Do domestic TD-LTE chip manufacturers really lack strength?
During the two sessions, 4G became a hot topic for communication industry representatives and committee members. However, there is a problem that has always troubled China Mobile, the world's most wanted TD-LTE operator, when can it introduce TD-LTE mobile phones that meet commercial standards ?
TD-LTE mobile phone hanging over the international chip giant?
Many people attribute the unsatisfactory current TD-LTE mobile phone chips to domestic manufacturers, and pin their hopes on foreign chip manufacturers represented by Qualcomm, but in fact this does not solve the urgent need for the mature development of TD-LTE chips. For the future TD-LTE The development pattern of the industry chain will also have an unbalanced impact on China and foreign countries.
Before the Spring Festival, China Mobile Zhejiang Company opened the country's first TD-LTE trial commercial network in Hangzhou and Wenzhou, and the number was released to the public, but only MiFi and CPE terminals. MiFi is a wireless router that integrates 4G services, and CPE is a wireless device terminal that can convert 4G signals to WiFi signals. Both can help users experience high-speed Internet access in TD-LTE, but they are larger It cannot be carried around, so the industry hopes to develop the TD-LTE network card and mobile phone that everyone loves to use as soon as possible.
In this process, Qualcomm has high hopes, because Qualcomm is the global leader in mobile phone chips. In November 2012, Qualcomm's stock price was as high as 62.24 US dollars, and the market value exceeded Intel in one fell swoop. Moreover, Qualcomm also has a deep research on TD-LTE. Many TD-LTE mobile phones in the world use Qualcomm chips. Therefore, China Mobile has always hoped that Qualcomm can drive domestic TD-LTE terminals to achieve major breakthroughs.
In China Mobile ’s TD-LTE held in November last year, a total of 30 TD-LTE terminals won the bid, 12 of which used Qualcomm chips, Qualcomm ’s market share was as high as 40%, spread across all TD-LTE terminals, such as data There are two types of cards, six types of MiFi, one type of CPE, one type of smart phone, and one type of international roaming MiFi, all of which use Qualcomm chips, which raises industry concerns: whether the TD-LTE terminal chip will be foreign in the future Chip companies dominate.
Are domestic chip makers just unaffordable?
This kind of worry is not unnecessary: ​​First of all, it is hoped that more TD-LTE terminal chips will be used by Qualcomm and other foreign chip companies, which may be in line with the market trend. Chip companies are more powerful and should take up more shares, but the problem is that TD-LTE is a special industry. Why should the country support TD-LTE? Mainly because TD-LTE is the 4G standard of national intellectual property rights, Chinese companies can reduce or even not pay royalties, that is to say, the state supports TD-LTE 4G standard mainly to support domestic enterprises.
Secondly, it does not matter if only a Qualcomm foreign chip company occupies a large share in the field of TD-LTE terminal chips, but at present, there are more than 10 TD-LTE terminal chip companies, including ST Ericsson, Altair, Marvell, etc. It is entirely possible for foreign chip companies to occupy the dominant share of TD-LTE terminal chips if they follow the current development trend.
In fact, domestic TD-LTE chip manufacturers are not really without strength. At present, TD-LTE terminal chips include Huawei's HiSilicon, ZTE's ZTE Microelectronics, Datang Telecom's Lianxin Technology, etc., as well as MTK and Liangxun. Participate in chip or design solution providers from Taiwan.
These domestic TD-LTE have strong R & D capabilities and dominate the TD-SCDMA terminal chip in the 3G era. The main problem is that China Mobile requires all terminals to use 5 modes and 10 frequencies. The 5 modes are TDD, FDD, and FDD. TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, GGE, the most important of which is to be compatible with WCDMA, and domestic chip companies generally lack mature experience in the development of WCDMA and FDD LTE chips, in this respect can not match Qualcomm and other foreign chip giants.
This will actually test the wisdom of the dominant TD-LTE industry chain. How to develop mature TD-LTE terminal chips as soon as possible and at the same time guide the growth of domestic terminal chips, otherwise it will be insufficient for the future TD-LTE terminal chips to be dominated by foreign giants Astonished.
The realistic approach is that the state should increase its efforts to support domestic TD-LTE terminal chip companies with tender purchases and industrial R & D funds. In addition, at the current stage of TD-LTE R & D goals, the requirements can be moderately relaxed without the need to blindly pursue 5-mode 10 bands, 5 modes, 12 bands, and even 5 modes, 10 bands. In this case, domestic chip manufacturers will not be a problem to keep up with the commercial pace of TD-LTE. The original intention of developing TD-LTE and supporting domestic communication companies can also be achieved.
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