Seeing Lei Jun, who was quite "uninvited" and Wang Xiang, who was a senior vice president of Qualcomm and chairman of Greater China, arrived in the hotel lobby in a hurry, Li Ze was really surprised.

Because yesterday and today are weekends.

Generally speaking, unless the partnership is relatively close, or happens to be during the cooperation consultation period, large business consultations will not be conducted on weekends.

Business tycoons’ time is indeed precious, but not as precious as having no personal space.

After greeting each other, Li Ze was still a little confused.

Li Ze finally didn't ask the presumptuous question.

If it were Wen Liang, I probably wouldn't have been surprised that the relationship between Lei Jun and Wang Xiang seemed to be a little too good.

because……

15 years later, Mr. Wang Xiang, the current senior vice president and chairman of Qualcomm, joined MI and was finally promoted to the position of group partner and president.

In fact, it can be seen from this incident that the cooperative relationship between MI and Qualcomm is quite complicated.

First, the two parties later held shares.

Therefore, from a commercial perspective, Lei Jun and shareholders later on the positioning of MI, the Mi series flagship models were almost all Qualcomm chips when they were disassembled, which also means maximizing the benefits.

Because later, after experiencing another Waterloo in The S1, which roughly cost $100 million, Lei Jun and others lost interest in self-development of core components.

Every time, some minor supply chain technologies are promoted into so-called black technology.

Anyway, marketing.

Most of them are gimmick-level general marketing plans that are visible.

There is rarely a long-term marketing that puts real experience first.

Let’s put it this way, in the mobile phone industry, even Samsung cannot claim to have a long-term reputation, because Samsung’s after-sales service is not apologized, it’s a hot chicken, and Samsung’s self-development capabilities in core components are not very strong.

On the contrary, the production process is quite powerful.

If Apple can only count one, then the chrysanthemum factory can count half of it later, which is good.

The fact that must be admitted is that Apple has a very strong R&D strength in multiple core components and is indeed willing to invest.

Just say that hairy M1

Ultra chips are really...burning money.

Other companies such as Intel and AMD can do it even if they grit their teeth, but they do not have downstream product lines and consumer audiences.

Another thing that must be admitted is that if Tim had not been the iPhone 7 series, which had not been followed by countless netizens' insults and expert criticism, and began to use Intel to acquire the baseband chip launched by Infineon's wireless department and abandoned the Qualcomm platform again, then Apple's overall experience of mobile phones would have always been unique.

This thing is actually a business strategy issue.

Apple has never been willing to pay a 5% Qualcomm tax.

In short, Apple has a very, very strong control over the supply chain and its super integration and balance capabilities.

However, in these aspects, Bolang Terminal has begun to plan to do more thoroughly than Apple. Not to mention the control and integration capabilities of the general supply chain, just talking about the baseband...

It has already explained the problem that a senior vice president of Qualcomm hastily visited Li Ze early in the morning.

"Mr. Ze, I'm sorry to bother you to spend the weekend." Wang Xiang raised a smile on his face and said with a smile, without any haste to get straight to the point.

Lei Jun helped out: "Old Wang knew that I had met Mr. Ze yesterday and was always excited, so he brought me over to visit today."

Li Ze waved his hands repeatedly: "The two bosses came to visit, Peng Shenghui, how could they disturb you?"

Everyone carried the flower sedan chair.

Anyway, no one will mind if you say a lot.

After a long time of greetings and chatting, Lei Jun mentioned business matters first: "I heard that Bolang is going to make great achievements in the communications industry, mainly in the 4G direction. I don't know if the news is accurate or not."

Li Ze was not surprised by this, nor did he hide it from it, and told him frankly: "At present, it is mainly in the direction of 4G base stations. We have signed a long-term cooperation memorandum with China Mobile, mainly responsible for the supply of main communication equipment of China Mobile 4G base stations."

"So that's it." Wang Xiang looked like he suddenly realized, "Forgive me, what do you think of 4G baseband business?"

Li Ze said without hesitation: "Strong development!"

"What does Mr. Ze think of our company's baseband business?" So Wang Xiang changed the topic tactfully, with a smile on his face.

