Chapter 759 Next step, Dream Stars!
After a week-long calculation of value and bargaining, Samsung and Fairy Company have reached a preliminary agreement.
Samsung needs the patent authorization from Fairy Company and the permanent sharing rights of the Dreampad app store.
Fairy Company needs Samsung's NAND and DRAM chips, key components such as cameras and LCD screens; Samsung's mobile phone technology framework patents; and foldable OLED technology.
According to the principle of equal total value, it was finally calculated that Samsung Electronics would pay 20 US dollars for each mobile phone to Fairy Company based on 20 million smartphones and 10 million tablet computers per year. If the number exceeds, the fee will be gradually reduced.
In addition, each year, 30 million sets of NAND and DRAM chips, 80 million sets of ultra-thin cameras, and 30 million sets of 5.3- and 5.0-inch IPS LCD screens are supplied to Fairy Company for free.
Fairy Company does not have to pay any money to Samsung.
Numerous patents are one thing, but the most important thing is the right to share Dreampad applications. Although the price paid by Samsung is huge, once Samsung can share tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of games and software, their mobile phone sales will be at least
It can be doubled!
After all, they made a lot more money than before.
More importantly, this will allow them to stay ahead of the curve and keep up with the trend in the era of smart electronics.
Samsung's current smartphones and tablets have not yet been developed, but after signing the contract, they immediately sent more than 50 engineers to the Dreampad App Store headquarters in the United States to discuss and research the operating system conversion model.
As a super chaebol backed by all of South Korea, Samsung has such a huge foundation that it is not too difficult to make smartphones and tablets. It only takes half a year for them to launch new phones, so it is not too urgent to start preparing for sharing now.
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As for the components provided by Samsung, although they account for more than half of Samsung's current production, Samsung is confident that it can complete the expansion of production in just one month. It can increase production by 30% in three months.
We can double our production in half a year! This is the great benefit of being supported by a country!
Samsung's parts are Xiao Qi's preparation for the next Dreamstars mobile phone. The current Dreampad parts have already formed a stable supply chain and it is not suitable to make changes.
However... if there is really a need, Dreamstars' parts suppliers might be able to replace Dreampad's parts suppliers in the future!
The most important thing when making a mobile phone is naturally the issue of patents.
Patents for electronic products are generally divided into four categories: chip patents, underlying protocol patents, operating system technology patents and application system patents.
In the past, many Chinese companies failed to make mobile phones, or entered the market late. They were stuck in the above-mentioned patent disputes.
For Fairy Company, there is no problem with chip patents. ARM provides semi-finished chips. Xiao Qi is still paying chip patent fees. He also acquired Adi’s wireless chip department, plus Texas Instruments’ wireless chip patents. This mobile phone is the most
One of the important patents is already firmly in hand.
The underlying protocol patent is even simpler. Samsung is a member of the alliance, and Samsung's patent licensing agreement has been signed, and Xiao Qi can enter it by just paying a fee.
The operating system technology patent, Fairy System, is owned by Xiao Qi himself. The application system patents involved in pictures, audio and video, etc., can be paid in accordance with the law without any problem.
Some people may find it strange, why is it so difficult? Isn’t it just a matter of paying money to buy it?
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Many times, European and American companies will not sell these patents to Chinese companies, even if you have money, they just won’t sell them! One more person is not allowed to grab the market.
It was only after the rise of Baodao's electronics manufacturers that these monopolies were slowly broken. Only then did China's smartphones develop.
Don't believe it?
If you think about it carefully, before the counterfeit phones come out, how many mobile phone companies in China have products with good functions and good market prospects?
Didn't we just pick up other people's leftovers and eat them?
Xiao Qi is different from other Chinese electronics companies because he controls the smart patent alliance.
Many companies can make things difficult for Xiao Qi, such as Microsoft and Nokia. They can refuse Xiao Qi to use their patents, thereby preventing Xiao Qi from entering the mobile phone field, and even prohibiting Dreampad.
However, you have to understand one thing, the company was established to make money, not to disgust people and fight against others.
The reason why they block Chinese mobile phone companies is because they don’t want Chinese manufacturers to share their money.
But if Xiao Qi is blocked, then Xiao Qi can also use his own smart patent alliance to block all companies except Apple, making it impossible for them to enter the smart era.
Nokia will definitely not be able to resist it in the first place, because they make mobile phones themselves. If they block Xiao Qi, if Xiao Qi blocks them again, everyone will be finished together!
Therefore, they smartly decided to cooperate with Xiao Qi from the beginning. Since the release of dreampad, they have never found any trouble.
Microsoft has the same problem. Xiao Qi is stuck. All manufacturers do not produce smartphones. Who do they license their patents to? How can they make money?
Therefore, this society is like this.
Only when you have strength in your hands, others will respect you and have the ability to cooperate and bargain with others.
Simply complaining about social injustice and that others are too bad will not do any good for business except to vent your frustration.
In any case, after opening up the barrier of smartphones, Fairy Company’s Dreamstars also started new planning in November.
The first mobile phone Xiao Qi produced was the Galaxy Note, one of Samsung's two super flagship models.
This super-large 5.3-inch mobile phone, "between a tablet and a mobile phone," sold more than 800,000 in the first month of its launch.
Even though the number is a bit ridiculous compared to its descendants, considering that it was an era when the iPhone dominated the world, it had really contributed a lot to Samsung breaking out of the cage.
Its biggest features are its large size, shallow body, and high resolution. In fact, the system, operating efficiency, and other functions are not very good, which is why it has not been able to make further breakthroughs.
But Xiao Qi will not be so stupid and will not copy everything. He will carry forward the advantages of Galaxy Note and make up for other shortcomings, at least to the level of Galaxy Note 2.
However, the young man will not have to deal with specific matters. He only needs to publish the technical indicators he needs, and the rest will be taken care of by professional technicians.
Chapter completed!