Qualcomm opens R&D centre, acquires Spike Tech’s arm

Qualcomm has launched its research and development (R&D) centre in Hyderabad as part of its plan to enhance its engineering workforce worldwide. The centre will support CDMA chipset development and play a key role in expanding CDMA technology in India and other countries. The R&D centre will work as a part of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) to develop software, digital signal processing firmware and hardware development, technical customer support in addition to design and testing. The R&D centre is located at Mindspace in Cyberabad. In another development, the company has acquired a semiconductor design centre of Spike Technologies (located in Bangalore) for a consideration of $19 million.