Apple's self-developed baseband chip failed again, which shows Huawei Hisilicon's technological leadership

Recently, famous apple analyst Guo mingpeng pointed out that Apple developed 5G The baseband chip failed again , In the second half of this year iPhone14 Will have to continue to use Qualcomm 5G Baseband chip , This action contradicts the... Developed by Huawei Hisilicon 5G mobile phone SOC The leading edge of chips in technology .

Apple developed 5G Chips are just 5G Baseband chip , Its previous iPhone We always use our own A System processor , Then plug Qualcomm 5G Baseband chip , This practice may lead to iPhone The signal of has always been inferior to Android phones .

Apple A System processors do have enough advantages in technology , Take the apple iPhone13 On board A15 Processor, for example , In terms of single core performance, it is two generations ahead of high-end chips of Qualcomm and MediaTek , The high-end chips of the latter two are inferior to 2 Released years ago A13 processor , This also shows Apple's leading edge in technology research and development .

However, Apple has suffered many setbacks in the research and development of baseband chips , In its early years, it tried to develop baseband chips independently , In the end, it failed , On 2019 Years acquired Intel Baseband chip business ,Intel Baseband chips have always performed poorly , Now Apple has acquired this business 3 Year time , It means that with the strong support of Apple ,Intel The baseband chip of is still difficult to make a breakthrough , It cannot be compared with Qualcomm's baseband chip .

Apple R & D 5G Baseband chips have suffered repeatedly , It reminds people of Huawei Hisilicon, another domestic mobile phone chip enterprise , Huawei Hisilicon has also suffered setbacks in the research and development of mobile phone chips , It is similar to Apple's experience in developing baseband chips .

Huawei Hisilicon's path of developing mobile phone chips is different from that of Apple , Huawei Hisilicon first developed a successful baseband chip , As early as 2005 It was developed in WCDMA Baseband chip , In the following few years, no enterprise adopted its baseband chip , In desperation, Huawei launched a network card , Unexpectedly, the network card is quite popular , Become a major consumer electronics category , Huawei Hisilicon has gained revenue from this , Continue to strengthen technology research and development .

4 Years later, 2009 Nianhua developed the first mobile phone for SOC chip K9,K9 Integrate the mobile phone processor and baseband chip , With Qualcomm 、 The mobile phone chips sold by MediaTek to Chinese mobile phone enterprises are similar SOC chip , But because at that time K9 Our technology maturity is not as good as Qualcomm and MediaTek , No mobile phone company is willing to adopt .

2010 Nianhua established a mobile phone business department , Just like the network card business in those days , Huawei makes the mobile phone business and Huawei Hisilicon's mobile phone SOC Chip businesses support each other , After 4 Year's efforts , To 2014 The first mature mobile phone was developed in SOC Chip Kirin 920.

Later, Huawei began to AI Technology and many other advanced technologies are introduced into mobile phones SOC chip , Therefore, the mobile phone chip developed by Huawei Hisilicon has its own technological differentiation , And Hisilicon chips began to become the core technology advantage of Huawei mobile phones , Huawei mobile phones have also achieved the highest in the global high-end mobile phone market 17% Market share , This is the first time that Chinese mobile phone brands have achieved double-digit market share in the high-end mobile phone market , It poses a great threat to apple and Samsung .

It can be seen that the research and development of mobile phones SOC Chip is really not easy , The mobile phone developed by Huawei Hisilicon SOC The chip is at the same level as Qualcomm in baseband Technology , It has some technical advantages , In contrast, Apple's research and development of baseband chips has been repeatedly frustrated , It just reflects Huawei's unique advantages in mobile phone chip technology .