Paul Jacobs, up to a seventh ago executive chairman of Qualcoom and son of one of the founders of the chip giant, he decided to scale the company which until a few weeks ago had been targeted by Broadcom.
An unprecedented attempt for which Jacobs is currently looking for financial partners. To reveal the news is the Financial Times, according to which the former CEO of the chip giant would have no intention of giving up after last week's abandonment in disagreement with the Broadcom affair and would be about to launch an offer, together with other investors, aimed at taking over the $89 billion company founded by his father and 32-year-old Andrew Viterbi.
According to the English newspaper, which cites sources close to the operation , the acquisition of Qualcomm could be of interest to the Japanese Softbank. However, it is not clear whether or not Softbank is linked to Jacobs, even if the hypothesis does not seem to be excluded from the existing relationship between Jacobs and the number one of the Japanese conglomerate.
We recall that for weeks, Qualcoomm has been at the center of international attention due to the$142 billion hostile bid launched by Broadcom and subsequently blocked by Donald Trump "for reasons of national security".
