It is really hard for people like Xiaomi to compare.

Last month, Zhang Shuo asked Jiang Yue to register a new company "Maili Technology", which will serve as the main operating entity for Germination's entry into the mobile phone manufacturing industry. It will also be the eighth first-level subsidiary of Germination.

Maili Technology is fundamentally different from Xiaomi.

To put it bluntly, Xiaomi is only responsible for a few aspects such as operating system adaptation, complete machine design, and marketing. All components are purchased, and the production process is also completed by OEM companies.

No wonder it is criticized as a small home appliance supplier.

Moreover, Xiaomi itself regards itself as an "Internet technology company" and has only half a foot in the manufacturing industry.

MaiLi technology is different.

If you want to achieve a level comparable to Apple, you need to establish an extremely complete R&D system and have a considerable level of control over the upstream and downstream industry chains.

Just like apple.

Although it does not produce mobile phones by itself, it layouts the global industrial chain and supports its hundreds of upstream and downstream suppliers through various methods such as investment, cooperation, and funding.

The result is.

When Apple sneezes, the entire industry chain trembles.

As a new player in the mobile phone industry, Maili Technology wants to develop everything from scratch, which is almost impossible. It will be sued for infringement by mobile phone giants in minutes.

First thing to do.

It means purchasing a patent license from a giant like Nokia, obtaining a large number of basic patents, and then carrying out subsequent research and development on this basis, and then accumulating its own patent pool.

Just like Warwick.

Even mobile phone assembly manufacturers like Xiaomi have to pay a lot of patent licensing fees to Nokia every year. Zhang Shuo just wants to get it done in one step.

"Are they all patented technologies related to mobile phone manufacturing?" Gu Mingzhang was a little surprised.

"certainly."

Zhang Shuo made no secret of his ambition.

"I can't guarantee this. Even if Nokia agrees to sell it, it will be a sky-high price."

"How high can it be?" Zhang Shuo asked.

He actually had a rough idea. In his impression, when Microsoft acquired Nokia's mobile phone business, there was a transaction involving patent licenses.

At that time, the price offered by Microsoft seemed to be US$2.2 billion.

But that was 2013. At this time, Nokia still had many new technologies that had not made breakthroughs in the 4G and 5G fields, so the overall patent licensing fee was definitely lower.

"A conservative estimate would be no less than US$1.5 billion."
Chapter completed!