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I don't think the complex standards are a barrier for a team of people with the capabilities of designing an ASIC. The barrier is the minefield of patents.
by londons_explore 1y ago
I don't think the complex standards are a barrier for a team of people with the capabilities of designing an ASIC. The barrier is the minefield of patents. The only realistic entry into the market would be to buy a lot of patents from an existing player, and use them in a tit-for-tat deal for any other patents one couldn't license.
- mschuster91 1y ago> I don't think the complex standards are a barrier for a team of people with the capabilities of designing an ASIC. A barrier not, but the testing effort required to achieve worldwide certification, not to mention the testing effort for interoperability, is enormously expensive. As for the patents, Apple did just that by buying up what remained of Intel's baseband business and still wasn't able to deliver anything on that front in years.
- walterbell 1y ago> As for the patents, Apple did just that by buying up what remained of Intel's baseband business and still wasn't able to deliver anything on that front in years. They did eventually ship an Apple cellular modem in iPhone SE, without mmWave support.
- impossiblefork 1y agoOne would think that one could have a legal ruling that machine interfaces and protocols in themselves are not inventions, so that anyone could follow the 5G standard, even if his implementation would have to be inefficient due to not being allowed to use some invention.
- linguistbreaker 1y agoThey may both be barriers but I have to concur that Qualcomm's especially is well known for the patent strategy and a good portion of their revenue comes from licensing IP that is de facto industry standard if not unavoidable in all implementations due to physics/compsci or regulation.