The report is the latest in a wild ride for CDMA's fortunes in China and Qualcomm's fortunes back home.
Like many Chinese entrepreneurs, the Lius trace their fortunes back to December 1978, when Mr. Deng presided over the Third Plenary session of the Communist Party.
Perhaps Srivaddhanaprabha, buoyed by the prospect of élite status, as well as the influx of cash that Champions League qualification and the Premier League's new TV deal will bring, plans to pour his fortunes back into Leicester City.
To the joy of eager fundraisers but, perhaps, to the chagrin of their children many billionaires give a large portion of their fortunes back to their alma maters.
Some, like Machot, have prospered in the States and now want to divert their fortunes back to their homeland and help forge a strong South Sudan.
And those wealthy (European) oops American Yale boys who were sent down to Texas to make their fortunes back in the 50s and 60s from the oil, keep their homes in pristine Maine and elsewhere, while having helped trash what was once a kind of Promised Land.
