Qualcomm SVP Says Company May Expand To PCs And Laptops

Posted 11/04/2011 at 11:18am | by Brad Chacos

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When NFL quarterbacks win the Super Bowl, they take a break and drag their families down to Disney World (at least if you believe the post-game commercials). Well, mobile chip-maker Qualcomm just nailed the business version of the game winning touchdown, posting a year-over-year revenue of nearly $15 billion. So what is it doing next? The company wants to go somewhere new, too, but it isn’t a pleasure trip – Qualcomm wants to head to tablets, PCs and notebooks.

So says Fudzilla, who spoke to Enrico Salvatori, a Qualcomm senior VP and head of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies Europe. Salvatori told Fudzilla that in the short term, the company wants to increase its presence in the tablet market; the company has over Snapdragon-powered 30 slates in development currently and has plans to make their chips compatible with both Android and Windows 8. Longer term goals include moving in on Intel’s territory – i.e. laptops and PCs. With the present focus on thin, power-efficient notebooks, Qualcomm might just find itself welcomed with open arms by laptop manufacturers.

What do you folks think? Does Qualcomm have the capabilities to crack into the Intel- and AMD-dominated world of traditional computers?