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So why bother to interview a little chip company in San Diego? Because are they changing the market, and not everyone is happy about it...

Today on siliconvalley.com, part of the San Jose Mercury News:

Broadcom has filed another lawsuit against Qualcomm, adding an antitrust complaint to the patent infringement and fair trade charges it's already made against the wireless technology firm. In this latest lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, the broadband semiconductor manufacturer alleges that Qualcomm abused the wireless technology standards-setting process, broke federal antitrust law by failing to license its 3G technology "on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" and engaged in anticompetitive business practices.
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Excellent work on this big trend in wireless, the standards fight, from Spanish Editor Andrés F. Velázquez, in our March edition. A Q&A from their CEO was revealing, too, also a AFV production, although Qualcomm asked me -- for protocol reasons -- to come sit down with the boss. Happy to do it, and a nice package resulted.