The point of making the HW cheap is to drive OS market share from Apple.
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@Anonymous183473, android isn't free, ARM license isn't free. How could HW be given away nearly free? Ad supported transistors?
Maybe google will buy them and then make the chips nearly free, open source. Would be good for the market but bad for QCT employees.
I also could see Apple buying QCT and then closing the doors so they can hurt existing android manufacturers.
QCT has v large market share. The rational is not to acquire bleeding edge technology but rather to acquire customers. QCT will be put to rest and the few employees who are retained by Intel or Huawei will be transferred to Santa Clara or Shenzhen.
No one will buy it. What is there in QCT chip biz? ARM cores, an ok DSP, and a less than Nvidia GPU. Without the CPU team (Scorpion, Krait, Kryo) the chip biz is yet another ARM knockoff, I give you the Samsung loosing 810 verses the Samsung winning 820. What's the major difference? The CPU. The CPU team is now in DCG and not part of QCT. Why buy?
T R U M P 2016
I agree with 691, QCT is a huge drag to the share price right now. Sell to Intel or highest Chinese bidder and the share price will go up quite a bit. PJ can order a new jet and QCT engineers will have new slave masters. This is long overdue if you ask me.
The Sanjay Jha 2016
The Brian 2016
i saw QCT posted for sale on craigslist. from digital communications visionaries to garage sale
Heard the same from multiple sources.
Pretty soon...
@Anonymous182674, you aren't making any sense. Please try again.
Intel is in the run for QCT. The deal is verbal right now, will be inked and signed by Q1 2016. I'm an insider. Expect share price to hit $85 or so.
Anonymous182658 don't be mad to everyone.
I am a chinese and I am a lead and manger.
I only know how to kiss asses,
-Chinese lead in silicon valley. You SHUT UP.
Do not spread racial thing everywhere. You are not Chinese.
It is a loser behavior.
- News flash. This site is about rumors and that is what the OP and others are discussing. If you can't handle it GTFO.
I don't care of layoffs, as long as I keep kissing my director's ass
this is NOT a rumor or confidential info, Q already indicated they were looking at this option. If it happens this quarter though, expect lots of headcount trimming in the spring, especially on the QCT side.
look like true, see the recent stock going up.
Splits means massive layoffs.
really? rumor?
Nobody knows when it is going to happen. If you know, don't share confidential info.