Qualcomm Has Not Improved To Punish Taiwan Ic Design Industry: Unable To Understand

The Taiwan Fair Association (Taiwan Fair Association) has made a hairpin bend on Qualcomm's penalty, and the sky-high penalty has fallen to NT $2.72 billion. The Taiwan IC design industry believes that the Fair Association has given evidence of its previous ruling, but Qualcomm has not improved and the new issues raised by Qualcomm have not occurred. It is hard to understand why the two sides can reach a settlement.

In 2015, the Taiwan Fair Association initiated an investigation into Qualcomm, mainly because Qualcomm has a market-dominant position in the baseband chips of CDMA, WCDMA, LTE and other mobile communication standards, but refused to authorize chips to compete with each other and demanded specific restrictions, not to provide chips without signing licensing contracts, and signed exclusive contracts with specific undertakings. Home Trading discount terms and so on, will damage fair competition in the baseband chip market.

Secondly, it finds that Qualcomm restricts fair competition among other companies by various means, including whether to grant necessary patents, and the Contractual Act of requiring competitors to provide information on chip prices, sales targets and quantities. Therefore, Qualcomm is identified as having unreasonable patent licensing, baseband chip supply, exclusive trading discounts, etc. Means to restrict fair competition.

Fines 23 billion 400 million yuan, how does nt come?

Therefore, in October last year, the Taiwan Fair Association decided to fine Qualcomm NT $23.4 billion. How did the amount of NT $23.4 billion be calculated? At that time, the Fair Society explained that the total penalty was 23.4 billion yuan, a day's penalty of over 400 billion yuan. Price record.

The industry said that the aim of the Fair Association was to force Qualcomm to negotiate through high penalties in exchange for favorable conditions for the industry. As a result, Qualcomm was lenient in terms of conditions. As a result, Qualcomm did not improve on previous matters and subsequent proposals did not occur. There will be tone sandhi.

Industry analysis shows that Qualcomm is willing to pay a premium, mainly because it has suffered international antitrust investigations, such as abuse of monopoly status by Qualcomm in 2015, the mainland fined 6 billion yuan, South Korea fined 1 trillion won in 2016, the United States also accused Qualcomm of patent licensing to suppress competitors in 2017; Apple also overcharged. Empowerment, request for cooperation perjury, and Qualcomm in court.