Words matter. These are the best Steve Mollenkopf Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.
5G will have an impact similar to the introduction of electricity or the car, affecting entire economies and benefiting entire societies.
I was the youngest kid on our street in Baltimore, and I was always playing sports with kids who were older than me. You learn a lot that way.
If you look at where the growth is happening – tablet growth compared to the traditional PC growth – you just can’t compare them.
The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn’t have a connected computer in your pocket that didn’t also have a camera or a GPS.
Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more.
I knew I wanted to be an engineer, but I didn’t know what type of engineer. I chose electrical engineering primarily because it was the hardest one to get into. It’s ridiculous when I think about it now, but it worked out OK.
The licensing business is about licensing the full portfolio of Qualcomm’s patents. Some of them involve the chip. Some of them don’t involve the chip. In fact, the vast majority of them don’t involve the chip.
You want to encourage yourself to take risks. If you make a mistake trying to do something, you can fix it later.
When people talk about wearables, when people talk about connected XYZ – home, car, whatever – those are all smartphone technologies.
If you look at the developed world, people have multiple devices now. And a phone works with a watch, with a car, with a tablet, with a number of other type of devices.
People tend to not forgo purchasing a cellphone. In many places in the world, the first time they get on the Internet is through a cellphone. Pretty significant economic push, particularly in the emerging market.
Both parents were teachers. My father became an assistant principal, and he was responsible for discipline at the school. So I didn’t get away with much at home.
Power, of course, is very important, but really, there’s a bundle of technologies you have to have to make sure they’re highly integrated, so you have to have modem, you have to have connectivity, you have to have GPS, you have to have graphics, you have to have CPU.
