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		madeofpalk on Nov 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Dea... Technologies change by Qualcomm inventing new ones and patenting them.

philfrasty on Nov 6, 2017 [–]

Do they have both exceptional engineers + patent lawyers? Or is their IP stack purely through acquisitions?

newusertoday on Nov 6, 2017 | [–]

they definitely had exceptional engineers in the past, irvin jacob and andrew viterbi practically invented cdma while everyone else was going with tdm/fdm based systems.

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