Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 862 Convinced (5k)

Before the Samsung Electronics team arrived in Silicon Valley, Yike held a discussion meeting internally to cooperate with the other party.

Fang Zhuo has listened to everyone's opinions extensively, and generally believes that the patent cross-licensing of the two parties is a good thing, allowing each other to have a relatively harmonious development time.

After all, Yike Company has just entered the mobile phone industry, and currently only has one mobile phone.

Samsung intends to change the system platform and seek greater development in this era.

The two sides can form a joint force to jointly impact the inherent market share of Saipan and WM, which is very good.

Taking a step back, even if Yike does not grant patent authorization and Samsung really infringes, it will take a long time for both parties to file a patent lawsuit. It is better to focus on development.

After the meeting, Fang Zhuo listened to the project situation of the IC design department again. The former Hummingbird team and Samsung still maintained a smooth cooperation, and there were no special twists and turns due to the acquisition.

He set a meeting with Google and Samsung Electronics on January 1, and after communicating with Schmidt repeatedly, he believed that this would be a very constructive contact.

However, before this meeting, Fang Zhuo first visited the headquarters of this growing B2C company at the invitation of Bezos, the head of Amazon.

Yike Mars now mainly has three sales channels, the first is the operator, the second is Amazon's e-commerce channel, and the last is its own official website and a small number of experience stores.

In addition to the cooperation in the mobile phone sales business, the growth of the Amazon app after its launch on the Android store has also attracted Bezos' full attention.

Any enterprise must and has to pay attention to the development of the mobile terminal.

Bezos-led Amazon thinks so.

However, when Fang Zhuo led his team to visit Amazon and chatted with Bezos about these topics, what caught his attention was the prosperity of Amazon's cloud computing services.

The last time Fang Zhuo visited Amazon, he heard Bezos mention Amazon Cloud AWS. Because there is not much investment, there is nothing to achieve.

This time, AWS already has hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and its development is very fast.

Bezos attaches great importance to cloud services, and he talked about the progress proudly, and even promoted it and took this opportunity to inquire about Google's trends.

"I heard that Google will launch its cloud computing service in April. Mr. Fang's e-buy has already reached a cooperation intention with Google?"

Fang Zhuo didn't know anything about Google's business in this area. He just felt amused when he heard such questions and cooperation rumors, and directly denied: "No, at least, as the president of Yike, I haven't heard of such cooperation. Google will have a cloud service in April? This is the first time I hear from you, how about I call Schmidt and ask?"

"Industry rumors, casual chat." Bezos signaled that Mr. Fang didn't need to take out his popular Mars phone, "I just heard that Schmidt would be buried with Mr. Fang when he died. I thought this kind of cooperation was real."

Rumors are always going to go wrong.

Fang Zhuo calmly corrected: "Schmidt made a joke about the epitaph, but he does have a strategic vision. I believe that Google will enter this field."

"Not only Google, I heard that Microsoft is also building a cloud project team this year." Bezos laughed.

Fang Zhuo nodded slightly, and suddenly asked: "You admire the prospect of cloud computing so much, but you don't worry about my competition in this field in China."

"The Chinese market still needs to be developed." Bezos said tactfully, "Besides, I can't stop any company from investing in cloud services. I can't stop Google and Microsoft, and of course I can't stop Mr. Fang."

Fang Zhuo admired in his heart, this bald head is still very angry, but this is not something that can be stopped, it is a question of whether to attract attention.

He suppressed this thought in his heart, and finally chatted with Bezos about Amazon's Prime service, which is a two-day logistics and shopping discount within the United States.

Bezos gave a very high self-evaluation: "The Prime service has brought us an explosive growth in the number of users, and it has once again verified the charm of innovation from the perspective of customers. It is just like Mars' front-facing camera."

The head of Amazon used a comparison that Fang Zhuo understood very well, and it also made him explore for a long time in the video with Su Wei in China with what he saw and heard during this inspection.

There is no doubt that B2C is Amazon's biggest label, but it is actively and firmly adding another important digital label.

Su Wei is preparing for e-buy's year-old activities in China. Suddenly, Fang Zong mentions the small internal departments of the company, and Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. She still feels quite divided.

When she started hearing about the poaching from Microsoft Huaxia, she suddenly realized that the man on the other side of the ocean was for real.

