On Friday in court, the FTC confronted Qualcomm Chief Technology Officer James Thompson with a 2014 email exchange between him and Mollenkopf in which the CTO suggests "striking back at Apple while we’re strong" amid licensing negotiations. Thompson viewed Apple as vulnerable to losing big business in North America and China, at the time, if it continued pushing back against Qualcomm’s no-license-no-chips policy, according to the email cited by the FTC.
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The FTCs closing grenade set off smoke alarms throughout N. Will it be breakup of QTL or a $10 billion recapture penalty ?
JT is a nice guy but is unaware of his mediocrity. It's crazy stupid that QC promoted him to CTO.
He should be fired
Q shouldn't be best place to work for unethical people!
Qualcomm CTO proposed ‘striking back at Apple,’ FTC says
If true about that email, JT needs to be fired. Qualcomm cannot condone executives who are so stupid. If true, JT at a minimum conspired to break the law. Same goes for SM and any other unethical employee.
Jim Thompson is an excellent head of engineering. He listens with full attention in meetings, is very polite and has a very broad and deep understanding of technology. Please don't disrespect him and his work.
If true we are so fuked. Oh wait, i should say so much more fuked.