Huawei chips face internal and external problems

A few days ago, a "Ballen Weekly" senior editorial article said that both Huawei and Samsung have increased their own chip R & D, and apply it to their own brand of mobile phones. It is reported that Huawei’s investment in Hass increased by nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars in 2013, and also set up a new R&D center in Taiwan. As an outstanding representative of Chinese national enterprises, Huawei has rapidly entered the 4G market on the one hand and upgraded its own technological innovation on the other. It can be predicted that Huawei will play an extremely important role in the future of China's 4G industry.

Huawei chips face "internal and external problems"

As the world's largest consumer market, China has always been favored. Data show that China has become the world's largest smartphone market, with 270 million users. According to IDC forecast, China's smart phone shipments will grow at a compound annual rate of 26.2% from 2011 to 2016, and the United States and Britain will only account for 12% of the market. about. The growing popularity of smartphones has also made the development of the chip industry the most important component of smart phones.

At the MWC 2012 last year, Hass K3V2 released by Huawei attracted a lot of attention in the industry. In the near future, Huawei announced that it will launch the 8-core Hass CPU at the end of the year. It is understood that from the beginning of this year, Huawei has used K3V2 on the high-end smartphones it launched, and it has gained considerable recognition from the market.

With the constant release of the potential of China's smart phone market, Qualcomm has also begun to enter the low-end chip market, in order to gain a share in the upcoming Chinese 4G industry. Recently, Qualcomm announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technology Inc., will expand the Snapdragon 200 series processor and add six dual- and quad-core processors to enhance its entry-level product lineup. Jeff Lorbeck, senior vice president of Qualcomm and chief operating officer of Greater China, said that this series of chips will support both TD-SCDMA and LTE formats.

In the chip industry has long been controlled by Qualcomm and other chips "big brother", K3V2 launch is indeed commendable, but also enough to show that China's chip industry has made great progress. However, we should also clearly see that there is indeed a gap between domestic chip technology and R&D capabilities compared with foreign manufacturers. As some media have pointed out, K3V2 still has some deficiencies in process, hardware architecture, and game compatibility, and needs further improvement and improvement.

Intensify Independent Innovation to Crack Down on Technology Dependence

For a long time, due to various reasons, the development of China's mobile phone chip technology is hampered by people. As a result, the high-end mobile phone market is often occupied by foreign brands. This has been a profound lesson in the past 2G era. However, in the 3G era, this situation has not yet been significantly improved. From the current smart phone market, although the share of domestic brands has steadily accounted for more than 50%, but the high-end market is firmly occupied by Apple, Samsung and other foreign manufacturers, at the same time, in the key components or technology of smart phones, Most of the operating systems, chips, etc., originate from foreign manufacturers. The key technology and core components are controlled by people. This is the key reason why the high-end mobile phone market rarely sees domestic brands.