Chapter 147: Code Name "Picking Stars"! (II)
Guo Fandong didn't have any luggage, so he shook hands with Xia Yu directly, and habitually touched Xue Liang's bald head: "Where, after lunch and on the plane, just take a nap! San Francisco has been here many times, nothing hard!"
"Let's go, let's order a meal, let's talk while eating!"
Both of them are from Shuchuan, Xia Yu and Xiao Wenjing can also eat spicy, and they were still the same Sichuan restaurant that night. Most of the waiters here are Chinese students who come to do odd jobs, and the customers are mainly Chinese, so I feel a little back in China when I go in.
After taking a seat, Xia Yu took the initiative and directly ordered a few big dishes, and ordered some special soju.
Anyway, at this time, he is no longer in a hurry, he has a good meal, and it is just right to talk about things when the relationship is familiar.
Dr. Guo Fandong married an American wife directly after graduation, and his son is eleven years old this year. In addition, Liu Jun's family has just come to the United States, and there are a lot of things to understand and learn.
Xiao Wenjing wanted these two people to deal with each other in the future, and originally wanted to interject, but these two big men were all talking about some long and short meals and medical treatments, how could they look like their own engineers?
Seeing that the two were talking passionately, Xia Yu was eating by herself, she couldn't help but pick up her mobile phone and send a message to Xia Yu.
"The two of them know each other so well, can you believe it?"
Xia Yu immediately understood what she meant, looked up and saw Xiao Xueba looking over, but he didn't reply to the text message, and nodded directly.
Liu Jun is the candidate he has booked early in his mind. In fact, even if he acquired Android at the beginning, he was also full of expectations for Liu Jun's joining.
Before he was reborn, Xia Yu met him on a forum.
At that time, it was 2012, the mobile Internet was in the ascendant, and at the same time, wearable devices were just emerging, and Liu Jun, who finally couldn't bear the loneliness, chose to start a business, and the direction was to connect with smart light bulbs and switch control devices connected to smartphones. It's kind of interesting.
At that time, Xia Yu had just become an investor, and he was very optimistic about this field, and the two chatted for a long time, and finally although they failed to reach an investment, they became friends. Later, the company he founded was tepid, and it was still supported, and Xia Yu also helped recommend it on the crowdfunding platform and in the circle.
Even after returning to China, Xia Yu would occasionally contact him to communicate and consult some questions, which can be regarded as a New Year's forget.
And some things in the future interactions of the tong guò. He was sure that Liu Jun's character was worth believing.
As for Guo Fandong, who just met, of course Xia Yu can't guarantee it.
However, there is still an important person missing from the North American real yàn room, that is, Song Tao, CEO of Skye Network, who has been maintaining communication and invested in by Bluestar Venture Capital. With his ability in the field of application platforms and the work he has already carried out, he can really make up for the shortcomings in early research and development.
At present, Song Tao is still hesitating, after all, he has just returned to China for a year, and he originally planned to start a business, and there are many things to consider when returning to the United States.
And at that time, even if there is no president Xiao Wenjing staring at, a check and balance can be formed. Of course. Necessary assessment management is also indispensable. Including some follow-up administrative design and legal affairs and other departments, Xiao Wenjing will be responsible for it.
Xiao Wenjing knows that with Xia Yu's character, things are definitely planned and executed step by step, but he is often used to thinking about the good side of people. So I'm going to keep an eye on this side.
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The meal was eaten until almost nine o'clock.
drank a little bit of wine, and Liu Jun and Guo Fandong were both a little drunk. But of course, they are not in a hurry to leave, because the next thing is to get to the point.
According to the normal process, Guo Fandong first took out the detailed introduction, bills and operation records of BlueSmart. These things were evaluated by Xiao Xueba, and they directly gave a valuation of about $3 million.
After all, there was some cash on the books, a few orders that brought in more than $100,000 a month, and more than 20 top engineers.
Of course, this valuation was secretly told to Xia Yu, and he nodded. His expression remained unmoved.
On the other hand, Guo Fandong began to give a detailed explanation of the technical direction that Xia Yu was most concerned about.
"QNX is actually an old operating system, about 20 years old, and it's the only real-time microkernel system, and the microkernel plus full address space protection makes it real-time, stable, and reliable. And its code is simple and efficient, almost a hundredth of the Windows XP code, and the stability and high performance are also ......"
Liu Jun couldn't help but say: "Lao Guo, don't show this, let's talk about your progress in terms of mobile phones!"
Xia Yu glanced at Liu Jun, this person is so cute!
"Oh, it's really OK on mobile phones, QNX itself is also suitable for embedded, well, it used to run mainly on X86, and now it's also transplanted to ARM and other cores, by the way, the chips on mobile phones generally use ARM processors, you know this Mr. Xia, right?"
Xia Yu nodded, of course he knew that in later generations, whether it was Qualcomm, the king of mobile chips, MediaTek, and Broadcom, they all developed countless popular smartphone chips on low-power ARM processors.
