This period of time was the most comfortable and pleasant period after Miller entered Wang An's computer. Previously, he was indeed a little blind about the strategic direction of scientific research of high-tech companies. Now, Jing Jian determines the strategic direction, and Miller is responsible for focusing on cost and efficiency, which is what he is best at.

Most of Wang's lab has been jointly acquired by IBM, Microsoft and other companies for $320 million. And the general comment from the outside world is that Yi Kai sold it cheaply. In particular, the researchers in the laboratory were poached by the outside world, or felt that there was no future and jumped ship on their own, a total of more than 1,200 people, which made many authoritative figures comment that the future of Yikai will collapse in the high-tech field.

By the way, none of them were actively laid off by Yikai, but there was a considerable shortage of computer researchers, and other companies brandished checkbooks and unscrupulously poached Yikai.

However, Miller does not see this brain drain that way, and he feels that he can take the opportunity to streamline personnel and save a lot of expenses. In particular, many of the original scientific research projects were too bloated, completely greedy and comprehensive, and really unnecessary. On the contrary, now that three major research departments have been formed, there are enough remaining researchers to concentrate on unified public relations.

Although Yikai's three major strategies have not been implemented for a long time, they have already achieved results. In the latest quarterly report, Yikai achieved the first main profit in recent years. You know, this is completely dependent on the main income, not through the sale of buildings, factories and other non-main income. Although this profit is only a few tens of thousands of dollars, it already bodes well. In fact, this achievement was achieved entirely by the sales of several inexpensive general-purpose PC products from Ekai in the last month.

So Miller is already ambitious, and he has raised his PC sales target for next year to $300 million in turnover. You know, Yikai owns almost all the patents, does not need to pay any patent fees at all, and has almost all the spare parts factory. In this way, even if the pricing is 10% lower than the market, the gross profit can be guaranteed to exceed 50%.

In my heart, Miller was a little strange, at that time, Wang An and his son had so many good cards, and they were bent on pursuing technological leadership, but they made the company half dead. And Jing Jian lowered the standard to get some "inconspicuous" products, but it actually became thriving? Sometimes Miller wonders, why don't high-tech companies pursue technology?

Of course, Miller is by no means so superficial, and he understands that being able to point out the best products for a company requires a keen eye in itself. After all, it is entrepreneurs who need to survive and thrive in companies, not scientists. So in these days, Miller has become more and more admired for Jing Jian.

The tech leaders were a little mixed. In their eyes, the Yikai series of PCs is like a primary school student's work. The other two strategic projects are not the core projects of the computer, and they are simply on the wrong path.

But on the other hand, these technical directors are very affectionate towards Wang An Computer, after all, they have created brilliance with Mr. Wang An. Therefore, Jing Jian, as a well-known representative of the network faction in the computer IT industry, joined Wang An Computer, and they were all welcomed. But why, instead of supporting the continuation of cutting-edge technology research, Jing Jian has gone crooked to "fish out of the way"?

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Everyone in the room had their own thoughts, and Miller began to introduce Jing Jian to the situation these days: "Bramble, we have already proposed to Philips that we hope to get their patented technology related to the storage of optical discs, as well as the joint development of the latest game consoles. According to your request, we hope to share the patents, and exchange some of our patents for a part of the patents of Philips. ”

Jing Jian nodded, it is indeed this principle. Due to the determination of three strategic projects, many patents of Yikai are not of much use, and at most they will eat some royalties. And Philips has a lot of patents that Ikai needs. Whether it is to buy at a high price or to spend a high amount of royalties in the future, it is very uneconomical, it is better for both parties to exchange and take what they need.

"Is there any problem?" Jing Jian asked.

Miller nodded: "Those patents Philips are willing to exchange, but the price is too high." Storage disc those, they want us sixteen patents. The others are nothing, but there are three patents that are valuated, and the unit price is basically the same as those CD-ROM patents. Maybe Philips already knew about our strategic transformation, so it took advantage of the fire to rob the lion and open his mouth. ”

"As for the game console project, Philips is reluctant to cooperate, and it seems that they are not optimistic about the project. Therefore, they want to exchange their patent rights for cash or the equivalent of the patent. All in all, their attitude doesn't seem to be very positive. ”

"So that's the case?" Jing Jian understood what Miller meant, probably knowing that Yi Kai had a request for others, and Philips was very arrogant.

However, what gave Jing Jian a headache was that Yi Kai really wanted Philips. Maybe people nowadays think that DVD technology is nothing more than a new storage technology, similar to a 3.5-inch disk, but they don't know that the real market for this technology is not in computers, but in the use of multimedia such as movies, music, and games.

However, Philips and SONY have completely formed a standard monopoly on this technology, which is a monopoly that is more powerful than the patent monopoly, and it can be said that it is impossible to break or bypass the patent at all. Because of this, it is imperative that Yikai obtain these patents.

was weighing Philips' conditions in his mind, but Jing Jian suddenly heard someone ask: "Boss, I have a question, the conditions offered by Philips are simply an insult, in fact, I can see that they are not sincere at all, and they want us to retreat." And why should we continue such meaningless negotiations?"

"Oh?" Jing Jian was immediately inspired when he realized that it was Sayahu, the manager of the technical department of Yikai, who asked the question, maybe it was true, and Philips was not sincere. If they retreat, they have nothing to lose. If he really agrees on their terms, Philips might as well laugh at the gift of a certain "wronged head".

However, Sayahu had doubts, and looking at the expressions of several other technical directors, who seemed to support Sayahu's statement, Jing Jian decided to unify his internal thinking first.

"Doctor, I wonder what you think of the company's latest strategic project?"

"Do you really want me to say?" Sayahhu glanced at Jing Jian, took a deep breath, and plucked up his courage, "I think business growth can be stimulated in the short term, and in the long term, the company will not have the technical reserves for sustainable development." ”