"The domestic demand for cloud services does not seem to be that high. Our e-buy department needs to study it first. The most important thing at present is to do a good job in e-commerce." Su Wei advised.

She basically understands what cloud computing services are all about, but looking at the country, there is really not much demand.

"Internet companies that need to process a lot of data, now I feel that they are Penguin, Taobao and Tesco." Su Wei briefly thought about it, and added another company, "Baidu should also need it."

Therefore, e-buy's slow investment and development means that it is not too late to start, and gradually increase the volume.

Su Wei is very concerned about the company's budget because she sensed that domestic e-commerce has intensified competition.

Fang Zhuo can understand Weiwei's meaning. When talking about cloud computing in China, the other three companies she mentioned just now, only Ma Dian will pay attention to this. Penguin's Ma Huateng and Baidu's Li Yanhong have all made downplaying remarks.

What "cloud computing is old wine in new bottles", what "cloud computing is very advanced".

Even the two of them are like this, let alone others?
However, what is interesting is that Ma Huateng and Li Yanhong both have technical backgrounds, but Ma Dian is a complete layman.

Perhaps, in such a relatively cutting-edge field, laymen are more able to jump out of the limitation of the technical perspective and make decisions with a developmental perspective.

"E-buy is needed, and Yike will also need it in the future, including medical science and Sina. How about this, the four companies will share the investment and spin off the current cloud computing department of E-buy." Fang Zhuo was The attention that Bezos aroused could not be easily sunk, "E-buy's budget is tight, we can let Yike invest more first, and divide it left and right, and this matter can be done."

Su Wei hesitated for a while and said, "How much is the budget? When will it be commercialized?"

"It depends on the situation. I'll ask someone face to face and tell you." Fang Zhuo replied.

How much is the budget?

When will it be commercialized?
These two questions...

It is also the question heard by Wang Jian, vice president of Microsoft Asia Research Institute.

Amazon's cloud computing is very good, Microsoft will set up a team, and Google will launch cloud computing services in the first half of the year.

In this way, the movements of the global giants are not only perceived by Fang Zhuo alone, but also the head of Ali in China has also noticed the situation, and soon plans to set up a team to study cloud computing.

Ma Dian fell in love with Wang Jian, a native of Lin'an, and went to the capital three times in person, both to discuss and poach people.

On the last trip, he left two issues of budget and commercialization and made a statement. He was very, very optimistic about the prospect of cloud computing and was willing to give huge investment.

Wang Jian was motivated.

Although Microsoft Asia Research Institute is also good, Microsoft's internal cloud computing project is not up to him, and Alibaba is also a listed company. If the other party is really determined, it will naturally make a difference.

However, just when Wang Jian was seriously sorting out cloud computing and was about to give Ma Dian a rather formal reply, he received a call from Yike Fangzhuo, wanting to make an appointment to chat about cloud computing.

It's not that Wang Jian has never considered the domestic situation, and even had the idea of ​​building a team by himself. However, this kind of project requires a huge investment. Looking around, only Ali has the sincerity in this regard.

He didn't expect that there would be a new group of people approaching the Chinese New Year.

Especially, this is Mr. Fang.

"Professor Wang, I'm in Silicon Valley, and I can't go back because of Yike's business. I went to Amazon two days ago and think cloud computing is a very interesting thing. We can wait for me to talk when I come back to China." On the phone Fang Zhuo paused, "Or, my private plane just flew to the capital at noon, so I can let it pick you up in Silicon Valley, and we can go shopping together in Amazon and talk face to face."

Wang Jian's heart skipped a beat.

It's not the sincerity of flying back by private jet, but the fact that the world's leading Amazon can go shopping.

Fang always has something to do, I understand that, Yike Mars sells so well, it must be busy.

He agreed to chat face to face, and also slightly delayed his reply to Mr. Ma of Alibaba.

The stakes are high, and comparisons are normal.

Wang Jian asked for leave from Microsoft Asia Research Institute, intending to check the new situation.

On the evening of January 1, Wang Jian boarded Mr. Fang's private jet.

"This is the legendary Qingzi."

With this thought in mind, the vice president of Microsoft Asia Research Institute flew to Silicon Valley to find out.

