Chapter 100 I was also forced
Tesla's main value lies in patents, and the most important of these patents is alternating current. The relevant standards are essential for building the power grid of the United States. Sheffield knows the importance of patents very well. Its importance lies in that even if the investment in new technologies cannot keep up for a while, the old patents can buy time for the patented companies, slow down the development of competitors, and maybe use this time to overtake.
This is the origin of patent trolls. The patent troll in the field of communications in the future is naturally Qualcomm in the United States. In the mobile phone industry, Apple and Huawei do not sell their chips to other manufacturers, while Qualcomm provides processors to other manufacturers.
In fact, Qualcomm's processors were terrible at the beginning, so terrible that they could not be compared with Apple's A series. Among the competitors of the same period, Huawei was not even a rival. Qualcomm's rival was Texas Instruments, which had a deep understanding of microelectronic chips at the time. It happened to see the big cake of the mobile phone market and decided to get involved.
Texas Instruments' chips are not as good as Apple's, but far exceed Qualcomm's, ranking second among all mobile phone chips. During the same period, Qualcomm still had high power consumption, poor performance, and weak overclocking potential. Texas Instruments has almost all-round advantages over Qualcomm and is the most powerful in the entire Android camp.
Qualcomm has always been the low-level competitor in front of Texas Instruments, and was once forced into a desperate situation due to its all-round backwardness.
However, the baseband manufacturing in the communications industry is not only about design and manufacturing, but also requires a lot of patent technology support. Even if Texas Instruments can produce these chips, it must spend a lot of money to purchase patents, which is obviously not cost-effective. Qualcomm, which has profound attainments in the communications field, can regain the market once it produces a decent chip with its large number of patent technologies in the communications field.
In the end, due to its disadvantage in patents, TI had to pay royalties to Qualcomm and felt that it was not cost-effective to continue investing. Although it had an advantage in technology, it withdrew from the mobile phone processor market. Although the challenges Qualcomm encountered later showed that patents cannot always work, they can still buy time.
This is the scary thing about patented technology. The new patent law has been passed by both the House and Senate. Combined with the patents Tesla already has, Sheffield feels that it is not impossible to enter the electrical field.
But Tesla absolutely could not stay in New York. Sheffield had no power here, and he could not rely on Rockefeller Jr. to keep an eye on Tesla all the time.
"I can give you shares of your institute and the entire research team. The specific value still needs to be evaluated by a lawyer, but I will definitely not give you a penny less." Sheffield put his hands in his pockets and looked at Tesla with scrutiny. "From your trajectory in the past few years, your management talent is far inferior to Mr. Edison. What's more, Edison's management was not done by himself, but by Morgan. In this way, you are even less of a rival. Now that you have my help, you can concentrate on your research. As an equal partner, I believe the road ahead will be much easier."
In principle, Tesla has agreed to Sheffield's funding, and as Sheffield said, although there is no problem with talent in New York, it is easy to be harassed by Edison who is just a stone's throw away. The public opinion here is also very unfriendly to him, so it is better to change to a quiet place. The only problem is the attractiveness of New York, which is certainly not a problem for him, but what about the following researchers?
"That's no problem. I'm a wealthy man and the South is not a barren land. I can go to the universities in various states to find the talents you need in person." Knowing Tesla's hesitation, Sheffield said that everything would be under his control. As long as he set off, the configuration of all aspects would not be a problem at all.
"As for the departure time, the sooner the better. I will stay at Rockefeller Manor in the next few days. When you are ready, we will go to Houston together!" Sheffield was well prepared. He had been paying attention to Tesla in the dark for a long time. He appeared at the most lonely time for Tesla and proposed a complete plan.
Tesla was just an electrical engineer. Even if he was an outstanding electrical engineer, it is hard to imagine that he would propose conditions that seemed excessive, but in Sheffield's eyes, they were actually nothing.
Just as Tesla believed that the banker who funded him had millions of dollars in assets, Sheffield believed that Tesla's funder could be dealt with by Morgan with just a flick of his finger. This was a vision brought about by pure class advantage.
Generally, there are two types of rich people: one has many industries but little cash flow, and the other has strong liquidity but does speculation. However, at the level of Morgan and Rockefeller, they have both many years ago. As for which type his family belongs to, Sheffield has no idea, and Lafayette doesn't say it either.
Arms manufacturing is against DuPont, and if Morgan does not let go of the electrical field, the relationship will probably become bad. Now the only one that is cooperating more than competing is Rockefeller's Standard Oil. There should be no opposition in other fields.
Sheffield returned to the carriage and headed to the Rockefeller estate, thinking hard. There should be no smuggling, and agriculture and animal husbandry did not exist either. The only thing was that the United Fruit Company had a competitor in Central America, and the financing behind it was still Morgan.
As for a deeper network of personal connections, Sheffield will have to wait for Karl Lagerfeld to clarify.
"You want to enter the electrical field?" Rockefeller Jr. looked serious as he looked at Sheffield who was smoothing the black back's fur. How could this man not be nervous at all? "Don't you know that Morgan is behind Edison?"
"I know, so I plan to cross-license patents with Westinghouse Electric!" Sheffield looked around with his teeth bared, then stood up and clapped his hands, saying, "Now only Westinghouse Electric has the strength to do this."
"I mean, Morgan is not someone you want to mess with, even though our family rarely deals with him." Rockefeller Jr. shook his head. "But standing with Westinghouse Electric is a good choice. I just think that entering the electrical field might cause friction."
"With a population of more than 20 million, how can the thirteen southern states not have their own electrical companies?" Sheffield glanced at Rockefeller Jr. "It's not that I have to get involved in some fields and offend people, but the citizens of the South have this demand. My family is a little famous in the South, and I can't just stick my head in my crotch like an ostrich and pretend I didn't see it."
"I didn't have to be a competitor and disrupt the balance of various industries. It was the citizens of the South who wanted me to do this, and I had no choice." Sheffield said slowly, "Perhaps you don't quite understand what I said. If nothing unexpected happens, the Democrats will still win a landslide victory in the South in this election."
(End of this chapter)
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