Chapter 420: Core Competencies of Spreadtrum Communications
Datang Telecom is responsible for the promotion of the domestic 3G standard TD-SCDMA and the subsequent formulation of the 4G standard TD-LTE, and also has many experts. However, state-owned enterprises are state-owned enterprises, and many drawbacks lurk in them, and the low work efficiency is outrageous. The people who came out of ZTE and Huawei originally looked down on the people of Datang Telecom, and they naturally had a high-minded attitude in the process of enterprise reform, which hurt many Datang people. The conflict between the two sides seems to be difficult to reconcile, and the outbreak of Datang Group in the board of directors is a signal.
Fortunately, Spreadtrum's strength has skyrocketed, and China Mobile has given great support in the support of TD chips. The TD chips that began to be shipped in the second half of the year have made there many more TD mobile phones on the market. China Mobile is Datang Telecom's most important partner. As a result, the contradictions and conflicts between the two sides were eased, and at least there was no incident in which the board of directors was convened to remove the chairman. Of course, such a thing will not happen under normal circumstances unless the skin of the face is completely torn.
Datang's affairs are not urgent for the time being, he has already told some people that some unconventional measures that may be taken in Datang Telecom are still under control. It's more important to deal with Huawei's affairs first.
Huawei's stake in the Android system is very simple, 9.9% of the shares, as for the price is negotiable, on the premise of not losing money, the main thing is to have a series of cooperation agreements to provide protection for the future income source of the Android system company.
"What happened to us and Huawei, and what are the differences?" Zhou Shi asked Li Liyou
"At first they were reluctant to pay the deposit, thinking we were not sincere. Later, I reluctantly paid the money, and I was quite skeptical that our operating costs were too high!"
"Let the third-party auditor intervene" Zhou Shi
"But they also want the details of our technology implementation, I heard that Huawei has an internal chip research company, it seems to be called HiSilicon Semiconductor, they will not be ......" Li Liyou
"What are our most important assets, those patented technologies?" said Zhou
"We are a chip design company, and the most important thing is patented technology and design solutions!"
"Our most powerful thing is people, so that our research and development capabilities, so that we can innovate vitality, so that we can ensure the system design of innovation. Patent reserves are weapons to protect us, not a killer weapon for our offense. "Zhou Shi
"I see!"
"Really understand?" Zhou Shi looked at him reluctantly, "I'm not saying that we must cooperate with Huawei, we must compromise, but to let you know what kind of company we are, now the mobile phone CPU is still in its infancy, at this time the competition is the speed and quality of research and development, assuming that Huawei copied our plan last year, but this year's technology is far more than last year, no matter how they copy, it will not be able to catch up with us in the short term." At a certain stage, we can make them spit out all the money with interest. "Zhou Shi
"I really know this time!" said Li Liyou
"That's good, our Huawei is not a competitive relationship, at least not for a long time, we now need Huawei's terminal equipment to drive the use of our chips, as soon as possible to exceed MediaTek's market share. "Zhou Shi
"We took the lead in overcoming TD technology and launched high-performance TD chips, and China Mobile has the largest subsidies for mobile phone terminals containing our chips. When we launch the first generation of high-end TD chips at the end of the year, Guoke and Mobile will have great promotion activities. Our market share is likely to surpass MediaTek next year. "Li Liyou
"There are also challenges from companies like Marvel, Texas Instruments, etc. "Zhou Shi
"Rest assured, we are hiring people almost every day, and our advantages are obvious, whether it is baseband chips or other aspects. Two overseas laboratories have been of great help to us. "Li Liyou
"That's good! Maintain a high-quality talent team, if there are more than 10,000 people with a bachelor's degree or above, it will be good. There are also many patent applications, especially international patents, and the selection of candidates in the legal department must not be settled. "Zhou Shi
"There should be that, our MP3/MP4 and other multimedia chips are selling very well now, and when the shell IPad comes out, our low-end flat panel chips should also be able to open up a large market. "Li Liyou
"And the TV chip, which is also one of the directions we have in the future. In fact, as long as it is a chip, it is our goal, that is, to see if our strength supports it, such as on-board chips. "Zhou Shi
"Let's develop the mobile phone CPU first, our own architecture of the CPU has not yet begun to develop, the others are more difficult, I don't know when. "Li Liyou
"yes, maybe at that point, we'll choose to buy it outright. At this time, Zhou Shi thought of the surging semiconductor industry acquisitions in the future, as well as Avago, which was ready to start a big expansion after listing.
Taking advantage of the gap in the negotiations between Spreadtrum and Huawei, Zhou Shi came to SMIC.
"Mr. Zhou, you are finally here, did you send Liang Mengsong to us?" a managing director of SMIC's board of directors quipped when he saw Zhou Shi coming
"If you have money, it's not a problem, let's go to other companies and dig up someone of the same level. "Zhou Shi
"Well, we're not short of money now!" said the director
"You're really not short of money, that's good, you can pay me back. "Zhou Shi
"This, this~~ Let's talk about it again" The director hurriedly made an excuse and left
Improve the process, pay attention to production management, SMIC's quality management is much stronger than before, most of the orders for copycat chips obtained by Spreadtrum are produced here, the demand for tomatoes and nuts gives Spreadtrum Communications a lot of orders, and then transfer to production here one by one, as well as OmniVision and Geke Micro to mobile phone image sensors, and also cooperate with Hikvision, which is invested by Sixiang Fund, and the market in this area is also expanding. As a result, SMIC completed a turnaround in the first half of the year. By now, SMIC's share price has doubled. Of course, Zhou Shi is not concerned about this, but whether they have reached a settlement agreement in the lawsuit with TSMC.
"It's coming, Liang Mengsong ran away, and it gave them a big shock, so they made us promise that we can't poach people from them anymore, and I haven't agreed yet. "Zhang Yujing
"How is it possible not to poach people? "Zhou Shi
"Yes, our human resources are already weak, and it is definitely not possible not to poach people, but it is not good to poach people directly. "Zhang Yujing
"What then?" Zhou Shi
"At most, I promise not to maliciously poach people and not to do things so excessively. "Zhang Yujing
"You think it's wrong for us to dig up Liang Mengsong. "Zhou Shi
"Liang Mengsong is a special case! But this kind of practice made them very annoyed, and they didn't know why they didn't fight back. "Zhang Yujing
"Galaxy Capital's Xuanwu Fund, a major shareholder of TSMC, is seeking to join TSMC's board of directors. In addition, they forced Liang Mengsong away because of internal management problems, so you know, family ugliness should not be publicized. "Zhou Shi
"Hey, how many people have been dug up over there this time?" Zhang Yujing
"I don't know the specific number of people, Liang Mengsong and several of his right-hand men have all gone to the licensed semiconductor. "Zhou Shi
"You have poached so many people, and it is not good on our side, and there is still a lack of key technical talents for technological breakthroughs. "Zhang Yujing
"That's not impossible!" Zhou Shi
"What's the solution?" said Zhang Yujing
"How is Jiang Shangyi from TSMC?"
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(End of chapter)