Chapter 0942 The urgency of research and development!
Early the next morning, Lu Feng got up and had breakfast. He went to school when he needed to go to school and went to work when he needed to go to work. At 8:30 in the morning, the first meeting about the Electrical Appliance City officially started today.
It was also the first time for the Electric City project team to meet Lu Feng, and several relevant executives seemed a little nervous.
"Regarding the recent interview with the boss of Gome, I have to tell Mr. Lu about it. We are currently integrating resources and purchasing goods. Half of them are our products, right?" Wei Yandan asked a few people.
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"Yes, all the original small household appliances have been arranged. We have signed supply contracts with thirty new companies, which basically covers most of the household appliances. The prices are relatively low because we use our own logistics system.
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"Show the report to Mr. Lu later."
Everyone lay on the table and studied for a long time, and then breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that all aspects of work were in place.
The door to the conference room opened and Lu Feng stepped in. When he saw Wei Yandan, he asked, "Mr. Wei, have you eaten?"
"After you have eaten, please take a seat. These are the current leaders of the Electrical City project team. We have not established a subsidiary company, but have just separated a department for management." Wei Yandan introduced.
Lu Feng glanced at a few people, sat down, and asked, "I heard that the CEO of Gome was interviewed?"
"We have also heard that the Electrical Appliance City has not yet opened, and the atmosphere is no longer right. Some people even privately say that we want to do everything and are suspected of being a monopoly." Wei Yandan said helplessly.
"We are not like them when it comes to electrical appliance cities. We do our own thing! People outside the province say that Jiafeng people are warlike and fight everywhere. Just open a few electrical appliance malls with an area of more than 2,000 square meters in first-tier cities. The first batch
First, according to the plan of ten companies, how much is the total investment?" Lu Feng asked.
"Mr. Lu, we have made a budget now. Based on the current land prices, rents, labor costs, decoration costs, publicity costs, transportation costs, etc. in the top ten cities, we have calculated them all. On average, each company's initial investment is expected to be around five
Around a thousand, ten companies are expected to need 500 million!"
"Five hundred million is not too much!" Lu Feng nodded and said: "Then we will open one before the end of the year, and the rest will come slowly, but the plan must be big. I need a grand electrical city planning map and development report."
Wei Yandan has been with Lu Feng for a long time. She had not paid the slightest attention to projects such as overseas markets, VCDs, and pagers.
He handles everything personally and rushes to the front line to deal with any difficulties that he cannot handle.
But this time in Electrical City, Lu Feng didn't seem to care much. He seemed to need such a thing, but didn't want to invest too much money.
Lu Feng really doesn't want to build an electrical appliance city, but investors need to draw a pie for them. If you want to do research and development, the devil will give you the money.
Only by building an Electrical Appliance City and promoting Jiafeng Electrical Appliance City as a large-scale electric appliance chain store in the United States can we have a future. Most of the funds will still be given priority to R&D companies.
And Lu Feng is starting to get a little anxious. As the equity in his hands is getting smaller and smaller, the expansion and market value growth of Jiafeng Electronics must satisfy everyone on the board of directors. Although the board of directors meeting has not yet been held, Lu Feng will
You have to face pressure.
Lu Feng seemed a bit perfunctory throughout the meeting, but kept mentioning that costs must be controlled, the expansion of the Electrical Appliance City must be slow and cautious, and it must be piloted in Shenzhen first, researching various data, and forming its own management system.
Then expand.
Anyone who knows Lu Feng a little bit can see that Lu Feng's heart is not in the Electrical Appliance City at all.
The meeting lasted for two hours, and the atmosphere was very relaxed. At first, several people in charge were afraid that Mr. Lu would be serious, but they didn't expect that the matter was settled by just talking and laughing.
After the meeting, Wei Yandan looked at the happy expressions of several of them and said nothing. He originally thought that these people would have important positions within the group, but now it seems that there is not much chance of promotion.
After the meeting, Lu Feng went to the R&D company without stopping and summoned all the senior executives in Liucheng.
"Mr. Ni is gone?" Lu Feng asked Liucheng.
"I'm leaving today. I'll come over after finishing the things at hand. I can tell that he still wants to do something and has the urge to do so." Liucheng replied.
"When the time comes, we will set up a separate project team and give it to him. He will work on whatever research and development direction he wants!" Lu Feng said solemnly.
"Mr. Lu, do we really want to build a computer?" Liucheng asked in a low voice.
"Not necessarily, we'll see when the time comes!"
"Then investing so much money, we have the technology, but we don't produce it, isn't this a waste of money?"
"Why waste money? When the time comes, the technology patents will be sold for licensing, to Lenovo!" Lu Feng said seriously.
