For all of you eager to glorify Tan & Co. here is a blurb... Cuts in our long-term tech competitiveness and influence in standard setting would significantly impact our national security. This is in large part because a weakening of QC's position would leave an opening for China to expand its influence on the 5G standard-setting processes. Now, Chinese companies, including Huawei, have increased their engagement in 5G standardization working groups as part of their efforts to build out a 5G technology…
While the US is still dominant when it comes to setting standards (as of now),, China would likely compete robustly to fill any void left by Qualcomm as a result of this hostile takeover. Given our ongoing security concerns about Huawei and other gov funded Chinese tech corps, a shift to Chinese dominance in 5G would have substantial negative national security consequences for the US.
CFIUS, knows this - Tan's statements are specific and indicate that it is looking to take a 'cost optimization' direction if it acquires QC. There you have it, cut capital spend and long term invesment, R&R and focus on short-term and milking the cash cow... That's all good, if we exclude geopolitics, but we cannot do that, cannot we?