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In '05, mobile e-mail technology would gradually become the standard for a new generation of smartphones, but at this time, the Canadian company RIM had not yet launched their first BlackBerry to port this technology. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In 99 years, no one can clearly realize how big the business market for handheld terminals to send mobile e-mail is, but the basic patents in the field of mobile e-mail technology have almost been preemptively registered by NTP and VISTO, the former mainly takes the push technology as its own, and the latter monopolizes other important software and hardware architectures, leaving a small gap in the patents of other companies, even RIM companies have neglected the deployment of patents.

In this field of technology, ESS contacted Jeff. Geoffgoodfellow was probably the first inventor. There seems to be no shortage of geniuses in this world, and Jeff dropped out of high school. Goodfeller came up with the idea of sending mobile e-mail to a handheld terminal in '82, continued to do a lot of research and development work, and worked hard to industrialize the technology he mastered for more than a decade. Goodfeller also ignored patent filings, and by the end of '98, the company he had set up to commercialize the technology was in trouble and could not be saved.

"The two days are just me and Jeff. Goodfeller met," Zhang Ke said to Cheng Hanzhang, "I hope that ESS can acquire his company as soon as possible, and this matter will be determined as soon as possible, there is still a lot to be done......"

In fact, Zhang Ke knew that Jeff. Goodfeller is planning to close his company and plan to go to Prague to start a bar business and buy Jeff before other electronics giants can see the market prospects for mobile email business and take action. Goodfeller's company will not have much difficulty, except for the acquisition of Jeff. Outside of Goodfeller's company, Zhang Ke also hopes to keep him.

Even though it is difficult to judge the future of mobile e-mail technology, it is not difficult to judge whether the technology can be integrated into mobile phones. Since the autumn of last year, AIDA Group has determined the core strategic direction of integrating digital technology and mobile phone products, and the acquisition and continuous development of mobile email technology is in line with the core strategic direction of AIDA Group.

There is no doubt about Zhang Ke's decision within Kumho, maybe Zhang Ke is a little impatient, and it can also be said that he has made a decision.

In North America, where professional development and division of labor are emphasized, technology companies mostly focus on a certain technical field, but few technology companies in China can share the R&D responsibility in a certain field with Kumho, and Kumho is forced to invest heavily in establishing a comprehensive R&D system and establishing a heavy and direct production system from upstream to terminal.

Due to such demand, even if the ESS experimental base in Silicon Valley has 300 scientific researchers, it cannot fully meet the R&D tasks shared by ESS, but in North America, ESS with 300 scientific researchers is by no means a small enterprise, and even if Scooper has only more than 100 employees in the scientific research department in North America.

So, Zhang Ke and Jeff. Goodfeller's request for a meeting was quickly responded to. Goodfeller took a night flight to San Francisco the next day to meet with Zhang Ke.

Jeff. Goodfeller still wants ESS to fund his company, not buy it.

A salary of $100,000 is also considered a high salary in North America, which is twice as high as the average salary per capita in North America. Outside of Goodfeller's company, Zhang Ke offered him an annual salary of $500,000 to stay at ESS to work on follow-up research and development in the field of mobile email technology.

Even though NTP and VISTO preemptively registered nearly 30 basic patents in the field of mobile e-mail technology, in most technical fields, the patent deployment always derives dozens or even hundreds of times of subordination, improvement, and combination patents from the initial few basic patents, so as to cover the basic patents.

In Jeff. After a day of hesitation, Mr. Zhang raised his annual salary by $620,000 and made him sign the employment agreement and the company transfer agreement on the spot.

That night, in San Francisco, for Jeff. Goodfeller joined ESS to hold a small celebratory reception, and Wei Yuanzhen, the second scientist in charge of developing the Linux operating system at Oak Park, happened to be in San Francisco, so he naturally attended the celebration reception, and Cheng Hanzhang smiled and said to him: "Your task is a big chunk!" ”

In the future, the software module of mobile email will be embedded in the operating system, and the follow-up development of the software module will also be responsible for the team led by Wei Yuanzhen, and his work will indeed have a big part.

