This period was the most comfortable and pleasant period after Miller entered Wang'an's computer. He was indeed a little confused about the scientific research strategic direction of high-tech companies. But now, Jing Jian determines the strategic direction, Miller is responsible for grasping costs and efficiency, and this is the area he is best at.

Most of Wang'an's laboratory has been jointly acquired by IBM, Microsoft and other companies for $320 million. The general comments from the outside world are that Yi Kai was sold at a low price. Especially the researchers in the laboratory were poached by the outside world, or they felt that they had no future to change jobs. There were more than 1,200 people in total, which made many authoritative people comment that Yi Kai will be in a slump in the field of high-tech in the future.

By the way, none of them were Yi Kai taking the initiative to lay off employees, but there was a shortage of computer researchers. Other companies waved their checkbooks and unscrupulously came to Yi Kai to poach.

However, Miller doesn't think so about such a loss of talent. He feels that he can take the opportunity to streamline personnel and save a lot of money. Especially many of the original scientific research projects were too bloated, and they were completely greedy and full, and it was really unnecessary. On the contrary, three major research departments have been formed, and the remaining scientific researchers are completely enough, and they can concentrate their efforts to unify public relations.

Although Yikai's three major strategies have not been implemented for a long time, they have achieved results. In the latest quarterly report, Yikai implemented its first main business profit in recent years. You should know that this relies entirely on main business income, not through non-main business income such as selling buildings and factories. Although this profit is only tens of thousands of dollars, it has already bodes well. In fact, this achievement is achieved entirely on the last month through the sale of several cheap general-purpose PC products of Yikai.

Therefore, Miller is already ambitious. He has raised his PC sales target next year to $300 million in sales. You should know that Yikai has almost all patents and does not need to pay any patent fees to the outside world, and has almost all spare parts factories. In this way, even if the price is 10% lower than in the market, it can guarantee gross profit of more than 50%.

In my heart, Miller was a little strange. At that time, Wang An and his son had so many good cards and were determined to pursue technological leadership, which made the company die. And Jing Jian lowered the standards and made some "inconspicuous" products, and they became prosperous? Sometimes Miller would also doubt, why did high-tech companies not pursue technology anymore?

Of course, Miller would never be so superficial. He understood that being able to point out the most suitable products for the company requires a very keen eye. After all, the survival and growth of the company requires entrepreneurs, not scientists. Therefore, on these days, Miller has become increasingly admired by Jing Jian.

Those technical supervisors were a little complicated. In their eyes, the Yikai series PCs were like works by elementary school students. The other two strategic projects were not the core projects of computers, and they were simply on the evil path.

But on the other hand, these technical supervisors have a lot of feelings for Wang An Computer. After all, they have created glory with Mr. Wang An. Therefore, as a famous representative of the Internet in the computer IT industry, Jing Jian took over Wang An Computer, and they all welcomed them. But why, Jing Jian not only did not support the research of cutting-edge technologies, but instead went to "get the wrong way" in a wrong way?

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Everyone in the room had their own thoughts, and Miller began to introduce Jing Jian to the situation these days: "Branbull, we have proposed to Philips, hoping to get their patented technologies related to storage CDs and joint development of the latest game consoles. According to your requirements, we hope to share the patents and exchange some of our patents for Philips."

Jing Jian nodded, it was indeed this principle. Since the three major strategic projects were determined, Yikai had many patents but were useless, and at most it was used to pay for some patent usage. Philips had many patents. Whether it was buying at a high price or spending high patent usage fees in the future, it was not cost-effective. It was better for both parties to exchange and get their needs.

"Is there any problem?" Jing Jian asked.

Miller nodded: "Philips is willing to exchange those patents, but the asking price is too high. They want our sixteen patents to store CDs. The others are nothing, but the valuation of three patents is basically equivalent to those CD patents. Perhaps Philips already knows that we have a strategic transformation, so he took advantage of the situation to rob the Lion and speak out."

"For the game console project, Philips is not willing to cooperate with it, and it seems that they are not optimistic about the project. Therefore, they hope to exchange their patent rights for cash or equivalent patents. In short, their attitude does not seem to be very positive."

"So that's how it is?" Jing Jian understood what Miller meant. Perhaps he knew that Yi Kai had something to ask for, Philips seemed very arrogant.

However, what makes Jing Jian a headache is that Yikai really wants Philips. Perhaps people now think that DVD technology is nothing more than a new storage technology, similar to 3.5-inch disks, but they don’t know that the real market of this technology is not in computers, but in the use of multimedia such as movies, music, games, etc.

Philips and SONY have completely formed a standard monopoly in this technology, which is a monopoly that is more powerful than patent monopoly. It can be said that patents cannot be broken or bypassed. Because of this, Yikai is determined to win these patents.

While weighing Philips' conditions in his mind, Jing Jian suddenly heard someone ask: "Boss, I have a question. The conditions offered by Philips are simply an insult. In fact, it can be seen that they have no sincerity at all and want to make us retreat. Why should we continue such meaningless negotiations?"

"Oh?" Jing Jian found out that the question was Sayahu, the manager of Yikai's technical department, and was immediately inspired. Maybe this is true. Philips has no sincerity. If he retreated from difficulties, they would not lose anything. If he really agreed according to their conditions, Philips might as well accept the gift of a "snatcher".

However, Sayahu had questions, and looking at the expressions of several other technical supervisors, it seemed that he supported Sayahu's statement, so Jing Jian decided to first unify his internal thoughts.

"Dr., I wonder what you think about the company's latest strategic projects?"
Chapter completed!