Chapter 18: The Honest Depp
The next day, the early morning sunlight sprinkled into the bedroom, dispelling the charm in Li Xiaoming's mind.
He opened his eyes, tilted his head sideways and looked out the window at the branches that were gradually beginning to wither, his eyes were bright, and his head rubbed up.
"Oh, I can't be decadent, the greater the pressure, the greater the motivation, and the future will be more exciting!"
He shook his head, shook the inexplicable residues in his head, washed up and went to the computer.
Silently chanting the mantra "never reply" in his mind, he fidgeted and turned on the computer.
In the next few days, Li Xiaoming's life can be described as staying at home, soaking in front of the computer every day, opening his eyes to see if there is a new email in his mailbox, once there are new doubts or proposals on the other side of the ocean, he can only rack his brains to answer questions.
Fortunately, his thinking has been ahead of the entire era for 20 years, and Li Xiaoming can give some of the other party's ideas for the future of high-end chips and consumer electronics, which makes them feel amazing.
For example, Li Xiaoming asserted that in a few years, mobile phones will completely enter the all-intelligent 3G era from the transition stage of GPRS, and finally move towards 4G, and then the application chip will also be upgraded to a new height, because the mobile phones of the future generations will use millions of applications.
Although the current level of technology is not at all able to reach the kind of scene described in Li Xiaoming's mouth, the blueprint outlined in Li Xiaoming's mouth alone has already made Dai Pu on the other side of the ocean like a bosom friend.
Especially in the development of application chips, Depp found that Li Xiaoming, who had never met before, was strikingly similar to himself in many ideas, and both sides agreed that it was necessary to firmly grasp the development process of application chips while developing baseband chips.
It's just that in the direction of the future development of screen technology, the two have completely different views.
Depp is a loyal fan of plasma screens, but Li Xiaoming knows that after 05 years, under the leadership of Ai Crazy, TFT LCD technology has completely become the mainstream of the screen.
Plasma, on the other hand, has completely withdrawn from the stage of history due to various small defects in the visualization.
This is also a rare decision-making mistake in Depp's career, and it is not a mistake, but it is limited by the times.
And Depp is not the kind of person who doesn't admit it, and his reflection on himself was the main factor that made him finally the CEO of TI.
What's more, Li Xiaoming didn't think about convincing Depp on this matter, the most important thing is that he still needs to agree to transfer the technology to Longtu.
As for going to Guangdong Province to communicate with mobile phone manufacturers, it fell on the heads of Liu Minghan and Zheng Shuang, and the two of them have been running around for a while during this time, which also allows Li Xiaoming to better communicate with TI's Depp.
However, even so, the results of the negotiations are not encouraging.
Although Depp personally agrees with the transfer of low-end technology to Longtu, he does not have a very strong voice in the TI board of directors now, and the industry barriers in this era are strict, which is also a problem that TI executives need to consider.
No one wants the lion in the east to rise, this is the biggest problem, which is why Li Xiaoming is desperate to do this.
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Ever since Depp received an email from the mysterious eastern country on the other side of the strait a few days ago, he had been talking to Li Xiaoming, who had never met before, as if he had been in a demon.
The two talked about the future development trend from the core technology of mobile phones, from plasma to LCD screens, and even talked about the consumption prospects of electronic products in Asia.
The guy across the computer gave Depp an encyclopedia feeling, and many questions seemed to have his own opinions, but when Depp felt that this kind of insight was like a fantasy, he could always use the existing technology as an extension direction to support his views.
This made Depp ashamed of himself, and it made him more and more curious about the person across the computer.
Although he knew that the purpose of the other party talking so much was nothing more than to take a fancy to the second- and third-rate technologies that TI was ready to eliminate, such technologies were still top in China, where the electronics industry had just started for a few years.
For example, the Nokia 8910 that Li Xiaoming is using now is still a model that has just entered the era of color screen, while most people in China only use blue screens or even black and white screens, while abroad, color screen mobile phones have long been popularized.
TI's baseband chip technology has long met the relevant needs of color screen mobile phones, and the company's research and development direction is also selected for color screen mobile phones, those second- and third-rate technologies have long been out of the planning scope of the planning department, and the senior management does have the idea of transferring this part of the technology.
But the object of the transfer never considered the mysterious country of the East.
In the eyes of TI's senior management, these second- and third-rate technologies can continue to attract money in the Huaxia market, and it is extremely unwise to transfer these technologies to Huaxia before making the last profit of the last profit.
Coupled with trade barriers, technology transfer is even more difficult.
So even if Depp himself felt that he was quite close to Li Xiaoming on the other side of the ocean, and he felt that if he gave these technologies to Li Xiaoming, maybe he would create some miracles, but the company's senior management had already made a clear rejection of the report submitted by the president of the Asia-Pacific region on the transfer of technology to a company in Huaxia.
Depp was a very professional person, and his current position did not know the content of the core meeting, so he had to convey this meaning very tactfully to his friend on the other side of the ocean.
He could imagine the friend's madness when he received such news, but he could only express deep regret about it.
"Uncle's! If the email doesn't work, I'll have an interview!" Li Xiaoming bit his lip and thought viciously.
Depp never expected that the tenacity of the friend across from him was beyond his imagination, and he actually asked for an interview with him when the company clearly showed refusal.
So, he sat in his office and thought about it for a long time, until his secretary came to remind him that the next meeting was about to begin, and he stood up and strode to the conference room, making an important decision that would affect the rest of his life.
He's going to try to convince the old diehards on the board that he's going to argue for the mysterious Oriental friend at the meeting.
Although he himself didn't know why he would make such a big decision for someone he had never met, at least after making this decision, his frowning brow in the last few days finally relaxed, and the corners of his mouth were filled with the confident smile he had always had.