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   Chapter 610 Gold Swallowing Beast

   The current president of Bell Labs, Sze Tann, led a group of Bell Labs personnel and personally ran to the entrance of the lab to greet Song Yang.

   "Song!"

   As soon as we met, as a top scientific researcher in America, even if he met the R&D staff of the American Academy of Sciences and NASA, he could talk a few words about the top scientific researcher. When facing Song Yang, his face was full of smiles.

   hugged Song Yang, and Szeten said to the R&D staff behind him, "Let's welcome the genius of the Internet, the savior of Bell Labs, the inheritor of the technology industry... Bruno Song!"

   Sze Tann put a lot of high hats on Song Yang's head. It's hard for Sze Tann to throw his face to praise Song Yang like this at his age.

   There is really no other way. If Sze Tann doesn’t want to be the last head of Bell Labs, and doesn’t want to carry the bad reputation that Bell Labs ruined on his hands, he must find a big sponsor for Bell Labs.

Telephone and Telegram Group and Langxun Technology are now somewhat ignoring Bell Labs. Both sides have begun to plan carefully, trying to increase revenue and share prices, and to cope with the pressure of the board of directors and investors, they are unwilling to invest any more money. to Bell Labs.

Because the gains outweigh the losses, whether it is the Telephone and Telegraph Group or Lucent, they are no longer the company that was founded a hundred years ago, and have no requirements for Bell Labs. People at Bell Labs can develop whatever they want. You can do whatever you want, which is what makes Bell Labs brilliant.

   In less than a hundred years, Bell Labs has given birth to nine Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards. As for the R&D personnel who have entered the American Academy of Sciences, there are countless more.

   But now, the Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent have long been separated, and their business has also been fixed. The Telephone and Telegraph Group is mainly engaged in telecommunications business, and Lucent is in equipment manufacturing, and neither of them needs Bell Labs to develop so many things.

   Having invested so much money in the research and development, they can’t use it, and it also reduces the revenue and affects the stock price. For Bell Labs, it is even more disinterested.

Now Bell Labs, my grandmother doesn't love my uncle or my uncle. If Song Yang, the new gold owner, started investing money in Bell Labs, Bell Labs, a century-old global scientific research mecca, would probably have run out of food for the first time. !

   "Dr. Szestein!"

   "Dr. Clay, Dr. Yang..."

  Song Yang looked as usual and greeted all the R&D staff of Bell Labs, maintaining enough respect for these researchers.

The big cows who are still in Bell Labs are all people who really want to develop something, and who want to get rid of Bell Labs' predicament. Some people use this place as a scientific research nursing home, but most people still hope that this place It can continue and continue to be a research holy land.

Just like when Song Yang came here last time, he still brought a somewhat old laboratory. Unlike last time, this time Song Yang took a closer look at the place, as if looking at... his own cub, although it was still here. It does not belong to Song Yang.

Entering Sze Tann's office, Song Yang picked up the coffee made by Sze Tann himself. After taking a sip, the bitter Song Yang felt a little numb at the base of his tongue. He didn't know if all these scientific researchers liked this. Bitter coffee is refreshing. Compared with ICQ's development engineers, the coffee they drink is a bit more bitter.

   "Dr. Szestein, I think Bell Labs needs to recruit more R&D personnel to enter!"

Song Yang put down the coffee and said to Sze Tann, since Song Yang came to the present last time, he can clearly feel that the staff of Bell Labs has not increased, but it seems to be a little less. This is a top R&D institution. It's kind of hard to accept.

  The scientific research industry is an industry that needs talent and luck, and it also needs a constant influx of fresh blood, and it needs to keep attracting the influx of geniuses.

   Other top R&D laboratories in America, including Wall Street institutions, attract talents from America and overseas to join the internship every year. These geniuses may not cause these laboratories or institutions to undergo qualitative changes immediately.

   But the influx of a large number of geniuses will keep these laboratories and institutions competitive, and those who can stand out from these geniuses, and those who stay in the end, may eventually become the top titans!

   Hearing Song Yang's words, Sze Tann answered very succinctly and said directly, "Not enough funds!"

   "The Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent are reducing their R&D investment in Bell Labs. It is not easy for Bell Labs to maintain the current R&D scale."

Looking at Song Yang, Sze Tann, a researcher, was very straightforward and said to Song Yang, "If your foundation, Song, can increase investment in Bell Labs' research and development, then I can. I guarantee that I can poach the top talents in America, even those from IBM Labs, Motorola Labs, and even the American Academy of Sciences..."