However, when he actually arrived in Silicon Valley, Wang Jian didn't meet Mr. Fang immediately. Instead, he studied Amazon's information for a long time after jet lag to match the schedule of the richest man in the mainland.

On the afternoon of January 1th, Conference Room 19 of Echo Silicon Valley Research Center.

Wang Jian was reading the AWS materials and evaluations that were sent again, and heard a rush of footsteps.

"Samsung is really picky."

"Every time I see Samsung, there is nothing good, and Schmidt is really, I bet Samsung is definitely more eager for Android!"

Fang Zhuo complained about the tripartite talks with Google and Samsung.

Schmidt still wanted to try his best to get Samsung to join PRO, but Lee Jae-yong was not interested at all. Instead, he opened his mouth to the important patents held by Yike, and wanted to engage in a long-term package authorization.

Fang Zhuo saw it, this is not good, isn't this what he did to Sony Ericsson?

He is unwilling to authorize for a long time, and plans to talk about it every two years.

The mobile phone industry is surging, and the past two years have been the period of the most intense changes. Samsung still has important bargaining chips such as screens, storage, and chips. Yike’s patents may be of great use in cooperation at some point. It is not cost-effective to authorize them all .

Li Zairong, who has not seen him for a long time, is much more mature and experienced, and he firmly disagrees with the two-year period.

As the leader of the Android system, Schmidt can only coordinate on both sides, but the effect is not great.

"If it doesn't work, let's talk about it. We'll talk about it when we go back to celebrate the New Year."

Fang Zhuo put the document on the table, complained the last sentence to Yu Hong, grinned at Professor Wang Jian who was looking at him, took two steps, shook hands and said: "I don't know how Professor Wang is resting, I am I met an annoying spirit in two days, and I was really entangled."

Wang Jian heard Mr. Fang's complaints, knew it was serious business, and asked curiously: "Will Samsung also use the Android system?"

"Well, does Professor Wang know the news that Nokia is going to turn Symbian into a wholly-owned subsidiary?" Fang Zhuo was not sure how much outsiders paid attention to the news of mobile phone companies, so he simply explained, "Samsung and Sony Ericsson are not very willing." Played with Nokia, Android system is a good choice to try."

He smiled and said: "Some things just have to be willing to try, and our Mars has done a good job."

Wang Jian felt that Mr. Fang had something to say about cloud computing.

He thought for a while, nodded, and simply asked, "When shall we go to Amazon?"

"You can leave at any time when you have a simple result from the negotiation with Samsung." Fang Zhuo was also straightforward, and asked about potential competitors by the way, "Professor Wang, I don't know if there is anyone in China who is interested in cloud computing besides Yike. of?"

Wang Jian thought that Mr. Fang had heard some rumors. After all, a business person like him had a lot of friends, and he might have had direct communication with Ma Dian.

"Alibaba is very interested in cloud computing. I haven't heard of other companies in China for the time being."

Fang Zhuo said with a smile: "Our e-buy actually has a small team of 10 people researching this aspect. It was set up only after being inspired by Amazon. There are not many things to do. I have met Bezos this time, and I am deeply impressed. Insufficient, immediately decided to catch up."

He's not shy about being inspired by Amazon.

In the past two days, I also learned about cloud computing, and found that this concept was proposed by Google earlier. I published an article and talked about HDFS (distributed file system), MapReduce (parallel computing), and Hbase (distributed database). The development direction of cloud computing.

Amazon is the first to test the water and develop the best.

Wang Jian was a little surprised, and confirmed: "Does e-buy already have a cloud computing department?"

Fang Zhuo handed over a report document and said, "I only studied some simple storage services."

Wang Jian was even more surprised when he heard that there were still results. He took the file and read it quietly.

When he came back to his senses after reading it, there was a cup of coffee in front of him, and Boss Fang was chatting with that famous strong woman, Boss Yu, in a low voice.

"Professor Wang, how are you?" Fang Zhuo asked.

"It is true that there is still a big gap with Amazon." Wang Jian said after consideration.

Fang Zhuo said with a smile: "It is difficult to compare such an achievement with Amazon, because only a small amount of investment has been made."

Wang Jian has a different opinion: "If you want to do cloud computing, if you don't benchmark against Amazon, who should you benchmark with? If you don't compare with Amazon, what's the point of doing this?"

