It should be clear to everyone that Qualcomm Snapdragon, almost all flagship Android phones use Qualcomm Opteron processors, and the research and development cost of a Qualcomm Opteron processor alone is astronomical. Moreover, most of Qualcomm's income is patent fees. Almost all mobile phone manufacturers need to pay protection fees to Qualcomm Snapdragon, otherwise they will be invited to have tea and chat together, and finally they can only pay with a smile.
I think many people should still remember Apple's battle in Qualcomm, because Apple has to pay several billion dollars in patent fees to Qualcomm every year, but Apple thinks the patent fees are too expensive, so it is unwilling to pay the patent fees. This angered Qualcomm, so Apple can only keep warm with Intel, so this year's iPhone can only use Intel baseband. However, due to the unstable and poor signal, many customers complained that the experience was very bad. With some intervention, Qualcomm and Apple finally reconciled.
It can be said that there are many patents in Qualcomm. As I said earlier, Qualcomm can charge almost all mobile phone manufacturers in the world. Then why might Huawei need to pay Qualcomm? This is because of the patent problem. After all, Qualcomm has obtained the status of "president" of 5g network, so anyone who uses the patent of 5g network needs to pay Qualcomm.
For Qualcomm's practice, more manufacturers, companies and individuals feel very rogue, but there is no way to solve this kind of thing. After all, Qualcomm's patents are there, and they are recognized by law.
In this way, a small chip, each charging tens to hundreds of fees, is finally distributed to users. This is a veritable "patent hooligan". I don't think any company can compare with Qualcomm. This should be a veritable lying down to make money.
But in fact, because we have too few patents and most of our core technologies are abroad, we should work hard, learn from Huawei, do more research and development, and try our best to keep the core technologies in our own hands, so as to compete with foreign giants.