Target development of mobile phone chips? Millet Flower 100 million buy patent authorization

Founded just four years of millet company is going around, mobile phone chip may be it aimed at a new area. Datang Telecom November 6 night issued a notice, the company's wholly-owned subsidiary of the Core Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co., Ltd. signed the SDR1860 platform technology transfer contract, The SDR1860 platform technology developed and owned by the core technology is licensed to Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co., Ltd. at RMB 103 million. The two sides will work towards the design and development of 4G Multi-mode SOC serialization chip products and provide chip products and technical services to the global terminal customers. From the surface of the full text of the announcement, this cooperation has nothing to do with millet company, but a series of information shows that Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co., Ltd. is probably a company controlled by the millet company. Industrial and commercial registration information shows that Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co., Ltd. was registered October 16 this year, the legal representative for Zhu Ling, registered capital of 100,000 yuan. In the list of the main employees that have been disclosed, in addition to the Zhu Ling, there is also a staff member named Ye-erudite who is the company supervisor. In fact, Zhu Ling and Yeh-mi are employees of the millet company and are responsible for the work related to technology development. A solid proof: the two men had previously appeared in the name of the company's patent inventor. The company could not be reached for comment on Sina Technology. But people familiar with the matter said that Beijing Pine Cone Electronics Co., Ltd. is the millet company in order to dabble in chip development and specifically set up the company. The person told Sina Technology, prior to the millet company was interested in establishing joint ventures with the core technology, Millet company CEO Lei also on this matter with the core technology executives have had many contacts, but the final two sides may not agree on equity issues, and technical authorization may be both sides are satisfied with the solution. Millet involved in cell phone chip research and development so the problem, millet company with this just established company to do? The answer is: Millet companies are very likely to have their own mobile phone chip research and development. Datang Telecom in the bulletin did not SDR1860 platform technology to explain too much, but familiar with the core technology business people told Sina Technology, based on this technology, millet company can develop a fusion of computing and communication functions of the mobile phone system chip, that is, we often say the phone chip. Public data show that the core technology is headquartered in Shanghai, Datang Telecom in the IC design plate core Enterprises, specializing in 2G/3G/4G Mobile Internet terminal Core technology research and application, providing 3G/4G mobile terminal chip and solutions. The company uses SDR1860 platform technology to develop a product code-named LC1860 five-mode LTE SOC chip, can be used in 4G mobile phones. And through the control of the company to obtain the technical authorization of core technology, millet company is expected to develop its own 4G mobile phone chip. Since the establishment of millet company only 4 years, the accumulation of communication-related technology is less, the purchase of technical authorization is to make up the patent short board, speed up the development process of the quickest way. Chip industry analysts say if you start nowCell phone chip research and development, millet company is expected to be the fastest in the second half of next year to have results. The market outlook is worrying. Wenjun, chief analyst at Isuppli Semiconductor, said that while Millet could do a good job selling mobile phones by Internet marketing, it was not easy to develop mobile chips and needed to be grounded. The current mobile phone chip market, the core technology chip products shipments are very small, and technical maturity is far less than Qualcomm, MediaTek, exhibition, Heiss and other manufacturers. Millet company even obtained the technical authorization, research and development of products can be competitive is still a big unknown. Wenjun pointed out that in the mobile phone chip market, Qualcomm has achieved a monopoly of patents and technology, and MediaTek has a strong research and development team and gained a lot of market share, the exhibition is backed by Violet Group has a lot of resources, new entrants to the manufacturer is difficult to have room for development. Millet company set up outside the system a new company involved in mobile phone chip business, may also be trying to make their own space to retreat. Wenjun said. In fact, chip research and development is a capital-intensive industry, the domestic scale of manufacturers to invest hundreds of millions of of dollars a year to research and development is very normal things. The latest figures show that millet company's net profit for the year was 3.46 billion yuan (about 566 million U.S. dollars), although the company expects net profits to grow by 75% this year, but these margins are not as comfortable as the investment in research and development chips. Among the global handset makers, only a handful of companies, such as Apple, Samsung and Huawei, have been involved in chip development, and most end vendors are buying chips from professional chip makers. However, with domestic policies to encourage independent research and development of chips, and to give financial support, many companies are interested in expanding the business to the chip area.