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San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides and has a typical maritime climate, and when you go out in the morning, it is like the early spring season in China, and it is enough to wear a single coat, a thin fleece jacket and a slightly thicker outer thickness. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The artificial lake in front of the Art Palace is as green as jade, a few snow-white swans swim past from time to time, the delicate long neck draws a graceful arc on the water surface, the mandarin ducks, water ducks, and gannets are noisy here to forage and choose mates, the waterside is full of benches that can lie down and the green space with fragrant grass, under the warm winter sun, Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing sit here for half a day.

Zhang Ke doesn't like to go to any city to browse the city's attractions in a hurry, and then he has no deep impression, he would rather sit on the grass in front of the Art Palace for a long time, looking at the Romanesque circular machine with the rose-red Corinthian stone columns, and the Art Palace with the embossed annular fine relief on the top - the iconic attraction of San Francisco, Zhai Danqing's head rests on Zhang Ke's thighs, and his body is slightly curled up on the grass, looking more comfortable. Zhang Ke withdrew his gaze from the magnificent dome of the Art Palace, and fell on Zhai Danqing's lazy face, the beautiful and noble face like a swan, and the pure and flawless amorous eyes like beautiful jade made people look fascinated, she was wearing a loose, dark gray coat, covering her charming and sexy figure.

"Okay," Zhang Ke reached out and patted Zhai Danqing's blown cheek gently, "They are still waiting for us to rush over for lunch!" ”

Walking out of the square in front of the Palace of Fine Arts, the car waited outside the square, got into the car, and drove towards San Francisco's famous Pier 39, which is probably the most joyful place in San Francisco, originally a port for Italian fishermen to go out to fish, rich in fresh seafood, today in addition to seafood stalls, museums, shops, galleries, antique shops, restaurants, shopping centers and souvenir shops, as well as tourists, standing at the corner of the street, you can see the white mast in the distance crowding the harbor.

In a seafood restaurant at Pier 39.

"The North American company's lawyer's reply letter to the riaa has been drafted, do you want to take a look at it?" Xiao Jincheng asked Zhang Ke.

"It doesn't matter if I see it or not, you just have to think that the tone is tough enough."

"It seems inevitable that this lawsuit will be inevitable." Xiao Jincheng smiled.

Unlike other companies that weakly choose to compromise and settle, they would rather choose to spend huge amounts of lawyers' litigation fees to go to court, and it takes a certain amount of courage to go to court with the largest audio-visual giant riaa in the United States, but it is not all without benefits, no matter whether the lawsuit is won or lost, it is of great benefit to improve the reputation of Aida in North America - in addition, Kumho has the world's largest genuine music sales website, even if the lawsuit is lost, At best, if there are stricter restrictions on piracy, it is unlikely that the product will be banned in North America. At this time, it may be the issue of huge litigation costs, and the more the lawsuit is fought, the better it may be for Kumho, and the cost may be partially diverted from the $40 million marketing budget.

The electronics industry involves extremely complex patents, and no electronics company dares to declare that there is absolutely no overlap in its products with other companies' patented technologies.

In order to gain a firm foothold in the European and American markets, responding to the lawsuit or responding to the war is the only correct choice, and sometimes you can also fight back and complain about the infringement of others, of course, the Kumho patent pool must be large enough to be qualified to set a patent trap for others.

Zhang Ke asked Meng Le and Xi Ruolin how they felt when they visited the North American company in the morning.

"I haven't started working yet, but after a visit, I felt some pressure," Meng Le said with a smile, "I thought that the United States was a world of flowers, only working five days a week, only six hours a day, a little understanding, this is not the case at all, here, a little slack, there will be a possibility of being eliminated tomorrow!" ”

"Hehe, someone has made statistics, the per capita salary in Silicon Valley in '98 was 96,000 US dollars, which is 100 times the average income of urban workers in Jianye, and it can reach about 100,000 US dollars in '99, how can there be no pressure with such a high salary?" Zhang Ke said with a smile.

"A hundred thousand dollars," Xi Ruolin sighed lightly, "We got those shares in Chuangyu, and we all felt that we had made a fortune, and when we came out for a walk, we really felt that the world outside was much broader - how many high-tech talents are there in Silicon Valley?" ”

"There are almost a million scientific researchers," Cheng Hanzhang said, "and they are all elites from various countries, such as half of the graduates of Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Tokyo University on the mainland, and sooner or later, this is where they mainly flow...... "Cheng Hanzhang is a Taiwanese who has always called the mainland to the mainland; Xiao Jincheng is the same.

