Chapter 40: Exchanging Patents
Zhou Yu is in the office to learn about the progress of the R&D center's various scientific research.
Wang Jian walked into the office and reported to Zhou Yuhui: "Mr. Zhou, I have sent Fuxi chips and Nuwa chips to Huawei."
After Wang Jian reported, he asked in confusion: "The chips we developed should be used first on our company's own equipment. Why should we provide chip samples to Huawei?"
"Of course, in order to seek cooperation with Huawei, the patents of our two companies are extremely complementary." Zhou Yu explained calmly.
He sent graphene chips to Huawei, which was a question of the way. He looked at Huawei's demand for high-performance chips so as to lay the foundation for the next cooperation.
Due to its preparation process characteristics, graphene chips have very strong editability. Adjusting its graphene transistor layout can produce numerous special chips.
Huawei's most fundamental business is not to produce mobile phones and smart device chips. It is the world's largest network equipment supplier. 5G base stations require a large number of communication-specific chips, and most of these chips are monopolized by European and American countries.
The United States used the trick of cutting off chip supply to almost destroy ZTE, the world's fourth largest network equipment supplier.
Huawei needs to transfer a large amount of benefits to obtain a stable supply of chips.
They learned that Spark Technology has the hope of producing these chips and will definitely come to the company to seek cooperation, so that Spark Technology can also obtain the technology it needs urgently.
"This should be because they came to ask us for help. Our company has successfully made graphene chips and no longer needed Huawei to provide chips." Wang Jian asked in confusion.
Zhou Yu knew that the company's executives had this doubt, so he took the opportunity to explain: "In addition to CPU and GPU, Huawei's SOC also has communication baseband.
CPU and GPU are the strengths of our company. Fuxi Graphene chip can naturally handle holographic images.
However, it is difficult for our company to develop basebands, which requires more than ten years of investment in the field of communications to develop excellent basebands.
Otherwise, just like Apple uses Intel's baseband, network signals are cut off and calls are unstable, which greatly hurts the company's reputation.
Our company's technology in baseband chips is definitely not as good as Intel. The field of communication technology cannot be done by recruiting some people.
What's more, we cannot directly avoid the patent barriers of silicon-based chips like we do when we study graphene chips.
Patents in the field of communications are even more complex. We are just developing new varieties of basebands, and we cannot allow all operators around the world to replace network base stations.
If we don’t cooperate with Huawei, no other company can cooperate with us. Which consumer will buy smart devices that cannot be connected to the Internet.
In fact, there is another solution, which is to use the plug-in baseband solution.
But now the baseband is integrated in SOC. Is this an external baseband or an SOC external graphene chip? Besides, graphene chips require a special motherboard and are not compatible with silicon-based chip motherboards. This is definitely not a good solution."
After listening to Zhou Yu's story, Wang Jian immediately understood that smart devices that cannot be connected to the Internet will indeed affect its sales, and he also understood the purpose of the company.
At the Pengcheng Huawei Research Center, hundreds of experts are stepping up research on the two chips sent by Xinghuo Technology.
Tan Ying-Jing, chief chip design expert of Huawei, also called Academician Tian Kai, to communicate with chip designer.
Qin Lishan, the rotating president of Huawei's technology, is waiting for the results of experts.
After two nights of sleepless research, chip experts obtained basic data on graphene chips.
After verifying the performance of graphene chips, Tan Yingjing reported to Qin Lishanhui: "President, we have verified the chip performance of Spark Technology, and communicated with Academician Tian Kai, the chip designer, to learn about the characteristics of some graphene chips.
The performance of Fuxi Graphene chips is 5.98 times higher than our Kirin chips, and the performance of Nuwa Graphene chips is 6.15 times higher than that of Kunpeng server chips.
Graphene chips can be designed and processed transistor layouts very conveniently, and our chip design can be easily transplanted to graphene chips.
More than 98% of 5G base station-related chips can be transplanted to graphene chips.
The most important thing is that the graphene chip is simple to design and can save 80% of research time and scientific research funds.
The production process of graphene chips is simple and very easy to produce on a large scale. The cost of the chip is low, and the overall cost of the chip is only 40%.
After Tan Yingjiong reported on the situation of graphene chips, he also provided Qin Lishan with a detailed report on the chip.
After Qin Lishan carefully read the report, he sighed: "I didn't expect that such advanced chips could be produced in China. I immediately reported to General Ren and suggested reaching cooperation with Spark Technology."
On June 28, Xinghuo Technology welcomed Huawei's negotiation team.
The team leader is Qin Lishan, the rotating president of Huawei, the deputy team leader is Tan Yingjiong, the chief chip expert, and Yan Dali, the president of corporate BG.
Zhou Yu didn't expect Huawei to react so quickly, and this shows their urgency for domestic chips.
Not to mention that once a certain technology is domestically produced, it can be instantly made into a bargain with China's powerful industrial system.
Only by saying that multiple suppliers supply, companies can bargain more flexibly, and there is no possibility that their lifeline will be pinched down. This will attract many companies.
Zhou Yu quickly completed the establishment of the Spark Technology negotiation team, with him as the team leader, Tian Kai and Yu Zhenfeng as the deputy team leader, finance department, legal department and other leaders accompanying the negotiations.
Huawei can negotiate with Spark Technology so quickly, of course they have great expectations for cooperation.
For wireless communication technology, Xinghuo Technology also hopes that they can successfully reach cooperation.
The leaders of both parties have strong intentions to cooperate, and they also know the bottom line of each other and will not gain more attention.
They all tried their best to increase their interests for their side in the compromise. After hours of long talks, Zhou Yu and Qin Lishan quickly reached a cooperation plan for the general direction.
Spark Technology and Huawei cooperate to develop 5G baseband and 5G base station dedicated communication chips based on graphene chips.
Spark Technology authorizes Huawei to use graphene chip frameworks and smart instruction sets, and the chip factory specializes in the foundry of various graphene chips for Huawei.
Huawei authorizes Spark Technology to use all 5G communication patents.
Huawei and Spark Technology researchers formed a special research and development team for 5G graphene chips to jointly develop chips.
After the cooperation framework was reached, Zhou Yu and Qin Lishan shook hands and said happily: "The cooperation is pleasant. I believe that the two companies will work together to develop the best 5G chip ecosystem."
"Win win-win cooperation, we jointly build a 5G ecosystem. Your company's graphene chip freedom is so high, which can minimize our transplant cost." Qin Lishan said excitedly.
The two companies reached a cooperation agreement, and Huawei immediately dispatched a chip and communications research and development team to temporarily join the Xiongan Graphene Chip Research Institute.
Chapter completed!