When the giants of an industry start to rock on their pedestals, there is usually positive as well as negative fall-out. Nokia’s meltdown in the handset market led to large numbers of engineers and executive leaving, to breed a new wave of Finnish start-ups tapping into all those years of expertise. The same may be the case if Qualcomm’s problems continue. Already, former chairman Paul Jacobs has established a start-up, XCOM, focused on the kind of 5G developments Qualcomm itself will be doing. His primary aim is to raise financing to acquire Qualcomm and take it private, but should he fail to do so, there is high interest in what XCOM might achieve in its own right, given its pedigree.…