Source: C114
Recently, Huawei opened its sales of 5G modem, but it was limited to Apple's rumors that caused a stir in the industry!In this regard, relevant people in Huawei said that Huawei has never said!
According to ENGADGET, Huawei opens its sales of 5G modem, but is limited to Apple.ENGADGET said that over the years, Huawei has been developing its own high -performance processor and modem, all of which provides motivation for a large number of mobile devices.So far, the company has refused to sell any chip products to competitors.However, the company may be softening this position.A source who understands the situation confirmed to Engadget that Huawei now opens its sale of its 5G Balong 5000 chipset, but is limited to one company: Apple.
At present, Apple does fall into the dilemma available for 5G basebands: Although Intel stated on the previous few days, it would provide customers with 5G communication baseband XMM8160 in 2020, but it is said that Apple has lost to Intel for some cooperation reasons.Confidence; at the same time, Apple is fighting a protracted patent dispute with Qualcomm. Although Qualcomm claims that as long as Apple is willing, cooperation is not completely impossible, but from the current attitude of Apple, the possibility of reconciliation with Qualcomm is very low; I heard that I heard thatApple has also studied the 5G chipset produced by Samsung and MediaTek. Among them, Samsung has rejected Apple's request on the grounds of insufficient production capacity. MediaTek has no follow -up news.
On January 24, 2019, Huawei released Balong 5000 (Balon 5000) for 5G multi -mode terminal chips worldwide.As a MODEM chip, Baron 5000 can support a variety of rich product forms, including smartphones, home broadband terminals, vehicle terminals and 5G modules.
From this point of view, Apple's only choice is to purchase 5G baseband chips from Huawei to launch 5G mobile phones as soon as possible.
However, the author believes that this is not reliable!
01 How to cooperate with competitive relationships?
Last year, Huawei's shipments were 206 million units, with a market share of 14.7%, a significant increase of 33.6%year -on -year, ranking third after the very weak disadvantage ranked in Apple;In one step, that is, the sword refers to the world's first.Huawei's Consumer Business CEO Yu Chengdong has recently proposed a new goal: Huawei+Honor this year is likely to become the world's first mobile phone manufacturer.The Huawei single brand will be the world's first in the future; the Honor brand is the top two in China and the top four in the world.How can the two major opponents of the front competition cooperate between the two major opponents?
02 The subtle relationship between Chinese and American companies
At present, a few Western countries led by the United States have blocked the Huawei 5G equipment. How can Apple, an apple as an American mobile phone giant in such a delicate competitive relationship?Imagine putting the self -developed chip of Chinese companies on the mobile phone of American companies. Do you think it is possible to analyze the current situation?
03 5G phone is so anxious?
5G may be another watershed in the entire mobile phone industry, but it is expected that 5G in the second half of 2019 will be preliminarily available in commercial conditions. The 5G mobile phones in the early days of commercial use basically use the flagship chip plug -in 5G baseband. The price is nearly 10,000 yuan, which is very expensive.Thousands of yuan 5G mobile phones have to wait at least two or three years.At present, the 5G network side has not yet matured and there is no large-scale commercial deployment. What is the end behind the 12-18 months of the network?Therefore, although Apple will definitely pursue the industry's leading leadership, it is not necessary to push 5G mobile phones through the purchase of friends and merchants' baseband chips.
In summary, the author believes that Huawei will never easily open sales of 5G chips, including the modem, including the modem; it is unlikely to let the proud Apple look down to Huawei.
