Bo Qualcomm intends to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in Qualcomm (QUALCOMM) news, again shook the global semiconductor industry, whether it is a chip company acquisition amount of sky-high staggering numbers, or two of the role of the prince to swap the revenge plot, people are staring at the next preview; However, regardless of the final outcome is your feelings I would like, or surprised to see others bride, Bo Tong has wanted to buy and Qualcomm may want to sell the move, have told the global chip industry, Chip war is about to enter the Third World War, compared to the First World War pure chip itself of the effectiveness war, And then to the Second World War chip using advanced process volume production technology investment war, this time, than may be IP intellectual property, who has the most IP, who is likely to fight in the thousands of miles ahead, announced a victory. After the successful acquisition of Qualcomm, it is expected that all of the global business users and consumer electronics market business opportunities, and manpower, cost economies of scale and other obvious benefits, everyone seems to ignore the two IC design companies if the decision to cooperate Alliance, the IP intellectual property of the two sides accumulated depth, breadth and thickness, The overall competitiveness of the existing IC design companies may be able to jilt the extent of several streets, this more substantial combination of benefits, perhaps the Bo Tong willing to out of the ' History of the sky ' main cause. However, the key factor is that the IP seems to have become a scarce strategic resource, from the previous high premium acquisition of ARM (ARM), to the imagination of the GPU IP, which can still be sold to emerging buyers after the SoftBank of Apple. Who has the most IP, who has the most standards, specifications and market discourse rights. In fact, the global chip market competition all the way to this generation, has long been not one-sided than the chip itself efficiency, power consumption and integration capabilities, logistics platform chip solutions, and hardware and software services content, has long been a chip supplier must do enough homework, even in recent years, with 7/ 10 nanometer advanced process technology has been advancing rapidly, more than a large sum of advanced process technology development costs, but also constantly heightening the operating costs of chip suppliers, in the chip design, research and development, service and sales of investment rate of return to record low, but the risk is getting higher at the same time, of course, someone would like to play a more stable, IP Intellectual property Right is a good choice. If the chip itself is compared to a car, in the past, it may be the acceleration and endurance of each car; Later, the chip supplier to the advanced process technology, it is to drive the highway or not as the key to victory. But by this moment, some people have thought of changing the toll station, or etc way to contest, and from Qualcomm past IP rights Gold collection method, not only is sky-high, and is using the whole machine extraction and so on a very strong way to carry out, the card bit chip IP strategy, seems to be another kind of first stand at the commanding heights of strategic objectives, The acquisition is hard to replace, or the market value of IP intellectual property right, is the best tactic. In SoftBank and arm has been a first step in the formation of Softarm camp, Intel (Intel), NVIDIA, and even Apple and Samsung Electronics (Samsung Electronics) also constantly trying to do robbed chip IP intellectual property, Qualcomm if really want to sell, That considerable IP intellectual property is going to attract a new mad rush, after all, the chip IP intellectual property in this network (IoT), car networking, 5G, financial science and technology and artificial intelligence (AI) of the new generation, almost has been identified as scarce, and has a winning and losing key strategic resources, all areas of the eldest or older of course must be quickly .
