Global monopoly of technology

On the eighth day when Luo Sheng came to Japan, the two parties finally reached an important consensus. Sony's board of directors met frequently in the past few days to discuss and finally decided to sell the Cell business to the Côte d'Azur.

Concessions were also made on the price, Sony quoted 2.188 billion US dollars.

Luo Sheng could actually accept the price, but he still bargained with the other party. During the last negotiation, the two sides negotiated for about three and a half hours, and finally reached the company on the acquisition price.

$1.685 billion!

At the same time, Sony’s precondition for accepting this price needs to propose an additional condition, that is, the PS3 game console currently supported by the Cell chip. The Riviera does not share the profit of Cell, otherwise Sony’s PS3 game console will lose 350 US dollars for each sale. Because the R&D costs are evenly spread and become higher.

Luo Sheng agreed with this "very reluctantly". In fact, the Cell processor was not worth a few dollars in his eyes. After buying it, he had to completely re-architect it from the bottom.

After the two parties completed the initialing, Luo Sheng also set off to return home.

It will take about a month to complete the M&A transaction at the earliest, or even two to three months, but it's basically confirmed.

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On the third day, the Côte d'Azur CEO's office.

"Mr. Luo, our company will spend 1.685 billion US dollars to acquire the complete Cell business of Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. I am afraid that the funds may not be enough. We need to find a bank loan." Yao Jianhong said as he entered the office.

This time it is different from the past. It is to start its own chip from the underlying architecture, and it is a very ambitious plan to subvert Intel's x86 rule and end the dark age of "toothpaste factory".

And it's completely different from Azure-X mobile phones. Although its AP processor is designed by Bluestar Technology, it still uses Qualcomm's authorized technology, and the baseband is still Qualcomm. However, in terms of Qualcomm baseband alternatives, Huawei is also The communication baseband has been struck hard, and the R&D funds invested have been rising year by year.

And this time the Côte d’Azur opens up a new business, the investment is undoubtedly an astronomical figure, and the investment of more than one billion US dollars is only a start.Only to serve the company's highly confidential [ACC] plan, the follow-up investment is the bulk, and the scale of burning money is calculated by billions of dollars.

The business of the Blue Coast company is now relatively single, and the main source of income is the Azure series of smartphones and the two major income sectors of the AOS application store.

Counting from the first generation of the Azure series of mobile phones, the total sales so far is 26.89 million units, the total sales are 18.7 billion U.S. dollars, and the revenue of the AOS application store has exceeded 1.5 billion U.S. dollars.

This report card is not the results of the Côte d’Azur in 2008, but the total results created by the company from its inception to today. This year's performance has not yet been calculated, and there is still more than a month left in 2008.

There is no doubt that this is a very impressive result, but the company's profit is only about 8%.

Because the money earned was spent by Luo Sheng on R&D investment, the Côte d’Azur has no foundation. To have enough technology precipitation, a large amount of R&D investment is required. The company has now launched two new hardware projects.

One is the research and development of the next generation of Azure mobile phones, and the other is the [ACC] plan that intends to penetrate the hinterland of the Intel Kingdom.

The huge R&D investment is evenly spread, and the profit is of course low.

The Côte d'Azur is in great need of primitive accumulation of technology.

"Don't worry about funding. If the bank does not lend to the company, I will personally lend money to the company."

Hearing Luo Sheng’s words, Yao Jianhong had no doubts. By following some of his news reports, he knew that he had sold the shares of Bluestar Technology several times in the past few years and cashed in more than 5 billion US dollars.

This money is on the surface, and Luo Sheng can use it in a high-profile manner.

But in fact, in less than a year, the US$5 billion has become more than US$48 billion through gambling on the North American housing market. Just take about 10% from it. The other funds are for As long as possible, I was exposed to be short in the North American housing market, and it took some complicated operations to apply.

Luo Sheng added: "The funding problem is the second, and we should recruit talents in Japan as soon as possible, and start the construction of R&D centers as soon as possible."

Yao Jianhong nodded: "Understood!"

After explaining the matter, he also left Luo Sheng's office.

Using the other party’s talents for your own use can not only strengthen yourself, but also stifle potential competitors from the cradle. Since Japanese companies have given up on smartphones and mobile Internet, they want to pick up such things again. Up.

Even if Japanese companies like Sony set foot in the smartphone industry, they will only become a niche, and they have no right to speak in this industry.

Luo Sheng stayed in his office for a while and went to the Blue Coast Laboratory. In the afternoon, he presided over a meeting of the technical department. Bai Lang, Lu Siming, Li Chunsheng and others were all listed.

After a series of tempering, they are now qualified for the position of product manager. Their subordinates are leading at least two development projects, and the size of the engineer team directly managed is more than 100 people.

“This time the company’s acquisition of Sony’s Cell business and the establishment of a R&D center in Japan are great opportunities.” Luo Sheng said to the attending technical executives: “Our country has too few engineers, and excellent engineers are even scarce. , Don’t just dig corners, grab both hands, and both hands must be hard. Therefore, we also need to find talented young engineers from within to train them."

