examples of the type which it factory are the printed circuits and the software embarked in the terminals of mobile telephony.

Its customers are directly or indirectly various types of actors of the industry of telecommunications: manufacturers of equipment of infrastructure, manufacturers of terminals, the operators and the services companies.

It sells part of its solutions in the form of transfer of patents.

External bonds

Official site

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