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The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2, previously Cal(IT) 2), also referred to as the Qualcomm Institute (QI) at its San Diego branch, is a collaborative academic research institution of the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego), the University of California, Irvine (UCI), [5] and University of California, Riverside. [4]
Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with 140+ active portfolio companies. [ 1 ] Investing in startups targeting the wireless ecosystem, the group focuses on investments in the sectors of automotive, data center and enterprise, digital health ...
Qualcomm also provides licenses to use its patents, many of which are critical to the CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA wireless standards. [262] The company is estimated to earn $20 for every smartphone sold. [263]: 64 Qualcomm is the largest public company in San Diego. [264] [12] It has a philanthropic arm called The Qualcomm Foundation.
Before joining Qualcomm to head up its Wireless Health initiative, Jones developed and grew various healthcare enterprises for 22 years. He was Chief Operating Officer of MedTrans for 8 years, and grew the company from $4.5 million to $1.2 billion, which then became American Medical Response (AMR), the world's largest emergency medical services provider.
He was appointed as the first holder of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in 2004 in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California, San Diego where he has been a faculty member since 1984.
In December 2013, Qualcomm announced that Jacobs would step down as CEO and be replaced by president and COO Steve Mollenkopf from March 2014. [9] On May 28, 2013, Jacobs, along with his three brothers, became minority owners in the Sacramento Kings in a partnership with Vivek Ranadivé and Mark Mastrov. [10] The NBA approved the sale on May 28 ...
Jha began his career at Qualcomm in 1994 as a senior engineer with the Qualcomm very-large-scale integration group working on the Globalstar satellite phone, and later on the first 13k vocoder application-specific integrated circuit, which was integrated into Qualcomm's MSM2200 chipset. In 1997 Jha was promoted to vice-president of engineering ...
The station was renamed after Qualcomm's naming rights to the stadium expired in June 2017, coinciding with the Chargers' departure from San Diego. The station closed on November 1, 2020, for two years to accommodate the demolition of San Diego Stadium and the construction of Snapdragon Stadium.