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   Chapter 190 Gives too much

  Bell Labs, in addition to those technologies, patents, and equipment, the most valuable are the R&D personnel such as Bastian Clay.

Clay and the others are all members of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society or other academic associations, and many of them are still in high positions. For example, Clay is the director of the IEEE Association's Message Processing Association, and he almost controls the industry. standard.

  More than 1,300 industry standards are formulated by the IEEE Association, including computers, mobile phones, telecommunications, physics and other industries. Whoever masters the IEEE Association has the right to speak in the industry!

Song Yang naturally would not miss this opportunity, "Dr. Clay, I am willing to fully support your experiment, and I think you should contribute more to the development of the industry, not only in the signal processing industry, but also in the voice Coding, multimedia signal processing, etc., Dr. Clay should also formulate industry standards for the IEEE Association!"

Hearing that Song Yang had contracted his experimental funds, Bastian Clay was excited but also a little uneasy. He didn't know that he really helped Song Yang in the IEEE Association to obtain voice and video signal processing, speech coding , multimedia signal processing and other IEEE standards, what will be the impact.

However, Song Yang signed him a $3 million R&D fund check on the spot. This was just a "deposit" to improve the living conditions of everyone in the Clay Lab. More R&D funds will be invested in the future. , This makes it really hard for Clay to refuse. It's not that Clay has no temper, but he has given too much...

Song Yang needs these technologies developed by Bastian Clay, as well as the technical standards of the IEEE Association. Once these technical standards are mainly based on the technical standards of American Telecom and ICQ, after that, mobile phone video calls, ICQ's Internet voice, video, etc. will become the industry standard, and other companies have to pay ICQ!

Watching Song Yang "buying" Bastian Clay, Statzern's mouth twitched, but in the end he didn't say a word and left Clay's lab. He was afraid that he would suffer a heart attack if he stayed any longer. It's going to be a crime. At most, the Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent Group want to hollow out Bell Labs. Song Yang is going to tie Bell Labs, together with the IEEE Association, to the chariot!

  Although he didn't look good, Stanzern saw Song Yang's attitude and knew that he was really ready to cooperate with Bell Labs, pinching his nose and recognizing Song Yang's little gesture.

"This is one of the research laboratories of physical theory. Thirteen years ago, the fractional quantum Hall effect was discovered here. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was nominated for this discovery. The Nobel Prize in Physics will belong to this one day. Find!"

Statzern took Song Yang to visit other Bell Labs, some of which are developing new materials and some new technologies, and many of them are high-level ones. This is the case with this physics theory laboratory, which is often a Nobel Prize or something. , but it also showed the decline of Bell Labs. Ten years later, it still depends on the previous things to maintain its appearance.

   But Bell Labs is still somewhat of a black technology. "This is a biotechnology laboratory. They have developed a convolutional neural network, a deep feed-forward artificial neural network, which may be applied to analyze visual images in the future!"

When    was talking, Stanzern looked at Song Yang's face from time to time, and a group of people in this biotechnology laboratory also looked at Song Yang eagerly. They all knew that a big sponsor came to Bell Labs today.

  Song Yang did not expect that Bell Labs was so advanced that convolutional neural networks were invented, but it was too advanced for this era.

Looking at the group of people in the biological laboratory, looking forward to Song Yang's investment, he knew the current market of this thing. Now it is basically useless. In another 20 years, I am afraid it will show its talents. At that time, portrait recognition, gesture recognition, AI intelligence, artificial intelligence, AR glasses, interactive neural network devices, that is, things like the legendary game sleep cabin, all require the support of convolutional neural networks.

Song Yang also knew why Stanzern brought him to these laboratories, Song Yang rubbed his chin, "I can invest in this project, but the patents for convolutional neural networks, and the patents, technologies, Products, all need to belong to me..."

"no problem!"

The inventor of the convolutional neural network, a French man with a domestic name, Yang Likun, who is just 34 years old this year, said in Song Yang as soon as he finished speaking, "I have no problem here, but Song, you must Invest in this project!"

   Yang Likun and the development team were very popular when they first launched the convolutional neural network, but they were quickly ignored because they really didn’t know what this thing was used for.

Not only Yang Likun, but the neural network industry to which the convolutional neural network belongs, is no longer the darling of the technology industry. , After a few years of glory, it has been abandoned by the gold owners because the research and development failed to produce results.