These words, Sze Tann is really not bragging, as the boss of Bell Labs, in the scientific research industry, this identity has absolute appeal, even the Nobel Prize tycoon, professors of major top universities, must give A bit thin.

   Sze Tann was just saying casually, and he didn't expect much, but Song Yang's next words made Sze Tann stunned for a moment.

   "What if the North American Global Investment Foundation and the Bruno Family Foundation took over the funding of Bell Labs?"

   Hearing Song Yang's words, Sze Tann's expression was taken aback, and he was a little unsure how much Song Yang's words came true.

  Now, the Telephone and Telegraph Group, Lucent, etc. all regard Bell Labs as a burden, and desperately want to get rid of it. Song Yang actually wants to completely take over Bell Labs.

   When Song Yang came to Bell Labs before, he mentioned that he would take over Bell Labs in the future, but Sze Tann didn't take it too seriously, because it was too expensive.

  Even if Bell Labs has reduced the scale of R&D, and the R&D personnel are still on a diet and cut off some unreliable projects, they still burn more than one billion US dollars in R&D expenses a year.

Today, Sze Tann and Bell Labs used such a battle to welcome Song Yang, because Song Yang's ICQ, America Telecom, Alcatel Mobile, PA Semiconductor and other companies are responsible for one-tenth of Bell Labs. The research and development expenses of Bell Labs last year have exceeded 100 million US dollars!

   This amount of money seems to be a lot, but it is still a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of Bell Labs for a year.

"Song," Sze Tann looked at Song Yang with a serious expression, "The annual cost of Bell Labs requires at least a billion dollars to keep running. If the experimental project is fully developed, it will satisfy all R&D personnel. If the salary and the purchase of new R&D equipment, the annual R&D expenses will likely exceed $4 billion!"

There is no doubt that Bell Labs is a gold swallowing beast. Bell Labs is full of horsepower. It can eat four billion dollars a year. What is the concept of four billion dollars this year? Yahoo, Netscape, Lycos For a number of Internet companies, the total revenue from last year is barely enough for Bell Labs to burn for a year...

It's no wonder that the Telephone and Telegraph Group and Lucent are unwilling to support Bell Labs. After finally earning a few backs, they all screwed up Bell Labs' teeth. The shareholders and investors of the Telephone and Telegraph Group can It's strange that they are willing, those executives also have opinions, and the money is given to Bell Labs, so their dividends and year-end bonuses are all gone? !

The Telegraph Group and Lucent don't know if Bell Labs has any good stuff. Those executives know better than anyone else, but this involves the issue of buttocks, whether to burn the money for Bell Labs, or keep it for themselves to distribute bonuses, don't say An executive from Wall Street, even an ordinary person, knows how to choose!

Of course, Sze Tann hopes that the new sponsor can take over Bell Labs, but he has to tell Song Yang the pros and cons of this, otherwise he will take over Bell Labs. To go through twists and turns, and may even be sold again.

Song Yang looked at Sze Tann, "I told Dr. Sze Tann that I will take over the research and development of Bell Labs. If Bell Labs is willing, the North American Global Investment Foundation can find President Bates, from In the hands of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, buy Bell Labs!"

"certainly…"

Song Yang didn't even want to fool Sze Tann, and promised him what he couldn't do. With Sze Tann's status in the arena of America Technology, playing tricks with him, playing with empty gloves and white wolves, etc., was nothing. good result.

   "The North American Global Investment Fund may not be able to fully meet Bell Labs' R&D expenses in the near future, and can provide Bell Labs with one-third or even one-half of the cost every year!

After the revenues of America Telecom, ICQ, and Alcatel mobile phones stabilize, they will gradually increase the R&D expenses of Bell Labs, and even acquire Bell Labs from Lucent to re-merge Bell Labs into a real Bell Labs. room. "

After Song Yang finished speaking, he waited for Szetanen's decision to take Bell Labs into his pocket. It wasn't Song Yang's whim. It was a bit difficult to support Bell Labs now, and it cost a lot of money every year. , but Song Yang thought it was worth it.

  With Bell Labs, Song Yang has a complete R&D department for Alcatel mobile phones, PA Semiconductors, American Telecom, Fortinet, etc.

The cooperation with Bell Labs has already gained a lot of benefits, such as Alcatel mobile phones, a lot of hardware and software, which are jointly developed with Bell Labs, as well as Panda LCD TVs, chips from PA Semiconductor, UTM from Fortinet Firewall equipment, etc., Bell Labs has provided a large number of technologies and patents.

   The skinny camel is bigger than a horse. No matter how bad Bell Labs is, it is much more reliable than other grassroots R&D institutions. It is no problem to eat for decades.

   (end of this chapter)