Chapter 999 BlackBerry Technology

In 2005, mobile email technology will gradually become the standard configuration for the new generation of smartphones, but Canadian RIM has not yet launched their first BlackBerry mobile phone to transplant the technology.

In 1999, no one could clearly realize how big the business market for handheld terminals to send mobile emails is. However, the basic patents in the field of mobile email technology have almost been given to NTP. Visto two companies have been scrambled to register. The former mainly takes PUSH technology for itself, while the latter monopolizes other important software and hardware architectures, leaving the patent gap for other companies is no longer large, and even RIM companies have ignored the deployment of patents.

In this technology field, Geoff Goodfellow, contacted by ESS, was probably the earliest inventor. The world seems to have never lacked geniuses. Jeff Goodfellow, who dropped out of high school, had the idea of ​​sending mobile emails to handheld terminals in 1982, and continued to carry out a lot of research and development work. He has been working hard to industrialize the technology he mastered for more than ten years. However, like RIM in Canada, Jeff Goodfellow also ignored the patent application. By the end of 1998, his efforts to establish the company that commercialized the technology had already fallen into trouble and was difficult to save.

"I will only meet Jeff Goodfell in the past 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 many things to do..."

In fact, Zhang Ke knew that Jeff Goodfeller was planning to close his company and planned to go to Prague to do a bar business. Before other electronic giants could see the market prospects of the mobile email business, they would not have too much difficulty in acquiring Jeff Goodfeller's company. In addition to acquiring Jeff Goodfeller's company, Zhang Ke also hopes to keep him.

Even if Cheng Hanzhang and other senior executives of Kumho are still difficult to judge the prospects of mobile email technology, it is not difficult to judge that the technology can be integrated into mobile phones. After last fall, Ida Group determined the core strategic direction of integrating digital technology with mobile phone products. Acquisition and continuous development of mobile email technology is in line with Ida Group's core strategic direction.

There is no doubt about Zhang Ke’s decision within Kumho. Perhaps Zhang Ke is a little impatient, and it can be said that he is decisive.

In North America, which focuses on professional development and division of labor, technology companies focus more on a certain technical field, but in China, few technology companies can jointly undertake the R&D task of a certain field with Kumho, so Kumho is forced to invest huge amounts of money to establish a comprehensive R&D system and establish a heavy direct production system from upstream to terminal.

Because Kumho has such a demand, even if there are 300 scientific researchers at the ESS experimental base in Silicon Valley, it cannot fully meet the R&D tasks shared by ESS. However, in North America, ESS with 300 scientific researchers cannot be considered a small enterprise, and even Scooper has only more than 100 employees in the scientific research department of North America.

Therefore, Zhang Ke's request for meeting with Jeff Goodfeller was quickly responded, and Jeff Goodfeller took a night flight to San Francisco the next day to meet with Zhang Ke.

Jeff Goodfeller still hopes that ESS will fund his company rather than acquire his company.

A salary of $100,000 is also considered a high salary 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 $500,000 to stay and continue to stay at ESS to engage in follow-up research and development work in the field of mobile email technology.

Even though NTP and Visto have registered nearly thirty basic patents in the field of mobile email technology, in most technical fields, patent deployment always leads to dozens or even hundreds of times subordinate, improvement, and combination patents from the initial few basic patents, thereby covering up the basic patents. Even if there is no advantage in the layout of basic patents, Zhang Ke still hopes that Kumho can gain a place in the subsequent derivative patent layout.

After Jeff Goodfell hesitated for a day, Zhang Ke increased his annual salary chips by $620,000, which made him sign the employment agreement on the spot as a company transfer agreement.

That night, in San Francisco, a small celebration party was held for Jeff Goodfeller to join ESS. Wei Yuanzhen, the second scientist in Oak Park who was responsible for developing the Linux operating system, happened to be in San Francisco, and naturally attended the celebration party. Cheng Hanzhang smiled and said to him: "Your mission has a big part more!"

In the future, the software modules for mobile emails will be embedded in the operating system. The subsequent development of the software module will also be carried out by a group led by Wei Yuanzhen. His work is indeed a big part.

"Ida's scale is expanding at a visible speed. We all feel that we are being chased..." Wei Yuanzhen smiled, "Maybe in less than ten years, the scale of Ida's development will surprise everyone."

