Chapter 475: Xia Yin Star Calendar 1021 Minor Event

"Hmm..."

Gu Qing fell into deep thought.

Whether it is a technology company or a financial company, the legal department is an extremely important department. It not only requires enough legal elites, but also requires sufficient loyalty from the department staff.

If a lawyer who has a lot of company information is not loyal and has weak professional ability, he is likely to be bribed or set up by the other party, and then the loss is likely to be more than a little financial compensation.

Therefore, Jiuzhou Technology has always cultivated loyalty with high salaries and high benefits. For new recruits, it also starts with "small projects" such as ordinary litigation cases or suing water armies, and then cultivates them step by step.

"Talents are not cabbages in the field. Plant them today and eat them in a few dozen days.

Let's do this. Promote another group of people, and still use the model of old leading new.

Whether we sue them or they sue us, we don't need to decide how long the fight will take. In the past, it was the arrogance of Angsa, but in the future, it will be decided by the economic market.

That is to say, they can fight as long as they want. We have more people and more money, so it doesn't matter if we slowly consume them. We will fight until we win completely!"

Gu Qing smiled and said, "We are no longer the small company that was cautiously seeking development in the past. The more core industries we are involved in, the more fierce the opponent's offensive will be.

They are unscrupulous, which shows that they are afraid. The more afraid the enemy is, the more we need to develop.

Developer alliances and comprehensive partners are just auxiliary. Industrial software, independent compilers, and high-precision manufacturing are the core technologies that really scare the enemy.

As the project expands and its influence increases, we will only suffer more and more blows in the future."

Zhou Yi nodded as if listening to a lecture.

He knew that with the boss's words, the company would spend hundreds of millions of Xia yuan to recruit and train new legal department newcomers.

In addition to the increasing number of legal issues, Jiuzhou Technology is not only facing more and more technology giants, but also with the shift of the focus of technology manufacturing and heavy industry, multinational giants and domestic enterprises in Daxia have also made big moves in the past two years.

In the past two years, although Gu Qing has been leading the team to engage in research and development, Xuanwu, as a mature AI, will take the initiative to summarize and analyze the news happening in the world at any time and show it to Gu Qing.

For example, on January 18, Microsoft issued an official statement that it would acquire Activision Blizzard in full cash at a price of US$95 per share. The transaction is worth US$68.7 billion, including Activision Blizzard's net cash.

After the transaction is completed, Microsoft will become the third largest gaming company in the world in terms of revenue, and own the franchise rights of Activision, Blizzard and King Studio and their games, including "World of Warcraft", "Diablo", "Overwatch" and "Call of Duty".

According to Microsoft, the transaction is expected to be completed in fiscal year 1023 of Xia Yinxing calendar.

The shock caused by this major event to the global entertainment and gaming industry is self-evident, but it also allows Gu Qing to see the business opportunities.

Microsoft is obviously acquiring and integrating game entertainment resources, and it is bound to strike hard in the future.

When Microsoft strikes hard, Jiuzhou Technology suddenly comes up with immersive AR/VR games plus neural interactive games. Will it hit Microsoft's game entertainment hard?

Thinking about this, Boss Gu's smile became even bigger. After all, there is really a lot of money to be made from game entertainment. As long as the price of AR devices is lower, those players who "stink at playing games" can afford it.

In addition, in the past few months, with the decline of Facebook, the popularity of the metaverse, the competition between hardware semiconductors, and the dormancy of mobile phone manufacturers, Gu Qing also thought of the "small things" that happened last year.

For example: the settlement between LG Korea and SK Korea, SK is willing to pay LG 2 trillion won in compensation in order to stop the two-year lawsuit, and there will be no related disputes in the next 10 years.

Ericsson and Hanxing reached a global settlement agreement and signed a multi-year global patent licensing agreement between the two companies, which includes a global cross-license for cellular technology-related patents including 5G technology. The cross-license agreement covers the sale of mobile network infrastructure and mobile phones from January 1, 2021. This also marks the end of all pending patent legal disputes between the two parties.

And a few months ago, Nokia reached an agreement with Hanxing to license its video standard innovation patents. Although the two companies did not disclose the specific financial terms of the agreement, Hanxing will pay Nokia patent royalties. According to reports, Nokia's patent portfolio consists of approximately 20,000 patent families, including more than 3,500 5G standard essential patents.

After paying so much effort and money, it is conceivable how fierce Hanxing's next offensive will be.

In addition to Hanxing, OPO and Sharp have also reached a patent cross-licensing agreement and cooperation, which covers the global patent licenses required for OPPO and Sharp terminal products to implement communication technology standards. Subsequently, OPO reached a patent licensing agreement with NTT DOCOMO, based on which OPO will obtain a global license for NTT DOCOMO's 3G and 4G communication technology standard essential patents.

And Xia Wei is really taking a big step forward in the automotive field.

Reached a patent licensing agreement with a supplier of the Volkswagen Group. The agreement includes Xia Wei's 4G standard essential patent license, covering Volkswagen cars equipped with wireless connectivity. It is also the largest licensing agreement Huawei has reached in the automotive field to date.

In addition to the licensing agreement with Volkswagen, Xia Wei also reached a patent licensing agreement with Japanese company Buffalo Inc. two months ago, covering the essential patents for the Wi-Fi 6 standard.

Of course, in addition to these big moves, Daxia Enterprises also encountered the "same treatment" as Jiuzhou Technology during this period.

A few days ago, the International Trade Commission voted to initiate a 337 investigation into certain active-matrix OLED display devices and their components, and Beijing Beifang was "unfortunately" involved in the case.

Foreign company InterDigital announced that the company has filed patent infringement lawsuits against OPO, Yijia and realme in Great Britain, India and Germany. The patents involved include 3G, 4G, 5G and HEVC standard-related patents, and all lawsuits require injunctions.

From hardware foundation to core information technology, domestic and foreign companies have never stopped in the past two years.

However, in Gu Qing's view, Jiuzhou Technology is taking the path of semiconductor hardware research and development, the bottom layer of technology, and will only face more resistance, not less.

After all, patent licensing can only be regarded as business dealings, while bottom-level basic research and development is an act of digging people's lifeblood.

Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

AS-ML's headquarters is located here.

As a leading provider of comprehensive key equipment to complex integrated circuit manufacturers around the world, AS-ML's stocks are listed in Amsterdam and New York. Due to the major moves in the semiconductor industry in Daxia during this period, its stock price has also fluctuated.