Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 210 Pre-research on 4G, patent moat layout!

Baseband is more difficult to develop than chips, and Williams can't handle it.

After all, the basebands of Texas Instruments are purchased from third-party plug-ins...

Wang Yi has a plan in his mind, and baseband research and development must be planned in advance!

Next year's processors and baseband chips will still be plug-ins.

But the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 released the next year integrated the baseband into the processor.

Subsequent Huawei Kirin 910, Samsung and other processors are also SOCs with integrated baseband.

Only Apple, which cannot make baseband, still uses an external baseband, resulting in poor signal...

Wang Yi wants to develop his own chips, and in 2012-2013, he can also plug in a baseband.

But after 2014, we must simultaneously develop and integrate baseband!

It's just that baseband research and development is more difficult. It requires spending more money, poaching people, and solving the most critical CDMA patent issue.

Or directly acquire baseband R&D companies.

In a previous life, Apple spent US$2019 billion to acquire Intel's baseband business in 10.

Wang Yi could also have paid for it a few years in advance.

However, Wang Yi’s acquisition target is not Intel’s baseband department.

It is the San Diego branch of VIA, a communications subsidiary of VIA Electronics.

This division is the baseband division of VIA and has a large number of CDMA patents.

CDMA is the basic patent of 3G and 4G. It is mainly in the hands of Qualcomm and a few are in the hands of VIA.

To put it bluntly, without CDMA patent authorization, mobile phone basebands cannot be developed at all.

Even Huawei, in order to develop mobile phone basebands, has to buy a license from Qualcomm or VMware.

Or directly purchase basebands from VMware and Qualcomm for plug-in.

However, Qualcomm's basebands are too expensive to sell individually, so Huawei mobile phones in recent years have all been equipped with VMware basebands.

However, VMware is about to go bankrupt. Only the cheap baseband CBP09D based on the 55nm process was launched in 8.2, which caused severe heat generation.

Therefore, Huawei mobile phones from 2012 to 2013 are not good at generating heat.

At the same time, Qualcomm introduced 40nm and 28nm basebands.

A CDMA patent leads to a huge gap between the two parties.

Later, starting with Huawei 910, it integrated its own baseband and purchased a CDMA license.

But this method is not reliable. Once Qualcomm stops selling licenses, the baseband will not be manufactured!

Even if Qualcomm sells, it will continue to sell at high prices.

Even if Huawei has so many patents, it still has to pay Qualcomm 18 billion in patent fees a year.

After Wang Yi thought about it, the most reliable option was to directly acquire VIA's baseband department.

In this way, not only has VIA's baseband technology been mastered, but also some CDMA patents have been directly mastered, and there is nothing Qualcomm can do.

With these basic CDMA patents, you can sign patent cross-licensing with Qualcomm.

Wang Yi remembers that in his previous life, in 2015, Intel acquired the baseband business of VIA, a communications subsidiary of VIA Electronics, for US$1 million.

Now Wang Yida can take action in advance and acquire it now.

After all, the nights are long and there are many dreams.

If it were acquired now, it might not cost US$100 million.

However, Wang Yi could not come forward on his own in this matter, he had to arrange for Lao Chen to come forward.

Now Chen Chuanqing is developing a flagship store in Taiwan, so he can buy it by the way.

Wang Yi is currently in the limelight. If he steps forward to acquire the company, he may attract the attention of the empire and lead to the failure of the acquisition.

But if Lao Chen comes forward, nothing will happen.

The current empire is not so tightly sealed, and there are still opportunities.

A few years later, the empire was keeping a close eye on it, and Wang Yi wanted to acquire VMware's baseband division, but was unable to do so.

After thinking about this, Wang Yi immediately called Chen Chuanqing:

"Old Chen, go to VIA as soon as possible and acquire all their baseband department and CDMA patents! Move quickly and stay hidden."

"Okay, boss, what's the price..." Chen Chuanqing hesitated.

Wang Yi thought for a while: "It's best to win it for 5000 million dollars. If you can't win it, 8000 million dollars will do!"

Intel acquired it for US$2015 million in 2011 and US$5000-8000 million in , which should be about the same.

After all, VIA was about to go bankrupt due to Qualcomm's support. The factory had stopped long ago and research and development had also stopped.

The basebands currently sold to Huawei are all 09nm basebands in stock in 55...

To put it bluntly, the situation of VIA's baseband business is worse than that of Texas Instruments.

Wang Yi is willing to pay for the acquisition, and VIA will not refuse.

The only ones that might refuse are Qualcomm and even Empire.

However, smartphones had just started in 2011, and Qualcomm was not yet the dominant player and could not cover the sky with one hand.

The empire's degree of blockade against the East is not that high.

Wang Yi must take action as soon as possible, and take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of the darkness!

As long as it wins the VIA baseband business and CDMA basic patents, Qualcomm will be unable to do anything to Xingyi Technology in the future!

"Okay, boss, I'll go right away!"

It was the first time that Chen Chuanqing saw Wang Yi attaching such importance to something. He understood the seriousness of the situation and went there quickly.

"Go ahead and contact me anytime if you need anything." Wang Yida said.

Baseband involves patent barriers, so the sooner we enter the market, the better.

It's too late, it's really hard to reach the sky.

And basic patents like CDMA are even more crucial and cannot be bypassed at all.

Qualcomm has made a lot of money by relying on CDMA basic patents and charging Qualcomm taxes.

For example, Xiaomi's ThePaper S1 has an integrated baseband.

However, in order to avoid Qualcomm tax, Qualcomm patents were deliberately avoided. As a result, it only supports five-mode cat.4, and can only use China Mobile 2G, 3G, 4G and China Unicom 2G.

不但不支持电信2/3/4G，连联通3G、4G都不支持。

To put it bluntly, ThePaper S1 is an inherently deficient mobile 4G chip that does not support China Unicom or Telecom 3G or 4G at all.

In order to avoid Qualcomm's patent, a full-network chip was transformed into a mobile chip... Both sales and revenue dropped sharply.

To make chips, Wang Yi cannot do without integrated baseband, and he must also carry out patent layout as soon as possible.

The current 3G era is already a thing of the past. All the meat has been divided, and no bones or scraps are left.

Qualcomm has the majority, and Wang Yi is now in the game, so he won’t get anything.

You can only pay patent fees, or acquire some 3G patents from other giants to build your own patent moat!

For example, VMware's CDMA patent must be obtained.

In addition, if the price is right for the 3G patents in the hands of other giants, they will have to spend money to buy them.

With enough patents, we can compete with Qualcomm and negotiate prices with Qualcomm!

As for the next 4G, Wang Yi still has a chance.

You can spend money to poach industry experts and communication experts, plan ahead, develop in advance, and seize the opportunity!

Currently, there are many 4G standards being developed by various countries. Some are developing WiMax standards, some are developing HSPA+ standards, some are developing LTE standards, and some are developing WirelessMAN-Advanced standards... all of which have some patents.

No one knows which standard will eventually be developed as an international standard.