Those were heady days. My wife worked there at that time . One day she told me we were millionaires, I blew it off. A few days later she has documentation and it seems that we are MULTI millionaires just thru options she was granted . That was a wonderful windfall. Very unexpected as well. I've followed the company very closely for reasons I stated above and it took a downfall when Irwin stepped down and handed the reins to his son. That's about the time the H1b really started taking off and qcom took advantage of that, wages fell and although I do know some ppl still there writing Java the newcomers did the job cheaper and qcom started to rot from the inside. They always had thier patents on display as anyone who ever walked into the main office will tell you. I don't blame them for using the legal system to enforce thier patents. I'm sure you would have done the same thing although thier hiring a bunch of ppl from overseas really hurt American Engineers, it helped a bunch of American lawyers