Apropos Qualcomm and US patents:

"German court invalidates Qualcomm patent"


The typical Fox News audience may not have noticed yet that there are a lot of educated Chinese people how can easily develop and build the electronics for mobile phones and other electronic equipment. The same is true for countries like Brazil, all countries in the EU, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan etc..

Okay, the handsets get made in China, that I understand, the labor cost for assembly is lower there.

But where do the Chinese assemblers get the chips that go into the mobiles? Are there Chinese chip companies designing and fabricating the chips? If there are, how did they manage to design the chips without violating any patents that T.I. holds? Or does that not matter for Chinese companies that are all owned by either Peoples' Liberation Army officers or Communist Party members?