Vol 6 Chapter 854: Humiliated Intel

$3 billion!

George Riddleton was a little overjoyed at the time, for them, this can be said to be an epoch-making figure.

This is also the best affirmation and reward for those who have been holding on after Nortel went bankrupt for so long.

Although it is true, they can even say that the past two years have been easier than before Nortel went bankrupt.

Proud to stick to it is actually staying behind, or it can be said that it is a guard — guarding Nortel’s assets that cannot be quickly processed. They have not had too much KPI pressure in the past two years.

After all, we are all bankrupt, what else can you want us to do better than before?

But now, maybe there is a real chance.

This batch of patents, which originally had a stock price of only US$200 million, has now been auctioned for a full US$3 billion!

Riddle looked at Apple's Jeff Williams happily, thank Apple, thank you!

Thanks also to BlackBerry, our friends, we know that it is because of your joining that Apple suddenly became so radical.

Look good to you!

After that, he looked at Cummins and Charlie Kidd eagerly. You can't refrain from fighting, right?

Especially for Android, you were the first company to purchase our patents. You have no reason to shrink back.

He also looked at Intel with hope, come on, as at the beginning, give us another surprise!

But it seems that I want to surprise Intel, the chip giant, to give them another surprise.

On Intel's side, everyone was black-faced at this time, and they were too lazy to even discuss with each other. This obviously means that there is no more bid.

To put it bluntly, although Intel is also a high-tech giant with the same reputation as Microsoft, but in terms of strength, it is still far behind Apple and Microsoft. In fact, they can't even compare to the NEXTDOOR behind Android.

NEXTDOOR has so many companies, not to mention the others, just one Facebook. As long as it goes public, its market value will definitely be comparable to Intel, which has a market value of only close to 110 billion US dollars.

The key is that Intel, which looked down on smart phones as a "small business" in the past, has seriously fallen behind in the current mobile Internet boom. This is a big problem.

Many well-known business survey institutions have issued reports with roughly the same content. Consumers have shifted their technology expenditures from purchasing PCs to purchasing smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, as well as the long-term economic recession. This year’s global PC The shipment volume will drop significantly.

This is the first decline in PC shipments in so many years.

The bigger problem is that, at least in the next few years, this downward trend is likely to be the norm.

Intel, which used to be rich and powerful, had to tighten its belt when such growth was weak.

But if someone is frustrated, someone must be proud.

ARM, which also dominates the mobile market, can be said to have made rapid progress in the past two years. In those years, Feng Yiping's boasting has been realized one by one. ARM's shipments last year are really as he said, a successful breakthrough. 100 billion units-annual shipments, 109.3 billion units!

This achievement is not only based on many directions listed by Feng Yiping, but also because of ARM's success in many directions outside the mobile field.

Intel's efforts in the mobile field have not caused any splashes, but ARM has achieved remarkable results in Intel's traditional strong field, the PC field.

At the beginning of this year, the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition, CES, many mainstream manufacturers have released netbooks based on ARM chips.

Of course, correspondingly, Microsoft has also launched an operating system for ARM chips, WindowsRT-that is to say, another bully Feng Yiping has also achieved.

Because of the support of our company, processors using ARM chips have also emerged in the market and are attracting more and more attention...

Intel's traditional market is being eroded by ARM step by step, but in the mobile field, there are only some achievements on paper.

This is mainly because Intel’s Atom chip for the mobile market is also the smallest in size and power consumption in their history, and it is also the cheapest processor. Compared with the architecture of mobile phone chips, it is really not cheap.

In order to compete with ARM, the price has to be reduced to at least one-tenth, or one-fifteenth of what it is now-this is an impossible task for Intel.

This is why Intel, which was once a high-tech representative like Microsoft, is now only close to 110 billion US dollars in market value.

Intel’s gold-letter sign has faded severely, and it has gradually become a little overwhelming.

Faced with the sudden wildness of Apple and the alliance between Android and Microsoft, for a while, they really had nothing but gritted teeth and hated them.

Riddle immediately focused on Cummins and Charlie Kidd.

This time, Cummins and Charlie Kidd did not discuss, Cummins immediately increased the price without hesitation, "3.141,592,653 US dollars,"

Finally, without the help of an assistant, Riddle knew that this is the pi-you really are on the constant bar.

It's just that, compared to the previous two times, Cummins, who has reported such a good price, is no longer proud, and it doesn't seem too easy.

Riddle knew that this should be gradually approaching their highest price, but hehe, this is a good thing!

Both are 3.1 billion US dollars. Will 3.5 billion US dollars be far behind?

And if it reaches 3.5 billion US dollars, 4 billion US dollars, it is not impossible!

He immediately turned his eager and expectant look to Apple and Blackberry.

At this time, Intel spoke up, "Intel, quit,"

Is this exit? Riddle was helpless.

But he also heard clearly that the Intel representative was helpless.

Think about it too.

When Intel was awe-inspiring, it pulled Microsoft and beat Apple to bankruptcy. As for Android and ARM, Intel really didn’t put them in the eyes two years ago. But now, not only is Microsoft still the leader, it used to be Its defeated Apple also swept away its downturn and became the world's most successful high-tech company.

And the double-A combination of Android and ARM, one after another, put it on the beach.

Only he himself can understand how much humiliation, sadness, and unwillingness contained in the word "quit" he said.

In fact, George Riddle can probably understand their feelings. After all, I think back then, we, Nortel, that had been too wide, but now, it has fallen to the point of selling all the assets.

He couldn't help but look at Cummins, do you have to quote like this?

With billions of dollars, you just reported it in such a non-decent and non-serious manner, it seems that you don't care how much money you have!

Cummins also didn't expect ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to increase the price by himself. At this time, it was not good for Nortel.

As for why they set such a few prices, it is of course not that they are jokes, but they hope that this way of quoting can give others an impression of "we don’t care how much money we have, we just make quotations". Furthermore, It will make opponents feel that Android's patent on Nortel is determined to be won, no matter how much money is spent.

To put it bluntly, their real purpose is to put pressure on their opponents. If they withdraw from the auction because of this, it is naturally the best.

Now, the goal was achieved, but he couldn't relax.

Apple has accepted the BlackBerry alliance, Intel is now withdrawing, then...

He quietly touched Charlie Kidd next to him with his foot. Kidd was taken aback, and when he saw Cummins, he held back what he wanted to say.

Apple's Williams was also looking at them, apparently waiting for them to speak first, but Cummins and the others looked at Riddle in silence.

Riddle: What are you looking at?

He coughed, "So, what do you mean, does the auction continue?"

Cummins waved his hand very freely and resolutely, "Of course continue!"

At this time, it is best not to let the other party see their intentions. If they can make Apple think that they want to exclude Intel and decide the outcome now, it is naturally best.

"We, hope to start the next round of auction tomorrow," said Jeff Williams, Apple's representative, immediately after seeing him say this.

Do you hope to have results today? Then we must disrupt your deployment.

Riddle stood up, "In that case, guys, let's continue tomorrow,"

Cummins touched Charlie Kidd lightly with his foot again, Kidd nodded slightly, and looked at Intel...