Chapter 954: Rapid growth, lighting up the new technology tree!
Too much inventory and insufficient cash, the only way is to reduce production!
Cook issued an emergency order: Cut the production of Apple mobile phones.
This decision has plunged the entire Apple company into a busy situation.
Various factories that cooperate with Apple have begun to make adjustments.
Including Apple’s largest partners Foxconn, Jabil, etc.
These manufacturers originally needed to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to ensure the normal operation of the production lines. However, now with the reduction of orders from their largest customer Apple, they have to face the reduction of employee positions.
Foxconn, which has moved to India to expand production and recruit a large number of workers, received a notice from its major customer Apple.
Apple informed: According to market demand, we will reduce production and orders from Foxconn by 60%.
Foxconn was shocked when it received the news, and a contact specialist quickly responded to Apple:
"Why? We have built a new factory in India and recruited a large number of employees. If we cut orders, it will have a huge negative impact on us."
Apple: "Market demand is declining, and we need to reduce production accordingly to adapt to market changes. According to our mutual agreement, the number of unproduced orders can be reduced, and we only need to complete our notification obligations."
The contact person was worried: "This will cause us to have a large number of idle machines and workers in the next few months! The factory is completed but there are no orders, the production lines are empty, and we are suffering losses every day! This will give us
It will cause a lot of damage, you can’t do this!”
Apple: "We know this is a huge challenge for you, but it is necessary for Apple. We need to ensure that our products are competitive in the market, but also need to balance costs and profits, hopefully
You can understand."
Foxconn: "Then what should we do? We still have so much equipment and so many workers. If we suddenly cut orders, how much will we have to pay?"
Apple no longer responds.
The phone call on the other side was hung up, and the Foxconn contact person was stunned.
Apple has been one of Foxconn's most important customers, and Foxconn relies heavily on orders from Apple to maintain its business.
More than half of Foxconn's orders come from Apple.
If Apple took steps to reduce orders, he thought about how serious the impact would be on Foxconn.
The bad news quickly reached Guo Ming, the boss of Wanwan District.
Ming-Kuo felt mixed when he heard the news that Apple was cutting production and Foxconn was unable to receive orders.
He couldn't help but think of the moment when he decided to leave the mainland and invest in building a factory in India.
Forty years ago, he saw the huge development potential and huge opportunities in the mainland, rode the express train of the mainland's economic take-off, took advantage of the mainland's demographic dividend, and turned Foxconn into a world-class enterprise.
However, in recent years, the mainland's economy has taken off, and workers' benefits have gradually improved. Foxconn can no longer use workers at low prices, and it plans to leave the mainland at this time.
In mainland China, Tiangong Technology, a subsidiary of Changtian Technology, has entered the manufacturing industry, bringing more advanced technology and better treatment.
However, Foxconn is unwilling to learn better treatment like Tiangong Technology, and its market share gradually decreases.
Moreover, the international community believes that India will rise.
He believes that starting a business in India is more promising because India has rich human resources and lower costs.
That’s what he thought, and that’s what he really did.
Guo Ming transferred all his factories to India and was welcomed by the Indian government.
As for Foxconn's factories in Xia, they were all built by the local government of Xia. Guo Ming didn't even spend a penny and only needed to move the equipment.
The news of Foxconn leaving Xia Guo was still a sensation. Many people thought that Xia Guo's manufacturing industry was finished. Many places in Xia Guo wanted to negotiate with Guo Ming, but Guo Ming was indifferent. He thought he was the king, backed by American capital and enterprises. That's what he said.
After coming to India, Guo Ming discovered that India, as a developing country, has huge market potential.
Production costs have indeed been reduced, and labor costs in India are far cheaper than in mainland China.
With low-cost production, Foxconn's bidding became more competitive, it won many international orders, and Guo Ming also made a lot of money.
In an interview with American media, Guo Ming also said with high spirits: "It was a right decision to agree to transfer the factory to India. We have achieved great success in India, and India is a very competitive country!"
Guo Ming is ambitious and determined to develop Foxconn into the world's largest electronics assembly manufacturing plant in his lifetime.
Who knew that Samsung had fewer orders at the front, and even customers like Apple were facing difficulties in the back?
Foxconn had to shut down some of its production lines.
Orders decreased, production lines were shut down, and Foxconn also began to issue notices to lay off companies to reduce costs.
