Chapter 231, being pitted
Already a company worth more than one billion, Sun God has begun to develop horizontally with great vigor. I want to try my hand at everything from real estate to hotels.
Ren Fei faced another track in the communications industry. Although he was already convinced of Chunya Investment's identity as a shareholder of Huatong, and even though he had met Wang Yuan and Ni Nanguang, he still did not agree to it.
But Song Yang was in no hurry.
The more cautious you are, the more determined you are.
It was Ni Nanguang who advised: "Mr. Ren, everyone in the domestic communications industry knows your name Warwick. As long as the quality of the products is excellent, even if it is domestically produced, there will be enough market opportunities. It turns out that in Lianxiang
At that time, I suggested more than once to enter the communications field. If I can work with you who have already made achievements in the communications industry, I believe we will be able to produce results soon."
Of course Ren Fei complimented him in person and said that having two academicians leading the team was certainly worth looking forward to.
But he was concerned about another point.
"Mr. Song, just for Huaxin Microelectronics, you guarantee an annual R&D investment of at least 100 million." Ren Fei was a little confused, "I know that Mr. Song has other companies that involve electronic products and wireless paging.
Advertising, commerce, audio and video products... Now it has invested in Huatong. Mr. Song, given your strength, Warwick has no foundation in the field of wireless communications, why would you want to cooperate with us? "
In his opinion, couldn't they directly cooperate with Huatong and set up a subsidiary? As long as they were the ones providing the money and people, wouldn't it be more appropriate for Huatong to arrange some engineers to cooperate than Warwick?
Even though Warwick already has a successful communication product like C&C08, its accumulation in the field of wireless communication is indeed close to zero. Ren Fei is very honest about this.
Song Yang thought about it for a while, and then said: "In terms of efficiency, I think Mr. Ren's company is really focused on the communications industry. Except for you, all those who have made achievements in this industry are state-owned enterprises or state-owned assets.
Most of them first have business opportunities and then make some supporting products, and they have no determination to make their products better and better or even establish technical advantages."
After he finished speaking, he immediately laughed again: "In this cooperation, what we ultimately want to do is to produce products for consumers. On Warwick's side, we mainly provide solutions for the industry, and we will not have any conflicts."
Ren Fei's eyes narrowed: "Mr. Song, do you want to make a mobile phone?"
"Yes." Song Yang nodded truthfully, "I have invested in a pager factory, and I am planning to go in this direction later."
Ren Fei also felt relieved and smiled: "It doesn't look like a joint venture or investment cooperation?"
"If Mr. Ren is willing, of course I can't ask for it." Song Yang seemed to really mean what he said, but he was also very free and easy. "First of all, don't think so much, let's cooperate in friendship. To be honest, it's just starting now, 100 million a year.
Academician Wang and Academician Ni don’t need it either.
Ended. If Mr. Ren feels that this direction is worth a try, then we can recruit more talents in the communications industry in advance. We will first cooperate with Warwick to come up with a GSM base station solution. We will not get involved in this technical achievement, so we will just use it as training.
team and accumulate experience.”
Ren Fei pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Since we know that Mr. Song's future direction is to make mobile phones, we also have some technical accumulation in communication technology, which will be useful to Mr. Song. If we at Warwick really do this in the field of wireless communications,
We have made some achievements, let’s explore more in-depth ways of cooperation.”
Song Yang immediately agreed, and also said: "Including the mpeg2 standard technology we have accumulated here, there are also many application scenarios. Now because the mpeg2 standard is so effective, we are ready to skip mpeg2 directly and develop a formula more suitable for TV
Conference, the mpeg4 standard for security monitoring. We are not planning to enter this field, but the mpeg4 standard is still ready to consolidate existing results."
"Video conference, security monitoring?" Ren Fei's heart moved.
"Yes. Mpeg4 is mainly aimed at interactive video and remote monitoring, using a very narrow bandwidth and the least data to obtain the best image quality. Specific applications will be combined with communication networks. The earliest application scenario is probably TV
Meetings, video surveillance, etc.”
In fact, when this thing matures further, it will be the underlying technical foundation of online video.
But that requires the communication network to be further matured and the basic bandwidth to be sufficient.
What Song Yang said was nothing more than making Ren Fei realize the more opportunities that Song Yang might provide. In fact, after Warwick's integrated circuit design center became independent and became Hisilicon Semiconductor, its earliest popular chip product was
A video surveillance chip developed using h.264 in Part 10 of the mpeg4 standard.
The customers in this field will have a high degree of overlap with the customer pool accumulated by Warwick. Anyway, they are all large enterprises or government departments.
At its peak, HiSilicon’s video surveillance chips accounted for 79% of the world’s share.
During this meeting with Ren Fei, Song Yang did not mention Zhao Weidi.
There is no need to mention it before Warwick comes up with the GSM base station solution.
Huatong is destined to develop quietly in the past two years. Everything will have to wait until the establishment of the Ministry of Information Industry two years later and a major reshuffle of the telecommunications industry.
Only after breaking free from the shackles will China Mobile become the true god in the field of mobile communications.
But in the following ten years, China Telecom built CDMA networks, Huatong built GSM and CDMA networks, and China Mobile built GSM networks. For mobile communications, China built three standards and four networks at the same time.
