Top Highlights

• A genius who worked at MIT and Bell Laboratories, Shannon began in 1948 with a narrow effort to gauge the carrying capacity of any communications channel in the presence of noise, but he ended up creating the fundamental science behind modern information technology.
• The essence of Qualcomm is that it is an information technology company based on a theory of information.
• In an era in which wireless is becoming the dominant mode of Internet access and telephone communications, Qualcomm is the world's leading source of wireless technology innovation.
• At a time when share value is increasingly based on intellectual property, Qualcomm is the global champion of intellectual property management, with a portfolio of more than one thousand patents for the implementation of its CDMA, generating royalty revenues of nearly one billion dollars each year.
• With its robust BREW (binary run-time environment for wireless) platform for applets and its pioneering Eudora e-mail program, it is a leading software vendor.