Kirin chip, how many technologies come from Qualcomm?

In the era of 1G and 2G, Nokia occupied the core patent of network. In the 3G era, Qualcomm occupied the core patent of network. In the era of 4G network, Qualcomm occupied most of the network core patents. So in the 5G era? In terms of 5G network standards, Huawei accounts for one-third of the network standards.

Qualcomm accounts for two thirds. Initially, Huawei could occupy two-thirds, but Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola voted for Qualcomm, narrowly beating Qualcomm by one vote. On the core patents of 5G, Huawei, ZTE, Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, Aili and Cisco all contributed core patents, among which Huawei contributed the most.

At present, many technologies of Kirin chip communication come from Qualcomm, and Qualcomm has to pay a lot of patent fees every year. In the era of 2g, 3g and 4g, Qualcomm almost monopolized the patented communication technology. Almost all mobile phones can't get around, and Huawei is no exception. The design and architecture of Kirin chips mostly come from ARM, so communication can't bypass Qualcomm for the time being. But now with Huawei's leading edge in 5G communication, Kirin chip will have more independent patented technologies in the future. No longer subject to Qualcomm.

Today's Kirin 970 has obvious innovations in baseband, NPU, Gpu turbo and other technologies. These aspects can actually be regarded as core technologies, at least technologies that most other mobile phone CPU manufacturers do not have. Speaking of manufacturing, Kirin chips are manufactured in TSMC, which naturally belongs to China, including the future 7-nanometer process. Kirin 980 is still manufactured by TSMC, but we hope that the future fabs in Chinese mainland will also have advanced manufacturing technology and produce mobile phones with leading performance.