Liucheng brought over the latest company report, and several vice presidents explained the specific situation. They were very optimistic about the chip market and believed that as long as the mobile phone market was developed, the R&D company could achieve breakeven.
Lu Feng always just listens to what senior executives say. After all, they can't tell their bosses that the company will be finished in a few years. There are more problems that need to be discovered by themselves.
"We need to increase talent training. Try to recruit as many college students as possible, and let the talent reserve center open a docking department for the R&D company to transport talents. At the same time, the R&D company itself must have a talent reserve center." Lu Feng looked at the report in his hand.
Said: "Some things are most stable when you hold them in your own hands."
"After the domestic R&D center is built, as long as overseas scientists are willing to come to China for development, they will be invited to come to the country, and food, accommodation and air tickets will be included. If you want to bring your family, we will also help with your children's schooling, so that
They have nothing to worry about.”
"The whole core requirement is to keep a tight grip on talents. Only with talents can we have a future. Also, from now on, any exchange between the R&D company and other branches within the group must sign a formal contract.
All technical authorizations have been shortened to one year!”
"How much of the previous budget of two billion US dollars was spent?" Lu Feng asked Liucheng.
"The two billion is a three-year budget. One billion was given in the first year, and five hundred million was given this year. There are still five hundred million that have not been given." Liucheng thought for a while and said: "There are still two billion left on the books.
It’s probably over a billion dollars.”
"It's already September, and we're already looking at October. Why wait? If you're good at flowering, there's nothing wrong with the flowers. No one can say anything." Lu Feng closed the folder and ordered.
Said: "My private jet, villa, vehicles, etc. are all affiliated with the group. I will negotiate with the headquarters recently and ask them to sell them to the R&D company for one yuan."
Liucheng nodded. Several executives present now knew in their hearts that the R&D company would really become independent by the end of the year!
Everyone was unsure for a moment. The R&D company has been the blood transfusion of the group headquarters since its establishment. Without the group, can this company survive for a year?
"In the past few months, we must seize the time to rectify the internal situation and establish a strong enough defense line." Lu Feng asked Liucheng: "There hasn't been any trouble in the United States recently, right?"
Liucheng thought for a moment and said: "Our actions have not increased much, but we have some competition in the markets of neighboring countries. The competition for Fuso is really big. As far as I know, there are already many Fuso chips.
Corporate executives have been poached, and the investigation into Fuso's chips is also ongoing."
"Various media have reported that Fuso is stealing American technology, and the suppression of tariffs, raw materials, and technology is also quite severe. The most important thing is that they have supported the competition between Samsung and TSMC. In this environment, because of our
The product has not been exported overseas, and the domestic market is not large, but it has not been targeted much since then."
"Fuso's global market share of semiconductor products has been declining continuously since 1985. At that time, the market share was as high as 40%. This year, it is said that Toshiba has been suppressed particularly hard. It does not exceed 15% at most. Mr. Lu, just
Judging from the current situation, it is the most stable choice for us to stick to the domestic market."
Liucheng said it very euphemistically. In fact, Jiafeng's current technology cannot go out of the country at all. The technology is all talent poached from overseas. It is a matter of spending money to buy technology and has not carried out technology iterations to form its own research and development path. For the United States,
Jiafeng is just a troublemaker at most.
During lunch, Lu Feng briefly inquired about the situation of Jiaxun mobile phones. It currently covers six provinces in China, and monthly sales are basically stable. Motorola, Sony, and Nokia brands also maintain regular sales. The market
It looked like everything was dying down.
The most threatening one right now is PHS. There are internal sources saying that PHS will be launched in advance and the price is expected to be 3,000 yuan. This price is simply a dimensionality reduction blow to the mobile phone market.
Liucheng was very concerned about PHS and mentioned it several times at the dinner table. Lu Feng just comforted him that a mobile phone is a mobile phone and a PHS is a PHS. Technical shortcomings cannot be covered up or replaced.
This meal is mainly for the R&D company to prepare and make arrangements with the group headquarters several months in advance, while also leaving a hole for talent reserves.
In the afternoon, Lu Feng convened a meeting with senior executives to discuss the research and development direction of chips, storage, displays, motherboards, etc., as well as the direction of the next generation of semiconductors.
At present, computer processors have been included in the research and development progress. Lu Feng's requirement is to catch up with this generation of Pentium in 2002, form a strong second-tier brand in the domestic market, and strive to equal or even surpass it in 2010.
As for mobile phones, the R&D personnel have also given directions. SMS has been carried out in the laboratory. In terms of storage, major international companies are catching up. Siemens' mmc card has already taken shape, and the SD card developed by Panasonic and Toshiba is even basic.
