Qualcomm Shows Tablet, TV That Run Its Chips

January 10, 2012, 1:22 PM EST By Ian King and Danielle Kucera

Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Qualcomm Inc., the largest maker of semiconductors for mobile phones, demonstrated a tablet computer and a Lenovo Group Ltd. television that run its chips, part of an effort to expand into a broader range of products.

The Lenovo TV using the Snapdragon chip is aimed at the Chinese market, Qualcomm Chief Executive Officer Paul Jacobs said at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Jacobs also demonstrated a Snapdragon-based tablet that runs Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8 operating system.

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