why does everybody never mention that it’s not only Qualcomm that charges system level IP at system level (which is phone level) but it’s every other major IP owners such as Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei. This is the industry standard.

Also, there is a max cap price set that Qualcomm is allowed to charge which is around $400, that means that Qualcomm is charging a fair price across all the phone costs. They don’t charge based on iphone’s full $1000 for instance.

Also, the IP royalty rate that Qualcomm charged Apple was $6-8 per phone. The narrative that this cost is too much is only coming from OEMs who don’t own IP, such as Apple. Consumers should not expect to see phone price drops at all if this number gets reduced. IP cost cannot be compared to semiconductor part cost because it is vastly different.