After a pause, Luo Sheng added: “There are still one to two months to end this year. I decided to officially start next year and start preparations at the end of this year. We will constantly select outstanding young engineers from the company every year, especially He is a young engineer with a pioneering spirit. He is supported to send him to study abroad, to the R&D center we established in Yokohama, Japan, and the outstanding engineers in Japan, to the R&D center in Austin, Texas, and the outstanding engineers in the United States."

Of course, Luo Sheng is not stupid. The company's funding and sending a large number of employees abroad for further study is not driven by emotion.

Instead, they have to sign a contract and a competition agreement. After further studies, they can’t leave or change jobs right away after studying. They must stay in the company for at least eight years. After the lock-up period expires, the employee can decide to stay.

Otherwise, if the company spends a lot of time, manpower, material resources, and financial resources to carefully cultivate a talent, but after completing the study, it does not contribute any value to the company, and directly resigns or changes jobs, or even competes with the parent company. Wouldn't it become the "Huangpu Military Academy in the IT industry", and he even shot himself in the foot.

Although the treatment of the Cote d'Azur company is in line with international standards and is at the top level in the world, the company is in a period of rapid growth, and the company itself is a huge stage for displaying personal talents, and the probability of changing jobs or going it alone is rare.

Rare does not mean there is no, there are.

Therefore, one code goes to one code, and none of the signing agreements can be saved. This is a manifestation of being responsible to both parties. Having a layer of contractual guarantee can eliminate the potential trust crisis between each other.

The issue of talents is the key issue that Luo Sheng always cares about here. The domestic relevant talent base is too small, there are fewer outstanding talents, and a large number of outstanding talents are going abroad.

No matter how genius Luo Sheng is, he is ultimately a person, and his energy is limited, but his career is unlimited. As his career continues to rise, the plates of the two companies are getting bigger and bigger.

Today, the total number of employees of Bluestar Technology Group in the world has exceeded the 70,000 mark, and the Blue Coast Company has also exceeded the 30,000 mark.

Luo Sheng needs all kinds of talents, scientific research talents, management talents, legal talents, sales talents, etc. can gather under his command so that he can steer the two giant ships smoothly.

Foreign talents must find ways to hire them for their own use with high salaries, and at the same time actively cultivate talents internally, send them out for further studies, and then return to feed the company.

The internal trainer drew up the company's funding for employees to go abroad for further studies, and Luo Sheng made a decisive decision.

This is a win-win situation, and it did not take too long. A week later, this matter was made public within the Riviera company.

The company has decided to spend 1 billion yuan in budgetary expenditure next year for launching an internal talent training program and subsidizing its employees to study abroad.

The scale of budget expenditure is determined according to the company's development needs and actual conditions, but not surprisingly, it will be added year by year as the company grows.

Suddenly aroused great repercussions from the employee group, especially for some young research-oriented talents, who can obtain the opportunity of a second further study, which is undoubtedly a personal sublimation.

The point is that the company is funded.

The employees of Bluestar Technology Group saw the news broke out "next door" and began to discuss it. It is obviously impossible to say that they are not envied. The employees of Bluestar Technology are also the elites in the industry, and the better The more people know that backwardness will be eliminated by the times.

Whether it is the Blue Coast or Bluestar Technology Group, there are internal anonymous employee community forums. Anonymity is to encourage employees to express their opinions in the editorial forum to promote the improvement and perfection of the company in all aspects.

If it is a real name, everyone is afraid of offending the leader, so they dare not tell the truth.

After the news from the next door came, the anonymous community forums of Bluestar Technology also began to discuss, and one after another petitioned the ultimate boss Luo Sheng, hoping that Bluestar Technology could also launch such a welfare system.

In fact, they are too anxious, but they can understand their feelings.

Of course, Luo Sheng will not forget that he is still the boss and creator of Bluestar Technology. The palms and backs of the hands are all fleshy. Of course, he will not favor one another, and Bluestar Technology also faces the problem of lack of talent.

No one, of course not without good people.

The day after the announcement on the Blue Coast, Bluestar Technology Group also issued an announcement within the team. Starting next year, the group company will also spend 1.2 billion yuan in internal talent training programs to fund its employees to go abroad for further studies.

The standard is the same as that of the Côte d’Azur, but all employees of the company can submit a written application, which needs to be double cross-checked by the relevant departments of the company and all the qualifications can be obtained. At the same time, there is a hard indicator for applicants. In principle, it is necessary to satisfy three years of service.

But at the same time, exceptions are allowed. Employees less than three years of service have the same chance to get the qualifications, but this requires the approval of the President’s Office.

Outside of this regulation, some talented people are taken into consideration, and given them a better environment, they can grow faster than ordinary people and contribute more.

The news quickly spread from inside the company to the outside world, arousing great attention in the industry and society.

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