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ExclusiveHuawei, ZTE show no interest in Samsung chips
[단독] 화웨이. ZTE, '삼성 옥타코어 관심 없다’
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By Cho Mu-hyun

BARCELONA - Chinese technology giants Huawei and ZTE seem uninterested in buying Samsung Electronics' recently unveiled application processor (AP).

Officials of the rapidly expanding Chinese firms at their booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, said they were unimpressed by Samsung's Exynos Octa, the first AP to have eight cores unveiled at the Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, and are unlikely to purchase them.

"Only Samsung uses Samsung chips," a Huawei official told The Korea Times during a brief meeting on the sidelines of the trade show.

"We have our partnership with Qualcomm and our own chip business. We want to expand our own chips for devices.

"We are currently really not interested in using Exynos," he added.

The Chinese firm boasts a diverse product portfolio including handsets, tablets, network equipment and set-top boxes and only trails the Korean company in terms of technology but is quickly closing in to the surprise of many local executives who visited its booth.

"Last year, we considered Huawei a business that only competes through manufacturing power and price-competitiveness but I was really surprised to see some technologically innovative products at its booth," said a senior official of local mobile operator KT. "It was a complete shock for us to see how much change they made in a year."

Officials of ZTE also said they were unimpressed by the octo-core processor by Samsung. They were also confident in their firm's expansion in smartphones.

"We aim to become the third-largest manufacturer of smartphones by 2015," said a ZTE official at the company's booth. "I really don't know about Samsung's chip outlook for the short term. But the octo-core processor wasn't really that interesting for us and we are not likely to purchase those chips.

"Samsung is a very competitive company but we are also rising incredibly fast."

The chip business is a lucrative revenue line for Samsung and the one in which its Chairman Lee Kun-hee shows the strongest interest. Until its partnership with Apple where it supplied AP manufacturing, Samsung was only powerful in memory chips but now its hopes to earn more from processors.

Its dual strength in finished-goods and components has made it one of the quickest adapters in the rapidly changing information technology sector but comments from Chinese officials imply that they would emulate that model rather than remain dependent on Samsung for parts.

Another ZTE official said separately that the company plans to aggressively expand in the United States this year and is confident of its future growth.

The Huawei official declined to elaborate on its figure or target but said their outlook would be similar to that of ZTE.

However, the two firms are important clients for Samsung in liquid crystal display panels and said that they would continue that relationship.

"We use multiple manufacturers for our displays and Samsung is definitely one of them. We will continue (that relationship)," said the ZTE official.

The Korean firm has recently converted its television panel lines in China into those for mobile devices, especially "phablets," devices that blur the line between handsets and tablets, to increase supply to local vendors there.



[단독] 화웨이. ZTE, '삼성 옥타코어 관심 없다’

중국의 떠오르는 `큰 손’인 화웨이와 ZTE가 앞으로 내 놓을 스마트폰에 삼성전자의 최신 모바일어플리케이션(AP)인 `엑시노스 옥타코어’를 탑재할 계획이 없다고 말해 삼성전자의 시름이 깊어질 전망이다.

27일, 스페인 바르셀로나에서 열리고 있는 세계 최대 모바일전시회인 `MWC 2013’에 참석한 화웨에와 ZTE관계자들은 코리아타임스와 단독으로 인터뷰를 갖고 ``삼성전자가 발표한 엑시노스 옥타코어 AP의 매력도가 떨어진다’’며 이 같이 말했다.

화웨이 부스에서 만난 한 관계자는 ``삼성전자만이 자사의 AP를 사용하고 있다’’며  ``화웨이의 경우 퀄컴과 긴밀한 협업관계를 지속하고 있고 앞으로 나올 제품에 자체 AP를 탑재할 예정이기 때문에 삼성전자의 엑시노스 옥타코어에 별 관심이 없다’’고 말했다.

이번 MWC의 화두 중의 하나는 반도체업체들이 대거 부스를 차려 자사의 모바일 AP를 알리는데 사활을 걸고 있다는 점이다. 퀄컴, 인텔, 엔비디아, 미디어텍, 브로드컴, ST 에릭슨등이 대규모 부스를 차리고 고객사 확보에 적극 나서고 있는 것.

이들의 공통 타킷은 화웨이와 ZTE등 떠오르는 중국 저가 스마트폰 업체다. 이들 중국 업체들은 양산 및 가격 경쟁력을 내세워 반도체 업체들에 `큰 손’으로 부상하고 있다. 애플의 아이폰5 인기가 예전같지 않고 PC 시장 회복이 지지부진 한 상태에서 중국 스마트폰 업체는 `놓쳐서는 안 될 중요한 고객’으로 떠올랐기 때문.

AP는 PC의 중앙처리장치 역할을 한다. 스마트폰의 핵심 기능중의 하나가 빠른 데이터 처리 속도에 있기 때문에 삼성전자를 비롯한 메이저 반도체 제조업체들은 AP성능 향상에 사활을 걸고 있다.

ZTE의 한 관계자는 ``2015년에 세계 3위 스마트폰 업체에 오를 것’’이라면서도 ``단기적으로 봤을 때 삼성전자의 반도체 사업의 전망에 대해서 아는 바가 없고 삼성전자가 내놓은 옥타코어 AP가 우리 제품에 들어갈 가능성이 낮다’’고 밝혔다.

그는 또 ``삼성전자는 매우 경쟁력 있는 회사지만 ZTE 역시 믿기지 않을 정도로 빠르게 성장하고 있다’’고 강조했다.

한편 ZTE는 올해 미국 스마트폰 시장 점유율을 늘리는 데 주안점을 둘 예정이다. 미국 스마트폰 시장은 현재 애플과 삼성전자가 양분하고 있다.

시장조사기관인 SA에 따르면 구글의 안드로이드 운영체제는 지난 해 미국 시장에서 55%의 점유율을 유지, 부동의 1위를 유지했다.

ZTE와 화웨이의 이 같은 발언에 대해 삼성전자 관계자는 ``확인된 바 없다’’며 즉답을 피했다.

 

 
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