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No fab for Qualcomm but firm mulls business evolution
Peter Clarke, EETimes
4/20/2012 10:37 AM EDT
LONDON – The problems acknowledged by Qualcomm Inc. in getting enough 28-nm chips out of its foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. are not about to prompt the company to build or acquire its own fab, according to Steve Mollenkopf, chief operating officer of the fabless chip company. But ways of doing business are evolving and Qualcomm is big enough to shape these to its own benefit, he said.
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