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But all good things come in a long way.

As long as VIA is willing to sell its baseband business, it will be easy to negotiate.

It doesn't even matter if the baseband business is not sold, as long as you are willing to transfer the basic CDMA patents in your hands, that is enough.

This is what Wang Yi needs most.

If you don’t want to pay royalties for other patents, you can avoid them.

But these basic CDMA patents are the type that no one can avoid.

As long as he has these basic CDMA patents, Wang Yi has the qualifications to compete with Qualcomm.

Chen Chuanqing talked for two days and laid the groundwork.

Wang Yi will go there tomorrow. As long as the price is right, he should be able to win it directly.

As for what the other party wants, Wang Yi thinks that it is most likely to seek cooperation.

Such as agency.

After all, VIA is not in a good situation right now and is anxious to find a way out.

The original VIA had unlimited glory.

Especially the chipset business, at its peak, the global market share accounted for more than 50%.

Intel and AMD processors use chipsets produced by VIA Electronics.

It can be said that in the 1990s, VIA had no rivals at all.

It also acquired Imperial PC Chip Company and began producing computer CPUs.

But it is a pity that the trees that are beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind.

With VIA's brilliant performance, Intel was not so enthused as usual, and decisively began to sue VIA.

Since 1999, Intel has initiated patent lawsuits against VIA in many countries, suing VIA for infringing on many of its patents.

VIA did not dare to show weakness and quickly launched a counter-suit.

This patent litigation battle has been going on for many years, with both sides winning or losing.

It was not until 2003 that the two parties reconciled.

But unfortunately, in the past few years, Intel has had a huge business. With its terrifying capital base, its influence has been limited, but it has continued to grow.

On the other hand, VIA was sued when it was at its most glorious, which led to a decline in credibility and crazy customer chargebacks.

The market share of VIA chipsets has also dropped from its peak of 70% to 20%.

The setback in the chipset business did not defeat the boss of VIA King, but instead started a crazy expansion.

In addition to VIA Electronics' chipsets, VIA Group's business includes more than 30 companies including HTC, Quanda, Jianda, Dopod, Weihong, and Weihan.

From chip design, to PC, mobile phone, tablet production, manufacturing, sales, agency... everything!

The scope of business is so broad that even Intel and Apple shook their heads when they saw it.

But it's a pity that it covers everything, but it doesn't cover everything.

After 2000, the semiconductor industry entered the high-end stage and began to compete with technology and patents.

This is not an era in the 1990s, when whoever has the lowest cost will have the market.

As a result, VIA Group's business continued to suffer setbacks and it suffered losses year after year.

Only HTC is left to dominate, reaching its peak in 2011, with a global market share of more than 10%, becoming a competitor to Apple and Samsung.

Without any surprise, Apple started suing again.

Just like Apple sued Meizu in 2009, in 2010 Apple began suing HTC for patent infringement globally.

This has led to HTC in 2011, which seemed brilliant, but has actually begun to decline.

Coupled with HTC's series of suicide attempts, the consequences can be imagined...

As a reborn person, Wang Yike knows that 2011 is HTC’s most glorious year and also its last glorious year.

Since 2012, HTC has continued to decline.

The downhill speed is not much worse than that of Nokia and Motorola.

The outside world doesn't know about this, they only see HTC's current glory.

But HTC’s boss, I’m afraid he has a clear conscience and has already seen HTC’s shortcomings.

If Wang Yi were the boss of HTC, he would take advantage of the moment to find a way out and a way out.

This is probably why the boss of VIA asked Wang Yi to talk to him in person.

What the two parties need to negotiate is not just VMware's baseband business and CDMA patents!

These days, even HTC doesn’t pay patent fees.

They are all accused and lost, so they find ways to deal with it.

There is no way, an HTC mobile phone sells for more than 3,000 yuan, there are so many patents involved, and the patent fees charged by the patent owners are very high.

If HTC had paid all of it, I am afraid that for a mobile phone costing more than RMB 3,000, the patent fee would have to be more than 2,000.

Add to this the cost of materials, taxes, and sales costs, and if you don’t earn the last penny, you still have to pay for it.

It can't be fixed at all.

Therefore, everyone sells them directly without paying royalties.

These days, major manufacturers have some patents in their hands, and they all infringe on each other. The difference is just a matter of how much.

Even if Apple or Samsung use each other's patents, they will not pay patent fees.

Even if the defendant is sued, he will immediately launch a patent war, and the other party in the countersuit will also infringe on his patent...

After several years of litigation, they ended up either settling the matter with a loss of money or reaching a settlement and cross-licensing.

Everyone plays like this.

But unfortunately, HTC has too few patents, and they are basically the ones losing money...

This is why Wang Yi started buying VIA's CDMA basic patents before his mobile phone was launched on the market, and then started spending money to acquire LTE (4G) core patents around the world.

Just to build your own patented city wall!

Don't look at the fact that you have to spend a lot of money now, hundreds of millions or even billions.

Basically, all the money Meiyou earns has to be burned.

But the days to come will be easier.

Where there is bitterness there is sweetness.

Now it is spending more than one billion to collect patents. In the future, Xingyi Technology will be a 3G and 4G patent tycoon.

We won't be like VIA and HTC, who are beaten and beaten every day, but have no power to resist...

On the contrary, when he was attacked, Wang Yi also had enough patents to fight back and launch a counter-suit!

However, Xingyi mobile phone has just started and is small, so it is not a big problem.

The focus of Apple and Samsung is still on giants like HTC.

In the next few years, they will continue to be deeply involved in the patent war with HTC, and they will not have the energy to deal with the Xingyi mobile phone in a short time.

In addition, Xingyi Mobile has just started and is small in scale, so it is not worthy of attention.

After killing HTC, a major competitor, the Xingyi mobile phone will become a thorn in their side and a thorn in their flesh.

But at that time, Xingyi Mobile's own patent moat was gradually built!

It can be said that HTC is cannon fodder, attracting the fire of Apple and Samsung, and gaining space and time for development of Xingyi Mobile and the majority of domestic mobile phone manufacturers.

If it were not for HTC, Apple, and Samsung, they would beat up domestic mobile phones as soon as they came up, and Xiaomi would not be able to get up.

After all, the domestically produced Meizu M8 was sued by Steve Jobs and was immediately discontinued...

VIA chipset and HTC have been bombarded continuously, which is just a microcosm.

The core thing is patents and R&D!

Only by investing enough in research and development and building your own patented city wall can you be able to advance, attack, retreat and defend, and remain invincible!

The bitter experience between VIA Electronics and HTC made Wang Yi more determined in patent research and development!

List all the practical patents in the mobile phone industry in previous lives that are impressive and valuable!

Then spend money to recruit relevant experts and talents, invest funds, conduct targeted research and development, and do it all!

In this way, Xingyi Technology can quickly accumulate patents, accumulate core practical patents, and quickly build its own patent moat!

After all, what Wang Yi wants to do is not to hammer HTC into decline, nor does he want to work for Qualcomm.

On the contrary, what Wang Yi wants to do is exist like Apple, Samsung, and Huawei!
To be continued...