Just after President Trump, through Twitter, lashed out at the European Union's provocative remarks about a $5 billion trillion-dollar penalty for Google, which has been a cheap American deal, the EU's antitrust watchdog once again locked US chip giant Qualcomm (QUALCOMM), Strengthen its antitrust investigation, which has previously been accused of selling baseband chips at below-cost prices, crowding out rivals Icera. Since 2015, the European Union has accused Qualcomm of attempting to crowd out British Icera from 2009 to 2011, in a price-war strategy, against market-level competition, and then icera by Nvidia. According to reports from Reuters, TechCrunch and others, Qualcomm has been playing against EU regulators, and European Commission, the European Union's executive board, said Qualcomm had previously exclusively imported Qualcomm's chips through the payment of Apple's agreed amount, Excluding rival Intel's data-processor chips from the behavior of Apple's iphone, Gao Tongfu was fined $1.23 billion by EU Shang in January 2018 after violating EU rules on fair competition in the market. The EU antitrust watchdog said on 20th that it had submitted additional evidence of allegations that would normally be used to strengthen the Commission's initial results. However, on the occasion of the European Union's 5 billion dollar penalty, the European Commission immediately locked in an additional survey of unfair competition by US technology companies, and for Qualcomm, it was also an overnight rain. From the beginning of 2017, Apple filed a patent licensing right gold on the court, and then met Bo Tong (Broadcom) bid for malicious takeover, internal and internal turmoil ensued, and Qualcomm attempted to open up revenue diversification pipeline, since 2016, the acquisition of NXP Semiconductor (a) merger case, Now, with the approval of the 8-nation regional regulator, the takeover is on the brink, and the EU's antitrust authorities have since 2015 been prone to investigate the penalties and, more often, become a variable for Qualcomm operations. The European Union's 2015 antitrust investigation began in Icera, the UK's base-chip supplier, accusing Qualcomm of using a market advantage to sell UMTS chips for 3G handsets at below-cost prices from 2009 to 2011, in an attempt to crowd out icera, and the US-nvidia supplier of similar chips, Subsequently, Icera is also a summary of acquisitions by NVIDIA. The report pointed out that the EU regulatory authorities this time to submit additional documents, once found to be detrimental to Qualcomm, fear will face additional fines on the 1 billion ~20 million dollars of the penalty, about 10% of the annual revenue of Qualcomm. Qualcomm's long-standing dominance of the smartphone's LTE chipset sector, particularly its close relationship with Apple's flagship iphone, has been hit by the European Union, which in January 2018 announced a deal against Qualcomm's chip deals with Apple between 2011 and 2016, Excluding other competitors from entering and abusing their market position, the European Union antitrust agency fined 997 million euros (about $1.23 billion) for Qualcomm, which is about 4.9% of the annual revenue of Qualcomm 2017, although 1.2 billion dollar fine amounts are not Fibonacci, But it is still well below the EU anti-trust law penalty limit of 2 billion dollars.
