Rewrite the Technological Landscape

China's Meng Qian maintains a close dialogue with the Ministry of Science and Technology. Coincidentally, recently, Paul on the US side also has frequent dialogues with the US Ministry of Science and Technology. The first major problem of the WIMAX project has begun to be exposed. Yes, that's the chip.

This problem was exposed at the beginning of 2008. In this life, because WIMAX became the 3G standard 4 months ahead of schedule, the exposure time of this problem has also been advanced. Now that WIMAX is confirmed to become the 3G standard, many countries around the world have also taken action , Then someone needs to provide related chips at this time, and Intel, which was rejected by Qualcomm, chose to do it by itself, and it did it, but everyone was confused when they saw the price.

Is it ten times cheaper than traditional 3G chips? How come the price is more expensive than traditional 3G chips? What's going on? This is it? Even Intel has to face reprimands from allies around the world, you are playing us!

The WIMAX camp also had its first apparent disagreement. Without Intel, you would not have done this.

In order to solve this problem, Intel will inevitably think of Gale Group again.

Qualcomm refuses to make chips for the WIMAX project, and Dafeng Group is a Chinese company, so can it find other companies? Intel wanted to, but the past few years have been a period of major reshuffle for baseband chips, and the entire market is in chaos. After analyzing it for a long time, I really can't find a reliable one.

The baseband chip manufacturers in Europe are declining, and as European companies, they are not willing to help Intel develop WIMAX chips. Looking at the United States, Motorola and Texas Instruments are both planning to withdraw from the baseband chip field because of the company’s comprehensive considerations. Yade Nuogang sold its mobile phone division to MediaTek. Broadcom’s strengths lie in the field of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS, but it doesn’t do well in other fields. As for Lucent’s baseband chip division, it has already been resold to Infineon.

And there is another problem here, WIMAX chips need to support TD technology, but because Huaxia's TD technology has not been favored by the world, global baseband chip manufacturers have never paid attention to chips that support TD. Currently, there are chips that support TD. The only one that cooperates with China Mobile is MediaTek. In 2007, I don’t know if it is really related to the fact that the boss is Chinese. Inexplicably, he chose Maiwei Technology, which bet on TD, and Dafeng Group, a new player in baseband chips.

Among them, Dafeng Group is the only company that has a full line from architecture to chip design to chip production. This has a natural advantage, price. At the same time, Dafeng Group is the only one among the three companies that joins the WIMAX camp and firmly supports WIMAX, and Maiwei Technology has just started to develop baseband chips that support TD, but it has no experience at all.

Therefore, no matter in terms of cost, strength or partnership, Intel shareholders are more and more inclined to choose Dafeng Group.

However, although Intel's shareholders let go, the US Ministry of Science and Technology has started to put pressure on it again, which has caused Paul to have a headache recently. The first sentence he gets up every day is to scold Qualcomm first.

In mid-September, Paul and Samuel approached the U.S. Department of Science and Technology again to discuss the use of Dafeng Group’s baseband chips. Paul himself can’t remember how many times he came here. It’s a very reasonable suggestion. Intel, you can buy Dafeng Group’s Hongmeng architecture and baseband chip department. Paul also really talked to Meng Qian about this matter, but the question is how could Meng Qian sell it for ten times the price? Neither will sell.

"Can't you Intel create a department yourself!" The leader of the Science and Technology Department was very angry when he saw Paul coming again.

"It's not so simple to start a new department." Paul also didn't tell the truth. To put it bluntly, he still looked down on this market. In August 2010, Intel spent 1.4 billion yuan to take over Infineon's mobile baseband business. Entering this market, but an important reason for Intel to do so at the time was that it had seen Apple's success.

"You two companies are working together. Is it possible that the two of you still can't figure out such a thing?"

The leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the United States ordered IBM, and Samuel quickly shook his head. After all, IBM did not like this market, "How can IBM have the energy to pull out such a department now, we have just done internal integration.

No, I'm talking about leaders. I think you guys are sometimes a little too sensitive. Dafeng Group is developing very fast, but in a sense, Meng Qian has been playing his cards right, which is actually the opposite for us. Don't worry too much. "

"How do you know that the Dafeng Group is playing the bright cards? Do you know how many cards the Dafeng Group has hidden in private?"

"This calculation can be calculated. We all know the annual turnover of Dafeng Group. We can't hide it. There is only so much money. The approximate R\u0026D investment will be clear. Besides, I talked to Paul on the way here. Discussion, in fact, we can keep track of the situation of the Dafeng Group at any time. What are we afraid of? When we really need to suppress it, everyone will naturally take action. You see, Microsoft has been dealing with the Dafeng Group. It’s just a Huaxia company. .”

"That's right." Paul answered immediately, "In fact, Meng Qian also called me several times because of the chip issue. We can see the positive attitude shown by Dafeng Group in the development of WIMAX, and Meng Qian Under the lobbying of WIMAX, Huaxia has agreed to set aside 5 experimental areas for WIMAX in 2008.

But why did it take until 2008? In fact, we all know that this is a bargaining chip, and Dafeng Group wants to exchange for the chip market. "

Samuel answered again, "And I still have the same sentence, we still have a lot of control over the relevant technologies of the Dafeng Group. When Paul and the others were worried about this and that, I said it was unnecessary. "

Who would have thought that Intel and IBM would actually negotiate with the US Ministry of Science and Technology for Dafeng Group, which would also become a very exciting part of Samuel's future personal memoirs.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of the United States was slowly compromised by these two people, "That's it, since it's for WIMAX, we can let go of the restrictions on the baseband chip of the Dafeng Group, but we cannot let go of the restrictions on the Hongmeng architecture."

"That's what we mean too!" The Ministry of Science and Technology of the United States finally nodded, and a stone in Paul's heart fell.

On September 18, Meng Qian, who was further promoting the preparation of the national laboratory, received a call from Samuel and was told that the United States would loosen the policy of restricting the baseband chips of Dafeng Group.

"They really managed this matter." Meng Qian was a little surprised, "It seems that so far, both Intel and the United States still regard WIMAX as very important."

As soon as the restrictions were lifted in the United States, orders from Motorola came in. Not long after that, orders from the Neon Telegraph and Telephone Company in the Neon Country also came. Slowly, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan Province, more and more People from other places have come, and even Nokia has sent people to investigate. The baseband chip of Dafeng Group has become a priority for the WIMAX camp because it is really cheap.

Intel also began to publicize Dafeng Group's WIMAX baseband chip in front of the media, and Dafeng Group's baseband chip began to attract more people's attention.

It is precisely because of this that there have been many discussions on the Internet. People have begun to speculate whether Dafeng Group will become another important player in this baseband chip reshuffle. However, judging from the current trend of public opinion, the baseband chips of Dafeng Group are more The media called it a baseband chip that supports TD and was born for WIMAX.

Meng Qian looked at the definition given by the media, and smiled indifferently, "Just think so, it's good."

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