Chapter 168 Technical confrontation, the American version of the Semiconductor Chip Alliance
“President, this is the sales report you want, please take a look.”
Longxing Technology Company Headquarters.
President’s Office.
Yao Nana put the printed sales report on her desk, then stood aside, waiting for the next instruction.
Chen Xing picked up the report and did not rush to check it. Instead, he looked at Yao Nana and said: "If the work is done, then go back to get off work and rest. It has been a hard time."
< br>“Everything should be done.”
As soon as Yao Nana finished speaking, she added: “By the way, President, I have sent the performance list to your email.”
“I know. Yes, I’ll look at it later.”
Chen Xing responded calmly.
He allocates performance quotas to the managers in charge of each department, and he plans to reward each person who is selected with a reward of 10,000 yuan.
Based on current salary levels, a performance bonus of 10,000 yuan is equivalent to two months' salary.
Of course.
In addition to performance awards, there are also year-end bonuses.
This is not over yet. In addition to performance awards and year-end bonuses, Chen Xing also plans to hold a lottery at the annual meeting and spend 50 million to encourage scientific researchers and employees.
However, he does not draw blindly. For larger awards, candidates will definitely be selected by default, and the focus will be on scientific researchers who have made greater contributions, such as Gao Zhengqian, Lin Tian, Yang Bochao, Gu Ren, etc., which are secondary Bonus incentives.
Seeing that Chen Xing already knew, Yao Nana did not stay. Tomorrow is the weekend, and she can finally rest for two days.
During this period, I have been working overtime day and night in order to market mobile phones, and it is true that I am losing some hair.
After Yao Nana left, Chen Xing opened the sales report and looked at it carefully.
With one million units of Longxing X2, the platform still does not charge a listing fee and provides a subsidy of 200 yuan. The bare metal profit is 500 yuan, which is equivalent to selling 500 million yuan of Longxing X2 alone.
Next is the insurance project, three-year and five-year all-machine insurance, one million mobile phones are basically covered by insurance, and the revenue here is 130 million.
There are 50,000 units of the Brilliant X1 mobile phone, 20,000 units of the regular version, 20,000 units of the high-end version, and 10,000 units of the top-end version. The net profit of the three configurations of the Brilliant X1 is:
< br>Regular version, 820 yuan.
High-end version, 1100 yuan.
Top version, 1,400 yuan.
Therefore, the three configurations earned 16.4 million, 22 million, and 14 million respectively, for a total of 54.2 million.
In addition to the net profit from bare metal, there is also income from full machine insurance.
Because the Cuican X1 is expensive, it only sells one-year and three-year full machine insurance, and the prices are 300 yuan and 500 yuan.
With 50,000 units of Cuican X1, users also have full mobile phone insurance, and most of them are in the high-end range of 500 yuan.
As for the total insurance income of 21 million, insurance sales are basically equal to net profits, which is almost half of bare metal profits.
The Geek X1 also has 20,000 units of the regular version, 20,000 units of the high-end version, and 10,000 units of the top-of-the-line version. The net profit generated is not as good as that of the brilliant X1, but it also has 45 million in insurance.
It is not difficult to see from the data report that the Longxing series is still the main blood supply, followed by the brilliant series and the geek series.
The main reason why the Longxing series has the largest profit is because of the increase in insurance and overall machine profits.
Most of the parts for the current Longxing X2 mobile phone are supplied by domestic small factories and self-developed, and there are no particularly expensive parts.
However, for the high-end phone Brilliance X1, most of its parts are purchased globally, and the price is very expensive.
The expensive parts mean that the overall supply chain is expensive, which drives up the costs of other links, so its net profit is not high, and the most important thing is that the supply of parts is too slow.
Only speaking of Carl Zeiss lens modules, from ordering to delivery, it takes a week or even half a month of transportation. How can this compare to the Longxing X2, which has local advantages?
The most important thing is that the investment in the Cuican X1 is also high. The high cost means high investment. The bare metal sales of these 50,000 Cuican X1 units reached 370 million.
Subtract the bare metal profit from 370 million, and then multiply it by 70%. In other words, Chen Xing needs to invest nearly 200 million before he can produce 50,000 units of the brilliant X1. Without a huge capital chain, this Can't play at all.
Fortunately, everything is developing in a good direction. The sales of the three mobile phones are 1.99 billion, 370 million and 200 million respectively, totaling 2.56 billion. Including insurance sales, the full calculation is close to 2.75 billion. .
