Global Monopoly of Technology

After seeing the concept map that subverts the imagination, the employees in the audience can finally understand why the boss thinks the smartphones on the market are ugly. Now their imagination is led by the boss to a new realm. Fashionable smartphones suddenly feel loveless.

Luo Sheng successfully raised the aesthetics of the more than 1,000 employees in the audience to a new level with a concept map. The employees couldn't help thinking that the Motorola just now compared the mobile phone in the concept map. The four smartphones are indeed Ugly indeed.

Sure enough, there is no harm without comparison.

"What we have to do is to turn the contents of the concept map into reality." Luo Sheng looked around the audience and said slowly, "Some people will think and doubt, can this be done? When Bluestar Technology was founded, no one could I never imagined I could get this far, and I'm sure I can go even further. The same is true for the Côte d'Azur, sometimes it's better to do it first."

I don't know who took the lead, but after Luo Sheng's voice fell, there was a sudden applause in the multimedia conference hall.

Immediately afterwards, there was a loud bang, and the audience burst into warm applause.

Yes, if time goes back to the beginning of Bluestar Technology's entrepreneurship, few people would believe that Luo Sheng can lead the company to develop to the point where it is valued at 27 billion yuan today.

This year he founded a new company again, will Cote d'Azur replicate the miracle of Bluestar Technology?

But with Zhuyu in front, everyone's confidence has undoubtedly surged a lot. Luo Sheng's sentence "We are not worse than foreigners" touched everyone present, and made everyone's hearts filled with unyielding and passionate energy. .

"This guy can always mobilize the bright and surging side of everyone's heart in such a situation." Qin Weimu silently stared at Luo Sheng, and muttered secretly, his clever mouth couldn't help revealing a charming arc.

Although the more than 1,000 engineers present signed the non-disclosure agreement one by one, Luo Sheng only showed them the industrial design concept idea of ​​the wireless terminal made by Cote d'Azur, that is, the side view of the appearance, which has not been shown yet. Not to mention the three views, the internal structure and more details.

The concept map of the smartphone just shown is also a black screen, and the content displayed is very limited. It is not that he does not want to show more, nor does he want to tell them more, but it is necessary to do so out of confidentiality.

Because the time span is too long, the Cote d'Azur started too late and has no technical background. Everything must be accumulated enough to produce products. Luo Sheng cannot absolutely guarantee that none of the more than 1,000 people will leave their jobs during the research and development period.

Industrial design also has intellectual property rights, and the design scheme of the concept map just now needs to apply for patent protection.

Only Luo Sheng knows that to develop a real smartphone from scratch, at least two or three hundred new patents for software or hardware need to be innovated to develop a smartphone. This technology-intensive product requires Dozens or hundreds of different design or R\u0026D modules, some people only know one of them, such as power management, and don't know about other modules.

This is also a way to keep the technology confidential and ensure that it will not be leaked. Therefore, Luo Sheng can't tell all aspects of mobile phone development at this meeting. He will only arrange them one by one after assigning the next tasks. What each R\u0026D team knows is limited to the modules they are responsible for, and other teams do not know what they are doing.

After the meeting, while everyone was still in the mood, Luo Sheng personally invited everyone to have a dinner at the hotel.

Three days later, Luo Sheng set out to set up the "Blue Coast Laboratory". Now he is unknown, but Luo Sheng went to Huaguo's "Bell Laboratory".

Stepping into June, Cote d'Azur has completed all the preparatory work in nearly three months since its establishment in March.

Luo Sheng personally convened more than 1,000 engineers from the company to form a research and development team code-named the [Azure] plan.

Started this project, which was classified as a highly confidential company.

Looking at the following days, Luo Sheng spent a week for him, personally subdivided a thousand engineer teams into 82 groups, and selected 15 product managers to manage their respective R\u0026D groups. Luo Sheng reported that he himself is mainly responsible for the chip design and development, operating system development and industrial design of the "Blue Core" project.

These three modules are directly led by Luo Sheng.

The chip design and development in the [Azure] project uses Qualcomm's CDMA code division multiple access chip. In the current 2G network era standards and 3G network era standards, it is absolutely impossible to circumvent Qualcomm's patent barriers, even in It is difficult for the standards of the future 4G network era to bypass Qualcomm's patent barriers.

Qualcomm owns more than 3,900 patents on CDMA and related technologies. More than 130 telecommunications equipment manufacturers worldwide have issued CDMA patent licenses, and more than 190 companies have been granted the right to use Qualcomm's patent portfolio for CDMA products. Includes 120 companies authorized to manufacture and sell CDMA products.

