Huawei's own chip mobile phone usage rate is slightly lower, so it needs to buy some chips from Qualcomm. It can also be seen that the problem of insufficient production capacity actually restricts the number of Kirin chips. Huawei's Kirin chip started late, and the current price of Kirin chip is slightly higher. The R&D cost of the chip needs to be leveled, and the price of Huawei's Kirin chip is higher than that of Qualcomm chip. In fact, Qualcomm's current method is equivalent to the cheapness of chips, but it is difficult for Huawei to collect patent fees at such a high price, so it can only recover the R&D cost by selling chips, and the price will be higher.
The higher the end of mobile phone chips, the more obvious the limitation of production capacity. Take 980 as an example. It is one of the few chips with 7nm process technology on the market. The smaller the area, the more difficult the process. At present, there are only a few factories in the world that can mass-produce 7nm chips. In addition, Huawei's mobile phone shipments have increased in the past two years, and the production capacity of Huawei's Kirin series processors can only meet its own needs. Therefore, we will not see other manufacturers using Kirin series processors in the short term.
There are five main processors in the world: Qualcomm Xiaolong processor, Apple A series processor, Samsung Orion processor, Huawei Kirin processor and MediaTek processor. Among the five processors, Qualcomm has the most mature technology, the highest reliability and the strongest adaptability, which is also the main reason why the global mainstream mobile phone manufacturers choose Qualcomm. On the other hand, Apple's A-series processors are not for sale, MediaTek is out of date, Samsung Orion is also for its own use, and so are Kirin and Orion. This is one of the reasons why we can't see other manufacturers using Kirin processors.
As a general chip manufacturer, Qualcomm's main business is technology licensing, chip design and research, but he doesn't produce mobile phones. In other words, Qualcomm was born for chips, just like MediaTek in Taiwan Province. Its home page is selling chips, and it is its goal to make chips to the extreme. Huawei started as a hardware manufacturer, and Hisilicon is only part of its business. Selling mobile phones instead of focusing on hardware such as mobile phones is a bit of putting the cart before the horse. After all, Hisilicon serves Huawei's honor, and the public offering is against its original intention.
At present, Huawei and Qualcomm have many cross-licenses in the field of communication and chips, but Qualcomm is still in an advantage. There may be relevant agreements when authorizing, and the chip can only be self-sufficient, otherwise Samsung's Orion will not be like this. In other words, Qualcomm intervened in the chip market and tried to dominate it.
Huawei processors can only be used on their own mobile phones, not only because of its competitive advantage, but also because of its capacity.