Reinventing the Millennium.

Chapter 882 Context
LG is the third mobile phone manufacturer to launch a mature capacitive screen mobile phone after Apple and Yike.

Relying on the upgraded Symbian system that supports full touch screen, adhering to the low-price strategy and differentiated competition, following the cooperation mechanism between Apple and AT&T, Eke and T-mobile, it has initially achieved good results in the US market.

Regardless of whether this is a temporary enthusiasm for early adopters or whether it can really continue the momentum, Apple can no longer tolerate another Symbian version of Yike, and it does not consider waiting for the other party's products to become stronger before eating a big bite of patent fat. Do the strangulation at the beginning.

After Fang Zhuo agreed in principle to Schmidt's request, he soon saw more detailed information about Apple's lawsuit.

The three patent infringements it brought are all patents applicable to mobile devices. Two of the patents, 5946647 and 6343263, date back to 1994. means", which is "a real-time signal processing system for data transmitted in a continuous manner".

In addition, Apple's touch patents are relatively broad patents in concept.

Like 5946647, according to the description, using fingers to interact and send emails on LG's touch-sensitive mobile phone will basically infringe the patent.

Fang Zhuo didn't know whether Apple's lawsuit would be successful, and he planned to let the company add fire to this patent dispute after April.

Now Yike's patent situation is that it has carried out cross-licensing with Samsung, which is willing to carry the Android system, and has carried out cross-licensing with Apple, which is afraid of European patent lawsuits, and has carried out patent packaging from Sony Ericsson mobile phones.

However, the more embarrassing point is that these authorizations are unilateral by Yike, and the PRO alliance built for the Android camp with Google has not benefited from it.

All in all, the biggest threat to the patent field of Yike mobile phone for a period of time is Nokia, the current overlord of the mobile phone industry.

Whether it's the company's internal evaluation or Fang Zhuo's devious thinking method, we have to admit that Nokia's patented weapon hidden in the sheath is not easy to handle, so we can only work hard to push up the sales of mobile phones and get more trade-offs chips.

In the last week of March, Fang Zhuo had almost postponed his trip for nearly a month, and all the incidents seemed to be rushed to him. The high-level people came all the way from Hsinchu, Baodao.

Fang Zhuo warmly received the group.

We are actually our own people.

The TV chip field that Morningstar has developed so far has started from Changhong and spread to the entire mainland market. Fang Zhuo has helped a lot in this process, and has also taken some shares through this investment. In addition to the financing that Morningstar announced in Silicon Valley, he is now It holds 8.7% of the shares.

And, IDG and Shenxin Kechuang, which participated in the financing, also hold a total of 6% of the shares.

With this 14.7% stake plus business contacts and cooperation prospects, Fang Zhuo is a shareholder with considerable influence on Morningstar.

This is exactly the case. This time, the head of the company led the high-level team to dispatch, expressing the necessity of listing in Hong Kong instead of in the mainland from various angles and considerations.

Fang Zhuo gave full understanding, and by the way, looked forward to and supervised the work of Morningstar in chip design.

Both parties are quite satisfied with this communication, and Morningstar Semiconductor will officially start the work of listing in Xiangjiang in the coming April.

In addition, Fang Zhuo also talked about the possible plans of Yike mobile phone.

This year, Yike will definitely not launch an entry-level Android phone. Foreign countries will rely on the new phone released in June to dominate the world and continue to increase market share. In China, the old and new generations of machines will occupy different market segments.

In this way, the polishing time of Yike's entry-level machine will be more abundant, and it also means that Morningstar Semiconductor, which frequently fails to tape out, still has time.

At the same time, as a shareholder of Morningstar, Fang Zhuo also kindly gave some help. He can recommend domestic mobile phone manufacturers that may be equipped with Android system for Morningstar’s mobile phone chips. waste time.

——Understand the listing requirements, set aside design time, and recommend domestic manufacturers.

Fang Zhuo feels that what he has done is quite in place, and he just waits for Morningstar to be successfully listed and develop results.

On the last day of March, the iPhone will be released soon, and Yike also got an evaluation of the sales of LG's new phones. It believes that LG's sales this month may be 30 to 40 units, which seems to be a good result.

However, considering that the word-of-mouth is not particularly good, the company made a bold judgment, and it is not easy for LG to maintain such a trend.

Fang Zhuo also has a similar opinion. He has a real LG device in his hand. After two days of trial and error, he can only say that the touchscreen support of Symbian system is worse than expected.

That night, when Fang Zhuo and the American side confirmed the itinerary, Zhang Hongli, a shareholder of Bingxin and also a shareholder of the Deutsche Bank of ICBC, called and chatted about a somewhat unexpected matter.

He went to Germany to investigate in person before, but the ice core investment that could not be reached at all has turned around. Deutsche Bank is willing to undertake part of the investment and loans to promote the construction of ice core's new factory in Germany.

Zhang Hongli is acting as an intermediary, passing on the changes from Germany.

"Mr. Zhang, this surprised me. Ice Core has almost given up on the idea of ​​building a factory in Germany. Mr. Qiu is very opposed to it. I respect their opinions." Fang Zhuo can roughly guess the reason for the change on the other side, nothing more than The Wall Street crisis has gradually intensified.

"Mr. Fang, I know you respect me for saying such things, but I think this is a good opportunity. The German government is considering new public construction policies to stimulate the economy and is actively introducing investment. Zhang Hongli felt that Fang was always playing tricks, "that is to say, Deutsche Bank is the shareholder of Bingxin, and at this point in time, the investment can be discussed."

"I may have to go to the United States first. This is not a trivial matter. I have to think about it carefully." Fang Zhuo said seriously.

In fact, there was a political factor in the previous suspension of German factory construction. Ice Core did not build factories wherever it wanted, and had to consider domestic views. Merkel’s actions last year brought the relationship between the two sides to a freezing point.

By March of this year, the relationship between the two sides has picked up. At least the scale of economic and trade has been further expanded. Presumably with the outbreak of the financial turmoil, there will be further cooperation in both relations and economy.

Fang Zhuo doesn't want to get involved in politics, but now Bing Xin has to respect this factor in his big moves.

Because of the appearance of Deutsche Bank Zhang Hongli, and because of the important planning involving Bingxin, the trip was postponed again.

Fang Zhuo thought about it, and considered a more appropriate method.

On the second day of April, he approached the leaders of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce, and wanted to promote the establishment of a business resource docking association in the Yangtze River Delta, and planned to save a wave of study visits to Europe at the end of the year.

　Continuous overtime work is too exhausting, looking for codeword status on weekends.

　　
　
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