Chinese phone manufacturers slam Broadcom's $130bn bid for Qualcomm

Nicholas Fearn
clock • 2 min read

Deal would reduce competition, hamper innovation and raise prices, argue Xiaomi, ZTE, Oppo and Vivo

Some of China's biggest smartphone manufacturers have slammed Broadcom's $130 billion bid for Qualcomm, claiming that it will endanger competition in the industry. Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, among t...

To continue reading this article...

Join Computing

  • Unlimited access to real-time news, analysis and opinion from the technology industry
  • Receive important and breaking news in our daily newsletter
  • Be the first to hear about our events and awards programmes
  • Join live member only interviews with IT leaders at the ‘IT Lounge’; your chance to ask your burning tech questions and have them answered
  • Access to the Computing Delta hub providing market intelligence and research
  • Receive our members-only newsletter with exclusive opinion pieces from senior IT Leaders

Join now

 

Already a Computing member?

Login

You may also like
Critics furious about Microsoft-Mistral AI partnership

Legislation and Regulation

Flies in the face of the AI Act

clock 28 February 2024 • 2 min read
Microsoft, Dell and Lenovo laptops vulnerable to Windows Hello authentication flaw

Threats and Risks

Researchers employed reverse engineering techniques on both software and hardware

clock 27 November 2023 • 2 min read
IT Essentials: In the shadows

Public Sector

Secrecy is no way to run the NHS

clock 13 November 2023 • 2 min read

More on Hardware

 Researchers create autonomous drones that chat like people and grab with hands

Researchers create autonomous drones that chat like people and grab with hands

Capable of 'thinking, entity control and environmental awareness'

Mark Ballard
clock 07 November 2023 • 3 min read
IT leaders must be hands-off helicopter parents

IT leaders must be hands-off helicopter parents

CIO panel agrees: Employees want IT to do everything, but they don't want to see it

Tom Allen
clock 14 September 2023 • 3 min read
Asian Tech Roundup: India's lunar triumph

Asian Tech Roundup: India's lunar triumph

Plus, China's digital funeral plans

Tom Allen
clock 25 August 2023 • 2 min read