ameras, videotelephony, streaming multimedia, audio, 3D graphics, position-location capabilities through integrated gpsOne technology and peripheral connectivity, to enable a range of devices. The company’s IZat location technologies are featured in approximately 50 operator networks around the globe. It offers both integrated and stand alone location products for use in mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, cameras and other consumer devices. The Snapdragon family of processors is a highly integrated, mobile optimized system on a chip incorporating the company’s advanced technologies, including high performance central processing units (CPU), graphics processing units (GPU) and modems, multimedia subsystems, including audio, video and camera capabilities, and highly accurate GPS engines. Its CPU cores are custom designed to deliver high levels of compute performance at ultra-low power, allowing manufacturers to design devices that last longer between charges. Its GPUs are also custom designed to deliver graphics performance for gaming and user interfaces. The Snapdragon family also incorporates its modem technology for advanced mobile broadband and a multimedia subsystem that delivers audio and high-definition video capabilities. The company’s 3G/4G (fourth generation) modem roadmap delivers the latest network technologies across multiple product tiers and devices. The company, through Qualcomm Atheros, Inc., offers an expanded portfolio of connectivity technologies, which complements its mobile business and extends its capability into networking and infrastructure products. QCT is a provider of wireless and wired connectivity products, including networking products for consumers, carriers and enterprise equipment, mobile handsets and mobile and fixed computing and consumer electronics products. The company’s wireless products consist of integrated circuits and system software for wireless local area network (WLAN), Bluetooth and frequency modulation (FM), as well as technologies that enable location data and services, including GPS and global navigation satellite system. Its wireless technologies are provided in the form of WLAN, Bluetooth and FM integrated products, WLAN and Bluetooth combination and standalone products. The company’s wired connectivity products consist of integrated circuits and software for Ethernet, powerline and passive optical networks. Its passive optical network technologies provide its customers with solutions for their fiber optics, broadband and access businesses. Competition: The company’s competitors include companies, such as Broadcom; CSR plc; Freescale; HiSilicon Technologies; Intel; Lantiq; Marvell Technology; MediaTek; nVidia; Renesas Electronics; Spreadtrum Communications; ST-Ericsson (a joint venture between Ericsson Mobile Platforms and ST-NXP Wireless); Texas Instruments; and VIA Telecom. It also competes with communications equipment companies, such as Matsushita; Motorola Mobility; and Samsung. QTL Segment QTL grants licenses or otherwise provides rights to use portions of the company’s intellectual property portfolio, which includes certain patent rights essential to and/or useful in the manufacture and sale of certain wireless products, including, without limitation, products implementing cdmaOne, CDMA2000, WCDMA, CDMA TDD (including TD-SCDMA), GSM/GPRS/ enhanced data rates for global evolution (EDGE), LTE and/or WiMAX standards and their derivatives. The company grants licenses to manufacturers of wireless products, such as mobile devices, also known as subscriber units, which include handsets, other consumer devices (tablets, personal computers, e-readers), machine-to-machine devices (telematics devices, meter reading devices) and data modem cards, the infrastructure equipment required to establish and operate a network, and equipment to test networks and subscriber units. Competition: Separate and apart from licensing manufacturers of subscriber and network equipment, the company has certain patent arrangements with competitors of its QCT segment, such as Broadcom, Fujitsu, MediaTek, NEC, Renesas Electronics, Texas Instruments and VIA Telecom. QWI