Chapter 1369 Bell Labs

For an electronics company to develop, it must have its own core technology.

In the future, Chinese companies have been repeatedly suppressed by foreign companies. One of the reasons is that they have no core technology and everything in their hands belongs to others, and there is no way to compete with them.

This is also true for the very thoughtful company Xiaomi.

Therefore, people like Rebus, who are astonishingly talented, while developing their own technology, have also begun to develop smart home products and lay out home intelligence. This is a very smart thing.

Although Huawei has been criticized by many people, they feel that their starting point is not very clean.

But you have to say that Huawei is the company with the largest accumulation of technology in China, and it is also the number one company in China with a series of advanced electronic technology patents.

In 2018, when the United States was formulating 5G network standards, Huawei relied on its powerful 5G patents to become the 5G usage standard!

Companies, including companies in the United States, have to recognize Huawei's status, because if you want to develop network technology, you must constantly upgrade, and in 5G after 4G, you cannot avoid Huawei's series of core patents. ——Just like we can't avoid the previous 3G network standard, it doesn't matter if you don't accept it, then stop playing.

For this reason, China has long been ready to develop and use 5G technology to completely get rid of the influence of other countries' companies on China's network communications.

You know, at the end of 2013, China began to issue 4G licenses to the three major operators. By 2018, it will actively pilot 5G networks, which will only take 5 years at best!

It takes five years to upgrade to 5G network. From a technical point of view and from a practical application point of view, it is simply not necessary.

The 4G network can be used for at least another five years, let alone upgrades.

After all, the transmission speed and operation mode of 5G are too advanced. Now our mobile phones, computers, etc. cannot use such a good network.

To put it bluntly, it is a waste to use.

But why is China so eager to upgrade and implement 5G networks?

Isn’t it because this 5G network is our own?

Only with the technology you have mastered is the most reliable and best able to ensure smooth development!

For this reason, the originally sufficient 4G can only be wasted.

In the past, there was no other way. Yin Jun could only read information and news, and contribute his own meager strength by buying as much domestic electronic products as possible.

But it's different now. Yin Jun is standing on the territory of the United States and has more than thirty years of experience and forward-looking knowledge than people today.

And Yin Jun still has money.

Very rich.

He still holds a US$2.5 billion credit line from HSBC, and Sumitomo Bank's US$1.5 billion has not yet been exhausted.

It is more than enough to use these funds to purchase some high-tech companies in the United States, especially laboratories with R&D technology patents.

Anyway, at this time, people have not realized how much impact those patents on semiconductors, communication technology, digital switches, etc. will have on future work and life.

What Yin Jun is interested in is Bell Labs, which can be called the symbol of American laboratories.

Bell Labs owns a lot of patents in communications, semiconductors, digital switching equipment, and network construction.

This is what Yin Jun sees as the most suitable laboratory institution for future development.

Moreover, their current research and development strength is also the strongest. Even if companies such as Apple, Google, and Huawei rise in the future, Bell Labs' communication technology research and development will not fall behind at all.

Bell Labs has a long history. A hundred years ago, it was affiliated to the Bell Telephone Company of the United States.

You may not be familiar with the American Bell Telephone Company, but if you mention its later name, you may know it.

It later became known as the American Telegraph and Telephone Company.

The English abbreviation is

AT&T.

This is the largest telecommunications company in the United States. In terms of mobile communications, it is equivalent to China Mobile in China, and in terms of telecommunications business, it is equivalent to China Telecom in China.

The world's three largest telecommunications companies are AT&T, Japan's NTT, and the United States' Verizon. China Mobile can only rank behind them.

This is the remaining size of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company after three splits.

From this we can know how powerful the American Telephone and Telegraph Company was before it was split.

Basically, it is the union of the three giants China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom!

And that’s not all it is superior to. Starting in 2016, it announced that it would acquire Time Warner Group for nearly 90 billion U.S. dollars, which shocked the world.

If this happens, Disney will not be worth mentioning in front of the merged company.

It's just that the judicial system in the United States believed that they would form a monopoly and ordered that some departments must be split up before the merger could be completed.

The American Telegraph and Telephone Company is not a vegetarian. For this reason, in the following years, it has been fighting with the judicial system of the United States, causing a lot of noise.

Faced with a super giant who dared to directly attack the American judiciary, it stands to reason that Yin Jun should not have the strength to pull out his teeth.

But things are not that simple.

In fact, Yin Jun has always wanted to acquire Bell Labs, and he has always asked Colauti to inquire about this matter.

Because the young man remembered that the last Bell Labs fell into the hands of Alcatel-Lucent.

Regardless of how it was sold, as long as other companies can buy it, it proves that Bell Labs is not for sale.

