European Union is expected to levy record fine for anti-competitive practices related to FRAND patent licensing on Qualcomm next week to the tune of €900 million.
E.U. is also expected to order Qualcomm to lower LTE patent licensing fees to competing modem makers such as Intel and allow Samsung to sell Exynos smartphone chipset to others.
The ruling is in line similar anti-competitive inquiries concluded in China and South Korea last year.
Anti-competition investigations are ongoing in the United States and Japan against Qualcomm.
Carson Sanchez
Communist bullshit. The (((EU))) needs to be destroyed.
William Richardson
>monopoly is okay as long as it's a CIA-financed American company
Lincoln Sullivan
Qualcomm will just ignore them and the EU will force their citizens to go without nice phones.
Adrian Evans
Pro tip: Apple is the one driving the crackdown on Qualcomm. Apple got sick of paying extortion rate royalties to Qualcomm to license core LTE tech. U.S. FTC will also rule against Qualcomm for this reason (Apple has more bucks to give to politicians than Qualcomm).
Cameron Gray
They both have enough money to litigate indefinitely.
The EU will piss and moan with an embargo and then finally settle and put the proceeds to housing muslim immigrants.
Noah Bailey
Not if SCOTUS kiboshes the key portion of the case re: Apple v. Samsung
Justin Hill
qualcomm just lost close to a billion in patent fees to blackberry. see a trend?
Elijah Roberts
*claps* Qualcomm is nothing but a large patent troll copying open projects and dedicating the "technology" to their repurposed and improved ARM cores.
RISC-V needs to be a thing if x86 isn't in the mobile space otherwise I rather setup my 4g wimax laptop as a fucking phone with real applications and libraries.
Angel Green
Source?
Zachary Gutierrez
this
Colton Lee
>Qualcomm will just ignore Shareholders don't.
Anthony Reyes
Qualcomm will just ignore this. t cia
Gabriel Thomas
EU wont. Samsung will be able to sell Exynos in EU after this regardless of what Qualcomm does.
Michael Rivera
Who the fuck even buys a phone with a qualcomm soc consciously? It's the worst vendor out them all. The 2 year old Apple A9 easily beats their latest flagship, the Snapdragon 835. How the fuck is that possible?
Jonathan Sullivan
That is not how that works. People buy phones based on brand and features not SoC.
also what do you mean, A9 beats Snapdragon?
Liam Clark
Is the only soc got fully support by pajeet and muh open sores.
Jack Thompson
Why did they let them purchase NX if they don't want a (((monopoly)))?
Jacob Turner
Fuck off yank garbage Fuck you and your fascist country
Mason Howard
Lel, if China busts you on anti-competitive grounds you know you done goofed
Hunter Brooks
And yet Microsoft is ok.
Carson Russell
At this rate the EU will have corporate investment in 20 years
Dylan Bell
At this rate US companies might pay some taxes by 2031