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Meet Steve Mollenkopf
President, Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT)
Steve Mollenkopf thrills to the challenge of succeeding against the naysayers. A long-time Qualcommer, it's in his blood. "I like it when people tell us we can't do something," he says. "My goal is to continue our company's legacy of accomplishing the amazing."
In August, Mollenkopf was named QCT President. A career Qualcommer whose most recent role was head of QCT's Cellular Products Group, Steve Mollenkopf is excited about leading QCT on the path to continued success. Steve joined Qualcomm in 1994 after earning two degrees in electrical engineering. He was a leading contributor to Qualcomm's Globalstar project until moving to QCT in 1999. For most of the past decade he led the development of the UMTS family of air interface technologies. His technical and business leadership have been critical to the development and implementation of multiple industry-leading innovations.
Qualcomm's ubiquitous reach drives Steve. "Everywhere you look you'll see products with our technologies inside," he notes. "We're in devices that our parents have and our children will have. That motivates a lot of people. It certainly motivates me."
Mobile devices I carry: "A WinMobile device, an Amazon Kindle, a laptop with a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO card – "a great product"—and a changing array of higher functionality phones with QCT technologies inside."
Where I think wireless technology has made the greatest impact: "Everybody is always connected. We used to talk about calling people's houses. Now we talk about calling a person because their device is associated with them. I think that will grow. Wireless technology has changed the way we work and the way we interface with our families."
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Qualcomm's Advanced, Dual-Core Chipset enabled the first Android-powered mobile phone - the T-Mobile G1, manufactured by HTC. By integrating our chipset hardware and software capabilities with Android, Qualcomm played an integral role in bringing the first Android handset to market.
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