However, in factories in India, many workers are very dissatisfied with layoffs, and workers feel that their rights and interests have been harmed.
They gathered and waved flags.
Senior executives from Wanwan came here from the headquarters to mediate. However, no one appreciated the senior executives' words, and the senior executives didn't care at all what would happen if the jobs at the bottom were gone.
Angry workers, hundreds of people who were unemployed and laid off, were led and rushed to the company campus building.
Some workers even resorted to violent methods, including smashing equipment, setting fires, injuring security guards and other vicious incidents.
These incidents have had a serious impact on Foxconn's business.
Several of the company's factories and facilities in India suffered damage and losses.
Wanwan executives evacuated quickly, and while evacuating, they were still complaining: "Nima, who said the business environment here is good!"
As the incident developed and the stock market got the news, Foxconn's stock price also began to fall, resulting in heavy losses.
The executives left and the scene became even more chaotic.
A lot of equipment was dismantled by workers and sold for scrap metal.
Foxconn’s investment of billions of dollars in India has basically been in vain.
After closing the shop and returning to Wanwan, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"I think it was a wrong decision to completely withdraw from the mainland," a senior executive began. Problems always have to be found. "As a company, we should have a global presence and should not be overly dependent on orders from a certain company."
After hearing what this executive said, the R&D director also admitted, "We have tied ourselves too much to Apple, and if Apple's market share is greatly reduced, Foxconn will also be greatly affected. Now we are lagging behind Tiangong in the technology field."
Technology, any company’s technology must make continuous progress in the market, but we chose to leave the mainland completely.”
Guo Ming also felt very regretful in his heart. At first, he was very unfavorable about China's economy. He believed that China's economy could not be successfully upgraded. With high labor costs, the overall competitiveness would decline. China had no core technology and could easily be replaced by other countries.
replaced.
He predicted that China's economy would be overtaken by other countries in the world and even fall into chaos, which is why he made such a radical decision.
But it's too late!
On the other side of the ocean, facing the powerful offensive of Changtian Technology since its landing in the United States, the presidents of other technology chain giants, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other companies also gathered together to discuss solutions.
This time it was the wearable device Zemeng 2, which forced Apple to reduce production and cut costs, and the entire upstream and downstream industry chains were affected.
This is especially true for the chip industry chain, which will definitely suffer huge losses this year!
Cook, Qualcomm CEO Amon, Intel CEO Gilzinger and Microsoft CEO Nadella gathered together to start emergency negotiations.
Cook was the first to speak, and his eyes had long lost their vitality: "Everyone, Changtian Technology has become more and more powerful in the North American market recently. Apple has been forced to reduce production in the competition. We must take measures to protect our own.
interests, and I think we need to unite in this regard."
Qualcomm Amon: "It is true, we cannot sit idly by. Changtian Technology's attack has seriously threatened our market share. In this field, we will no longer have the same absolute advantage as in the past. If their chips are also launched in North America
market, the consequences are unimaginable."
Intel Gelsinger: "We need to deal with this problem as a united whole. We can't make the same mistakes we made when we faced Shenship Computer and Firefly OS again!"
"Our competitors are becoming more and more powerful around the world. We must work closely and integrate our resources to deal with this threat. If this continues, American technology companies will definitely be doomed!"
“Microsoft Nadella: Must unite to put pressure on government.”
"It's a feasible approach, but we need a more concrete plan," Apple's Cook said.
"Changtian Technology owns the equity of Hanhai Technology. The government can put pressure on Changtian Technology to give up its shares in the North American market." Amon came up with an idea.
"We agree that Changtian Technology's products will be sold in the American market, but the equity cannot be handed over to Xia Guoren!"
Intel's Gelsinger's eyes lit up: "The U.S. market cannot be in the hands of foreigners. We can unite to put pressure on Changtian Technology and ask it to give up Hanhai Technology's shares in the North American market."
Microsoft's Nadella hesitated, "This method is indeed good, but how do we get other people to support us? This is not in line with the principle of fair competition that our country advocates."
"Votes, money and public opinion, kid!" Facebook CEO Zach said: "Only we know how the American market works correctly!"
"This is not only a competition in the field of science and technology, but also a competition for world dominance!"
This is not just competition between technology companies, but also because the capital behind them has begun to decline.
