"The patent litigation between Apple and us is essentially a game of patent licensing fees. Apple is trying to use litigation to reduce patent licensing fees.

In addition, we must also consider the huge fines issued by various regions to us against our antitrust investigations and the part has seriously affected our profits.”

Andy leaned relaxed on the boss's chair, holding a coffee cup, took a sip of coffee with a smile, and stared at Steve Molenkov and said.

For many years, Qualcomm has been using patent litigation to coerce partners to pay "Qualcomm tax". Excessive reliance on patent licensing business is a major weakness of Qualcomm's business model.

"Chairman, at this period of 3g technology transformation and popularization, our absolute technical advantages in the 3g field and the formulation of standards have been basically completed.

Another important reason why global mobile phone manufacturers are willing to cooperate with us is that for mobile phone manufacturers, we are not only a patent provider, but also a huge patent protection umbrella.

Through our counter-license agreement, mobile phone manufacturers can avoid disputes and litigation caused by patents. We are a patent protection umbrella that is easy and inseparable. It is equivalent to joining a mobile phone patent protection alliance. When it comes to patent authorization, we will not encounter too many troubles.

In terms of related technologies, we are the top in the industry, and no one can surpass our patents in the field of communications, regardless of scale or quality.

If they want to survive, they cannot bypass us. Even if there are regions that conduct antitrust investigations on us, we don’t need to worry. Whoever sues us will target us and force them to bow their heads!"

Hearing Ceo Steve's tone and domineering thinking, Andy smiled slightly. This group of people had become accustomed to being domineering. Qualcomm achieved its rise in the 2G era with the help of CDMA and exploded in the current 3G era. At this time, all mobile phone manufacturers could only swallow their anger.

But when technological changes occur again, once Qualcomm cannot establish its absolute advantage, it will be a period of siege, and the highly accused model will inevitably be abandoned by the market. This day will inevitably come, which is a historical law.

Andy has learned that it is useless to say anything to them, who are already domineering and have a lot of patent barriers and make money. After all, he is not the largest shareholder and cannot make a decision. To change Qualcomm, of course, Andy values ​​Qualcomm's patent barriers. It is not the time to change Qualcomm's tax strategy at present. You must know that it is not that easy to break your life.

But Andy knew that in order to make Qualcomm sustainable in the long term, the most important thing to do is to appropriately reduce the space for patent extraction and cancel the reverse free licensing method. However, it is a bit too early to do so. After all, these ideas will undoubtedly have a certain impact on Qualcomm's profits in the short term. This is something that no one can accept. At present, Qualcomm has entered the era of relying on patents to make huge profits, and Andy himself will not miss this opportunity.

"In the next step, we will expand market diversity, develop 4g technology more actively, lead the formulation of standards, fully evaluate the strategic role of the company's senior semiconductor department, and at the same time expand the business scope and actively invest more resources to deploy mobile phone chip business. The Tianchao market will be a strategic location that we cannot lose. I hope the company will invest more manpower and material resources to increase the expansion of Tianchao chip business!"

Although he would not touch Qualcomm's patent hegemony, Andy directly stopped the industrial transformation that Qualcomm has been researching and discussing.

The high returns of patent licensing have made Qualcomm a little arrogant and blindly confident. During the plan, the former board of directors of Qualcomm discussed and decided to sell the mobile phone department to the foot basin company, and the base station department was to sell it to Swedish Ericsson.

Even with the most core chip technology, Qualcomm only wants to do R&D and no longer produces it. Qualcomm is only responsible for technical standards research and development, and is preparing to focus its main energy on intellectual property and technical standards, so as to enable Qualcomm to transform from heavy assets to light assets.

Especially for the mobile phone department, how could Andy, who knows the prospects of the smartphone market, sell this ready-made department at a cheap price?

Apple's Ai Chuang mobile phone has a high market share, but it has been stubbornly not making large-screen phones, which has given mobile phone manufacturers such as four-star and htc a lot of development space and seized a lot of market share. How could Andy miss such an opportunity!

Andy has already decided to sell the mobile phone department, isn’t he going to sell it?

I just took this opportunity to separate the Qi, operate it, and turn it into my own private company, and then develop and produce large-screen smartphones. I believe this is another good industry for wealth growth.

I dare not say anything else, Andy, who used many branded mobile phones in his previous life, will not fall behind in industrial design at least...

Thinking of this, Andy couldn't help but lit up his eyes slightly. He simply drew out all the mobile phone product designs he knew and registered them directly, especially the four-star product designs. To be honest, it was really good, although it would explode.

If you say no, you can rely on these industrial design patents to cheat some mobile phone manufacturers!

"Mr. Smith, I'm a Wall Street Journal reporter. Can you accept an interview?"

“I’m the Washington Post…”

"I'm cnn..."

Andy, who had finished his first day of work as chairman of Qualcomm, just walked out of the headquarters building and was about to get on the bus, and he heard the shouts of a large number of reporters stopped by the security guard at the door, and the scene became noisy and chaotic.

Andy, who had not originally planned to be interviewed, was happy that New York gold futures ended its decline and began to rebound and rise. He stopped and surrounded by bodyguards, walked to the main gate of the headquarters and began to accept interviews from extremely excited reporters.

Everything has been settled. As the biggest winner, Andy naturally needs to show the style of the winner so that investors and partners know that Qualcomm's current situation and whether he will make any big moves or future development plans must reveal some information to the outside world. After all, it is a listed company, and the first thing to consider is market value.

During the 15-minute temporary interview, Andy and the reporter were very satisfied. The reporters asked questions reliable, Andy answered professionally, and there were no gossip questions.

When Andy returned to the car, the convoy drove away from Qualcomm headquarters under the shooting of many reporters and headed straight for Breck Beach. His cliff mansion in Liberty City had been renovated and happened to move in directly, especially when he had to stay at Qualcomm for a while.

The green pines on both sides of the winding mountain road are full of greenery. The original barren hillsides and cliff platforms have been covered with vegetation. Large flat lawns cover the entire cliff platform. Under the sunset, the main body of the streamlined mansion made of a large amount of glass and silver-gray steel reflects charming light, especially the unrestrained facade. The extraordinary sense of technology is amazing.

"Wow! It's so spectacular!" The little assistant who walked out of the car looked at the mansion of Liberty City in front of him, his eyes lit up, and exclaimed.

"Haha, let's go in and take a look." Andy was also very satisfied with this mansion. You should know that this virtual mansion that only appears in the movie was perfectly reproduced in his hands. Now we need to accept what he most expects, the supporting intelligent home. You should know that for the sense of technology of the City of Freedom, he even used Moushika cloud computing. It is impossible to be too smart, but it is still no problem to set up some utilities.

For example, when Andy opened the door with his fingerprint and password...

"Ding Ding Ding--"

The lights on the entire first floor automatically light up one after another, and a very stiff electronic synthesizer sounded at the same time.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Smith, welcome home. It's 17:22, San Diego is cloudy, 72 degrees Fahrenheit..."
Chapter completed!