novelMigli Chapter 115 Conspiracy Technology
Chapter 115 Conspiracy Technology
Chapter 115 Conspiracy Technology
As a mobile chip giant, MediaTek is not as good as Qualcomm, but its mid-to-low-end market share is terrifying.
In recent years, with the continuous improvement of performance and high cost performance, the market share has been continuously improved.
However, it has been affected by the CDMA baseband, unable to integrate telecommunications, and has been suppressed by Qualcomm.
It was not until the end of 2014 that it reached an agreement with VIA, spent huge sums of money, obtained CDMA authorization for 7 years, and finally launched the full Netcom chips MTk6753 and MTk6735.
The previous MTK version of CDMA mobile phones all realized network support through plug-in VIA base.
VIA once acquired some CDMA patents through the acquisition of LSILogic, a rice company.
And reached an extended authorization agreement with Qualcomm to obtain the authorization of CDMA technology.
Thus breaking Qualcomm's CDMA patent barriers and becoming the second company in the world to own CDMA technology.
Therefore, Wang Fan's only breakthrough is still here at VIA.
Although the number of CDMA patents of VIA is not comparable to that of Qualcomm, and its market share is not comparable to that of Qualcomm, it has reached an agreement with Qualcomm and owns CDMA technology.
Once authorized by VIA for CDMA, Wang Fan's SOC can also directly integrate CDMA baseband like Lianfa.
But when Wang Fan was checking the information, he was taken aback.
Lianfa purchased VIA CDMA baseband license for 7 years and spent 130 billion!
This figure is really scary enough, CDMA is not worth so much, not to mention only 7 years of authorization.
What makes Wang Fan even more helpless is that Intel is also going to acquire CDMA, and it will directly acquire VIA's mobile phone chip factory - Wei Rui Dentsu, with a capital of 75 billion to 80 billion yuan.
This is wrong, very wrong!
Although due to the suppression by Qualcomm and Intel, Wei Rui Dentsu has been in a state of loss, and it is sold as a whole. It is a matter of course to get rid of a big burden and lose some money.
Just like IBM sold one of its own fabs to Globalfoundries, not only will it get nothing, but it will also pay $15 billion.
Although the acquisition has not yet been officially completed, the two parties have basically negotiated and agreed on the payment method, and the entire contract will be completed in a few months.
Because such subsidiaries, which cannot make ends meet, not only do not bring any profits, but also consume a lot of resources, and reversely lose the property of the headquarters.
For example, the wages of employees must be paid as usual, and the equipment must be maintained and maintained. Even if you lose money, you cannot stop working, otherwise you will lose more.
Once you get rid of this big burden, not only can you effectively stop the loss, but the stock price of the entire company can also usher in a certain increase.
Therefore, it is common to find a receiver, lose money and throw away burdens, although it sounds unbelievable.
However, although Wei Rui Dentsu is losing money, it will not lose so much. It is completely impossible for the gap to be so large and so much to post.
And CDMA authorization will not be so valuable!
7 years, 130 billion, what a joke.
Wang Fan searched for some more information and couldn't help but swear.
These cheating media, they are NT dollars!
The media are directly referred to as yuan, and only a few media will mark NT dollars in front!
Wang Fan was very angry, can the professional ethics of the media be saved!When reprinting Taiwan news, just copy it directly, I don’t know how to mark it with NT$!
130 billion NT dollars, about 25.5 billion Huaxia dollars. 80 billion NT dollars, 15.7 billion Huaxia!
This data is quite appropriate.
Intel became a receiver and cleaned up VIA's mess. It seemed that it paid less and got a big deal.
But the burden of all debts and losses must also be borne together.In fact, it is not as comfortable as Lianfa Branch.
At this time, Wang Fan discovered another big problem!
Once Intel acquires Wei Rui Dentsu, then CDMA technology will be completely monopolized in the hands of Qualcomm and Intel!
All other manufacturers produce SOCs and must purchase both basebands.
