Author: Baisha

Chapter 172 Aerospace (4.7k)

The sales of PHS base station equipment and PHS mobile phones have enabled Wujiang Group to make a lot of money. PHS's profitability is second only to Wujiang Group's gaming business.

Excluding R&D expenses, the production cost of PHS mobile phones is actually only one or two hundred yuan. The domestic price is 5,000 yuan, and the profit is very high.

The cost of the entire PHS base station is only about 10,000 yuan, but the selling price is 100,000 yuan.

So far, Wujiang Group has created astonishing revenue through PHS: about 46 billion yuan!

Among them, about half of the income comes from Japan.

At this time, PHS was more popular in Japan than in China. It wasn’t that the Chinese didn’t like PHS, but they couldn’t afford it.

Therefore, the current main consumers of PHS are still Japanese.

In the previous life, according to statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry, as of the end of August 2006, the number of PHS users in China reached 93 million. The number of overseas PHS users exceeded 7 million. The number of PHS users worldwide has exceeded 100 million.

In this life, if there are not 300-400 million PHS users, it will be a failure. In the previous life, PHS was only opened for operation in July 1995. Now it is 1988, 7 years too early!!!

7 years is enough time for PHS to grow wildly all over the world!

It is worth mentioning that when Motorola mobile phones still cost tens of thousands of dollars, a PHS phone that cost several thousand dollars suddenly appeared. This huge gap made countless consumers feel that they were making a big deal by buying a PHS phone.

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As a result, many people rushed to buy PHS mobile phones for fear of missing this opportunity. This is also one of the reasons for the explosion of PHS mobile phones.

As PHS became popular around the world, more people saw business opportunities.

Telecom companies around the world have purchased PHS base station equipment from Wujiang Communication Technology Company, and some companies have purchased PHS patent licenses from Wujiang Communication Technology Company.

All in all, everyone wants to enter the PHS market and get a piece of the pie.

The PHS explosion is probably coming soon.

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As we all know, before the emergence of decent competitors, Motorola, which had a monopoly position, was very hard at work... Even in its previous life in the early 1990s, the price of a Motorola mobile phone was still tens of thousands of yuan.

At this moment, the PHS developed by Wujiang Communication Technology Company teaches you how to be a good person and not be too Motorola in business...otherwise, you will make a lot of money!

For now, Motorola still has no plans to cut prices. However, they have developed a new generation of mobile phones. To be precise, they should be considered mobile phones, and they no longer need to carry "big bricks" with their hands.

The MicroTAC personal cellular phone is Motorola's latest masterpiece. It is very novel in design. It is the world's first flip phone. Its size and weight are greatly reduced, making it a true handheld phone. Its size is only smaller than "Borderless".

Lingtong-1" is a little smaller.

There is no doubt that this phone is definitely a classic that is popular all over the world!

Motorola has developed MicroTAC and is preparing to enter mass production and will be launched next year.

This is why Motorola is not afraid of PHS.

However, in its previous life, the MicroTAC personal cellular phone was expensive, as high as $3,995.

The international price of the PHS mobile phone is only US$2,500, which may seriously affect the sales of MicroTAC.

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Zhao Ye looked happy but helpless when he saw Wujiang Microelectronics' latest report.

"I found that it is really difficult for Wujiang Microelectronics to develop wafer foundry business!" Zhao Ye lamented, "The new wafer factory has just been built, and it has not yet had time to launch wafer foundry business.

, and we have to first meet the group’s own chip needs, which is really difficult!”

“The explosion of the PHS industry chain and the rise of the Borderless program-controlled switches require hundreds of millions of chips.

Wujiang Microelectronics is also expanding its wafer fab step by step to prevent the wafer foundry business from failing and suffering heavy losses.

But now it seems that the steps are still too small!”

"In addition, the VCD and PC projects are about to be completed. By then, I'm afraid more chips will be consumed!"

"Therefore, Wujiang Microelectronics Company has to continue to build new wafer fabs..."

After Zhao Ye finished speaking, he thought for a while, his expression condensed, and he shook his head and said: "The expansion speed cannot be too blind. Once the second generation of home game consoles is launched, a large amount of chip production capacity should be freed up for foundry business.

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The second-generation home game console of Wujiang Group, codenamed "Tomahawk", the game storage medium is no longer a game cartridge, but a CD-ROM.

In other words, Wujiang will no longer produce chips specifically for game cartridges for home game consoles in the future.

You know, there are many chips on each game cartridge, including EPROM, MMC chips, etc...

So far, the sales volume of "Qiongqi Home Game Console" has exceeded 150 million units.

I would like to ask, can the sales volume of game cartridges be reduced? How many chips will be used?

Assuming that each game console corresponds to 20 game cartridges, then at least 3 billion game cartridges have been sold.

