It is reported that Apple sued Qualcomm in June+10, 5438, claiming that Qualcomm abused its "monopoly power" in the field of mobile phone modem chips, demanding exorbitant patent royalties and asking the buyer to license its patents. According to the indictment, in retaliation for Apple's cooperation with the Korean anti-monopoly agency, Qualcomm withheld a refund of about $654.38 billion from Apple.
According to industry insiders, Apple used Qualcomm modem chips exclusively in iPhone and iPad before, and this decision brought a lot of money to Qualcomm. Qualcomm determines the royalty according to the total value of equipment, not the value of individual components. When iPhone 7 went on the market, Apple configured Intel modem chips on some models.
It is reported that Qualcomm filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission, demanding that the iPhone and iPad models without Qualcomm chips be banned in the United States, and also sued Apple for infringing six patents. Some analysts said that the contract between Qualcomm and Apple had been signed "for a long time, and there was nothing new", indicating that the purpose of this lawsuit was to get a better price.
Netizens expressed the hope that China's science and technology industry will develop rapidly and will no longer be controlled by others.