Chapter 996: The Sixth Generation Drilling Platform!

Since Motorola spun off its mobile phone semiconductor division a few years ago and became Freescale, and then acquired by Blackstone, Motorola's mobile phone division's research and development on mobile phone chips has stalled.

After Blackstone acquired Freescale, the company also assumed $5.5 billion of debt that was also $10 billion in debt at the time of the acquisition, and Freescale's revenue has declined significantly from $6.4 billion in 2006 due to debt.

The R&D center of Huaxing Group, which is also located in Austin, also recruits a group of Freescale technical engineers in the middle.

Now Eagle Sauce is the only company in China that can design and develop baseband chip system-on-chip systems like Loongson Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Huaxingji Company, Qualcomm, but this company mainly supplies to South Korean mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung, HTC and Sony.

Domestic mobile phone manufacturers are relatively less likely to purchase from Qualcomm, mainly because the domestic network system is WLAN communication network, Huaxing Group and Huatai, ZTE and many other companies have a large number of technical patents, Qualcomm has no technical advantage in this regard.

Domestic mobile phone manufacturers mainly place orders with Huayue Electronics Group Company and Huajing Group Company after obtaining technical authorization from Junzheng Technology Co., Ltd. for the production of baseband chips and customized versions of mobile phone Kirin systems.

The mobile phone camera module and fingerprint recognition system are basically purchased from the subsidiaries of Leybold Technology Co., Ltd. and Loongson Semiconductor Co., Ltd., which are subsidiaries of Huaxing Group Company.

In particular, the fingerprint recognition system is now purchased from Leybold high-tech companies by mobile phone manufacturers at home and abroad.

The company is not now, these domestic manufacturers of mobile phone touch panels have to pay patent licensing fees to Huaxing Group Company.

In particular, after the smart phone equipped with the fingerprint recognition system of Huaxing Group Company was sold well in the world and was regarded as a generation of magic machines, most mobile phone manufacturers now cannot avoid paying money to Huaxing Group.

The current Huaxing Group only sells mobile phones to make money, and many mobile phone manufacturers are going to be plucked by geese, but they are not engaged in patent hooliganism like Qualcomm, and many patent fees are converted into chips.

Now the mobile phones launched by the global microwave interconnection access network of Motorola Group are to purchase baseband chip system-on-chip from Huaxing Group, even Intel is no exception, Intel has only developed a global microwave Internet access network standard system-on-chip this year, but the production of these chips is also to pay patent fees to Huaxing Group.

Although Huaxing Group still has to pay patent fees to companies such as Nokia and Ericsson, the patent fees paid are getting smaller and smaller, and the patent fees that need to be paid have now dropped to less than one billion US dollars.

Yang Jie will not spend billions of dollars to acquire several non-core divisions of Motorola Group for these hundreds of millions of dollars in patent fees.

Now Huaxing Communication Equipment Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Huaxing Group, has more than 70,000 R&D personnel, Western countries have their own R&D centers, and thousands of technology patents are born every year, so there is no need to make large-scale acquisitions.

Compared with the acquisition of the technology patents of these companies, Huaxing Group is now more willing to acquire technical teams for research and development, or acquire some small companies with special patented technologies for technical layout.

The current Motorola group of companies has only less than 20,000 employees left through significant layoffs in recent years, and the real value is the more than 20,000 technology patents held in its hands and a small number of engineering and technical teams and brand value.

However, Huaxing Group already has the Siemens mobile phone brand on hand, and has also completed the layout of the global business, Yang Jie will not stupidly transfuse the company's mobile phone department for the remaining residual value of Motorola Group.

He wished that this group company, which no longer had the spirit of technological innovation before Motorola, would collapse as soon as possible, and Huaxing Group would be able to dig out a team of engineers.

Carl Icahn was also disappointed to see that Yang Jie had little interest in these business acquisitions, and after leaving, he looked for group companies such as Huatai and ZTE.

Huatai and Zhongxing Group were very interested in the business that Motorola Group was going to sell, but Tang Zhenren and Hou Wengui both called Yang Jie.

In fact, the fact that Motorola Group Company has found Huaxing Group Company has long been spread, and the relationship between the three group companies has also been good over the years, and these two bigwigs also want to ask Yang Jie's attitude.

Yang Jie also said that Motorola Group wants to sell these businesses and wants to transfuse blood into its mobile phone business, and if the two companies are interested, they should try to keep the purchase price as low as possible, and they can't be cheaper Motorola Group Company.

Sure enough, when ZTE and Huatai approached Motorola, they also tried their best to lower the purchase price.

Yang Jie didn't pay too much attention to this matter, but went to the shipbuilding base of Honghu Shipbuilding Group in Xuejiadao.

This time, Peter Worthen, CEO of Royal Dutch Ashell Group of Companies, came to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the sixth generation of deep-sea drilling platforms.

For the European oil giants to hand over the order of the sixth-generation drilling ship platform to Honghu Shipbuilding Group Co., Ltd. to complete, this year has also caused a lot of movement in China and Europe.

In fact, the main manufacturers of drilling platforms in the past were mainly Samsung, Hyundai, Daewoo in South Korea and Keppel Group and Sembcorp Marine Group in Singapore.

What people didn't expect was that this time, the European oil giant company would hand over such a difficult drilling ship platform to Honghu Shipbuilding Group Company, a subsidiary of Huaxing Group.

In fact, in recent years, Honghu Shipbuilding Group has acquired several ship design companies after acquiring Polaris Ship Design Company in Europe, and now the Ship Design and Research Institute under Honghu Shipbuilding Group Company has several ship design companies in Europe, with a total of more than 5,000 R&D and design personnel, and has also purchased a lot of patents.

Honghu Shipbuilding Group Co., Ltd. started the design and development of the sixth-generation drilling platform as early as two years ago, including the semi-submersible drilling platform and the drillship platform, and has completed the design scheme and drawings of the sixth-generation drilling platform.