Qualcomm wants the original founders to help BlackBerry return to buy. That claims business newspaper, The Wall Street Journal. Qualcomm is the maker of the processors and some other components in recent BlackBerry smartphones.
Qualcomm could be one of the financiers behind a possible bid by the founders of BlackBerry, writes The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper speculates that Qualcomm, with the assistance for the bid would want to have a large customer in the market continues. BlackBerry takes the last years almost only Qualcomm socs. The latest models of with BlackBerry 7 include a Snapdragon S2, while the newer BlackBerry 10 models a Snapdragon S4 Plus.
Qualcomm would BlackBerry pay; it has more than enough money in cash. Furthermore, it would investor Cerberus help to get the money together to get. What the plans would be with BlackBerry, is as yet unknown. One of the former founders and former managing director Mike Lazaridis was a great advocate of the continue smartphones with physical keyboards.
BlackBerry has themselves to put on sale now in financial heavy weather. The previous month, as announced investor Fairfax to the company to buy, but it got the funding is not around. It is at this point unclear whether BlackBerry will go with smartphones, but it brought out the Z30, a smartphone with 5″display and BlackBerry 10.2.
Qualcomm chip in BlackBerry Z10. Source: iFixit