Chapter 862 Qualcomm vs Texas Instruments

Zhao Yanan and Li Sisi's confidence in Chen Changliu was without any impurities, so after Chen Changliu set the tone, the two quickly turned their minds back.

It is much more detailed and convenient to collect Qualcomm-related information in the beautiful country than in China.

Qin Baoyong, director of the legal department, had already brought his team over to litigate against Rotten Apple, and it was Qin Baoyong’s team who came to pick him up.

Zhao Yanan also came to him specifically and asked him to borrow a team member who was familiar with Beautiful Country to help them collect information.

After a day's rest, Chen Changliu, Zhang Hao, Feng Lin, Qin Baoyong, and Zhao Yanan gathered in Chen Changliu's room, and he began to arrange the next work.

This time, he made temporary adjustments to his work arrangements.

"Mr. Feng, I will not go to the Mobile Phone Alliance Conference. You can attend on behalf of the company. This meeting is not a big problem and it is easy to reach a consensus.

Mr. Zhang, come with me to Qualcomm to make preliminary contacts and see their attitude.

Director Qin, you arranged for capable legal department personnel to follow us...

Gather at my place every night to report the situation..."

Of course, no one had any objection to Chen Changliu's arrangement. The headquarters of these related companies were all in the same state and not far away. It was not difficult to meet and report every day.

Seeing that no one had any objections, Chen Changliu nodded to Zhao Yanan, and Zhao Yanan sent the information they compiled in a day to several senior executives.

"This is relevant information about Qualcomm. Mr. Zhang and Mr. Feng, take a look. What do you think about the purchase of Qualcomm wafers?"

Although Chen Changliu had decided to use Qualcomm's mobile phone wafers, he and Zhang Hao did not have in-depth communication because he was in a hurry before.

Chen Changliu is relatively authoritarian on many issues, especially strategic aspects. Whether to purchase Qualcomm mobile phone wafers now is actually a strategic direction. He can make the decision himself and no one will object.

But when he made every decision before, most of them would fully communicate with these executives in advance.

Although even if they objected, it would not affect Chen Changliu's decision, but at least Chen Changliu respected their opinions and listened to their thoughts.

And this is why these executives will not become executives who can only execute without strategic vision.

Zhang Hao is relatively familiar with companies related to mobile phone wafers around the world, but he is really confused about Qualcomm's mobile phone wafers.

His understanding of Qualcomm is because of Qualcomm's achievements in the communications industry. Many communications patents are in the hands of this giant, and it is very reluctant to collect patent fees.

But he really doesn’t know about Qualcomm’s mobile phone wafers.

After reading the relevant information collected by Zhao Yanan and Li Sisi in detail, he looked at Chen Changliu with a strange expression, thought for a while and said:

"Mr. Chen, if there is no problem with the information, the design idea of ​​this mobile phone wafer that Qualcomm is preheating is exactly the same as your requirements for our wafer business unit.

No, it should be said that his design ideas are not as high as your requirements. "

Hearing what Zhang Hao said, not only Feng Lin looked at Chen Changliu with surprise, but also Zhao Yanan and others.

Although they knew that Chen Changliu had unique vision in many aspects, they really didn't know that in the field of high-end technology like Epistar, Chen Changliu could come up with design ideas that would be recognized by Zhang Hao, a skilled man.

And it’s more comprehensive and better than Qualcomm’s design ideas.

This is a bit shocking!

Chen Changliu waved his hands indifferently and said:

"No need to put a high hat on me, go on, tell me what are the advantages and disadvantages of their wafer and Texas Instruments' smart phone wafer?"

Chen Changliu knew what Zhang Hao was talking about. When he discussed it with him, he said that mobile phone wafers in the 4G era must be highly integrated with baseband modules, GPUs, CPUs, etc.

Qualcomm's wafers have been very highly integrated since their birth, with many functional modules integrated inside, the most important of which is the baseband module.

The reason why it is said to be more comprehensive is because Qualcomm S1 does not have an integrated GPU and does not pay much attention to the performance of mobile phone wafer GPUs.

Zhang Hao nodded and said:

“Judging from relevant information, the mobile phone wafers released by Texas Instruments in the past two years are not integrated wafers, but plug-in baseband wafers.

Compared with Qualcomm's integrated wafer, it consumes more power, and these plug-in basebands do not support HSPA+ network, which is not good in the coming 3G era.

And because of the plug-in baseband, Texas Instruments has very high technical requirements for mobile phone manufacturers that use it, otherwise it will be impossible to adjust the plug-in baseband.

If you carefully observe the mobile phone manufacturers that have used Texas Instruments mobile wafers, you will know that none of them are from emerging brands, they are all old mobile phone manufacturers or communication giants!

In contrast, Qualcomm mobile phone wafer integrated baseband does not have such high requirements for the tuning capabilities of mobile phone brands.

It is somewhat similar to the turnkey plan launched by MediaTek two years ago.

If its performance is passable, there's definitely a market for it.

After all, Qualcomm started with communication technology. If Texas Instruments does not change in time, the current dominant position will be changed.

Based on this, I agreed to use this integrated chip from Qualcomm. After all, MediaTek has not yet launched a similar chip that can be used on smartphones. They still focus on feature phones.

Another more important reason is that Qualcomm also knows that wafers are an important cornerstone for preserving patent hegemony. It uses the vast amount of patents in its hands to monopolize the market and pave the way for its own mobile phone wafers.

I remember that Qualcomm holds a large number of CDMA communication patents, which can be said to be a monopoly. This is something that cannot be avoided in the 3G era.

This is also the reason why you, Mr. Chen, asked us to directly skip 3G and directly develop wafers in the 4G field.

So the information says that Qualcomm adjusted the patent collection plan this year, that is, to charge patent fees separately for basebands that use CDMA-related patent technologies.

And they launched mobile phone wafers at this juncture. There is no doubt that they will definitely use the patent fees of basebands to promote their mobile phone wafers.

If they are more ruthless, the baseband patent fees collected will only be a little cheaper than mobile phone wafers, which means that buying a baseband will give away mobile phone wafers. How can it not be promoted in this way?

So when the communication field has not entered the 4G era and our 4G mobile phone wafers have not yet been developed, using Qualcomm wafers should be the best for the company......."

PS: The typos will be corrected first.

PS: The typos will be corrected first.