Huawei paid/kloc-0.8 billion patent fee to Qualcomm because it sold more products with Qualcomm patents than those with Huawei patents sold in Qualcomm. This is a normal business transaction and it is mutually beneficial. Specific to the proportion of patents is professional accounting.
And because Huawei and Qualcomm have a large number of patent cross-licensing, Huawei pays much lower patent fees than Apple. So far, a settlement has been reached. It should be that Qualcomm finally made concessions in some aspects of patent authorization.
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Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, said that after signing the agreement with Huawei, Qualcomm signed multi-year patent licensing agreements with all major mobile phone manufacturers, and "Qualcomm has entered a new stage".
Adas, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Qualcomm? Pashiwa explained that this $654.38+08 billion came from two payments, one was two short-term agreements reached with Huawei before, and the cost was $654.38+02 billion; The time range of the other sum is 1 until June 2020, and the sum of the two sums is * * *1800 million USD. The money will be paid by Huawei in September 2020.
In this regard, Adas, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer? The answer given by Palhy Valla is that at present, there is no substantial transaction between Qualcomm and Huawei in terms of mobile phone chips.