Chapter 998 Talent

San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides, which is a typical marine climate. When you go out in the morning, it is like in the early spring season in China. Wearing a single coat, a thin velvet coat plus a slightly thick outer thickness is enough.

The artificial lake in front of the Art Palace is as green as jade. From time to time, a few snow-white swans swim by, and their slender long necks draw a graceful curve on the water surface. Mandarin ducks, ducks, and ganese are noisy to find food and choose a mate here. Benches that can lie down and green grass are everywhere by the water. Under the warm winter sun, Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing sit here for half a day.

Zhang Ke didn't like to go to any city and browse the attractions of the city quickly. After that, he had no deep impression. He would rather sit on the grassy grass in front of the Palace of Art for a long time, looking at the Roman-style round machine with rose-red Corinthian stone pillars, and the art palace with a convex ring-shaped fine relief on the top - a landmark attraction in San Francisco. Zhai Danqing's head rested on Zhang Ke's thighs, and his body curled up on the grass, with a more comfortable expression. Zhang Ke took his eyes back from the beautiful dome of the Palace of Art and landed on Zhai Danqing's lazy face, his beautiful and noble face as swan, and his pure and flawless passionate eyes as beautiful jade made people fascinated. She was wearing a loose, dark gray jacket, covering her charming and sexy figure.

"Okay," Zhang Ke reached out and patted Zhai Danqing's broken cheeks, "They are still waiting for us to come over for lunch!"

Walking out of the square in front of the Palace of Art, the car was waiting outside the square, and getting into the car, heading towards San Francisco's famous Pier 39. Pier 39 is probably the most joyful place in San Francisco. It was originally a port where Italian fishermen go fishing, and it produces delicious seafood. Today, in addition to seafood stalls, it is also crowded with museums, shops, galleries, antique shops, restaurants, shopping centers, souvenir shops, as well as tourists. Standing at the intersection, you can see the harbor filled with white masts in the distance.

In a seafood restaurant at Pier 39.

"The North American company's reply letter to RIAA's lawyer has been drafted. Do you want to take a look?" Xiao Jincheng asked Zhang Ke.

"It doesn't matter whether I look at it or not. You just need to feel that your tone is tough enough."

"This lawsuit seems inevitable." Xiao Jincheng smiled.

Unlike other companies that weakly choose to compromise and reconcile, they would rather spend huge lawyer litigation fees to go to court. It takes some courage to go to court with RIAA, the largest audio and video giant in the United States, but it does not have any benefits. Regardless of whether the lawsuit is defeated or won, it is extremely beneficial to be able to go to court with RIAA, the largest audio and video giant in the United States and even the entire European and American region, which is of great benefit to improving Ida's reputation in North America. In addition, Kumho has the world's largest genuine music sales website. Even if the lawsuit is defeated, at most it is stricter to restrict piracy restrictions in the product, and it is unlikely that the product will be banned in North America. At this time, what you need to consider may be the issue of huge litigation costs. The more lingering the lawsuit, the more beneficial it is to Kimho, and the expenses may be transferred from the $40 million marketing budget.

The electronics industry involves extremely complicated patents. No electronics company dares to announce that there is absolutely no part of its products that coincide with other companies' patent technologies. Sometimes it is just a clever way to do patent examinations and is not meticulous enough.

There are endless examples of suppressing competitive companies using intellectual copyright disputes. This is the first one that Kumho has encountered at present, but it is definitely not the last one. The focus of patent disputes is almost focused on the European and American markets. To gain a firm foothold in the European and American markets, responding or responding is the only correct choice. Sometimes you can counterattack complaining about infringement by others. Of course, the Kumho patent pool must be large enough to be qualified to set patent traps for others.

Zhang Ke asked Meng Le again how Xi Ruolin felt when she visited North American companies in the morning.

"Before I started working, I felt some pressure after visiting," Meng Le said with a smile. "I thought the United States was a flower world. I only worked five days a week and only worked six hours a day. If I had a little understanding, it was not the case at all. If I slacked off here, I would be eliminated tomorrow!"

"Haha, someone has done statistics. In 1998, the average salary in Silicon Valley was US$96,000, which was 100 times the average income of employees in Jianye towns. In 1999, it could reach about US$100,000. How could it be without pressure to get such a high salary?" Zhang Ke said with a smile.

"One hundred thousand dollars," Xi Ruolin sighed lightly, "We have obtained those shares in Chuangyu Company. Everyone feels that they have made a fortune. After walking out, they really feel that the world outside is much wider - how many high-tech talents are there in Silicon Valley?"

