Chapter 179: Complex War

1991 was a year of comprehensive breakthroughs in the history of MSI Technology Group, and a series of breakthroughs were dazzling.

Needless to say, the achievements in microprocessor and integrated circuit manufacturing in the first half of the year were not idle in July. First, anycall Telecommunications Company authorized ZTE and Huawei to build China's first Chinese paging system in Shenzhen, and at the same time, anycall launched China's first Hanxian pager. This greatly enhanced the amount of paging information and was more practical. People can send text messages to the paged person through the pager station, so that the owner of the pager does not have to reply one by one, and the information is transmitted faster.

At this time, the country gradually relaxed the paging industry, and the craze for the public to hold paging stations began at this time. The future retail bosses of the communications industry made their first pot of gold from then on. Anycall Telecom took the form of low-price authorization for the paging system, strengthening the strength of ZTE and Huawei, and changing the history of these two companies. Correspondingly, anycall Telecom also made a lot of money through digital pagers. Once the Chinese character pager was listed, it was also popular in the market. People who owned a Han display machine always showed off in front of others intentionally or unintentionally. Those who already have "big brothers" did not forget to have one in their backs, claiming to be "no one is not a lot."

"Where are you? What are you doing?" These simple questions began to appear frequently, and many people began to be insincere. Starting from the pager equipment, people's integrity was constantly being questioned. Using pager is of course to make people find themselves anytime and anywhere. Of course, to show off is another matter. Some people always deliberately call their pager. In this case, some people began to be insincere. Similarly, the problems in the mobile phone era may be able to find the source in the pager era.

While Hanxian pagers greatly facilitate people's work and life, their expensive prices are also shocking. Even though they have appeared on the market for a long time, the price of Chinese character pagers is still high. Li Siming sometimes thinks that even if they sell computer chips, they may not be as profitable as selling Hanxian pagers, which is simply huge profits. In the early days, pagers bosses could only sell thousands of digital machines to regain the initial cost of building the station.

Anycall Telecom has no reason not to make this money. In the early stages of the transformation of China's economic market, as long as you seize the opportunity and do not make mistakes, you can soar to the sky and achieve the future. Obviously, because of Li Siming's existence, Anycall Telecom's road is going smoothly. While producing pagers, it is actually strengthening its own brand. Therefore, Motorola, which entered China very early, felt danger. In the era of digital machines, its share was quickly eroded by Anycall. In addition, the local company's geographical and people, first used price as a weapon, and then used fashionable shapes to conduct market penetration. Motorola had to be vigilant. Now anycall launched the first Hanxian pager with independent intellectual property rights, which occupied the position of the first brand in the market. The proud Motorola also hurriedly launched its own Hanxian pager, but the market has already recognized the brand of anycall.

"Technology communicates with you and me!" This is the slogan of anycall. Since the first communication device of an individual, most Chinese people have developed the habit of using this communication brand.

But in Li Siming's eyes, pagers are just transitional products for an ordinary person, and will eventually be replaced. There is never a much greater breakthrough in CDMA by the Central Research Institute.

As early as June 1989, MSI Central Research Institute conducted the first CDMA test in Shenzhen. The State Science and Technology Commission, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, together with relevant departments, jointly reviewed the test. The results proved that CDMA is used for cellular mobile communications, and it was theoretically deduced that it is 20 times the AMP capacity. This exciting result was not taken seriously, because people only focused on the development of China's political situation at that time. However, with the disclosure of more information, CDMA soon became a hot topic around the world. In the following years, Anycall Telecommunications Company verified the two key technologies of power control and soft switching, proving the advancedness and feasibility of this technology.

