Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting

QCOM 174.69

0.0%

Dec 24 12:59 PM EST

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: engineer who wrote (50723)	3/1/2006 10:22:07 PM
From: slacker711	Read Replies (1) of 197031

then you all do not realize the value of the flarion acquisition. they bought out the rights to alot of the OFDMA patents. Which part of the radio thing do you think they do not have covered? I admit I am in a bit of a "show me the money" type mode with regards to OFDM. When Qualcomm was developing CDMA, they were clearly the first to solve the problems associated with mobility and the first to create a standard with all of the various improvements that were needed. With OFDM (and MIMO), it seems that a ton of companies were spending R&D dollars all at the same time. I know that Qualcomm has patents that will significantly improve the performance of OFDM....but I really dont have a clear idea if there is an equivalent to Qualcomm's five fundamental CDMA patents for mobile OFDM. I'll probably need to see some licenses or some more explicit claims from Qualcomm before I count on 5% OFDM royalties. Do you think that Qualcomm plus Flarion's patent position would be able to block any cellular OFDM solution....or would working around the patents make a prohibitive hit to performance? Slacker

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next