Millet has a new teammate: Datang Telecom to provide chip technology

Just as the domestic handset will fight each other in the phone patent war, Datang Telecom insiders told that Datang Telecom and millet at present in the important cooperation, but mainly to provide chip platform technology and related patent licensing, does not involve the sale of patents, which means that the rumors of Datang Telecom to sell chip patents do not exist. Patent licensing and the sale of patents are two different things. Recently, the media reported that ZTE, Huawei has to include millet, OPPO, step by step high, including the domestic handset manufacturers, the lawyer letter, alleged that the latter violated its WCDMA patent. On the same day, Huawei issued an official statement that the domestic handset manufacturers have not issued a letter of attorney, ZTE said that respect for the healthy development of the terminal industry IPR protection action. The industry is judged that the current Huawei, ZTE has not issued a letter of attorney, may be in order to wait for Qualcomm in China Monopoly case processing results, once Qualcomm this patent overlord is subdued, Huawei, ZTE's patent lawyer letter will be issued sooner or later, therefore, the handset manufacturer's patent situation has attracted much attention. Just at this time, Millet and Datang Telecom began to cooperate, some media interpretation for Millet won Datang Telecom patent support, and even rumors into Millet acquisition Datang Telecom TD patent. In this connection, after consulting Datang Telecom insiders, it said, Datang Telecom's core technology and millet to talk about the agreement is the cooperation between the two sides to develop the chip based on SDR1860 platform, millet funds to establish a company on this platform based on the development of mobile phone chips. From the above can be judged, millet does take this opportunity to test the water cell phone chip, master mobile phone chip research and development of some of the process and technology, but also reduce the cost of mobile phone chips, and ultimately reduce the cost of mobile phones, but also to get rid of any single handset chip manufacturers rely on. Datang Telecom said that the technology license will authorize the use of Datang Telecom's patent, but not the sale of patents, patent license is agreed to use, do not charge royalties, but Datang Telecom and the core did not sell mobile phone patents. Other models cannot be excluded patent enterprise Saoquan Datang Telecom announced recently, Datang Telecom's wholly-owned subsidiary of the Core Technology Co., Ltd. to 103 million Yuan price will be SDR1860 platform technology licensing to Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co. At the same time, the core technology and Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co., Ltd. signed the "Strategic Cooperation Agreement", the two sides are committed to the 4G Multi-mode SOC serialization chip product design and development, and to the global end customers with the industry's leading chip products and first-class technical services. From this point of view, Millet future based on SDR1860 platform technology licensing authorized research and development of the mobile phone can be the patent protection of Datang Telecom, but Datang Telecom did not mention the entire TD patents authorized to millet other TD series of mobile phones. Industry judgment, Datang Telecom is hoping to participate in this chip research and development and use, to the core technology to bring chip sales, from the current Datang Telecom Bulletin, both sides limited to the cooperation of the chip, Datang Telecom can only be the cooperation of the millet chip and mobile phone to provide patent protection. As one of the main owners of TD-SCDMA patented technology, Datang Telecom invested tens of billions of dollars in research and development in more than 10 years.It has never received royalties, so it is not possible to only 100 million yuan to sell the patent, it is not possible for more than 100 million yuan to a manufacturer of all TD mobile phone to provide patent authorization. Datang Telecom's patent coverage is limited previously, in order to support the development of the TD-SCDMA industry, Datang Telecom did not collect royalties from the domestic TD-SCDMA patent users, and this free sharing policy promoted the development of the TD-SCDMA industry in China. 2013 China market sales of 155 million TD-SCDMA mobile phones, TD-SCDMA handset sales equivalent to the Chinese market WCDMA and CDMA sales. But even if Datang Telecom has a limited number of patents, Datang Telecom's strengths are TD patents, which can use TD patents and Qualcomm, such as exchange of other patent licensing, but only to its own or subordinate enterprises, and in WCDMA, Fddlte patent, Datang Telecom itself are powerless, will not rashly enter these areas, Unable to patent protection to other mobile phone companies, to deal with peer patent infringement lawsuits. It is clear that by 2015, the domestic mobile phone industry is difficult to avoid the patent war, in WCDMA mobile phones, Fddlte mobile phones and other fields, even with Datang Telecom cooperation, can not avoid patent disputes.