Vol 6 Chapter 855: Retreat

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Charlie Kidd called Cummins, his voice was exhausted, "They haven't settled yet,"

Cummins was stunned. Two hours have passed since you met. You haven't convinced Intel yet?

Dude, you are the Wintel Alliance, and the Wintel Alliance, which has been dominating the high-tech industry for decades, is now actually cooperating in such a direction that is not the core. Can you not agree?

Between you, is this not even a friendship?

Cummingston was also a little anxious at the time. If Intel joins hands with Apple, they will definitely not have any chance of winning.

"You know, Intel really cares about Apple adopting their CPU," Charlie Kidd said, "especially if Apple intends to develop its own chips,"

Cummins thought for a while, "You arrange it and I will meet them."

Putting down the phone, he couldn't help but cursed, it was all a mess.

To say, Intel should really cherish the relationship with Apple, because their current cooperation with Apple is not easy to come by.

The grievances between Apple and Intel, of course, have a lot to do with the strong and individual Jobs.

Speaking of which, Robert Noyce, one of the founders of Old Joe and Intel, the man who can be called the father of Silicon Valley, intersects and even regards him as his life mentor.

But the relationship between him and Intel’s other founder, Andy Grove, is pretty bad. The reason is also very common. It’s the kind of me back then, you love to ignore me, and now I , You can't afford to climb the clichés.

It was in the early days of Apple's founding that Jobs hoped to get a preferential price from Intel, but Apple at the time was nothing but a small thing. In business, Andy Grove simply rejected Jobs' proposal.

What kind of person is Jobs?

What he disgusted most was being looked down upon, so he hated Intel from then on.

Later, when Intel and Microsoft formed the Wintel Alliance, he pulled his own chip supplier Motorola-yes, Motorola was also a microprocessor giant, and the blue giant IBM, and established a rivalry AMIPowerPC alliance. .

Since 1995, Apple has been using PowerPC chips developed by this alliance until 2004, after Motorola separated its semiconductor business, it withdrew from the alliance, leading to the end of the alliance.

After that, in June 2005, Jobs finally invited Intel to the stage at the press conference, announcing that Apple would use Intel chips from then on, that is, since then, Apple’s laptops have been renamed to the familiar MacBook-before they were called PowerBook. .

Apple, which has become the most well-known brand of electronic fast-moving consumer goods, certainly deserves Intel's efforts to cooperate.

So, where is our advantage?

This is a question that Cummins is constantly thinking about along the way.

Advantages, it seems that there are not many, after all, ARM is currently Intel's most powerful competitor.

When Microsoft's friendship is useless, it seems more difficult for me to convince Intel.

He walked into the agreed cigar bar with a straight face. After seeing Kidal sitting on the large sofa and Intel’s vice president Brian Kezaiqi, he simply greeted him and said directly, "Nobody is curious. I know that between you and me, there is currently quite fierce competition in many fields. I want to know, is this the reason why you are unwilling to jointly auction with Microsoft and us?"

Ke Zaiqi smiled while holding a cigar, "Of course not, Cummins, we all know that this is an unavoidable situation. Intel has always welcomed such competition that is beneficial to the development of the entire industry."

Competition, of course, fierce?

We want to be fierce, but in the mobile field, we are still difficult to get involved. As for other fields, whether it is a PC or a server, you want to be fierce, but do you have the ability?

Cummins suddenly felt that this Intel vice president, who always looked like a very tired, really had the potential to become a CEO. These idioms are really slippery.

"That's good, we all know that when a company develops to become an absolute leader in the industry like Intel, it will inevitably encounter challenges frequently," he gave a small applause.

"We have always adhered to this principle. When competition is inevitable, we should be more active in cooperation with each other. I think Intel should have a very clear understanding of this. We will release the latest version soon. Android will fully support Intel's x86 architecture chips,"

Whether this is a release of goodwill or a faint threat depends on how the other party reads it.

Ke Zaiqi smiled and raised his glass, "We very much welcome and thank Andrews for its efforts to this end,"

"In this case, I don't understand, why didn't Intel choose to join hands with us?" Cummins asked.

Ke Zai curiously said, "I'm not happy to let me wait, what kind of conditions Apple offers me?"

"Could it be said that Intel hopes to join forces with Apple, and at least 5 companies over there to distribute Nortel's 6000 patents?"

"These up to 1,000 patents are worth Intel's effort?"

"It's hard to have 1,000 items," Charlie Kidd also helped promptly, "Apple will definitely want to hold at least one-third to one-half, and if we join hands, there will be at least 2,000 patents."

Ke Zaiqi, who had been drinking red wine in his glass, stopped. He raised his head and looked at the overhead chandelier, "This is a problem."

He lowered his head and said, "Well, you persuaded me to join me," he held out his hand.

Cummins immediately felt that something was wrong.

I said, you guy, I'm afraid that you decided to join hands with us long ago, but you have to wait for me to say a few soft words?

He didn't bother to care about this for a while, "We have to discuss tomorrow's strategy now, I think, is it so..."

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Nortel Chief Strategy Officer George Riddle still looked at the last two parties very happily, "Welcome everyone again, I think, shall we start?"

His attitude is very popular with the only two parties. For these 6000 patents, everyone has stayed in Toronto long enough.

Yesterday’s last quote was Cummins, and today it is of course Apple’s turn to bid first, "$3.3 billion," Jeff Williams said lightly.

It seems that he is not too concerned about Intel joining the Android and Microsoft alliance.

Riddle was a little disappointed with this offer. Everyone knows that Apple is the strongest and holds the most cash, but their bids have always been so mediocre and they have never been surprising.

Can't you directly raise it to 3.5 billion US dollars?

But he knows that US$3.5 billion should not be a problem, because Intel has just joined ~www.wuxiaspot.com~, so the Android side has to increase the price at least once, and according to their habit, a one-time increase of US$200 million is really trivial. .

He looked over expectantly and saw Cummins and Charlie Kidd both beckoning to Intel’s Brian Ke to be surprised, oh, this is for new members to offer.

Ke Zaiqi smiled, and very calmly quoted a price, "4 billion U.S. dollars,"

Riddle was taken aback first, followed by ecstasy, $4 billion!

This is $4 billion?

At this moment, he wants to draw a cross on his chest, Father, Son and Holy Spirit!

At this moment, he really wanted to hug Cummins and them, and kiss them fiercely.

Cummins and the others stared at Apple with a smile. What do you do, add it or not?

"I'll make a call," Jeff Williams stood up.

Riddle's eyes suddenly brightened, there is a door, it seems that it is likely that more than 4 billion dollars.

He kept looking at his watch, hoping that Williams could bring better news as soon as possible. Also, Apple should always be a strong one.

And Cummins and the others, the smiles on their faces at this time are gradually not as relaxed as before. Apple actually wants to increase prices?

Three minutes later, Williams walked back briskly. He didn't even sit down, but stood up and said, "4.5 billion dollars!"

The nervous Riddle couldn't hold back this time, he stood up and applauded, "Welcome to Apple's offer!"

On the other side, Charlie Kidd and Brianke's strange faces were unconcealable and ugly. They looked at Cummins who was silent and immediately said, "We hope to continue after two hours in the afternoon."

10 minutes later, Feng Yiping received a call from Cummins, "Feng, Apple offered 4.5 billion US dollars, and both Microsoft and Intel decided to give up."