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Chapter 190 Giving Too Much

In Bell Labs, apart from those technologies, patents, and equipment, the most valuable are R&D personnel such as Bastian Clay.

Clay and the others are all members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering or other academic associations, and many of them are still in high positions. For example, Clay is a director of the Information Processing Association under the IEEE Association, and almost controls this industry. standard.

More than 1300 industry standards are formulated by the IEEE Association, including computer, mobile phone, telecommunications, physics and other industries. Whoever controls the IEEE Association has the right to speak in the industry!
Song Yang naturally would not let go of this opportunity, "Dr. Clay, I am willing to fully support your experiment, and I think you should contribute more to the development of the industry, not only in the signal processing industry, but also in the voice industry. In terms of coding, multimedia signal processing, etc., Dr. Clay should also formulate the industry standards of the IEEE Association!"

Hearing that Song Yang had contracted his experimental funds, Bastian Clay was excited but also a little uneasy. He didn't know that he really helped Song Yang get the audio and video signal processing and speech coding in the IEEE Association. , Multimedia signal processing and other standards of multiple IEEE associations, what impact will it have?

But Song Yang signed him a $300 million research and development fund check on the spot, which was just a "deposit" to improve the living conditions of everyone in Clay's laboratory, and there will be more research and development funds in the future. This made it really hard for Clay to refuse. It wasn't that Clay had no temper, but he gave too much...

Song Yang needs the technologies developed by Bastian Clay, as well as the technical standards of the IEEE Association. Once these technical standards are mainly based on the technical standards of American Telecom and ICQ, then mobile phone video calls, ICQ's Internet voice, video, etc. will become the industry standard, and other companies will have to pay ICQ!

Watching Song Yang "buy" Bastian Clay, Stanzen's lips twitched, but in the end he didn't say a word, and left Clay's laboratory directly. He was afraid of staying any longer and suffered a heart attack. It's going to be a crime. The Telephone and Telegraph Group and the Lucent Group want to hollow out Bell Labs at most. Song Yang is planning to tie Bell Labs, along with the IEEE Association, to the chariot!
Although he didn't have a good face, seeing Song Yang's attitude, Stanzen also knew that he was really planning to cooperate with Bell Labs, and pinched his nose to recognize Song Yang's little gesture.

"This is one of the physical theory research laboratories. The fractional quantum Hall effect was discovered 13 years ago. This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was nominated for this discovery. The Nobel Prize in Physics will belong to this discovery sooner or later. !"

Stanzen took Song Yang to visit other Bell laboratories, some of them were developing new materials, and some were developing the latest technologies. Among them, there were many high-level existences. This is the case with this physics theory laboratory. It is often a Nobel Prize or something like that. , but it also reveals the decline of Bell Labs. Ten years have passed, and it still needs to rely on previous things to support its facade.

But Bell Labs is somewhat black technology, "This is a biotechnology laboratory. They have developed a convolutional neural network, a deep feed-forward artificial neural network, which may be used to analyze visual images in the future!"

While speaking, Stanzen looked at Song Yang's face from time to time, and a group of people in this biotechnology laboratory also looked at Song Yang eagerly. They all knew that today a big benefactor came to Bell Labs.

Song Yang didn't expect that Bell Labs was so advanced, and such a thing as a convolutional neural network was actually produced, but it was too advanced for this era.

Looking at the group of people in the biological laboratory, looking forward to Song Yang's investment, he knew the current market price of this thing, and it is basically useless now. In another 20 years, I am afraid it will be the time for it to show its talents , portrait recognition, gesture recognition, AI intelligence, artificial intelligence, AR glasses, interactive neural network equipment, that is, things like the legendary game dormancy cabin, all require the support of convolutional neural networks.

Song Yang also knew why Stanzen brought him to these laboratories, Song Yang rubbed his chin, "I can invest in this project, but the patents of convolutional neural networks, as well as the patents, technologies, The products need to belong to me..."

"no problem!"

The inventor of the convolutional neural network, a man of French origin with a domestic name, Yang Likun, who is just 34 years old this year, immediately said in Song Yang, "I have no problem here, but Song, you have to invest this project!"

Yang Likun and the development team were also very popular when they first launched the convolutional neural network, but they were quickly ignored because they really didn't know what this thing was for.

Not only Yang Likun, but also the neural network industry to which the convolutional neural network belongs is no longer the darling of the technology industry. , after a few years of success, it has been abandoned by the funders because of the lack of research and development results.

