To boost its open source initiatives, Qualcomm is setting up a separate subsidiary called Qualcomm Innovation Centre (QuIC).
The wholly-owned subsidiary, which will oversee the company s open source development activities, will be headed by Rob Chandhok, Qualcomm s senior vice president for software strategy, as president.
Qualcomm is already engaged with Microsoft for design and development of Microsoft s handsets.
Open source and community-driven software development is becoming increasingly important to the wireless industry. To fulfill this commitment and to provide focus to this effort, Qualcomm has transferred experienced software engineers to QulC," said Chandhok in a statement.
Engineers of the QulC will work on open source segments such as Linux and Webkit as well as on open source operating systems such as Symbian, Android and Chrome.
