They talk about this many times. It’s probably not going to happen.
I think QC’s numbers probably won’t be as bad as it seems. Seems like expectations are already pretty low versus last year.
We’ll see exactly how much damage Samsung did do by using their own chips in their flagship phone(s).
I think you’ll probably have a lot more M&A activity with the smaller fish. I don’t know who or if it came to my company how I would feel.
Right. I was at QCOM at the time they spun off LEAP, and they granted separate options for LEAP shares. Which I rode up and all the way back down. D’oh.
[quote=Hatfield]Right. I was at QCOM at the time they spun off LEAP, and they granted separate options for LEAP shares. Which I rode up and all the way back down. D’oh.[/quote]
At least you didn’t get royally f’d over when Ericsson bought us 🙁
Can you say, flush the $1million in options down the toilet? Yeah, that one still stings pretty bad after all these years. 🙁
[quote=Hatfield]Oh I had no idea you got caught up in all of that. I have a few friends who got caught up in that also. :([/quote]
My favorite part was when one of the VPs was assuring us that he/she was going to stay with the new ericsson, and at the last moment, bolts back to Qualcomm…Lol…..Can’t blame that person. I would have done the exact same thing.
A friend of mine had successfully IOS’d out of CBS to another division before the announcement, and got pulled back in because he was deemed essential.
Intel is one of the few companies that acquires a company and does not seem to immediately close down the local facility and transfer the few people it needs up north.
Anyway from what I have seen in L.A.
During the last Tech bubble SV companies bought up most of the local mid size companies (competition) down here and closed them down, There were a lot more Tech companies in L.A. before the boom than after.
It was somewhat devastating to the Tech Job market in L.A. it took a long time to recover.
To be fair, how much of Intel’s revenue is from licensing? I think that was always the issue with QCOM, separating QCT from the licensing arm. IIRC, it was particularly an issue during the Nokia battles and I think also with Korea.
[quote=Hatfield]To be fair, how much of Intel’s revenue is from licensing? I think that was always the issue with QCOM, separating QCT from the licensing arm. IIRC, it was particularly an issue during the Nokia battles and I think also with Korea.[/quote]They already did.
Huh? QTL and QCT are still part of the mother ship. QCT is part of the new QTI entity which operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary, and everything still trades as QCOM. I wouldn’t call any of this arms-length.
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