#70 - Chapter: TYPe-c Interface

Lu Haifeng didn't waste any time with pleasantries.

The concept of wireless charging is also very important for the next generation of mobile phones. Lu Haifeng said:

"This concept of wireless charging is very important for the next generation of mobile phones. Don't take this matter lightly. I will ask the Huaxing No. 1 Laboratory to conduct research on this technology."

Lu Haifeng didn't feel too concerned about the opposition from the senior executives. Wireless charging technology was just a small technique for the laboratory. He found Li Jun, the head of the Huaxing No. 2 Laboratory, and handed him a new charging data cable data to be responsible for research and development.

Li Jun looked at the data of this charging data cable, and a look of excitement appeared on his face and said: "President Lu, this technology is too perfect, it will definitely affect the entire mobile phone industry."

Obviously, the research and development of such a data cable will have earth-shattering changes to the entire mobile phone industry. In the future mobile phone industry, whoever has the core patented technology will have the right to speak in the mobile phone industry.

TYPe-C interface, this is the best unified standard for mobile phone industry interfaces in the future. The mobile phone market is still in chaos, and each mobile phone manufacturer has its own charging head.

The main charging connectors include Typ-a (A port), Typ-b (B port), and Micro USB (USB interface).

Among them, the A port is the most common standard interface among computers and electronic accessories, while the B port is widely used in external devices such as printers and scanners.

As for the USB interface, it is widely used in current feature phones and Android smart phones, but each manufacturer has its own research and development for charging interfaces.

Most of the current Android phones use the USB interface, but the USB interface has not become a consensus among manufacturers, and may even be directly eliminated by major mobile phone manufacturers in the future.

The main reason is that the USB interface has some problems. The biggest problem is the asymmetrical structure with a narrow top and a wide bottom. This structure can only be inserted in one direction. If the interface is not accurately aligned during charging, the charging interface or the phone's jack may be damaged.

This situation will reduce the lifespan of the phone and may even damage the body. This is a major defect of USB. Of course, the C port replacing the USB interface as the unified standard for mobile phone manufacturers still has very strong advantages.

First of all, the C port is an up-and-down symmetrical socket. This good design is very beneficial for users to use. Of course, the most important thing is that it supports and is compatible with fast charging protocols.

First of all, using the C port allows you to use fast charging technology to speed up the charging speed of the phone. In Lu Haifeng's previous life, smart phones had been developed for more than ten years before he was reborn, but the mobile phone battery technology had not changed much.

In order to maintain the battery life of the mobile phone, we can only rely on fast charging technology. The charging power of future mobile phones will become higher and higher, and even 360W wired fast charging will appear. With such a charging rate, there is basically not much requirement for battery life.

After all, a mobile phone with a 4,000 mAh battery and 360W wired charging can basically fully charge a dead phone within five or six minutes.

Five or six minutes is not a very long time for ordinary consumer users. Basically, the phone will be fully charged by the time they finish a meal.

In addition to being able to rely on this technology to develop fast charging technology, this data cable is also compatible with various fast charging protocols. This also means that with one charging cable, you can achieve 18W protocol charging, you can also achieve 65W protocol charging, and you can even achieve 120W protocol charging.

The prerequisite is that a special chip is used to be compatible with this charging protocol, which also means that one cable can charge a mobile phone, a laptop, and even other smart devices.

One data cable for everything, this is the advantage of the C port.

When Huaxing Technology truly produces C-port data cables and applies for patents to specialized patent agencies, then Huaxing Technology will own a complete set of patents for C-port data cables.

At that time, if other friendly manufacturers want to use the technology of this C-port charging cable, they can charge a certain patent usage fee.

Charging patent fees is very common in countries across the ocean, just like Gao Tong Company, which is a mobile phone processor chip designer, and also has certain strength in information communication technology.

At the same time, Gao Tong Company has a number of patented technologies in 3G and 4G networks, and these technologies have also become a source of income for them.

This is also the reason why Huaxing Technology used 4G baseband chips when releasing new phones last year. Huaxing Technology also has some 4G technology patents and can also conduct patent cross-licensing agreements with Gao Tong Company.

Mobile phone manufacturers who do not have information communication technology, regardless of whether they use Gao Tong's processor chips, still need to obediently pay information patent fees ranging from 4 to 7 US dollars to Gao Tong Company for each mobile phone sold.

Due to Gao Tong's years of technical accumulation in the communications industry, Gao Tong has accumulated a large number of "standard essential patents". The patented technology covers the standard essential patents that mobile terminals will use in the 3G and 4G wireless communication fields. Therefore, even if friendly manufacturers do not use Gao Tong's chips, as long as their mobile terminals want to use 3G/4G Internet access, it is impossible to avoid Gao Tong's patent. Simply put, Gao Tong provides a basic encoding and decoding algorithm, which is the basis of wireless communication and has nothing to do with whether Gao Tong's chip is used. This is the Gao Tong tax of later generations.

So the cost seems not to be very much now, but starting next year, Gao Tong's patent fees will be greatly increased, and the fees to be paid at that time will be even more.

Of course, the times have determined some things. Gao Tong has a dominant position in the 4G network era, but when the 5G era arrives, the dominant position in communication will be replaced by other companies.

Lu Haifeng also wants to learn from the future before his rebirth and seize the opportunity in the future 5G and 6G eras in the current space-time, so as to gain a certain initiative and thus obtain a higher position.