Qualcomm is getting into swampy ground in terms of the market, the manufacturer of the best processors that we can find in Android devices (the Snapdragon range) It mounts part of the LTE connectivity chips that are inside the iPhone. However, as you will remember from these past months, Apple has started a fairly important legal battle against this firm due to an alleged overcharge of the patents collected. Qualcomm far from recoiling counterattacked.
Now A series of companies related to the manufacture of the iPhone have sided with the North American firm in order to clarify the situation on the excess of royalties that Qualcomm has been collected, some to be affected and others with the intention of avoiding future costs.
LThe companies that have joined the defense are Compai, Hon Hai Precision / Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron. In this way, it is expected that the judicial matter at hand will be clarified sooner, which could end up resulting in billion-dollar compensation that would not hurt Apple, especially now that it is also involved in an important case of Tax evasion in Ireland that has been strongly pushed by the European Commission.
The companies are giving their own testimony about the case and the overpayments. This information from The Wall Street Journal hints that Apple intends to mount a unified case in which those four companies involved join the cause, thus achieving greater pressure against the processor manufacturer, which could deal perhaps too hard a blow. Now it makes much more sense that Samsung and Huawei are doing his first steps in the manufacture of processors, trying to become independent from Qualcomm. As always, we will closely follow the case and the outcome of this love-hate story.