As for the 2.56 billion of the bare metal, as well as the principal invested by Longxing Technology Company, Chen Xing also calculated it just now. The balance that needs to be paid in each link is as high as 1.1 billion, which is equivalent to only 1.46 billion belonging to Longxing Technology Company itself.
However, adding 1.46 billion to insurance profits, it can be calculated that the current book capital of Longxing Technology Company is fully 1.65 billion, which is enough to show that the company is growing steadily.
It was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2014, and less than a month has passed since 2015. The company has 1.65 billion in book capital, and the most important thing is that it does not need to pay corporate income tax. What kind of terrifying rise is this?
Chen Xing entered all the data into the computer and put it in his own encrypted folder.
When all this was done, he leaned back in his chair and murmured: "1.65 billion was taken out of the 50 million annual lottery draw, and there is still 1.6 billion left, which is more than enough to keep the company running."
...
While Chen Xing was calculating the company's accounts and planning the company's subsequent development, private aviation planes were arriving at a certain tarmac in New York on the other side of the ocean.
In a certain conference room on Wall Street, people also kept walking in. They looked humble, nodded and bowed, showing their subordinate posture.
"Miss Maria, seeing you is like seeing an angel. Your skin is as white and tender as a baby."
"Good morning, oh no, it's almost noon, noon Well, my dear Miss Maria, it’s nice to meet you.”
"I shouldn't be late. Oh, it's Miss Maria. I forgot to prepare a gift. Please forgive my carelessness."
"Everyone is here, hey! Pocket and Mo Isn’t Lenkov here yet? But it’s true that it will take a little longer for them to fly over from California.”
Everyone who entered the conference room, regardless of gender or age, was flattering. Flattery gestures and faces.
If a global live camera were to record the footage at this time, countless people would be shocked.
Because these flattering, humble-looking men and women are not third-rate figures. They are all CEOs of companies with a market value of tens or hundreds of billions of dollars. They are also giants whose names can be found on the Forbes list.
And without exception, they were all "licking" the young woman sitting in the main seat.
The young woman is none other than Maria, the third-in-command of the Belle Group. Although she is young, she looks in her twenties, and her skin is as white and tender as an eighteen-year-old girl. In fact, she has already I am forty years old, and I rely on technology to maintain my current appearance.
Maria flipped up her golden hair and said in a charming manner: "Everyone, please sit down. According to the flight time, it should be arriving soon."
"Okay Maria. Miss Leah.”
The CEOs took their seats one after another, waiting for Puke and Molenkov to arrive.
Half an hour later.
Molenkov, who was elegant and handsome in a suit and leather tie, walked into the conference room first. Without talking much, he came directly to Maria, picked up her hand, kissed the back of her hand and said, "I'm late. Please forgive me, Miss Maria.”
“Take a seat.”
Maria was not surprised at all. It is a common etiquette to give a hand gesture. Puke did the same thing. He couldn't afford to offend the third-in-command of the Baile Group, which was the consortium behind the scenes that could control their life and death.
The presidents of the companies here, regardless of whether they have real power or shares, do not dare to challenge the Baile Group. Whoever dares to challenge will probably have to go to the Atlantic Ocean to recruit people tomorrow.
“Everyone, take your seats.”
Maria said lightly.
When Mollenkopf and Panko took their seats, the door to the conference room was also closed. It was obvious that everything that was supposed to come had already come.
The men and women who can sit here are basically the presidents of the semiconductor industry.
Perhaps it was the unique straightforwardness of the West. After Maria saw everyone gathered, she directly pressed the remote control and turned on the conference monitor opposite.
In a flash.
Everyone looked sideways.
The content of the monitor is none other than the sales data of Longguo’s two online shopping platforms, as well as Longxing X2 supply records.
“There is already a lot of evidence proving that Longxing Technology Company of the Eastern Powers has mastered 28nm production technology.”
“Not long ago, it might have been four hours, or maybe Six hours ago, they sold another one million units of Longxing X2, and there are also 50,000 units of brilliant X1 and 50,000 units of Geek X1. We need to respond."
The words just finished. .
GlobalFoundries CEO and President Laurent Schman immediately echoed: "So do we want to jointly impose sanctions on it?"
After asking, he added: "Also With Miss Maria, if Longxing Technology Company masters the production technology, it might as well cut off its supply of production raw materials. In this way, their technology will be useless.”
