Remember when they were telling us how important the 5G race was and how critical was for the US to lead it? And now they are just giving it away ?
rwmj
Aren't Huawei on the Entity List? How can Qualcomm enter into agreements like this without getting into massive hot water?
ExpertAdvisor01
"This transaction will close following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals"
mirekrusin
Patents serve cartels. Good luck for innovative startups trying to enter this rigged game.
soltanov
Standard SEP mutual assured destruction. Neither company can ship modern cellular basebands or RAN silicon without stepping on the other's portfolio. FRAND terms make endless global litigation a negative-ROI exercise, Entity List or not. Cross-licensing is the only operational path to extract rents and lock third parties out.
zoobab
Qualcomm is a patent troll, boycott.
quincy_jones
Qualcomm doing sneaky stuff as usual. Nothing more
maxglute
How the turntables etc. Pre sanctions, HW fine buying QC for mobile chipset StandardEssentialPatentswhile QC pay HW for 5g SEPs, with net balance favoring QC. Huawei indigenized mobile SoC + 5g hardware with Kirin 9000 in 2023. Hilariously, now that Huawei weaned off QC SoC... QC simply stuck net paying Huawei.
WhereIsTheTruth
This tells you that China: 1. is no longer a threat for the US 2. no longer has (perhaps never had), the lead 3. was forced to bow down because has no leverage The US still chooses what customers China has access to
eunos
It's not mentioned on Huawei page, but this bloomberg article claims that the focus in on LogicFolding architecture https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-...
MadrasTh0rn
Thanks Trump
alarak
Haha next Nortel waiting to happen?
hereme888
Two patent thieves partner up.
larodi
...potentially resulting in new AI-relevant chips.
yearesadpeople
Will be interesting to see how Ericsson - if at all - responds to this
marjipan200
Meta question, but is the title of this article disappearing for others on HN? I'm unable to click. It seems all huawei.com links on this site have the same issue. Is it just me?
FlowingRiver
Interesting. LogicFolding is something that seems so obvious in retrospect and yet somebody has to be the first to do it. I did find it neat that it ends up actually reducing overall heat despite the multiple layer wafers as signals have less overall distance to travel as they move in layer space rather than across the chip.
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nickdothutton
Ah yes, Huawei, that well known adherent to patent agreements.
newsclues
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/chinese-telecommunic... lol
whatever1
Remember when they were telling us how important the 5G race was and how critical was for the US to lead it? And now they are just giving it away ?
rwmj
Aren't Huawei on the Entity List? How can Qualcomm enter into agreements like this without getting into massive hot water?
ExpertAdvisor01
"This transaction will close following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals"
mirekrusin
Patents serve cartels. Good luck for innovative startups trying to enter this rigged game.
soltanov
Standard SEP mutual assured destruction. Neither company can ship modern cellular basebands or RAN silicon without stepping on the other's portfolio. FRAND terms make endless global litigation a negative-ROI exercise, Entity List or not. Cross-licensing is the only operational path to extract rents and lock third parties out.
zoobab
Qualcomm is a patent troll, boycott.
quincy_jones
Qualcomm doing sneaky stuff as usual. Nothing more
maxglute
How the turntables etc. Pre sanctions, HW fine buying QC for mobile chipset StandardEssentialPatentswhile QC pay HW for 5g SEPs, with net balance favoring QC. Huawei indigenized mobile SoC + 5g hardware with Kirin 9000 in 2023. Hilariously, now that Huawei weaned off QC SoC... QC simply stuck net paying Huawei.
WhereIsTheTruth
This tells you that China: 1. is no longer a threat for the US 2. no longer has (perhaps never had), the lead 3. was forced to bow down because has no leverage The US still chooses what customers China has access to
eunos
It's not mentioned on Huawei page, but this bloomberg article claims that the focus in on LogicFolding architecture https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-...
MadrasTh0rn
Thanks Trump
alarak
Haha next Nortel waiting to happen?
hereme888
Two patent thieves partner up.
larodi
...potentially resulting in new AI-relevant chips.
yearesadpeople
Will be interesting to see how Ericsson - if at all - responds to this
marjipan200
Meta question, but is the title of this article disappearing for others on HN? I'm unable to click. It seems all huawei.com links on this site have the same issue. Is it just me?
FlowingRiver
Interesting. LogicFolding is something that seems so obvious in retrospect and yet somebody has to be the first to do it. I did find it neat that it ends up actually reducing overall heat despite the multiple layer wafers as signals have less overall distance to travel as they move in layer space rather than across the chip.