Finish.
These are the two major trends in mobile phone storage in the world. The development of SD cards is backed by Silicon Valley. The two parties are cooperating in competition and competing in cooperation.
Now Jiafeng Storage's main research and development direction is SD cards, because the leading engineer was poached from Toshiba!
"Then can we get the authorization?" Lu Feng asked.
Liucheng looked embarrassed, and said after a while: "It's difficult in a short time, but we also have technological breakthroughs. After they launch their products, we will try to exchange technology. We are still in close contact with some companies in Fuso."
"Investments must also be increased in the direction of color screens. At the same time, attention must be paid to software development. This is very important. Other deficiencies can be purchased. Once the software becomes a disadvantage, it will be difficult to change."
At the meeting, Lu Feng focused on the Internet. In the future, computer software will be put on mobile phones, allowing mobile phones to replace computers. The development of operating systems should be placed in the same echelon as chips, storage, and screens.
It is unrealistic to expect to catch up with others in a few years, but we need to reach the second tier in a short time, make affordable products, spread the products, and make every small factory able to use the products of the R&D company.
To put it bluntly, it is an ordinary chip, ordinary storage, ordinary screen, plus an ordinary operating system. If consumers want to buy cheap, they must become the test products of R&D companies, and they must constantly update and iterate based on user feedback.
, and at the same time, the coverage of the operating system should be increased.
Lu Feng asked them to launch a basic version of the operating system in 2000, which would be free and open to the public. At that time, they would set up a website, and you could use the R&D company's software by simply registering. The software should be bundled with the hardware.
The meeting ended at around three o'clock in the afternoon. Everyone walked out of the conference room feeling huge pressure. Now they just launched a mobile phone, and the boss was yelling about the Internet, operating systems and a lot of confusing words. How could we not let these people
People are confused.
Lu Feng left the R&D company and went straight to Jiaxun to briefly understand the situation. On the way there, Lu Feng saw various slogans on the side of the road to crack down. It was obvious that the crackdown was in full swing now.
In the United States and Wall Street, a large number of traders are sitting in front of computers and operating. They are constantly searching for Thai baht internationally, contacting major banks for loans, and storing financial ammunition!
In September 1996, Thailand's U.S. dollar reserves were US$37.2 billion. The currency exchange rate was generally stable, but little did they know that danger was coming.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Soros was sitting at the head of a conference room and asked about the current status of the Thai baht loaned. They had already obtained Thai baht worth US$5 billion, with a loan period of one month and an interest rate of 5%.
"Now is the time to take action. At noon today, we will publish financial reports about Thailand in some financial newspapers. Let the wind out first and talk about Thailand's economy seriously."
At noon, many financial newspapers on Wall Street published articles about Thailand's economy. Many well-known economists believed that Thailand's economy was weak, the internal manufacturing industry was upgraded too slowly, and only the tourism industry was left to support it. They were not optimistic about the economic growth in the next few years.
, believes that Thailand's economic growth rate next year will drop from 8% in 1995 to about 1%.
As soon as this news came out, people who knew finance on Wall Street smelled something different. On the same day, Thai officials refuted this statement. They said that Thailand's economic growth was good and the industry was healthy and comprehensive.
A week later, at 8 o'clock in the morning in the United States, the foreign exchange market was trading normally on this day. Soros arrived at the company early. The Thai baht is a small currency and the daily trading volume is not much. Such a plate is also the easiest to smash.
"What's the trading volume now?" Soros asked.
"Nine million U.S. dollars. According to observations in the past few days, the trading volume of Thai baht is about 30 million," the trader replied.
"Throw out $10 million!"
In less than ten minutes, the Thai baht worth 10 million US dollars was thrown out, quickly becoming a bomb in the market. The originally smooth trading line suddenly plummeted. At this moment, no one who was staring at the Thai baht knew it.
What happened, panic began to spread.
Thai officials immediately noticed the exchange rate problem, quickly mobilized funds to take over the transaction, and ate up the remaining funds in one go.
"Been eaten!" the trader shouted.
"Don't worry, let's see if they counterattack?"
With such big fluctuations in the foreign exchange market, the Thai Foreign Exchange Bureau did not dare to make the decision without authorization. It reported the matter immediately. After receiving the news, the instructions from the upper management were to maintain the exchange rate and not give any sweeteners to speculators who speculate in foreign exchange. They must give a stick.
Call back.
Half an hour later, the Thai baht exchange rate began to rise, and he took the initiative to buy five million US dollars worth of Thai baht.
"Raised!"
"Smash!!"
In an instant, another 10 million US dollars were thrown out, and the line that had just raised his head instantly turned into an A-shape!