"There are almost one million scientific researchers," said Cheng Hanzhang, "and they are all elites from all countries. For example, half of the graduates from Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology and Dongda University will come out sooner or later. This is where they mainly flow to..." Cheng Hanzhang is a Taiwanese and has always called the mainland mainland; the same is true for Xiao Jincheng.

"Whoever works here will feel pressure. You two should experience it well." Zhang Ke patted Meng Le's shoulder and said with a smile.

"How many people in Jianye still hope to work in Jinhu!" Xi Ruolin said with a smile again, "Who could have thought that the gap was so big!"

"in the country, Kumho's salary is pretty good, so you don't have to be ashamed of it." Zhang Ke said.

The annual salary of scientific researchers recruited by Oak Park in China is generally around 100,000 yuan, which is an absolutely high salary in Jianye in 1999. The housing prices in the central area of ​​Jianye are only more than 2,000 yuan per square meter. The difference in price is almost one-half to one-third of the average salary in the United States. The gap is not as big as imagined.

The scale of the oak garden envisioned by Zhang Ke must be maintained at about 20,000 scientific researchers to ensure that Kumho has the ability to develop the most complete technical system to ensure that Kumho has a firm foothold in the consumer electronics industry.

Some basic technological breakthroughs are easier, but subsequent research and development are complicated, and the scientific researchers who need to be invested are increasing in geometric ways. Now the scale of scientific researchers in Oak Park exceeds 2,000, which seems to be basically enough, but soon you will feel short of manpower. Kumho initially developed the first DVD player, only Su Jindong, Chen Xinsheng and others were created. At this time, there were fifty full-time scientific researchers in the audio-visual laboratory, and many basic research on audio-visual technology belongs to the Taite Optoelectronics Technology Research Institute and Oak Park Experimental Park. Now, every time Kumho acquires a patented technology outside, someone needs to follow up. Some technologies are more complicated, and even a research team needs to do follow-up digestion and follow-up research, which requires a large number of scientific researchers to invest their energy.

This is also the key to the difficulty of domestic companies that are good at fighting price wars to establish in-depth scientific research systems. Even if the scale of Oak Park is at this time, the annual salary cost of Kumho is as high as 400 million. To truly reach the scale of 20,000 scientific researchers, a salary alone will be invested 300 billion yuan a year. With the market advantages established by the price war, how can the meager profits obtained pay such high labor costs for scientific research? The company needs to have excellent profitability to support a deep scientific research system. In turn, this system will continue to enhance the profitability of the company.

Unless you have the confidence to monopolize the market, don’t fight price wars easily. Continuous product innovation is the competitiveness that is worth relying on.

Even if Kumho invests a lot of money every year to develop and strengthen the Oak Park R&D system, it is difficult to hire a large number of middle and senior scientific researchers from Silicon Valley to return to China with capital strength this time. However, the professional quality of domestic scientific researchers is greatly insufficient compared to Silicon Valley. Kumho's approach is to recruit middle and senior scientific researchers from Silicon Valley and around the world to return to China for high salaries, and establish a skeleton of the R&D system based on these backbones, and then recruit a large number of basic scientific researchers from China to subsidize. In addition, a strict and multi-channel training system has not only been established, but also a training mechanism within the Oak Park, but also a

Academic exchanges between Oak Park and Tsukuba Experimental Base and the Silicon Valley ESS Experimental Base, and also established joint laboratories with companies such as Deyi and Scope, and conducted technical exchanges with advanced high-tech companies through joint laboratories. For Tokai University, universities that can be said to directly input outstanding graduates to Kumho, Kumho not only jointly established a dual-tutor system with these universities to provide a better platform for the cultivation of professional talents, but also directly sponsored a large amount of funds and instruments to improve the professional teaching and academic level of these universities. This donation to build a library can also be said to be part of the work.

This time, Zhang Ke came to San Francisco. In addition to inspecting the work here, he mainly recruited talents and recruited talents with extremely shortage of future development directions in Kumho, such as Geoff Goodfellow, an authoritative expert in the field of mobile email technology.

When the seafood meal was delivered, Zhang Ke asked Cheng Hanzhang about the progress of contact with Geoff Goodfellow.

"I have had many contacts with Geoff Goodfellow before," said Cheng Hanzhang. "He still wants us to fund his company rather than acquire his company..."

"He may be the earliest inventor and the most authoritative expert in the field of mobile email technology, but he did not apply for patents for his early inventions. He registered a large number of patents for NTP and Visto. The most important thing for him and his company is to make the final deployment of patents, rather than rushing to commercialize mobile email services - of course, even if he can register one or two patents at this time, the competition with NTP and Visto is at an absolute disadvantage. Let us acquire it, for him, the most suitable way out."
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