The 5G dispute is now being heated up to provoke Lenovo's purpose

In the recent period of time, the news in the field of science and technology has been endless, and major topics have come and gone. One of them is undoubtedly the "5G standard" voting event.

Lenovo has always been a leader in China's computer industry, while Huawei is a giant in China's communications industry, representing China's PC and communications industries, respectively.

However, the "5G standard" voting time makes them not peaceful. A post about a technical dispute more than a year ago exploded, pointing the finger at Lenovo and giving Huawei a voice. Today we're going to talk about this unexpected event that's confusing.

Why did a vote go off a little over a year ago?

Recently, a post on the news broke out. The main content of this post is: "In the 5G communication vote, Lenovo voted for Gaotong in the United States instead of Huawei in China, which defeated China. "This post pointed out that Lenovo ignored the National righteousness for commercial purposes and caused a large number of netizens to attack.

Put down the so-called national righteousness not to say, first to comb out the history of the incident. First, for the technology industry, industry standards are the "lifeblood" of industry development. If companies can become industry standard setters, then whether it is the future patent fees or development norms, this company will have a very large voice. Even at some critical moments, it can determine the life and death of other companies. Therefore, many companies will spare no effort to promote their R&D standards to the level of industry standards.

In 2016, the world communications industry began to study the question of where 5G should go after 4G. At the three meetings in August 2016(RAN1 # 86), October 2016(RAN1 # 86bis) and November 2016(RAN1 # 87), various parties discussed what kind of 5G communication standard should be used. At the August meeting, three options were proposed: the LDPC program led by Samsung(not the rumors of Qualcomm), the Polar program led by China, and the Turbo program led by LG.

Among them, because the Turbo program is relatively backward in technology, it is basically not considered. It is mainly in the two programs of LDPC and Polar. The LDPC program has a long time to launch and the technology is relatively mature, but patents are mostly owned by companies such as Samsung and Qualcomm. In the Polar program, Huawei has more patents.

At the RAN1 # 86bis conference in October, Lenovo and Motorola Mobile supported Samsung's lead unique coding scheme for using LDPC as the eMBB data channel due to their own technology and patent reserves. However, the two votes moved by Lenovo and Motorola had no real effect on the loss of the Polar code on the data channel length code. Because, 3GPP's working method is to achieve consensus. The only requirement for a proposal to be passed is that there is no company opposition, not how many companies agree.

This is also the "evidence" widely disseminated and quoted by some disinformation posts. They used people's ignorance of professional knowledge and irrational patriotism to spread rumors that were not conducive to Association, vividly interpreting the ability to discredit "cognition is greater than fact."

At the 87th meeting in November 2016, the parties voted on the control channel usage plan and the short code coding plan for the data channel. Both votes, Lenovo and Motorola Mobile chose to support the Polar code. Instead of voting for Huawei, as some rumors say.

Second, what is the purpose of provoking Lenovo?

Both Lenovo and Huawei, the two big players in the Chinese technology industry, hold important positions in the technology industry, and now the story of two years ago has been repeated, after we put aside the so-called emotional factors. It will be found that bringing this old thing up at this time has a great deal of lethality:

The first is the relationship between Huawei and Lenovo. Huawei and Lenovo, as technology companies, have a certain degree of competition in some businesses, but this kind of competition is not significant. In most cases, cooperation is undoubtedly the method that most companies will choose.

At this stage, China's technology industry can be said to have encountered a very large crisis. Western developed countries are generally hostile to Chinese technology companies. At this time, if we can successfully provoke the relationship between the Chinese technology industry giants and allow them to change from cooperation to competition or even hostility, it will undoubtedly provide the possibility of being broken. In such a context, Chinese technology giants can easily fall prey to their rivals if they do not agree to go abroad.

The second is the shadow of the capital forces behind the short-selling Association. Since March, China's biggest technology stocks have been repeatedly short-selling in capital markets everywhere, with Tencent and Lenovo being short-sellers.

In fact, the trend of international capital encirclement of China's science and technology stocks has already formed. If we can push Lenovo to the top by creating some public opinion events at this time, then it will undoubtedly further sell Lenovo's share price to a large extent, so that the short-selling forces will further gain more benefits. You can even use the opportunity of depressed stock prices to issue malicious acquisitions, allowing the barbarians at the door to enter the company, thus realizing the purpose of capital market subversion.

Lenovo is only a side of the attack by the empty forces. Giants such as Tencent are also being attacked(news of Tencent's recent silence continues). Similar incidents may occur in other technology companies in the future.

Third, manipulation of public opinion in the name of patriotism. Patriotism is a traditional virtue of the Chinese people, but in today's society, this patriotic sentiment is easily manipulated, and similar incidents such as Japanese cars that are busy with compatriots are endless.

For more professional knowledge, the black hand can often use the asymmetry of information to render patriotism complex, and then stir up trouble. This is a dangerous existence. It is a disaster for enterprises, a damage to the industry foundation for the economy, and a great harm to society.

There is nothing wrong with patriotism, but if our patriotism is used by those who do not have good intentions and then act as "thugs", this will probably be the biggest mistake.

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