Lin Chen actually had some concerns about the production of military chips.
Because Zhongxin International was able to purchase a lot of advanced equipment at the beginning, but it promised that it would never produce military chips. This shows how much foreign countries attach great importance and vigilance to this aspect.
If Sugon Technology produces military chips openly, then the iron fist of global suppression may hit Sugon Technology.
Therefore, it is okay to produce military chips, but it must be produced secretly and cannot be done openly, and even outsiders cannot detect any trace.
Of course, Ren Zhengfei did not discuss military chips in detail at this time. Instead, he changed the topic and directly stated the purpose of this meeting:
"This time we came here because we were actually attracted by the unique chip production technology your company has mastered. After all, for our communications industry, super good chip quality means super stability."
Facing Ren Zhengfei who came straight to the point, Lin Chen thought for a moment, and then said with a smile:
"It's easy to talk about 350 nanometers and 180 nanometers, but the yield rate of 130 nanometers may not be available for large-scale OEM production until around mid-September."
"Yes, most of our Huawei Technology currently uses 180nm and 350nm process technologies, and 130nm chips only account for a small part."
After all, it is the communications industry, and the most important thing in the communications industry is stability.
Advanced means unknown, and unknown means unstable. The communications industry does not pursue the absolute strongest performance.
Companies in the communications industry usually produce chips on a small scale using the most advanced manufacturing processes for communications chips.
Then after seeing that the newly designed communication chips are quite stable, they will be mass-produced and replaced, and so on.
Therefore, most of Huawei Technology's chips currently use the mature and stable 180nm process technology. Although there are also 130nm communication chips, they are not mainstream at present and are only produced on a small scale for market experiments.
"Mr. Ren Zhengfei, I welcome your company's chip foundry, but I think we have other areas for cooperation besides chip foundry."
Lin Chen stated the purpose of his personal meeting.
It would be fine if the simple chip foundry negotiations were actually handled by others. There was no need for Lin Chen to waste two hours personally receiving them.
The "other cooperation" proposed by Lin Chen this time actually hides a deceptive conspiracy against Huawei Technology. It also includes Sugon Technology's strategic arrangements for the future global mobile phone industry, which will have far-reaching influence.
"Cooperation in other areas?"
Ren Zhengfei looked at Lin Chen with raised eyebrows, wondering if there was anything good for the two sides to cooperate with.
In response, Lin Chen paused for a moment, then slowly said:
"Our current communication chips at Sugon Technology are purchased from other people's communication chips. The cost of this model is quite high. It can be said that most of the profits are made by others.
Your company owns a lot of technology patents for mobile communications such as 2G GSM and 3G WCDMA. Although these communication technology patents account for no more than 7% of the world's total, they are still a large patent share. "
After hearing Lin Chen's words, Ren Zhengfei nodded very proudly.
In the past two decades, Huawei Technology has never stopped developing core technologies on its way from weakness to rise.
Although the core patents of 2G GSM and 3G WCDMA were occupied by foreign companies, Huawei Technology still tore a small gap in the patent wall and successfully took root.
And this is why they can make global communications giants gnash their teeth with hatred. After all, how can they become a small giant in the global communications industry without their own core technology.
"I wonder how you want to cooperate?"
Yu Chengxi, who had been silent on the side, suddenly asked about Lin Chen, while Meng Yazhou on the side also looked at Lin Chen curiously.
In response, Lin Chen glanced at the three of them, and then said word for word:
"We at Sugon Technology currently have no ambition to enter the 2G and 3G communications industry, because our goal is directly on the 4G mobile communications market."
Hearing this, Ren Zhengfei, Meng Yazhou, and Yu Chengxi all felt moved.
But at this time, they remained calm and did not say anything but continued to look at Lin Chen, wanting to see what Lin Chen said.
They believed Lin Chen's statement that Sugon Technology was developing 4G mobile communication technology, because even though Sugon Technology's employees were very loyal, they would not leak core secrets to the outside world.
But they don't have so much scruples about less important side information, so they have vaguely heard that Sugon Technology is working on 4G mobile communication technology.
At this time Lin Chen continued:
"In the short term, at least within two or three years, we are not competitors, so I would like to reach a cooperation agreement with your company on mutual licensing of technology patents."
"A cooperation agreement for mutual licensing of technology patents?"
Meng Yazhou, the financial director of Huawei Technology, said with a frown:
“We don’t have any good technology patents to mutually license.”
At this time, Meng Yazhou did not think that Huawei Technology had any need for Sugon Technology's technology patents.
After all, one of them is in the communication equipment industry and the other is in the mobile phone and mobile terminal industry. How can both parties need the other's technology patents?
And it is even more difficult to accept the thought of having to use the technology patents accumulated over the years to mutually authorize Sugon Technology.
This is all the hard work Huawei Technology has accumulated for more than 20 years. How can it be possible to mutually license technology patents with others?
Although Lin Chen said that the two sides will not be competitors within two or three years, but what about after two or three years?
At this time, if we mutually authorize technology patents with Sugon Technology, wouldn't it be equivalent to inviting a wolf into the house?
"No, didn't you establish a mobile terminal department led by Mr. Yu Chengxi this year?"
After hearing Lin Chen's words, Ren Zhengfei, Meng Yazhou, and Yu Chengxi all changed their expressions.
Because they officially entered the mobile phone industry this year, they have actually become competitors with Sugon Technology.
At this time, Lin Chen directly pointed out this point. Will the cooperation of chip foundry change because of this?
"Huawei Technology is a company that refuses to settle for the ordinary. Since its inception, it has been keen on investing in technology research and development, and then relies on core technology to defeat many competitors.
But at this time, you have just entered the mobile phone terminal industry, and you have almost no technology in mobile phones. Huawei Mobile is probably just an assembly machine in the past two or three years.
Our company has many core technology patents in the mobile phone industry. We have many unique technology patents in both operating systems and mobile phone chips.
So I thought we could collaborate on this and save you a few years of hard work. "
Hearing Lin Chen's words, Ren Zhengfei and Meng Yazhou frowned, but Yu Chengxi's eyes lit up. He found that this was indeed a good opportunity.
If they really reach a cooperation with Sugon Technology, then Huawei Technology will be able to reach the sky in one step, and it can be said that at least three years of detours will be avoided!
(End of chapter)
