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

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (62360)	4/10/2007 9:12:05 PM
From: ohohyodafarted	Respond to of 196963

Thank you for posting this. I didn't have time to read very far, but Qualcomm's legal staff presents some very interesting and valid arguments against the adoption of a downstream remedy which BRCM is asking for. Lets hope the ITC view's it the way this paper argues.

To: waitwatchwander who wrote (62360)	4/10/2007 9:12:10 PM
From: Brihack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196963

Naked, Thanks for posting the brief...very interesting reading. I found the following excerpt on page 51 interesting: "Thus, although Broadcom has touted since the beginning of this investigation that it is poised to begin supplying baseband processing chips for handsets operating on WCDMA networks in the U.S., the plain fact is that Broadcom has not yet garnered even a single design win for a U.S. WCDMA handset. Of the remaining [14] GSM chip manufacturers, none are positioned to supply the WCDMA handset manufacturers with the required baseband chips. For example, Qualcomm understands that Texas Instruments does not yet have a candidate chip design reduced to silicon, and it has no design wins for any WCDMA handset for use in the U.S. Nokia has a proprietary chip design for use solely in its own phones that is fabricated for it by Texas Instruments, but that handset is not yet available for us on a WCDMA network in the U.S." Brihack