Intel not only vigorously develops mobile SOCs based on this, but also adopts the same strategy as Qualcomm, not authorizing third parties, only selling basebands, and the price is equal to the price of SOCs!
In that way, except for the authorized mtk, others will be controlled by others, and even other chip manufacturers will be forced out after a long time!
CDMA technology is a magic pit in the United States, which has pitted China and Europe, and the only one who has benefited is Qualcomm!
But why does Huaxia adopt CDMA technology for telecommunications?If you use something else, you won't be controlled by others?
No way, adopting CDMA technology is one of the conditions for Huaxia to join the WTO!There is no other choice.
It can be seen that Qualcomm's power is so great that it can influence the position of the US government to a certain extent and let the government fight for their interests!
This is the case in the United States. The direction of the government is influenced by the big financial groups behind it.
Wang Fan sighed, unless 4G is fully promoted, FDD850 is activated, and VOLTE is popularized, we can completely get rid of CDMA.
But the ideal is plump, the reality is skinny.
First of all, the advancement of 4G takes time. Mobile, which has the most money and the fastest progress, will take several years to fully cover the 4G network, not to mention the slow progress of telecommunications.
Moreover, 4G does not support calls, unless VoLTE (voice calls go through the data network) is popularized, so as to completely get rid of CDMA.
This again takes many years.
In addition, only when the number of network users is very small, can the CDMA network be completely shut down to free up resources, and it will take many years for telecom users (CDMA users) to switch to the network.
Even if the above process is advanced at the same time, this task will still take several years to solve.
Therefore, it is impossible for CDMA to disappear within a few years, even if the Chinese government vigorously promotes it.
In other words, Qualcomm's monopoly will still last for many years!
For this reason, Lianfa Branch reached an agreement with VIA at the end of 14 and obtained the authorization of CDMA for 7 years.
The seven years were not proposed casually.
Rather, Lianfa's time budget for CDMA's withdrawal from the global market was obtained after a series of careful calculations, which is of great reference value.
Therefore, CDMA technology cannot fall into the hands of Intel, otherwise Mortal Technology, HiSilicon, etc. will have a hard time, and they may even end the game.
Fortunately, the two parties have not yet reached a final agreement, and the entire acquisition has not been completed, and everything is still turning around.
Thinking of this, Wang Fan made an instant decision to win the CDMA technology at all costs, even if he directly won the VMware Telecom!
Wang Fan didn't hold any meeting, and directly called Su Xueyan over to briefly explain the situation.
Su Xueyan was silent for a while when she heard the words, she was very clear about the importance of this matter.
"There is hope, but it is difficult. Like Liantek, it is easier to obtain CDMA authorization independently, as long as you have money. But if you want to completely acquire the entire technology, it will be very difficult!" Su Xueyan said with a frown.
"Oh? How should I say it?" Wang Fan asked.
Su Xueyan talked eloquently: "The VIA SOC business has been suppressed by Qualcomm and Intel, and has long since given up. Therefore, the CDMA baseband is still at the level of 55nm, and the current mainstream is at least about 20nm, or even 14/16nm."
"Therefore, VIA has been preparing to sell CDMA licenses to realize value, but except for Lianfa's large-scale sale of SOCs, it can pay back. Others, like Huawei, also planned to spend 1 million US dollars to purchase CDMA licenses. It is said that VIA suddenly mentioned 2 million US dollars. Warwick is purely for its own use, and it is not worth spending 2 million US dollars for it. It is better to buy the CDMA baseband directly. This cooperation failed in the end.”
"And VIA's chip factory, Wei Rui Dentsu, has been losing money. In the current environment where the chip factory is large and small, it is difficult to sell. Even Intel's acquisition is just to value CDMA technology. Therefore, VIA It will be more inclined to take the way of selling in packages."
Wang Fan nodded: "So, we can only offer a higher price and directly buy VIA's entire chip factory?"
(End of this chapter)