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"Mr. Guan, how are you feeling today?"

Walking around the screen, Fang Nian glanced at him and asked playfully.

Guan Qiuhe raised his head when he heard the sound, glanced at Fang Nian, and said in a neutral tone: "What do you think?"

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

Guan Qiuhe curled her lips and said, "It's rare that Mr. Fang has taken a detour today."

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

She knew what was going on today.

Eyes lowered, Guan Qiuhe said calmly: "Let's just have a meeting."

"..."

Lu Weiyu, who was following Fang Nian, pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister He, why did you interrupt Mr. Fang? It's so much fun to watch him perform."

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

"..."

Everyone laughed happily.

There is a cheerful air in the cutting-edge office.

Wen Ye, Gu Yu, Liu Xi, and Wu Fucheng sorted out the information and walked to the conference room.

Generally speaking, frontiers don’t hold many meetings.

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

Nothing is too small if you can use the conference room.

Today is no exception.

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

"According to the report, the first thing is to obtain the public version of the mobile chip architecture authorization from ARM..."

"..."

Wen Ye and Gu Yu alternately reported the reorganized contents.

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

"Based on the asset sorting, Frontier Innovation can loan a total of 600 million in Shanghai..." Liu Xi briefly talked about the previous loan plan.

He also mentioned Frontier Innovation's loan plan in Luzhou: "Luzhou can currently borrow 800 million yuan normally. If local resources are tilted to intervene, it will need to be discussed separately."

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 what was going on.

What is being discussed is...

Purchase the public version of ARM's mobile chip architecture and purchase relevant international essential patent licenses for mobile chips.

The team of professors in Baize Laboratory spent more than a month without wasting or perfunctory;

It's not like it can't keep 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 chip field, especially in high-end smartphone processing chips, there are currently a large number of gaps in mainland China.

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

If you don't include Wanwan, it will be blank.

Additional reasons are...

Currently, there are almost no relevant patents held in China that cannot be bypassed.

This is very embarrassing.

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

in other words……

If the Luzhou project were to implement IDM in one step, there would be no need to hold this meeting.

because……

Fang Nian will use the resources at hand to develop it purely by himself.

Even if we don’t have such a large amount of capital, we can’t afford to waste a large amount of resources in the early stage.

The current path is to take it step by step, learning from the foreigners and developing skills to control the foreigners.

The capital investment is small and the resource utilization rate is high, and the market can be used to support research investment.

The main thing is that if we develop IDM purely in one step, 100 billion will be a splash, 200 billion will be a bit of a waste, and 300 billion will sound like this...

The frontier can't be solved, no matter how much capital is introduced, it won't be enough - no capital will accompany Fang Nian's madness.

"..."

After all the information was put on the desk, Fang Nian made a simple summary: "In other words, in terms of funds, it is best to only buy the public version of ARM's architecture license?

If we want to buy out essential patent licenses in one go, the amount required may be astronomical, and we can’t afford it for the time being?”

Listening to Fang Nian's question, Gu Yu nodded and replied: "Yes, obtaining a patent license based on sales commission and other methods requires detailed discussion. There is no way to obtain more accurate data."

"..."

Fang Nian fell into deep thought.

No other actions were taken.

Everyone said nothing, each lost in thought.

The problem at hand is simple.

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

Obtaining ARM's public version architecture authorization is nothing more than a matter of money. Everyone is mentally prepared for this and has enough funds.

However, the report submitted by the professor's team contains a list of essential patents for the second step of the Baize Laboratory's plan.

This license fee is an astronomical figure.

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 looked at me and I looked at you, but no one said anything.

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

As he spoke, Guan Qiuhe laughed at himself: "After all, the currency unit commonly used abroad is the US dollar."

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

But he knew it was true.

Some patent licenses are divided based on license fee + sales commission.

Just like Microsoft can now receive hundreds of millions of dollars from Android, for example, Samsung negotiated a device for $12.①

Mainly, the patents on mobile phone chip design also involve mobile phone baseband, which is the communication standard. This is something that can be widely used.

For example, Qualcomm has done an operation that makes it regretful and wants to swallow it.

In the past, Qualcomm licensed CDMA IP to LSI in order to resist antitrust laws.

LSI sold the CDMA IP again in 2002, and the buyer licensed it to other companies such as MediaTek...

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

Anyway...

In terms of communication standards, everyone knows everything.

Now what Fang Nian means is that in addition to pure chip design, he also wants to obtain authorization from foreign companies in this area at once.

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

…………

Fang Nian thought for a long time and said calmly: "In this way, the license purchased from ARM will only be negotiated for 5 years based on the number of years. Other essential patent licenses will also be negotiated for 5 years."

With that said, Fang Nian slapped the conference table and said seriously: "Within five years, if Baize Laboratory cannot develop a completely independent processing chip within five years, it is okay not to use this laboratory!"
To be continued...