Chapter 998

San Francisco is surrounded by water on three sides. It is a typical marine climate. Going out in the morning is like the early spring season in China. Wearing a single coat, thin flannel and a slightly thicker outer thickness is enough.

The artificial lake in front of the art palace is as green as jade. From time to time, several snow-white swans swim across the water. Their slender long necks draw a beautiful arc on the water surface. Mandarin ducks, ducks and gannets in twos and threes are noisy looking for food and partners here. The water is full of benches that can lie down for one person and green grass. Under the warm winter sun, Zhang Ke and Zhai Danqing sit here for half a day.

Zhang Ke doesn't like to go to any city. He hurriedly browses the scenic spots of the city. After that, he has no deep impression. He would rather sit on the grass in front of the art palace for half a day and watch the art palace of San Francisco, the Roman circular machine with rose Corinthian stone columns and ring-shaped fine relief on the top, Zhai Danqing was lying on the grass with his head on Zhang Ke's thigh and his body slightly curled up, looking more comfortable. Zhang Ke took her eyes back from the magnificent dome of the art palace and landed on Zhai Danqing's lazy face. People were fascinated by her beautiful and noble face like a swan and her pure and flawless amorous eyes like a jade. She wore a loose, dark gray coat to cover her charming and sexy body.

"Well," Zhang Ke reached out and patted Zhai Danqing's broken cheek. "They're still waiting for us to catch up for lunch!"

Out of the square in front of the art palace, the car is waiting outside the square. Get in the car and drive towards the famous 39 pier in San Francisco. Pier 39 is probably the most joyful place in San Francisco. It was originally a port for Italian fishermen to go fishing. It is rich in delicious seafood. Today, in addition to seafood stalls, it is also returned to museums, shops, galleries, antique shops, restaurants Shopping malls, souvenir shops and tourists are crowded. Standing at the corner, you can see the white masts in the distance crowded with the harbor.

In a seafood restaurant at Pier 39.

"The lawyer's reply from the North American company to RIAA has been drawn up. Would you like to have a look?" Xiao Jincheng asked Zhang Ke.

"It doesn't matter whether I look or not. You should think your tone is tough enough."

"This lawsuit seems inevitable." Xiao Jincheng smiled.

Unlike other companies that choose to compromise and compromise, they prefer to spend huge legal fees to go to court. It takes some courage to go to court with RIAA, the largest audio-visual giant in the United States, but it is not all without benefits. No matter whether the lawsuit is lost or won, they can go to court with RIAA, the largest audio-visual giant in the United States and even in Europe and America, In addition, Jinhu owns the world's largest genuine music sales website. Even if the lawsuit is lost, it is unlikely that the products will be banned in North America. At this time, we may have to consider the issue of huge litigation costs. The more the lawsuit is fought, the more favorable it may be to Jinhu. The costs may be moved out of the $40 million marketing budget.

The electronic industry involves extremely complicated patents. No electronic company dares to announce that there is absolutely no part of its products that coincides with the patented technologies of other companies. Sometimes it is just Qiaohe who does not do enough detail in patent examination.

There are endless examples of suppressing competitive companies by means of intellectual copyright disputes. This is the first time Jinhu has encountered at present, but it is definitely not the last. The focus of patent disputes is almost concentrated in the European and American markets. If you want to gain a foothold in the European and American markets, responding or fighting is the only correct choice. Sometimes you can also fight back and complain about other people's infringement. Of course, We also need the Jinhu patent pool to be large enough to be qualified to set a patent trap for others.

Zhang Ke asked Meng le and Xi Ruolin how they felt about visiting the North American company in the morning.

"Before I started working, I felt some pressure after visiting," Meng Le said with a smile. "I thought the United States is a flower world. I only work five days a week and six hours a day. If I know a little, that's not the case at all. If I relax here, I may be eliminated tomorrow!"

"Hehe, some people have made statistics. In 1998, the per capita salary in Silicon Valley was US $96000, 100 times the average income of urban employees in Jianye. It could reach US $100000 in 1999. How can there be no pressure to get such a high salary?" Zhang Ke said with a smile.

"One hundred thousand dollars," Xi Ruolin sighed lightly. "We got those shares in Chuangyu company. Everyone felt that we had made a lot of money. We really felt that the world outside was much broader - how many high-tech talents are there in Silicon Valley?"

