NVIDIA and Qualcomm Go to War

By Tim Beyers – Feb 19, 2013 at 7:42PM EST

NASDAQ: QCOM

Qualcomm

Market Cap

$162B

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(-0.41%) $0.62

Current Price

$151.60

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Qualcomm gets some new competition.

In the following video, The Motley Fool's Alison Southwick talks to Fool.com contributor Tim Beyers about Qualcomm's (QCOM 0.41%) new competitive challenge. NVIDIA (NVDA 0.72%), a company well known for its very high quality graphics rendering, has just released a chip for the mobile space designed to render graphics at very high speeds. Should Qualcomm, as the big guy in this space, be scared? Tim gives investors what they need to know about the new chip, and its competitive threats.

Tim Beyers is a Senior Investment Analyst and Lead Advisor at The Motley Fool. Tim leads the signature Rule Breakers investing service and co-leads Motley Fool Supernova’s Odyssey mission, a real-money portfolio designed to help individual investors build and manage a portfolio of Rule Breaker stocks. He also serves as a portfolio lead for Cloud Disruptors and is a contributing stock analyst for the Trends team. Tim has over 20 years of professional investing experience, including 17 years as an analyst for the market-beating Rule Breakers service and three years as its lead advisor.

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