The patent dispute between Apple and Qualcomm lasted for a long period of time, and the final solution was likely to be Apple’s choice and Qualcomm’s separation. According to recent reports, although Apple will not completely deviate from Qualcomm’s baseband chip this year, it has significantly reduced it. The amount of orders to Qualcomm. The news that Apple will be 70% orders this year to Intel, Qualcomm can only take 30%.
In order to restore the situation, Qualcomm now announced that it will reduce the scope of 5G patent licensing. It is understood that in the past when Qualcomm authorized the relevant patents, smart phone manufacturers usually have two licensing options. In addition to the use of mobile phone costs 5% to obtain Qualcomm full set of patents In addition, its standard-essential patent license can also be obtained in a 3.25% ratio. Its standard-essential patent covers the necessary patents for most devices connected to a wireless network. Such regulations make all mobile phone manufacturers purchase the above two sets of patents. Patent authorization to cover all the foundations to avoid the risk of future unnecessary disputes.
Now Qualcomm stated that in order to welcome the advent of the 5G era, Qualcomm has now begun plans to make mobile phone manufacturers obtain two sets of patent licenses in a simpler and more complete way. In this regard, Qualcomm Technology Executive Vice President and President Alex Rogers Said that Qualcomm did not reduce prices, but what is being done is to include more technology and more intellectual property in products without increasing prices.
According to Qualcomm’s recently announced second collection report of 2018, there was no income from Apple in the past three quarters, resulting in a 40% drop in revenue from its technology licensing department.