In fact, if there is an opportunity in the future, this is also one of his investment goals.
He smiled and asked, "I know, by the way, where is our progress?"
Guo Fansheng couldn't help touching his big bald head again, and said embarrassedly: "Actually, Lao Liu has said good things to us before, and our company's research and development in this area is just starting now!"
When it came to the specific work, he was still very serious, and directly turned around and took out a pen and paper while drawing, and said: "The basic direction is determined, that is, to use the QNX kernel to build the underlying architecture, and then build a system runtime, this part of the work has been regarded as some progress......
Xia Yu is most concerned about the application, this is the biggest highlight of the future smartphone, is to turn a mobile phone into a magic machine into a magic machine.
In fact, on the hot-selling mobile phones on the market in 05, there is already a system that can load applications.
Not to mention Microsoft's mobile phone system, it can directly port some PC programs; Symbian, which is supported by Nokia, has also begun to use Java applets, and the Plam system on the PDA has also begun to develop to mobile phones, as well as BlackBerry and Motorola......
It's just that these are still too rudimentary, not to mention complex development, and there are many limitations, so it is difficult to give birth to particularly classic applications. It can't be compared with the booming App market in later generations.
He asked directly, "What about the app, I think this is the most important part of the smartphone in the future!"
Guo Fansheng said with a smile: "I have communicated with Lao Liu, the QNX kernel can support a lot of programming languages, my previous idea is to use Java to develop the framework layer and runtime layer of the application......"
Java is a programming language developed and maintained by Sun for many years, and it is very popular now and even in the future, and is one of the widely used and familiar languages for software engineers.
This is also the programming language that Rubin chose for Android, and in fact, a lot of Java is already used in the Android code.
Of course, there is also a very popular programming language is the C language, including C++, C#, etc., which are based on it, and Apple, Microsoft, Symbian, etc. have chosen this one.
Xia Yu also understands basic programming, and he is already familiar with the C language family in the development and research of intelligent automation during college. But at this point, he still decided to choose Java.
The reason is simple, the former is controlled by Microsoft, which is a future competitor, and Java's SUN company will not develop into mobile phones even if it is later acquired by Oracle, the software giant of the jù library.
Although it is not uncommon for giants to cooperate and compete with each other, it is better to have less.
Besides, Java itself is also more suitable for the development of App applets in the future!
Because he was so engrossed, he shouted directly to Guo Fandong: "Just use Java, let's build up the program layer!"
This made the three people around him stunned. Xia Yu said embarrassedly: "Well, I was distracted just now, but Java is indeed a good choice, Mr. Guo, you continue!"
Guo Fandong also didn't know whether the eighteen-year-old business wizard in front of him knew how to program. But he also loves Java, and he and his employees are familiar with it, so he nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll go back and make sure!"
At this time, Xiao Wenjing secretly reminded Xia Yu: "He hasn't said whether he will accept the acquisition or not......
Although it was whispered. was heard by Liu Jun next to him, and when he saw that Guo Fandong was going to continue to say something about the technical direction, he said haha: "Okay, old Guo." It's good that the direction is set, can you still build it tonight......?"
What a lovely Liu Jun!
Xia Yu was also thinking about how to speak, but as soon as Liu Jun reminded him, he also stood up and said solemnly: "Mr. Guo, I believe you have understood our situation, although Polestar Electronics has just opened up in the MP3 market, the main business we are secretly carrying out in the future will be smartphones! Can you come and help me create a new world together?"
He didn't wait for Guo Fandong to respond, and then said: "$6 million! I want to buy your BlueSmart company!"
In conscience, Guo Fandong valued his company at just over $2 million. So when he heard about the $5 million given by Xia Yu from Liu Jun's mouth before, combined with Xia Yu's legendary experience, he was already tempted.
But he didn't expect Xia Yu to take the initiative to raise the price without blinking his eyelids!
Negotiation in the shopping mall, in fact, is also about momentum, Xia Yu said this, Guo Fandong, who still wants to bargain in human nature, immediately became hot and blurted out: "Thanks to Mr. Xia, from today onwards, Lao Guo and his brothers will eat your bowl of rice!"
Xia Yu was also overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Mr. Guo is polite, let's work together!"
This matter has been decided, and it can be regarded as solving the biggest problem that has been worrying about my heart recently.
Taking advantage of the boom, several people immediately began to discuss the follow-up plan of the North American real room of the Tianxing Group. In addition to the conventional feature phone scheme design and functional research group, more important is the smartphone operating system development project team with the BlueSmart team as the team and strict confidentiality.
On a whim, Xia Yu also gave this secret project planning team a code name: Pick Stars! (To be continued......
PS: The second update is here!
These chapters are a little more technical, but they pass quickly. It's not far from returning to China, Xia Yu still has a little thing to do, you can guess!
It feels good not to owe the chapter!