Chapter Seventy-Four: Sony's Shame
Cafe on the fourth floor of the Hilton Hotel.
Although it is a café, it is not coffee, but tea.
Sitting opposite Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding were Naoto Takeda, the head of Sony's home appliances division, and the manager of the Silicon Valley branch.
In fact, not long after Yuanxin suddenly launched its publicity in the afternoon and caused a sensation, Yuanxin received invitations from major companies in the west, including AT&T, Verizon, and the seven Belle Hulu babies spun off by AT&T.
However, Su Yuanshan ignored it until Mr. Naoto Takeda came to the door.
Su Yuanshan looked at Naoto Takeda, who was less than forty and obviously a little tired, and said in English with a smile: "First of all, thank you Mr. Takeda for taking care of our employees. ”
The employees here are naturally talking about the Yuanxin after-sales service sent to Niguo to be responsible for training and the technicians who are simulating and docking with the Sony wafer fab process.
Naoto Takeda smiled politely twice, and then looked at Su Yuanshan with a strange look, and sighed lightly: "Mr. Su is very powerful, admire." ”
Su Yuanshan knew that Sony had waited so long to find it, obviously to check the relevant patents of Yuanxin VCD.
"It was just a little bit of luck that we were able to develop a product before a company. Su Yuanshan smiled calmly: "Since Mr. Takeda asked us, he must be hoping to reach a cooperation on VCD, right?"
Naoto Takeda was also very dry: "Yes." ”
Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding glanced at each other, and said with a smile: "Then what kind of cooperation do you want to achieve?"
"To put it simply, we definitely want Far Chip to transfer all the patents related to VCD. Naoto Takeda smiled and blew on the tea foam, then looked up again: "But I know that must be impossible, right?"
Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding were happy at the same time.
"So what?"
"So we wanted to know what the bottom line of the far core was. Naoto Takeda looked at Su Yuanshan and said slowly.
Since Yuanxin EDA became popular last year, Yuanxin's background has been investigated by these semiconductor-related companies. Naoto Takeda knows that Yuanxin was founded by Su Xinghe, a professor of electrical science, but what has really been handling affairs is the young man in front of him who is called "Wonder Boy" by his peers in Silicon Valley.
From the moment he entered the door, Naoto Takeda never regarded Su Yuanshan as a teenager, but as an equal opponent. However, even if he is an opponent again, as the head of Sony's most important department, Naoto Takeda still has a natural advantage. After all, his department is the strongest household appliance department in the world.
So Naoto Takeda can come up and ask Su Yuanshan about the bottom line.
Su Yuanshan squinted his eyes, smiled lightly, and slowly sat up straight: "Mr. Takeda, don't you really think that I will turn down the invitation of 7 companies tonight and wait for you on a special trip, just to talk about a VCD, right?"
The corners of Takeda's eyes shrank slightly, he also sat up straight, and said in a deep voice: "Mr. Su, please speak." ”
"My requirements for VCDs were simple. Patents can only be granted, and the mainland market is mine. At the same time, we can formulate the relevant standards of VCD, as well as the definition and development of subsequent related similar product upgrade standards. ”
Naoto Takeda opened his mouth, but Su Yuanshan immediately said: "I can promise that all optical drives and even necessary precision components will be purchased from Sony, and I promise that the total amount will not be less than 30 million sets in five years." ”
Naoto Takeda and his colleague immediately shut their mouths.
"But in order to ensure smooth supply, Sony needs to work with us to build a production plant for optical drives in the mainland. ”
“......”
"Well, none of that matters. ”
Naoto Takeda glanced at his colleague, both of whom had doubts in their eyes.
This mouth is a business of billions of yuan, he said it doesn't matter?
Su Yuanshan knocked lightly on the table and said slowly: "Mr. Takeda, maybe you haven't read the content of our patent carefully, right?"
Naoto Takeda was stunned when asked, and said in his heart, who can read your hundreds of patents? But he had to nod honestly: "Yes, I didn't have time." ”
"Then let me tell you that we have a lot of patents and technologies for heat dissipation, anti-interference and optical drive stability. ”
Naoto Takeda frowned slightly, looking at Su Yuanshan, not knowing what he meant by this.
Su Yuanshan sighed softly: "Takeda-kun, you have just suffered a great humiliation...... If you still have a little idea in the home console market, we can actually work together. ”
"In addition, we have a reduced instruction set CPU architecture that can reach a frequency of 50MHz and an execution speed of 45MIPS. At the same time, it can be customized in various ways, such as adding a geometry change engine, etc. ”
After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he stopped talking.
The two Sony executives looked at him silently, looked at each other and got up at the same time, said a little goodbye, and left quickly.
At this time, Xi Xiaoding, who had been quietly watching Su Yuanshan's performance, asked curiously, "What kind of shame have they suffered?"
"A few years ago, they and Nintendo jointly developed the SFC-based Playstation-X disc game console, but last year when they were almost completed, they were kicked out by Nintendo, and Nintendo suddenly announced that it would cooperate with Philips to produce SFC-licensed console CD-I......"
Xi Xiaoding immediately became interested: "And then?"
"Hehe, it is said that Ken Kutagi, who is in charge of the game project, is trembling with anger, crying and shouting that he wants to cut off Nintendo's audio chips. But then reason stopped him - Sony couldn't afford to lose money. ”
Xi Xiaoding puffed, and asked curiously: "Then since Nintendo broke the contract, why didn't Sony file a lawsuit?"
Su Yuanshan laughed: "I think too much, since I dare to break the contract, how can Nintendo's legal department leave a mistake in the contract? But this matter can't be explained, according to Nintendo, Sony invested great enthusiasm in actually wanting to steal the teacher and kick it away, so Nintendo just kicked it first, no problem." ”
Of course, Senior Brother Xi, a simple technical man, didn't know that in later generations, Nintendo's legal department had a well-known nickname - the strongest legal department in the universe.
It is an existence that is even more awesome than Nanshan Pizza Hut, and only Disney is qualified to compete with it.
After laughing, Su Yuanshan looked in the direction where the two disappeared and said softly: "Now that we are handing over patents and custom CPUs, it depends on whether they can compete or not." ”
Of course, Su Yuanshan knew that Mr. Jiuduo must be angry. Just this year, he would convince the president of Sony to set up a console division, SCE, and become its president, and decided to develop a separate disc-based home console - that is, the famous PS.
It didn't take long for Naoto Takeda to return first.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Naoto Takeda sat down and bowed slightly to the two of them.
Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding also saluted.
"Our preliminary view is that the two sides can cooperate. Naoto Takeda carefully considered the English he was not good at, trying to get himself to express the meaning more accurately.
"However, the form and content of cooperation need to be further negotiated. ”
After Naoto Takeda finished speaking, he looked at Su Yuanshan and waited for a reply.
His words undoubtedly expressed Sony's attitude and tone.
"I agree. ”
Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile.
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