Age of Dreams

It's just a little bit, Xiao Qi still feels a little headache.

The labor of American engineers is too expensive!

The average annual salary of engineers in Silicon Valley is 90,000. Now the engineers in North American laboratories have reached 110,000 US dollars, plus overtime allowances, bonuses, dividends, etc., don’t even think about getting down 200,000 US dollars a year.

If Xiao Qi wants to recruit those hardware and software engineers, the number should be at least around 5,000, and the salary alone will cost them 1 billion U.S. dollars a year, and the number and salary will increase every year, reaching two to three billion in the future. Dollars for a year is easy.

In contrast, engineers in China are much cheaper, with an average of 700,000 yuan, which is almost less than 100,000 US dollars.

And the Chinese are good, they don't deliberately ask for compensation for overtime or anything.

It’s like foreign engineers who just press the time alarm clock after get off work, and one minute is considered overtime.

Xiao Qi is a generous person. As long as the employees work hard, he will never be stingy with various rewards.

On the other hand, he doesn't like employees to care about things, and take everything together so naked and profitable.

Therefore, Xiao Qi generally did not directly participate in the management of Mingxiang Holdings' North American laboratory. More often, Tang Mingxiang went to check. Anyway, she is the nominal proprietress of Mingxiang Holdings.

However, there are disadvantages in all things, and there are advantages when there is disadvantage.

Chinese engineers are cheap and serious, but they are far inferior to foreign engineers in terms of overall thinking, creativity, and technical capabilities.

The salaries of engineers in Europe and the United States are expensive, and you get what you pay for. The bosses of foreign countries are even more dark-hearted than those of China, and you won't be able to make a profit in a day. Or if the company's profits decline, it will be fired immediately, without any favors.

Therefore, their technical research ability is very strong.

For example, in the current North American laboratory, the technology of the DMA department is still far ahead in the world, and its application in China has also received a lot of praise. Even many foreigners who come to China for business have praised Huaguodiantong’s DMA network. high speed.

DMA's patent fees are not collected from operators. The objects it collects are chip manufacturers and base station contractors with DMA functions.

Go further. The DMA patent fee will be higher.

Manufacturers who usually produce 3G mobile phones, because of this small 3G wireless chip, are required by several companies with core patents, such as Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Siemens, etc., to charge a total of 20% of the price of mobile phones. The amount of patent fees shows how dark their hearts are.

Fairy’s mobile phones and tablets don’t have these costs now, because the DMA technology they use is their own, and the 3G wireless chip also has full intellectual property rights.

but. As the shares of DreamPad, DreamStars and other products are sold more and more in the future, Xiao Qi will still increase the patent fee a lot, otherwise it will save others money in vain.

As for base station contractors, in foreign countries, mobile operators pay lease fees to base station operators, and then base station operators pay royalties to patent owners. Operators are indirectly paying royalties to DMA.

However, the three major operators in China have always done so by themselves. The DMA base station contractor is themselves, so the patent fees are also paid directly.

This year, the DMA patent fees paid by Dentsu, China Mobile and Lianshu alone are estimated to reach about 2 billion.

on the other hand. Since Mingxiang Holdings North America Lab bought out the optical fiber patents in Mainland China from Nortel Networks, they paid the equipment manufacturer Xinglong Optical Fiber. As well as the cost of fiber optic cable manufacturers, several manufacturers have also paid for the patent fees of North American laboratories, which is estimated to be about 1 billion.

In addition, although the DMA network is not unique to the previous Nortel Networks, many companies have the same technology, but because the DMA performance of Nortel Networks is very good, under the vigorous development of Xiao Qi, the signal is very good. Okay, so some base station contractors in Europe and the United States have purchased its patents. This year, the patent revenue is expected to be around US$300 million.

The reason why it is so high is because of the high prices in Europe and the United States, resulting in high costs. For high-tech applications such as 3G networks, the fees are very expensive. Naturally, the patent fees that need to be paid are also high.

However, as for the wireless chip manufacturer, neither NE nor S1 came to purchase the patents of Mingxiang Holdings' North American Laboratory, but switched to several other companies.

Xiao Qi knew that this was a manifestation of their unwillingness to be subject to the Fairy Company.

If everything depends on the Fairy Company, then in the long run, will they become vassals 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 also excellent.

DreamPad's wireless network link function has improved the taste of European and American users from the very beginning.

Because Fairy’s wireless chip has a strong ability to capture wireless signals, wireless signals can be captured on the long and curved Danube, in remote small towns, in parks outside the city, etc., as long as they are not too far away from the base station. , Can go online smoothly.

This is the previous purchase of Broadcom’s wireless chips. Now Mingxiang Holdings North America’s own wireless communication chip department has already been integrated. The developed wireless communication chips are more than 20% stronger than Broadcom’s, greatly reducing rapid movement. The network frustration between.

The most important thing is not only the function, but also the cost.

The Broadcom chip that Xiao Qi bought before is 6.8 US dollars per chip, and 28.8 US dollars per chip with 3G network.

At the time, I didn't think it was expensive, but after his own wireless communication department developed it, Xiao Qi found that Broadcom was simply profitable.

If you use your own wireless chip and do not calculate the cost of technology patents, the average cost of producing two wireless communication chips is only 3 dollars per piece, which means that Broadcom can earn up to 14 dollars per piece, 30 million pieces a year. They will make a net profit of 420 million U.S. dollars.

Of course, there are also reasons for the rapid development of technology and the rapid decline in costs after a year, and the labor in the United States is far more expensive than in China.

The purchase price of a wireless chip of US$3 can also make the factories in China happy. In the United States, it may cost more than double the price.

But Broadcom can earn at least $10 a year, and net profit of $300 million a year is also a very substantial profit!

Therefore, it can also be seen that what is called a technology patent is huge profits, which is much easier than making money in a physical factory~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For this reason, Xiao Qi immediately announced that after the implementation of the one-year contract this year, it will be suspended. Use Broadcom's chips and switch to wireless chips developed by North American laboratories.

The number of purchases is tentatively set to 120 million pieces a year, and the purchase price becomes 6.8 US dollars, of which 3 US dollars are for the production cost of the wireless chip factory sought in China, and the remaining 3.8 US dollars is the net profit obtained by Xiao Qi. The North American laboratory is The various patents owned by Xiao Qi belong to Xiao Qi, so all the profits belong to Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi has never been a stingy person. He took out $0.8 of it to the North American laboratory for continued investment and patent dividends, including the DMA department of the 3G core technology provider in the wireless chip, and the wireless communication chip department of other patents. Everyone has a share.

The remaining 3 dollars will be used as the net profit of the North American laboratory and transferred to Xiao Qi's private account to enrich the young treasury.

As for the ten-year high-priced contract with Broadcom, Xiao Qi will not waste it either.

In the future, there will be more and more companies producing smart phones and smart tablets, and they will all need this kind of wireless chip, so they resell them for a contract. Maybe Xiao Qi, a small profiteer, can make more money!

Another advantage is that through this high-priced chip contract, it can increase the production cost of others and reduce the competitiveness of their mobile phones!

It's really killing three birds with one stone! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to (m) vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m to read it.)