Marktgeschehen: Qualcomm zahlt eine knappe Milliarde US-Dollar an China

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Wie Qualcomm in der Nacht bekannt gegeben hat, wird der US-Prozessor-Primus eine knappe Milliarde Dollar Strafe in China bezahlen. Ursache für die $975.000.000 (6,088 Milliarden Yuan oder auch rund 862 Millionen Euro Überweisung ist ein rund 14-monatiges Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Qualcomm wegen angeblicher wettbewerbsschädigender Praktiken. Neben der Zahlung hat sich das Unternehmen mit der Regulierungsbehörde auf einige Änderungen geeinigt, dabei geht es hauptsächlich um Lizenzen für 3G und 4G-Patente, sowie deren Höhe, die Qualcomm spürbar nach unten korrigieren muss. Die Details sind unten eingeblendet. Qualcomm hätte natürlich lieber ein anderes Ergebnis des Verfahrens gehabt, ist aber laut Pressemitteilung froh, sich mit den Behörden geeinigt zu haben. Nebenbei hat der Branchenprimus sein erwartetes Geschäftsergebnis leicht nach oben korrigiert - trotz des vorläufigen Verlusts von Samsung als Abnehmer. Zum Ende des Geschäftsjahres am 27. September 2015 rechnet Qualcomm mit einem Umsatz zwischen $26,3 Milliarden und 28 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Qualcomm will offer licenses to its current 3G and 4G essential Chinese patents separately from licenses to its other patents and it will provide patent lists during the negotiation process. If Qualcomm seeks a cross license from a Chinese licensee as part of such offer, it will negotiate with the licensee in good faith and provide fair consideration for such rights.
For licenses of Qualcomm's 3G and 4G essential Chinese patents for branded devices sold for use in China, Qualcomm will charge royalties of 5% for 3G devices (including multimode 3G/4G devices) and 3.5% for 4G devices (including 3-mode LTE-TDD devices) that do not implement CDMA or WCDMA, in each case using a royalty base of 65% of the net selling price of the device.
Qualcomm will give its existing licensees an opportunity to elect to take the new terms for sales of branded devices for use in China as of January 1, 2015.
Qualcomm will not condition the sale of baseband chips on the chip customer signing a license agreement with terms that the NDRC found to be unreasonable or on the chip customer not challenging unreasonable terms in its license agreement. However, this does not require Qualcomm to sell chips to any entity that is not a Qualcomm licensee, and does not apply to a chip customer that refuses to report its sales of licensed devices as required by its patent license agreement.
In addition, the NDRC imposed a fine on the Company of 6.088 billion Chinese Yuan Renminbi (approximately $975 million at current exchange rates), which Qualcomm will not contest. Qualcomm will pay the fine on a timely basis as required by the NDRC.

"We are pleased that the investigation has concluded and believe that our licensing business is now well positioned to fully participate in China's rapidly accelerating adoption of our 3G/4G technology," said Derek Aberle, president of Qualcomm. "We appreciate the NDRC's acknowledgment of the value and importance of Qualcomm's technology and many contributions to China, and look forward to its future support of our business in China."

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