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Irwin Jacobs is obsessed with China, but he won't talk about it. Jacobs, 67, is a mild-mannered engineer and MIT professor by background. But he's also the chairman of Qualcomm, one of America's high-tech standard-bearers--literally. The San Diego, California-based company owns key patents on a wireless transmission standard known as CDMA, which experts agree is one of the better ways to send data. In a world that's gaga about mobile phones, that's a very good thing. But during the early 1990s, while Qualcomm was knocking out the kinks in its product, a European wireless standard known as GSM grabbed most of the global market, even though its American competitor may be a ...