3. Financials
• Estimated Market Cap $123.26 billion
• Closing Share Price Nov 29, 2013 $73.58
• Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2013
• Revenues $6.48 billion
• Net Income $1.50 billion
4. History
• 1985 – Founded by Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and others
• 1989 – First live demonstration of CDMA
• 1999 – CDMA accepted as main technology for 3G
• 2007 – Introduces Snapdragon chipsets
• 2009 – Introduces world’s first 3G/LTE multimode chipset
6. Secret Sauce
• IP Licensing Business Model
• Collect royalties on nearly all devices using 3G
• Spends nearly 20% of revenues on R&D
• $1.349 Billion in Q4 for 2013
7. Interesting Information
• Truckers know Qualcomm as the little device near the
steering wheel
• Device was part of the OmniTRACS technology
• One of the first products from Qualcomm
• Recently Sold for $800M
8. Competition
• In the chip business Intel and Nvidia
• Apple and Samsung making their own processors
• Low-end smartphone manufacturers
9. Will the company succeed of fail?
• Yes, it will succeed
• 1000x data challenge
• Internet of things
