At present, Qualcomm has announced the licensing fees for single-mode and multi-mode patents, which occupy the main road and naturally have considerable pricing initiative. Qualcomm's patent licensing is an important revenue model, which holds the 5G standard. In addition, it has advantages in 2G, 3G and 4G. Although the patent advantage in the 5G era has been weakened, the mobile phone at each stage should not be single-mode but multi-mode. In this case, the patent fees paid by Huawei to Qualcomm will be greater than those obtained from Qualcomm.
Huawei's 5G patent ranks first in the world. Huawei currently owns 148 1 5G patented technologies, accounting for 28.90% of the world, ranking first, while Samsung and Qualcomm own 18% and 15% of the world's patented technologies respectively. In terms of the number of patented technologies, Huawei is superior to Samsung and Qualcomm.
However, Qualcomm mainly focused on core technologies, especially in 2G, 3G and 4G, and accumulated a large number of technologies and patents. 5G mobile phones need to be backward compatible and incompatible. After 5G comes out, 2, 3 and 4G mobile phones and base stations will be eliminated, which is neither objective nor realistic. Generally speaking, in the 5G era, Qualcomm still has a lot of patent fees to collect.
Huawei must pay the patent fee to Qualcomm because it needs Qualcomm's patent, but Qualcomm doesn't need Huawei's patent. To put it simply, Qualcomm is a professional technology development company, which earns huge profits from patent fees.
Huawei itself is a hardware manufacturer. In the process of manufacturing hardware, many patented technologies need to be used, so patent fees need to be paid to other patented enterprises. However, when paying with other hardware manufacturers, other hardware manufacturers also use Huawei's patents. The patents of both parties authorize each other, and Huawei has more patents as a whole, or patents are more important, adding and subtracting each other. Then other companies need to pay Huawei patent royalties. For example, companies such as Apple and Samsung have to pay patent fees to Huawei.
Qualcomm doesn't produce hardware, so it only has authorization, not authorization, so Huawei has to pay the patent fee to Qualcomm.
In the field of 5G, Huawei currently owns the largest number of patents in the world, and has to pay patent fees to Qualcomm. Although Qualcomm only accounts for 15% of the total number of 5G patents, most of them are core patents, which means that using 5G technology can't avoid Qualcomm's core patents.