In addition, there are handheld Gameboys, arcade machines and corresponding game cartridges.

In addition, we include the domestically produced “learning machines” and pirated game cartridges.

All added up, the "core" consumption is huge.

Therefore, once the gaming industry achieves technological upgrading, it will surely free up huge chip production capacity.

Not only will CD-ROMs replace game cartridges for home game consoles, but NAND Flash memory can also replace Gameboy game cartridges.

As for MMC game screen enhancement chips, they have been transferred from game cartridges to game consoles, so the demand is naturally much less.

Ahem, in fact, when the first generation of home game consoles were developed, the MMC chip could be directly integrated into the motherboard of the home game console. However, as a capitalist, if you do this, it seems a bit unqualified.

Precisely because of the MMC chip, it is natural that game cartridges are expensive. Otherwise, how can we explain to consumers that Borderless game cartridges are more expensive than Nintendo game cartridges? Why are they more expensive?

However, CD-ROM is used as a game storage medium, and the MMC chip can only be installed on the game console, which makes it impossible to continue to collect wool as before.

Gameboy's game cartridges can continue to be used. The second generation Gameboy will also use game cartridges as game storage media, but by then the memory chip will be replaced by NAND flash memory, which can accommodate games with larger content, and at the same time greatly reduce the number of games.

The number of EPROM memory chips…

Zhao Ye thought about it again and again, and still felt that Wujiang Microelectronics Company could only build a new wafer factory for the time being. Otherwise, when the game industry upgrades and frees up huge chip production capacity, the world does not know whether it can digest it...

He immediately wrote his own opinions behind Wujiang Microelectronics' report, including his predictions and concerns about future market changes.

After writing it, he asked Liu Yinyin to send a fax to Wujiang Microelectronics Company.

As soon as he finished these things, his phone rang.

The outside world may have never expected that the boss of Wujiang Group is still using products from rival Motorola. There is nothing that can be done about it unless the mobile phone developed by Wujiang Group itself is launched on the market.

PHS cannot roam and can only make local calls. If you want to contact other places, it is best to use a Motorola mobile phone.

The call was quickly connected, and Liao Xinghua's voice came from the other side.

Liao Xinghua's current main position is the general manager of Asia Satellite Corporation.

When Zhao Ye looked at the caller ID, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised and said, "Hello, Mr. Liao, please call me today. Is there any good news?"

Liao Xinghua nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, Mr. Zhao, I do have good news to tell you!"

After a pause, Liao Xinghua said happily: "The American insurance company has finally agreed to our Asia Satellite Company's purchase of the Houston Company's communications satellite for US$15 million!"

"Wow, this is indeed good news!" Zhao Ye showed a smile on his face, paused slightly, and asked, "When will this communication satellite be launched into the sky?"

"Probably until June next year..." Liao Xinghua thought for a moment, replied, and then added, "For the time being, this satellite will be made technical improvements at the Houston company to adapt to Asia Communications. During this period, it will probably take two

It will take about a month, and then it will take about another two months to transport it back from the United States. Finally, it will take two or three months to prepare for launching the satellite..."

"Okay, I have no problem. By the way, has CITIC Group contacted the domestic rocket launch company?"

"Don't worry, Mr. Zhao, we have already contacted the rocket launch company in the mainland, there should be no problem!" Liao Xinghua patted his chest and assured with a smile.

"Well, that's good." With CITIC Group's capabilities, there are probably not many things that they can't do in China. I'm envious. Zhao Ye secretly thought that it would be great if he could establish an aerospace company in China! By the way,

I'll go talk to the leader soon.

Liao Xinghua said: "There's nothing else to do, Mr. Zhao is busy, I'll hang up!"

"Okay, Mr. Liao. Goodbye!"

Zhao Ye hung up the phone, immediately opened the phone book and found the number of the boss of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, and then dialed it.

"With Wujiang's current status, the country should value it very much. We should welcome Wujiang Group's entry into the aerospace industry..." Zhao Ye murmured to himself.

After a while, the call was connected.

"Hello, leader, I am Zhao Ye."

"Hello, Xiao Zhao, we haven't contacted each other for a long time. Why did you think of calling me today? Is there something wrong?" the leader asked with a smile on his face.

Zhao Ye did not hesitate and said straight to the point: "Leader, Wujiang Group wants to enter the aerospace market. Do you think it is feasible?"

When the leader heard this, he was stunned for a while. Private companies have entered the aerospace market? This is not to say that they cannot enter, but that the threshold for aerospace is very high. How can ordinary companies enter this industry?

While the leader was still thinking, Zhao Ye added: "There are a large number of companies in the United States such as Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, and Houston that have entered the aerospace industry, thus promoting

The rapid development of the U.S. aerospace industry!"
To be continued...