Qualcomm shares rose more than 12% last Thursday. A day ago it announced its September quarter earnings, which not only exceeded Wall Street's expectations, but also included bullish guidance for the December quarter.

     Part of the reason for the strong guidance is that leading semiconductor company Qualcomm is more optimistic about the global chip shortage than many of its competitors. For example, Apple stated that the chip shortage will cost it more than $6 billion in the 12th quarter.

       Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said last Wednesday that it is expected that by the end of this December, its own supply problems will be substantially improved, and the company will have enough supply to meet demand in the second half of next year.

       This is earlier than Intel's prediction of the end of the global chip shortage. Intel predicts that the shortage will continue until 2023, which is closer to AMD's forecast, which stated that the challenges related to chip supply will continue until the second half of 2022.

         About Qualcomm

       Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. It is the world's leading wireless technology innovator, revolutionizing the way the world connects, calculates and communicates. Connecting mobile phones to the Internet, Qualcomm's invention opened up the era of mobile internet. 

       Qualcomm is a global leader in the research and development of 3G, 4G and 5G technologies. It has provided technology licenses to many manufacturers around the world, involving all brands of telecommunications equipment and consumer electronic equipment in the world. In China, Qualcomm has been in business for more than 20 years, and cooperation with China's ecological partners has expanded to many industries such as smartphones, integrated circuits, the Internet of Things, big data, software, and automobiles.

      On the ranking of “The First Daguan·Keweiwei World Brand Value Top 900" released on March 14, 2021, Qualcomm's brand value was 2959.01 billion RMB, ranking the 109th. 

作者：Nan