Irvine-based Broadcom Corp. has charged San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. with stifling competition in South Korea’s modem chip market.
Chipmaker Broadcom joined with Texas Instruments Inc. to make the charges against Qualcomm, similar to charges against Qualcomm in Europe, according to Reuters.
The story cited an unidentified source at the Fair Trade Commission.
“We are investigating whether Qualcomm has used its dominant position in the (South Korean) modem chip market, such as discrimination in royalties,” the official told Reuters.
South Korean chipmakers already had made similar charges.
Broadcom and Qualcomm are locked in a bitter patent infringement battle.
Broadcom has filed a suit claiming Qualcomm’s devices infringe on at least 10 of its patents related to communications and multimedia technologies.
Qualcomm has filed three patent infringement suits of its own against Broadcom.
