Qualcomm

Qualcomm, or “Quality Communications” — despite being one of the
largest technology companies in the world, few people know the
absolutely amazing technological and business history behind it.
Seriously, this story is on par with Nvidia, TSMC and all the
great semiconductor giants. Without this single fabless company
based in San Diego, there’s almost no chance you’d be consuming
this episode on whatever device you’re currently listening on — a
fact that enables them to earn an incredible estimated $20 for
every new phone sold in the world. We dive into this story live
at the perfect venue: our first-ever European live show at
Solana’s Breakpoint conference in beautiful Lisbon,
Portugal! 


Links:


 The Qualcomm Equation

 Principles of Communications Engineering by Irwin
Jacobs and John Wozencraft

 Episode sources



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