"God, I still can't believe that the legendary founder who created the miracle of Blue Star Technology is so young."

In a business hotel in Sucheng, a middle-aged white man wearing formal clothes and hooked nose met and shook hands with Luo Sheng. His expression and tone seemed quite exaggerated, typical American unrestrained.

This person is Harris, one of Qualcomm's global vice presidents.

"Nineteen years ago, several visionary people finally reached an agreement to create a great technology company. Their grand blueprint has created the most dazzling new star in the telecommunications industry 19 years later. Qualcomm launched the coded multi-access CDMA technology for wireless and data products. Its appearance has permanently changed the face of global wireless communications." Luo Sheng smiled and praised the other party for his own efforts.

Harris couldn't help but smile when he heard this. The two sides had contacted each other for the first time, but he did not have the young and talkative Chinese man in front of the community. After all, Luo Sheng is already famous in Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

"Wait a minute, I remember an issue of Silicon Valley magazine that published the avatars displayed by you and Jobs. There is a string of numbers that are your age. They were born in 1985, and Qualcomm was also born in 1985... I bought it!!" As he said that, Harris was shocked and looked at Luo Sheng with a dull expression.

"Maybe this is fate." Luo Sheng said with a smile, and rolled his eyes in his heart. Can this guy find a sense of closeness from such a tricky perspective? It's so exaggerated. After all, he is a global vice president of Qualcomm. When he reaches middle age, he can't be as mature and steady as me?

When the two sides met, they spoke and said something. After a while, they finally got to the topic of this interview.

Harris first said: "Mr. Luo, Qualcomm started to invest $100 million in June last year to establish a venture capital fund, committed to promoting the application and development of wireless services in Greater China. The news of your company's acquisition of Lide Communications came to Qualcomm's headquarters. We are very excited about your investment of $300 million in developing wireless terminal services. We believe that Costa Øça will achieve success like Blue Star Technology under your leadership. We are happy to carry out in-depth business cooperation with such companies."

This foreigner is very good at speaking and can't find any fault. In fact, he was attracted by the scale of the capital investment of the Costa del Blue Company. Luo Sheng spent more than 300 million US dollars. Anyone can tell that he really wanted to make some money in this industry. The real money invested is not fake.

Currently in the domestic market, the number one ranked above is Dexin Wireless. Qualcomm has cooperated with this company. Gionee Communications, which was established in the same year as Dexin Wireless, has developed in an average way, but it is also within the scope of Qualcomm's field of vision.

Although Luo Sheng’s Coast of Blue Company has only been established for about three months, its starting point is much higher than Dexin Wireless. It has had strong capital as soon as it was founded. Now, after the acquisition of Lide Communications for the whole capital, it has started quite quickly.

Qualcomm is actually worried that such a company will be in the arms of its competitors. In 2004, 2g communication was the mainstream, Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia were all behemoths. Qualcomm has not yet covered the sky at this time. What really made Qualcomm the dominant era was the 3g and 4g era. This is Qualcomm's golden age, which is now.

Since China joined the WTO, its economic development has been eye-catching. As a multinational technology giant, Qualcomm also attaches great importance to the Greater China market. Since June 2003, it has invested in three companies in China, including joint research and development projects with many higher education institutions in the mainland, with only one purpose to promote the application and development of CDMA technology in China.

As Qualcomm is so active in promoting technical research in China's mobile communications industry, don't think it is a selfless devotee. It has one purpose and can collect patent fees in the future.

"Mr. Luo, when will your company launch its products as soon as possible? Which licensing method is planned to be adopted?" Harris said with a smile.

"We hope to obtain your company's authorization to design and manufacture chip solutions for CDMA mobile phone chips, including future WCDMA products." Luo Sheng replied.

Hearing such an answer, Harris was stunned for a while. This was completely different from what he imagined. He thought Luo Sheng would choose to buy chips and software directly, or buy chips from an Asic authorized manufacturer.

"Uh... are you sure you're not kidding again? To be honest, self-developed integrated circuit design cannot be achieved overnight. Your company has no technical background and no foundation. It is almost impossible for you to succeed in doing this." Harris said earnestly without hearing it wrong.

"It's very difficult, but we firmly believe that only by choosing this solution can we make the product we want to make." Luo Sheng said calmly and confidently.

Hearing this, Harris stared at the other party and was silent for a moment before saying, "Then Mr. Luo, when will your company launch the first product? Have you ever thought about this?"

Luo Sheng said concisely: "The product will be released in the fall of 2006 at the latest."

Harris shook his head on the spot: "This is impossible, and your company will definitely not achieve the goal of launching a product in 2006 through its own chip design and manufacturing solutions in such a short time. Despite the foundation of Lide Communications, this is negligible. If you choose to buy a chip solution, you can even launch your first product in 2005."

Obviously, Harris doesn't believe in the technical R&D capabilities of Chinese people at all. Not to mention that the Costa del Azure does not have the foundation for integrated circuits, even if you look at the entire China, your foundation in this field is quite weak.

Luo Sheng smiled in his heart and did not reveal it. Harris probably thought that the Côte d'Azur company was going to make a mobile phone with plastic buttons, and it was a low-end feature phone.

Harris advised Luo Sheng to think twice and crazily instilled in him the concept of "It is better to buy than to make, and it is better to rent than to buy". Unfortunately, this is effective when used in the next door neighbor, the third brother, and it is useless to Luo Sheng.

In the end, Harris had no choice but to do anything, and at this time Luo Sheng said something that surprised the other party.

"Mr. Harris, to be honest, in my plan, I will invest no less than $1 billion in R&D in the next two to three years. I am determined to be all in. Of course, it is best for Qualcomm to provide me with some technical support." Luo Sheng said.

"$1 billion?" Harris said in shock: "Are you sure?"

"Of course!" Luo Sheng said affirmatively.

Harris couldn't help but look at it and immediately said, "You are the first Chinese person I have ever met who is so determined in the semiconductor industry. Although I still don't think you will succeed, I appreciate your fearless spirit."

He no longer persuades him. Anyway, Qualcomm will not lose money, but will make a lot of money.

"Then Mr. Luo, let's talk about patent licensing and the sale of mobile phone baseband chips." Harris said so.

Seeing Luo Sheng nodding, he added and continued:

"Qualcomm's customers are mainly divided into two categories, one is mobile phone chip design companies and the other is terminal equipment manufacturers. Obviously, if you choose to design and manufacture chips by yourself, the Costa del Blue should be both a chip manufacturer and a mobile terminal equipment provider. In principle, Qualcomm does not charge repeated fees. Currently, Qualcomm mainly charges patent fees from terminal equipment manufacturers."

Here comes the legendary "Qualcomm Tax", Luo Sheng listened silently, secretly thinking about how to play Qualcomm.
Chapter completed!