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IBM, Watson Jr. received a strange letter, or a letter of intent for cooperation - from Intel.

"Laser disc..."

This is a new term.

This letter of intent explains this issue in the most detail.

Laser disc technology is the future that Catherine imagined.

Little Watson is indeed very excited about this large-capacity storage system.

However, as a businessman, what he needs most is to be wary of this kind of "heartbeat". Because he is not sure whether this is digging a hole or a true win-win situation.

Although Intel is a competitor of IBM, Catherine has very little accumulation after all. Although IBM is a big elephant, its technical capabilities are still very rich.

Catherine's plan is undoubtedly a mess.

But she didn't believe that the other party wouldn't take the bait.

This is the future development trend, and it is also very helpful for IBM's hard drive research.

Of course, little Watson didn't know that Catherine also had a VCD plan that was being discussed in the company.

In fact, the research on optical discs was earlier than that of hard disks. In 1972, Philips had already developed the laser disc. This concept was already in existence in the 1960s!

It's just that the bit error rate of optical discs at this time was quite high, and now, no one is really studying this.

It can be said that Catherine took the first step at this time.

Little Watson was very excited, but also very entangled. After all, Intel is his competitor.

Although there are no eternal enemies in this world, do we really need to cooperate with each other?

Not only this, the other party has stated that the patents on integrated circuits, CPUs and RAM can be licensed to IBM. Watson really doesn't want to give up.

And Catherine, who got little Watson into trouble, is also in trouble at the moment.

The reason is very simple, because a middle-aged woman named Elizabeth is investigating Intel's revenue situation with a straight face. Of course, due to legal protection, it is impossible for the other party to conduct an in-depth investigation of her company, but

This has also given Catherine a headache.

Perhaps no one in the United States is afraid of the government or the police. But when the IRS is mentioned, many people gnash their teeth with hatred. The United States is a "country of tens of thousands of taxes." The inspectors of the IRS are not only tall and proficient in their professions, but they also carry

We have weapons and equipment that are not inferior to those of professional police.

The IRS's level of tax paranoia has reached an outrageous level. For example, there was a Japanese immigrant dentist named Murata. In order to investigate his tax evasion, the IRS spent more than a month going through records.

I found the patients one by one and copied their fee invoices. It turned out that there were many poor people because it was cheaper. As a result, Murata undercharged them about 10% of the dental fees. If the patients paid in cash, they would

Do not issue invoices to patients.

In the end, the dentist was found guilty of "9 crimes including national tax evasion, fraud, hiding evidence, and forgery of documents...". He was sentenced to 3 years in prison and fined 24 million U.S. dollars for tax evasion and 5 million U.S. dollars in back taxes.

And there will be no bail.”

All in all, this is an organization that digs deep into the ground to collect taxes.

Even before doing anything, Catherine had already decided that no matter what she did, she could not offend the IRS, and the taxes that should be paid could not be saved...

But even so, the other party obviously has no intention of letting Catherine's company go.

Despite this, the Japanese will not stop.

Catherine analyzed the Japanese methods-mainly dumping.

Japan is not allowed to import American TV sets, so Japanese TV sets can maintain a domestic monopoly and sell domestic TV sets at super high prices.

In the United States, they falsely reported a high export price. Although they had to pay more tariffs, they actually sold them in the United States at a price lower than the cost. Therefore, of course, domestic TV sets could not be sold in the United States.

Finally, the Japanese domestic government provides tax rebates and subsidies to companies to make up for the losses of TV exporters.

This is the whole process of Japanese television taking over the United States.

But now, Catherine's company has surpassed Japan and become a thorn in the side of her American counterparts.

There is no doubt that Japan will be sheared of sheep and picked of peaches sooner or later. But Catherine, a native American company, will not be like the Japanese.

"How is that old woman?"

Catherine asked Sanders.

"Our company has not evaded taxes, so although the other party's inspection was careful, it did not leave any clues..."

"Well. The plan to establish a Liechtenstein subsidiary should be faster. We have paid more and more taxes recently."

30% of the profit was taken away by the government, which Catherine couldn't bear. Moreover, she had to pay taxes.

"By the way, there is one more thing, Sanders." Catherine suddenly thought of something.

"Please say."

"Sanders, can you hire a team of lawyers capable of litigating international cases?"

"International lawsuit?! You want to sue those Japanese companies? But for what reason? The other party did not cause infringement to our company?"

Sanders is a little weird.

"Of course it's not you."

Catherine smiled, then pointed to herself.

"it's me."

"you?"

Sanders suddenly reacted.

There is no doubt that the other party has infringed the copyright.

To be precise, a series of companies, including Westinghouse Electronics, have all infringed.

This patent belongs to Catherine personally.

--integrated circuit.

A TV without integrated circuits would not be considered a TV today.

Although there are still color TVs, they can only be considered low-end among the low-end.

Originally, such a television appeared in 1966.

But with the launch of gametv, better display effects and more fashionable appearance have become people's first choice.

Then, various integrated circuit TVs began to spring up like bamboo shoots.

However, only Fairchild and Texas Instruments have full authorization for Catherine's integrated circuit technology! Other companies only have partial authorization!

"I see!"

Sanders immediately became excited.

In addition to this aspect, Catherine brought in Olson again.

In addition to Xbox, Apple is now more focused on researching a display tube technology. They want to develop this technology before Sony. This is the Trinitron display tube technology that appeared in 1967.

With Longtube technology, we have almost mastered the most high-end technology of all TVs and monitors today.

If the other party wants to squeeze Catherine out of the lowest-end TV market, then let them do it. As long as Catherine masters the upper-level technology and the mid-range and above market, she will be stable!

All in all, Catherine now has integrated circuit technology in her hands, but the other party has illegally produced her own products without knowing it. Once she is sued, the other party will definitely be in trouble!