Chapter 320: Killing Three Scholars with One Peach

Dongling Gao Ke had made some restrictions in advance on domestic companies like UTStarcom, Bird, and BBK that were allowed to produce Little Smart.

They were allowed to sell Little Smart produced by UTStarcom, Bird, BBK, and other companies in the country, but wanting to sell them abroad required Dongling Gao Ke's consent!

Dongling Gao Ke kept a close eye on this point. There were many companies producing Little Smart. At most, they would roll inward in the country and fight a price war, which would also benefit domestic users. Dongling Gao Ke could accept this as cultivating the domestic mobile phone market.

But if, because of rolling inward and fighting a price war, the overseas mobile phone market was also messed up, benefiting overseas markets like Japan, Siam, Malaysia, and Brazil, Dongling Gao Ke wouldn't be willing!

However, the news coming from overseas about Little Smart finally gave domestic Little Smart manufacturers hope. If they could export overseas one day, they would be earning foreign exchange!

Companies that could earn foreign exchange were the top existence in the industry in the country now. They could get large loans from banks, enjoy tax rebate policies, and be cultivated as key companies by local municipal governments. Which company didn't want such treatment!

Two major events in the domestic tech industry were related to Dongling Gao Ke. The first was Little Smart getting a large order overseas.

And the second event was that Dongling Gao Ke, the company that invented the Shenzhou USB flash drive, publicly announced that it would only license the USB flash drive patent to five companies worldwide!

That is, in the future, worldwide, for the twenty years of the USB flash drive patent held by Dongling Gao Ke, plus Dongling Gao Ke itself, only five companies were allowed to produce USB flash drive products.

As soon as this news came out, the tech industry was almost in an uproar. Not only in the country, but even those companies overseas that were eager to move toward USB flash drives were hit on the head.

Although Dongling Gao Ke gave the reason that it was for the healthy development of the USB flash drive industry, to avoid the flooding of shoddy USB flash drives, and to provide users with USB flash drives with higher technical content, etc., but in the tech industry, who couldn't see that Dongling Gao Ke was uniting with four other companies to form an alliance to eat the USB flash drive bonus, not letting other companies touch this industry.

As soon as the news came out, domestic companies like Luwen Yipan, Acer, Patriot, and Lenovo, which were working overtime to copy the Shenzhou USB flash drive, hadn't spoken yet, but a group of companies overseas like SanDisk, Jin Shidun, Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, Hebrew Systems, and Trek from Singapore exploded.

Dongling Gao Ke's move was clearly trying to cut off their opportunity to enter the USB flash drive industry to eat the bonus. How could these companies be willing to be reconciled!

The President of SanDisk directly bombarded Dongling Gao Ke in the media, "Dongling Gao Ke is completely using its patent advantage in the USB flash drive industry to want to monopolize the entire USB flash drive industry!"

"We must launch a collective lawsuit against Dongling Gao Ke. I think Hebrew, America, Europe, and other places should all launch anti-monopoly investigations against the Shenzhou USB flash drive, or even prohibit Dongling Gao Ke from selling the Shenzhou USB flash drive in these regions!"

Hebrew Systems company was even more naked, directly releasing wind through Hebrew and American media that they should directly take action against Dongling Gao Ke.

The rest of the companies, especially small and medium-sized storage manufacturers, were constantly clamoring and noisy, threatening to sue Dongling Gao Ke for anti-monopoly, etc. These small and medium-sized storage manufacturers understood that if there were only five companies worldwide that could produce USB flash drives, then it was definitely the giant companies that could get the opportunity, and it wouldn't be their turn to take advantage.

But regardless of how the companies in the storage industry reacted, Dongling Gao Ke soon announced the companies willing to license the USB flash drive patent.

Previously, PNY company took away a quota to produce USB flash drives from Dongling Gao Ke. Dongling Gao Ke itself occupied one quota, and only three quotas were left!

And Dongling Gao Ke subsequently announced that it would license the third USB flash drive patent quota to the old American tech giant IBM!

Dongling Gao Ke announced that as long as

Dongling High-Tech subsequently announced that it would authorize the third quota for U-disk patents to the veteran American tech giant IBM!

Dongling High-Tech announced that as long as IBM wants to produce U-disks and is willing to reach a corresponding agreement with Dongling High-Tech, it can produce them.

Honestly, when IBM heard this news, it was taken aback. It hadn't expected Dongling High-Tech to give this quota to it.

But IBM reacted quickly. Although it didn't know what conditions Dongling wanted, it soon announced its willingness to develop the U-disk industry with Dongling High-Tech and swiftly sent its mainland executives to contact Dongling High-Tech.

Although IBM is a century-old giant company and is indeed arrogant, this doesn't mean IBM would be arrogant toward dollars delivered to its doorstep, especially since the current IBM CEO, Guo Shina, attaches great importance to the mainland market.

