MediaTek, as a mobile chip giant, although it can't compare with the high-end tube, its low-end market share is terrifying.

In recent years, with continuous improvement in performance and ultra-high cost performance, the market share has been increasing.

However, it has also been affected by the CDMA baseband, unable to integrate telecommunications, and has been suppressed by high-profile cylinders.

It was not until the end of 2014 that an agreement was reached with VIA, which cost a huge amount of money and obtained the authorization of CDMA for 7 years, and finally launched the full Netcom chips MTk6753 and MTk6735.

The previous MTK version of CDMA mobile phones were supported by plug-in VIA tapes.

VIA has acquired some CDMA patents through the acquisition of LSILogic, a rice company.

And reached an extended licensing agreement with Gao Cylinder to obtain the authorization of CDMA technology.

In this way, it broke the CDMA patent barrier of the tall cylinder and became the second company in the world to have CDMA technology.

Therefore, Wang Fan's only breakthrough is still here at VIA.

Although VIA's CDMA patents and market share are not comparable to those of Gao, it has reached an agreement with Gaoguan to own CDMA technology.

Once authorized by VIA's CDMA, Fan's SOC can also be directly integrated with the CDMA baseband like MediaTek.

However, when Wang Fan was checking the information, he was taken aback.

LianTek purchased the VIA CDMA baseband for 7 years of authorization, spending 13 billion!

That's a staggering number, and the CDMA isn't worth that much at all, let alone a 7-year license.

What makes Wang Fan even more helpless is that intel also wants to acquire CDMA, and it is a direct acquisition of VIA's mobile phone chip factory, Weirui Dentsu, with a capital of 7.5 billion to 8 billion yuan.

It's wrong, it's wrong!

Although due to the suppression of Gao Tube and Intel, Weirui Dentsu has been in a state of loss, and it is natural to sell it as a whole, and wait to get rid of a big burden and lose some money.

It's like IBM selling one of its own fabs to Globalfoundries, not only for nothing, but also for $1.5 billion.

Although the acquisition has not yet been formally completed, the two parties have basically negotiated and agreed on the payment method, and the entire contract will be completed in a few months.

Because this kind of subsidiary that cannot make ends meet not only cannot bring any profits, but also consumes a lot of resources and loses the property of the headquarters in reverse.

For example, employees' wages must be opened as usual, and equipment must be maintained and maintained, even if you lose money, you can't stop working, otherwise you will lose more.

Once you get rid of this big burden, not only can you effectively stop the loss, but also the stock price of the entire company can usher in a certain increase.

Therefore, it is common to find a pick-up man and lose money and throw off the burden, although it sounds a little unbelievable.

But although Weirui Dentsu loses money, it will not lose so much, and it is completely impossible for the gap to be so big and so much upside down.

And the CDMA license won't be so valuable!

7 years, 13 billion, what a joke.

Wang Fan found some more information and couldn't help but burst into foul language.

These cheating media, that's NT$!

The media are directly referred to as the yuan, and only a few media will mark the new Taiwan dollar in front!

Wang Fan was very angry, can you leave some of the media's professional festival exercises! Reprint the news of Taiwan Island, just copy it directly, and I don't know how to mark it with a new Taiwan dollar!

NT$13 billion, about NT$2.55 billion, NT$8 billion, 1.57 billion CNA!

That's pretty good.

Intel became a pick-up man, cleaning up the mess of VIA, seemingly paying less, and getting a big bargain.

But all debts and losses must also be borne together. In fact, it is not as comfortable as Lianfa Branch.

At this time, Wang Fan found a big problem again!

Once Intel acquires Verrextech, then CDMA technology is completely monopolized by Gaoguan and Intel!

All other manufacturers that produce SOCs have to buy the baseband of both.

Intel not only vigorously develops mobile SOC with this, but also adopts the same strategy as Gaoguan, not authorizing third parties, only selling baseband, and the price is equal to the price of SOC!