"Whoever works here will feel pressure, so you two should have a good experience." Zhang Ke patted Meng Le's shoulder and said with a smile.

"How many people in Jianye still hope to work in Kumho!" Xi Ruolin smiled again and said, "Who would have thought that the gap would be so big!" ”

"In China, Kumho's salary is okay, so there's no need to be humble." Zhang Ke said.

The annual salary of scientific research personnel recruited by Oak Park in China is generally about 100,000 yuan, which is already an absolute high salary in Jianye in 99 years, and the housing price in the central area of Jianye is only more than 2,000 per square meter, and the difference in prices is almost one-half to one-third of the average salary in the United States, and the gap is not as big as imagined.

Zhang Ke's vision of the Oak Park must be maintained at more than 20,000 scientific researchers to ensure that Kumho has the ability to develop a first-class and complete technical system to ensure that Kumho has a firm foothold in the consumer electronics industry.

Some basic technological breakthroughs are relatively easy, but the follow-up research and development is complicated, and the number of scientific researchers who need to invest is increasing exponentially. Now the scale of scientific research personnel in Oak Park is more than 2,000 people, which seems to be basically enough, but it will soon feel that there is a shortage of manpower - Kumho initially developed the first DVD player, and only a few people such as Su Jindong and Chen Xinsheng needed to make it, and at this time there were 50 full-time scientific researchers in the audio-visual laboratory, and there were also many basic research in audio-visual technology that belonged to the Taite Optoelectronic Technology Research Institute and the Oak Park Experimental Park. At present, every time Kumho acquires a patented technology outside, someone needs to follow up, and some technologies are more complex, and even require a research group to do follow-up digestion and follow-up research, which requires a large number of scientific researchers to devote their energy to it.

This is also the key to the fact that it is extremely difficult for domestic enterprises that are good at fighting price wars to establish an in-depth scientific research system -- even if Oak Park is on a scale at this time, Kumho invests as much as 400 million yuan in salary costs every year, and if it really wants to reach the scale of 20,000 scientific researchers, it will cost 3 or 4 billion yuan a year in salary alone. With the market advantage established by the price war, how can the meager profits obtained pay for such a high cost of scientific research manpower? It takes an excellent profitability to support a deep scientific research system, which, in turn, will continue to enhance the profitability of the enterprise.

Unless there is a monopoly of the market, it is not easy to fight the price war, and continuous product innovation is the competitiveness that is worth relying on.

Even though Kumho invests a lot of money every year to develop and expand the Oak Park R&D system, it is difficult to hire a large number of middle and senior researchers from Silicon Valley to return to China with the capital strength this time. Kumho's approach is to hire middle and senior scientific researchers from Silicon Valley and around the world to work in China with high salaries, build the skeleton of the R&D system based on these backbones, and then recruit a large number of basic scientific researchers from China to make up for it. In addition, a strict and multi-channel training system has been established, not only the training mechanism within Oak Park, but also the academic exchanges between Oak Park and the Tsukuba City Experimental Base and the ESS Experimental Base in Silicon Valley, as well as the establishment of joint laboratories with companies such as Deyi and Scooper, and through the joint laboratory, technical exchanges with advanced high-tech companies. For Tunghai University, which can be said to directly import outstanding graduates to Kumho, Kumho not only jointly established a dual tutor system with these universities to provide a better platform for the cultivation of professional talents, but also directly sponsored a large amount of funds and equipment to these universities to improve the professional teaching and academic level of these universities.

Zhang Ke came to San Francisco this time, in addition to inspecting the work here, the main purpose is to recruit talents, and recruit talents who are extremely lacking in Kumho's future development direction, such as Geoffgoodfellow, an authoritative expert in the field of mobile email technology.

When the seafood feast was served, Zhang Ke asked Cheng about the progress of his contact with GeoffGoodfellow.

"I've had many previous contacts with GeoffGoodfellow," Cheng said, "and he still wants us to fund his company, not buy it......

"He may be the earliest inventor in the field of mobile e-mail technology, the most authoritative expert, but his early inventions have not applied for patents, a large number of patents to NTP, VISTO two companies preemptively registered, for him and his company at the moment is to carry out the final deployment of patents, rather than rushing to carry out the commercial operation of mobile e-mail services - of course, at this time, even if he can preemptively register one or two patents, and NTP, Visto is also at an absolute disadvantage to compete with NTP, Visto, let us acquire, It was the most suitable way out for him. ”