Chu Nan is naturally aware of the huge profits in the mobile phone industry.
After all, in his company's development plan, he has not considered the hardware development of mobile Internet, so he has conducted in-depth research on this area, and also learned from the development history of the mobile phone industry in the parallel world through the Super Baidu system.
According to the level of technological development in this world, in the parallel world, the mobile phone industry is only in its infancy.
The functions of current mobile phones are still very simple, with small touch-screen screens and mainly functions of making calls and sending text messages. The smart phone system has just appeared, and there is still a lot of potential that can be tapped.
It is no exaggeration to say that Chu Nan is confident that he can completely control the technological power of the mobile Internet industry and the computer Internet industry in his own hands, because he has a complete set of development technologies in the parallel world.
Therefore, he deeply agreed with Luo Bao's words.
Because the current stage of the mobile phone industry is still a stage of huge profits, people have become popular with mobile phones. However, due to investment in hardware production and chip research and development, the threshold is too high. As a result, there are only a few truly powerful mobile phone industries, which naturally form a near-monopoly.
If the price is reduced, of course the profit will be considerable.
This is also the reason why Gu Mengmeng, who is a software developer, changed his mind to make mobile phones and even borrowed large amounts of debt.
As long as the mobile phone design is successful, based on the current high profits, you will definitely make a profit, but the key is that you must design a mobile phone without problems.
After designing the mobile phone hardware, you must find an OEM for processing and production. This is what Luobao does part-time. Only when OEMs produce in large quantities can the design samples truly become large-scale commercial products.
"Mobile phone products are indeed hugely profitable, but the OEMs only receive processing fees, not all profits."
Chu Nan smiled and said, "But if the scale increases, even the processing fee of a few hundred per mobile phone will not be able to support the huge profits from large quantities."
"That's right! That's why I chose to invest on my own and go it alone."
The more Luo Bao talked, the more excited he said, "Sister, Brother Chu, you don't know, I have been studying in the factory for several years, and after exploring the entire set of technologies, I decided to build my own OEM factory to produce mobile phones. Even if the scale is
It will be less in the beginning, but as long as it is stable, you will definitely have a good income in the future.”
"I have a fellow villager in Beihai City, and he introduced me to a wealthy boss. He agreed with my idea, so he was willing to invest money for me to purchase equipment and produce the factory. The factory started out as a simple copycat of cheap mobile phones.
The hardware architecture is very successful, orders are gradually coming in, and production is on track. You don’t know, even if you just produce cheap OEM mobile phones, the profit for a year is scary."
“But I have greater ambitions, and of course I don’t want to just sit back and have nothing.
After all, cheap mobile phones have low technical content and fierce competition, and we are copycats. If we are sued by a big company, we will not only stop production but also have to pay patent fees.
So the company wanted to transform, so I hired some technical staff and started co-designing a new mobile phone architecture."
Speaking of this, Luo Bao said with some regret, "After more than three months and more than five million in research fees, the new hardware architecture was finally produced. The experimental products were transformed into products. When mass production was carried out, there were no problems.
.
But after it was sold, no one expected that the battery would overheat."
"What's even more annoying is that after investigation, it was found that the employee responsible for battery procurement actually purchased a batch of fake batteries, and the battery supplier was simply a second-rate dealer! In the end, a large number of returns were received, and the factory could no longer support it, so I owe
A lot of debt."
Hearing Luo Bao say this, Chu Nan had a new understanding of this handsome young man.
First of all, he was not like what Chu Nan had thought before, the kind of waste that was lazy and did business haphazardly, leading to failure and debt. Instead, he was really a pioneer with his own ideas.
Luo Bao only became what he is now because of the failure of his research, but he really has a chance to succeed.
If his newly researched mobile phone hardware architecture is designed correctly, it might really bring him a lot of income.
"Dabao, tell me the truth, how much money did you lose?"
Luo Wei frowned and said, "A factory closed down due to returned goods and only lost more than three million yuan?"
"Sister, how is this possible? Although the factory is not big, it is not very small either. Returns and payment are all miscellaneous. By the time it stopped running, it already owed more than 13 million yuan in debt."
Luo Bao said helplessly.
"What?
More than thirteen million?
?”
Luo Wei's face turned ugly again, "You actually owe so much money... Then why did you tell your parents that you only owed so little, which made them encourage me to sell the house to pay off your debt."
Luo Bao blushed and said with some embarrassment, "Sister, I didn't lie. It is true that there is only more than three million yuan left in arrears."
"You mean you paid off the 10 million arrears yourself?"
Luo Wei obviously didn't believe it, "You are already bankrupt, how can you afford to pay back so much money?"
"I am bankrupt, but I still have the patent for the hardware architecture. Although the mass-produced mobile phones were returned due to battery problems, the batteries were just fakes and had nothing to do with the hardware architecture.
The patent, factory equipment, etc. were packaged and sold directly for 10 million."
When Luo Bao said this, he said with some helplessness, "There is no other way. In order to quickly repay the loan and workers' wages, we can only sell it at a low price.
My new hardware architecture patent is worth at least 20 to 30 million!"
When Chu Nan heard this, he thought about it and suddenly said to Luo Bao, "How is the asset share ratio calculated for that foundry?"
"A few technicians and I invested in technology, accounting for 60%, and investors accounted for 40%."
Luo Bao said, "But we have an agreement. If the design of the new project fails and results in losses, the investors will not pay a penny more."
"Such overbearing terms?"
Chu Nan was surprised and said, "Your parents said that the investor was a second-generation official?
And it’s in Yongning City?”
"It's not like he's a second-generation official. He just seems to have a high-ranking official background. Anyway, he's quite powerful.
They are very popular in Beihai City. The reason why our factory has not been investigated for copying cheap motherboards for so long is mainly because of the ability of the investors."
Luo Bao said helplessly, "I originally wanted to have a good relationship with him, hoping to have a chance to make a comeback. Unfortunately, I didn't expect that all the three million he invested in the early stage were lost. He probably hates me..." "That person's name is
what name?"
Chu Nan asked curiously, "I wonder if you are famous in Yongning City?"
"I don't know either. I just know that he recently settled in Yongning City and his name is Ning Xiaochen."
"Ning Xiaochen?"
Chu Nan suddenly felt that this name seemed familiar, right?
Suddenly he realized that this Ning Xiaochen was not the young master of the Ning family in the capital. Last time, Han Yuxi almost fell off her horse in his villa and manor and was injured! I never expected that a young master from the capital like Ning Xiaochen could do this.
Investing in a self-made man like Luo Bao?
Or... he has been paying close attention to this mobile phone processing project?
Indeed, the more Chu Nan thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.
Logically speaking, it is impossible for a rich man like Ning Xiaochen to take a fancy to a factory of the size of Luobao, but why invest in such a small factory?
It seems... things here may not be as simple as imagined!