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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul Swinge you

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa brahma Witz. Each day

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. It was a huge case for Qualcom.

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Speaker 1: Apple and Qualcom have been in a dispute for months,

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Speaker 1: if not years, over patents of Qualcomm's. The suit was

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Speaker 1: dropped after a settlement came into place. Apple paid some

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Speaker 1: undisclosed amount to Qualcom. Qualcom shares absolutely surging here to

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Speaker 1: explain the whole situation to us, it's a non screen

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Speaker 1: of Austin. He's senior semi conductor and hardware analyst for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence. So now let's just set this up with

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Speaker 1: what was at the heart of this legal dispute. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: if you step back and look at the technologies that

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Speaker 1: Qualcom has invented in Paul pularized commercialized over the last

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Speaker 1: decade plus, this is basically the engine of the phone

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Speaker 1: that allows it to communicate very effectively over cellular networks.

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Speaker 1: They invented this technology, the commercialize this technology both on

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Speaker 1: the device side as well as the infrastructure side. They

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Speaker 1: monetize it predominantly through a chip in the device and

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Speaker 1: through hands at royalties. They believe that they have the

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Speaker 1: best chip in the business, but that their technologies are

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Speaker 1: encompassed in more than just the chip. So how do

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Speaker 1: they monetize that? They say to every handset maker, while

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Speaker 1: you're using my technology, whether you use my chip or not,

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Speaker 1: so you've got to pay me a piece of that action.

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Speaker 1: So for every smartphone sold in the world, they get

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Speaker 1: a piece of that pie. And in addition to that,

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Speaker 1: if the smartphone so happens to use their cellular chip,

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Speaker 1: they monetize that as well. So enter several handset makers

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Speaker 1: over the past decade have sued Qualcom to try and

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Speaker 1: reduce the rate, to make sure to minimize the the

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Speaker 1: sort of the expanding nature of their IP technology so

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Speaker 1: that they can pay the least amount possible to Qualcomm. Right.

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Speaker 1: Apple has had a problem with that and expanded it

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Speaker 1: to a philosophical problem, saying, well, guess what, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to use your chips anymore. I'm going to go

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Speaker 1: to Intel, and I do not believe your intellectual property

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Speaker 1: is that valuable. I'm not going to pay you for

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Speaker 1: your intellectual property. So since late seventeen, they stopped or

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Speaker 1: reduced their dependence on Qualcom chips and stopped paying the

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Speaker 1: UM royalties for their intellectual property. UM. So this settlement

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Speaker 1: says many many things. Number one, that Qualcom's intellectual property

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Speaker 1: is valid and that it is applicable to more than

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Speaker 1: just the chip and the and the most important handset

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Speaker 1: maker has now said that. Number Two, it clearly controls

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Speaker 1: the calendar for five G development, puts it back in

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Speaker 1: Apple's control, doesn't sort of make them depend on a

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Speaker 1: second tier providers such as Intel which is lagging in

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Speaker 1: cellular development, and gives them back control so they can

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Speaker 1: launch the five G iPhone when they're ready. So it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: So I get you know, Qualcom start. This is great

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Speaker 1: for Qualcom that stocks up thirty five including today over

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Speaker 1: surprised that Apple hasn't risen more on this news, maybe

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Speaker 1: by just simply saying now Apple has a clearer path

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Speaker 1: What's going on the Apple side of so, So that's

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Speaker 1: a great point, right, ones is the handset business is

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Speaker 1: Qualcom impact of that might be dominimus. So, but now

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Speaker 1: are you going to go from two hundred and seventeen

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Speaker 1: Intel for this wireless capacity, the cellular connectivity and hardware.

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Speaker 1: Now they're going to go back to Qualcom. And you

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Speaker 1: would think that would be a negative for Intel, right,

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Speaker 1: the fact that they wanted to get into this business, UM,

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Speaker 1: So the fact that they've gotten out of this business

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Speaker 1: very smart move. Lisa We are so lucky we have

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Speaker 1: Entrene of us in here, because you know this, all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that's on tech is just that. The chips,

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Speaker 1: Intel lost and yet they want because their shareholders were like, you, guys,

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Speaker 1: why were you in that business to begin with? It

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Speaker 1: was a money loser second time around? Yeah, exactly. On

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Speaker 1: a Shrine Boston, Senior Semiconductor and Harder annalyst for Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 1: Well Spring is here, which means it is home buying season.

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Speaker 1: Taking an update on the residential real estate market. Return

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Speaker 1: to Doug Duncan, Senior Vice president chief economist for Fannie May,

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Speaker 1: based in Washington, d C. But joining us live here

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Speaker 1: in our Bloomberg Interactive Broker studio. Doug welcome. So again,

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Speaker 1: interest rates are down. Does that mean that it is

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Speaker 1: a hot real estate market? Good morning? Not hot. In fact,

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Speaker 1: will the trough look like? Well, one of the salvations

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Speaker 1: So I said, do my I'll be get real personal.

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. Age Tender, Thanks for joining us. So you know,

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Speaker 1: concerned about a path to profitability? Less concerned because the

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Speaker 1: other two scenarios. It's it's not visible, and it's visible

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Speaker 1: from profitability to tender or all. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us. General Wall, senior NALYS covering the

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