My Return to Life

"Guan Zong, how do you feel today?"

Going around the screen, Fang Nian glanced at him and asked hippie.

Guan Qiuhe raised her head upon hearing the sound, glanced at Fang Nian, and said in a neutral tone, "What do you think?"

"Winter is here and there is such a good sun, I think I must be in a good mood." Fang Nian said seriously.

Guan Qiuhe pursed her lips: "It's rare that Mr. Fang is still making a detour today."

She also went to the World Financial Center in the morning, and hurried over after lunch.

She knew what was going on today.

With downcast eyes, Guan Qiuhe calmly said, "Let's go straight to the meeting."

"..."

Lu Weiyu, who was following Fang Nian, pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister He, why are you interrupting Boss Fang? It would be fun to watch him perform."

"Hey! You still know Fang Nian, why didn't I think of this!" Guan Qiuhe raised his eyebrows.

"..."

Everyone laughed happily.

There is a jovial air in the front office.

Wen Ye, Gu Yu, Liu Xi, and Wu Fucheng sorted out the materials one after another and walked to the meeting room.

Generally speaking, frontiers don't hold meetings very much.

The last meeting was at the beginning of the month to discuss how to spend 3 billion.

There is no small matter that can use the conference room.

Today is no exception.

After they were seated, there was no need for Fang Nian to roll their names, and Wen Ye reported first.

"According to the report, the first thing is to obtain the authorization of the public mobile chip architecture of arm company..."

"..."

Wen Ye and Gu Yu alternately reported on the reorganized content.

After listening, Fang Nian thought for a while, and called Liu Xi's name: "Liu Xi, tell me about the loan plan."

"According to the assets analysis, Frontier Innovation can accumulatively borrow 600 million yuan in Shanghai..." Liu Xi briefly talked about the previous loan plan.

He also mentioned the loan plan of Frontier Innovation in Luzhou: "At present, Luzhou can normally borrow 800 million yuan. If there are local resources that are inclined to intervene, we need to talk about it."

The actual investment in Luzhou has exceeded the investment in Zhangjiang.

Not only land, but also book assets and so on.

"..."

Before walking into this office, everyone knew it in their hearts.

To discuss...

Purchase the public version architecture of arm's mobile chip, and purchase the license of international essential patents related to mobile chips.

The team of Professor Bai Ze's laboratory spent more than a month without any waste or perfunctory;

Not to mention keeping up with the times.

Nothing on the report is unnecessary.

The patent licenses that need to be purchased are almost all patents held by foreign companies. In the field of chips, especially high-end smartphone processing chips, there are currently a lot of gaps in the mainland.

The mid-to-low end is okay, the mid-end is barely okay, the mid-to-high end is basically very difficult, and the high-end...

If you don't include Wanwan, it's blank.

The additional reason is...

The relevant patents currently held in China,

Almost nothing can be bypassed.

That's embarrassing.

On the contrary, in the large field of semiconductors, although there is no specific target this time, there are some relevant reflections in the report, and some domestic fields are still relatively top-notch.

in other words……

If the Luzhou project directly implements IDM in one step, there is no need to hold this meeting.

because……

Fang Nian will use the resources at hand to make it purely self-developed.

Even if you don't have such a large capital, you can't afford to waste a lot of resources in the early stage.

The current way is to take it step by step, learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians.

With less capital investment and high resource utilization rate, the market can be used to support research investment.

The main reason is that if the pure self-developed IDM is in place in one step, 100 billion will be sprinkled with water, 200 billion will be a little spray, and 300 billion will listen to the sound like this...

The frontier is uncertain, and the amount of capital introduced is not enough-no capital will make Fang Nian crazy.

"..."

After putting all the information on the desk, Fang Nian made a brief summary: "In other words, from the perspective of funds, it is best to only buy the public version of the arm company's architecture authorization?

