The chip "stole" the data, the American chip giant was **, and the foreign media revealed that it had been planned for a long time.
With the issuance of 5G licenses by China's four major operators in 2019, China's 5G communication network construction has officially begun. China Mobile recently announced the 2021-2021 5G general module equipment bidding announcement, and as soon as the bidding announcement came out, it immediately aroused heated discussions among netizens.
On the bidding list announced by China Mobile, Huawei only got 1% of the bid, while UNISPLC sold with 42% of the **, which made many people very unhappy, but Qualcomm of the United States became the biggest winner of China Mobile's bidding, not only bought 50% of China Mobile's shares, but also sold 159962 Snapdragon baseband to China Mobile. In terms of 5G communication, neither Huawei nor ZTE is worse than Qualcomm in the United States, but China Mobile did not provide any support to Huawei and ZTE in the bidding for 5G communication equipment, but Qualcomm, which caused a lot of controversy.
China Mobile's bid caused a dispute.
China Mobile, the world's largest telecommunications company, has always been known for its high-quality communications and excellent communication quality, but most of the contracts for this 5G mobile phone bid were won by Qualcomm of the United States. For this point, many people are a little puzzled, how could China Mobile, a Chinese company, make such a choice when bidding
In fact, from a technical point of view, there is a reason why China Mobile will hand over so many orders to Qualcomm, because under the pressure of the United States and other European and American countries, the problem of domestic "lack of core and less soul" has not been completely solved, take Huawei's Barong and Tiangang as an example, although there is also strong toughness, but due to process reasons, the domestic baseband chip still has some defects, so China Mobile will compete with Qualcomm.
Qualcomm got the baseband chip of the Snapdragon X55, this processor uses a 7nm process and supports 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, covering almost all communication bands in the world. And Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 is the first time to increase the peak speed of 5G to 7Gbps, in all fairness, Qualcomm's processor is still very good, much better than Huawei's processor.
If netizens are disappointed with the 7nm process, it is understandable, because with the current semiconductor process, it is impossible to complete the 7nm process at such a fast speed, so Huawei missed the cooperation with China Mobile, it is likely that because of this, there is no advanced process, Huawei has lagged behind a lot in the research and development of chips.
Although at present, our communications company can still introduce Qualcomm's communication equipment from abroad, no one dares to guarantee that the "friend" some time ago will become an "enemy" tomorrow. Although Huawei's 5G mobile phones are about to go on the market, 28nm EUV lithography equipment is on the market one after another, and the dawn is finally coming, but the dark night during this period is a difficult one.
Meixin "went through the back door" and showed frequently.
Now, Biden has begun a new wave of blockades and blockades of China's semiconductor industry. Biden has signed a new investment ban and tightened control over ASML's lithography equipment. However, with the pace of export of domestic semiconductor manufacturers to China, there has been a significant relaxation some time ago, and many large companies, including Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, have begun to carry out large-scale production in China.
However, this has also caused many people to worry that the news that Qualcomm and Intel, two American chip companies, have been stolen due to "data vulnerabilities" is not an uncommon news. In Europe, for example, hackers can gain access to their data by monitoring Intel's CPU power. Although it was later revealed that Intel had filled this "loophole", Intel used the "backdoor" to steal a large amount of data and did not stop there.
Just in April, some domestic researchers found a vulnerability similar to meitdown on Intel's x86 processor in the United States, which was achieved through "data extraction", that is, it was impossible to be found unless there were special hackers to crack the vulnerability.
If it weren't for the relevant departments to leak Intel's secrets** to the world, Intel could have leaked these secrets to them by "stealing" the technology from the United States, and Intel might not have done so.
Qualcomm's chips do not have a good reputation in the field of information security, and the German security department has also issued a warning to their pride, Snapdragon (Snapdragon), that all Qualcomm Snapdragon connected to the network may be "stolen"!If you dared to use Snapdragon some time ago, then the next day, your news will be leaked by servers in the United States!
Qualcomm also responded to this point one by one, and pointed out that it is impossible to transmit data to the United States without the user's consent and encryption. However, even if they know that Qualcomm is doing ghosts, they can't do anything about it, because their technology is irreplaceable. After all, if it weren't for Qualcomm, the entire Android system would have crashed.
So we're still using most of the chips in the U.S., and even the products of those chip companies have some security risks, but they're not worried because they have powerful technology. Therefore, in this case, only independent innovation, continue to deepen in the field of science and technology, and only have our own core technology, can our information security be effectively guaranteed.