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(1)

Our outlook does not include provisions for future asset impairments or for pending legal matters, other than future legal amounts that are probable and estimable. Further, due to their nature, certain income and expense items, such as certain investments, derivative and foreign currency transaction gains or losses, cannot be accurately forecast. Accordingly, we only include such items in our financial outlook to the extent they are reasonably certain; however, actual results may differ materially from the outlook.

(2)	Our guidance for revenues and EPS for the second quarter of fiscal 2020 excludes QTL revenues from Huawei and includes QTL revenues from two key Chinese licensees under license agreements that were extended and now expire on March 31, 2020.

(3)	Our guidance for the second quarter of fiscal 2020 includes an estimate of the potential impact of the recent outbreak of a coronavirus; however, the actual impact may differ materially.

(4)	Our guidance for EPS attributable to other items for the second quarter of fiscal 2020 is primarily attributable to acquisition-related items.

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•	QSI is excluded because we expect to exit our strategic investments in the foreseeable future, and the effects of fluctuations in the value of such investments and realized gains or losses are viewed as unrelated to our operational performance.

•	Share-based compensation expense primarily relates to restricted stock units. We believe that excluding non-cash share-based compensation from the Non-GAAP financial information allows us and investors to make additional comparisons of the operating activities of our ongoing core businesses over time and with respect to other companies.

•	Certain other items are excluded because we view such items as unrelated to the operating activities of our ongoing core businesses, as follows:

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Acquisition-related items include amortization of certain intangible assets, recognition of the step-up of inventories and property, plant and equipment to fair value and the related tax effects of these items, as well as any effects from restructuring the ownership of such acquired assets. Additionally, we exclude third-party acquisition and integration services costs and costs related to temporary debt facilities and letters of credit executed prior to the close of an acquisition.

•	We exclude certain other items that we view as unrelated to our ongoing businesses, such as major restructuring and restructuring-related costs, goodwill and indefinite- and long-lived asset impairments and awards, settlements and/or damages arising from legal or regulatory matters.

•	Certain tax items that are unrelated to the fiscal year in which they are recorded are excluded in order to provide a clearer understanding of our ongoing Non-GAAP tax rate and after-tax earnings.

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(a)	Further details of amounts included in the “Other Items” column for the current period are included in the “Supplemental Information and Reconciliations” section herein. Details of amounts included in the “Other Items” column for prior periods are included in the news releases for those periods.

(b)

QTL results for the first quarter of fiscal 2020 included royalties from Apple as a result of the settlement with Apple and its contract manufacturers in April 2019 and excluded royalties due on the sales of Huawei’s products. QTL results for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 excluded royalties due on sales of Apple or other products by Apple’s contract manufacturers and included $150 million of royalties resulting from an interim agreement with Huawei.

(c)

Non-GAAP reconciling items related to revenues consisted primarily of nonreportable segment revenues less intersegment eliminations. Non-GAAP reconciling items related to EBT consisted primarily of certain R&D expenses, SG&A expenses, other expenses or income, interest expense and certain investment income that are not allocated to the segments for management reporting purposes; nonreportable segment results; and the elimination of intersegment profit.

(d)	The first quarter of fiscal 2019 GAAP and Non-GAAP results included $570 million tax benefit, or $0.47 per share, for GAAP and $552 million tax benefit, or $0.45 per share, for Non-GAAP relating to certain tax elections made in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.

(a)	Other items excluded from Non-GAAP results included $87 million of acquisition-related charges and $6 million of interest expense related to the 2018 and 2019 European Commission fines, partially offset by a $3 million net gain from restructuring-related activities included in SG&A.

(b)

At fiscal year end, the quarterly tax provision for each column equals the annual tax provision for each column computed in accordance with GAAP. In interim quarters, the sum of these provisions may not equal the total GAAP tax provision, and this difference is included in the tax provision in the “Other Items” column. The tax benefit in the “Other Items” column included a $44 million tax benefit for release of a valuation allowance, a $43 million foreign currency gain related to a noncurrent receivable related to our refund claim of Korean withholding taxes paid in prior periods, a $12 million tax benefit for the tax effect of acquisition-related charges and a $2 million tax benefit from the combined effect of other items in EBT, partially offset by a $13 million charge related to a change in prior period tax rate of a foreign jurisdiction.