Qualcomm's president, Derek Aberle, recently discussed the possibility of the company splitting up its chip division and licensing division into two separate companies to help improve share values. Long story short, Aberle doesn't think that would be the best move for Qualcomm to make.
While Aberle does think that Qualcomm's stock is undervalued, especially since it's fallen 25% over the past year, but he believes that spinning off the chip division of the company is too simple of an approach and might not help. He also says that the company's current structure is useful when helping Chinese customers expand into new markets.
Qualcomm announced cutbacks earlier this year, including laying off 15% of its workforce and reducing costs by about $1.4 billion, in an effort to bring its stock value back up. The Snapdragon 810 scandal certainly didn't help matters, and losing a major customer like Samsung with the Galaxy S6 probably didn't sit well, either. Still, Qualcomm is one of the biggest players in the market, so they've got plenty of time to turn things around and figure out a solution to undervalued stock before it becomes an emergency.
source: Reuters
Qualcomm should cut off their product management team and product planning team. This mess they have didn’t just happened with Snapdragon 810 release, it was developing long ago. They weren’t ready for 64bit and working against clock isn’t the best practises. Their partners wasn’t ready for 16/14nm tech process and building Cortex-A57 on 20nm was madness from the start, they should have done their contactsite with SoC OEMs at the time they were overclocking S800 (S801/S805) but they were deaf and blind. The same behaviour we seen before (remember their “quad core no need” statements from their rep years ago) over confident PR department, stupid statements etc. This cuts won’t help the company,when their drivers team and software department is ignoring developers requests and releasing driver revisions full of bugs or with regressions to a previous revisions, this is unacceptable and shows overall situation at Qualcomm. This happens on every front doesn’t matter if it’s software team or SoC engineering or a single person who can’t run Vulkan demo on SIGGRAPH. I wish Qualcomm and their employees success but if there’s a lack of competence you can’t really anything about it rather then looking for different people with higher level of professionalism.. I’m mostly sure Snapdragon 820 won’t be as good as other SoC’s, again Qualcomm is thinking that consumers and partners will eat this under-powered product. That sure might happen if OEMs didn’t get their lesson with S810 fiasco and to be honest I belive they didn’t even their sales was terrible. We’ll see how it goes but I’m almost certain just a restriction won’t help
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