Chapter 801 CDMA Authorization
"Time Magazine" The list of the world's most influential people was announced, Zhou Shi and Feng Xing appeared on this list, and the number one domestic boss also appeared. There is also a lot of entanglement in this, some people want to rank Zhou Shi's name in front of the big guy, but fortunately, someone notified him in advance, and he survived.
Crises are happening all the time, and there are many, many challenges he faces. For example, Spreadtrum Communications has a big problem, that is, CDMA baseband technology licensing. It's complicated to say, but to put it simply, only two companies, Qualcomm and Veritaka, have CDMA licenses. Among them, Weirui Dentsu is a subsidiary of Wanwan VIA, and the boss of VIA is Wang Xuehong, the female boss of HTC. That is, the female boss who joined the Huaxia Entrepreneur Club.
If Spreadtrum wants to make a full Netcom mobile phone, it needs CDMA technology authorization, which must be obtained from Qualcomm and Veritaka. At the beginning, Spreadtrum sought authorization from Qualcomm, but the result can be imagined, not that Qualcomm did not agree, but that the conditions were too harsh, beyond the market rules and Spreadtrum's ability to bear. It's not that it's impossible, but there are still a lot of patents that Spreadtrum has applied for...... At this time, Verizon intends to license the CMDA patent, even though they know that it will not go well, but Zhou Shi and Spreadtrum are still willing to try.
Everyone knows what kind of urine Wanwan is, in the previous life, Weirui Dentsu played Huawei, and after negotiating the price, it suddenly doubled the price, which directly led to the bankruptcy of their patent licensing negotiations.
Wang Xuehong or HTC in this life does not have the glory of the previous life because of the appearance of the shell, and the highest market value is about 10 billion US dollars. And when Apple attacked Samsung and Guohu, it was implicated, and HTC was even banned for a period of time because of the heavy loss of patents. This has greatly shaken the trust of American operators in it, and HTC has always paid little attention to the mainland market, and its development is not as good as before.
"Mr. Zhou, when we were talking about cooperation with Weirui Dentsu, they were also talking about cooperation with MediaTek, and I am afraid that the sincerity is insufficient. Spreadtrum CEO Li Liyou
"MediaTek! they're not finished yet?" Zhou Shi asked strangely
"Our top chips can't compare to Qualcomm, the cheapest chips can't compare to MediaTek, our advantage is to do the best balance of power consumption and performance, the price is lower than Qualcomm, higher than MediaTek, and our advantage is in the time Android system, so even most of our Tomato mobile phones use MediaTek chips. But even so, in the two fields of Google's Android system, TD and WCDMA, MediaTek still can't compete with Spreadtrum, and only with the help of CMDA can it be possible!"
"Is Weirui Dentsu really insincere?" Zhou Shi
"We are a Chinese enterprise, and if MediaTek makes trouble, Wanwan Zhengfu may even intervene. "Li Liyou
"Let me think about it, what can you do?" Zhou Shi
"I can only try to fight for it!" Li Liyou
"???" Zhou Shi, "How long will it take for our patent accumulation to be cross-licensing with Qualcomm?"
"Up to two years ......" Li Liyou
Seeing that Li Liyou really had no choice, Zhou Shi finally asked Wei He with this question.
"It's very simple, we are not a company competing with MediaTek and Veritaka, but a large consortium. First of all, even if Weirui Dentsu does not authorize us, we can reach a cooperation with Qualcomm in no more than two years; secondly, if Spreadtrum gets the CDMA patent license, we can adopt more fierce competition strategies, such as price reduction, directly impact the sales of MediaTek chips; strive to make Lenovo, Huawei, TCL and other companies give up the purchase of MediaTek chips; and finally we can threaten HTC, if they are not sincere but tease us, they will launch a patent war against HTC, completely crushing this mobile phone company. "Wei He
"If they go to ask for help from the country, these people will look for the country if they have benefits, and they will hide far away if they are in trouble. "Zhou Shi
"The just-concluded LCD panel anti-monopoly case is a breakthrough, and they may not be able to create pressure on us. We can also give some preferential treatment to MediaTek and HTC, such as nuts' Internet extreme cost-effective mobile phones to increase the purchase of MediaTek chips, in addition, if we obtain CDMA patent authorization, Qualcomm in order to limit the development of Spreadtrum, there is a great possibility to give MediaTek help in CDMA patent licensing, as for Weirui Dentsu and HTC, they can always find their needs by trying to find a way...... "Wei He
Carrots and sticks have always been a tried and tested method for the US imperialists to tame their little brothers, and perhaps to the extent that Zhou Shi can indeed create trouble for them and force these people to compromise.
"In that case, how about I authorize you to take full authority to deal with this matter?" Zhou Shi
"Okay!" Wei He said with a little excitement
Zhou Shi has been for so long, and finally gave Wei He a chance to prove himself. It depends on the ability of the group of staff officers under him.
Under Zhou Shi, there are roughly two major forces, one is the assistant department who grew up around him or the company, and the other is the staff officer department invited by external parties. Of course, there are not many contradictions between the two now, mainly because they have not yet completed the penetration and control of Zhou Shi's enterprises.
In fact, it is a pity that VIA is a bit of a company, it has X86 chips, ARM chips, baseband chips and other cross-field R&D and production capabilities, accounting for 80% of the shipments in the field of motherboard chips in the last century, the netbook era has successfully sniped Intel, ARM chips in the early stage of the development of Google's Android tablet also obtained amazing shipments, but it is not an egg, without the support of the industrial chain, and finally even AMD can not compare.
Under Wei He's guidance, Zhou Shi called Wang Xuehong and threatened a few words, he really didn't care about Wang Xuehong's thoughts, the population and market of Wanwan were not enough for Zhou Shi to compromise.
What is the final outcome of the matter, I don't know, Zhou Shi stayed in Silicon Valley, to Adobe, their CEO is Indian, Zhou Shi joined Adobe's board of directors, but did not become their chairman, but since last year has been supporting Shantanu Narayan to promote the company from a one-time copyright sale to a pay-per-time subscription system, increase cloud service capabilities, and now the stock price has climbed out of the undervaluation, with a market value of more than $20 billion, and his investment in Adobe has been successful again. It's just that the market is skeptical about subscription services, and Adobe's stock price is not respected as it deserves. This is a very powerful company with extraordinary advantages in the fields of audio, image and video.
And through Pichai, Shantanu Narayan, Pan Weidi (CEO of Citigroup) and others, Zhou Shi and some of the Indians in Silicon Valley have learned more.