Chapter 434 Accidental negotiation and official announcement of Xingkong Semiconductor
Li Ze was really surprised to see Lei Jun, who looked like an "uninvited guest", and Wang Xiang, senior vice president of Qualcomm and chairman of Greater China, arriving in the hotel lobby in a "hurry".
Because yesterday and today are both weekends.
Generally speaking, unless the cooperative relationship is relatively close, or it happens to be during the cooperation negotiation period, large business negotiations will not be conducted on weekends.
The time of a business tycoon is indeed valuable, but not so precious that he has no personal space.
After greeting each other and getting to know each other, Li Ze was still a little confused.
In the end, Li Ze didn't ask the presumptuous question.
If he was Wen Liang, he probably wouldn't be surprised that the relationship between Lei Jun and Wang Xiang seems to be so good.
because……
Fifteen years later, Mr. Wang Xiang, now senior vice president of Qualcomm and chairman of China, joined MI and was eventually promoted to the position of group partner and president.
In fact, it can be seen from this incident that the cooperative relationship between MI and Qualcomm is quite complicated.
The first is that both parties later held shares in each other.
Therefore, from a business perspective, in terms of the positioning of MI by Lei Jun and shareholders in the future, the Mi series flagship models are almost all Qualcomm chips when taken apart, which is also a way to maximize profits.
Because later, after experiencing another Waterloo of ThePaper S1, which cost roughly 100 million US dollars, Lei Jun and others had no interest in self-research of core components.
Every time, some trivial supply chain technologies are promoted as so-called black technologies.
It’s marketing anyway.
Most of them are gimmick-level, visible general marketing plans.
There is rarely long-term word-of-mouth marketing that puts real experience first.
Let's put it this way, in the mobile phone industry, even Samsung cannot be said to want to build a long-term reputation because Samsung does not apologize for its after-sales service, which is stupid, and Samsung's self-research capabilities in core components are not very strong.
On the contrary, the production process is more powerful.
If an apple can only be counted as one, then a full dozen of chrysanthemums can be counted as half, which is not bad.
The fact that must be acknowledged is that Apple’s R&D strength in many core components is indeed very strong, and it is indeed willing to invest.
Let’s talk about the hairy M1
Ultra chips are really... expensive.
Other companies such as Intel and AMD can do it through gritted teeth, but they don't have the downstream product lines and consumer audience to support them.
Another thing that must be admitted is that if Tim had not later faced the abuse of countless netizens and criticism from experts, starting from the iPhone7 series, he began to use the baseband chips launched by Intel's acquisition of Infineon's wireless department, and once again abandoned the Qualcomm platform, then Apple's mobile phones The overall experience will always be unique.
This thing is actually a business strategy issue.
Apple has never been willing to pay the 5% Qualcomm tax.
In short, Apple's control over the supply chain and its strong integration and balancing capabilities are very, very strong.
However, in these aspects, the current Bolang terminal has begun to plan to do a more thorough job than Apple. Not to mention the control and integration capabilities of the general supply chain, just talk about the baseband...
For a senior vice president of Qualcomm to pay a hurried visit to Li Ze early in the morning already illustrates the problem.
"Mr. Ze, I'm sorry to disturb your weekend." Wang Xiang said with a smile on his face and got straight to the point without any rush.
Lei Jun helped from the side: "Old Wang knew that I had been very excited after meeting Mr. Ze yesterday, so he dragged me here to visit today."
Li Ze waved his hands repeatedly: "The two bosses are here to visit me. It's so exciting that I won't be disturbed."
The sedan chair was carried by everyone.
Anyway, no one will mind if you have a lot of good things to say.
After greeting and chatting for a long time, Lei Jun first brought up business matters: "I heard that Bolang is going to make great plans in the communications industry, mainly in the 4G direction. I don't know if the news is accurate."
Li Ze was not surprised by this, nor did he hide it. He told him frankly: "Currently, the business is mainly in the direction of 4G base stations. We have signed a long-term cooperation memorandum with China Mobile, mainly to undertake the supply of main communication equipment for China Mobile's 4G base stations."
"I see." Wang Xiang said with a look of sudden realization, "With all due respect, what do you think of the 4G baseband business?"
Li Ze said without hesitation: "Develop vigorously!"
"What does Mr. Ze think of our company's baseband business?" So, Wang Xiang changed the topic tactfully, with a smile on his face.
Li Ze pondered for a moment and said seriously: "It's very strong, especially 4G
On LTE, we have strong patent advantages and deep technology accumulation."
He is not going to disparage Qualcomm.
At the current level of Bolang Communications, although it has acquired key business lines of many companies, obtained numerous patent licenses, and developed some of its own research and development, in terms of 4G, let alone Qualcomm, there is no comparison with ZTE. some differences.
But it’s hard to say about the future.
After all, Wen Liang's decision was to dare to give up and directly benchmark the deeper LTE evolution. In terms of algebra, Bolang's main focus in 4G research and development is 4G+.
As for 5G, it is truly future-oriented... industrial technology.
After hearing what Li Ze said, Wang Xiang didn't hesitate anymore and finally went straight to the topic: "Our company looks forward to carrying out in-depth cooperation with your company on 4G baseband."
Without waiting for Li Ze to answer, Wang Xiang hurriedly expressed his sincerity in cooperation: "Our company can cooperate with your company through patent cross-licensing, joint development of basebands, etc..."