If you want to buy out the necessary patent license at one time, you may need an astronomical figure, and you can't afford it for the time being? "

Listening to Fang Nian's question, Gu Yu nodded and replied: "Yes, obtaining patent licenses through sales commissions and other methods requires detailed discussions, and there is no way to obtain more accurate data."

"..."

Fang Nian fell into deep thought.

There are no other actions.

Everyone didn't speak, and each fell into thinking.

The question before us is simple.

arm company itself is a manufacturer that provides IC design solutions to the world.

Obtaining the authorization of the public version of the arm company is nothing more than a matter of money. Everyone is prepared for this, and the funds are sufficient.

However, the report submitted by the professor's team has a list of necessary patents for the second step of the Baize Lab's plan.

This part of the license fee is astronomical.

After a while, Fang Nian made up his mind and said, "If I want to get the ARM public version architecture and other necessary patent licenses at once, do you have any plans?"

"..."

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and you don't speak.

In the end, Guan Qiuhe said: "In this case, unless you take out the 1 billion in Qianyan's account and the several billion in Dangkang's account, and then borrow another three to five billion, it will be enough."

As he said that, Guan Qiuhe laughed at himself: "After all, the current foreign currency unit is the US dollar."

Fang Nian: "...a bit exaggerated."

But he knew it was true.

Some patent licenses are divided according to the license fee + sales commission.

It seems that Microsoft can now receive hundreds of millions of dollars from Android. For example, Samsung has negotiated a $12 device. ①

The main reason is that the patent on the design of the mobile phone chip also involves the baseband of the mobile phone, that is, the communication standard, which is a thing that can be played out.

For example, now Qualcomm has done an operation that I regret so much that I want to swallow it.

Once, Qualcomm authorized CDMA IP to LSI in order to resist the anti-monopoly law.

LSI sold the CDMA IP in 2002, and the buyer authorized other companies such as MediaTek...

Later, this IP was worth a lot of money, but there was no need to give Qualcomm money.

Anyway...

In terms of communication standards, everyone knows everything.

But now Fang Nian means that in addition to pure chip design, he also wants to get the authorization of foreign companies in this area at once.

After all, frontier academic investment in communication standards is a small part of the future...

…………

Fang Nian thought for a long time, and calmly said: "In this way, the license purchased from arm company is calculated on a yearly basis, and only talks about 5 years, and other necessary patent licenses are also only talked about for 5 years."

As he said that, Fang Nian slapped the conference table and said seriously: "Within five years, if Bai Ze Lab can't produce a completely independent processing chip within five years, then this lab doesn't matter!"

"Let's talk about it, everyone."

After speaking, Fang Nian looked at everyone.

The conference room fell silent.

After a while, Guan Qiuhe said: "Arm company's public version architecture license for 5 years is no problem, after all, according to the plan, it is only used to practice hands and open up the market;

But in terms of other patents, isn't it a little bit radical? The gold content of the processing chip is still very high, involving so many related fields...

After all, foreign countries have developed in this industry for decades. "

After a short pause, Guan Qiuhe added euphemistically: "As far as the instruction set required by the chip is concerned, there has been no breakthrough in China so far, such as Godson."

Lu Weiyu thought about it for a while, and said softly, "Can it be partially relaxed to ten years, or can it be done in batches?"

Wen Ye said seriously: "Although cutting-edge academics have already started to invest in technology reserves, the breakthroughs in basic technology are not controllable. They may look good, but they cannot pass the market test. I also think it is better to relax some of them to ten years."

"..."

Fang Nian understands what everyone said.

Among other things, the Godson project was initiated by the Academy of Sciences.

Fang Nian does not know the details, but Fang Nian knows that Godson does not have its own instruction set and architecture so far. The MIPS architecture that was used privately at the beginning was permanently licensed last year.

This is a project of the Academy of Sciences.

However, the operation mode of scientific research units is still different from that of enterprises.

The most important thing is the difference in funding.

In addition, Godson may have certain strategic significance. It does not have to be advanced, but it must be reliable.

However, the planning and development of Godson and Baize Lab are different.