12-inch semiconductor silicon wafer, Photoresist and supporting reagents, these two materials are indispensable parts of chip production.
In particular, photoresist and supporting reagents are currently monopolized by Shin-Etsu Chemical, TOK Tokyo Chemical and JSR Co., Ltd. of the neon island country. They are the world's largest photoresist suppliers and suppliers of semiconductor silicon wafers.
Hearing this, Maria nodded slightly and said: "As for the raw materials for chip production, we have already notified various companies that they are prohibited from providing them to Longxing Technology Company. However, we did not come here specifically to say The matter of sanctions."
"Oh?"
Molenkov was a little confused and asked: "Isn't there anything more important than the matter of sanctioning Longxing Technology?"< br>
Pu Ke smelled something unusual. If he didn't sanction Longxing Technology Company, why did he call them here?
The CEOs and presidents of other companies looked at each other, equally full of doubts.
Maria did not show off, but said bluntly: "If we talk about sanctions, I'm afraid this meeting will be postponed for a few days, because there are still a lot of people who are not here, so I'm calling you this time Just for one thing, that is to form a semiconductor chip alliance. "?"
Other semiconductor presidents: "???"
Confused!
Everyone present was stunned!
To form the Semiconductor Alliance, do they also need to sign up to keep warm?
Before they could speak, Maria continued to speak frankly: "I know that all your companies have corresponding core patented technologies, such as Gaotong's baseband chip and Texas Instruments' innovative digital signal processing. With analog circuits, as well as Broadcom’s wired and wireless communication technology, etc.”
“Our approach is very simple. We want you to share technology and develop together to achieve rapid technological progress in the semiconductor field. Of course, companies from other countries will also join our alliance one after another."
Just after finishing speaking, she added: "This is not what I mean alone, but the Bailey Group and the Linghang Group. You can understand that I am just a messenger."
"..."
Silence...
The collective fell into silence.
Maria’s meaning is obvious, she wants them to hand over all the company’s technology and then make progress together to achieve breakthroughs.
Will they agree?
A bit hanging!
Because they are not the ones talking about the matter, and this needs to be voted on by the shareholders' meeting, it is estimated that they will not agree.
Although we are all American companies, they are always competing in private.
For example, Apple has invested tens of billions in the research and development of baseband chips in the past six months in order to get rid of Gaotong's patents.
If we talk about technology sharing, then aren’t the results of their research in vain?
However, it is not Apple that will suffer the most, but Mollenkopf’s Gaotong Company, because if there is a real technical dispute, they will lose the cash cow of Apple. It will not take long for them to develop it. Apple baseband chip is released.
"This..."
"Miss Maria..."
"I'm afraid..."
Everyone was hesitant to speak. They didn't want to hand over patents to each other, which was not conducive to the development of the company at all.
The two CEOs of Intel and Nvidia are the most confused. They are PC users, why do they have to hand over technology? Longxing Technology does not threaten them!
Is it because the technology is leading that we share it with our friends and colleagues?
"I stress again, this is not what I meant. You can call shareholders and hold meetings remotely."
Maria's attitude was very tough, her eyes flashing with confusion. Joy.
Put Ke, Mollenkopf, and the CEOs and presidents present were not relieved. Why was this different from what they expected?
Shouldn’t Longxing Technology be sanctioned?
Why did you attack your own people?
Although they are not considered their own, they are each other's competitors, but such forced integration goes against the development of the market.
The Dragon Kingdom enterprises can form a semiconductor alliance because the Sword of Damocles hangs over the head of every boss.
American companies are originally the "violent party", and they are not threatened by chips. If they form an alliance, apart from paying for technology, they will get no benefits at all. Instead, they will expose their own cards, making it difficult to overtake in the future.
Just when the CEOs and presidents were undecided, the door of the conference room was opened, and several Wall Street financial giants walked in, including the stock god Buffett.
“Just do it.”
They made their attitude clear.
All came to Maria's side. This time the CEOs and presidents were honest.
With so many Wall Street financial giants on their platforms, as well as the stock god Buffett, it seems that Maria really didn’t lie, she was just a messenger, and it was the person behind the scenes who really led the alliance.
Moreover, these financial tycoons more or less hold their stocks, and they also have the right to speak on social media. This meeting already has a bit of a threat in it.
When the CEO complied, Maria spoke again: "In addition to your technical support, we will also send top experts to assist you in research and development. Please always trust that eye."
< br>"It is omniscient and omnipotent, and controls everything!"
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