“…there are some areas where we can adopt a friendlier approach to cooperation…”
"I don't know if Mr. Ze and your company are interested in this aspect."
Li Ze did not speak in a hurry, although he knew that Wang Xiang's words sounded nice, but in reality it was just another way to collect Qualcomm tax, but the proportion would be slightly lower.
In fact... there is Qualcomm tax on Xinghai 1, but it is also collected in another form.
On the contrary, it is not available on Redmi phones.
Because the Redmi phone has different positioning and does not have a 4G module, it is divided into mobile version, China Unicom version and Telecom version.
The domestic 3G situation of the three major operators is not very ideal, and the number of base stations deployed is not very ideal. The situation is not good in the first place. With Bolang's continuous accumulation of integration capabilities, it is not necessary to go through Qualcomm... Who asked Qualcomm to authorize the very important CDMA .
XingHai, the overseas version of Xinghai 1
1 is equipped with 4G, so in the end it was charged Qualcomm tax.
But... now Bolang no longer wants to be taxed.
So, Li Ze thought about it for a long time and said: "I'm sorry, although your company's sincerity in cooperation is very good, but our company has some... pursuits in the communication business, so we will not consider cooperation for the time being."
Wang Xiang was not surprised, and the smile on his face remained: "If your company needs cooperation in the future, Mr. Ze must remember to give priority to Qualcomm."
"good."
Afterwards, Lei Jun and Wang Xiang left together, but not long after, Lei Jun turned back.
"Huh? What is Mr. Lei doing?" Li Ze, who was familiar with Lei Jun, expressed his doubts straightforwardly.
Lei Jun smiled and waved his hand: "Let's make peace."
"Um?"
"Old Wang is in his position now and has no choice."
"Ah? You..."
"No one is happy to be charged Qualcomm tax, and neither are we. There are better choices. You are good, I am good, everyone is good."
Li Ze suddenly realized: "Lao Wang is going to join your company?"
"Absolutely." Lei Jun said vaguely.
Li Ze pretended to sigh: "No wonder Mr. Lei is so dedicated. Congratulations to Mr. Lei in advance."
"You're welcome." Lei Jun smiled, a little tacitly.
"..."
Li Ze sent Lei Jun off again with a gift, which made Li Ze feel even more profound.
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Since the 25th, Bolang Group has been making frequent moves. However, the most important goal of provoking America's officials has hardly moved, but it has frightened some business competitors.
Qualcomm couldn't wait to send the group's senior vice president and China chairman, who turned out to be half of its own people.
Only when cooperation can be effectively achieved is a ghost.
Boss Lei turned around and said a few words. The meaning was too obvious. Wang Xiang would adopt a delaying strategy.
By then, Qualcomm's senior management will all be fooled.
Dumping?
Then someone needs to cooperate.
Generally speaking, Qualcomm is quite anxious for its own interests, and it is to be expected that it is in a hurry.
But what happened to Wang Xiang was completely unexpected.
At least that's the case for Li Ze.
If it were Wen Liang, today's results might be a little different.
He wasn't very familiar with MI, but that Wang Xiang later became a member of the MI family's controversial core automotive business team, and he had seen the video report.
When it comes to Lei Jun, there are so many keywords like Qualcomm that I really can’t think of.
However, the news in the communications industry is just the starting point for Bolang's game.
To set the tone
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Monday the 29th.
At early ten o'clock in the morning, Li Ze, who was still in the capital, initiated a remote multimedia conference. Participants included Chu Yuanliang, the new COO of Bolang Terminal, Zhong Zhengye, CEO of Bolang Communications, Zhao Zhi, acting CEO of Star Semiconductor, Tian Wenkai, COO, and others.
At the meeting, Li Ze went straight to the point and arranged some things.
The meeting only lasted 24 minutes.
Very bolang style.
No meetings are held unless necessary, and meetings are only small-scale meetings. In fact, in Bolang’s meetings, it is rare to see who has done a good job in PPT or documentation.
Bolang's management requirement is that no matter what method you use, as long as you explain things and problems clearly in the shortest possible time.
There are only two words for making fancy PPTs and fancy nouns: get out.
Shortly after the meeting, Star Semiconductor and Jiangxia local government officially announced a major financing event that had been almost unreported before.
"Recently, Starry Sky Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Bolang Group, has reached an investment cooperation memorandum with local state-owned assets and finance in Jiangxia, and plans to invest 80 billion to expand the development scale of Starry Sky Semiconductor and is committed to solving the problem of domestic independence of wafer production."
This is the briefing.
Then there are the official promotional updates of Starry Sky Semiconductor, including but not limited to promotion on the official website, official accounts of various platforms and other channels.
"The first phase of the Starry Sky Semiconductor project has entered the final stage of equipment settlement, and the infrastructure construction of the second phase project has entered the final stage. Equipment settlement has officially begun. It is expected to be officially put into production in the second quarter of next year, with a monthly production capacity of 50,000 wafers and a contract of 12 million chips."
"The first phase of the Starry Sky Semiconductor project will build the country's first domestic equipment production line, using domestic front-end lithography equipment, and the first phase production process will be 45nm..."
"Starry Sky Semiconductor..."
Countless information is like a handful of stones scattered on a calm lake, causing thousands of waves.
It attracted countless eyes.
There is no doubt that the main promotion direction of these official announcements is also placed on overseas social media platforms.