Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 1054 Old Friend Schmidt (4K)

Because of Sogou’s independent operation and the involvement of Yike Department, Baidu launched a resolute counterattack, directly cutting off the source of Yi Ke’s search traffic, and even the connection draft has been prepared in advance.

However, many media did report on this situation, and Zhihu, who was implicated, also turned against Yingtian, mostly reprimanding Baidu for its unreasonable competition, but Yike was very quiet, only a brief official statement stating that Noticing the relevant situation, we will communicate and resolve it.

Is this still the Yike who frequently litigated abroad, dragged LG to ban sales, named Nokia, angrily denounced Microsoft, and refuted ITC?

It's too polite.

Mr. Fang, stop pretending, come out quickly!

However, for two consecutive days, Yike is still in a calm mood. It is time to promote the business, the docking resources of the docking resources, and the investment promotion of the investment promotion.

Yi Ke, who kept quiet, did not dissuade his opponents from attacking. On the contrary, on Tuesday night, it was reported that Penguin adjusted Penguin Weibo's personnel level and added budget. This was almost regarded as a joint attack by BTA on Y.

A new question arises on Zhihu—why is BAT besieging Y?

Soon, this question was revised—why did Y attack BAT?

In the end, it was revised back, and many clever ghosts appeared in the answer area.

On Wednesday, Google CEO Schmidt ended his trip to Beijing and flew to Shanghai to visit his old friend Fang Zhuo.

By the way, he also brought Mr. Fang a gift - a "Time" magazine, the cover of which is Fang Zhuo, the head of Yike.

Long time no see, even miss.

When Schmidt and Fang Zhuo had finished exchanging greetings, and when everyone else left the office, Schmidt took out the gift and asked, "Mr. Fang, why were you short-sold and sued in the United States, but you were still sued in China?" Siege? Whose problem is it?"

"Long time no see, Schmidt, you're still like this..." Fang Zhuo flipped through the gift, "Well, you're so outspoken."

"So, Google may have to withdraw from the Chinese market." Schmidt shrugged. "Look at the difference. The United States can tolerate Yike and overturn the ITC's ban on Yike."

Fang Zhuo put down the "Time" magazine, which had mixed reviews about him, and pointed to the secretary: "Xiao Liu, you go out first, I want to have a fight with Schmidt."

Liu Zonghong was slightly taken aback. Seeing that the boss was serious, he added some tea to the guests at the end, then turned and left the office.

Then, he really faintly heard the gust of wind and rain inside.

When he was called into the president's office again, Liu Zonghong noticed that the gift brought by Google's CEO had been thrown on the sofa, and there was still an end between the two.

"How dare I ask you to help me? It's fine if your surname Fang doesn't make trouble." Schmidt mocked, "You really have to blame yourself. If Google develops smoothly, why are you so confidently interrupted by Baidu?"

Fang Zhuo retorted: "You, Schmidt, don't give Li Kaifu support. The server is not good enough, and the budget is not much. No wonder Li Kaifu is leaving, no wonder the localization is not good, isn't it right? I really don't know who is to blame. .”

Liu Zonghong silently walked between the eyes of the two, adding hot water again.

The harmonious communication between Fang Zhuo and Schmidt was over.

The main purpose of Schmidt's trip this time is really to see friends. Since the Yike financial war, although the phone calls have been smooth, it seems that Mr. Fang really doesn't go to the United States.

"Mr. Fang, if you don't come to the United States, we can't communicate in time for many things. Although it is a little dangerous for you there, if you do a good job of security, you won't be here in Shencheng all the time." Schmidt shouted He took two sips of tea that didn't suit his taste, and said with a smile.

"I'm going to complete Yike's mobile service in China, fill in the vacancy of Google's Android system for users, and then take a good rest for a while. It happened that a friend gave me... I borrowed a yacht, and I will sit on it when the time comes Travel around the world." Fang Zhuo also laughed.

Liu Zonghong next to him listened to the conversation, wondering if he had a problem with his mentality, and always felt that the two people were talking with guns and sticks.

"It's not easy to do a good job in mobile services." Although Schmidt hasn't seen Mr. Fang for a while, he is still used to this kind of communication with him. "However, China's 3G market has just started. With Yike's experience in global markets and Google’s template is really possible.”

Fang Zhuo joked: "Wait for Yike to do a good job in the Chinese market, and then go overseas and join forces with Google."

Schmidt smoothly talked about the cautiousness of the person in front of him: "We have to wait until you dare to fly abroad."

"It's just that it's inconvenient for me to go to the United States for the time being." Fang Zhuo said disapprovingly, "I just came back from Germany yesterday. You are so unpredictable in the United States. Shall I go to the head office elsewhere?"

Schmidt was startled, he didn't see any news, did Boss Fang just come back from abroad?
Liu Zonghong silently learned from the boss's nonsense.

Schmidt digested the news for a while, then frowned and said: "I heard that Yike is negotiating with Qualcomm to negotiate chip purchases next year?"