On July 1, 1991, anycall Telecom, a subsidiary of MSI Group, announced that the company had been authorized by China to draft relevant standards as the national standard for China's second-generation mobile communications. At the same time, the company will establish domestic communication equipment partners to jointly develop China's second-generation mobile communications industry. This means that Li Siming has now found an organization and has become the backbone of the organization. After several years of operation, his allies have covered all aspects from state administrative agencies, state-owned enterprises to private enterprises. Monopoly? Perhaps in the future, someone will raise this point out of fair competition or red eye disease, and try every means to find some competitors for Li Siming, but the future is only the future.

Li Siming has changed history because MSI is one step ahead and he spared no effort to invest and work hard. In terms of international patent technology related to CDMA, MSI or AnyCall Telecom account for 85% of the patents, while Qualcomm, a rare company in history that can be among the advanced companies with only patent fees, only grasps the remaining 15%. Qualcomm has been aiming at every step of MSI, but relatively speaking, it started a year or two later, allowing MSI to seize the opportunity. They are very depressed because MSI is always one step ahead and always one step ahead of them in patent applications.

If you can't become a leader, then you will become a leader's collaborator. Making the market cake bigger and making a little more profit is the best choice for Qualcomm. When seeing that China first planned to use CDMA as the next generation of mobile communication standards in the world, Qualcomm's boss Owen Jacques could not sit still, and he hurriedly sent his eldest son Paul Jacques to Shenzhen, China.

As soon as Paul arrived in Shenzhen, he asked to meet Li Siming, not Zeng Zhi, the company's nominal boss. Now almost everyone knows that Li Siming is the real boss. One of the results is that there are occasional offensive people within MSI, who offended Li Siming, and they are very upset and begin to express their repentance to Li Daban in various ways. Li Siming smiled and passed by.

"Mr. Li, I'm very happy to see you!" Paul showed great enthusiasm as soon as he saw Li Siming and complimented, "Your movie is my favorite!"

Li Siming smiled slightly because it was difficult for him to tell whether this Paul really liked or pretended to like his movies. He just thought it was just a polite word.

"Mr. Jacques, I am also very happy to see you! You have come from afar, I wonder if I have anything to serve you?" Li Siming said.

"Mr. Li, our Qualcomm has always been committed to the research and development of CDMA systems, and has mastered a large number of patents, has strong technological strength, a group of very great talented engineers, and we also have strong financial strength. After the decision of the board of directors, we want to sell our patents to your company!" Paul said.

This doctoral in electronics and electrical engineering said that his company was so great and arrogant, and paved the way for such a prelude, but in the end he said he would sell his patent to him. Li Siming didn't believe it at all, and no one believed it.

"If what you say represents your company's board of directors, then I can of course offer a price that satisfies you. But is this possible?" Li Siming expressed doubts. His joking eyes made the other party feel as if he had done something wrong.

"Thank you for your confession! Of course, I'm just an intention." Paul shrugged, "If we can join hands, then things are better?"

"Tell me, what can I get?" Li Siming refused to comment.

Paul was very entertained when he watched it.

"Li, you see, now internationally, especially Europeans, are busy with the GSM system." Paul, whether intentionally or unintentionally, automatically called "Mr.", which seemed to bring the distance closer. "Only our two companies are engaged in CDMA, and the patents are in the hands of both of us. As long as we work together, strengthen cooperation, jointly draft a set of standards, and strive to become one of the world's standards, the benefits will be huge! As stakeholders, we Qualcomm will give up challenging your company's leadership."

Li Siming also thought so. Not only did Qualcomm master some patents, they are still very powerful. If they cooperate with them, there is another advantage that MSI or anycall Telecom will no longer fight independently, and it is more likely that the International Telecommunications Union standardization department, a subsidiary organization of the International Telecommunications Union, will establish the CDMA standard as a world standard, so that CDMA will be more international, not just Chinese standards. Those foreign forces always deliberately or unintentionally suppress China's efforts in high-tech, especially standards.

Qualcomm wants to gain anycall's strong position in China, and hopes that this technology will be commercialized as soon as possible and can get a share of the pie. Anycall's use of Qualcomm to achieve internationalization of standards and achieve greater benefits. If the United States also adopts this standard and adds China, it will be an extremely attractive market. Li Siming has seen a lot of money waving to him.

