The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 230 Patents
Yamada Nono asked eagerly, "Then can you tell us about the floating point computing speed of your latest generation of supercomputers?"

"You are very knowledgeable and you even know the floating point operation speed." Liu Hua said with a smile: "We originally expected it to be 10 billion times per second, but it was a little short, reaching 8 million times per second."

There was an uproar in the whole audience. Those who were sent here to interview the World Wide Web knew a little about computers. As far as they knew, the fastest vector supercomputer in the United States could not calculate more than 500 million times per second.

These issues have all been discussed with Liu Hua's approval. Information about the supercomputer can be disclosed and there is no point in hiding it. There is no point in hiding some things. Show them appropriately so that others will not look down on you.

The press conference lasted more than two hours. Although the example of the old white man was set in the front, the people behind him restrained themselves a little, but it did not mean that they would let Liu Hua go. Their attitude was still aggressive and their questions were just a little lower than that of the old white man.

About a week or two later, the head of the Science Department handed Liu Hua a stack of foreign newspapers and said, "Your press conference was published. Take a look at what they wrote. Are you satisfied?"

Liu Hua didn't even look at them, and said casually: "What kind of satisfaction is that? How can these people say anything good about me? Who knows how they will slander us?"

The leader smiled and said, "Please read the report before you speak. This time the article is quite pertinent. It praises you highly without any slander."

"impossible."

Liu Hua picked up a newspaper, an English newspaper. The first one he read was the New York Times. The front-page headline praised Liu Hua as a semiconductor genius who had built a whole new world system and made great contributions to the integration of the world.

Then there were other newspapers, from the United States, from John, from Gaul, and from Japan. Liu Hua could only understand the English ones, not the French and Japanese ones.

"That's strange." Liu Hua said curiously, "How can they say good things about us? Haven't they always slandered and defamed us in the East?"

"I find it strange, too. I wonder if there is some conspiracy behind this." The leader scratched his head and said, "Anyway, we must be on guard. These people have sores on their heads and pus on their feet. They are extremely bad."

When Liu Hua returned with the newspaper, he suddenly realized why Western newspapers praised him so highly? Why were there no slanderous words?
Big America is now trying to win us over. Their number one enemy is the big Russian bear. Now is the so-called honeymoon period. In order to win us over, Big America even sold us Black Hawk helicopters.

The media is speaking out in cooperation with their government. Big America now needs to show its friendship towards us, so that the newspapers will not make groundless smear campaigns.

However, Liu Hua thought of something deeper. Although he didn't know why the Y-10 aircraft was grounded in the previous life, it was grounded at this point in time. He estimated that it was most likely related to the United States.

Why did the Y-10 fail in the previous life? Besides because it had many problems, it was also because the Americans tricked us into licensing a McDonnell Douglas aircraft for us to produce.

Given that it was very cheap and the aircraft had been tested in practice, we were naturally very happy with it, so we simply stopped the Y-10 project which would cost a lot of money.

Unfortunately, after the Y-909 project was suspended, the Americans kept delaying it. Even if it was licensing technology, they would give us some insignificant things today and some irrelevant things tomorrow. It was delayed until the honeymoon period ended. McDonnell Douglas was gone, and all the agreements were dead without any evidence. We did not get the technical data of the entire aircraft, and the Y- project was disbanded. Mr. Ma also passed away. If we restarted it again, we did not have enough funds. We could only start the C project several years later when we had sufficient funds.

I originally thought that this matter had come to an end, and everyone would develop on their own. The Americans have abundant funds and may take off first on the Internet. We can only wait for the development to improve a little bit in the future, and then the latecomers will take over.

I didn’t expect that there would be a second wave of people visiting Liu Hua. So many patents applied for Liu Hua before were approved. Many semiconductor companies in the United States have keenly seen the greatest value of these patents.

So these companies sent negotiation specialists to ask Liu Hua for authorization. When Liu Hua learned about this, he was stunned for a moment.

"The state can talk about this." Liu Hua said with a smile: "Although I am the patent holder, I cannot research these things without the support of the state. The patent fee should be as high as possible, so as to earn more foreign exchange to support the construction of our country. It would be best if there is a sales share in addition to the patent licensing fee, so that we can have a long-term flow of funds."

"The leaders above have instructed that you must be present during the negotiation because you are the patent holder after all. We cannot let foreigners slander us. They will then say that our country has taken private interests. Moreover, those people also want to meet with you. Although we know that they have bad intentions, since they are here to give money, it is understandable to let them meet with you."

So this group of people met Liu Hua smoothly. Liu Hua was not polite and directly put forward two basic points: patent licensing fee and annual sales share.

Originally, this group of people were preparing to corner Liu Hua, hoping to attract him to work in the West with high salary and benefits. However, when they heard that Liu Hua's conditions were so outrageous, they immediately gave up the idea for the time being and started negotiating to get the authorization issue settled first.

Liu Hua did not participate in the negotiations, but he was present throughout the process and would occasionally say a word or two, and every word hit the weak spots of the big American semiconductor companies.

After more than half a month of difficult negotiations, the company obtained nearly 300 million US dollars in patent licensing fees for a series of patents including servers, north-south bridge architecture, and scroll wheel mouse.

This was already a sky-high price in the 1980s. Of course, there was a guarantee clause, that is, Liu Hua guaranteed that these technologies would not be replaced in the next 20 years, otherwise part of the fee would be refunded.

As for the annual sales share, they definitely would not agree to it, but they had to agree to at least pay a part of the fee every year in lieu of the share, which totaled to 20 million US dollars.

You have to know that at that time the country's foreign exchange reserves were less than 9 billion US dollars, and Liu Hua earned one-thirtieth of it for the country.

After reaching the cooperation, according to our tradition, we naturally had to have a meal and drink together, so we set up a sumptuous banquet and entertained them grandly.

After three rounds of wine and five dishes, the negotiators remembered that they had a more important mission.

So, they whispered in Liu Hua's ear: "Mr. Liu, whether it is your IQ, ability, or talent, they are all the best in the world."

(End of this chapter)