Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. The company develops and licenses telecommunications intellectual property, including next-generation mobile networks, smart devices, semiconductors, and mobile processors. It owns patents critical to the 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications standards. Founded by Irwin Jacobs and six others partners, its initial research into code-division multiple access wireless cellular technology was funded by the sale of a two-way digital mobile satellite communications system known as Omnitracs.. After a heated debate in the wireless industry, CDMA was adopted as a 2G standard in North America, with Qualcomm's patents incorporated. Afterwards, there was a series of legal disputes about pricing for licensing patents required by the standard. Over the years, Qualcomm has expanded into selling semiconductor products in a predominantly fabless manufacturing model. Wikipedia