Colauti's network of connections is vast. As early as two years ago, he told Yin Jun that there was no need to worry. Now American Telegraph and Telephone Company was in big trouble and was facing an antitrust investigation.

Speaking of the antitrust investigation in the United States, all multinational companies are frightened.

The original unstoppable and arrogant Standard Oil Company was split into dozens of companies in this way. As a result, the Rockefeller family prospered and declined, and gradually faded out of people's sight.

Even Microsoft, more than ten years later, was almost broken up due to antitrust laws.

Nowadays, American Telegraph and Telephone Company has a complete monopoly on the telephone business in the United States because its business is too large. Therefore, the judicial system of the United States filed a lawsuit to split up this huge group.

By now in 1983, this matter has basically been finalized and will be announced by the end of the year at the latest.

According to well-informed reporters, the American Telegraph and Telephone Company was broken up somewhat completely this time.

They will be split into a Cable and Telephone Company, which specializes in long-distance calls, and regional telephone operating companies with branches in seven regions of the United States.

The super giant group company has assets of hundreds of billions of dollars and has more than one hundred subsidiaries. How to allocate them is a very complicated thing.

Such a large-scale split will definitely trigger a series of games.

There must be a lot of insider trading here.

As long as the responsible person is found and enough benefits and conditions are guaranteed, Yin Jun has a high possibility of obtaining Bell Labs.

However, for this form of split, Colauti also consulted industry veterans. They believed that it was basically impossible for Yin Jun to obtain a complete Bell Labs.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company will certainly retain the patents and R&D personnel they need.

For example, telephone business, communication transmission, etc.

Even what Colauti didn't say, Yin Jun knew very well, most of the mobile phone research and development personnel would probably be left behind.

Not only is Yin Jun's Kirin mobile phone already on sale in Hong Kong, but also because Motorola has announced that its first business-operated cellular phone will begin trial operation in Chicago in the next few months.

As long as the American Telegraph and Telephone Company is not stupid, it will definitely develop research and development for this emerging business.

No matter whether the mobile phone can be successful in the future, it is an extension of communications and is related to the telephone business, so its developers cannot escape.

However, Yin Jun was not too worried.

As long as he has the framework of Bell Labs in his hands, even if all the R&D personnel who previously developed mobile phone communications and cellular communications are gone, Yin Jun can use the name of Bell Labs to recruit outstanding R&D personnel.

Among other things, there are a lot of such talents in Motorola's headquarters.

In fact, there is not much difference in the strength of many communication talents now, and everyone has solid basic skills.

What they lack is often an inspiration and an opportunity.

Yin Jun happens to be good at this.

He can accurately give the direction of research and development, tell them the concept of the finished product, and then let them work it out.

In terms of technological research and development, if you go the wrong way, it will be a very serious problem. Basically, you will be an era behind others.

Apple's research and development in the 1980s and 1990s is an obvious example.

If Gang Leader Qiao hadn't come back and actively led them to change the direction of research and development, I'm afraid people wouldn't have such excellent Apple phones in their hands in the future.

Just imagine, if Yin Jun went to Gang Leader Qiao now to talk about the future direction of smartphone research and development and the benefits of various smart devices in the future, would he still be kicked out of Apple?

I dare not say that Apple will be reborn from the ashes, but they will definitely be the first company to enter the smart field in the future.

The same is true for Kirin Communications.

In addition to letting them accumulate various patents and actively develop various thin, light and powerful components, Yin Jun also told them MediaTek's "integrated mobile phone baseband solution" concept.

Even if it takes five or ten years to work hard, Yin Jun is sure that in the end, this "mobile phone all-in-one solution" must be developed by Kirin Communications Company first.

At that time, mobile phones will become truly cheap and popular, and even rural residents with average incomes will be able to afford mobile phones.

Therefore, knowing the opportunity is Yin Jun's greatest weapon.

As long as he gets Bell Labs, he will have the basis to turn the ideas in his mind into reality.

Not to mention other things, Ericsson has not yet begun to invest in research and development of high-performance signal base stations, as well as CDMA networks, 3G network technology, optical fiber transmission technology, wireless WIFI, smart chips, etc. These projects will shine in the future, Yin Jun Investing heavily in development has given them a lead of at least five or ten years ahead of others. Couldn't they still lead the trend of technology patents?

In the future world, patents are the most profitable thing!

Look at Qualcomm, it earns tens of billions of dollars every year just from patent licensing.

In addition, the chips they sell themselves and exported to China alone have surpassed oil imports in 2015 and become China's largest imported commodity.

Awesome, right?

A small chip can actually be sold for more than the oil used in daily life!

If Yin Jun masters smart chips, wouldn't he be able to sell them at a price comparable to gold when exported to Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States in the future?

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