The two sides immediately started negotiations and were supported by relevant Chinese departments. Qualcomm successfully got a piece of the pie, but became an affiliate of anycall telecommunications and had to dance with Li Siming. Soon, representatives of both sides announced in Hong Kong that they formed a standard drafting committee with the standard name "is-91", which is still a long-term job because this technology is becoming practical and commercialized. Later, in order to increase the interest of global wireless operators in CDMA, the two sides invested US$100 million in proportion to demonstration systems around the world, established a mobile phone department and a base station department to manufacture a full set of CDMA equipment, and invited operators around the world to prove that "CDMA can make calls, high-speed mobile will not be disconnected, and the capacity is 3 to 6 times larger than GSM". Until the end, both sides were busy counting money and spending money cycles every day.

The public opinion war between MSI and Intel is in full swing and is very lively. Although Intel plays at home, it is obvious that the "harmony of people" is challenged. Because people always have sympathy for the weak out of some consciousness, and it seems unreasonable for the strong not to suffer any losses. If a billionaire sues a poor person, even if the poor lose the lawsuit, they will get sympathy from others. Billionaires are not discriminated and are usually called "wealthy rich and unkind". The truth of the fact is not too much. This may be caused by jealousy.

MSI Semiconductor Company has made a lot of money as a budget, and has made trouble in the United States through the media, dressed up as a child who was "bullied by adults" and fanned the flames everywhere. For its own purposes, in addition to illegal activities, they tried everything they could. Although it did not shake the status of Intel, it won respect. In addition, the tacit cooperation of Amd Company made it very exciting.

Intel is not willing to be outdone, and uses its influence on the US government to try to exaggerate the US high-tech industry is at its survival:

"MSI semiconductor company is a robber. They have already planned to fund a large number of Chinese people studying in prestigious universities in the United States since 1981, learning American high-tech, stealing American wisdom, and then taking it for themselves. This is a very dangerous sign. If the US government does not take action, the Chinese will master all our high-tech. And those American universities desperately recruit international students from Communist China for money. This is a terrible event. There are signs that at least one-tenth of these Chinese people are technology spies, infiltrating American academic institutions and stealing the latest technology unscrupulously!"

Of course, this is not Intel's own statement, it's just being exploited. This is an article published in a newspaper with a very background. Once published, anti-China forces took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire and exaggerate it. It seems that Chinese students are all spies. Among them, political factors are the most important factors.

Since the second half of 1989, Congress proposed a series of bills to sanction China. If these bills become law, it would be a major regression in Sino-US relations. Even so, although the Bush administration (Sr. Bush) implemented some sanctions against China, he rejected Congress' legislative actions, maintained his dominance in China's policy, and avoided the major decline in Sino-US relations. This is probably a routine act of any US government until China joined WTO. After the legislative action was setback, Congress used the annual review of China's most-favored-nation treatment as their main weapon to influence China's policy. This was not only a major dispute between China and the United States, but also between the Republican government of the United States and the Democratic-controlled Congress.

During Bush's administration, the Democrats were basically bystanders of American foreign policy. They witnessed the victory of the Gulf War and Bush fought a beautiful battle. On the issue of the most-favored-nation treatment of China, they saw a rare and good opportunity to challenge Bush's foreign policy and put the president in a difficult situation.

A Democratic congressman named Pelosi sent a letter to members of Congress in March 1990 asking them to participate in a "China Working Group" on opposing Bush's policy toward China. At their first meeting, 30 Democrats and 11 Republicans decided to make the veto of China's most favorable treatment as their primary task. Previously, since the US Congress first approved China's most favorable treatment in 1980, the annual review of the US Congress was nothing more than a routine and there was little debate. Please note that the so-called "most-favored-nation treatment" is not a favorable treatment.

