to change its pricing and sales practices, after finding it "engaged in anticompetitive conduct" toward customers like device makers Huawei of China, South Korea's Samsung and Japan's Sony.
"Qualcomm's licensing practices have strangled competition" in the chip market "and harmed rivals," she said in Tuesday's 233-page ruling in the lawsuit brought by the US Federal Trade Commission.
The judge issued an injunction requiring California-based Qualcomm to comply with her order, and to submit to monitoring by the FTC for seven years.
FTC competition director Bruce Hoffman called the ruling "an important win for competition in a key segment of the economy" and said the agency "will remain vigilant in pursuing unilateral conduct by technology firms that harms the competitive process."
Qualcomm to appeal
The company said it will seek an expedited appeal of the ruling.
"We strongly disagree with the judge's conclusions, her interpretation of the facts and her application of the law," Qualcomm general counsel Don Rosenberg said in a statement.
Koh said Qualcomm's actions suggested it could use the same tactics to suppress competition for fifth-generation or 5G chips.
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