Qualcomm
includes Qualcomm Snapdragon
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Benedict Evans · said 22 times in 17 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Jul 15, 2017 bullish
Jan 2, 2019
Evans: Apple disrupted mobile by treating cellular networks as transparent data pipes
“One of the things that allowed Apple to disrupt everything was by saying, no, no, no, no, it's just a piece of wire, and we ignore it completely. We make zero effort to optimize bandwidth, and, you know, it's kind of an overstatement, but we just completely ig…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Markoff: Transistor costs have stopped falling for non-Intel semiconductor companies
“For most of the industry the cost of transistors has stopped falling. And so as you scale, this is everybody but Intel in the industry says this. You, if you talk to Broadcom, if you talk to Qualcomm, all of the customers of the foundries say, you know, going …”