Chapter 3004 Humiliating Intel

$3 billion!

George Ridden was a little overjoyed. For them, this could be said to be an epoch-making number.

This is also the best affirmation and reward for those of them who are still holding on after Nortel went bankrupt so long ago.

Although to be honest, it can even be said that they have had an easier time in the past two years than before Nortel went bankrupt.

They claim to be sticking to it, but in fact they are staying behind, or we can simply say, they are guarding - guarding Nortel's assets that cannot be processed quickly. In the past two years, they have not been under too much KPI pressure.

After all, we are all bankrupt. What else can you ask us to do to achieve better results than before?

But now, maybe there is a chance.

These patents, which originally had a stock price of only US$200 million, have now been auctioned for a full US$3 billion!

Riddle looked at Apple's Jeff Williams happily, thank Apple, thank you!

Thanks also to BlackBerry, our friends. We know that it was because of your participation that Apple suddenly became so radical.

Watch out for you!

After that, he looked at Cummins and Charlie Kidder eagerly, "It's impossible for you not to fight, right?"

Especially for Android, you are the first company to be interested in purchasing our patents. There is no reason for you to be afraid.

He also looked at Intel with hope, come on, give us another surprise like at the beginning!

But it seems that it is really difficult to let Intel, the chip giant, surprise them again.

On Intel's side, everyone's face was dark at this time, and they didn't even bother to discuss with each other. This obviously meant that they had no intention of making any more bids.

To put it bluntly, although Intel is also a high-tech giant with the same reputation as Microsoft, it is still far behind Apple and Microsoft in terms of strength. Seriously speaking, they can't even compare to NEXTDOOR, the company behind Android.

There are so many companies under NEXTDOOR. Not to mention others, there is only one Facebook. As long as it goes public, its market value will definitely be comparable to Intel's current market value, which is only close to 110 billion US dollars.

The key is that Intel, which used to look down on the "small business" of smartphones, has fallen seriously behind in the current mobile Internet boom. This is a big problem.

A number of well-known business survey agencies have released reports with roughly the same content. Affected by consumers' shift in technology spending from PCs to smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, as well as the long-term economic recession, global PC sales this year shipments will drop significantly.

This is the first time in many years that PC shipments have declined.

The bigger problem is that, at least in the next few years, this downward trend will most likely be the norm.

Intel, which was once rich and wealthy, had to tighten its belt when growth was sluggish.

But if someone is frustrated, someone must be proud.

ARM, which also dominates the mobile market, can be said to have made rapid progress in the past two years. In those years, the boasts that Feng Yiping once boasted have been realized one by one. ARM's shipments last year were indeed as he said, a successful breakthrough. 100 billion pieces - annual shipments, 109.3 billion pieces!

This achievement is not only based on the many directions listed by Feng Yiping that year, but also because of ARM's success in many directions outside the mobile field.

Intel's efforts in the mobile field have not made much splash, but ARM has achieved remarkable results in Intel's traditional strong field, the PC field.

At the CES show, the world's largest consumer electronics show earlier this year, many mainstream manufacturers released netbooks based on ARM chips.

Of course, correspondingly, Microsoft has also launched an operating system for ARM chips, Windows RT - which means that another boast of Feng Yiping has also been realized.

Because of the support of my own company, processors using ARM chips are now emerging in the market and attracting more and more attention...

Intel's traditional market is being eroded step by step by ARM, but in the mobile field, there are only some achievements on paper.

This is mainly because the Atom chip launched by Intel for the mobile market is also the smallest and least power-consuming processor in their history. It is also the cheapest processor. Compared with mobile phone chips based on the same architecture, it is not cheap at all.

To compete with ARM, the price must be reduced to at least one-tenth or one-fifteenth of what it is now - this is an impossible task for Intel.

This is why Intel, which was once a high-tech representative like Microsoft, now has a market value of only close to US$110 billion.

This golden brand of Intel has faded seriously and is gradually becoming outdated.

Faced with the sudden rampage of Apple and the alliance with Android and Microsoft, for a while, they really could only grit their teeth secretly and hate it.

Riddell immediately focused on Cummins and Charlie Kidder.

This time, Cummins and Charlie Kidder did not discuss it. Cummins immediately increased the price without hesitation, "3.141592653 US dollars."

Finally, without any explanation from his assistant, Riddle knew that this was pi - you really were at odds with the constant.

However, compared to the previous two times, Cummins, which once again quoted such a price that people don't know what to say, is no longer proud and does not look more relaxed.

Riddle knew that this should be gradually approaching their highest price, but, hey, this is a good thing!

It's already 3.1 billion US dollars, can 3.5 billion US dollars be far away?

And if it reaches 3.5 billion US dollars, 4 billion US dollars, it is not impossible!

He immediately turned his eager and expectant eyes to Apple and BlackBerry.

At this time, Intel spoke, "Intel, withdraw,"

Withdraw now? Riddle was a little helpless.

But he also clearly heard the helplessness in the words of the Intel representative.

Think about it.

When Intel was powerful, it pulled Microsoft and beat Apple to the point of bankruptcy. As for Android and ARM, two years ago, Intel really didn't take them seriously, but now, not only Microsoft is still the leader, but Apple, which was once defeated by its hands, has also swept away the decline of the year and become the most successful high-tech company in the world.

And the double A combination of Android and ARM is lining up its front wave on the beach one after another.

The word "withdraw" he said contains so much humiliation, sadness, and unwillingness, which only he can understand.

In fact, George Riddle could probably understand their feelings. After all, looking back to the past, we, Nortel, were once rich, but now, we have fallen to the point of selling all our assets.

He couldn't help but look at Cummins, do you have to bid like this?

Billions of dollars, you just bid in such an unserious way, it seems that you don't care about the money, right!

Cummins didn't expect that he would not get any good results from Nortel even after raising the price.

As for why they set such prices, of course they are not joking, but they hope that such a bidding method can give others an impression that "we don't care how much money we have, we just bid casually", and then, it will make opponents feel that Android is determined to get Nortel's patents, no matter how much money it costs.

To put it bluntly, the real purpose of their doing this is to put pressure on their opponents. If they withdraw from the auction, it would be the best.

Now, the goal has been achieved, but he can't relax.

Apple has accepted BlackBerry's alliance, and Intel is withdrawing now, so...

He quietly touched Charlie Kidd with his foot. Kidd was stunned, and when he saw Cummins's look, he held back what he wanted to say.

Williams from Apple was also looking at them, apparently waiting for them to speak first, but Cummins and the others looked at Riddle in silence.

Riddle: What are you looking at?

He coughed, "So, what do you think, will the auction continue?"

Cummins waved his hand very freely and resolutely, "Of course it will continue!"

At this time, it is best not to let the other party see your intentions. If Apple can think that they want to exclude Intel and decide the winner now, that would be the best.

"We hope to start the next round of auctions tomorrow," said Jeff Williams, Apple's representative, immediately after he said this.

You hope to get a result today? Then we must disrupt your deployment.

Riddle stood up, "In this case, everyone, let's continue tomorrow,"

Cummins touched Charlie Kidd gently with his foot again, and Kidd nodded slightly and looked at Intel...