Everyone knows that the future of U-disks will be a lucrative market. Now that Dongling High-Tech has restricted production to only five companies, as long as one secures a quota, one can lie back and make money in the future. Earning hundreds of millions or even over a billion dollars a year is not difficult at all; how could IBM possibly give that up!

After IBM, Dongling High-Tech unexpectedly gave the fourth U-disk quota to the European OEM giant Antarctic, no, wait, it was the Philips Group!

The current Philips Group is not yet that OEM giant nicknamed the "European version of Antarctic"; it still has its own operations, especially in the field of medical equipment, where it is quite substantial. Over a decade ago, the predecessor of ASML lithography machines teamed up with Philips and obtained its first pot of gold from Philips, which led to the Philips of today.

In addition, TSMC, which is galloping toward becoming the global king of chip foundry, was also cultivated by Philips. In the early stages, Philips used patents, technology, and orders to help TSMC gain a firm foothold.

Besides these two, the predecessor of the future automotive chip giant NXP was Philips' semiconductor division. In terms of R&D strength, to be honest, the Philips of this time kills all its opponents.

If the story ended here, Philips would still be that Royal Philips, the pearl on the crown of European technology, holding ASML, TSMC, and NXP. Then, in the future history of global technology, Philips would definitely have a place. Even if it did OEM, the OEM fee would be damn well more expensive than other brands.

But it was this very Philips that, in later generations, started playing the OEM game, and it was even more exaggerated than Antarctic. From electrical appliances to skincare products, and then to mobile phones, dash cams, etc., there was no brand Philips dared not slap its name on.

That person in the "Pan-Ga" friendship sold Philips mobile phones and raked in 28 million in one night. It's just unclear what kind of experience those buyers who ordered after drinking Ga's fake liquor had when they bought those "big brand" Philips phones.

The reason Dongling High-Tech gave the fourth U-disk quota to Philips was naturally to leverage Philips' influence and strength in Europe to protect the revenue of Shenzhou U-disks in Europe.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse, not to mention that Philips hasn't cooled down yet. With Philips stepping in, those brands that dare to produce U-disks without Dongling High-Tech's authorization won't be able to sell them in Europe.

Choosing IBM had the same meaning. If there were only PNY, it might not be able to guard the U-disk patents in North America, but adding the old rogue of the tech industry, the notoriously disruptive IBM, it would be a completely different story.

As a veteran of the tech industry, there's no scene IBM hasn't seen. Dealing with ordinary counterfeit U-disk manufacturers is a piece of cake.

Bringing IBM and Philips on board, besides the fact that they can help Dongling High-Tech guard the U-disk patents in its hands from being infringed upon by certain companies with ulterior motives, Dongling High-Tech's choice to cooperate with these two is actually the same as choosing PNY.

They all want to obtain hard drive technology and patents from IBM and Philips. IBM is the first company in the world to experiment with solid-state drives, and its technical reserves in this area are quite rich.

Philips is an expert in semiconductors. If it can get help from Philips, then Dongling High-Tech's chances of developing solid-state drives will naturally be much greater!

There are not a few companies that can see through Dongling High-Tech's strategy; after all, this is almost an open hand. If it were just Dongling High-Tech alone, that bunch of companies like SanDisk wouldn't be afraid of infringing on Dongling High-Tech's U-disk patents at all.

It's just a mainland Asian company; even if they infringe, so what? What can Dongling High-Tech do to them? What's the plan? Dongling High-Tech sues them one by one; even if it wins the lawsuit, it would at most get a few million or ten million dollars in compensation, and then they could continue selling U-disks. Compared to the profits from selling U-disks, that little fine is simply painless.

But when Dongling High-Tech brings in a host of companies like PNY, IBM, and Philips, the situation is different. With the four of them joining forces, it's definitely enough to make any company suffer. By then, it won't be as simple as just paying a fine; who knows, they might not be able to sell a single U-disk they produce in America, North America, or Europe!

By this time, the bunch of companies like SanDisk, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, and Jin Shidun couldn't care about cursing Dongling High-Tech anymore, because there was only one U-disk quota left. If they couldn't grab the quota, they would be shut out of the U-disk industry!

Dongling High-Tech didn't need to do anything else. For this last U-disk quota, a bunch of memory companies started infighting directly. Which of these companies would be willing to hand over a business that would yield over a billion dollars or even more in annual revenue in the future?

For a time, the bunch of companies like SanDisk and Toshiba, which had been cursing Dongling High-Tech fiercely, sent people rushing to Hanxi, wanting to grab the last U-disk quota. The anti-Dongling High-Tech alliance hadn't even been formed before it disintegrated due to infighting, just like a pack of cowards!

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"Dongling High-Tech doesn't want to become the Dayu Company of Hanxi?"

In Pingyang, Hanxi, Zhou Weikun, the IBM mainland president who had come to the Dongling High-Tech headquarters, asked Li Dongling curiously, while also sizing up the founder of this rising tech star company in the mainland, and even in Asia.

(End of chapter)