"The news is very well-informed, there is indeed such a thing." Fang Zhuo affirmed the news, "We hope to continue the cooperation with Qualcomm and continue to carry its chips on the S series."

"Where's Apple?" Schmidt listened to Mr. Fang talking about the three cooperative chip projects of Yike, Apple, and Samsung. Previously, Yike and Apple each acquired a chip design company, and Samsung's consistent chip design capabilities made it seem like a big deal. It is the cooperation of the three most dynamic mobile phones in the world.

Looking forward at this point in time, with the development of 3G smart phones, these three companies have chosen to strengthen the strength of the chip department in the past period of time.

"You should ask Jobs about this, hasn't he come back to preside over the work?" Fang Zhuo pondered, "If there is no accident, Apple will definitely install a new chip next year, Samsung will use Android to transform, and Apple is eager to reduce Proportion of purchases at Samsung."

He took the initiative to continue: "As for Samsung, I really can't say for sure. It can use self-developed chips, but it may continue to deepen cooperation with Qualcomm. You, the CEO of Google, should know this."

The relationship between the three mobile phone companies is somewhat complicated. Samsung is an important component supplier of Apple, and a competitor of Android and Apple systems. Yike has patent licensing cooperation with Samsung. Samsung covets Yike’s status as the king of Android phones. Yike Competing with Apple is the most direct, but this year they just teamed up with Nokia...

Sitting in Yike's office, Schmidt expressed caution: "Mr. Fang, the development momentum of Yike's mobile phone is very good. Perhaps, you don't have to be so anxious to reduce cooperation with Qualcomm."

"The sales of Selfy are very good. We think it can play the performance of Qualcomm's flagship chip in the future. If Yike only has one mobile phone, we will continue to cooperate with Qualcomm without hesitation." Fang Zhuo smiled, "But , with the expansion of the company's scale, in the future, we still have to give full play to the cost advantages of the upstream and downstream in order to continue to maintain competitiveness."

He thought for a while, and gave another reason: "After all, Android is open source, and parts can be purchased. Yike mobile phone, as the top brand of our Android camp, needs to be better."

This year, Yike launched Selfy, which is positioned as the sub-flagship of imaging. Because of its leading algorithm and technical cooperation with Sony, it has also achieved very good sales.

As long as Ice Core's 45nm mass production in the third quarter is smooth, the Sony CMOS sensor of Shencheng No. [-] Factory will be further optimized, thus continuing to help Selfy's image performance.

Yike internally analyzes the product positioning, and the image demand may not be the long-term demand of a mobile phone, but in the future, multimedia applications based on 3G or even 4G will greatly promote the sales of products with this positioning.

When Schmidt heard such a reason, although it sounded high-sounding, he was indeed amazed that the other party could always plan and develop the current situation. He thought for a while and sighed: "Mr. Fang, you really want to become China's Samsung." Already."

Apple will not think about integrating and developing semiconductor foundry links, and Samsung has a more complete industrial chain in this regard.

"According to local conditions, Samsung is really good. I'm just looking for a development path that suits Yike." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "After all, Apple doesn't need to consider OEMs, so we can use whoever is good. Maybe, let's see us in the future." The technology and price of the ice core are acceptable, and the order will be placed with me."

Schmidt was surprised to hear this: "Jobs contacted you?"

"Schmidt, we are friends reunited, chat casually, don't listen to the wind and rain, don't be so divergent." Fang Zhuo shook his head, "Even if Apple develops its own chips next year, the level of self-developed chips will not be too high, and it will still Relying on Samsung's foundry, how could you talk to me at this time."

He thought for a while, and then said: "We are talking about a joint acquisition, which is about the baseband."

The chip project of the cooperation between the three companies is based on Samsung's S5PC100 chip design, which is also the CPU of Apple's iPhone 3GS this year. Part of the core technology comes from Yike's Hummingbird team, and part of the magic modification comes from Apple's Intrinsity team.

This kind of continuous cooperation began before Hummingbird was acquired by Yike. It has been more than two years, and some technical verifications have been carried out on S5PC100, and finally it is considered a success.

Currently, Samsung has internally named the next-generation chip Exynos 4210.

Apple will continue to polish the chip to make it more suitable for the next-generation iPhone. If nothing else, this chip is Apple's A4.

Inside Yike, the name of this chip that also needs to be polished is "Zhu Rong", and its English code is ZR 001.

The cooperation between the three companies on chips ended, but Yike launched a new cooperation proposal based on Infineon's baseband business, and wanted to invite Apple and Samsung to package and acquire Infineon's chip business and continue to make efforts in this field.

Because of the financial crisis, Infineon has always wanted to package and sell WLS, its wireless solution department, which is its wireless chip department, which mainly involves solutions such as baseband processors and power management integrated circuits.

Yu Hong talked with Infineon on behalf of Yike for a long time. The other party initially offered 20 billion euros, then cut it to 15 billion, and then 14 billion, but Yike offered 11.5 billion.

