How 5G drove moves by Apple, Qualcomm and Intel
Apple and Qualcomm on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business.
Apple and Qualcomm on Tuesday settled an acrimonious two-year legal dispute. Shortly afterward, Intel Corp said it will exit the smartphone modem chip business.
A U.S. federal judge has issued a preliminary ruling that Qualcomm owes Apple nearly US$1 billion in patent royalty rebate payments.
Mobile phone chip supplier Qualcomm on Friday won a legal victory against iPhone maker Apple, with a jury in federal court in San Diego finding that Apple owes Qualcomm about US$31 million for infringing three of its patents.
Qualcomm sought to become the sole supplier of modem chips for Apple's iPhone to recoup a US$1-billion "incentive payment" that Apple insisted on, not to block rivals from the market, Qualcomm's chief executive testified on Friday.
IBM was granted the most patents in the US in 2018, the company’s twenty-sixth consecutive year at the top of the ranking.
Qualcomm has alleged that Apple stole its trade secrets and gave them to Intel to improve its chips, the latest salvo in a drawn-out legal dispute.
A second trial between Apple and Qualcomm before the U.S. International Trade Commission has begun in Washington, D.C., with the iPhone maker squaring off against the world's biggest mobile chipmaker over whether Apple should be banned from importing several recent iPhone models to the United States.
As part of Qualcomm's effort to determine whether Apple worked with Samsung to focus regulatory scrutiny on the chipmaker.
Europe's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager, who has taken on Google, Apple and Qualcomm in recent years, is looking to three academics to help her deal with anti-competitive practices in fast-moving technology markets.
BlackBerry filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, arguing that they copied technology and features from BlackBerry Messenger.
Qualcomm's shares fell 3 percent on Monday after two brokerages said Apple might drop the chipmaker in favor of Intel as the supplier for modem chips in its next generation of iPhones.
Qualcomm was hit with a 997 million euro (US$1.23 billion) fine by European Union antitrust regulators on Wednesday for paying Apple Inc to use only its chips, blocking out rivals such as Intel.
Qualcomm has big plans to bring back ARM to Windows 10 PCs, and there is a chance that its Snapdragon 835 could support Windows Holographic for VR headsets.
A nasty spat between Apple and Qualcomm broke into public view on Friday when the smartphone maker accused the chip supplier of charging "exorbitant" licensing fees for its cellular technology.
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