Chapter 200: Bell Labs
It's no wonder that Robert Calvin, a veteran of the shopping mall, showed his true expression in front of the negotiation partner, but the Black Cloud Group's procurement was too large and tempting.
Heiyun Group's purchase order for Motorola includes 1 million electronic engine control modules per year, as well as 1 million Motorola MC68000 chips and subsequent upgrades, and the first batch of mobile phone motherboards and chips will be purchased from Motorola.
Although Heiyun Group is developing rapidly, it is still developing very slowly in the field of high-end chips. After all, this is something that only a few companies with superior technological strength can play in the United States. Now Heiyun can only produce low-end game console chips and memory chips.
Just a brief preliminary statistics, Black Cloud will purchase more than $500 million of Motorola's products every year. And it's a long-term plan, which can bring more than $100 million a year to Motorola, so you can't be tempted by Robert Calvin.
Bao Zixuan also knows that even if he suffers a loss now, he will earn it back sooner or later. Bijie originally planned to buy them from Motorola, but now they are just taken out all at once.
Robert Calvin: "Mr. Bag, do you use so many products! After all, your car hasn't been made yet, and your laptop uses Intel chips. ”
Bao Zixuan: "I have absolute confidence in Heiyun Automobile, and Heiyun is ready to enter the field of mainframe computers. We will use a lot of chips in the future, and Motorola is a good choice. We're going to build the world's largest server portfolio, and the amount of computing power in the black cloud is very large every year. ”
Robert Calvin: "Yes, we trade the technology and patent licensing of mobile phone and base station construction for the technology and patent licensing of black cloud laptops and flash memory cards. These orders though. ”
Bao Zixuan: "You can sign the contract immediately, and the first deposit of $200 million will be remitted to Motorola's account within a week." ”
Robert Calvin said: "I have long heard that working with Mr. Bao is very refreshing, and today I have seen it. We work well together. After saying that, he stretched out his hand, and the hands of the two people were clasped together.
Although Bao Zixuan has now obtained the patent and technology of mobile phones, there is still a long way to go. In fact, he also gave this patent deal a tail. Black Cloud can be said to be the strongest in the world in lithium battery technology, and it has not been taken out now. In the future, I believe that Motorola will look for him.
At present, we need to find a big name who can play a leading role in the mobile phone project to join, Martin Cooper is a good candidate, but it feels a little unkind to dig into the other party's corner just after signing a contract with Motorola.
After thinking about it for a while, Bao Zixuan already had a candidate in mind. He's going to New Jersey, to one of the world's most important scientific research institutions, Bell Labs.
Bell Labs is the birthplace of many major inventions such as transistors, lasers, solar cells, light-emitting diodes, digital switches, communication satellites, electronic digital computers, cellular mobile communication equipment, long-distance television transmission, analog languages, sound films, stereo recordings, and communication networks. Since 1925, Bell Labs has been granted more than 25,000 patents and now receives more than three patents per working day. Bell Labs' mission is to create, produce and deliver innovative technologies to customers that have enabled Lucent Technologies to be a global leader in communications systems, products, components and networking software. He has won a total of 8 Nobel Prizes (including 7 in physics and 1 in chemistry).
For this laboratory, which has an important position in the world, Bao Zixuan has admired it for a long time, and he came here once in his previous life. I came here as a student to listen to the lecture and sit, and I came here today to dig people.
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper stood on the streets of Manhattan, holding a cordless phone that had just been developed, and pressed a string of phone numbers under the curious gaze of everyone around him.
To the surprise of the people around, the phone went through. A man's voice came: "This is Yul Engel. ”
In an almost trembling voice, Cooper excitedly said, "Yule, I'm talking to you with a real mobile phone, a real mobile phone!"
There was silence on the other end of the line.
The phone was answered by none other than Yuel Engel, a scientist at Bell Labs, a longtime Cooper rival.
This is a landmark event that marks the beginning of the challenge of mobile communications to wired communications. At the same time, it also made Yul Engel a laughing stock.
Maybe Martin Cooper was just a joke, but it has brought a lot of changes to the life and work of Yule Engel, this genius scientist who was previously at Bell Labs has gradually been marginalized, and the public will only remember the first person in the field of technology, and who else will pay attention to it except his family!
Through Larry Brown's connections, Bao Zixuan quickly met Yule Engel, and now he is not as energetic as before. He became an ordinary R&D person who lived in Bell Labs. However, Bao Zixuan knew that there was absolutely no problem with his ability and level.
Yuul Engel didn't expect that he was looking for the owner of the hottest company in the world at present, and he was also a little curious about what this young man who had caused a huge sensation in the world was looking for him.
Bao Zixuan: "Hello! Mr. Engel, I am Heiyun Bao Zixuan, and I came to you for one purpose this time." I hope you can join my company and become the head of mobile phone research and development. ”
Juul Engel: "Young man, you seem to have found the wrong person. Now that the phone technology patents are in the hands of Motorola, you should go to Martin Cooper. ”
Bao Zixuan: "Heiyun has purchased relevant technology patents and authorizations from Motorola, and I am looking for you in the hope that you can join in and improve it, after all, the mobile phone has not yet met the commercial requirements." ”
Yule Engel was shocked to hear this, he knew too well how seriously Motorola took the mobile phone project. Now it is possible to sell technology and patent licensing to Heiyun, what a price to pay to complete.
Juul Engel: "I don't like to study other people's patents, I like to develop new products myself. So I'm sorry I can't agree to your request. ”
Bao Zixuan: "Mr. Engel, I understand your strength. And I also know your talent, and you didn't develop a mobile phone first because Bell Labs didn't support you enough. It's not that your strength and ability are poor. At least not worse than Martin Cooper. ”
Hearing this, Yul Engel was in a much better mood, but he didn't know if the other party really thought so, or if he was complimenting himself.
Yul Engel: "You kid aren't complimenting me, are you!
Bao Zixuan: "If you don't even believe in your own strength, then I really invite you for nothing." In my mind, Yuel Engel's talent was to be included in primary school textbooks so that all children would know that he was a great inventor. But now I don't see that. ”
This sentence touched Yuel Engel very much, isn't this the dream of every scientific researcher! It is nothing to write into a university textbook, as long as a theoretical study is enough, but there are not many scientists who can write it into a primary school textbook.
Yul Engel: "What kind of rights and treatment can I get when I go to the black clouds. ”
Bao Zixuan: "The annual salary is 1 million US dollars, and the profit commission of R&D results is 3%. In the future, there will be option awards, and the R&D funds will not be less than 20 million US dollars per year, and Heiyun Group will set up ENGEL Laboratory. ”
This is a condition that people can't refuse, and I don't believe that this old guy is not moved. He also has a family, a wife and children.
Juul Engel: "I also have some assistants who have been with me for a long time. None of them are reused now, and I'm going to talk to them about it. ”
Bao Zixuan: "No problem, your assistant comes over to Heiyun, and Heiyun can pay double their current salary." And still work under you, if they want to go to other positions, the conditions remain the same, and I am very sure of your old eye. ”
Bao Zixuan has already given up in order to invite this technical master, even if he spends a lot of money, he wants the other party to follow him back to Boston.