The company improperly used its leverage to boost fees to phone makers.
After six years at Qualcomm, George Davis joins Intel at a time when "Wall Street is hoping for greater financial discipline at the chip giant."
Investors question the logic behind the chipmaker's $18.9 billion acquistion of enteprise software firm CA Technologies.
The Chinese smartphone maker, which is heavily reliant on Qualcomm processors, is seeking a reversal of the Commerce Department's ban.
Qualcomm delays its annual meeting in response to an order from a national security panel that has recently blocked other takeovers by foreign companies.
Paying $90 a share for Qualcomm would represent a large leap from Broadcom's initial bid last November.
The companies will meet on Wednesday even though Qualcomm has rejected its rival's improved $121 billion takeover offer as inadequate.
The takeover proposal, the largest in tech history, would create the world's No. 3 chipmaker but Qualcomm appears set to reject it as inadequate.
The world's largest chipmaker is acquiring Israel's Mobileye as it bids to become a major supplier of driverless systems for automakers.
South Korea's top trade regulator says the company's patent licensing practices were unfair to both smartphone makers and rival modem chipset makers.
The smartphone chip supplier sees the $38 billion deal as a way to to expand not only into automotive chips but also the Internet of Things.
Commerce said ZTE had planned to use shell companies 'to illicitly reexport controlled items to Iran in violation of U.S. export control laws.'
