Qualcomm has long dominated its particular sector of semiconductor and wireless communications. Qualcomm's development of the CDMA network used by major U.S. carriers such as Verizon and Sprint, and collect significant royalties from licensing their products. However, Qualcomm has also entered the smartphone processor market with Snapdragon platform. Snapdragon is potentially an extremely disruptive platform to the mobile platform, given its close unity with the Qualcomm communications technology and its integrated graphics processing technology.
Qualcomm's calculated acquisition of graphics and multimedia patents from the struggling computer chip company AMD has enabled it to create sophisticated and powerful chips that are quickly seizing market share away from traditional mobile chip powerhouses like Nvidia and Samsung (who manufactured chips for Apple).
I would be interested to learn if Moore's Law applies to mobile chips as well--with the additional caveat that mobile chips also become twice as power-efficient while continuing to be become faster and smaller every 24 months.
Relevant Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uz0VdsBDEh0
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