Taiwan Fair in October to Qualcomm in violation of fair competition laws as a pretext for up to 778 million US dollars in the ticket, although Qualcomm has issued a statement that it will seek the Taiwan court to suspend the implementation and appeal, but still in the quarter earnings report $ 778 million fine, erosion of earnings per share of about 0.52 US dollars.
Qualcomm in addition to the relief measures to be filed with Taiwan, patent disputes between Apple and there is no sign of military offensives Qualcomm pointed out at the conference that the patent war with Apple will be a protracted war may take a long time to complete with Apple in the United States , China, Germany and other places of legal proceedings.
Qualcomm and Apple patent litigation battle, resulting from Apple dissatisfied patent licensing model, not only sued Qualcomm monopoly market and rejected the technical authorization, and in April this year to stop paying Qualcomm billions of dollars a year royalties, Qualcomm anti- Report, involving Hon Hai, Heshuo, Compal, Wistron Taiwan's four major Apple foundries.
Although the recent market is rumored that Apple will completely abandon Qualcomm's baseband chips from 2018 to Intel and MediaTek products, Qualcomm has indicated that next year's Apple models have been validated to deny the above news.However, Apple also speeds up the homemade baseband Chip footsteps, as soon as 2019 ready.