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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: engineer who wrote (124902)	10/29/2002 12:11:26 PM
From: Sam Citron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Siemens will pay royalties to QCOM based on any QCOM IP embedded in products it sells to China or elsewhere. They are platform neutral -- just want to sell equipment. China is a nation rather than a company so it does not directly pay any royalties. Because of its huge internal market though, China will naturally tend to prefer domestic Chinese companies who have a strong incentive to push the new standard to avoid the royalties. It's a somewhat murky issue.