Jeff Goodfeller has long realized that the commercialization of mobile email technology must be based on a powerful technology company to concentrate enough manpower and material resources. For example, when he signed the letter, Cheng Hanzhang promised to transfer twenty scientific researchers from ESS to strengthen the original Jeff Goodfeller research team to develop subsequent technologies, and there are also considerable R&D tasks that can be handed over to domestic R&D departments to complete. The patent application work that was ignored before will be responsible by professional departments. In this way, the speed of developing handheld terminals is several times faster than Jeff Goodfeller.

"RIM in Canada is already developing handheld terminal products for mobile email," Cheng Hanzhang asked Zhang Ke, "Can we follow?"

"Next, let's negotiate with NTP and Visto first," said Zhang Ke. "We will get the basic patent technology license in the relevant technical fields..."

Even if Jeff Goodfeller's company does not hold relevant patents, the company actually masters the technology of mobile email and has a large amount of relevant technical information to prove that the two companies have mastered relevant technologies before NTP and Visto have already mastered relevant technologies before they are scrambled to threaten the patent stability of these two companies.

In addition, Jeff Goodfeller, as an authoritative figure in the field of mobile email technology, took him under his belt and could even develop new technical solutions to circumvent the patents of NTP and Visto.

By acquiring Jeff Goodfeller Company and signing Jeff Goodfeller himself into Kumho, Kumho has enough chips to take the initiative in negotiations with NTP and Visto to obtain all basic patent technology authorizations in all mobile email fields.

Zhang Ke has seriously considered that even if he obtained all basic patent authorizations and successfully developed a handheld terminal, the Kumho copying RIM BlackBerry mobile phone model was successful in the North American market, and even replaced RIM.

In addition to technology, there are many factors for success, many of which Kumho did not have at this time. For example, RIM has even established a large number of enterprise servers to sell their terminal products for the development of BlackBerry's corporate users. Even if Kumho has this capital strength, the possibility of obtaining license from the US government is far lower than RIM from Canada.

The more important thing at this time is to complete the patent layout first and let RIM go to the current development market. When the time is relatively ripe, and when the mobile phone technology of Kumho is relatively mature, it is not too late to enter this market.

Zhang Ke came to San Francisco this time, and there was another key person to meet. He was Xu Shengzhi, who participated in ESS's leading ESS's mobile phone chip research and development department in mid-March last year.

ESS has been secretly conducting research on mobile phone baseband chips for nearly a year. Xu Shengzhi has led the research on baseband chips for nearly twenty years. It is not difficult for him to copy the complete baseband chip technology. The key is to avoid patents held by other companies. This can be considered as obtaining the best baseband chip technology. That requires the group led by Xu Shengzhi to design a brand new technical solution and successfully implement it.

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

"It will take about one to two years to come out mature products," Cheng Hanzhang introduced.

Zhang Ke nodded and said, "In two years, the domestic mobile phone market environment will not be bad, and the time left for us will be abundant..."

In the next two years, the domestic mobile phone market will increase exponentially, and the gap for foreign-branded mobile phones has not yet been fully opened, so it will leave enough room for domestic mobile phone manufacturers to develop. Among domestic mobile phone manufacturers, Zhang Ke is not worried at all that anyone can regret the position of Jinhu.

Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing stayed in San Francisco for nearly ten days. During these ten days, Xiao Jincheng first accompanied him in San Francisco. After Xiao Jincheng left, Chen Xinsheng and Ding Huai also went to San Francisco to handle official business one after another. In the end, Tan Yunsong, the chief scientist of the Oak Park, and a group of middle and senior scientific researchers who returned to the domestic Oak Park to engage in scientific research, accompanied Zhang Ke. Zhai Danqing borrowed the route from Beijing to return to Jianye, which happened to be the start of the new semester - Mengle and Xi Ruolin stayed directly in San Francisco.

Last semester, because Qian Guihua, an official from Nanye District, and others fled during an inspection abroad, Zhang Ke was anxious to see Luo Jun at that time, resulting in the failure to take the last exam. When the new semester was about to start, he had to take the exam with the person who was taking the make-up exam, so after returning to Jianye, people could not take a break.

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