"The scale of Aida is expanding at a visible rate, and we all have a feeling of being chased when we do scientific research......," Wei Yuanzhen said with a smile, "Maybe in less than ten years, the scale of Aida's development will surprise everyone." ”

Jeff. Goodfeller also realized early on that the commercialization of mobile e-mail technology must rely on powerful technology companies to concentrate enough manpower and material resources to complete. Goodfeller's scientific research team to develop follow-up technology, there are considerable research and development tasks can be handed over to the domestic research and development department to complete, and the patent application work that was previously ignored will also be responsible for the professional department, so that the speed of developing handheld terminals to Jeff. Goodfeller is several times faster.

"Canada's RIM is already developing handheld terminal products for mobile e-mail," Cheng asked Zhang, "Can we follow behind?" ”

"Next, let's negotiate with NTP and VISTO first," Zhang Ke said, "and then we will get the basic patent technology licensing in the relevant technology field......

Even Jeff. Goodfeller's company does not hold the relevant patents, but the company actually has the technology of mobile e-mail, and there is a large amount of relevant technical information to prove that the relevant technology was mastered before the patents of NTP and VISTO were preemptively registered, which can put the patent stability of the two companies at risk.

Also, Jeff. Goodfeller, an authority in the field of mobile e-mail technology, has taken him under his umbrella and can even develop new technical solutions to circumvent the patents of NTP and Vista.

M&A Jeff. Goodfeller & Co. and Jeff. Goodfeller himself signed with Kumho, and Kumho had enough leverage to take the initiative in negotiations with NTP and VISTO to license all the basic patented technologies in all mobile email fields.

Zhang Ke seriously considered that even if all the basic patents were authorized and the handheld terminal was successfully developed, it was not very likely that Kumho's model of copying RIM BlackBerry would succeed in the North American market, or even replace RIM.

In addition to technology, there are many factors for success, many of which Kumho does not have at this time, such as RIM for the development of BlackBerry's enterprise users, and even build a large number of enterprise servers to sell their terminal products, even if Kumho has this capital strength, but the possibility of obtaining permission from the US government is far lower than that of RIM from Canada.

At this time, the key is to complete the layout of the patent first, let RIM go to the front to develop the market, and wait until the time is relatively ripe, and when Kumho's mobile phone technology is relatively mature, it is not too late to enter the market.

Zhang Ke came to San Francisco this time, and there was another key person to meet, he was Xu Shengzhi, who joined ESS in mid-March last year to lead the mobile phone chip research and development department of ESS.

ESS has secretly carried out the research of mobile phone baseband chip for nearly a year, Xu Shengzhi has led the research work of baseband chip for nearly 20 years, it is not difficult for him to copy the complete baseband chip technology, the key is to avoid the patents held by other companies, which can be regarded as the best baseband chip technology, then the team led by Xu Shengzhi needs to design a new technical solution and successfully realize.

In ESS's mobile phone chip laboratory, Zhang Ke saw that the mobile phone prototype of microprocessor + baseband chip architecture is not good enough in terms of power consumption and performance stability, but it is enough to prove that the ESS experimental base is on the right track.

"It will take about a year to two years before we can come up with a mature product." Cheng Hanzhang said.

Zhang Ke nodded and said: "In two years, the domestic mobile phone market environment will not be bad, and the time left for us is still ample ......."

In the next two years, the domestic mobile phone market will increase exponentially, and the mouth of foreign brand mobile phones has not been completely opened, so it leaves enough room for the development of domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing stayed in San Francisco for nearly ten days, during these ten days, first Xiao Jincheng accompanied him in San Francisco, after Xiao Jincheng left, Chen Xinsheng and Ding Huai also went to San Francisco one after another to deal with official business, but in the end, Tan Yunsong, the chief scientist of Oak Park, and a group of middle and senior scientific researchers who returned to China Oak Park to engage in scientific research accompanied Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing to return to Jianye from Beijing, and it was just in time for the start of the new semester -- Meng Le and Xi Ruolin stayed directly in San Francisco.

Last semester, because Qian Guihua, an official of Nanye District, and others absconded during a foreign inspection, Zhang Ke was in a hurry to see Luo Jun, resulting in the last exam not being taken.