Qualcomm is being investigated by the EU over its chip pricing

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by Sindy Cator on July 16, 2015 at 8:01 am

The European Commission has opened not one, but two official investigations into whether Qualcomm attempted to force customers to use its chips by leveraging its dominant market position. Qualcomm is the world’s largest manufacturer of ‘baseband chipsets’ which are used to manage the radio interfaces — like WiFi and 4G — inside your mobile phone. The first investigation will look at the conditions Qualcomm set for the sale of its 3G/4G chips and whether it gave financial incentives to customers for buying its chips exclusively. The second investigation concerns Qualcomm’s pricing practices for its 3G chips and if the company used “predatory pricing” to sell them…