Huawei Apple's chips are so powerful, why not sell them to other mobile phone manufacturers?

Flagship mobile phones equipped with Snapdragon 888 are appearing on the market more and more. Some people ask, Huawei Apple's chips are so powerful, why not sell them to other mobile phone manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek? Let's talk about my personal simple point of view for your reference only.

The chip industry is divided into several processes, such as chip production materials, chip design and development, chip foundry manufacturing, chip packaging, chip testing and chip application, and each process involves many technologies and enterprises. Huawei Apple is only one of the top companies in chip design and development. It is only responsible for chip design and development, and the rest of the links need to be outsourced or outsourced. This is completely different from the chip that we imagined was produced by Huawei and Apple. Both Huawei and Apple need to get through the entire chip supply chain to get a truly usable chip. If there is a problem in a certain link, it will directly lead to the failure of chip production.

First of all, Huawei Apple, as a top-ranking mobile phone manufacturer in the mobile phone industry, ranks among the top three in the world in terms of mobile phone shipments every year. In other words, the chips that Huawei and Apple got from chip foundries such as TSMC and Samsung are not enough for their own mobile phones, let alone supplying extra chips to other mobile phone manufacturers. Even some of Huawei's mobile phones have to buy chips from Qualcomm, from which we can see how huge the chip gap of Huawei is. Qualcomm and MediaTek, for example, are different. They don't make their own mobile phones, so the chips they make can only be sold to other mobile phone manufacturers for profit.

Secondly, chips only account for a small part of the cost of mobile phones, about 1%. Huawei Apple's selling chips is not as profitable as selling mobile phones, and this account is not cost-effective. Apple's chip is even more special, and its chip needs to be used in the Apple system. As we all know, Apple is a non-open source system, and it is even more impossible for mobile phone manufacturers to use it.

Even if Huawei Apple is a chip manufacturer, it will take into account the practice of maximizing profits, and developing its own chips for its own use is the best solution. Some domestic mobile phone manufacturers have tried to develop their own chips, but the current results are not ideal.

finally, the mobile phone chip can't be used directly when you get it. Mobile phone manufacturers also need to work with chip designers and developers for chip tuning, so that mobile phone chips can be in good working condition. Huawei Apple's chip was specially optimized for its own system when it was designed and developed, and the chip it got was also a "dedicated" chip. If it is sold to other mobile phone manufacturers, it will also have a negative impact on the brand in case of poor tuning and a certain incident. Many chip rollover accidents in Qualcomm and MediaTek can be found online.

To sum up, Huawei Apple's chips are powerful, but it is impossible to sell them to other mobile phone manufacturers because of supply, profit and brand value. Now, except Huawei, Apple and Samsung, other mobile phone manufacturers can only buy chips from chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm and MediaTek to produce mobile phones. After Huawei was cut off, chip manufacturers took the opportunity to raise prices, which led to domestic mobile phone manufacturers being forced to raise mobile phone prices. Only when there is competition in any industry can prices be lowered and consumers can enjoy real benefits. I also hope that there will be more chip products in China, and don't let chips be monopolized by others and raise prices at will.

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