We all know that in the past few years, the global mobile phone market has fallen into an unprecedented depression, and almost all mobile phone manufacturers have not been able to sell new phones, including the world giants Samsung and Apple. Fortunately, there was a certain degree of recovery later, and the biggest driving force in the recovery of the mobile phone market is that domestic mobile phone manufacturers, in order to stimulate consumers to buy new machines, are crazy about the price
Although on the surface, there are more and more cost-effective mobile phones, and the competition among major manufacturers is becoming more and more fierce, but Xiaozhi doesn't know if you have found it, in fact, the price of mobile phones is getting more and more expensive, and even the cost performance of new machines is often not as good as the old models, so why is this happening?
In fact, the biggest culprit behind it is Qualcomm, which almost dominates the entire mobile phone chip market, except for Apple and now Huawei, almost all the main models of mobile phone manufacturers are equipped with Qualcomm chips, especially Qualcomm Snapdragon 8X high-end chips are monopolistic, which also gives Qualcomm unscrupulous pricing power. Recently, someone compiled and counted the price information of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series
The data shows that the price information of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 series processors after 2016 has increased nearly 5 times in almost 10 years. Specifically, the price of Snapdragon 835 in 2016 was about 300 yuan, the price of Snapdragon 845 in 2017 was about 480 yuan, and the price of Snapdragon 855 in 2018 was about 550 yuan
In 2019, the price of Snapdragon 865 is about 600 yuan, in 2020, the price of Snapdragon 888 is about 1000 yuan, in 2021, the price of Snapdragon 870 is about 630 yuan, and the price of Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is about 1200 yuan. The Snapdragon 8 Gen2 is about 1160 yuan, and the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen3 is as high as 1400 yuan. No wonder many people ridicule that domestic mobile phones are all Qualcomm workers
Not only did he buy Qualcomm processors at a high price, but he also had to pay various patent fees to Qualcomm, and Qualcomm was simply cool. Some people also believe that the reason why Qualcomm is so arrogant is mainly because it has lost the balance of Huawei's Kirin chip, because it was suppressed and Huawei's mobile phone business disappeared from the market for a time, which gave Qualcomm a chance
This view has also been shared by Li Nan, a former Meizu executive, who said that domestic mobile phones have been robbed by Qualcomm, and called on Huawei to simply open up the delivery of Kirin chips, which can also balance Qualcomm's hegemony. However, Xiaozhi believes that Li Nan's idea is impossible to realize, because Huawei has not been suppressed, and it has not been opened when the Kirin chip is enough
It is even more impossible to open up now, and the current Kirin chip is indeed not competitive enough in the face of Qualcomm chips, even if it is cheap, other domestic manufacturers may not buy it.