Qualcomm purchases Broadcom
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Ike Turner
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lol didn't he also announce back then (based on some super awesome source inside of NOKIA!?) that Windows Mobile 7 (now Windows Phone 7) was delayed until 2011. This guy is only seeking pageviews.
Only if you were trying to deliberately slander/defame, or affect stock rates or such I believe...
Anyway, didn't one of the top execs of Broadcom get his ass slung in the slammer last year after getting caught with hookers and blow, or somesuch?
I seem to remember reading something like that in the news...Ike Turner
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Only if you were trying to deliberately slander/defame, or affect stock rates or such I believe...
Anyway, didn't one of the top execs of Broadcom get his ass slung in the slammer last year after getting caught with hookers and blow, or somesuch?
Yup the CEO of Broadcum
Talking of Broadcom (this is a very random thread, perfect for this random thing I suppose!) they've just acquired Innovision, a UK IP provider for NFC (Near Field Communications). This is a crazy aggressive move; it's a very small company, but to put it in perspective it's exactly as if Intel or Apple announced they were buying Imaginations tommorow - that's no exaggeration.
I can imagine execs at the likes of Texas Instruments and CSR must be having a lot of very fun meetings today! Heck, even NXP (which was the lead innovator early on) became a licensee for one of their cores in 2009. Given that Broadcom was certainly a licensee and licensing agreements with their competitors will have to be fulfilled, I wonder what exactly Broadcom hopes they can gain from this besides an extremely long-term R&D advantage (which seems pointless today but might be very valuable when NFC starts getting integrated directly into baseband chips).
I can imagine execs at the likes of Texas Instruments and CSR must be having a lot of very fun meetings today! Heck, even NXP (which was the lead innovator early on) became a licensee for one of their cores in 2009. Given that Broadcom was certainly a licensee and licensing agreements with their competitors will have to be fulfilled, I wonder what exactly Broadcom hopes they can gain from this besides an extremely long-term R&D advantage (which seems pointless today but might be very valuable when NFC starts getting integrated directly into baseband chips).