Qualcomm是全球3G、4G与下一代无线技术的领军者，并正在引领全球5G之路，其创想和创新推动了数字通信的演进。

Qualcomm美国高通公司是全球3G、4G与下一代无线技术的领军企业，并致力于引领全球5G之路。移动行业与相邻行业重要的创新推动者。30多年来，Qualcomm高通的创想和创新推动了数字通信的演进，将各地的人们与信息、娱乐和彼此之间更紧密地联系在一起。目前已经向全球100多位制造商提供技术使用授权，涉及了世界上所有电信设备和消费电子设备的品牌。

Qualcomm 最初起源于一个想法、 一份协议、 一项协定。 1985 年，七位有识之士聚集在圣地亚哥的一个小房间内共商大计，决定创建“quality communications”。如今，在这个小房间内诞生的公司在全球 40 多个国家和地区设立了 170 多个办事处， 但当初的想法却一直延续至今。

Qualcomm的技术驱动了智能手机的变革，将数十亿人连接起来。我们在3G和4G当中作出了开创性的贡献，现在正在引领5G之路，迈向智能联网终端的新时代。Qualcomm的产品正在变革汽车、计算、物联网、健康医疗、数据中心等行业，并支持数以百万计的终端以从未想象的方式相互连接。Qualcomm Incorporated包括技术许可业务（QTL）和我们绝大部分的专利组合。Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.（QTI）是Qualcomm的全资子公司，与其子公司一起运营我们所有的工程、研发活动以及所有产品和服务业务，其中包括Qualcomm的半导体业务QCT。

Qualcomm的多个部门除研发大量的新技术外，他们还拥有一个共同的目标， 即致力于发明新的方法来改进全球通信技术。

数十亿甚至数万亿次使用......
这是每天全世界使用Qualcomm 设备的次数， 这些设备可能是您口袋里的智能手机、咖啡桌上的平板电脑、公文包中的无线调制解调器......甚至可能是您车内的导航系统或是系在您胸前的运动摄影机。

骁龙（Snapdragon）是高通公司（Qualcomm）推出的高度集成的“全合一”移动处理器系列平台，覆盖入门级智能手机乃至高端智能手机、平板电脑以及下一代智能终端。2012年2月20日，Qualcomm高通正式将Snapdragon系列处理器的中文名称定为“骁龙”。

Qualcomm高通移动处理器从名字看来并不像德州仪器、英特尔（Intel）那么响亮，但在智能手机玩家中，Qualcomm高通受到青睐的程度远远高于前两者。是高度集成的移动优化系统芯片（SoC），结合了业内领先的3G/4G移动宽带技术与Qualcomm高通公司自主设计的基于ARM指令集的CPU内核，拥有强大的多媒体功能、3D图形功能和GPS引擎。Qualcomm高通公司的手机芯片组能够兼容各种智能系统，我们在各厂商的主流智能手机中都能看见其身影，Qualcomm高通处理器的特点是性能表现出色，多媒体解析能力强，能根据不同定位的手机，推出经济型、多媒体型、增强型和融合型四种不同的芯片。同时Qualcomm高通的芯片是首个能够兼容Android系统的，所以一下占据了Android手机的半壁江山，Android是未来智能系统的大势所趋，Qualcomm高通就如同给正准备腾飞的Android加上了翅膀，前景一片光明。

Qualcomm高通是HTC、索尼、诺基亚、MOTO、LG、三星等全球品牌智能手机的主要芯片供应商。在国内，华为、中兴、联想、小米、海信、海尔等厂商的智能手机也大多采用骁龙处理器。许多耳熟能详的智能手机和明星终端比如诺基亚Lumia 800，Lumia920，Lumia1020，Lumia1520，Lumia2520，小米M1，红米1S电信版，小米M2，小米3,HTC One，联想K71、K81智能电视、HTC One V、HTC One S、，HTC One XC、HTC One Max ,步步高vivo S1、联想乐Phone等。Qualcomm高通是全球大牌高端手机采用的最多的移动处理器品牌，其在智能手机行业的地位相当于PC领域的芯片巨头英特尔。

Qualcomm is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. It derives most of its revenue from chipmaking and the bulk of its profit from patent licensing businesses. The company headquarters is located in San Diego, California, United States, and has 224 worldwide locations. The parent company is Qualcomm Incorporated (Qualcomm), which includes the Qualcomm Technology Licensing Division (QTL). Qualcomm's wholly owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI), operates substantially all of Qualcomm's R&D activities, as well as its product and services businesses, including its semiconductor business, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies.

Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by Cornell and MIT alumnus and UC San Diego professor Irwin M. Jacobs, USC, MIT alumnus Andrew Viterbi, Harvey White, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen and Franklin Antonio. Jacobs and Viterbi had previously founded Linkabit. Qualcomm's first products and services included the OmniTRACS satellite locating and messaging service, used by long-haul trucking companies, developed from a product called Omninet owned by Izak Parviz Nazarian, Younes Nazarian, and Neil Kadisha, and specialized integrated circuits for digital radio communications such as a Viterbi decoder and now it is one of the leading processor makers for smartphone companies.

In 1990, Qualcomm began the design of the first CDMA-based cellular base station, based upon calculations derived from the CDMA-based OmniTRACS satellite system. This work began as a study contract from AirTouch which was facing a shortage of cellular capacity in Los Angeles. Two years later Qualcomm began to manufacture CDMA cell phones, base stations and chips. The initial base stations were not reliable and the technology was licensed wholly to Nortel in return for their work in improving the base station switching. The first CDMA technology was standardized as IS-95. Qualcomm has since helped to establish the CDMA2000, WCDMA and LTE cellular standards.

The following year, Qualcomm acquired Eudora, an email client for PC that could be used with the OmniTRACS system. The acquisition associated a widely used email client with a company that was little-known at the time.

In 1997, Qualcomm paid $18 million for the naming rights to the Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, renaming it to Qualcomm Stadium. The naming rights will belong to Qualcomm until 2017.

In 1999, Qualcomm sold its base station business to Ericsson, and later, sold its cell phone manufacturing business to Kyocera. The company was now focused on developing and licensing wireless technologies and selling ASICs that implement them.

Steve Mollenkopf was promoted to president and chief operating officer of the company, effective November 12, 2011. Mollenkopf's appointment as CEO was announced on December 13, 2013 and took effect on March 4, 2014. He succeeded Paul E. Jacobs, who remains executive chairman.

CFO Bill Keitel retired and was replaced by Applied Materials CFO George Davis on March 11, 2013.

Vista Equity Partners took over the Omnitracs business from Qualcomm Incorporated in November 2013.

In October 2014, Qualcomm wrapped up a deal for chip maker CSR Plc for a fee of $2.5 billion, beating its biggest rival Microchip Technology.

In November 2014, Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf announced at the company’s annual analyst day meeting held in New York City that the company is planning to target the data center market with new server chips based on the ARM architecture and plans to make them commercially available by the end of 2015.

From 2012 to 2014, Qualcomm saw substantial revenue and profit growth as its Snapdragon System-on-Chip took market share from other competitors such as Texas Instruments' OMAP and Nvidia's Tegra to become the de facto standard for Android smartphones, and for a while Qualcomm's market capitalization surpassed that of Intel. However, surprised by the release of the 64-bit Apple A7 in September 2013, Qualcomm had to quickly come up with its own competing 64-bit chip. Qualcomm's resulting Snapdragon 810 and 808, which used generic ARM cores instead of their own custom-designed cores, were not well received due to overheating and performance problems, which led to large customers like Samsung opting to use their in-house Exynos processor instead. Furthermore, Qualcomm was facing anti-trust investigations in China, the European Union, and the United States. The combination of these pressures caused a significant fall in Qualcomm's profits and stock price in 2015.

In July 2015, the company cut 4,700 jobs or about 15 percent of its 31,300 current workforce due to decline of sales. Executive management knew this was coming so they came up with a plan to retain its employees. However, instead of paying reasonable salary, executive management used this plan as a justification to give themselves a big payout first and then lay off employees later.

In December 2015, Qualcomm Inc. announced that it had rejected calls to split itself in two, deciding to keep its chipmaking and patent licensing businesses together.

In April 2017, the company received approval from U.S. antitrust regulators for the proposed acquisition of NXP Semiconductors for $47 billion, with the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act expiring.

Qualcomm pioneered the commercialization of the cdmaOne (IS-95) standard for wireless cellular communications, following up with CDMA2000, an early standard for third-generation (3G) mobile.

Today, the company is the leading patent holder in advanced 3G mobile technologies, including CDMA2000 1xEV-DO and its evolutions; WCDMA and its higher-speed variant known as HSPA and its evolutions; and TD-SCDMA; as well as patents on 4G. The license streams from the patents on these inventions, and related products, are a major component of Qualcomm's business.

In June 2011, Qualcomm announced that it would release a set of application programming interfaces geared to give Web-based applications deeper links into hardware.