"There are almost one million researchers," said Cheng Hanzhang, "and they are elites from all over the world. Half of the graduates from Tsinghua, University of science and technology, Beijing University of technology and East University in the mainland will come out sooner or later. This is where they mainly flow..." Cheng Hanzhang is from Taiwan and has always called the mainland to the mainland; So is Xiao Jincheng.

"Anyone who works here will feel pressure. You two should have a good experience." Zhang Ke patted mengle on the shoulder and said with a smile.

"How many people in Jianye expect to work in Jinhu!" Xi Ruolin said with a smile, "who would have thought the gap is so big!"

"At home, Jinhu's salary is OK, so there's no need to be modest," Zhang Ke said.

The annual salary of scientific researchers recruited by Oak Park in China is generally about 100000 yuan, which is an absolute high salary in Jianye in 1999. The house price in the central area of Jianye is only more than 2000 per square meter. After discounting the price difference, it is almost half to one-third of the average salary in the United States. The gap is not as big as expected.

Zhang Ke's envisioned Oak Park scale should be maintained at almost 20000 scientific researchers to ensure that Jinhu has the ability to develop * * and complete technical system to ensure that Jinhu has a firm foothold in the consumer electronics industry.

Some basic technological breakthroughs are easier, but the follow-up R & D is complicated, and the number of scientific researchers who need to invest increases exponentially. At present, Oak Park has more than 2000 scientific researchers, which seems to be basically enough, but it will soon feel that there is a shortage of manpower. At first, Jinhu developed the first DVD player, which only needs a few people, such as Su Jindong and Chen Xinsheng. At this time, there are 50 full-time scientific researchers in the audio-visual laboratory, In addition, many basic research on audio-visual technology belong to Tete Photoelectric Technology Research Institute and oak garden experimental park. Now, every time Jinhu acquires a patented technology outside, someone needs to follow up. Some technologies are more complex, and even a research group 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 for domestic enterprises that are good at fighting price war to establish an in-depth scientific research system - even if the oak garden is at this time, the salary cost invested by Jinhu is as high as 400 million a year. If it really wants to reach the scale of 20000 scientific researchers, salary alone will cost 3.4 billion a year. With the market advantage established by the price war, how can the meager profits pay such a high cost of scientific research manpower? Enterprises need excellent profitability to support an in-depth scientific research system. In turn, this system will continue to enhance the profitability of enterprises.

Unless you have the grasp of monopolizing the market, you must never easily fight a price war. Continuous product innovation is the competitiveness that is worth relying on.

Even though Jinhu invests a lot of money to develop and expand the Oak Park R & D system every year, it is difficult to hire a large number of middle and senior scientific researchers from Silicon Valley to return home. However, the professional quality of domestic scientific researchers is much less than that of Silicon Valley. Jinhu's practice is to hire middle and senior scientific researchers from Silicon Valley and around the world with high salary, set up the framework of R & D system based on these backbones, and then recruit a large number of basic scientific researchers from China. In addition, a strict and multi-channel training system has been established, including not only the internal training mechanism of Oak Park, but also the academic exchange between Oak Park and the production of Tsukuba experimental base and ESS experimental base in Silicon Valley. It has also established joint laboratories with Deyi, scober and other companies to conduct technical exchanges with advanced high-tech companies through joint laboratories. For Donghai University, which can be said to directly import outstanding graduates to Jinhu, Jinhu has not only jointly established a double tutor system with these universities to provide a better platform for the cultivation of professionals, but also directly sponsored a large number of funds and instruments to these universities to improve their professional teaching and academic level, The donation of the library can also be said to be part of the work.

Zhang Ke's visit to San Francisco this time, in addition to inspecting the work here, is mainly to attract talents and talents who are very scarce in the future development direction of Jinhu, such as Geoff Goodfellow, an authoritative expert in the field of mobile e-mail technology.

When the seafood dinner 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 wants us to fund his company instead of acquiring his company..."

"He may be the earliest inventor and the most authoritative expert in the field of mobile e-mail technology, but his early inventions have not applied for patents. A large number of patents have been registered by NTP and Visto. The most important thing for him and his company is to sign the final part of the patent, rather than rush to commercialize the mobile e-mail service - of course, right now If he can get one or two patents back, he is at an absolute disadvantage in competing with NTP and Visto. Let's buy it. It's the most appropriate way for him. "

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