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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: carranza2 who wrote (44047)	1/6/2005 1:51:17 PM
From: Jim Mullens	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 197405

C2, Re: 802.11n and your comments - “Q owning future versions of WiFi. I love it. This could be huge.” I recall Dr. Paul Jacobs discussing the Q’s role in “future” technologies I believe during the Spring Analyst meeting, emphasizing their extensive involvement. It’s good to see their dedication via significant R&D expenditures toward securing Q’s prominent place in future wireless technologies. It’s also good to see the analyst community recognizing and reporting such. This is the snip from the recent Harris Nesbitt Report on 802.11n >>>>>>>>>>>> Harris Nesbitt report >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 802.11n The IEEE 802.11n-working group is pursuing a high-throughput (at least 100 megabits per second) amendment to the 802.11 standard for local area networking. Two primary camps are proposing multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) transmission schemes for the 802.11nworking group. Three complete proposals as well as a number of partial proposals have been submitted to this working group. Qualcomm has a Boston-based engineering team that has been developing MIMO technology that appears to be far-reaching in its scope and potential application to the extent that any of the MIMO approaches adopted under 802.11n would be likely to be covered by Qualcomm’s MIMO inventions. Also, as part of this working group, Qualcomm is putting an OFDMA proposal together with prototype equipment that the company indicates is in conformance with the proposed specifications. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< It appears that Q’s R&D expenditures (a small fraction of NOK’s $5 billion per year) are contributing more than just fancy face plates (gg). QCOM R&D- $ M Fy00......$300 Fy01........409 Fy02........449 Fy03........524 Fy04........720