10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries


8. Paul Jacobs

CEO, Qualcomm

Mobile is eventually changing to the future computing platform and if it does, Jacobs will be one of the most influential figures in the era. When other companies concentrated in technologies, Jacob has overseen an era proliferated with Smartphones, when he has given the control of the company back in 2005. That’s why Qualcomm’s chips power most of the 3G Smartphones available in market now. He has also allocated companies resource into new 4G LTE technology which made Qualcomm chips appear in many new devices including iPad and iPhone.