Song Yang looked at Yang Likun and seemed to be familiar, but he didn't think about it. He didn't think about Turing Award winners at all. There were too many good people in Bell Labs, and he didn't see the Nobel Prize in Physics. People, do you still have to line up here? Yang Likun is really nothing.

Song Yang and Stanzern whispered a few words, and asked the America Global Investment Fund to take over Yang Likun's R&D team, including the patent of the convolutional neural network. Stanzern took several million dollars from Song Yang. After the transfer fee", let go.

If Song Yang didn't take over Yang Likun's team, Bell Labs would not be able to support it. As for the patents of convolutional neural network, Bell Labs with more than 30,000 patents is not inferior to those few patents. Besides, what is the use of this thing? Bell Labs didn't understand it.

  Standzern also needs to give Song Yang some "sweetness", otherwise how could Song Yang throw money at Bell Labs.

In addition to Yang Likun's convolutional neural network laboratory, Song Yang has also seen products such as new magneto-optical storage technology that can hold 45 billion digits per square foot, new optical fiber material non-zero dispersion fiber that can be applied to intercontinental networks, etc. Song Yang, who is now, is envious of it. If it weren't for Steinzen's death, Song Yang would really want to give it all away!

   "Song, it's not about money. Telephone and Telegraph Group, Lucent and other Bell Communications companies, it's impossible for Bell Labs to sell these things unless you buy Bell Labs!"

   Stratzern patted Song Yang on the shoulder and said, this is telling Song Yang to make money quickly and redeem for Bell Labs, these good things are all Song Yang's.

Looking at Stanzern, who was greedy for a while, but he didn't sell his life or death, Song Yang didn't know where it was. It was the intention of the little old man Stanzern to let Song Yang see the good things from Bell Labs, and then let Song Yang see it. Yang thought about it and raised money to buy Bell Labs as soon as possible.

   The scale of the entire Bell Labs is really too large. Even if it has been split, there are still hundreds of R&D projects running. Song Yang finally knows why Bell Labs is burning so much money.

   After looking at a few more laboratories, Song Yang stopped in front of a laboratory. Stanzern saw this and said to Song Yang, "This is the TV R&D department!"

TVs have been developed for nearly a hundred years, but various technologies are still innovating. As the first Bell Labs in the world to develop color TVs, it has been developing in this regard, but in Bell Labs Not in the mainstream.

Song Yang walked into this laboratory and saw many people busy, and Stanzern also came in. Seeing Song Yang, he seemed to be very interested in this place, "Bell Labs is developing a new generation of TVs, and the R&D personnel , I want to convert analog signals into digital signals, and hope to define a new generation of TV technology standards!"

  Stanzern said to Song Yang that televisions belonged to an absolutely traditional industry. Stanzern didn't think Song Yang would be interested in this industry. Inside Bell Labs, there was not much interest in this project.

But to Statzern's surprise, Song Yang actually stayed in the TV R&D department for a long time, and even talked to the head of the laboratory for a while, and then said to Statzer and the head of the TV laboratory's R&D. , "Americas Telecom is willing to invest in this project!"

Hearing this, Stanzern couldn't help looking at Song Yang in surprise. The person in charge of the TV project was full of joy. He didn't expect that someone would be willing to invest in this "sunset" industry, not to mention Bell Labs, even the Other R&D institutions in America are not very concerned about the TV industry.

   Seeing Stanzern's surprised eyes, Song Yang smiled at Stanzern, "Maybe there will be some rewards!"

   TV sets can't make much money, and Song Yang doesn't plan to make much money from them, but if he grasps the patents and standards of digital TV and high-definition TV, he can do a lot of things.

  If Telecom America enters the media industry in the future, it has the support of the TV brand industry. All major TV brands have their own TV channels or “recommend” America Telecom’s TV channels to users, then America Telecom will not be much smoother in the media industry.

   In addition, there is the panel industry. Selling TV sets does not make money. There is still some hope for relying on the TV industry to support a panel company!

After a trip around Bell Labs, Song Yang and Stanzern returned to the office. Song Yang thought about it. In this trip, the US knife he smashed out exceeded 20 million US dollars. Counting the follow-up investment, it is conceivable how much money will be burned in R&D.

Song Yang also has a bottom line about the strength of Bell Labs. Compared with the past, it has indeed declined a lot, but the old bottom line is still there. There are still a lot of good things in the warehouse, relying on the research and development of Bell Labs. Ability, Song Yang can at least save ten years of research and development!

   (end of this chapter)