Chipmaker Qualcomm has set up a separate wholly-owned subsidiary Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) to focus on mobile open source platforms. Skip related content
QuIC will optimize open source software with Qualcomm technology. Rob Chandhok, senior vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, has been named as president of QuIC.
Chandhok said: “Open source and community-driven software development is becoming important to the wireless industry and QuIC is committed to these efforts. To provide focus to its efforts, Qualcomm has transferred experienced software engineers to QuIC. These engineers will focus on open source initiatives like Linux and Webkit, and open source operating systems like Symbian, Android and Chrome.”
In July, Qualcomm reported a 1% decline in net income to $737m for the third quarter 2009, compared to a net income of $748m in the year-ago quarter, on revenue down 1% at $2.74bn.
