85: Chapter 85 The "Profound" Aspects of Telepathic Communication

"And our performance is 70% better than theirs."

"How much?" He thought he had misheard.

That was right, he must not have woken up properly today; how could Transsion have developed its own communication baseband so quickly, and one that was 70% stronger than Qualcomm's at that...

"The performance is 70% better, the cost is slightly lower, and that's comparing it to their high-end series." Shen Fei repeated, then held up three fingers.

"Power consumption is 30% lower."

Mr. Ren was completely stunned; Transsion had managed to produce something as difficult as a communication baseband. He took another look at Shen Fei.

It really is good to be rich!

How long had it been, and he had already thrown enough money to create a top-tier semiconductor company. Of course, vision was also very important.

He paced around the office a few times, finally stopping in shock, and sat down next to Shen Fei again: "Mr. Shen, are you sure?

The technical threshold for baseband chips is much higher than that of ordinary single-core processors. Globally, only Intel, MediaTek, and Qualcomm can make 3G basebands..."

"Even if you don't believe me, Mr. Ren, you should believe Professor Li. You heard what he said just now. I have no reason to lie to you."

Shen Fei took out his phone and handed the test data that Professor Li Jiahui had just sent to Mr. Ren.

After putting on his glasses, Mr. Ren looked at it carefully; his eyes were filled with disbelief, and his hands began to shake more and more violently.

"This architecture..." He muttered to himself while scrolling through the phone screen. "It's not MediaTek's approach, nor is it Qualcomm's... I don't see anyone's shadow in it. This is a completely new design concept. How did you achieve this?"

"80% of our communication team consists of experts brought in from overseas, along with some... technical materials."

Shen Fei didn't go into too much detail, but Mr. Ren had already guessed the gist of it.

These people were likely poached from NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments, as Huawei had also taken action in this regard. However, when their headhunting team arrived in the United States, they discovered that those excellent engineers had already been snapped up by someone else.

The person behind it was naturally the one in front of him!

"What about patents?" Mr. Ren asked a key question. This was their specialty, and the only area where Huawei could demonstrate its value.

"Baseband chips involve a large number of communication patents, and you can't bypass the patents of Qualcomm, Ericsson, and Nokia. We have some accumulation in 3G communication technology, though not much.

However, Mr. Shen, as for you guys, just go ahead and use them.

Of course, the best way is still to obtain patent licenses from Nokia or Qualcomm, which would allow you to open up broader markets.

After all, you are playing in Africa; if things go wrong, they might still try to annoy you."

"We have patents." Shen Fei directly took out another document and placed it on Mr. Ren's desk.

"Transsion currently holds over 1,000 communication patents, of which more than 60 are core 3G patents, and there are over 20 SEPs (Standard Essential Patents).

There are over 300 core 4G patents, and within these, SEPs account for about 40%; I haven't calculated the exact numbers."

"How many?" Mr. Ren raised his head abruptly, his face filled with astonishment.

"4G patents, over 300 core patents."

It was still 2009, and the 4G standard had only just been established; global manufacturers were all scrambling for patents. Huawei had invested tens of billions in R&D expenses, yet currently held only about 100 core 4G patents, and even fewer that met the SEP standard...

Transsion, a mobile phone maker, where did they get so many 4G patents?

"To be precise, they are 4G LTE patents. If Mr. Ren has any ideas, you can have your team focus on this route. I am very optimistic about it."

This explanation made Mr. Ren even more surprised.

There were currently two main paths for 4G communication, WiMAX and LTE, but everyone was still squabbling over it. China Star had acquired LTE in advance, and was so certain about it...

Could it be... But they are in the communication business; this is their specialty, and even he didn't dare to guarantee it!

"This is the result of our years of R&D, as well as what Huang Tianya snatched up overseas. In the future, it will definitely be able to counter Qualcomm's communication hegemony."

Mr. Ren looked at the patent list and didn't want to talk to this "money-power" player at all.

This kind of cheating behavior seriously disrupted the balance. It would be one thing if they just went around making acquisitions, but the key was that their vision was also very good.

Before the standard was established, they took advantage of the economic crisis to acquire all these standards.

If the LTE standard were indeed established, no matter how much money was spent, it would be a guaranteed profitable business.

Of course, that was assuming LTE became the standard, and not... However, Shen Fei didn't seem to have ever bet wrong. Should he go all-in too?

...

Of course, these patents were all 4G patent packages opened from the Black Technology blind box, and the system had very thoughtfully included complete R&D records, laboratory data, and even draft papers...

They looked very realistic.

As for which laboratory, that wouldn't be mentioned; in any case, they existed.

Of course, Shen Fei was indeed not lying; a small portion of these were patents that Huang Tianya had snatched up from overseas ahead of Apple and Qualcomm.

Currently, Transsion accounts for about 3% of the world's 3G patents and 9.5% of 4G patents!

A proper hidden communication giant!

Mr. Ren looked at the data on the list and didn't want to speak at all; the principles on the list covered many of 4G's core technologies.

OFDMA access, MIMO multi-antenna, carrier aggregation, all-IP core network...

These were all the most important of the important, and many of the patent concepts were very advanced, even involving some key technologies for 5G.

If these patents were real and LTE became the mainstream, then Transsion's say in the 4G era would not be inferior to any communication giant.

"Mr. Shen..." Mr. Ren put down the document in his hand in surprise, then said with a serious face: "With these patents, you probably don't care about our meager offerings.

But that is our attitude; I'll say it again: as long as you can use them, feel free to do so."

This could be considered quite a lot of sincerity. As a leading global communication equipment provider, although Huawei didn't have much of a layout in the 3G era, it still had a patent pool.

Opening them up for free was tantamount to handing over half the empire to Transsion.

"Mr. Ren, this... thank you very much." Shen Fei accepted.

"Don't decline," Mr. Ren waved his hand.

"Now that Transsion has a self-developed baseband and 4G patents, the next mobile SoC will definitely be much faster.

You guys are operating abroad, so you must prevent those patent trolls; this is all our blood and tears history.

Therefore, Mr. Shen, you must start laying out your strategy as soon as possible, and use every means to complete patent cross-licensing with Nokia and Qualcomm."

Shen Fei didn't make a sound, just nodded silently!

He did have a layout for this, and it was a "getting something for nothing" strategy, making the other party agree to patent cross-licensing... It's just that it was still in the layout stage.

Suddenly, Mr. Ren spoke up: "Start with SEPs (Standard Essential Patents), catch Nokia on a FRAND breach; the success rate in this area is the highest, but it requires early preparation...

I'll have our team discuss it later and see where we can dig some pits for them?"

"Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Ren; we have exactly that intention."

The two shook hands again, an old fox and a "little" fox laughing together.

Nokia had already been served on the dining table.