SAN DIEGO, Calif.-The Economist has named Qualcomm Inc.’s chairman and chief executive officer Irwin Jacobs as an innovation leader in the area of communications for the CDMA technology at its inaugural Awards and Summit at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
“Digital mobile telephony is bypassing infrastructure bottlenecks in many developing countries, and Dr. Jacobs’ work has also helped to catapult the wireless industry into the vanguard of the global economy,” said Nick Valery, chairman of the judging committee and editor of The Economist Technology Quarterly.