What Bai Ze Lab is going to do is to process chips for high-end mobile phone devices, not for computers, and there is a significant difference in ecology.

Baize Labs and the Nuwa system, which has already begun to seize market share, have taken the lead to establish an ecosystem.

Technological breakthroughs are indeed not controllable.

However, Fang Nian believes that if he can't make a breakthrough in five years, it will be useless in another five years.

Because the gap in these five years is not too big, the gap in the next five years will be very large.

The manufacturing process took off like leaps and bounds, first at 14nm, then flew to 10nm, and then suddenly reached 7nm, 5nm, and 3nm.

You must know that the most high-end smartphone chips only use 45nm technology.

With the rapid leapfrogging of the manufacturing process, the requirements for chip design are also rising, and the technical barriers are more serious.

After thorough consideration, Fang Nian finally insisted on the decision: "5 years, 5 years will determine the future."

"Aiding the construction of frontier institutes is not to make them a decoration. For Baize Lab, the biggest constraint is no longer the domestic scientific research environment, but funds;

Everything this year belongs to the beginning, it seems very difficult;

So if you want to do it, you can do it all, so as not to be in a hurry again and again. "

Seeing that Fang Nian insisted on his own opinion, Guan Qiuhe thought for a while and agreed: "Okay, I will listen to you."

She knew that Fang Nian must have other reasons to support his final determination.

Guan Qiuhe doesn't have too many advantages, but he is willing to choose to believe in Fang Nian when he disagrees and continues to disagree.

This is also the reason why Dangkang Games has become a giant in the blink of an eye.

Guan Qiuhe had no objections, so Lu Weiyu naturally stopped talking.

Wen Ye...

Wen Ye can be valued by Fang Nian, and wants to be entrusted with the important task of frontline CEO. The biggest advantage is that he is willing to implement it unconditionally.

"..."

The meeting room was quiet for a while, Fang Young smiled and said: "This will increase the workload and difficulty of the negotiation, but it will greatly reduce the investment, and it can be regarded as the best of both worlds."

Hearing what Fang Nian said, Guan Qiuhe frowned, and suddenly said: "Why do I think you don't want to send money abroad for nothing?"

Facing Guan Qiuhe's puzzled eyes, Fang Nian said calmly: "Almost, arm's public version of the license is useless, and after the completion of independent research and development, the so-called patent license is also a pile of waste paper."

As he spoke, Fang Nian shrugged his shoulders: "After seeing the astronomical cost, I thought about buying the public version architecture of arm;

Anyway, after practicing, all you have to do is self-study, and you have to go around if you can't get around it. There are no conditions to talk about. "

"However, a while ago, I just saw the foreign remarks reprinted in the newspaper, so I had an idea to prepare in advance. In case some companies are unwilling to sell the patent license at that time, it is better to settle it once and feel at ease."

After listening to Fang Nian, Wen Ye was the first to speak: "Mr. Fang, why do I feel that you seem to be worried that if you have money, you won't be able to buy things?"

"That's right, isn't it all WTO now? Most of the foreign countries are capitalist, and the rich are the masters." Gu Yu also echoed.

Even Wu Fucheng thought so.

Not to mention Guan Qiuhe and Lu Weiyu who are each in charge of a company.

Seeing this, Fang Nian sighed, and said earnestly: "Don't be stupid, money is often difficult to use, and it is the case in ancient and modern China and abroad."

Then Fang Nian looked at everyone, and asked calmly: "Have you ever thought about why I want to establish Frontier, to be Nuwa, Baize, etc."

"Being a standard is the most profitable." Wen Ye blurted out.

Fang Nian stretched out his right index finger and shook it: "No, making rules is the most profitable."

"It's better to have a father than to have a mother. I used this sentence to get a valuation of 200 million US dollars for Xiaomi."

"No matter what kind of social system, interests are the most fundamental. Now it is hello, me, everyone, WTO, but if it really comes to some extreme times, I hope that our country will die quickly and not too many."

"On Dangkang, I found that making money is not a challenge. I thought about it for a long time, so...created the frontier, and challenged myself to make rules."