Fang Zhuo was slightly taken aback, and gave his own answer: "I'm thinking that this cloud computing can be used by Tesco, Yike, Sina, and Yike first. If possible, Bingxin can also participate in the cloud computing chip business."

Wang Jian was also taken aback. He didn't expect such a cloud computing chip to come out.

Seeing this, Yu Hong smiled and said, "Professor Wang, just as you heard, Fang always holds the ice core in his hand all the time. Whether he can use it or not depends not on him, but on you."

She continued: "Mr. Fang has nothing good, only one good point. He respects the judgment of professionals and professional teams."

Fang Zhuo said: "This is called proactively expanding big customers. If we don't have customers, we create our own customers."

Different from the information that Wang Jian has seen now, more information he has seen also involves prospect judgments such as server chips and dedicated data chips.

When cloud computing was in front of him, Fang Zhuo's first reaction was to weigh the resources in his hands. This field is led by Amazon, and now Microsoft and Google are entering the market. They are all cutting-edge in the world, and the corresponding chips must be new. direction.

Perhaps, it can be used as a reference for ice cores to increase added value and profits.

"I've heard of Mr. Fang's ice core, and I admire it very much." Wang Jian said something sincere.

Mr. Fang, he has heard many anecdotes, but there is only one thing, the establishment and development of Bingxin, which no one can fault.

Fang Zhuo smiled, and continued to chat with Wang Jian about what he saw and heard in Amazon.

After such a description, he put the topic on track.

"Since Professor Wang is interested in cloud computing, and the country is a wasteland waiting to be developed, this is a good time for the meeting of wind and clouds. Yi Ke very much hopes that the professor will join."

Wang Jian didn't say a word, although the talk was good, but it's too fast after only talking for a while.

Ali's servant has been to the capital three times, but he still hasn't promised him yet.

Seeing that Professor Wang didn't speak, Fang Zhuo asked directly, "Professor Wang, I'm always quick to talk, and I'm firmly optimistic about this field. If you have any concerns or conditions, we can have an open and honest chat."

He added: "Or, whatever treatment Ali gives, I can definitely satisfy it here."

"It's not a question of remuneration." Wang Jian hesitated, "President Ma came to Beijing to look for me, and I had a good talk with him, and Ali is also willing to participate."

Fang Zhuo frowned, ignored the first half of the sentence, and asked: "The budget for cloud computing is also an issue we are considering. Since Professor Wang talked about it, then you can directly say the budget you need for this project in your heart."

He doesn't need to know Ali's input.

But Wang Jian needed to say this as a reference or a reason for rejection, hesitated for a second, and said, "President Ma told me that he is willing to invest 10 billion in cloud computing every year."

This is the biggest reason why he intends to reply to Ma Dian in the near future, the project needs to be spent on money!

After Wang Jian finished speaking, seeing Mr. Fang's frown tightened, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. The investment of 10 billion a year is just an investment, and commercialization and profits are things that cannot be estimated for the time being. people hesitate.

Fang Zhuo turned his head and asked Yu Hong a few words in a low voice.

Then, he met Professor Wang's gaze and nodded: "Mr. Ma is willing to invest 10 billion a year. This number is indeed relatively large. We need to sell 33 units of Yike Mars to make up the budget."

33 units?

Wang Jian was confused, how many units did Yike sell now?

"32.6 units." Yu Hong corrected.

Fang Zhuo nodded: "32.6 units, Yike will need at least 6 days to sell this budget."

He stood up, stretched out his right hand, and said with a smile: "Professor Wang, how about this, you give me another 7 days, and I will try to ask the company for more budget for you, how about it?"

Wang Jian stretched out his hand involuntarily, this... If Yi Ke is given 7 days...

He suddenly had a sense of bargaining on the street, did he call less?

"Let's go, Professor Wang, let's have dinner together. I actually have a layman's guess about the integration of cloud computing software and hardware. I want you to correct me." Fang Zhuo shook hands in time.

After Wang Jian shook hands, he felt a sense of fulfillment of the agreement in terms of morality and etiquette. After hesitating for a few seconds, he still agreed with one word: "Okay."

Well, it’s just sitting on the Qingzi account, shopping on Amazon, talking about project budgets, eating and talking about cloud computing.

I will continue to think about it, and I won't follow Mr. Fang so soon.

(End of this chapter)