Chapter 1299 Technology Creates Wealth

But there is one point, Xiao Qi still feels a little headache.

The labor of American engineers is really too expensive!

The average annual salary of engineers in Silicon Valley is 90,000, and now the engineers in North American laboratories have reached 110,000 US dollars, plus overtime subsidies, bonuses, dividends, etc., if you lose 200,000 US dollars a year, don’t even think about getting it down.

If Xiao Qi wants to recruit those hardware and software engineers, the number will be at least 5,000, and they will be paid 1 billion US dollars a year in salary alone, and the number and salary will increase every year, reaching two to three billion in the future. One year in US dollars is easy.

In contrast, engineers in Huaguo are much cheaper, with an average of 700,000 RMB, which is less than 100,000 US dollars.

And the people of Huaguo are nice, they don't deliberately ask for compensation for overtime work.

It doesn't look like foreign engineers who press the time alarm clock directly after get off work, and one minute is considered overtime.

Xiao Qi is a very generous person, as long as the employees work hard, he will never be stingy with various rewards.

On the contrary, he doesn't like employees who care about every detail and regard all relationships as naked, naked, and profit-oriented.

Therefore, Xiao Qi generally did not directly participate in the management of Mingxiang Holdings North American Laboratory, more often Tang Mingxiang went to check, anyway, she is the name of the proprietress of Mingxiang Holdings.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages in everything, and there are advantages and disadvantages.

It is true that Huaguo engineers are cheap and serious, but they are far inferior to foreign engineers in terms of overall thinking, creativity, and technical ability.

The salaries of European and American engineers are expensive, and you get what you pay for. Foreign bosses are more ruthless than those in Huaguo. If you can’t generate profits in a day, or if the company’s profits decline, you will be dismissed immediately. No human feelings at all.

Therefore, their technical research ability is very strong.

For example, in the current North American laboratory, the technology of the wcdma department is still far ahead in the world, and its application in China has also received a lot of praise. Even many foreigners who come to China for business praise the wcdma network of Huaguo Dentsu high speed.

The patent fee of wcdma is not collected from operators, it is collected from chip manufacturers and base station contractors that contain wcdma functions.

Go further in the future. wcdma patent fee will be higher.

Manufacturers who usually produce 3G mobile phones, because of this small 3G wireless chip, are required by several companies with core patents such as Nokia, Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Siemens to charge a super high price equivalent to 20% of the price of the mobile phone. The amount of patent fees shows how dark their hearts are.

Fairy Company's mobile phones and tablet computers do not have these fees now, because the wcdma technology they use belongs to them, and the wireless chips including 3G also have full intellectual property rights.

However, as more and more shares in products such as dream pad and dream stars are sold in the future, this patent fee Xiao Qi will still increase a lot. Otherwise, this is saving money for others in vain.

As for base station contractors, in foreign countries, mobile operators pay lease fees to base station operators, and then base station operators pay royalties to patent owners, and operators indirectly pay patent fees to wcdma.

However, the three major operators in China have always been single-handedly. They are the contractors of the wcdma base station, so the patent fees are also paid directly.

This year, it is only the wcdma patent fees paid by Dentsu, Mobile Communications and Lianshu. It is estimated that it will reach about 2 billion.

On the other hand, because Mingxiang Holdings North American Laboratory bought out the optical fiber patents in China from Nortel Networks. Therefore, among the fees they paid to equipment manufacturers Xinglong Optical Fiber and fiber optic cable manufacturers, several manufacturers also used them to pay North American laboratories for patent fees, which is estimated to be about 1 billion.

In addition, although the wcdma network is not unique to the previous Nortel Networks, many companies have the same technology. However, due to the excellent performance of Nortel's wcdma network, under Xiao Qi's vigorous development, the signal is very good, so some base station contractors in Europe and the United States have purchased its patents. This year's patent income is expected to be around 300 million US dollars.

The reason is so high. It is because the prices in Europe and the United States are very high, resulting in high costs. For high-tech applications such as 3G networks, the fees are very expensive, which naturally brings about the high patent fees that need to be paid.

However, in terms of wireless chip manufacturers, neither iphone nor s1 came to buy the patents of Mingxiang Holdings North America Laboratory, but turned to several other companies.

Xiao Qi knew that this was their unwillingness to be subject to Fairy Company.

If everything depends on Fairy Company, then if things go on like this, wouldn't they become vassals of Fairy Company?

Therefore, it is better to develop your own technology!

The technology and achievements of the wireless communication chip department of the North American laboratory are also excellent.

The wireless network connection function of dream pad has improved the taste of European and American users from the very beginning.

Because Fairy Company's wireless chip capture ability is very strong, it can capture wireless signals on the long and curved Danube River, in small remote towns, in parks outside the city... etc., as long as it does not deviate too far from the base station , can surf the Internet smoothly.

This is the wireless chip purchased from Broadcom before. Now the wireless communication chip department of Mingxiang Holdings North America Laboratory has already been integrated. The performance of the wireless communication chip developed is more than 20% stronger than that of Broadcom, which greatly reduces the rapid movement. Between network frustration.

The most important thing is not only the function, but also the cost.

For the Broadcom chip that Xiao Qi bought before, the Wi-Fi chip costs 6.8 US dollars a piece, and the 3G network chip costs 28.8 US dollars a piece.

At that time, I didn't think it was expensive, but after his own wireless communication department developed it, Xiao Qi found that Broadcom was simply a huge profit.

If you use your own wireless chips and don’t count the technical patent fees, the average cost of producing two types of wireless communication chips is only 3 US dollars a piece, which means that Broadcom can earn up to 14 US dollars per chip, 30 million pieces a year. They will make a net profit of 420 million U.S. dollars for the order.

Of course, this is also due to the rapid development of technology and the rapid decline in costs after a year, and the labor in the United States is far more expensive than that in China.

The purchase price of a wireless chip of 3 US dollars can still make Huaguo's factory make a good profit. In the United States, it may need more than double the price.

But Broadcom can earn at least 10 US dollars a piece, with a net profit of 300 million US dollars a year, which is also a very considerable profit!

Therefore, it can also be seen that what is called a technology patent is a huge profit, which is much easier than making money in a physical factory.

For this reason, Xiao Qi immediately announced that after the execution of the one-year contract this year, the use of Broadcom chips will be suspended and the wireless chips developed by the North American laboratory will be switched.

The purchase quantity is tentatively set at 120 million pieces a year, and the purchase price becomes 6.8 US dollars per piece, of which 3 US dollars is used for the production cost of the wireless chip factory in China, and the remaining 3.8 US dollars is Xiao Qi’s pure profit—North American experiment Xiao Qi owns the office, and the various patents in it also belong to Xiao Qi, so all the profits belong to Xiao Qi.

Xiao Qi has never been a stingy person, he took out 0.8 US dollars to the North American laboratory for continued investment and patent dividends, including the wcdma department of the 3G core technology provider in wireless chips, and other patented wireless communication chip departments, all Everyone has a share.

The remaining 3 US dollars was transferred to Xiao Qi's personal account as the pure profit of the North American laboratory to enrich the boy's small coffers.

As for the ten-year high-priced contract with Broadcom, Xiao Qi will not waste it.

There will be more and more companies producing smartphones and smart tablet computers in the future, and they will all need this kind of wireless chip, so if you resell the contract to them, maybe Xiao Qi, a small profiteer, can make more money!

Another advantage is that through this high-priced chip contract, other people's production costs can be increased and their mobile phone competitiveness can be reduced!

It really kills three birds with one stone! (To be continued..)