Qualcomm has begun to demonstrate the essence of "patent trolls" in this era, and it is even more unscrupulous in the 4G era, even if it is fined a huge amount of money because of monopoly in the markets of various countries, but the fine is still not painful for Qualcomm, and the "rogue nature" is still the same after paying the fine.

The "Blue Core" project in the [Azure] confidential research program is only for AP application processors and CP multimedia accelerators.

At present, the mobile phone basically uses the ARM architecture mobile processor, that is, the CPU of the mobile phone, which has many classifications, each category has its own responsible work, which can be described as a clear division of labor, a CPU is often integrated with more than a dozen, or even dozens of chips.

But the core is actually so few, the AP and CP developed by the "Blue Core" project are the core technologies, and the system operation of the smart phone and the operation of the APP are operated by the AP application processor.

As for the CP multimedia accelerator, as the name suggests, it is mainly responsible for the decoding and processing of multimedia, the reason why this is the core technology, with continuous progress, CP will be able to undertake the processing of virtual reality VR, augmented reality AR, image processing, HIFI, HDR, sensors, etc. in the future.

The core of another CPU is the BP baseband processor, and the baseband processor chip is responsible for the wireless signal of the mobile phone, such as how many network modes the mobile phone supports, supporting 2G/3G/4G/5G, etc., all of which are determined by the baseband part.

At present, the best baseband chip is Qualcomm, BP baseband processor is its unique ability, but in other fields, Qualcomm's performance is average, such as AP application processor, Qualcomm is not good.

If you want to release the first real smartphone before Apple, Qualcomm can't get around this hurdle, and the independent communication baseband to get rid of dependence on Americans is definitely something to do.

Luo Sheng has planned two paths, one is self-research, and the other is to play with the ploughshare in the future, no matter what, there must be a "spare tire plan" to ensure that it is needed from time to time.

And Luo Sheng was not willing to let Qualcomm, a stinky hooligan, lie on the Cote d'Azur and take away a large amount of profits.

According to Qualcomm's licensing model, if the Cote d'Azur uses Qualcomm's baseband chip, in addition to paying a valuable patent license fee to the other party, it also needs to pay an additional fee to Qualcomm for each mobile phone that uses Qualcomm Communications baseband chip, and this fee is still charged as a percentage of the total price of the entire mobile phone, rather than a percentage of the cost of a component.

Qualcomm's authorization model is simply put: you buy my chip, you have to pay money; You use my chip to make the whole machine, and you have to pay for it.

This double-charging model is simply a hooligan.

"Mr. Harris, what is your company's intention regarding licensing fees?" Luo Sheng asked at this time.

"The annual patent licensing fee of 37.4 million US dollars, the minimum contract is signed for three years, in addition, each mobile device with Qualcomm baseband chip sold by your company has to pay a fee, which is charged according to the proportion of the price of the whole machine, and the actual proportion of the fee fluctuates according to different manufacturers about 2% to 6%, as for your company, we charge at a rate of 4.5%." Harris spoke eloquently, without the slightest hesitation, showing that these things had been predetermined before he came.

Qin Weimu, who was sitting next to him and had never said a word, heard such an authorization fee, his pretty eyes blinked again and again, and his clever mouth couldn't help but open slightly in shock.

She glanced at Luo Sheng, but the other party still remained silent, she was playing the role of Luo Sheng's assistant at the moment, and she kept the same state without receiving the boss's instructions, sitting quietly.

Qin Weimu's heart is not calm, no wonder people from Qualcomm are so eager to come in person, and they are still a global vice president.

Qualcomm almost doesn't have to do anything, it's almost a simple matter of running over to chat with Luo Sheng, nodding, and taking away ¥300 million in patent fees from the Cote d'Azur company in a year, which is also counted, and every mobile phone sold in the future will have to pay an additional amount of money to Qualcomm according to the percentage of the whole machine.

