Yeah, from announcement of HTC to Taiwan's stock exchange,

Google buys HTC's Pixel team, license to HTC's IP, and a RF lab (Subsidiary of HTC) for 1.1 billion USD.

Someone has made a terrible deal, and the other an awesome deal. But we will only be certain in one year.

It is impossible something like this be good to both, losing 100 people that have worked on the best project that the company has worked in the last years.

Or overpaid for just some people that are not soo great, as they thought.

Best? The Pixel is good, but it's hardly the best thing HTC has done.

HTC still has the Vive team.

This should be the title of the post.

Where is the RF Lab announcement?

From HTC's announcement to Taiwan's stock exchange, in Chinese only[1]

> 本公司董事會決議通過出售世界通全球驗證股份有限公司100%股權予Google

The company is named 世界通全球驗證股份有限公司 (communication global certification inc), website[2].

[1] http://news.cnyes.com/news/id/3923532

[2] http://www.cgctw.com/CGCWebsite/

A simple Google search failed me, maybe I don't know what I am looking for, but now I am at the mercy of the internet when I ask...

What is a RF Lab?

It's a Lab for Testing about radio, something like TRP, TIS, LTE OTA test and so on.

I would guess RF = radio frequency, so a lab dealing with cellular chips

The bigger thing is the IP acquisition. That's largely why they grabbed Moto and then spun it out. With this they can skip the middle step.

Are we sure they actually get the IP?

> The deal also includes a non-exclusive license for HTC intellectual property

From the blog post, seems to be a license.

It seems there is a little different.

In the press release of HTC[1]

> Google will continue to have access to HTC’s IP to support the Pixel smartphone family

Is it means HTC only licenses IP to Google, not sells them to Google?

[1]https://www.htc.com/us/about/newsroom/2017/2017-09-21-htc-go...