In 1990, the US Congress proposed to conditionally extend China's most-favored-nation treatment for one year, accompanied by four amendments. Because of the Gulf crisis, Americans needed the cooperation of Chinese people and at least did not exercise the veto power of the UN Security Council, and the proposal was left unresolved. In 1991, the economic and trade relations between China and the United States had actually gradually returned to normal, but because the 1992 election approached, the dispute over China's most-favored-nation treatment status resurrected and the struggle became more intense. Some American political groups put pressure on the government to thoroughly investigate MSI's technical sources, otherwise further measures would be taken. A stone of shock caused a thousand waves, which not only caused a strong rebound from the majority of Chinese students, but also caused strong protests from the Chinese government, threatening that once Americans take investigative actions or trade sanctions, China will take revenge.

Therefore, the so-called "infringement" incident of MSI gave anti-China elements or could not be called anti-China elements, to attack others and strengthen themselves, to expose MSI to a political color and make the problems between China and the United States more complicated.

In fact, in May 1989 and April 1990, US Trade Representative Hills included China on the "key observation list" in the special Article 301 annual review report. The United States launched a 301 investigation into China since May 1991. China and the United States had held several rounds of negotiations on market access and intellectual property issues. Both sides threatened to list a list of retaliation. The trade war was about to break out, and MSI's "infringement" incident became one of the focus. The name of MSI repeatedly appeared in the negotiation documents of both sides. This was something Li Siming did not expect, but Li Siming was not worried at all.

"We are a big family and a big business. We are originally a pauper. We have to give up. Who is afraid of whom?" Li Siming said.

MSI's public relations activities have been upgraded, not only portraying itself as a "political victim", but also promoting Li Siming's personal image ingeniousness. The scene when Li Siming was personally awarded a commemorative medal by President Reagan was broadcast again and again on major American TV stations. If you don't know, you think Li Siming traveled through time and space to help the Americans win a world war. Li Siming, who has no good impression of reporters, has also taken the initiative to accept interviews from foreign media again and again and again, and broadcast it on American TV stations, talking about the friendship between China and the United States, how important the normal trade relations between China and the United States are, and how much respect he respects the American people.

MSI also hired US public relations companies to carry out a series of off-hospital activities, lobbying various political and economic groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and the US-China National Trade Commission. Because once the incident is allowed to escalate, or simply cancel the most-favored-nation treatment to China, it will have serious consequences: 70% of the goods exported by China to the United States in 1989 were re-exported through Hong Kong, so the Hong Kong economy, including American companies in Hong Kong, will undoubtedly suffer a heavy blow; 60% of the goods exported by China's United States are produced in South China, which is the backbone of China's reforms. This was originally the force that some Americans think should support the most, but now it may suffer a blow by the abolition of the most-favored-nation treatment; it will also lose the US's competitiveness in the world.

Uniting all forces that can be united and forming a united front is the magic weapon to defeat all enemies. Li Siming deeply agrees that this is only part of Li Siming's war.

A business war with a lot of political colors, including news, public opinion, and psychological warfare, was staged in the United States, but MSI semiconductor has not yet exported a CPU to the United States. However, MSI's series of measures were extremely skillful, and seemed to be born as a master, which made observers dazzled and taught everyone a good lesson. Li Siming and MSI, including their later compatriots, also got some inspiration from it. Li Siming successfully established the image of a fighter who was not afraid of the market and technological power for his company. This preconceived view made some foreigners buy MSI's products with a try-through mentality, thus opening up the market gap.

This war lasted for several years until MSI achieved its final victory, but it also paid a huge price. However, during this period, Intel's chips did not appear in China, except for a small amount of smuggling - the reason for the small amount was that users were afraid of being called traitors by the Chinese, and they did not dare to say that they had a "foreign core".

As the commercial war became increasingly fierce, on July 20, 1991, Li Siming came to Hong Kong again, and he was about to attend a charity auction with rich people from Hong Kong.
Chapter completed!