Intel blamed Qualcomm’s behavior for them to withdraw from the field of 5G modem chips

Tram Ho

In May of this year, the US Trade Commission FTC ruled that Qualcomm's licensing agreements on its intellectual property rights to LTE and CDMA technologies violated competition regulations when squeezing. stuffy other opponents. While Qualcomm is appealing against this decision, Intel has submitted a summary supporting FTC's allegations against Qualcomm.

Personally, Intel's Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel Steven R. Rodgers posted a blog post explaining this by saying, " Intel, due to the burden of anti-edge behavior, Qualcomm's competition, forcing it to abandon opportunities in the modem market, was prevented from selling to customers and was forced to sell at artificially priced prices imposed by Qualcomm. "

Intel đổ tại hành vi của Qualcomm đã khiến họ phải rút khỏi lĩnh vực chip modem 5G - Ảnh 1.

The blog post also specifically emphasized that it sees itself as " (Qualcomm's) competitors that have been forced to leave the modem chip market ."

Earlier this year, Apple and Qualcomm agreed to halt mutual litigation worldwide, starting in 2017 when Apple accused Qualcomm of overcharging its patents. In order to settle the lawsuit, Apple also had to pay Qualcomm a large sum of money and signed a 6-year licensing agreement, as well as provide Qualcomm chipsets for Apple products.

At the same time, Intel also said it would pull out of the modem chip business – a message that came at a very good time when Apple appeared to be the only customer for years for Intel's modem chips, and now they have switch to Qualcomm.

Shortly thereafter, in July, Apple announced the acquisition of much of Intel's modem chip business. This has led to many speculating that Apple will eventually find a way to develop its own wireless modem chip to reduce long-term dependence on Qualcomm.

Intel clearly doesn't want this situation, when in its blog post, Intel said it had invested "billions of dollars" in the modem chip business and then had to resell it to Apple. With the $ 1 billion Apple paid to Intel to buy the business, it may not be enough to make up for Intel's initial investment.

Refer to TechCrunch


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