"Hello, Mr. Williams, I'm very happy to know you here today." Du Chengyi stretched out his hand and looked at NDK President Williams with a smile.

Williams is a senior engineer from Sun. He has made great contributions to the development of CPUs of various models of Sun's UltraSparc. Unfortunately, with Sun's acquisition, Williams's CPU career reached a trough. He then left Sun and founded the NDK company. Based on his experience in R&D of Risc-type CPUs, he proposed a technology that greatly improved the communication speed between CPUs and memory, and applied for an international patent.

This technology proposed by Williams has been used in recent generations of Arm's CPU architecture. Unfortunately, arm does not rely on its own design to manufacture or sell CPU devices. Instead, it authorizes the processor architecture to interested manufacturers for production and sale, and directly collects the authorization fee.

So when Williams proposed to charge his own patent fees, arm ignored it. Arm said that the design plan he provided only integrates Williams' technology, and the licensing fee they obtained was only his own technical income, not including Williams' fees. Therefore, Williams should go to the manufacturer that produces and sells CPUs.

However, Williams found manufacturers of the type of CPUs, whether it was Samsung, TI, Qualcomm, and none of them would pay attention to Williams. They claimed that they had obtained a legal production and sales authorization agreement from Arm. Therefore, in the disputes over the design plan, Mr. Williams asked Arm to negotiate. Each company really showed Williams the authorization terms for the use of the arm integration plan.

As a startup, Williams' NDK company is not very rich. According to the information of the consulting company, NDK assets are around 78 million US dollars. In this case, Williams is unable to launch a comprehensive patent attack on these manufacturers who use it.

Don't forget that patent litigation is one of the most expensive litigation on the planet, and each case costs at least $5 million to have a certain result. So Mr. Williams was really worried about choosing a litigation object.

If you choose Arm, it seems that you are looking for the right person, but Arm's integration solution can indeed change the authorization terms at any time and exclude Williams' patented technology from the charging range. In this case, even if Williams spends all his money to win the lawsuit, he may not be able to receive money.

When looking for manufacturers, they may kick the ball to upstream designers at any time. In short, it is very likely that Williams will not receive any financial compensation after he has accumulated his life.

So these litigation targets are not good ones. After choosing, Williams fell in love with Apple. On the one hand, because Apple is rich and it is enough for Williams to eat for a lifetime. In addition, Apple also used the integrated design plan of Arm, and entrusts others to process it, and then uses these chips by itself.

In other words, Apple is basically complete in production, manufacturing, sales and use. In terms of infringement, Apple accounts for the vast majority. In this way, Williams made up his mind to target Apple and filed a lawsuit against ITC, demanding ITC rule that Apple infringed on his patent and compensated him for his huge losses.

According to Apple's sales of iPhone and iPad, sales of over 100 billion US dollars each year can be clearly checked. If ITC determines that Apple infringes on its rights, Williams' loss is really easy to prove. After all, Apple uses the number of CPUs it commissioned to produce is there.

Will first shirked the upstream arm against Williams' patent lawsuit like all CPU manufacturers. Seeing that ITC had a tendency toward NDK, Will instructed the lawyers to contact Williams and filed a request to buy out the patent technology.

Will's previous limit was $50 million. According to his understanding, Williams should be very satisfied. This is a lot of money. The previous negotiation team followed this instruction and first proposed a buyout of $10 million, but Williams flatly refused.

Just kidding, now ITC is about to start to decide that it has won. At this critical moment, is 10 million US dollars a waste of beggars? Williams' confidence has increased so much that he directly made a request of 500 million US dollars.

Compared with Apple's current sales of more than $100 billion on iPads and iPhones, Williams thinks the asking price is not high.

But Will felt that Williams was crazy and directly instructed the team in front to start procrastination tactics.

It was like this that Du Chengyi came to Williams through a consulting company.

"Hello, you are the Mr. Jeff that John mentioned. Lucky! Lucky!" Williams politely held Du Chengyi's hand. When Du Chengyi was an executive of a foreign company, he gave a very popular English name, which was Jeff.

Williams actually knew what Du Chengyi came from through the consulting company. Similarly, Du Chengyi was very clear about Williams' current situation.

"Okay, Mr. Williams, Jeff, you already know each other now, so how about the rest of the matters you two will discuss?" After completing the matchmaking work, the consultant politely proposed to avoid it. Next, there must be some bargaining between Williams and Du Chengyi.

These words are not suitable for you to hear. The consultant understands his position and what he should do very well.

"Thank you, Philip. I'll treat you to a big meal later." Du Chengyi warmly greeted consultant Philip.

When only Williams and Du Chengyi were left in the room, the two of them chose a brief silence at the same time.

Although Williams knew Du Chengyi's purpose, he still had some doubts in his heart. The young man in his thirties was too young for him. Since the other party represented an unknown investment company, Williams was very worried about whether the company had enough payment capabilities.

Perhaps feeling Williams' suspicion, Du Chengyi found a document from his bag after being silent for a while. Then he handed it to Mr. Williams, "Mr. Williams, in order to show my sincerity, please look at this document." Du Chengyi said with a smile.
Chapter completed!