Up to now, Qualcomm is a leader in the field of wireless communications, and its WCDMA, that is, 3G technology, has taken the lead in the industry.

This year, Hua Wei established a joint venture with Siemens to develop TD-SCDMA mobile communication technology for the domestic market. Now 2G is the mainstream of mobile communication, but the 3G standard has already been formulated. As long as there are a few letters of CDMA, it means that the company owns Qualcomm's mobile communication technology. Shadow, and the company has now begun to invest in 4G technology research.

Now 2G is the mainstream, 3G is popular, and Qualcomm has already started the research and development of 4G technology. It can be seen that in the next five to ten years, in the field of wireless communication, no one can shake the dominance of Qualcomm, no matter what. Qualcomm's technical standards must be used.

Luo Sheng's thinking is very clear. He must be inseparable from Qualcomm in the early stage. Having witnessed the future, he is very clear that in 15 years, he will face the technical blockade of Europeans and Americans, and he will be reborn from time to time. This situation may even be possible. It will happen earlier, so Luo Sheng tacitly agrees that in ten years or so, North America will most likely jump over the wall and use the power of the country to suppress it.

Cote d'Azur's "Plan B" is a must. As long as Lao Mei doesn't take the initiative to tear her face, she can continue to play happily together. This is a consideration for the future. As for Luo Sheng now, there is no need to worry, because Lao Mei's current situation All attention is on this part of the Middle East world.

There is also no way to bypass Qualcomm's standards at the moment, because the communication infrastructure is there, but Luo Sheng does not directly choose to buy Qualcomm's chips and software. If he buys it directly for assembly, there will be no "Blue Core" project. .

The "Blue Core" project of the Côte d'Azur is currently obtaining an authorized solution from ARM, and at the same time obtaining an authorized solution from Qualcomm to design and manufacture chips, and then design and develop it by itself.

Qualcomm's technology licensing department has three licensing methods, and authorized manufacturers can use a variety of official production and market products.

The first is to buy chips and software directly from Qualcomm, the second is to buy chips from Qualcomm's ASIC licensees, and the third is to design and manufacture chip solutions in-house.

Obviously, Luo Sheng chose the third option. After obtaining the license, he designed and manufactured chips by himself. This is due to the country's accession to the WTO and participation in the great wave of economic globalization.

Another major reason for Luo Sheng's acquisition of Reed Communications is that it has something to do with Qualcomm. As early as 2000, Qualcomm established a venture capital department and promised to provide strategic investment to early high-tech companies with $500 million in start-up capital to ensure The industry as a whole continues to advance in the competition, reducing the price of mobile phones, enhancing features and selling more.

In June last year, Qualcomm announced the establishment of a $100 million venture capital fund in China, aiming to invest in and cooperate with innovative companies in China to promote the application development of wireless services. This investment is Qualcomm In order to promote the application of CDMA in China.

Reed Communications has been acquired by Luo Sheng. He received 3 million US dollars of venture capital last year. Luo Sheng does not despise the small 3 million.

The news of the acquisition of Reed Communications came to Qualcomm, especially after the investigation found that Cote d'Azur had a registered capital of more than 300 million US dollars and was the founder of Bluestar Technology. This matter caused Qualcomm to of attention.

Even aside from Luo Sheng's identity as the founder of Bluestar Technology, only looking at the registered capital of the Côte d'Azur, it is quite strong among domestic manufacturers, and the act of wholly-owned acquisition of Reed Communications is a clear brand. Now, it is going to the wireless terminal manufacturer.

Qualcomm immediately concluded that Luo Sheng's Cote d'Azur would play a key role in the future Greater China market, so on June 11, Qualcomm headquarters sent a vice president Harris Wade to come to Suzhou in person. Cheng meets Luo Sheng.

It must be said that Luo Sheng's reputation in Silicon Valley has played a big role. It is no exaggeration to say that among the big names in the domestic technology industry, he is currently the most famous person in the technology circle in the United States.

Luo Sheng has already made a name for himself in Wall Street and Silicon Valley. Many elites in the technology and investment circles in the United States know that there is such a number one person. Otherwise, Qualcomm may not necessarily send a global vice president to talk about it in person. It is enough to send a person in charge in Greater China.

This afternoon, the people sent by Qualcomm arrived in Sucheng and met with Luo Sheng.

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