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 customised workshops and assists network operators worldwide in the deployment, optimisation 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 monetises 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 pioneered the successful development of the first mobile OFDMA radio access network with FLASH-OFDM. QFT is leveraging its extensive experience with commercial OFDMA networks to develop the 3GPP2/UMB reference design and chipsets for infrastructure and test equipment vendors.
Qualcomm Government Technologies
Provides development, hardware and analytical expertise to United States government agencies involving wireless communications technologies and develops technologies to support the processing, transmission and management of content for a variety of media applications.
Qualcomm Internet Services
Qualcomm Internet Services enables mobile retailing solutions and Internet services that accelerate consumer adoption and usage of mobile data worldwide for its operator, brand & affinity and content provider customers. BREW and BrandXtend™ are comprehensive solutions for customers seeking to bring high-value wireless services to market and enhance the mobile experience for consumers. Customers can also benefit from a portfolio of adaptable, modular products that can be used to address specific mobile retail challenges from general merchandising to personalised recommendations.
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-recognised air interface technology standardised 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
Aggregates and delivers premium, TV-quality entertainment and information services over its national wireless network. Working closely with content providers, advertisers and operators, FLO TV, a subsidiary of Qualcomm, provides the rich mobile viewing experience that today's consumers expect.
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies
Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. has developed the industry's first colour 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 colour. 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.