Luo Sheng was not surprised at all, after hearing the other party's offer, he shook his head and said: "Not only did I sign Mr. Harris for three years, I signed for six years, and I signed the full payment immediately, but I also have a request, the two sides make a commercial VAM agreement." ”

After speaking, Luo Sheng looked at Harris calmly, and the latter was also flustered for a while, and couldn't help but say curiously: "What gambling agreement?" ”

Luo Sheng said unhurriedly: "If the mobile terminal equipment launched by the Cote d'Azur company is calculated from the date of listing and sale, for a period of one year, the shipment of the device within one year is less than 300,000 units, and each one sold will be paid to Qualcomm according to the proportion of the price of the whole machine, and if the annual shipment is 700,000 units, the proportion will be 11%, if the annual shipment is 1 million units, it will be 7.5%, 2 million units will be 4.5%, and if the annual shipment is above 2 million units, then 0.25% of each unit To add, by shipments, I mean shipments on a global scale, not a single market. ”

Harris: "......"

Except for Luo Sheng's smile, everyone present was stunned when they heard his words, Harris turned his head and looked at his assistant, and both sides were stunned and couldn't say a word.

After a while, Luo Sheng saw Harris looking back at him, and he smiled, "How is it?" Mr. Harris, do Qualcomm dare to play a game. ”

Harris couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly, he didn't answer immediately, staring at Luo Sheng trying to see some useful information in his eyes.

Commercial gambling is generally a heartbeat.

Luo Sheng's proposal for such a VAM agreement is simply incredible, which shows that he has unparalleled self-confidence in the sales of his products after they are launched in the future, and the guaranteed annual sales are more than 2 million units.

Harris can't think of where his self-confidence comes from, it stands to reason that this young Chinese is not stupid, otherwise Bluestar Technology can develop to this point today? So many VCs would be willing to invest their money in him?

“Why？”

Harris pondered for a long time, and only asked a "why", obviously, as the so-called abnormal things must be strange, Qualcomm people are very cautious, how can there be a free lunch in the world.

Indeed, Harris actually thinks that the other party is mostly crazy, and only crazy will he propose this kind of irrational gambling agreement.

Luo Sheng looked at Harris again and said with a smile: "There are not so many whys, just to play something exciting, otherwise how can it be called a bet?" ”

Harris then said, "What if I refuse? ”

Luo Sheng shrugged: "Then do as you say, 4.5% of each unit will be drawn, plus a licensing fee of 37.4 million US dollars per year for three years, but I will not be able to pay your company for this money after three years." ”

Harris pondered for a moment, then suddenly got up and said, "I'm sorry, I'll go to the bathroom and be out of company for a while." ”

Luo Sheng nodded when he heard this, and said that it didn't matter, and he probably called Qualcomm headquarters when he went to WC, because this kind of commercial VAM agreement was different from Qualcomm's original authorization plan.

After Harris and his assistant left here, Qin Weimu said to Luo Sheng anxiously: "In more than three months, you have spent ¥2.1 billion, what can you do with the remaining 500 million?" Although I don't understand semiconductors, I also know that this is not something that 500 million can do. ”

Luo Sheng glanced at Qin Weimu and said with a smile: "Of course I can't do it for ¥500 million, I didn't say that I would invest $1 billion, or about ¥8.27 billion." ”

"Whatever you want, it's your company and your money anyway, how do you like it." Qin Weimu turned his head and said lightly, not wanting to pay attention to him anymore.

Luo Sheng smiled: "Even if you think so, I am more confident in this, just one word, ——! ”

Qin Weimu shook him with a big roll of his eyes.

After a while, Harris came over again, sat down opposite Luo Sheng, and then watched, and he said on the spot: "The gambling agreement you proposed has been signed by Qualcomm!" ”

Just now, Harris discussed the matter with the head of Qualcomm headquarters, although he did not understand Luo Sheng's unbelievable business betting, but no matter from that point of view, it is impossible for him to achieve annual shipments of more than one million, thinking that it is Motorola, Benmai, Nokia?

So, the two sides signed the agreement on the same day, and it would have taken at least a week to negotiate and sign the agreement in the normal process, but Harris couldn't wait, because he was afraid that Luo Sheng would regret it.

It wasn't until he got the signed contract that Harris smiled, how could he be happy that the world was really giving such a good thing for nothing......

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(PS: What's more swollen today?) Is that going to be more voted and collected~~~~)