"Ah?" Liucheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard this, and nodded in agreement.
"Okay, now let's get down to business. It's October soon, and 1994 will soon pass. The group has developed very rapidly this year, and the progress of the R&D company has also been rapid, especially in televisions, pagers, and VCDs.
The three products have 1,600 patents, including more than 300 core patents, which is very good and I am very pleased!"
"But! I want to tell you that next year we must accelerate and step forward. We are still far away from the world's first-tier level. There is a huge gap between us and companies like Sony, Motorola, Panasonic, and even Samsung. There is a huge gap in core technology.
Too big."
"Why do we attach so much importance to R&D? I used all the money from financing to go to R&D companies, coaxing, deceiving, and concealing it. I just hope it will be faster, faster. What are you? It's the heart. When the heart is strong, you won't be afraid of anything."
"This year has been very tiring, and next year will be even more tiring. If you want a budget of 500 million US dollars, you have to be worthy of the 500 million. With the help of Ruixin Lab, communication technology will find its own path within two years. This can only be regarded as ordinary.
If you can’t make progress on your own, you’ll have to find others to cooperate. But in other areas, such as core processors, image information processors, signal compilation, and radio transmission technology, these are key points.”
"We will be successful only if we catch up with the first-tier international companies in these aspects. With the core processor as the center, independent circuit design, independent chip planning, architecture, and the most mainstream technology in the world, others are already moving towards zero.
We have progressed to one micron, and it will not take long to move towards the nanometer level. We are still happy to make several TV control processors."
"I'm not forcing you to do it, but to attract more talents. If you can poach people from Intel, don't be merciful. If Intel doesn't work, just poach them from AMD. If it doesn't work, Motorola, you all."
There is a sense of urgency, the company is no longer the same company.”
"At the end of this year, the first board meeting will be held, and all budgets will be approved by the board of directors. Why do those people spend so much money? Of course it is to make money! They will definitely regard Zhu Lidong as a
God, not you!"
The atmosphere at the scene was almost solidified. Everyone present had tense faces. The unprecedented pressure made them feel breathless.
"Mr. Lu, starting from next year we will set up a special task force to tackle key problems. We must conquer the core technology within two years. This year we have set up a core processor project team. There are seventeen project teams below that are conducting research and development around the world. Next year
We will speed up the pace!" Liucheng said with a solemn expression.
"TV chips are the most successful thing we have done so far, and we hope to continue to do so. This year, we have opened up the domestic market relying on TV core processors. In the past, we relied on TSMC or Samsung to import them.
Even companies like Konka and Skyworth are so unwilling to deal with us, they are still purchasing our processors."
"I don't want to say anything unnecessary. I still say the same thing. In 1995, which is coming in a few months, I hope you will take the core industry to a new level." Lu Feng said solemnly.
Others began to report on the current situation of the R&D company. The overall expansion this year has been very large. R&D centers have been set up in Germany, France, Finland, and Sweden, and more than 300 senior engineers have been hired at high prices, as well as more than 700 university professors.
Serve as a consultant.
Jiafeng R&D is like crazy, searching for talents all over the world.
We have cooperated with relevant majors in thirty-six universities around the world. Although some of the cooperation is subtle, we went to do some welfare, donate some money, and fool some students into joining labor unions or other game teams. In this way,
Ways to attract high-end talents to join.
The meeting lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon, and he didn't even have lunch. Lu Feng was really anxious. If he missed catching up in research and development in the past few years, he would really be unable to catch up.
In the 1980s, the semiconductor industry was dominated by Fuso, and Motorola was the global hegemon. In the 1990s, the United States began to pursue semiconductors. Both parties were chasing each other in research and development. Finally, Intel released the Pentium fourth-generation processor in 2000.
Breaking through the original 0.1 micron, the core processor officially entered the nanometer world and achieved transcendence.
Coupled with the establishment of the board of directors, it was impossible for Lu Feng not to rush. Of course, he also knew that it would be too difficult to break through within two years.
However, under the financial offensive of no less than 500 million US dollars per year, Lu Feng still feels that there is hope.
The meeting is coming to an end, and everyone present has a cold sweat on their backs. They have been tired enough this year, how will they survive next year?
Liucheng took a deep breath and whispered: "Mr. Lu, do you have enough time recently?"
"What's wrong?"
"Ruixin Laboratory has officially started operation. It is necessary to meet some foreign R&D personnel working there to make them feel that we take it seriously. When the person in charge there talked to me about this matter, they were still relatively friendly towards you.
Interested, especially since you are so young." Liucheng seemed to think that the people over there were a bit too much, and he was just curious about what the boss looked like, so he asked him to run over.
"I don't have any plans, I just want to go there!" Lu Feng agreed.