"The administration’s focus on Qualcomm’s technology may be partially of the company’s own making. Earlier this year, the company asked the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which evaluates foreign acquisitions for national security threats, to intervene as it faced a hostile takeover attempt by Singapore-based Broadcom."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/us/politics/qualcomm-us-china-trade-war.html
The greed and stupidity of QC's executive team is hard to match.