At the same time, China is also preparing for the 3G era TD-SCDMA with independent intellectual property rights. In the 3G era, due to the competition for licenses between the three standards, China's 3G era lasted very short, and then jumped to the 4G era.
In the first five years of the new millennium, more than 1 trillion yuan was invested in the mobile communications field to do these things. And of these more than 1 trillion yuan, 80% was earned by foreign countries. There is nothing we can do about patents. 2G patents are either in the United States or in the United States.
in Europe.
But in the field of equipment, there is too little soup in China.
Can anything change this time?
…
There is still a lot of buzz outside about the VCD player war.
Due to the King of Standards effect and the price finally falling, VCD shipments this year are growing at a tenfold rate.
With Lianxiang Holdings, Duan Ping came up with a new problem.
"There are only product design patents, and core patents such as chip patents and error correction technology have been transferred to the new company. It is quite energy-consuming to argue with Lianxiang." Duan Ping called and said, "I'm a little annoyed. Production is now
, sales, and DVD development, a lot of things."
Song Yang smiled and asked: "Do you mean to let me argue with them?"
"Yes, that's what it means, unless you don't want us to drop another big bomb this year." Duan Ping was talking about the DVD player.
This is not just an upgraded version.
Although the usage scenarios of DVD players and VCD players are the same, the differences are huge.
The disc will be completely different.
From the chip to the movement, to the TVs required for high resolution, as well as the peripherals that can be matched with multi-channel audio technology, it has been widely implicated as soon as it came out, and it also involves foreign markets.
This product is a sure hit abroad. The penetration rate of TV sets and the maturity of the film and television industry in foreign countries are all more accepting of DVD products.
After Song Yang received the call, he took over this problem.
After all, this matter also involves Li Ru.
On the surface, it was Li Ru who sold the shares. The price was originally negotiated, but now Lianxiang is not happy with it. If the price is lowered, shouldn't Li Ru "get angry again?"
Li Ru's Sanyou Culture has moved to Fujian Province to crack down on piracy.
Sanyou Culture spent a lot of money to buy the CD copyright, but it didn't make much money back at all, and pirated CDs were sold everywhere.
Nowadays, outside the south gate of YSU, various itinerant vendors have appeared along the south wall with pirated CDs hidden in their waists, just like the scene where YSU students are peddling.
In busy places everywhere, there are many scenes where someone blocks the road and mysteriously asks, "Brother, do you want to buy?"
Li Ru was busy with lawsuits all day long, and the VCD disc business seemed increasingly inadequate.
"Damn, piracy is so rampant!"
Back in Yanjing, before meeting Lianxiang's people, Li Ru seemed to be no longer acting this time, and looked at Song Yang sideways: "Can you really make money from copyright? I think it will be the same with DVDs! It's so easy to transcribe.
, a person can do it even if he has a machine.”
"You can make money, but you can't now."
"When can we?"
"It will take more than ten years."
"I..." Li Ru suppressed the curse words for a moment, "Then let's do nothing now?"
"It seems to have a long history." Song Yang joked, "It's okay. At this stage, it's mainly about farming. In addition, when the DVDs come out, we can sell some for export."
Li Ru frowned.
After a while, he said sincerely: "This scene is so fucking real! No matter how you look at it, I have been sacrificed by you. CDs really can't make money in China. Cage Communications has sold a lot of shares, and Sanyou Electronics
It still needs to be sold. When it comes to movies and TV series, who knows which one will be successful?"
"It's okay. In this case, the film and television companies in Xiangdao will also have trouble." Song Yang raised his eyebrows, "The source of piracy cannot be controlled. You can talk to them. The price of new films in the future cannot be the same as before."
"Still farming?" Li Ru, who had a big head, said, "Seeing that the money has been wasted, I will continue to farm for more than ten years? Where does the money come from?"
"Didn't you just cash out a fortune?" Song Yang chuckled and said, "I will act for another two years."
"...If I hadn't known you a long time ago, I would suspect that you were pretending to be real." Li Ru sighed, "In the past two years, have you been able to bring down the Gu family?"
"Just do your best." Song Yangdan said calmly, "I will be the peacemaker later, and you can continue to show off. Anyway, let's show off your temper first, and then say that the Phantom VCD has sold so well this year, and you deserve the price. I will then
I offered to let Lianxiang introduce the software and game CD business to you, and pay you the difference, pretending to be a little interested but not wanting to be tricked by me again."
"...will you cooperate with the people from Lianxiang Group again?"
Song Yang nodded: "Since it is Lianxiang Holdings who is coming forward, it is most appropriate for people from Lianxiang Group to use this excuse to contact you. They will draw you into their circle of interests, and then slowly try to get more out of you.
What a breakthrough. After all, the three of us had such a good relationship before, so you must know a lot."
"Do software and game CDs make money?"
"There are also a lot of pirated copies!" Song Yang smiled again, "But you have a big customer like Lianxiang. When they sell computers, they have to buy a lot of CDs, and it takes a lot of blood."
"...Damn it, I still don't know if I will live for more than ten years."
"Are you talking nonsense? Brother Li, you have to live!" Song Yang told him sternly.
Chapter completed!