Chapter 713

"That's the case. Representatives of Qualcomm visited us and expressed their willingness to make a profit on the chips sold to us in the next year. The premise is that as long as we agree to withdraw from the alliance!"

Huichuang Patent Alliance headquarters is also the headquarters of the newly established Chinese mobile phone manufacturer chip offensive and defensive alliance. At this moment, Dong Zhuo, the permanent representative of vivo to the alliance, briefed other members of the alliance.

I'm afraid Qualcomm's representatives will never think that as soon as their front foot left, their back foot vivo made a small report to the chip attack and defense alliance.

Vivo is not excited about the conditions proposed by Qualcomm, but now all domestic mobile phone manufacturers are united. If vivo flies alone, it will be targeted and jointly blocked by other domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

In fact, the alliance has also formulated strict exit restrictions. Once a manufacturer privately agrees to the conditions of Qualcomm or TSMC, it will be blocked by all other members of the alliance. In addition, the Huichuang patent alliance and even the whole domestic mobile phone industry chain will block and punish the quitters.

Think about the consequences of being blocked by the whole domestic mobile phone industry chain. Even if vivo is excited about Qualcomm's conditions, it dare not rashly betray the alliance. Moreover, vivo's senior management is not a fool. Anyone with a little brain can see Qualcomm's inferior differentiation tactics.

"Now TSMC and Qualcomm are working together to force global chip prices to rise. We mobile phone manufacturers are under great pressure!" said a representative of a mobile phone manufacturer in the alliance.

"Yes, our mobile phone prices can't be adjusted easily. In the end, we may have to pay for the losses ourselves. The alliance should always come up with a way!" a representative of small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers echoed.

Their mobile phone brands have always been ranked in the market

Divided into other columns, he originally thought that joining the alliance would bring benefits, but he didn't expect that he would face such difficulties and have to bear losses as soon as he joined, which made him somewhat dissatisfied. If it weren't for the establishment of the alliance, how could Qualcomm and TSMC raise the price of the chip?

The representative of Huawei glanced at him. If there were not too many spineless guys, why would Qualcomm be so arrogant? The representative of Huawei said:

"We haven't done much yet. Qualcomm and TSMC are thinking about the price rise of the law. It can be seen how arrogant they are and how passive we are. If we admit defeat and dissolve the alliance this time, we can only let them kill us."

"Yes, now that we have come here, the alliance can not be easily dissolved. Although the difficulties are great, we can always think of solutions by brainstorming. We can put forward any solutions for discussion." Xiaomi's representative echoed.

Representatives of more than a dozen domestic mobile phone manufacturers whispered to each other and discussed solutions. In fact, long before coming to the alliance meeting, they had held meetings in various companies to find solutions, but basically they couldn't find a good solution. Qualcomm stuck the high-end chips of almost all mobile phone manufacturers in the mainland and raised the price if they wanted to raise the price, Many mobile phone manufacturers feel powerless.

"Let me make some comments!" more than ten minutes later, I saw Li Zhipeng, CEO of Huichuang patent alliance, who still whispered to many manufacturer representatives without results.

As the main promoters of the chip offensive and defensive alliance, Li Zhipeng and Huichuang patent alliance also served as the "leader" of the chip offensive and defensive alliance. As soon as he said he wanted to speak, all representatives of mobile phone manufacturers calmed down.

"I know that everyone is stuck by Qualcomm on high-end chips, and there is nothing we can do. Neither MediaTek nor Qualcomm can replace Qualcomm's position and importance in the field of high-end chips.

But in my opinion, maybe we alone will be afraid of Qualcomm, but what are we afraid of when we work together?

Qualcomm is important to us. Aren't we important to Qualcomm?

The global market share of our manufacturers here is more than 40%. Now more than 60% of Qualcomm's profits come from our mainland. With Qualcomm's greed, how can we be willing to lose our customers? "

"You're right about this, but Qualcomm didn't turn against us directly. It just used various excuses to raise the price of the chip. TSMC used various reasons to delay the delivery time of the chip and the launch time of our new products. In this way, isn't it still us who lost the most?"

A representative of the manufacturer raised an objection.

Li Zhipeng smiled and said:

"You are right, but I think you should think about these two issues in depth.

First, the price of Qualcomm chips has increased. Then, the two major competitors of Qualcomm, Apple's chips and Samsung's chips, have not increased. Over the years, Apple's mobile phone prices have remained very stable. With the relationship between apple and Qualcomm, will they increase with Qualcomm?

And Samsung. Most of Samsung's chips are produced by itself. The price rise of Qualcomm chips drives the price rise of downstream mobile phones using Qualcomm chips. Isn't that tantamount to weakening the competitiveness of Qualcomm's mobile phone camp and improving the competitiveness of Samsung's mobile phones?

Second, TSMC delayed the delivery to Qualcomm, which indirectly affected the speed of our new product sales. The final result of this matter is very similar to the above. Today's mainland market is already the world of our domestic mobile phone brand and apple Samsung. Qualcomm wants to delay the delivery, not any of us, but all of our domestic mobile phone manufacturers Slow, will only let apple and Samsung take advantage of the final feedback, will only reduce Qualcomm chip shipments.

To put it bluntly, Qualcomm and our mainland manufacturers are tied to a chariot. It's hard for us, and it's even harder for him. In a short time, he can't support other mobile phone manufacturers that match our market size.

Besides, is the alliance between Qualcomm and TSMC really as strong as we thought? We are stuck in the neck by Qualcomm. In OEM, isn't Qualcomm also stuck in the neck by TSMC?

Nowadays, only Samsung and TSMC are the most advanced manufacturers in the world. Supporting SMIC's rise will not conflict with Qualcomm's interests, but will only benefit it. Otherwise, last year, Qualcomm could not easily agree to hand over orders to SMIC.

In my opinion, we might as well make a plan in the mainland market. The price of Qualcomm chips rises, and the prices of all our mobile phones also rise. We should focus on strengthening the joint publicity of public opinion and tell consumers that the reason for the price rise is because of the price rise of Qualcomm chips, so as to transfer consumers' complaints to Qualcomm as much as possible.

Similarly, if Qualcomm delays the delivery time of our chips, all our alliance manufacturers will uniformly postpone the new time. If we can't sit still, it's us or Qualcomm! "