Apple's rival, Huawei's K3, has been developing its own baseband chip since 2006, both as a fallback and by chance.

Apple's rival, Huawei's K3, has been developing its own baseband chip since 2006, both as a "fallback" and by chance.

In 2004, Huawei established HisI Semiconductor, a wholly-owned subsidiary, which initially approved products including SIM cards, set-top box chips, video codec chips, security monitoring chips and so on.

In particular, the research and development of video chips has accumulated experience for Huawei application processors.

Baseband chips, which are crucial to phones, are the result of Huawei's relationship with Qualcomm. One of Huawei's main products at that time was the 3G data card, also known as the 3G network card, which was a must-have for business travelers. Due to supply reasons, Huawei 3G data card baseband chip is often blocked by Qualcomm, resolutely decided to develop data card chip.

In 2009, Huawei released its first mobile application chip, the K3V1 (Hi3611), which was based in part on its own GSM base station technology and integrated with an EDGE modem, known as "2.5G." Haisi K3V1 is taking the line of Mediatek, starting from the entry machine, copycat machine.

Unfortunately, K3V1, which aims at the low-end market, cannot compete with Mediatek and Spreadtrum, which have mature solutions. The product competitiveness is not strong, and Huawei is not optimistic about it. Finally, only a few phones are equipped with K3V1, such as the following Huawei C8300 equipped with Windows Mobile.

Fortunately, Huawei did not throw up its hands in response to this blow.