Category: Processors

Who tried to take down Qualcomm? What were they after? Why didn’t they prevail? What does Qualcomm’s resilience mean for the future? These are the questions that Futurum Senior Analyst, Olivier Blanchard dives into in the second episode of this 3-part series, in which Apple weaponized the courts in an attempt to weaken the value of Qualcomm’s technology portfolio, and Broadcom took advantage of a moment of perceived vulnerability to try and acquire Qualcomm outright. Both Apple and Broadcom would ultimately fail.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss all things earnings related from Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD, Google, Amazon and Poly.
AMD has released its Q2 2021 financial results, solidly beating consensus estimates with revenue of $3.85 billion (versus $3.62 billion expected) and earnings of $0.63 (versus $0.54 expected). This is the fourth consecutive quarter of record revenues including a 99 percent Y/Y increase from Q2 2020.
Tech names AMD, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all saw their results significantly outperform guidance and expectations this week.
Who tried to take down Qualcomm? What were they after? Why didn’t they prevail? What does Qualcomm’s resilience mean for the future? These are the questions that Futurum Senior Analyst, Olivier Blanchard, dives into in the second episode of this 3-part series, in which Apple weaponized the courts in an attempt to weaken the value of Qualcomm’s technology portfolio, and Broadcom took advantage of a moment of perceived vulnerability to try and acquire Qualcomm outright. Both Apple and Broadcom would ultimately fail.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including the truce being broken between Microsoft and Google, new launches from Poly and Marvell, and other topics you won't want to miss.

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