The two sides have not been able to reach a consensus, and the negotiation has dragged on and died.

However, Infineon searched around the world, but never found an interested buyer, and then sat down again and cut another 1 million by itself, and the price became 13 billion euros.

Yike hopes to negotiate this deal, but the purpose of the acquisition is still the research of technology. It would be even better if it can attract partners to devote themselves to joint research and development.

Both Apple and Samsung are hesitating. The former is using Infineon’s baseband, as is some of the latter’s mobile phones. However, whether it needs to be acquired and then invested in research and development... This is still a problem.

Samsung has used Qualcomm's flagship chip this year, and thinks the effect is quite good, and it is not particularly urgent for Infineon's technology.

In comparison, Apple's enthusiasm is greater.

The three companies are both cooperating and competing, and the relationship is rather delicate, because Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and other brands still have a large market. Fang Zhuo hopes to promote another important cooperation based on this situation.

However, because of Infineon's peddling, Qualcomm also knew about the situation and expressed dissatisfaction tactfully.

Fang Zhuo really wanted to go to the United States to discuss this dissatisfaction with Qualcomm in person, but due to his own special situation, he could only ask his partners to forgive him a lot.

Schmidt doesn't know all of these things behind the scenes. It's just that Google's relationship with Samsung has gradually become closer in the past few months, and he also vaguely knows the outline.

Today, he wanted to know some more accurate behind-the-scenes information about the mobile phone from Mr. Fang, and there was also a consideration related to Google-whether to make the mobile phone himself, and how to make the mobile phone.

On the way here, Schmidt was still hesitating whether to discuss this plan with Mr. Fang, but now he felt that this man was quite honest, not to mention his vicious eyes.

"Mr. Fang, what do you think of Google's end in making mobile phones?" Schmidt said while drinking tea.

Fang Zhuo froze for a moment, this question was really unexpected at this time.

It is not difficult to understand that Google wants to make a mobile phone. The software system wants it. Now that Android phones are booming, the hardware also wants it. However, it has not been successful in history.

Now throw this question in front of yourself...

Fang Zhuo turned his thoughts, and asked back: "Do you still want to OEM? Yike can provide products based on Google's requirements, so it's unlikely that Google will build another factory by itself?"

He took advantage of the opportunity to sell and said: "Schmidt, if Google is willing, I think there is a very good entry point now. Our joint acquisition of Infineon baseband, Google can get involved, which is very important for the future of Google and Android. Influence has a bonus."

Schmidt frowned. He hadn't decided whether to make a mobile phone or not. This party directly brought the problem to the baseband input, which was another direction.

"Google can do it, design it yourself, Yike can help OEM and control the quality." Fang Zhuo made a decision without help, "Google can also not do it, you don't do it, Android is developing equally well now."

However, he noticed Schmidt's expression, and continued to say a few more words: "Android is open source, and every manufacturer will modify it. If there is an original Android on the market, consumers will be better aware of the original Android system. Face, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing."

"Google can use it as a showcase for native systems, it can be a showcase for software development."

Schmidt focused, thought for a while, and said: "We will discuss it internally. As for the baseband you just mentioned, forget it."

Fang Zhuo had some regrets: "You can talk to Larry when you go back. I think the baseband will become more and more important to manufacturers in the future. Google has such a choice, which is also beneficial to the cooperation with many manufacturers."

Schmidt smiled and didn't respond to this again.

He put aside his official business, and chatted with Yi Ke, the somewhat mythical head of Wall Street, about his reaction after the financial war he came into contact with...

Without exception, they were all shocked.

In addition to the ups and downs stimulated by the financial market, many people also noticed that Yike’s troubles at the patent level seemed to be solved.

Let's not talk about the looming behind-the-scenes power-money transactions, but if Mr. Fang planned Yike's patent as a goal of the financial dispute from the very beginning... that would be amazing.

Schmidt asked the head of Yike curiously on behalf of a group of people this time: "Mr. Fang, the patent problem that Yike faced before was very serious. Did you consider solving this from the beginning of the financial war in March and April?" ?”

Fang Zhuo laughed when he heard such a question: "How is it possible? Schmidt, you think too much of me."

He shook his head and sighed: "It's just luck, or, Yike represents the advanced nature of Android, so it is destined to sweep the backward Nokia out of the market. This time it is an accident in necessity."

Schmidt nodded slightly, and he also felt that how could people be so scary.

"Xiao Liu, pour tea for Teacher Shi." Fang Zhuo seemed a little distracted when he saw the secretary.

Liu Zonghong hurried forward to add tea to the CEO of Google, and also to the head of Yike, who had a dangerous heart and a deep heart of the city.

He has many opinions on this matter, but he is destined to keep it in his heart, or he can go to Zhihu anonymously.

Oh, no, no, Mr. Xiong has already sent Mr. Wang to the capital, knowing that he probably won't die this time, and it's not safe to speak by himself there.

(End of this chapter)