What everyone has to do is tell the capital of the United States that Changtian Technology has touched the core interests of the United States.
Technological hegemony must be in the hands of Americans.
The last time a country dared to challenge the United States, there were already two meters of grass on its grave.
Soon, under the prompting of many American technology companies, some members of Congress requested that the National Cyber Security Center of the United States send supervisory personnel to conduct a security review of Hanhai Technology and required Hanhai Technology to disclose its product technology.
The media reported that some anomalies occurred during the use of Hanhai Technology's products. Unnamed experts conducted preliminary tests on the products and found that there were a large number of unknown functions in the products and no open code.
Then some congressmen raised the issue that Hanhai Technology was suspected of illegally collecting users’ private personal information in an attempt to steal U.S. national secrets and illegally use them in the military field, posing a serious threat to U.S. national security.
At the same time, countries such as Japan, India, and Australia also successively passed proposals to review Hanhai technology products.
Australia has signed laws and regulations requiring stricter scrutiny of the data centers of foreign companies operating in Australia.
Dongyang has issued regulations that staff working in key government departments are not allowed to use Changtian Technology products.
But if you know, the Zemeng 2 wearable device is not sold in these countries.
At this time, Chen Xiao was fishing at Changzezhou Changtian Technology in Suzhou and Hangzhou, when he suddenly received a system prompt.
[Congratulations: The cumulative influence is 20 million, can you redeem it to light up the technology tree?]
coming!
finally come!
Chen Xiao was overjoyed!
He chose to light up the technology tree!
[Congratulations on getting: Controllable Nuclear Fusion] Expand the technology tree
[Technology tree: Medical biology (already lit); Physical and chemical machinery (already lit); Computer information (already lit); Communication technology (already lit); Intelligent biology (already lit)...]
[Expand Medical Biology: 1, Microbiology (LV8) 2, Molecular Biology (LV2)]
[Expand Computer Information: Integrated Circuit Design (LV20) Computer Language (LV20)]
[Expand communication technology: 1. Quantum communication technology (LV1) has obtained 5G technology]
[Expand physical and chemical machinery: 1. Ordinary lithium battery technology (LV20), 2. Power system (LV2), 3. Controlled nuclear fusion (LV1)]
[Expand intelligent creatures: 1, biochip (LV1)])
After gaining this huge amount of influence, Chen Xiao successfully unlocked nuclear fusion technology.
"Controllable nuclear fusion!
"Chen Xiao was very surprised. Nuclear fusion technology can be said to be the future of human energy.
If nuclear fusion technology is developed, mankind will have inexhaustible energy.
Nuclear fusion can produce clean and safe electricity in a sustainable manner
Countries around the world regard nuclear fusion as the next generation of energy, and Europe has invested 20 billion euros to jointly fund the construction of the nuclear fusion experimental device of the ITER project.
Energy-deficient countries like Japan attach great importance to research on energy revolution, investing a total of nearly 4.4 trillion yen.
Xia Guo has also begun research on "artificial suns" in recent years. Although it has made surprising breakthroughs, it is still far away from developing controllable and sustainable nuclear fusion.
The current mainstream research direction in various countries is magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) proposed by Lao Mao Xiong, which uses magnetic fields to confine the plasma of light elements such as hydrogen to reach a high enough temperature and density to achieve nuclear fusion reactions.
For example, Xia Guo's tokamak device has been able to sustain ignition for more than 1,000 seconds, which is very advanced in the world.
However, this method has many shortcomings. Building and operating large tokamak devices requires a large amount of energy.
Moreover, the tokamak device needs to withstand extremely high temperatures, pressures and radioactivity levels during operation, which places high demands on the properties and durability of the materials. The current level of materials science cannot meet these needs.
After Chen Xiao read the instructions of the technology tree in detail, he found that the technology he obtained perfectly overcame these shortcomings.
Because the current production of energy blocks mainly relies on solar energy, although the efficiency is acceptable, it depends on the weather.
If controllable nuclear fusion can be achieved, then Xia's energy problem will be solved.
Just when he was thinking about future technology, Chen Xiao suddenly received a call from Wang Xiang: "I just received emergency news from the northwest region. There have been heavy sandstorms and heavy snowfall in the northwest region for two consecutive months, and the production of energy blocks has been greatly reduced."