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Qualcomm slings mud at BroadcomBy Tony DennisQualcomm is angry with Broadcom for having the cheek to beat it in a court battle held by the ITC. The company intends to go right to the top and tell the President that Broadcom is being very nasty. "Having failed in the marketplace to generate interest in its W-CDMA products, Broadcom brought this litigation against Qualcomm but has used it as a vehicle to attack the US cellular industry," the company bemoans. Qualcomm goes on to say that "Broadcom's claims that it can supply W-CDMA products for the United States have been rebuffed by W-CDMA operators." Strange then that market research just released by Isuppli has put Broadcom in the Top Five producers of 3G baseband chips. That sounds very much like a capability to supply W-CDMA chips. Meanwhile, Qualcomm has decided to play the public safety card. Apparently that's because Qualcomm and its partners "have invested heavily in providing products that enabled E911 emergency call centres to locate wireless subscribers." Consequently, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has declared that, "We will ask the White House to veto [the ITC] decision and avoid turning back the clock on the tremendous gains that have been achieved in mobile broadband communications, disaster preparedness and emergency response." And just to be sure, Qualcomm has also that "Broadcom's patent is invalid and not infringed." Broadcom had the cheek to recently purchase the disputed patent, it seems. Qualcomm must be especially miffed that Broadcom isn't a nasty foreign company but based down the road in another part of California. So it can appeal to the President too.
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