Chapter 999

In 2005, mobile e-mail technology will gradually become the standard configuration of the new generation of smart phones, but at this time, Canadian rim has not launched their first BlackBerry with this technology.

In 1999, no one had a clear understanding of the size of the business market for mobile e-mail sent by handheld terminals. However, the basic patents in the field of mobile e-mail technology have almost been registered by NTP and Visto. The former mainly owned push technology, while the latter monopolized other important software and hardware architectures, The patent gap left to other companies has been small, and even rim has ignored the deployment of patents.

In this technical field, Geoff Goodfellow contacted by ESS is probably the earliest inventor. The world never seems to lack genius. Jeff goodfeller, who dropped out of high school, came up with the idea of sending mobile e-mail to handheld terminals in 1982, and continued to carry out a lot of research and development work. He has been trying to industrialize the technology he has mastered for more than a decade, but like rim in Canada, Jeff goodfeller also ignored the patent application, By the end of 1998, the company he established to commercialize the technology had been in trouble and could not be saved.

"It's arranged for me to meet Jeff goodfeller these two days," Zhang Ke said to Cheng Hanzhang. "I hope ess can acquire his company as soon as possible and determine this matter as soon as possible. There are still a lot of things to do..."

In fact, Zhang Ke knows that Jeff goodfeller is going to close his company and plan to do bar business in Prague. Before other electronic giants see the market prospect of mobile e-mail business and take action, it will not be too difficult to acquire Jeff goodfeller's company, except for the acquisition of Jeff goodfeller's company, Zhang Ke also hopes to retain him.

Cheng Hanzhang and other Jinhu executives, even if it is difficult to judge the prospect of mobile e-mail technology, it is not difficult to judge that this technology can be integrated into mobile phones. After last autumn, IDA group determined the core strategic direction of the integration of digital technology and mobile phone products. The acquisition and continuous development of mobile e-mail technology is in line with the core strategic direction of IDA group.

There is no doubt about Zhang Ke's decision in Jinhu. Maybe Zhang Ke is a little impatient, it can also be said that the result is final.

In North America, which pays attention to professional development and division of labor, most science and technology enterprises focus on a certain technical field, but few science and technology enterprises in China can jointly undertake the important task of R & D in a certain field with Jinhu. Jinhu is forced to invest a lot of money to establish a comprehensive R & D system and a heavy direct production system from upstream to terminal.

Due to the demand of Jinhu, even if there are 300 scientific researchers in the ESS experimental base in Silicon Valley, it can not fully meet the R & D tasks shared by ess. However, ESS with 300 scientific researchers in North America can not be regarded as a small enterprise. Even if scober has only more than 100 employees in the scientific research department in North America.

Therefore, Zhang Ke's request for a meeting with Jeff goodfeller was quickly responded to. Jeff goodfeller rushed to San Francisco by night plane the next day to meet Zhang Ke.

Jeff goodfeller still wants ess to fund his company rather than buy it.

The salary of $100000 is also high in North America, which is twice as high as the per capita salary in North America. In addition to acquiring Jeff goodfeller's company, Zhang Ke offered him an annual salary of $500000 to stay in ess to engage in follow-up research and development in the field of mobile e-mail technology.

Even though NTP and Visto have registered nearly 30 basic patents in the field of mobile e-mail technology, in most technical fields, patent deployment always derives dozens or even hundreds of times of subordinate, improved and combined patents from the initial few basic patents, so as to cover the basic patents, even if they do not take advantage of the layout of basic patents, Zhang Ke still hopes that Jinhu will occupy a place in the subsequent derivative patent layout.

After Jeff goodfeller hesitated for a day, Zhang Ke increased his annual salary chip by $620000, making him sign the employment agreement and the company transfer agreement on the spot.

That night, in San Francisco, a small celebration reception was held for Jeff goodfeller to join ess. Wei Yuanzhen, the second scientist in charge of developing Linux operating system in Oak Park, happened to be in San Francisco. Naturally, he also attended the celebration reception. Cheng Hanzhang smiled and said to him, "you have another big task!"

In the future, the software module of mobile e-mail will be embedded into the operating system. The follow-up development of the software module will also be in the charge of the team led by Wei Yuanzhen. His work is indeed another big piece.

"The scale of IDA is expanding at a visible speed. All of us who do scientific research have a feeling of being chased..." Wei Yuanzhen smiled. "Maybe in ten years, the development scale of IDA will surprise everyone."

