Hello,
Forgive me if I am addressing this post to the wrong person, but I can recall much discussion some time ago about IDCC and its claims on CDMA patents.
I recently received a flyer in the mail advertising Tech Stocks 2001, a technology picking conference in Las Vegas with keynote speakers including George Gilder, Michael Murphy, Fred Briggs, Harry Newton among others. There was a list of companies that were to be presented and they included IDCC as well as WIND, KOPN, AMCC, AVNX. After hearing the discussion about IDCC on this board, I had dismissed them as a serious contender, but presented within this context, it makes me wonder. The blurb on them stated:
"Interdigital designs and develops chips and guts for mobile phones, personal digital assistants, laptops, digital cameras, etc. It makes money by engineering products for wireless phone and system builders and by licensing out its patented technology. It's working on application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for 3G wireless phones."
I know NOK is now selling CDMA phones to Verison, and I have seen their full page ads in my newspaper. These apparently do not have a chip licensed from Q, and they are not 1X (someone dissected the phone and reported to the QCOM thread)
It looks to me like they are perhaps a rising chimp like AMD to Intel. If any one knows any more up to date info on what they are up to or is planning on attending the conference on Dec. 4-6, perhaps it would be worthwhile to re-open the discussion. My gut feeling is that this is why Nokia is holding back.
Carol |
