Editing Qualcomm (section)

===Early history===
Qualcomm was created in July 1985<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tibken |first=Shara |date=December 21, 2011 |title=Qualcomm Founder Set to Retire |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204879004577111313063790248 |access-date=June 3, 2014 |archive-date=November 22, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131122235545/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970204879004577111313063790248 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Chafkin King 2017" /> by seven former [[Linkabit]] employees led by Irwin Jacobs.<ref name="Mock2005" /> Other co-founders included [[Andrew Viterbi]], Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Harvey White.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/08/10/qualcomm.facts/ |title=Qualcomm facts |date=August 13, 2007 |website=CNN Business |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725060709/http://www.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/08/10/qualcomm.facts/ |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> The company was named Qualcomm for "Quality Communications".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Deagon |first=Brian |date=May 25, 2014 |title=Qualcomm Dialed 26,078% Gain as it Transformed Mobile |work=Investor’s Business Daily |url=http://news.investors.com/business-the-new-america/042514-698579-qualcomm-qcom-set-cdma-cellphone-standard.htm |access-date=July 26, 2014 |archive-date=September 29, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140929065514/http://news.investors.com/business-the-new-america/042514-698579-qualcomm-qcom-set-cdma-cellphone-standard.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> It started as a contract research and development center<ref name="Steinbock2003">{{Cite book |last=Steinbock |first=Dan |url=https://archive.org/details/wirelesshorizons00stei |title=Wireless Horizon: Strategy and Competition in the Worldwide Mobile Marketplace |publisher=AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-8144-0714-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/wirelesshorizons00stei/page/305 305] |url-access=registration}}</ref> largely for government and defense projects.<ref name="Mock2005">{{Cite book |last=Mock |first=Dave |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcH4C2eAsJEC |title=The Qualcomm Equation: How a Fledgling Telecom Company Forged a New Path to Big Profits and Market Dominance |date=January 1, 2005 |publisher=AMACOM: American Management Association |isbn=978-0-8144-2858-0 |pages=33 |access-date=May 7, 2020 |archive-date=August 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819130407/https://books.google.com/books?id=JcH4C2eAsJEC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="six" />

Qualcomm merged with Omninet in 1988 and raised $3.5 million in funding to produce the Omnitracs satellite communications system for trucking companies.<ref name="Mock2005" /> Qualcomm grew from eight employees in 1986 to 620 employees in 1991, due to demand for Omnitracs.<ref name="nytnyt">{{Cite news |last=Salpukas |first=Agis |date=June 5, 1991 |title=Satellite System Helps Trucks Stay in Touch |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/business/business-technology-satellite-system-helps-trucks-stay-in-touch.html |access-date=July 16, 2014 |archive-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906154334/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/business/business-technology-satellite-system-helps-trucks-stay-in-touch.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1989, Qualcomm had $32 million in revenue, 50 percent of which was from an Omnitracs contract with [[Schneider National]].<ref name="Mock2005" /><ref name="two">{{Cite news |last=Kraul |first=Chris |date=November 23, 1988 |title=Big Boost for Qualcomm |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-23-fi-275-story.html |access-date=June 3, 2014}}</ref> Omnitracs profits helped fund Qualcomm's research and development into [[code-division multiple access]] (CDMA) technologies for cell phone networks.<ref name="Steinbock2003" /><ref name="tribunel" />