Xiaomi does not have baseband technology. Even if it has a chip, it must use Qualcomm baseband and pay patent fees. Qualcomm buys baseband Song chips, so it doesn't really make any difference whether Xiaomi develops chips. Every penny of the patent fee goes to Qualcomm. ① Both Apple and Samsung are using Qualcomm baseband and delivering baseband chips. Apple was the first to stand up against Qualcomm and took Qualcomm to court, believing it to be a patent troll. ② On the one hand, Samsung wants to support its own chip foundry companies to produce chips for Qualcomm. On the other hand, it uses Qualcomm chips to make up for the problem that its own chips do not have baseband technology. ③Some Huawei products, such as the Qualcomm chips used by Maimang, must pay patent fees. However, most of Huawei's other series of products use its own Kirin chips and do not have to pay Qualcomm.
④ Xiaomi spent money to acquire Lianxin and set up a Pinecone team to design the Pengpai chip. To put it bluntly, it hopes to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm so that its production does not have to rely on Qualcomm. However, the Xiaomi VIE overseas financing framework agreement includes Qualcomm as a shareholder, and it can also be said that Qualcomm is one of the bosses behind Xiaomi overseas. In order to get more Qualcomm chips and increase its own production, Xiaomi will of course try its best to maintain the reputation of Qualcomm chips, and at the same time, it will also do things for the boss behind it. At present, only a few companies such as Qualcomm, Huawei, MediaTek, and Intel have baseband technology. Even Apple has difficulty in customer service on baseband issues. Baseband is a standardized code set for network access specifications, and the technology behind it is very complex. Without baseband technology, even if you have a chip, you still have to pay fees to the company that owns the baseband technology.