Qualcomm may have gained some respite in its legal battles (see separate item), but it has suffered a major blow at the hands of Motorola, which has turned its back on its much vaunted UMTS chipset deal with Qualcomm and turned instead to Texas Instruments and Freescale. Psychologically if not financially, this can be seen as worse news than Qualcomm’s recent legal setbacks, because it affects the business where the US chipmaker’s capabilities can scarcely be questioned, whatever the controversies surrounding its IPR model ‘ actual handset chip design and execution. Having said that, Motorola sources indicate strongly that there were no technological reasons for the U-turn ‘ indeed, it is clear that Motorola engineers remain strongly in favor of…