A few days ago, the matter of Huawei and MediaTek became the focus of everyone's attention.
The first is that Huawei sued MediaTek in China, saying that MediaTek infringed on its patents. According to the media, MediaTek should have used Huawei's 5G (or also 4G and 3G patents), but did not pay the patent fee.
Then MediaTek went to the United Kingdom to sue Huawei, saying that Huawei infringed MediaTek's patents.
So netizens have a question mark on their faces, what is going on here? You sue me, I sue you, one in China, one in United Kingdom, what's the matter?
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is still a patent dispute, Huawei, as a global communications giant, has the most 5G patents in the world, and MediaTek will obviously use Huawei's patents, as for MediaTek suing Huawei, because MediaTek is also a communications giant, and it is normal to have patents.
Later, some media reported that in fact, Huawei and MediaTek were negotiating patent licensing two or three years ago, and it may be that the two sides did not negotiate, so there was this matter.
In fact, don't look at it, it seems to be just a commercial dispute between the two parties, but in fact, there is a big game of chess behind it, which is of great significance, that is, behind Huawei's lawsuit against MediaTek, in fact, it wants to overturn Qualcomm's patent licensing model and benefit domestic mobile phones, including Apple, Samsung, and other mobile phone manufacturers.
First of all, we need to know a concept, that is, the same patent, in the entire industrial chain, can only be charged once patent fees. How to say it, for example, Huawei takes a patent and collects patent fees from Qualcomm, then Huawei can't collect mobile phone manufacturers that use Qualcomm chips, which is an important premise.
Because of this premise, in the past, these manufacturers with communication patents charged patent fees were not chip manufacturers, but mobile phone manufacturers.
Because the price of mobile phones is more expensive, the price of chips is cheap, many patent fees are calculated according to the price ratio of the product, a chip is 1000 yuan, 5%, and only 50 yuan, a mobile phone sells for 5000 yuan, 5%, which is 250 yuan, and everyone will calculate this account.
Therefore, in the past, Huawei, Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson, etc. charged patent fees, all for mobile phone manufacturers, not for intermediate chip manufacturers, but in fact, the communication baseband of the chip is the real use of patents.
So for a long time, mobile phone manufacturers have been shouting wrongs, everyone just uses patents for baseband chips, but you have to charge according to the price of the mobile phone, which is equivalent to my screen, memory, shell, etc., all of which have to be counted as patent fees......
However, Qualcomm, Nokia, and Ericsson, of course, don't care whether your mobile phone is wronged or not, you can still receive it, because it is a lot of money.
And Huawei sued MediaTek to take another path, that is, Huawei wants to collect patent fees from chip manufacturers, because MediaTek is the manufacturer that really uses patents to make chips.
And once MediaTek pays the patent fee, then the mobile phone manufacturers who use MediaTek chips will no longer need to pay patent fees to Huawei, and the chip will definitely be cheaper than the mobile phone, so the mobile phone manufacturers will definitely benefit.
But MediaTek doesn't do it, everyone didn't collect it from chip manufacturers like me before, but now it collects from me, I have to pay money, of course I don't want to, so I didn't talk about it, so I had this matter.
From the perspective of mobile phone manufacturers and even users, we still hope that Huawei can win, because once this happens, Qualcomm's patent fee model may be subverted in the future, and the patent fees paid by mobile phone manufacturers should be reduced, and the pressure will be relatively shifted to chip manufacturers.