Now not only Huawei has 5G baseband chips, but also Samsung, Qualcomm and MediaTek have 5G baseband chips. If you don't understand the issue of 5G patents, you really think that Huawei has invested billions in 5G chips.
Why pay Qualcomm? Is it related to Qualcomm on the other side of the ocean?
It's like everyone is playing the same game, and if you want to play, you have to play according to the rules of this game, otherwise everyone won't take you to play! However, Qualcomm is the maker of the rules of the game!
There is a division of labor in the workshop:
"First-class enterprises set standards, second-rate enterprises make brands, third-rate enterprises sell technology and fourth-rate enterprises make products.
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Qualcomm is a first-class enterprise in the market, and its standards are specified.
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TDMA communication technology was first adopted in Europe and soon became the mainstream standard of 2G. At this time, Qualcomm did not benefit much from CDMA. But Qualcomm endured humiliation and silently implemented CDMA technology. Qualcomm's cleverness lies in:
Qualcomm has integrated all the patented technologies related to CDMA.
At the same time, another highlight of Qualcomm is that it has introduced chips supporting CDMA and provided them to major manufacturers, so that more and more manufacturers can adopt CDMA technology. In this way, major mobile phone manufacturers have accepted the standards stipulated by Qualcomm and competed with European TDMA!
As a result, 2G, 3G and 4G Qualcomm have all become standard setters, controlling a large number of 5G core technologies, and the number of patents also accounts for 15% of all 5G patents.
That's the problem,
It is impossible for Huawei's 5G baseband chip not to use Qualcomm 15% patented technology, otherwise the 5G baseband chip may not work! In addition, Huawei mobile phones can't only support 5G, and can't support 2G, 3G and 4G.
Although Huawei also owns some patented technologies, it must be controlled by Qualcomm!
Huawei has to pay a certain patent fee to Qualcomm! Similarly, Huawei will also charge Xiaomi and Vivo 5G patent fees.