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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio candidates - Moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggamer who wrote (2557)	2/17/2009 9:49:39 PM
From: Eric L	Respond to of 2955

Prince Qualcomm << I wonder what you and Mike think about the prospect of QCOM becoming the gorilla of All Gs >> I'm not Mike, and not Uncle but ... None (i.e. no chance) since there is little further development of their proprietary open CDMA2000 technologies in TIA and 3GPP2 and they are now fully committed to the development of collaboratively developed comittee based mobile wireles access technologies in 3GPP via their ETSI membership. They are the now the revenue market leader in Wireless ICs (but not in eirger baseband or apps processor units) and revenue wise are the dominant and ascending Prince amongst Princes on the revenue side of the industry. They do have the potential to become a King in that arena. Not a shot at being a gorilla in well defined Moorespeak terms. An "800 pound gorilla" can, of cours,e be anything one wants it to be. As for King Nokia (king of handsets, king of GSM handsets, king of 3GSM WCDMA/HSPA handsets, king of snartphones, prince of infrastructure to Ericsson's king) ever retracing to single source I commented here ... Message 25420914 Keep on gamin' - Eric -