Tag archive: Broadcom

Mobile technology giant Qualcomm has agreed to pay smaller competitor Broadcom some $891 million over four years to settle a series of long-running—and very bitter—technology patent disputes between the company. Under the deal, the companies will dismiss all patent litigation between them, and agree not to assert patents against each other's chip products and selected other products and services; Broadcom will also… Read More

It's one of the tech world's never-ending stories: infringement lawsuits between wireless chip makers Broadcom and Qualcomm. The two companies have been involved in protracted and bitter disputes over CDMA patents, with Broadcom even winning an injunction to keep infringing Qualcomm chipsets from being imported into the United States—an a judge recently ruled Qualcomm in contempt of that injunction. Now, Broadcom has filed… Read More

U.S. District Judge James Selna has found that telecommunications gear maker Qualcomm has violated an injunction by continuing to use and support WCDMA chips in its QChat walkie-talkie products that allegedly infringe on three Broadcom patents. Now, Qualcomm will have to pay Broadcom the gross profits from the sale of those devices, as well as attorneys' fees from the contempt proceedings. "Over the past two years, Qualcomm has… Read More

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington D.C. has let stand a lower court ruling that prevents Qualcomm from selling some of its 3G WCDMA wireless chips in the United States. The original injunction was handed down in early January and bars Qualcomm from selling or supporting wireless phone chips infringe on three Broadcom patents. Qualcomm has been appealing the decision and the injunction; in the meantime, the… Read More

Mobile technology developer Qualcomm says that an injunction barring it from selling certain mobile phone chips found to be infringing on technology from Broadcom—as well as putting a mandatory “sunset” provision and royalty payment on others—will means a short-term hit, but the company has non-infringing chipsets ready to go and should be appearing in handsets by March of this year. And the company is examining all… Read More

The patent battle between chipmaker Broadcom and technology giant Qualcomm has taken a sudden turn: a federal judge has issued an injunction (PDF) that not only bars Qualcomm from selling wireless phone technology in the United States that infringes on three Broadcom patents, but Qualcomm is also enjoined from supporting existing products built using those technologies. “We are very pleased with today's ruling, which addresses… Read More

Legal battles over patents are almost always long and complex, and the patent rift between chipmakers Broadcom and Qualcomm has taken another turn as Judge Haldane Mayer on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted a stay in an exclusion order which banned companies from importing Qualcomm chips into the U.S. which have been found to infringe on Broadcom patents. The catch is who the judge granted the stay to: the phone… Read More

Qualcomm is going to have to pay a licensing fee to its competitor Broadcom for a patent.   For several weeksQualcomm had been hoping that the Bush administration would come to its rescue and reverse a decision that would mean it had to pay the licensing fee. But the administration has let the decision,made in June by the United States International Trade Commission, stand.   It was felt that the decision could have a major impact on… Read More

Qualcomm is finding its options dwindling in the fight to be able to import phones bearing chips that infringe on another company’s patent.  Qualcomm had appealed to the U.S. International Trade Commission to put its June 7 ban on hold. Last Thursday the Commission refused. The order will become finalunless vetoed by July 6 by the U.S. Trade Representative. Qualcomm has lobbied the Bush administration for help, but without success so… Read More

Wi-Fi phones based on this chipset will offer consumers a cordless phone  replacement that can also support data applications such as web browsing,  email and instant messaging.  This solution is based on the convergence of  Broadcom's award-winning 54g wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) and field-proven Voice  over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies.  When compared to similar  solutions, Broadcom's Voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) chipset… Read More

Source: Broadcom's press release Broadcom Corporation today announced a new single-chip 54g wireless local area networking solution that delivers industry-leading range, configuration and security features.  The AirForce One 54g transceiver is the smallest and most cost-effective IEEE 802.11g solution on the market, facilitating more opportunities to integrate the popular 54 Mbps wireless technology into notebook and… Read More

With the increase of broadband connections, digital imaging and file sharing, home networks continue to require more storage. Broadcom hopes to tap into that need for storage with their new NAS on chip solution announced today. Network Attached Storage (NAS) has traditionally been a solution only for businesses, mainly because of the cost. Broadcom's "NAS on a Chip" (NASoaC) is aimed at both business and home use, and according… Read More