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Qualcomm has announced results for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 ended March 25, 2012. The company reports revenues of $4.94 billion, up 28 percent year-over-year (y-o-y) and 6 percent sequentially with an operating income: $1.51 billion, up 6 percent y-o-y and down 2 percent sequentially. The diluted earnings per share is $1.28, up 117 percent y-o-y and 58 percent...
In order to compete with Qualcomm by producing LTE-capable semiconductors, late last year, Japanese wireless carrier NTT Docomo announced a joint venture with Samsung, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Semiconductor, NEC, and Panasonic Mobile Communications. NTT DoCoMo said a planned joint venture to design and sell chips for high-speed mobile networks based on the LTE (Long Term Evolution)...
PCWorld reports that the Qualcomm is promising ARM-based laptops. The company is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 for thin and light Windows 8 laptops. The S4 chips will go into laptops that are thinner and lighter than Apple’s MacBook Air or today’s ultrabooks, according to Rob Chandhok, senior vice president at Qualcomm. Ultrabooks are...
DigiTimes reported that Nokia will be teaming up with Microsoft to venture it into the tablet PC market with the Windows on ARM 10-inch tablet running on a dual-core Qualcomm Soc at the end of this year. The plan is to bring up the tablet in the quarter fourth of 2012. It is expected that the Finnish mobile maker will outsource the product of the 10-inch tab to Compal...
The cellphone chip supplier Qualcomm announced a new $4 billion share buyback program and hiked its quarterly dividend by 16 percent. The company had 1.72 billion shares outstanding at the end of last year. The new stock buyback plan will replace the company’s existing $3 billion program, which still having $948 million of repurchase authority remaining. The new plan...