"..."

Although everyone felt that Fang Nian's tone of voice was very embarrassing.

To mention earning money is an understatement.

The elegance when raising financing.

but……

And I have to admit that Fang Nian, who looks like a fool, actually has a charm in his bones.

The calmness of finding an ideal balance between the country and the family and oneself while talking and laughing is very... alluring.

"It's too far away, let's continue to talk about business."

Fang Nian shook his hand and got back to the topic.

"Guan Zong, originally I wanted to obtain authorization in the name of cutting-edge innovation, but I was clearly targeted last week, and foreign media have been deliberately exaggerating the threat of cutting-edge;

I think it is better to carry out in the name of Dangkang. "

"Additional... The amount of foreign investment for cutting-edge innovation is not too high. Although ODI registration is handled, it is not as convenient as Dangkang."

Hearing this, Guan Qiuhe thought for a while: "Dangkang Game's overseas account happens to have a lot of funds, that's fine."

"If we don't use that money, I'm thinking about going to the domestic banks and asking them to give us loans overseas." Fang Nian said calmly.

"..."

The general direction of affairs has been settled in this way.

There is no need to discuss more specific matters at the meeting.

This trip abroad was led by Guan Qiuhe as usual, and Wen Ye followed.

It will take about 5,789 countries, passing through dozens of countries and regions, and plans to come back on December 24.

After all, many countries celebrated the New Year there.

Not only that, but there will also be a relatively large team that will follow one after another.

certainly……

There are also third-party teams.

Although it is in the name of Dangkang, the personnel are all from the frontier.

It is also the first serious international business trip since the establishment of Frontier, and the first time it started in a month, which is quite an exaggeration...

…………

Later, Guan Qiuhe arranged the relevant affairs.

The plane departs at nine o'clock in the evening.

The loan matter is not something that can be rushed in a day or two. There are so many people in Dangkang, so let's go through the process slowly, and it's not impossible to find a way.

Naturally, Wen Ye was also with Guan Qiuhe.

This time, Zhao Qian, security guards and the first batch of administrative staff were also accompanying her.

The main goal of Guan Qiuhe and Wen Ye is to complete the memorandum of cooperation, and the remaining specific affairs have to be jointly handled by a third-party team and cutting-edge innovation executives.

Anyway, it is a division of labor and cooperation model.

Guan Qiuhe is very familiar with the road.

While Guan Qiuhe was arranging the affairs, Fang Nian also got Pengcheng's new progress from Lu Weiyu.

Called Gu Yu and said: "I'll give you an interesting task, contact this person tomorrow as a frontier angel investor.

With that said, Fang Nian gave Gu Yu a contact information.

"Invest 5 million in his company. As for whether you want him to come to Shanghai or something else, you decide for yourself. You can ask Liu Xi and Wen Mi for investment details."

After listening to Fang Nian, Gu Yu beamed with joy: "Really?"

Fang Nian was puzzled: "Are you so happy? Wen Mi often does it."

Gu Yulian said: "Mr. Fang, that was before the 91 Wireless merger and acquisition case. The current Frontier Angel is not the previous Frontier Angel!"

"Hey, Mr. Gu." Fang Nian joked.

He doesn't mind Gu Yuhu pretending to be a tiger.

It doesn't matter if the investor's attitude is higher.

After all, most of the companies that can be invested by cutting-edge angels currently have hundreds of billions of capital.

Even Bi Fangyun and Chongming Niao Wangan.

That is to say, there are several small game companies that do not have this possibility.

Although a little excited, Gu Yu did not forget the business, she reported on the sorting out of domestic semiconductor companies.

A detailed list was given.

"Mr. Fang, I personally think that you can contact Spreadtrum first."

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①: It is said that the minimum price is $8, because Android from Linux uses Microsoft’s essential patents. It is rumored that in the era of 2010, Microsoft earned more on Android than Google, and Google only earned after the GMS system was formed. Big money, that's it... outrageous.