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The European Commission has opened two investigations against Qualcomm because the company suspected “dumping” processor for partners to bring down the opponent.

Qualcomm – mobile chip manufacturers from the United States – were fined nearly $ 1 billion in China because of monopoly, has recently had to receive bad news: The company is currently the European Union (EU ) envisaged for investigation, saying that the company also violated antitrust laws in this market. Accordingly, the European Commission (EC) in the European Union, recently opened two investigations against Qualcomm, alleging the company abused its leading position in the mobile chip array. The first survey will be to clarify whether or not the Qualcomm offer “financial incentives” to companies partner to these partners buy Qualcomm chip network connection instead of others. If so, this will be a violation of EU antitrust law. A second investigation focused on allegations that Qualcomm chip pricing below cost in order to “eliminate” their opponents. Qualcomm is the company producing the largest mobile chip world. Its Snapdragon chip is used on many mobile devices, from smartphones to tablet, a lot of different vendors, from Samsung, LG, HTC, and others. Qualcomm also manufactures chip audio processing and data transmission over a cellular network. Some opponents of Qualcomm in this market include Samsung and Intel. The explosion of mobile devices is helping Qualcomm factors “should eat” in recent years. Fiscal year ending 9/2011, its turnover was only $ 15 billion, but to month 9/2014, revenue jumped to 26.5 billion dollars. Profit for the period also nearly doubled, from 4.3 billion to 8 billion.

Qualcomm is in trouble with the European Commission.

The investigation aimed at turning the company recently Qualccomm a US technology company the latest European equipment placed into perspective. The European Commission has also factor 4/2015 month Google violated antitrust law by abusing its leading position of the search market in Europe. The European Commission also threatened to open an investigation against Google Android to determine whether the platform has dominant market shares affect the opponent or not. Besides Google, Qualcomm Amazon e-commerce company is also the target of the European Commission. The investigation aims at Amazon also comes from Europe suspect Amazon violated antitrust laws in the array of electronic book (ebook). Even when Europe announced the decision, Qualcomm has voiced rejection and that they have no value. “We notified the European Commission has started the procedure for investigation against Qualcomm related to trading chips. Qualcomm is very disappointed but still will work, and the company believes any doubt violation of company rules are not worth “- the company said in a statement broadcast. For its part, the European Commission also highlighted their two surveys are not synonymous with formally Qualcomm sued, and “everything will be scrutinized” before making a decision. However, the current period ending this investigation have not been disclosed.