Qualcomm Global CEO China PR for Monopoly excuse

The author was informed that the NDRC had established high pass monopoly facts or charges for misuse of standards. However, Qualcomm did not stop the Chinese "PR" pace.

July 24, Qualcomm Global CEO Steve Mollenkov to China's senior government, and held a media meeting in Beijing, the statement will invest 150 million of dollars to support Chinese start-ups, support LTE, but avoid the antitrust investigation.

Qualcomm's global CEO delivers 3 signals to China's top and industrial chains:

1, Qualcomm will invest 150 million U.S. dollars to support China's start-up companies (Millet, touch treasure, etc.), but also including medium and micro-semiconductors, and other semiconductor companies in the branch;

2, Qualcomm to the global LTE Standard has made a "contribution", including LTE and Fdd-lte, and to assist China telecom operators to deploy LTE;

3, Qualcomm in the research and development of high investment, said the company's total research and development costs invested more than 30 billion U.S. dollars.

This time, Qualcomm's response to the NDRC is quite positive. However, whether the NDRC's antitrust will be reduced or penalized by Qualcomm's "contribution" remains to be seen.

As early as November 2013, the NDRC launched a survey of Qualcomm monopolies and raided Qualcomm's Beijing and Shanghai companies to investigate handset manufacturers, chip makers and other related companies. February 19 This year, NDRC price supervision and antitrust bureau Director Hucunlin confirmed that the NDRC is investigating the issue of high Qualcomm prices, because Qualcomm suspected misuse of wireless communication standards.

Prior to that, Qualcomm China's president Wang in the Sohu it dialogue, said to the author, Qualcomm company is with the China Development and Reform Commission to "communicate." According to the NDRC, the survey of Qualcomm has not stopped: "A total of 80 staff, cost a lot of money, not only to investigate Qualcomm, as well as Qualcomm's customers, sealed a large amount of information." ”

Public data show that, as of September 2013 2013, Qualcomm's total revenue of 24.9 billion U.S. dollars, 49% from the Chinese market, some of the revenue from the assembled in China and in other countries to sell equipment.