Therefore, MediaTek attaches great importance to the research and development of processor chips, especially the improvement of CPU performance.

Cai Mingsheng sent more than 20 of his super-first-class R&D personnel to conduct research in the fairy laboratory in Rongcheng, and spent a lot of financial and material resources to make a breakthrough recently.

Don't look at Xiao Qi's patent money for each processor chip, which only gives MediaTek 0.2 US dollars, but Xiao Qi promises that the annual use will not be less than 100 million in the future, so MediaTek can earn 150 million yuan in patent income every year.

The patent money alone can be a lot, and Cai Mingsheng began to wonder if he could get a piece of the pie on DreamStars' independent baseband chips.

The fundamental frequency chip is a very important part of the mobile phone chip, it is a chip that integrates HSPA, EDGE and WCDMA fundamental frequency, because European and American laws stipulate that all parts related to radio communication must be integrated on the same processor, so it is integrated into a fundamental frequency chip separately.

Basically, the call function of the mobile phone is composed of CPU processor, base frequency chip, power management, software and peripherals, which is also a basic function of the mobile phone, and these together become a package of solutions for MediaTek, commonly known as the baseband chip, that is, the MediaTek mobile phone chip that Xiao Qi bought.

It's just that now the DreamStars produced by Xiao Qi are much more grade-oriented, dual-core processors, power management, fairy systems, etc., are independent components of high-end research and development, and naturally it is impossible to hand them all over to MediaTek for production.

Just like a computer, there is a big difference between an integrated motherboard and a standalone motherboard, and the obvious standalone motherboard is better and more powerful, and the same is true for DreamStars' baseband chips.

MediaTek also doesn't have the ability to produce baseband chips that meet DreamStars' needs. But they hope to get orders for independent baseband chips, which are also an important part of mobile phones, on their Jishu expertise.

Recently, Cai Guozhi has been mentioning this to Xiao Qi, hoping that Xiao Qi can let them give it a try.

But Xiao Qi didn't agree.

It's not that I don't trust MediaTek's jishu, in fact, in 2012, when the smartphone war was in full swing. MediaTek's baseband chips, or even the overall baseband chips, are very marketable, and China's domestic baseband chips, such as Lenovo and Huawei, are all MediaTek's.

They have a strong Jishu heritage, coupled with Xiao Qi's genius concept, and it is not impossible to work hard to create Haode independent baseband chips.

But Xiao Qi's vision is always looking forward.

Qualcomm, MediaTek, Infineon, Spreadtrum and many more in the future. dominates the entire baseband chip market, MediaTek is much worse than Qualcomm, but it can also be regarded as Shijie's second.

But if he cooperates with MediaTek, Xiao Qi has no chance to develop his own strength, in order to make his own jishu and professional stronger, Xiao Qi still decided to buy a company with a patent for a base frequency chip.

It's not that Xiao Qi doesn't want to directly acquire MediaTek, but because MediaTek is under the influence of Xiao Qi. has tasted the sweetness of mobile phone chips in advance, and the huge profits of billions of yuan per year in the future. It is destined that Cai Mingsheng will not let go of his company, on the contrary, his ambition is still very large, and he wants to bring MediaTek to a higher position.

In this case, if Xiao Qi forcibly acquires MediaTek, it will be difficult.

In fact, Xiao Qi once inquired about Cai Guozhi intentionally or unintentionally. Is it possible for MediaTek to raise funds or buy stocks, but Cai Guozhi said "Impossible" without thinking about it! ”

Come to think of it, a company with super good profits and strong future development expectations will not be sold.

So Xiao Qi put his plan on Infineon.

Speaking of Infineon. Everyone may not be familiar with it, but if you talk about "Siemens Semiconductor Division", many people will understand, it turns out that this is a famous family!

After the independence of the Siemens Semiconductor Division and the establishment of Infineon, they have very unique characteristics in semiconductors, such as fundamental band chips in the field of communications, integrated circuits, DRAM storage, automotive and industrial electronic components, etc., they have mastered very advanced leading technologies.

Seeing that the memory market has been very hot in recent years, last year, Infineon carried out a split and separated the DRAM department.

After the separation, the DRAM memory company called Qimonda, as the world's second largest DRAM company, was directly listed on the New York Stock Exchange after the separation, bringing Infineon a billion dollars in financing, and its peak market value reached about 5 billion.

But Qimonda's good days are not long, and in a year or so, they will have to fall in the financial crisis, and Zuihou's market value will not exceed 500 million US dollars, like most difficult brothers.

The real value is Infineon itself.

Not to mention that it can be the same as MediaTek to make a mobile phone chip solution, Xiao Qi got it, which is equivalent to getting 80% of MediaTek's strength, and the most powerful thing about Infineon is not this piece!

Infineon's real power is still in the semiconductor chip, such as many high-end cars in Germany, such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Audi, many of the tire pressure monitoring systems, electronic compasses, and smart sensors used in the cars are from their homes.

THE APPLE IPHONE HAS MANY SENSOR MODULES, SUCH AS AMBIENT LIGHT SENSORS, DISTANCE SENSORS, IMAGE SENSORS, MAGNETORESISTIVE SENSORS, SOUND WAVE SENSORS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, AND HUMIDITY SENSORS...... And so on, are very important existences, many of which are unique to Apple's use of jishu.

If you want to do a good smartphone, these sensors are indispensable, and Infineon has not paid attention to the consumer electronics industry in normal times, but only equips cars with these sensor components, but it does not mean that they are not proficient, in fact, they are the experts.

In addition, in the previous life, when the 2011 earthquake in Japan occurred, weishenme caused the shortage of iPhones and iPads?

It is because of the lack of a very important component - the electronic compass.

This important component, which was originally produced by Asahi Kasei in Japan, is very troublesome to replace with other manufacturers, and it is necessary to deploy other parts in a unified manner, and this is not a matter of one or two days.

Infineon makes electronic compasses for car navigation systems, and Xiao Qi is prepared in this regard, which is naturally in line with the concept of "not relying on one supplier".

SO。

Seeing so many benefits, where does Xiao Qi have no reason to be tempted? (To be continued......)

PS: The more I write, the more I find that our country wants to achieve something in the consumer electronics category, how difficult it is! The road is tightly sealed, or is it three layers inside and three layers outside......