In that case, except for MTK, which has been authorized, everyone else will be controlled by others, and even other chip manufacturers can be forced out after a long time!

CDMA technology is a magic pit in the United States, pit China, pit Europe, the only benefit is the high cylinder!

But why does Huaxia use CDMA technology for telecommunications? If you use other ones, won't you be controlled by others?

There is no way, the adoption of CDMA technology is one of the conditions for China's accession to the WTO! There is no choice.

It can be seen that the energy of the high cylinder is so great that it affects the position of the US government to a certain extent, and allows the government to fight for their interests!

This is the case in the United States, the direction of the government is influenced by the big conglomerates behind it.

Wang Fan sighed, unless 4G is fully promoted, FDD850 is opened, and VOLTE is popularized, CDMA can be completely gotten rid of.

But the ideal is plump, and the reality is skinny.

First of all, it takes time for 4G to advance, and it will take several years for the most money, the fastest mobile to fully cover the 4G network, not to mention the slow progress of telecommunications.

Moreover, 4G does not support calls, unless VoLTE (voice calls go through data networks) is popularized, so that CDMA can be completely eliminated.

Again, it will take many years.

In addition, it will take many years for the CDMA network to be completely shut down only if the number of users on the network is small, freeing up resources and transferring telecommunication users (CDMA users).

Even if the above process is carried out at the same time, this task will still be solved in several years.

Therefore, it is unlikely that CDMA will disappear within a few years, even if the Chinese government vigorously promotes it.

In other words, the monopoly of the high cylinder will continue for many years!

To this end, MediaTek reached an agreement with VIA at the end of 14 years to obtain authorization from CDMA for 7 years.

This 7 years is not casually proposed.

Rather, the time budget for CDMA's withdrawal from the global market is calculated through a series of careful calculations, which is quite referential.

Therefore, CDMA technology cannot fall into the hands of Intel, otherwise Mortal Technology, HiSilicon, etc., will not have a good time, and they may even finish playing.

Fortunately, the two sides have not reached a final agreement now, and the entire acquisition has not been completed, and everything is still turning around.

Thinking of this, Wang Fan made a decision in an instant, at all costs, to win the CDMA technology, even if it is to directly win Weirui Dentsu!

Wang Fan did not hold any meeting, and directly called Su Xueyan over and briefly explained the situation.

Su Xueyan was silent for a while when she heard this, she knew very well the importance of this matter.

"There is hope, but it's hard. Like AlphaTek, it is easier to get CDMA authorization alone, as long as you have money. But if you want to completely acquire the entire technology, it is very difficult!" Su Xueyan said with a frown.

"Oh? Wang Fan asked.

Su Xueyan said eloquently: "VIA's SOC business has been suppressed by both Gaoguan and Intel, and has long been abandoned, so the CDMA baseband is still at 55nm, and the current mainstream is at least about 20nm, or even 14/16nm. ”

Therefore, VIA has been ready to sell the CDMA license to realize the value, but in addition to the large-scale sale of SOC by LianTek, it will be able to recoup the cost. Others, like Warwick, also planned to spend $100 million on a CDMA license, and it is said that in the end, VIA suddenly mentioned $200 million. Warwick is just for its own use, and it is not worth spending $200 million on it. It is better to buy CDMA baseband directly. This cooperation ultimately failed. ”

"And VIA's chip factory, Weirui Electric, has been losing money, and it is difficult to sell in the current environment where the chip factory is big Evergrande and the small one is always small. Even Intel's acquisition is just a matter of focusing on CDMA technology. As a result, VIA prefers to sell as a package. ”

Wang Fan nodded: "So, we can only give a higher price and directly buy the entire chip factory of VIA?"

(Ahem, there is no clear information about the attribution of VIA CDMA in the book (August '15), so it can only be handled like this.) There is also Warwick's CDMA authorization, and I have consulted a lot of information, but I still don't know how it is, and it will develop according to the plot in the future. Hence the explanation. ）