{"id":7822,"date":"2012-10-22T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7822"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T22:34:09","slug":"is-qualcomm-the-new-amd-or-the-next-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7822","title":{"rendered":"Is Qualcomm the New AMD? Or the Next Intel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With the news that Qualcomm will take over the CES keynote spot previously held by Microsoft, it really became clear what a dominant player the company has become. Quietly, while no one was paying attention, it&#8217;s become the second-most important semiconductor maker in the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/community\/node\/81635\">Is Qualcomm the New AMD? Or the Next Intel?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Qualcomm started life in 1985 as a maker of cellular communications semiconductors, and it hasn&#8217;t strayed far from that formula. <strong>It&#8217;s pretty much the go-to company for CDMA chips and is now taking a lead in 4G LTE as well.<\/strong> So why would a company that&#8217;s so vertical become Intel&#8217;s biggest competitor? Because of where the two are headed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the news that Qualcomm will take over the CES keynote spot previously held by Microsoft, it really became clear what a dominant player the company has become. Quietly, while no one was paying attention, it&#8217;s become the second-most important &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=7822\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[866,525,647],"class_list":["post-7822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-company-profile","tag-market-trends","tag-semiconductors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7851,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7822\/revisions\/7851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}