The average annual salary of engineers in Silicon Valley is 90,000 U.S. dollars. Now engineers in North American laboratories have reached 110,000 U.S. dollars. Plus overtime subsidies, bonuses, dividends, etc., don’t even think about making it if you are less than 200,000 U.S. dollars a year.
If Xiao Qi wants to recruit those hardware and software engineers, the number will be at least 5,000, and they will be given 1 billion US dollars a year in salary alone, and the number and salary will increase every year, reaching 2 to 3 billion in the future.
It's easy to earn US dollars a year.
In comparison, engineers in China are much cheaper, averaging 700,000 yuan, which is about less than 100,000 US dollars.
Moreover, Chinese people are very nice and don’t ask for compensation for working overtime or anything like that.
It's like foreign engineers who press the alarm clock directly after get off work. One minute is considered overtime.
Xiao Qi is a very generous person. As long as employees work hard, he will never be stingy with various rewards.
On the contrary, he doesn't like employees who care about everything and regard all interactions as nakedly profit-oriented.
Therefore, Xiao Qi usually did not directly participate in the management of Mingxiang Holdings' North American laboratory. More often, Tang Mingxiang went to check on it. Anyway, she was the nominal boss lady of Mingxiang Holdings.
However, everything has advantages and disadvantages, and every disadvantage has advantages.
It is true that Chinese engineers are cheap and serious, but their overall thinking, creativity, and technical capabilities are far inferior to foreign engineers.
The salaries of European and American engineers are high, and you get what you pay for. Foreign bosses are even more sinister than those in China. If you can't make a profit in a day, or if the company's profits decline, you will be fired immediately, without any favor.
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Therefore, their technical research capabilities are very strong.
For example, in the current North American laboratory, the technology of the WCDMA department is still far ahead in the world, and its domestic application has also received many praises. Even many foreigners who come to China for business have praised China Dentsu's WCDMA network.
high speed.
WCDMA patent fees are not collected from operators, but from chip manufacturers and base station contractors that contain WCDMA functions.
The further you go, the higher the WCDMA patent fees will be.
Manufacturers who usually produce 3G mobile phones are required to charge a total of a very high amount equivalent to the selling price of the mobile phone by Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Siemens and other companies that own core patents for this small 3G wireless chip.
The patent fees show how dark their hearts are.
Fairy Company's mobile phones and tablets do not have these fees now, because the WCDMA technology they use belongs to them, and the wireless chips containing 3G also have full intellectual property rights.
However, as more and more shares of DreamPad, DreamStars and other products are sold in the future, Xiao Qi's patent fees will still increase a lot, otherwise he will save money for others in vain.
As for base station contractors, in foreign countries, mobile operators pay leasing fees to the base station operator, and then the base station operator pays royalties to the patent owner, and the operator indirectly pays patent fees to WCDMA.
However, the three major operators in China have always done everything themselves. They are the contractors of WCDMA base stations, so the patent fees are paid directly.
This year alone, the WCDMA patent fees from Dentsu, China Mobile and Lianxing are estimated to reach about 2 billion.
On the other hand, since the optical fiber patents in mainland China were bought out by Mingxiang Holdings North America Laboratory from Nortel Networks, the fees they paid to the equipment manufacturer Xinglong Optical Fiber and the optical fiber cable manufacturers were also taken by several manufacturers.
To pay the patent fees for North American laboratories, this amount is estimated to be about 1 billion.
In addition, although the WCDMA network is not unique to the previous Nortel Network, many companies have the same technology, but due to the excellent performance of Nortel Network's WCDMA, with Xiao Qi's vigorous development, the signal is very good
Okay, so some base station contractors in Europe and the United States have purchased its patents, and this year’s patent revenue is expected to be around US$300 million.
The reason why it is so high is because prices in Europe and the United States are very high, which results in high fees. High-tech applications such as 3G networks are very expensive, which naturally leads to high patent fees.
However, as for wireless chip manufacturers, neither IPHONE nor S1 came to purchase the patents of Mingxiang Holdings' North American laboratory, but turned to other companies.
Xiao Qi knew that this was a sign that they did not want to be controlled by the Fairy Company.
If they rely on the Fairy Company for everything, then in the long run, won’t they become a vassal of the Fairy Company?
Therefore, it is better to develop your own technology!
The technology and achievements of the wireless communication chip department of the North American Laboratory are equally outstanding.
The wireless network link function of DreamPad has improved the taste of European and American users from the beginning.
Because Fairy Company’s wireless chip capture capability is very strong, wireless signals can be captured on the long and curved Danube River, in remote towns, in parks outside the city, etc., as long as they do not deviate too far from the base station.
, can access the Internet smoothly.
This is the wireless chip purchased from Broadcom before. Now the wireless communication chip department of Mingxiang Holdings North America Laboratory has been integrated. The wireless communication chip developed is more than 20% better than Broadcom's performance, greatly reducing the need for fast movement.
Feeling of network frustration during the period.
The most important thing is not only the function, but also the cost.
The Broadcom chips Xiao Qi purchased before, the WI-FI chips cost 6.8 US dollars a piece, and the chips containing 3G network cost 28.8 US dollars a piece.
I didn't think it was expensive at the time, but after my own wireless communications department developed it, Xiao Qi discovered that Broadcom was making huge profits.
If you use your own wireless chips, excluding technology patent fees, the average cost of producing two types of wireless communication chips is only 3 US dollars a piece, which means that Broadcom can earn Xiao Qi at most about 14 US dollars per chip, 30 million pieces a year.
With this order, they will earn a net profit of US$420 million.
Of course, this is also due to the rapid development of technology after a year, and the cost can continue to drop rapidly, and labor in the United States is far more expensive than in China.
The purchase price of wireless chips of US$3 per piece can still make factories in China very profitable, but in the United States, the price may be more than double.
But Broadcom can earn at least US$10 per unit, with a net profit of US$300 million a year, which is also a very considerable profit!
Therefore, it can be seen that technology patents are huge profits, and it is much easier to make money than physical factories and the like.
For this reason, Xiao Qi immediately announced that after completing the one-year contract this year, he would suspend the use of Broadcom chips and switch to wireless chips developed by North American laboratories.
The purchase quantity is tentatively determined to be 120 million pieces per year, and the purchase price becomes 6.8 US dollars per piece, of which 3 US dollars are for the production expenses of the wireless chip factory found in China, and the remaining 3.8 US dollars is the pure profit obtained by Xiao Qi - North American experiment
The office belongs to Xiao Qi, and the various patents owned by it also belong to Xiao Qi, so all profits belong to Xiao Qi.
Xiao Qi has never been a stingy person. He gave 0.8 US dollars to the North American laboratory to continue investment and patent dividends, including the WCDMA department of the 3G core technology provider in wireless chips, as well as other patented wireless communication chip departments, all
Everyone has a part to play.
The remaining 3 US dollars were transferred to Xiao Qi's personal account as the net profit of the North American Laboratory to enrich the young man's small treasury.
As for the high-priced ten-year contract with Broadcom, Xiao Qi will not waste it.
In the future, there will be more and more companies producing smart phones and smart tablets. They will all need this kind of wireless chip, so if we sell them contracts, maybe Xiao Qi, a small profiteer, can make more money!
Another advantage is that through this high-priced chip contract, you can increase other people's production costs and reduce the competitiveness of their mobile phones!
It’s really killing three birds with one stone! (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)