Jeff goodfeller has long realized that the commercialization of mobile e-mail technology must be based on powerful technology companies in order to concentrate sufficient human and material resources. As he signed, Cheng Hanzhang promised to transfer 20 researchers from ess to strengthen the original research team of Jeff goodfeller company to develop follow-up technology, There are also considerable R & D tasks that can be entrusted to domestic R & D departments, and the patent application work neglected before will also be in the charge of professional departments. In this way, the speed of developing handheld terminals is several times faster than that of Jeff goodfeller.

"Canada's rim company is already developing mobile e-mail handheld terminal products," Cheng Hanzhang asked Zhang Ke. "Can we follow?"

"Next, we'd better negotiate with NTP and Visto first," Zhang Ke said. "We'll get the license of basic patent technology in relevant technology fields..."

Even if Jeff goodfeller's company does not hold relevant patents, the company actually has mastered the technology of mobile e-mail, and a large number of relevant technical data prove that it has mastered relevant technologies before NTP and Visto rush to register patents, which can threaten the patent stability of the two companies.

In addition, as an authoritative figure in the field of mobile e-mail technology, Jeff goodfeller can even develop new technical solutions to avoid the patents of NTP and Visto.

After acquiring Jeff goodfeller and signing Jeff goodfeller himself into Jinhu, Jinhu has enough chips to take the initiative in the negotiations with NTP and Visto, so as to obtain all basic patent technology licenses in all mobile e-mail fields.

Zhang Ke has seriously considered that even if he has obtained all the basic patent licenses and successfully developed the hand-held terminal, it is not likely that Jinhu's model of copying RIM BlackBerry will succeed in the North American market or even replace rim.

In addition to technology, there are many factors for success, many of which are not available to Jinhu at this time. For example, rim has established a large number of enterprise servers to sell their terminal products in order to develop BlackBerry Enterprise users. Even if Jinhu has this capital strength, the possibility of obtaining permission from the U.S. government is far lower than that of rim from Canada.

At this time, the key is to complete the layout of patents first and let rim develop the market as a pioneer. When the time is relatively mature and Jinhu's mobile phone technology is relatively mature, it is not too late to enter the market.

Zhang Ke's visit to San Francisco this time also has a key figure to meet. He is Xu Shengzhi, who joined ess in mid March last year to lead the mobile phone chip R & D Department of ESS.

Ess has secretly carried out the research of mobile phone baseband chip for nearly a year. Xu Shengzhi has led the research of baseband chip for nearly 20 years. It is not difficult for him to copy the complete baseband chip technology. The key is to avoid the patents held by other companies, which can be regarded as obtaining * *'s baseband chip technology, That requires the team led by Xu Shengzhi to design a new technical scheme and successfully implement it.

In ESS's mobile phone chip laboratory, Zhang Ke saw that the mobile phone prototype with microprocessor + baseband chip architecture is not good enough in terms of power consumption and performance stability, but it is enough to prove that ess experimental base is in the right direction.

"It will take about a year or two to produce mature products," Cheng Hanzhang said.

Zhang Ke nodded and said, "in two years, the domestic mobile phone market environment will not be bad, leaving us plenty of time..."

In the next two years, the domestic mobile phone market will increase exponentially, and the gap for foreign brand mobile phones has not been fully opened, so it will leave enough development space for domestic mobile phone manufacturers. Among domestic mobile phone manufacturers, Zhang Ke is not worried about who can regret the status of Jinhu.

Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing stayed in San Francisco for nearly ten days. During these ten days, Xiao Jincheng accompanied him in San Francisco. After Xiao Jincheng left, Chen Xinsheng and Ding Huai also went to San Francisco to handle official business. Finally, Tan Yunsong, the chief scientist of the oak garden, and a group of middle and senior scientific researchers who returned to the oak garden to engage in scientific research accompanied Zhang Ke Zhai Danqing returned to Jianye via Beijing, just in time for the new semester - Meng le and Xi Ruolin stayed directly in San Francisco.

Last semester, because Qian Guihua, an official of Nanye District, and others absconded during an investigation abroad, Zhang Ke was eager to see Luo Jun, so he didn't take the last exam. At the beginning of the new semester, he had to take the exam together with the make-up exam, so he couldn't rest after returning to Jianye.

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