Indeed, $100 million to buy a small company like Fingerorks is an absolutely inflated price!

But from Lin Feng's point of view, he is not just thinking about the acquisition of a company.

It is the layout and card position of the future mobile Internet era.

At the same time, he is also considering what kind of functions and values the Silicon Valley Research Institute should assume in the popular system.

When Stephen and Mike went to prepare the acquisition plan, Lin Feng pulled Wang Hao and began to discuss this issue in detail.

"Lao Wang, you say, why do we want to establish the Silicon Valley Research Institute?"

Lin Feng's question made Wang Hao take a look, and he is still thinking about whether Fingerorks' multi-touch technology is worth $100 million.

"It's about attracting high-tech talent in the United States. Accumulate talents and technologies for the development of new technologies and business directions for the future. Wang Hao replied.

"Yes, we have discussed before that the reason why we set up the Silicon Valley Research Institute is not to think about the present, but about the future, and to reserve and ...... technology for the next ten or even twenty years. I have always believed that in the future, there will be new opportunities in the direction of mobile, Internet, and mobile phones, not only for the superficial business of social networking, search, and e-commerce, but also based on the underlying ones, including big data, cloud computing, human-computer interaction, and even artificial intelligence. ”

Lin Feng sat on the sofa, his eyes passed through Wang Hao in front of him, and he seemed to see a distant future.

"In Silicon Valley, our competitors are no longer Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba...... In the competition for talent, we are just like now, and we may face Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, ....... ”

"In front of these companies, it is still an insignificant small company, which has been established for just 3 years, and has no fame and no appeal in the industry. ”

He spread his hands: "The Silicon Valley Research Institute has been established for almost one year, and I listened to Zhang Jing's report before, and there are not many top talents who have joined Fengxing...... Andy's Andriod team has recruited some good talent, but the reason is that we don't have a clear idea of the real research direction of the Silicon Valley Research Institute, and we are not well-known here. It can't attract high-end talents. ”

"Let's talk about this multi-touch technology, Lao Wang, think about it, the PC has developed for decades from the beginning to the present, but the way people and devices are connected has hardly changed, almost ignoring Moore's law, it has always been the keyboard and mouse?...... I have a feeling that this is going to change very quickly, and it's touch technology that is causing this change! Imagine what it will be like in the future when people use their phones or tablets, instead of using keyboards to type, but with fingers, and even directly through voice control?

Wang Hao's spirit perked up, after all, he was a professional in technology, and immediately thought of a lot: "What do you mean, is this kind of touch technology the mainstream control method in the future?"

Lin Feng nodded: "At least in terms of smartphones and tablets, it should be like this." ”

Wang Hao suddenly realized: "If this is the case, then Fingerorks has the patent for this technology, and the price of 100 million US dollars is not a loss!"

Lin Feng sighed: "It also depends on what Jobs thinks, if he is the same as I think, it is estimated that we may not be able to win 100 million US dollars...... Waiting for Mike's news, we might have to fly to Delaware to meet the founders of Fingerorks, Westman and Elias, in person. ”

"I hope that through this acquisition, I can also make a name for the popular Silicon Valley Research Institute, so that these high-tech talents in Silicon Valley can see that Fengxing is not stingy in spending a lot of money in technology, and with the research projects and high treatment we have launched, it is possible to really attract high-end talents." ”

Wang Hao nodded, "I understand, this is also the meaning of buying bones." ”

Lin Feng smiled: "Yes, that's what it means...... Lao Wang, I have an idea, and I want to hear your opinion. ”

"You say. ”

"Recently, everything in China has been relatively smooth, Xiaolong, Li Jun, Fei Yang, Han Qing and they have all been able to take charge of themselves, I am wondering, can we focus on the smart phone project? I am going to put this project in the Silicon Valley Research Institute to prepare, on the one hand, it is far away from China, it will not cause much impact, on the other hand, the talent and technology here are also better. …… I want you to take charge of this project. ”

Wang Haoleng paused: "You mean, I will lead this project?"

He has been accustomed to developing step by step under the guidance of Lin Feng, and now such a big project, let him lead it, even if he and Lin Feng start a business together, they trust each other deeply, they are a little surprised.

As for Lin Feng's implication, he may be stationed in the United States, but Wang Hao doesn't care too much.

He is now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and his wife has long mentioned to him that he wants to immigrate, but there is no family difficulty.

"Yes, Zhang Jing is doing strategic planning at Yahoo and Microsoft, the overall situation and vision are good, but the only one is weaker in technology, he is responsible for investment and mergers and acquisitions in the United States, and there is no problem with business cooperation, but for the vision of technology and the judgment of talents, it is definitely not as good as you, the research institute, Andy alone is definitely not good, if you want to become bigger, and truly become the engine of the future, you still need your Wang to go out personally!"

Lin Fengkou flickered Wang Hao with a lotus flower.

"Come on, don't fool me, we've been partners for so long, I don't know your set. Wang Hao smiled and waved his hand.

"Let's be practical, what tasks are you going to assign to the Institute?"

"Hmm...... For the time being, I first thought of three directions, the first is the technical reserve of the mobile Internet, smartphones also belong to this category, including Andy's Andriod project, we already have an operating system, if we can win Fingerorks, we have touch screen control technology, I also invested in an imaging equipment company called Gopro, which should be able to provide cameras for smartphones, and in terms of mobile browsers, we already have UC browsers,...... It can be said that there is already a good foundation. ”

"Fengxing has no experience in developing hardware, and we also need to set up an industrial design department and a human-machine interface design department as soon as possible, and reserve graphics processing technology, circuit design, DSP design, etc. ”

"Don't worry, I won't really leave you alone to do it, I will still take care of this matter, and in addition, I will also be responsible for external acquisitions and provide you with sufficient funds. ”

Wang Hao nodded: "Funding is a big problem, we have never done smartphones, I think about it simply, there is too much content to get from scratch, talent, technology, hardware...... , which requires funds. Do we have enough money?"

Lin Feng smiled: "Originally, I was still a little worried, but after World of Warcraft is launched, we should be able to earn 1-200 million US dollars more a year, plus the new games of several studio groups will be launched at the end of the year and next year, we should be able to hold on." ”

Wang Hao gritted his teeth and slapped his thigh: "Okay! I'll try, this challenge is very exciting!"

Lin Feng laughed and said, "Of course, I can warn you in advance, Lao Wang, your competitor is Apple's Jobs!"