Li Ze pondered for a while and said seriously: "It's very strong, especially 4G."

In LTE, it has strong patent advantages and deep technical accumulation.”

He is not going to belittle Qualcomm yet.

With the current level of Bolang Communications, although it has acquired many key business lines of companies, obtained countless patent authorizations, and developed some of them, there is a gap between them and ZTE in 4G, not to mention these comparisons with Qualcomm's Chrysanthemum Factory.

But it's hard to say in the future.

After all, Wen Liang dared to give up his decisions and directly benchmarked against the deeper LTE evolution. To describe it in algebra, Bolang mainly focused on 4G+ in 4G research and development.

As for 5G, it is a real future-oriented...industrial technology.

After hearing what Li Ze said, Wang Xiang did not quit anymore and finally turned to the topic: "Our company looks forward to carrying out in-depth cooperation with your company on the 4G baseband."

Before Li Ze answered, Wang Xiang hurriedly expressed his sincerity in cooperation: "Our company can cooperate with your company by cross-authorizing patents, cooperatively developing basebands, etc...."

“…In some ways we can adopt a more friendly and cooperative approach…”

"I don't know if General Ze and you are interested in this."

Li Ze was not in a hurry to speak. Although he knew that Wang Xiang said it well, he was actually just a different way to collect Qualcomm tax, but the proportion would be slightly reduced.

In fact... there is Qualcomm tax on Xinghai 1, but it is also collected in another form.

On the contrary, it is not on Redmi phones.

Because Redmi phones have different positioning and do not have 4G modules, they also distinguish between mobile versions, China Unicom versions and telecom versions.

The three major operators in China are not very ideal, and the number of base stations is not very ideal, so the situation is not good. Bolang has been accumulating integration capabilities without going through Qualcomm... Who asked Qualcomm to authorize a very important CDMA?

Xinghai 1's overseas version

1 is equipped with 4G, so he was eventually charged Qualcomm tax.

But...Bolang no longer wants to be taxed.

So, after considering it for a long time, Li Ze thought: "Sorry, although your company's cooperation is very good, our company has some... pursuits in its communications business, and we won't consider cooperating for the time being."

Wang Xiang was not surprised, and his smile remained: "If your company has cooperation needs in the future, Mr. Ze must remember to give priority to our Qualcomm."

"good."

Afterwards, Lei Jun and Wang Xiang left together, but not long after, Lei Jun turned around and came back.

"Hmm? What is Mr. Lei doing?" Li Ze was familiar with Lei Jun, and he straightforwardly expressed his doubts.

Lei Jun waved his hand with a smile: "It's a peace."

"Um?"

"Old Wang is in his position now and has no choice."

"Ah? You guys..."

"No one is willing to be charged Qualcomm tax, so we have a better choice. You and I and everyone."

Li Ze suddenly realized: "Old Wang is going to join your company?"

"It's almost the same." Lei Jun said a little vaguely.

Li Ze pretended to sigh: "No wonder Mr. Lei is doing his best so hard. Congratulations to Mr. Lei in advance."

"You're welcome." Lei Jun laughed, a little tacit.

“…”

Li Ze's heart became even more meaningful when he sent Lei Jun away again.

…………

Since the 25th, Bolang Group has been moving frequently, but the most important goal of provoking Amelika's official goal has almost no movement, but it has scared some business competitors.

Qualcomm couldn't wait to send the group's senior vice president and chairman of China, but this person was half his own.

It is only when we can reach cooperation effectively.

Boss Lei turned around and said a few words, but the meaning was too obvious, and Wang Xiang would adopt a procrastination strategy.

By then, all Qualcomm executives will be stupid.

Dumping?

Then someone has to cooperate.

In general, Qualcomm is more anxious for its own benefit, and rushing is expected.

But Wang Xiang's incident was completely unexpected.

At least that's true for Li Ze.

If it was gentle, the results today might be a little different.

He is not very familiar with MI, but Wang Xiang later became a member of the core team of the automotive business that caused a lot of controversy in MI. He saw video reports.
To be continued...