Qualcomm CEO says he's about to resolve his dispute with Apple

In an interview with financial reporter Jim Cramer of the US CNBC network, Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, assured be about to resolve your conflict with Apple. Some statements that occur a few months after the start of testing the royalties required by the designer of modems that have integrated the iPhone two generations ago.

"We would like to work with Apple"

We speak like companies. The situation is similar to that of the fourth part of the game and not the first.

We have always spoken, and I am very consistent about it, that the second half of this year and [comienzos] The next is when we are really going to be about to find a resolution and we do not see a different result.

If on Mollenkopf showed that Qualcomm and Apple would find a solution to the current conflict. Mollenkopf did not give more details on the solution and also did not mention the terms "extrajudicial agreement", although it clearly indicates it in that direction.

This alleged deal would conflict with a report released by Reuters earlier this month. This ensured that Apple was willing to go to court and had rejected any attempt to reach an agreement outside the courts. This kind of leaks and comments Public servants can be interpreted as a tug of war in camera between the two companies.

What is striking in Qualcomm's CEO's statements is that they arrive shortly after it is discovered that his company was behind a smear campaign against Apple and Tim Cook. Qualcomm was tasked with introducing Tim Cook to the 2020 presidential election, according to a New York Times report. and other false stories.

Apple started using Intel modems of the iPhone 7 in conjunction with those of Qualcomm. But it's only until the current generation of terminals that Apple has completely given up on the San Diego modem designer. On this subject, Steve Mollenkopf assured that he would be "delighted to return to work with Apple", especially with 5G technology.

Currently, the conflict over calculation of royalties It is scattered all over the world. Currently, Qualcomm has been found guilty by a Taiwan court in 2017 for practices similar to those against Apple.