At present, there are many well-known mobile phone processors, such as Apple A12 bionic processor, Kirin 980 processor, Snapdragon 845 processor, among which Apple A12 bionic processor and Kirin 980 processor are 7nm process SoC. The series of CPUs are currently only used by their own products, and are not open to all mobile phone manufacturers as much as the Qualcomm Xiaolong series.
Kirin 980
Brody Ji, senior product director of Huawei Consumer Business Group, recently explained why Huawei does not open Kirin chips to other mobile phone manufacturers. He said: 'For Huawei, Kirin is not a business, but a product or technology that can be used as us. Competitive advantage with competitor smartphone brands. '
In fact, there has always been a voice that allows Huawei to open its unicorn chips. Like Qualcomm, it can still earn a very large patent fee. However, as Brody Ji said, Kirin chip is a technology that is Huawei and competitors. Competitive advantage. Huawei's smartphone surpassed Apple in the second quarter of this year, ranking second in the world as the most powerful evidence.
Some netizens believe that if Huawei opens the Kirin chip, it may lose its own signboard and will suffer huge losses. If there are other manufacturers, the high-end chips of the Kirin series will be used on the thousand yuan machine, which may cause the sales of their products to be devastating. Blow.
