In recent years, the Samsung Exynos series processor is more, the greater the wind, and there is a sign of high pass. The flagship models such as Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5 sold in some parts of Europe, Samsung, can even completely abandon Qualcomm. But unfortunately, once the CDMA system is encountered, such as China and North America, Samsung has to use the founder of CDMA technology - Qualcomm's baseband solution. The real "7 model" All Netcom has been a pain in Samsung and all baseband chip vendors. However, this may change in the future.
Recently, there is reported that Samsung has developed its own first all-Netcom baseband chip "Shannon 359", network system is compatible with TD-LTE, LTE-FDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, CDMA2000, CDMA 1X, and GSM, Did "7 model" all Netcom. However, about how the Shannon 359 wraps a massive patent in CDMA, forming a home independent solution, and there is currently no exact message indicates a technical source.
As a separate baseband chip, Shannon 359 is currently not integrated on the SOC, which can only be used with the SOC main processor. It is said that this chip will only ship from the third quarter of 2017, and the service object is probably the next generation of Samsung Exynos 9 Series.
It should be pointed out that most of the manufacturers including Qualcomm are developed in the development of new baseband chips, and they are also in the form of independent plug-in. After the technical verification is mature, they will be integrated into a single piece of CPU. SOC. According to this rhythm, maybe when you wait until the Exynos 10 series, we can see the Samsung version of the single-chip all Netcom SOC.
As one of the core components within the phone, the baseband chip is primarily responsible for the encoding and decoding of information. That is, when transmitting, the signal to be transmitted is compiled into the baseband code used to transmit, transmitted from the radio frequency component; when receiving, the base band code received by the RF component is interpreted to be processed, and the other component is handed over. If there is no baseband chip, then the most basic call and sending text function for a mobile phone cannot be implemented.
It is because the baseband chip is the core part of the phone, and it is also the highest technical content, so there is only a very few manufacturers to have this technology. In the 2G era, this technology mainly controls in the hands of manufacturers such as Texas Instruments, Freescale and Adi. However, with the popularity of the network system, 3G and 4G is popular, most upstream baseband suppliers have followed the shuffle. At present, Dezhou Instruments, Freescale and ADI have already exited the baseband market, and the mainstream baseband manufacturers have become Qualcomm, Samsung, Unit, and Exhibition.
Among them, Qualcomm has become the largest manufacturer in the current baseband market with the accumulation of CDMA technology for many years. According to the latest report of Strategy Analytics in foreign market research, the market size of the global honeycomb baseband processor has reached $ 10.5 billion in the first half of 2016. More than 50% of the income share is taken away by Qualcomm and the shipments are also reached. 54%, ranked first. Lian Zaike ranked second in 23%, Samsung ranked third, exhibition and Haisi ranked fourth and fifth place with 12% income share. In addition, in 2014 and 2015, Qualcomm's market share is also the first, and the shipments share is 80.5% and 68.8%, respectively.
Although always ranked first, in recent years, with the popularity of 4G LTE, Qualcomm's leading advantages have declined. SRAVAN KUNDOJJAALA, vice president of Strategy Analytics, said: "The increasingly fierce competition and the development of the baseband market have led to the 67% of the high-pass LTE in the first half of 2015 to 54% in the first half of 2016. Compared to Lianfa LTE shipments were more than doubled in the first half of 2016 than last year. "
SRAVAN KUNDOJJALA believes that due to the high patent cost of Qualcomm, the LTE chip of Liaotai benefits from the promotion of low-end models in China and other emerging markets, so it is rapidly increased. In fact, in addition to Apple and Samsung, almost all mainstream mobile phone manufacturers are using Lianfa's baseband chip, they have launched a large number of "5 models" (ie, compatible with TD-LTE, LTE-FDD, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA And GSM) Double 4G mobile phone, successfully avoided Qualcomm in CDMA.
In addition to United Kingdom, Intel may also benefit from the growth of 4G LTE baseband chips. Christopher Taylor of Strategy Analytics, Christopher Taylor, said: "The shipments of the LTE baseband chip have only 50% of the total baseband chip shipments in 2016. This trend is continuing in 2016. This means bid farewell During the 3G era, all LTE suppliers will benefit. It has to mention Intel, which has acquired some Apple iPhone 7 orders with the new LTE baseband solution, with the iPhone 7's hot sale, Intel is Further growth in market share will be probably available in the second half of 2016. "
In the future, with the continuous development of the network system, the advantages of Qualcomm in CDMA will continue to be weakened. If one day, Apple is fully investing in Intel, the market share of Liaotai is getting higher and higher, Samsung also officially launched his own all-Net Tong So, and it will not be too good to pass it.
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