steve mollenkopf said that he knew his decision to retire would be seen as early in any event. and he said that the company is in a good place. elsewhere, we got news from micron, raised from a cell to a buy. lots of confidence that sales will rebound and micron will be a big beneficiary of that. on the whole, the philadelphia semiconductor index is continuing on in 2021 very much as it left off last year, which is to outperform major indices including the s&p 500 index. emily: thanks so much for that update. we will talk more about the chip sector later in the show. polls close in georgia in just under two hours. election observers reporting that voting is going smoothly in today's senate runoff. we already know there have been a record number of early voters. like the general election, it will take a while to learn the results. talk about how the day has gone, emily wilkins on the ground for us in atlanta. from all accounts, it seems like it has been a smooth day despite the controversy leading up to this. what is the latest from your point of view? >> it has been a smooth da

individual companies, wanted to come back to the news that we mentioned at the top of the hour steve mollenkopf departing as the ceo of qualcomm in june of next year to be replaced by the company's current president, christiano amman, there for about 23 years mollenkopf, 26 years both men engineers what is surprising is i talked to mollenkopf, we will later on in the program, through so many difficulties, it really is unbelievable what that guy has dealt with i said that, whether it was the antitrust challenges around the globe, south korea, dealing with issues in china early in his tenure, the fight with apple, oh, man, that went on for years, finally got resolved the ftc case which went against them initially, and then which they won resoundingly in the appeals court, and solidifying their case for their business model, being competitive, broadcom making a hostile bid, nxp not happening because of the chinese antitrust regulator. it goes on and on. he gets to the promised land, to a year where the stock goes up, enormously, and it is about 5g and their future and he says that's it, i'm done.

much dividing the outgoing administration from the incoming one >> well, look, you spoke to steve mollenkopfoutgoing ceo of qualcomm yesterday. huge business in china all right, it is down a tad. i think we have to be careful with paying such a broad brush in all of technology take a look. take a look at salesforce today. did salesforce, did they suddenly lose a lot of clients is their stock too expensive versus the ten-year? i don't know i think we'll come back and start buying the stocks again. the china news is a little overblown. i don't want to take action on what is happening in china now only just because the new president, the president-elect, will not do business by twitter. he just won't. that's just not his style. >> no, you're not going to get -- you're not going to get that kind of back and forth and where we're reacting to something that we're seeing on twitter. that's true. jim, you know, you mentioned qualcomm, seen as a national champion in some ways in terms of 5g and its importance to the overall defense of the united states and our economy i mentioned semiconductors, inte