The 5G era has arrived! According to the data, by the end of 2021, more than 200 operators around the world have deployed 5G commercial networks, with a total of more than 700 million 5G users. The mainland maintains a global lead in 5G, opening more than 1.425 million 5G base stations and 520 million 520 million 5G mobile terminal connections.
Huawei on the mainland is the world's largest supplier of communication equipment, surpassing giants such as Ericsson and Nokia to win the most 5G commercial contracts, exceeding 3,000. A few days ago, it signed 5G contracts with Turkey and Brazil. However, Huawei, which maintains a leading position on the 5G network, cannot produce 5G mobile phones.
As we all know, Huawei established HiSilicon Semiconductor Company in 2004, and then invested hundreds of billions of dollars in chip research and development for more than a decade, and the technology continued to break through, and finally had the highest-end Kirin chip. In particular, the Kirin 9000 SoC chip can be said to be hard "just" Apple.
Breaking through in the high-end market, Huawei has formed a suppression of Apple's mobile phones, and soon became the world's second largest mobile phone manufacturer, and approached Samsung. However, Huawei's technological breakthrough has put pressure on the United States. As a result, starting from May 2019, Huawei and more than 70 of its subsidiaries were included in the "blacklist", and a series of chip companies such as Qualcomm and ARM were cut off, and by September 15, 2020, TSMC was also out of supply.
Huawei Mate 40 is equipped with Huawei's last generation of Kirin high-end chips, and it is also the strongest configuration that Huawei can come up with, and the Kirin chips have become a masterpiece. Huawei's loss of 5G mobile phone production capacity also means losing most of the mobile phone market.
In fact, Huawei has many technological breakthroughs in 5G, ranking first in the world in 5G patents, and developing its own Baron baseband chip. However, RF chips still rely on other manufacturers to supply. At present, more than 80% of the global RF chip market is controlled by the United States and Japan.
Just recently, the domestic 5G RADIO frequency chip ushered in good news, Huawei has a turnaround? It is understood that the domestic Fuman Micro Company confirmed that it has mass-produced 5G RF chips and supplied them to mainstream domestic mobile phones and ODM manufacturers.
Fumanwei is a national high-tech enterprise engaged in the design, development, packaging, testing and sales of high-performance analog and digital-analog hybrid integrated circuits, focusing on the research and development and production of MiniLED display chips, 5G RF chips and fast charging series chips. The 5G RF chip (including filter) is completely based on independent development and has complete independent intellectual property rights.
From this point of view, in the field of 5G RF chips, independent research and development has been fully realized, and there is no need to rely on foreign countries. In recent years, domestic enterprises have seen the importance of independent technology, and a large number of enterprises have invested heavily in opening up chip technology research and development, and have achieved good results.
That 5G RF chip has achieved domestic production, what impact will it have on Huawei? Will the mobile phone business turn around? It is understood that Huawei released a Mate40 E Pro model, equipped with a Kirin 9000L chip processor, supporting 5G networks.
As mentioned earlier, because of the US blockade, Huawei's Kirin high-end chip has become a masterpiece. Now that 5G mobile phones have been released, has Huawei found a 5G mobile phone solution?
Seeing some people on the Internet say that 5G RF chips have achieved domestic independent research and development, it will help Huawei mobile phones. It can only be said that it is no problem to use it on Huawei's 4G mobile phone, but 5G mobile phones are not helpful, and it is not so easy to reverse it, unless the United States has relaxed the ban.
Other accessories in the phone are secondary, the most core is the processor chip. At present, SMIC in mainland China can only mass-produce 14nm, while TSMC has reached 7nm and 5nm, but it cannot OEM Huawei. Huawei cannot take the lead on chips, and the turnaround will not appear for the time being. After all, it has reached the 5G era, who is still willing to use 4G mobile phones.
However, the mass production of 5G RF chips by Fuman Micro is also a thing worth celebrating. Over the years, under the technological blockade of the United States, many domestic enterprises have woken up and understood how important it is to achieve technological autonomy. Only do assembly plants, there is no future, and at any time may be stuck in the neck. Even Xiaomi has released ISP chips and flash charging chips, Vivo has come up with ISP chips, and OPPO has launched NPU chips.
Academician Ni Guangnan said: "The core technology cannot be bought, exchanged, or sought!" "Recently, the blockade of Russia by enterprises in Europe and the United States has further deepened our awareness that in today's era, backward technology is subject to people. Only by achieving technological autonomy can we develop more powerfully.