just about everybody,” Gilbert said, primarily through Tier 1 suppliers like Germany’s Peiker Acustic.
Gilbert says there are no rival standard-setting organizations, or advocates for a competing wireless recharging standard. Still, Qualcomm has a lot of experience—both good and bad—in adopting new technical standards, and the company undoubtedly wants to get out front to ensure its wireless charging technology is included in any new standards that are adopted.
Gilbert also noted that while many investors are focused on Qualcomm’s chip business, the company generates more than a third of its revenue from royalty payments generated by its licensing agreements with some 230 companies. In fiscal 2011, for example, generated $5.4 billion out of almost $15 billion in total revenue.
As with its Qualcomm Technology Licensing division, Gilbert said, “We’re very focused on the end-to-end success of a new technology being adopted. [Technology licensing] is exactly the same model we’ll be applying to the wireless charging business, because a complex and long ecosystem of work needs to be done. It will require [wireless] spectrum. It will require regulatory support. It will require a single standard, and so on and so forth.”
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Author: Bruce V. Bigelow
In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here.
Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.
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