{"id":51919,"date":"2023-03-14T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T09:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/14\/qualcomm-tries-to-kick-holes-in-eu-e242-million-decision-the-register\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T09:34:29","slug":"qualcomm-tries-to-kick-holes-in-eu-e242-million-decision-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/14\/qualcomm-tries-to-kick-holes-in-eu-e242-million-decision-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm tries to kick holes in EU \u20ac242 million decision \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Qualcomm on Monday started an try and persuade the European Union’s Court docket of Justice that it mustn’t pay a \u20ac242 million ($258 million) fantastic imposed on it for anti-competitive habits.<\/p>\n

The fantastic \u2014 price about two p.c of Qualcomm’s 2022 income \u2014 was levied<\/a> in opposition to the US chipmaker in 2019. On the time, the European Fee discovered that Qualcomm had bought 3G baseband chipsets at a loss to hurt British rival Icera’s potential to compete.<\/p>\n

Based in 2002, Bristol-based Icera produced modem chipsets for the cellular system market and was seen by analysts as a viable competitor to the likes of Qualcomm, Infineon, MediaTek, and Broadcom. The corporate’s success attracted the eye of US chipmaker Nvidia, which acquired the corporate in 2011. On the time, Qualcomm managed about 60 p.c of the common cellular telecommunications system (UMTS) baseband market.<\/p>\n

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