EXHIBIT 5

[LETTERHEAD OF DLA PIPER RUDNICK GRAY CARY US LLP]
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January 19, 2006

Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20549

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As legal counsel for QUALCOMM Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), we are rendering this opinion in connection with the registration
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of up to 53,084,830 shares of the
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value (the "Registration Statement"), of the Company
which may be issued pursuant to the exercise of options granted under the 2001
Stock Incentive Plan of Berkana Wireless Inc., the 2002 Stock Plan of Berkana
Wireless Inc. and the 2002 Executive Stock Plan of Berkana Wireless Inc.
(together, the "Plans") and assumed by QUALCOMM Incorporated.

We have examined all instruments, documents and records which we deemed relevant
and necessary for the basis of our opinion hereinafter expressed. In such
examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures and the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to
the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies. We are admitted to
practice only in the State of California and we express no opinion concerning
any law other than the law of the State of California, the corporation laws of
the State of Delaware and the federal law of the United States. As to matters of
Delaware corporation law, we have based our opinion solely upon our examination
of such laws and the rules and regulations of the authorities administering such
laws, all as reported in standard, unofficial compilations. We have not obtained
opinions of counsel licensed to practice in jurisdictions other than the State
of California.

Based on such examination, we are of the opinion that the 53,084,830 shares of
Common Stock which may be issued under the Plans and assumed by QUALCOMM
Incorporated are duly authorized shares of the Company's Common Stock, and, when
issued against receipt of the consideration therefor in accordance with the
provisions of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. We
hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration
Statement referred to above and the use of our name wherever it appears in said
Registration Statement.

Respectfully submitted,


/s/ DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP

DLA PIPER RUDNICK GRAY CARY US LLP