Qualcomm Founder Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs
„It took us 9 years to enter the chinese market“
Fortsetzung des Artikels von Teil 4
„Medical, Automotive or Education, everything is impacted“
DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK: Nevertheless Qualcomm has to look for new businesses…
Dr. Jacobs: Of course, you always have to feed the pipeline with new opportunities, even if things come out and you are earning money. The opportunities out there are spectacular, have a look on Medical, Automotive or Education, everything is impacted. And we have still not a full feel how this will go because we are just on the early years. But the companies will change.
DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK: You mentioned the pending NXP acquisition. The last, last, last deadline is July 25th, otherwise the deal will fail. Do you think it will be successful at the end oft he day? Will the chines authorities agree?
Dr. Jacobs: I only read what you write (laughing). It’s hard to tell, it seems to go in this direction now, but the US-Chinese relationchip is one day up and one day down. It took us 9 years to enter the chinese market by the way due to the political situation, but now it’s a great business for us. My concern is that the US and Europe are not running fast enough any more, and the Chinese are running pretty hard, we have a different government system which should give us an advantage, but you also have to make sure to do these investments, the proper investments at this time.
„Governmentral support was a major factor for starting my companies“
DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK: The subsidizing system in Asia is tremendous compared with Europe and I guess also with the US. Why does the microelectronics industry in western countries not receive sufficient governmentral support?
Dr. Jacobs: This is interesting to observe, and I think the Chinese are doing a good job identifying areas. But if you remember the 80’s the Japanese did the same thing, put a lot of money in certain areas and it didn’t work out, it was a kind of failure. So it is very important to keep individual Entrepeneurs thinking about things and coming out with great ideas.
Unfortunately we cut back some of the support for universities, and governmentral support was a major factor for starting my companies Linkabit and Qualcomm. You can ease back in existing areas, but you must put your energy in new areas. These public investments are crucial. The research universities in the US are doing very well, but they do depend on private and also public funding. The UCSD was starting three new campusses in one year, which is fantastic, but then they stopped any support, which is crazy!
DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK: (laughing) Is anything else crazy regarding politics?
Dr. Jacobs: Of course, the immigration situation is also crazy. People come to the US for getting educated, this happens, and after that they receive a green card whatever it takes. That makes no sense either.
DESIGN&ELEKTRONIK: Dr. Jacobs, thank you very much for your valuable time and giving me the opportunity to talk to you! We wish your wife, your family and yourself all the best.
Dr. Jacobs: Frank, it was a pleasure ! I thank you !
Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs
founded Qualcomm Incorporated in 1985, a company dealing in the areas of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) phones, integrated CDMA chipsets and software, technology licensing, wireless digital communications, and satellite positioning and communications, and serves as its Chairman and CEO. Building on his education and professional background in technology, Dr. Jacobs has been involved in all design aspects of the systems produced by his company. He is the holder of six patents in communications systems. In addition to creating core technologies, he utilizes his unique business skills and abilities to predict future markets for Qualcomm products and has led the company to rapid growth and profitability.
Prior to founding Qualcomm, Dr. Jacobs was co-founder, president, chairman and CEO of Linkabit Corporation. He saw the company through from its inception to its merger with M/A-COM Incorporated. Prior to launching Linkabit, Jacobs was an Assistant/Associate Professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT he co-authored a textbook in communications theory, Principles of Communication Engineering. He later joined the University of California at San Diego in the Department of Applied Electrophysics.
In 1994, Jacobs received the nation's highest honor in technology, the National Medal of Technology Award, for his achievements in the commercialization and development of technology.
- „It took us 9 years to enter the chinese market“
- „You are a liar“
- „My wife and myself setup an innovation institute at a ‚less standard university‘“
- „When you step away, you step away“
- „Medical, Automotive or Education, everything is impacted“
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