"Hello, Mr. Williams, it's a great pleasure to meet you here today." Du Chengyi stretched out his hand and looked at NDK President Williams with a smile.

Williams is a senior engineer from SUN, who has made great contributions to the research and development of various models of SUN's UltraSPARC CPUs, but unfortunately, with the acquisition of sun, Williams's CPU business has entered a trough, and then left SUN, founded NDK company, based on his experience in RISC type CPU research and development, proposed a technology that greatly improves the communication speed between CPU and memory, and applied for an international patent.

In the last few generations of ARM's CPU architecture, Williams has used this technology, but unfortunately ARM itself does not rely on its own design to manufacture or sell CPU devices, but instead licenses the processor architecture to interested manufacturers to produce and sell, and directly collects the license fee.

ARM said that the design scheme he provided only integrated Williams' technology, and the licensing fee they obtained was only their own technology, not including Williams's fees, so Williams should go to the manufacturer that produced and sold the CPU.

However, Williams found a manufacturer of ARM-type CPUs, whether it was Samsung, TI, or Qualcomm, none of them would pay attention to Williams, they claimed that they had obtained a legal production and sales authorization agreement from ARM, so Mr. Williams asked Mr. Williams to negotiate with ARM for a dispute over the design plan. Each of the companies actually presented Williams with the terms of the license to use the ARM integration solution.

As a start-up, Williams' NDK company is not very wealthy, according to the consulting firm, NDK assets are around 7 or 8 million US dollars. Under these circumstances, Williams could not afford to launch a full-fledged patent attack against these manufacturers who used themselves.

Don't forget, patent litigation is one of the most expensive on the planet, and each case costs at least $5 million or more to have a certain outcome. So Mr. Williams was really nerve-wracking in order to choose a target for the lawsuit.

Choose ARM, it seems like you have found the right person, but ARM's integration solution can indeed change the licensing terms at any time to exclude Williams' patented technology from the scope of fees, so in the face of this situation, Williams may not be able to receive money even if he wins the lawsuit with all his might.

Find the manufacturer, they can kick the ball to the upstream designer at any time. In short, it is very likely that Williams will not get any financial compensation after tossing the accumulation of his life.

So these lawsuits are not good targets. Choosing and choosing, Williams fell in love with Apple, on the one hand, because Apple is rich in wealth, and a single hair is enough for Williams to eat for a lifetime; In addition, Apple also uses ARM's integrated design solutions, and it is commissioned to others to process them, and then use these chips themselves.

In other words, Apple's production, manufacturing, sales and use are basically complete in the back-end, and in terms of infringement damage, Apple occupies the vast majority. In this way, Williams made up his mind to target Apple, and filed a lawsuit with the ITC, asking the ITC to rule that Apple infringed his patents and compensate him for huge losses.

According to Apple's announced sales of iphones and iPads, hundreds of billions of dollars in sales per year are clearly visible, and if the ITC determines that Apple is infringing, Williams' loss is really easy to prove, after all, Apple used the number of CPUs it commissioned to produce by others.

Will first shirked to Arm upstream like all CPU manufacturers in response to Williams' patent lawsuit, and saw that the ITC was inclined to NDK, so Will instructed the legal team to contact Williams and file a request to buy out the patented technology.

Will's previous ceiling was $50 million, and according to his understanding, Williams should be satisfied, which is a lot of money. In accordance with this instruction, the previous negotiation team first proposed a $10 million buyout, which Williams flatly refused.

Just kidding, now that the ITC is about to start deciding that it wins, at this juncture, 10 million dollars is called Hanako? Williams became emboldened and directly demanded $500 million.

Compared to Apple's current sales of more than $100 billion on the iPad and iPhone, Williams doesn't think the asking price is high.

But Will thought Williams was crazy. Directly instruct the forward team to begin delaying tactics.

In this way, it was dragged until Du Chengyi found Williams through a consulting company.

"Hello, you're the Mr. Jeff John was talking about. Fortunately! Fortunately! Williams politely shook Du Chengyi's hand. When Du Chengyi was a senior executive of a foreign company, he took a very popular English name, which was called Jeff.

As for Du Chengyi's intentions, Williams actually knows it through a consulting company. Similarly, Du Chengyi is also very clear about Williams' current situation.

"Alright, Mr. Williams, Jeff, you know each other now, so how about the two of you about the rest?" After the consultant finished the matchmaking work, he politely offered to recuse himself, and there must have been some bargaining between Williams and Du Chengyi.

These words are not suitable for oneself to hear, and the consultant knows exactly where he is and what he or she should do.

"Thank you, Philip. I'll treat you to a big meal when I get back. Du Chengyi warmly greeted the consultant Philip.

When only Williams and Du Chengyi were left in the room, they invariably chose a brief silence between the two.

Although Williams knew Du Chengyi's intention, he still couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart, the young man in his thirties in front of him was too young for him, because the other party represented a little-known investment company, Williams was very worried about whether this company had enough ability to pay.

Perhaps sensing Williams' suspicions, Du Chengyi was silent for a while and then took out a document from his bag. Then he handed it to Mr. Williams, "Mr. Williams, as a sign of my sincerity, please look at this document." Du Chengyi smiled and took the lead in speaking.

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