Apple Testifies in Q'comm Patent Case
Watershed meeting spawned Project Antique
By Rick Merritt, EETimes
January 11, 2019
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Qualcomm and Apple faced off in San Jose District Court Friday in the ongoing dispute over patents. An Apple executive suggested Qualcomm’s royalties were more than $10 per iPhone.
Qualcomm refused to supply chips without a patent license and paid Apple “huge” royalty rebates to use its cellular baseband chips exclusively, according to testimony today by Apple’s head of procurement in San Jose district court. Attorneys for Qualcomm noted Apple used Infineon and Intel modems exclusively at different periods and evaluated several alternative suppliers.
To read the full article, click here
Related Semiconductor IP
- 1.6T Ultra Ethernet Controller
- Chiplet Die-to-Die Interconnect IP Solution
- High speed MACsec Engine 100G/200G/400G/800G/1.6T
- Temperature/Voltage sensors
- AMBA Bus Host to eSPI Controller/Target
Related News
- Qualcomm Files Patent Infringement Complaints against Meizu in China
- Qualcomm Signs 3G/4G China Patent License Agreement with vivo
- Jury Awards Core Wireless $7.3 Million in Patent Litigation Against Apple
- Nokia expands patent litigation against Apple in Asia, Europe and the US
Latest News
- Imec unlocks fourfold UWB range extension using world-first narrowband receiver chip compliant with IEEE 802.15.4ab standard
- Alliance for Open Media Releases AV2 Codec, Advancing Next-Generation Open Video Coding
- VeriSilicon Drives Commercial Adoption of AV2 Across Next-Generation Video and Streaming Applications
- Cadence Announces Collaboration with Intel Foundry to Accelerate Intel 14A Process Optimization for HPC and Mobile Designs
- Menta and Presto Engineering Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Adaptive ASIC Architectures with Embedded FPGA Technology