Chapter 287 - The Worst Way to Grant Patents

Immediately, a director suggested: "I think Intel should temporarily use the Youying Overlord coprocessor chip to sell the Pentium processor." This is the best way to solve the problem in the short term. ”

The director, who threatened to sell the stock, retorted: "Shigemitsu is an important ally of Cyrix, they can't design products for Intel, and users can only buy graphics cards with Cyrix coprocessors for their own use, or buy motherboards that are compatible with Cyrix processors, such as the new VIA company." ”

The director had an idea: "I think Intel should take the initiative to advise users to buy such graphics cards and motherboards. ”

The previous one frowned: "But in this way, users will have very few graphics card models and motherboards to choose from."

At present, there are not many high-end graphics cards equipped with Youying Overlord coprocessors on the market, and almost all of them are used in brand machines, and only Chinese in the assembly machine market are desperately manufacturing and selling those coprocessor graphics cards with low-end display chips.

If Intel recommends this, all graphics card manufacturers will be furious.

If you choose a VIA motherboard, it is simply an insult to the motherboard franchisee in the Intel camp. ”

Another director asked, "Didn't Intel try to communicate with Chongguang? Embedding Chongguang's coprocessor on the motherboard of Intel's Pentium processor like Cyrix."

I know that there is a Chinese company imagining, they are also a franchisee of Intel motherboards, and last year they launched Intel chipset motherboards equipped with Youying Overlord coprocessors, and now they are selling very well, and the products have even entered the US market!"

A director immediately said, "I think this is good." ”

Yu Youcheng saw that everyone was talking, but Grove didn't say a word, not knowing what the boss was planning in his heart. But since the boss doesn't speak, it naturally has his intentions, and it's not easy to say anything himself.

Finally, after everyone had fully expressed their opinions, Grove opened his mouth.

"Now I know what everyone here thinks.

First of all, Intel will not get involved in low-threshold industries such as motherboard or graphics card assembly.

And once the Youying Overlord coprocessor is embedded in Intel's motherboard design, it is a surrender in itself and will shake the faith of Intel's most loyal core customers. We don't encourage the idea of imagining a motherboard, and of course, we don't object to it for the time being.

Because we're glad to see that the new products currently on the market are actively moving closer to Intel, after all, their products want to please Intel's processor users, don't they?

Obviously, everyone knows that the Youying Overlord coprocessor chip can get better speed with the Pentium processor, so many assembly machine users are doing this kind of self-matching.

But we will never encourage or advise users to take this kind of behavior, because it is a suicide that damages the value of the brand!

You must know that Chongguang Company has never submitted technical certification to Intel in the process of developing the Youying Overlord chip, and it has not applied for it after the product comes out, which is an insult to us!

Therefore, we will not prove to users that Chongguang's Youying Overlord coprocessor is technically safe, nor will we make any guarantee for customers to provide technical solutions for data calculation errors that may occur in use!

Intel's multi-energy Pentium will still be launched, and our sales department has also released the news, saying that we will be able to launch multi-energy Pentium products this year, and we will definitely be able to do it.

However, due to the progress of the Haifa Research Center, our first-generation multi-energy Pentium products may not use our self-developed MMX instruction set, but will consider cross-licensing with Chongguang Company, so as to obtain Chongguang's instruction set technology patent authorization, and on this basis, after careful inspection and further development, we will launch a multi-functional processor without computing defects.

That's Intel's solution!"

Grove's words were almost final, and finally the audience was silenced again.

The director, who had threatened to sell his shares, realized that Grove was deliberately waiting for someone to jump out, and now he had to say: "Then I have no opinion, I just hope you can get the product to market quickly." ”

"Rest assured, for this deal, we have already greeted the relevant lawmakers on Capitol Hill in advance, and formally submitted technical deliberations with the relevant government departments, so it should be completed soon," Grove said. ”

Next, after careful discussions with the board of directors, everyone finally unanimously approved the authorization of Chongguang's X86 architecture, but did not give any substantive technical information.

This is tantamount to saying that if Chongguang wants to produce X86 architecture processors, there is no other way than to use reverse engineering to copy Intel products, and there will be no technical support from Intel for any technical difficulties encountered in plagiarizing production.

To put it bluntly, it is a compromise that has the so-called patent authorization but no technology transfer, which will greatly delay the progress of the other party's use and mastery of the patent, and is the worst kind of patent authorization in the industry. Generally, such a bad patent licensing scheme will only appear after being infringed by the other party, through legal communication, and when the two parties settle out of court.

This is tantamount to saying that Intel allows you to use his patent, but does not tell you what the patent is about, nor does it tell you the design ideas and principles, just to ensure that you do not break the law when you copy the 486 architecture and the previous 386 and 286 architecture designs.

The Board of Directors also passed a resolution prohibiting Chongguang from transferring the authorization in any form, including liquidation of assets after bankruptcy or acquisition by other companies. This patent grant cannot be counted as an asset transfer and can only be completely invalidated.

When Hu Yiting and Wang Lili saw the technology licensing exchange draft brought by McJimir in the conference room of Intel's China branch, Wang Lili couldn't help but be angry, even though they knew that the other party did not intend to give substantial technology transfer.

"What is this? There is no mention of any design materials in it! This kind of patent authorization is really unheard of! It is also used to exchange the core technology of our company! You are really too much!

Our Chongguang company has ARM, MIPS, Alpha instruction set authorization, none of them is like your Intel!

There are no process parameters and technical guidance, but the implementation method of each instruction set must always be given, right?

Design ideas and product development materials must always be provided, right?

Dedicated development tools are always provided even if they are available for an additional fee, right?

You don't give you anything! Do you want us to completely reverse engineer and copy the 486 processor and sell it? Do you know how many years of hard work it will take? Is it the same way you licensed the X86 to AMD and Cyrix in the first place?"

McJimir wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "The heating here in the northern capital is really good, and it is as hot as California in winter." ”

After saying a digression to adjust the atmosphere, McJimir said: "President Wang Lili, you must know that this is the decision of the board of directors, and there is nothing I can do."

And you should understand that under the Wassenaar Agreement, sensitive products and technologies are subject to strict export restrictions, and if those are included in this technology cross-licensing agreement, it will not be easily approved by the U.S. government. ”

Hu Yiting looked indifferent, and whispered to Wang Lili: "Then so be it, I don't care." ”

Wang Lili saw that Hu Yiting had no objection, so she had to say: "You have all set the draft, what else can we say, we are a small company, I only hope that Intel will not target us in the future after getting benefits!"

McJimir hurriedly said: "No, this is absolutely impossible, and we will be partners in the future." You can take this draft and the accompanying contract back and take a look, and if there are no problems, I can always sign a contract with your lawyer on behalf of the company.

If you need to hold a press conference, I'll cooperate. ”

Hu Yiting stroked his shaved lips with his hand and reminded in a low voice, "Open." ”

Wang Lili immediately said: "Of course, there will be a press conference, which is always an opportunity for our company to make a name for itself, and it is almost the only remaining benefit in this transaction." ”

McJimill smiled, lowered his eyelids and looked at the back of his yellow-haired hand, without saying a word. 4610