"God, I still can't believe that the legendary founder who created the miracle of Bluestar Technology is so young."

At a business hotel in Sioux City, a middle-aged white man in a formal suit with a hooked nose met and shook hands with Luo Sheng, his expression and tone were quite exaggerated, typical of American unrestrained ism.

This person is Harris, one of Qualcomm's global vice presidents.

"Nineteen years ago, a group of visionaries finally agreed to create a great technology company, and their grand blueprint created the brightest new star in the telecommunications industry 19 years later, Qualcomm introduced the sub-code multiple access CDMA technology for wireless and data products, which changed the face of wireless communications around the world forever." Luo Sheng said with a smile, and also touted the other party's hand.

Harris couldn't help but smile when he heard it, the two sides had contact for the first time, but he didn't have the young and talkative Chinese in front of the community, after all, Luo Sheng was already famous in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

"Wait, I remember there was an issue of Silicon Valley magazine with a picture of you and Steve Jobs on the cover, and there was a string of numbers that were your age, born in 1985, and Qualcomm was born in 1985...... Even buy Karma!! Harriston looked shocked as he spoke, looking at Luo Sheng with a wooden expression.

"Maybe that's fate." Luo Sheng said with a smile, and rolled his eyes in his heart, can this thing find closeness from such a tricky angle? It's too pompous, but I'm also a global vice president of Qualcomm, and when I reach middle age, can't I be as mature and stable as me?

After greeting each other for a while, the two sides finally entered the main topic of the interview.

Harris took the lead in saying: "Mr. Luo, Qualcomm began to invest $100 million to set up a venture capital fund as early as June last year, committed to promoting the application and development of wireless services in Greater China, the news of your company's acquisition of Reed Communications came to Qualcomm headquarters, we are very excited about your investment of $300 million to develop wireless terminal services, we think that the Cote d'Azur company will achieve the same success as Bluestar Technology under your leadership, and we are happy to carry out in-depth business cooperation with such a company." ”

This foreigner is very good at talking, can't find anything wrong, in fact, he has taken a fancy to the scale of capital investment in the Cote d'Azur company, Luo Sheng smashed it is more than 300 million US dollars, anyone can see that he really wants to make a name for himself in this industry, and investing real money is not fake.

At present, in the domestic market, the number one is Dexin Wireless Company, Qualcomm has cooperation with this company, and Dexin Wireless established in the same year Gionee Communications development is general, but it is also within the scope of Qualcomm's field of vision.

Although Luo Sheng's Cote d'Azur company has only been established for about three months, its starting point is much higher than that of Dexin Wireless, and it has a strong capital when it was first established.

Qualcomm is actually worried that such a company will be thrown into the arms of competitors, in the era of 2004, 2G communication is the mainstream, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia are all behemoths, Qualcomm has not yet covered the sky at this time, what really makes Qualcomm a monopoly is the 3G, 4G era, this is the golden age of Qualcomm, is now.

Since China's accession to the WTO, the economic development is eye-catching, Qualcomm as a multinational technology giant, for the Greater China market is also very important, to June 2003, has invested in three companies in China, including a number of universities in the mainland to carry out joint research and development projects, with only one purpose, to promote the application and development of CDMA technology in China.

And Qualcomm is so active in promoting the technical research of Huaguo's mobile communications industry, don't think that he is a selfless devotee, just one purpose, to be able to lie down and collect patent fees in the future.

"Mr. Luo, when will your company be able to launch a product at the earliest? What kind of authorization are you going to use? Harris said with a smile.

"We hope to obtain your company's authorization for self-design and manufacturing chip solutions for CDMA mobile phone chips, including future WCDMA products." Luo Sheng replied.

Hearing such an answer, Harris couldn't help but be stunned for a while, this was completely different from what he imagined, he thought that Luo Sheng would choose to buy chips and software directly, or buy chips from ASIC authorized manufacturers.

"Uh...... Are you sure it's not a joke again? To tell you the truth, Mr. Luo, self-developed integrated circuit design is not achieved overnight, your company has no technical background, no foundation at all, and it is almost impossible for you to succeed in doing so. Harris confirmed that he had heard correctly, and said earnestly.

"It's not easy, but we firmly believe that only by choosing this solution can we make the product we want to make." Luo Sheng said calmly.

Hearing this, Harris stared at the other party and was silent for a moment before saying, "Then may I ask Mr. Luo, when will your company be able to launch its first product?" Have you ever thought about this? ”

Luo Sheng put it succinctly: "The product will be released in the fall of 2006 at the latest. ”

Harris shook his head on the spot: "This is impossible, it is absolutely impossible for your company to achieve the goal of launching a product in 2006 in such a short period of time by designing and manufacturing chip solutions in-house." Despite the foundation of Reed Communications, IMHO this is negligible, and if you choose to buy a chip solution, you could even launch your first product in 2005. ”

Obviously, Harris does not believe in the technological research and development capabilities of the Chinese people at all, not to mention that the Cote d'Azur company does not have the foundation of integrated circuits, even if you look at the whole of China, the foundation in this field is quite weak.

Luo Sheng smiled in his heart, but did not show it, Harris was afraid that he thought that the kind of mobile phone with plastic buttons that the Cote d'Azur company was going to do, and it was also a low-end feature phone.

Harris bitterly advised Luo Sheng to think twice, and frantically instilled in him the concept of "it's better to buy than to build, and it's better to rent than to buy", but it's a pity that this set works in the third brother of the next-door neighbor, but it is useless here in Luo Sheng.

In the end, Harris ran out of options, and at this time Luo Sheng said something that surprised the other party.

"Mr. Harris, to be honest, in my plan, the Cote d'Azur will invest a total of no less than $1 billion in research and development in the next two to three years, and I am determined to be all in, and of course Qualcomm can provide me with some technical support, which is the best." Luo Sheng said.

"$1 billion?" Harris was shocked and said, "Are you sure? ”

"Of course!" Luo Sheng affirmed.

Harris couldn't help but look sideways, and then said: "You are the first Chinese I have ever met who is so determined in the semiconductor industry, and although I still don't think you will succeed, I appreciate your fearless spirit." ”

He no longer persuaded him, anyway, Qualcomm will not lose, but can make a lot of money.

"Then Mr. Luo, let's talk about patent licensing and the sale of mobile phone baseband chips." Harris said.

Seeing Luo Sheng nodded, he added and continued:

"Qualcomm's customers are mainly divided into two categories, one is the mobile phone chip design company, the other is the terminal equipment manufacturer, obviously, you choose to design and manufacture the chip yourself, the Cote d'Azur company should be both a chip manufacturer, but also a mobile terminal equipment provider, in principle, Qualcomm is not a duplicate charge, at present, Qualcomm mainly charges patent fees to terminal equipment manufacturers."

came, the legendary "Qualcomm tax", Luo Sheng listened silently, secretly thinking about how to put Qualcomm together.

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