Avago wants to acquire the world's second largest iFi chip company, although Zhou Shi did not directly tell Spreadtrum's Li Liyou, but still asked him about the iFi chip, it turns out that the Spreadtrum chip is also integrated with Broadcom or Atheros chips, and the market share of these two companies exceeds 50%.

"We don't have our own iFi chip?" Zhou Shi

"No!"

"Is this technology large, and do we have the ability to develop it?" Zhou Shi

"It's not very difficult, it's just more troublesome," Li Liyou

"Then buy a mature team and do it yourself!" Zhou Shi

"That's fine, in fact, we have a goal!" Li Liyou

"(⊙o⊙)..."Zhou Shi just wants to scold people, Malegobi's, it's fun to fool him?"

"We have to learn from MediaTek to do turnkey solutions, iFi chips, Bluetooth may be an indispensable part, with the company's business conditions improving, we have also intervened in the research of iFi, but it is just beginning. Li Liyou explained

Spreadtrum's chips use two brands, the Snapdragon series in cooperation with Guoke (to occupy the name of Qualcomm chips and seize their luck!), and Spreadtrum's own brand Kirin (the same reason, follow the path of HiSilicon......). The Snapdragon series supplies a small amount of nuts, and the Kirin series is open to supply, you must know that at this time, Qualcomm does not have TD chips and low-end mobile phone chips, MediaTek is close to the Microsoft platform, and the support for Android and Android is not enough, or the support for domestic 3G mobile phones is not enough. In a market with few competitors, Spreadtrum, with its high-quality chips, is growing at a fast pace. In particular, the global layout and the establishment of laboratories, which are the solutions adopted by almost most high-tech companies in later generations, are only promoted by Spreadtrum at this time. And last year's trillions, after the credit was liberalized, the scale of loans obtained by Spreadtrum exceeded one billion yuan, which did not have the action of the government Zhou Shicai did not believe that there would be such a good treatment, of course, Huaxia Mobile has also made a lot of efforts.

"What company?" Zhou Shi

"There is a company called Espressif Information Technology in Modu, and they mainly make wireless system-on-chips with iFi and Bluetooth technology. "Li Liyou

"Is it expensive, what is the technical content, and what is the market size?" Zhou Shi

"They were founded in 08, technology entrepreneurship, and now there is no market," Li Liyou

"A start-up, as long as their technology research and development capabilities are available, you can buy it, it doesn't matter. Zhou Shi knows that the growth of a company is inevitable with external acquisitions, and the acquisition of startups is more of an acquisition of talents.

"However, their founders mainly want to do research and development in IoT chips," said Li

"Internet of Things? Yes, as long as we can ensure that our iFi chips can meet the needs of the low-end market, he can do the research he likes. "Zhou Shi, Zhou Shi is still very generous to those who have the ability, although he will not spit on himself, but the respect he should have will definitely be more.

Later, Zhou Shi learned that the founder of Espressif was named Zhang Ruipress, a graduate of the National University of Singapore, with 5 IEEE articles and 18 international patents. He has worked at Transilica and Marvell Technology, and has developed Bluetooth chips and 802.11BGN/802.11A chips.

"By the way, Qualcomm wants to buy our graphics chip company, but it can't, and it is digging into the wall in a big way. "Li Liyou

"He digs us, don't you know how to dig them? Pay attention to patents and protect technical information, so as not to let people take advantage of it. Zhou Shi said angrily, this kind of thing is normal, there are many dirtier things, except to protect yourself, there is no other way, Silicon Valley has no non-compete agreement (there is a tacit understanding, large companies complement each other to poach people). As long as the core technical data is not stolen, coupled with the speed of Spreadtrum's own research and development, I believe there will be no major problems.

"That's the only way, but the salary overseas and Huaxia is always a problem. "Li Liyou

"How do I know how to solve such a complex problem, don't you have a plan yet?" Zhou Shi's current ability to solve some small problems can be, and it is really difficult to find him for such a complex management problem. The salary of multinational companies has always been a big problem, and the reason why Friends Network has established independent branches in each region is also due to employee salary considerations, and it is impossible for him to reach the overseas income level for domestic employees at the beginning.

"There is no good way to do it except to raise the wages of domestic employees. "Li Liyou

"The salary increase must be raised, by the way, how many levels have we set for the company's employees?" Zhou Shi thought that Ali had more than a dozen levels in the past, and Baidu Tengxun had nine levels, so many levels should be able to coordinate the wages of employees, right?

"Employee level?"

"Otherwise, we will improve the treatment of employees year by year, and then delineate the level of employees according to their personal ability, the same level and the same salary level, different living subsidies in different regions, different profits, different contributions, and different salary rewards. Zhou Shi thought about it a little and came up with a bad idea.

"Is this okay?"

"It's not our problem, what to do in personnel and finance, or find a deputy with experience in multinational companies, or at least have such experience. Zhou Shi was very unhappy, he didn't have such an experience, and he didn't ask about Amazon's company in Huaxia. The issue of salary has never been his concern, and this kind of thing can always be solved by the right person. The core idea is a principle of fairness, anyway, with inflation, the salary level of high-end occupations in China will gradually be in line with international standards. However, thinking that Li Liyou was the CEO of the company and had to take care of everything, Zhou Shi didn't say much.

"By the way, can our chairman convince Johny Srouji?" Zhou Shi asked Li Liyou with a wicked taste, Li Yinan is a recognized genius in China, and Johnny Srouji is the main person in charge of the design of the iPhone microprocessor chip.

"I've seen enough, he has very little rest now, and he works in the company for a long time, and we support the Snapdragon S1 chip for retina screens, and the main hero is Johnny Sloki, but unfortunately his English level is not good enough......" Li Liyou also felt funny when he thought about it

Johnny Sloki is an Israeli, primarily based in the United States and Israel, and occasionally reporting to China, and is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, and French, with only a slight but very good command of English.

"You have to watch it, don't let him die of overwork, his responsibility is mainly the direction of technical research, let us avoid detours, not specific research" Although Zhou Shi wanted to see this genius's joke, he would not joke with his health.

"Okay, I'll take care of it for you, it'll be fine" Li Liyou

Zhou Shi knew that this matter could only be like this, and he might not be able to help in the past.

(End of chapter)