On Wednesday 24 January, the European Commission handed down a fine of €997 million to the American company Qualcomm for abuse of dominant position on the semiconductor market supplying LTE baseband chipsets.
Once again, European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has gone after a US giant, a few months after the record fine of €2.42 billion handed to Google (see EUROPE 11817). But this time, it is Qualcomm, the world’s largest producer of LTE baseband chipsets, that has...