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How many phones around the world used Qualcomm chips?
According to statistics, there were several billion.
Qualcomm was the primary chip supplier for global smartphone brands such as HTC, Sony, Nokia, MOTO, LG, and Samsung. Most smartphones made by manufacturers such as Xiao Mi, OPPO, vivo, Huawei, and ZTE also used Snapdragon processors.
Qualcomm was the world's largest provider of mobile processing chips, holding 70% of the market share. Now that Qualcomm chips had developed problems, it would not affect Qualcomm alone, but the entire industry chain.
Did Qualcomm not know that its chips had problems?
No, it did.
Some issues existed because of design flaws. Flaws could never be completely avoided; they could only be improved upon or adapted to the environment at the time. Even gods were not perfect, let alone a chip designed by humans.
Another reason was that companies intentionally or unintentionally left backdoors during production and design. Some were reserved to add functions, since many chips were designed to support multiple environments. For example, mobile phone chips could also be used in set-top boxes, automotive signal exchanges, and other applications. Under normal circumstances, those functions would not be used.
It was like a house with several doors. Some doors were open for the hardware to use, while others were locked, with the keys held by the chip manufacturer. The customer would not know, and the chipmaker could use those doors to do its own things. That was what was known as a backdoor.
The next day.
Hall Research Institute once again released its research findings on Qualcomm chips. As soon as the report came out, it drew enormous attention and was covered by news outlets and websites around the world.
After seeing the report, many chip research institutions