Song Yang looked at Yang Likun, and it seemed familiar, but he didn't think about it. He didn't think about the Turing Award winners at all. There are too many great people in Bell Labs, and there are no Nobel Prize winners in physics. People, do you still have to line up here? Yang Likun is really nothing.

Song Yang and Stanzen had a few whispered words, and the American Global Investment Foundation took over Yang Likun's research and development team, including the patent of the convolutional neural network. Stanzen took several million dollars from Song Yang for " Transfer fee", let go.

If Song Yang doesn’t take over Yang Likun’s team, Bell Labs won’t be able to afford it. As for the patents of convolutional neural networks, Bell Labs has more than 3 patents, not bad for those few patents. Besides, what’s the use of this thing? Bell Labs didn't understand it.

Stanzen also needs to give Song Yang some "sweetness", otherwise Song Yang would spend money on Bell Labs.

In addition to Yang Likun's convolutional neural network laboratory, Song Yang also saw products such as the new magneto-optical storage technology that can accommodate 450 billion bits per square foot, and the new optical fiber material non-zero dispersion fiber that can be applied to intercontinental networks. Even Song Yang was envious of it, if it wasn't for the fact that Stanzen would not sell it, Song Yang really wanted to give all of these to the nest!
"Song, it's not about money. Telephone and Telegraph, Lucent and other Bell Communications companies can't let Bell Labs sell these things, unless you buy Bell Labs!"

Stanzen patted Song Yang on the shoulder and said, this is to tell Song Yang to earn money quickly and redeem himself for Bell Labs. These good things belong to Song Yang.

Looking at Stanzen, who was so greedy, but refused to sell, Song Yang didn't know that it was the little old man Stanzen who deliberately let Song Yang see the good things of Bell Labs, and then let Song Yang see them. Yang thought about it, and raised money to buy Bell Labs as soon as possible.

The scale of the entire Bell Labs is really too large. Even though it has been split up, there are still hundreds of research and development projects in operation. Song Yang finally knows why Bell Labs is burning so much money.

After visiting several laboratories, Song Yang stopped in front of a laboratory. Seeing this, Stanzen said to Song Yang, "This is the TV R&D department!"

Televisions have been developed for nearly a hundred years, but various technologies are still innovating. As the first Bell Labs in the world to develop color TVs, it has been developing in this area, but in Bell Labs It's not mainstream.

Song Yang walked into this laboratory and saw many people busy, and Stanzen followed him in. Seeing that Song Yang seemed to be interested in this place, "Bell Labs is developing a new generation of TVs, and the R&D personnel , I want to convert all analog signals into digital signals, hoping to define a new generation of TV technology standards!"

Stanzen said to Song Yang that television is an absolutely traditional industry, and Stanzen didn't think Song Yang would be interested in this industry. Inside Bell Labs, there was not much interest in this project.

But to Stanzen's surprise, Song Yang actually stayed in the TV R&D department for a long time, and even talked with the head of the laboratory for a long time, and then said to Stanzen and the R&D head of the TV laboratory , "America Telecom is willing to invest in this project!"

Hearing this, Stanzen couldn't help looking at Song Yang in amazement. The person in charge of the TV project was full of joy. He didn't expect that someone would be willing to invest in this "sunset" industry, let alone Bell Labs, even Other research and development institutions in America don't pay much attention to the TV business.

Seeing Stanzen's surprised gaze, Song Yang smiled at Stanzen, "Maybe there will be some rewards!"

TV sets don't make much money, and Song Yang doesn't plan to make much money from it, but he can do a lot of things if he grasps the patents and standards of digital TV and high-definition TV.

If American Telecom enters the media industry in the future, with the support of the TV brand industry, and major TV brands all have their own TV channels or "recommend" American Telecom's TV channels to users, then American Telecom will have a lot of success in the media industry.

The other is the panel industry. Selling TVs does not make money, but relying on the TV industry to support a panel company, there is still some hope!
After a trip at Bell Labs, Song Yang and Stanzen returned to the office. Song Yang made some calculations. In this trip, he spent more than 2000 million US dollars, which is not counted. It is conceivable how much money will be spent on research and development for subsequent investment.

Regarding the strength of Bell Labs, Song Yang also has a bottom line in his heart. Compared with before, it has indeed declined a lot, but the old bottom is still there. There are still a lot of good things in the warehouse, relying on the research and development of Bell Labs. Ability, Song Yang can at least save ten years of research and development!
(End of this chapter)