Our Businesses
From its beginnings in 1985, Qualcomm has grown from seven individuals meeting in a den to a world-leading provider of wireless technology and services. Qualcomm is a global company, a firm with many facets, with each business division changing the way we live and work through its own unique contributions. But no matter what each Qualcomm business does, all are united by a single, driving passion: to continue to deliver the world’s most innovative wireless solutions.
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies
Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) is the world’s largest provider of wireless chipset technology. Powering the majority of all 3G devices commercially available today, the Company has also helped lead the diversification of wireless into new segments by bringing a legacy of success with mobile Internet connectivity to laptop PCs, consumer electronics, and pocketable computing devices. As the global wireless community becomes increasingly sophisticated, the integration and advanced functionality that QCT products deliver become even more integral to meeting tomorrow’s needs for seamless, transparent and ubiquitous connectivity.
Qualcomm Engineering Services Group
Provides technology training and customized workshops, and assists network operators worldwide in the deployment, optimization and evolution of wireless network systems.
Qualcomm Enterprise Services
Formerly Qualcomm Wireless Business Solutions, Qualcomm Enterprise Services (QES) provides integrated wireless systems and services to businesses around the world. QES delivers the actionable information businesses seek in order to operate at peak performance and improve the quality of life for its customers, their employees and the entire value chain. Qualcomm’s world-class technology infrastructure, customer care and professional services enable QES to meet the increasingly complex needs of industries such as mobile enterprise, transportation and logistics, construction equipment, manufacturing and healthcare.
Qualcomm Firethorn Holdings, LLC
Firethorn monetizes the mobile channel for financial institutions, mobile network operators, merchants and retailers by integrating application-based banking, bill payment, remote and proximity payments, as well as mobile couponing, marketing, ticketing and money transfers into a cohesive, interactive system called the Firethorn Mobile Wallet. With Firethorn, consumers can securely perform a variety of banking and payment functions anytime, anywhere using their mobile phone.
Qualcomm Flarion Technologies
Qualcomm Flarion Technologies is focused on developing new wireless systems and network products. Its FLASH-OFDM technology powers the world's first fully mobile commercial OFDMA mobile broadband network. QFT's current projects include innovative next generation air interface technology.
Qualcomm Government Technologies
Leverages Qualcomm's wireless expertise, innovative technologies, and vast industry reach to provide capabilities and services that enable government customers---federal, state, and local---to realize significant technology gains and excellence in mission performance.
Qualcomm Internet Services
Creating Total Mobile Experiences
Today´s mobile consumers demand a diverse yet more personalized array of content delivered in an engaging, user-friendly experience.
But device fragmentation and rising costs have prevented operators, content providers, developers and device manufacturers from delivering what their customers want.
It´s time for a new approach.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm that brings together a dedicated group of engineers focused on open source and community-driven software development.
Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies
MediaFLO™ is a mobile broadcast platform for the delivery of high-quality entertainment and information, including streaming video and audio, Clipcasting™ media, IP datacasting and interactive services. FLO™ is an open, globally-recognized air interface technology standardized by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and recommended by ITU-R for the broadcasting of multimedia and data applications. Invented for mobility, MediaFLO is designed to increase capacity and coverage, as well as reduce costs for multimedia content delivery to mobile devices.
FLO TV Incorporated
FLO TV™ Incorporated unleashes the power of TV for mobile consumers, combining the best content, an intuitive user interface and a superior multicast network to deliver a true TV experience. The award-winning FLO TV service from FLO TV offers full-length simulcast and time-shifted programming from the world's best entertainment brands, including CBS, CBS College Sports, CBS News, Comedy Central, ESPN, FOX, FOX News, FOX Sports, MTV, NBC 2Go, NBC, NBC Sports, NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, NickToons and Nickelodeon. FLO TV is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated.
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. has developed the industry's first color micro electrical/mechanical systems (MEMS) display for mobile devices—a true technological innovation that offers low power consumption and superb viewing quality in a wide range of environmental conditions, including bright sunlight. The displays work by reflecting light where specific wavelengths interfere with one another to create color. The phenomenon that makes a butterfly's wings shimmer, Interferometric modulation (IMOD), is the same process used in mirasol displays. Qualcomm's mirasol displays require no backlighting and therefore consume significantly less power than standard displays in portable devices.
Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives
Makes strategic investments in ventures that focus on worldwide adoption of 3G wireless communications technologies (voice and data) and products serving consumers, the enterprise and all members of the wireless value chain, such as wireless network operators, device and equipment manufacturers, and application and content providers.
Qualcomm Technology Licensing
Grants licenses to use Qualcomm's intellectual property portfolio, which includes certain patent rights essential to or useful in the manufacturing of CDMA-based products.
Qualcomm Ventures
Supports Qualcomm's mission of enabling and fostering CDMA and wireless Internet markets through strategic investments in privately-owned startup ventures.
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