PUBLIC COMPANYDesigns wireless chips and licenses mobile communications technology to device makers.
Qualcomm sells processors and modems used in phones, cars and connected devices, and it licenses patents to handset makers. Customers are mainly electronics and automotive manufacturers. Shares trade on the Nasdaq, and the company files annual and quarterly reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission that anyone can read for free on the agency website. The legal proceedings and licensing sections explain how patent agreements and disputes can affect results.
Qualcomm designs chips that go inside smartphones, along with chips for cars, laptops and connected devices. It also owns many patents on wireless technology and licenses them to phone makers.
It earns from selling chips and from licensing fees on its patents. Phones are the largest piece of its chip sales, so a few big customers matter a great deal.
The business depends on phone demand and a few large customers, and some customers have been building their own chips. Qualcomm has been pushing into cars and computers to reduce that reliance. Chip makers can be cyclical.
What is licensing?
Other companies pay to use its patented technology.
Does it make the chips itself?
It designs them, and partners build them.
Why is customer concentration a risk?
Losing one large buyer could hurt sales a lot.
Open the latest annual report, called a 10-K, and look at sales by chip type, the licensing business and customer concentration. Reading the company in its own words is the best way to see how it really works.
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