Chapter 736
Although, in theory, several companies founded by Lin Qi in the early days named after the group company, such as Xinzeng Electronics Group, Xinzeng Publishing Group and Xinzeng Film and Television Group, are all headquartered in Hong Kong. Except for Xinzeng Electronics Group, which announced that it will never go public, it has gradually developed into a headquarters mainly based on holding, finance and patents. Other businesses are increasingly decentralized to subsidiaries, and their subsidiaries are like dandelions, constantly flying out to take root and sprout, and taking their own hands.
However, new entrepreneurial film and television companies and new entrepreneurial publishing companies are both listed companies in Hong Kong, and are both giants, with market value exceeding more than HK$50 billion. Whether in terms of management or financing, Lin Qi should pay more attention to the Hong Kong headquarters.
However, in recent years, Lin Qi has been in Shenzhen for longer than in Hong Kong. Moreover, Shenzhen was mainly industrial production at the beginning, but as the industrial chain became more and more perfect, and with the continuous participation of the best graduates in China every year, Shenzhen's development speed has been faster than that of the headquarters.
For example, the development of XRM's CPU has basically been moved to Shenzhen. Because there are wafer factories and chip processing industry chains in Shenzhen.
Dr. Yu Youcheng's greatest contribution to the CPU industry chain of XRM architecture is not architecture design. More importantly, because he has managed the production of chip factories in Silicon Valley in the past and is familiar with the process of chips from R&D to production, this has broken the barrier between R&D and production of new entrepreneurial semiconductor business. The R&D personnel are almost the same as Intel and do not leave the front-line production. Basically, top scientists not only do their own research in their own laboratories, but sometimes they also need to directly guide front-line production in the factory production line, and work with the production line technicians and workers to solve the problems encountered in the actual production process.
In essence, the improvement of chip factory management and process level is more basic and difficult to master than chip design. Take chip design as an example. College students in related majors are professionally matched and willing to study in this direction, and they can even design CPU chips from scratch. For example, what technical content can be said at the beginning of the arm chip? It is a vulgar design that is disdained by many giants, but with the development of time, it has gradually become more and more advanced, integrating more and more transistors, and its performance has also hit new highs again and again?
The factory that Lin Qi often looks at recently is the factory of Xinxing Business Communications Company. Previously, Xinxing Business Communications Company's main business was fixed network, optical fiber, debugging demodulator, fixed telephone, router and other equipment. Now, new businesses such as GSM base station equipment, Kirin mobile terminals, etc. have been added.
Although the Kirin 1st generation mobile phone was invested and developed by the headquarters of Xinzengwen Electronics Group, after the official release of the mobile phone, the Kirin mobile phone business has been sold to Xinzengwen Communications Company for RMB 1 billion.
Of course, since Kirin 1st generation mobile phones are currently selling at a loss, we should control the pace of losing money and avoid spending too much money, which makes investors question the transfer of interests of listed companies.
Of course, there is interest transfer, but it is not that the Xinxing Business Communications Company transfers the interests of the parent company Xinxing Business Electronics Group, but that the Xinxing Business Electronics Group has transferred the Kirin mobile phone project at a cheap price to 1 billion yuan to the listed company. In the short term, profits may not be generated, but as time occurs, the project will make money sooner or later. It can even be said that if you maintain the price of 1,999 yuan for a year, you can make profits.
This product will have to be mass-produced for at least 3 years, so in the early stage, it will be a climbing stage for a year. Manage the "favorable" price to stimulate the product orders to maintain supply and demand. First, increase the volume, and then the order will stimulate the cost of every link of the supply chain to reduce, and after mass production of the entire supply chain upstream and downstream, sales will increase. In the future, the products will only become more and more profitable, and even the supply chain will be accustomed to accepting it, first at a loss for a period of time, and then, as the orders expand, the cost will continue to decrease to achieve a profit model.
If the supply chain loses for a few months, if it were another company, it would probably be scorned by those suppliers. However, the new entrepreneurship system directly makes people supply at a loss, and many companies will rush to do it. Because everyone knows that after the order volume surges, they will soon enter the stage of huge profits of making money with their eyes closed.
For industrial production, the biggest problem is not temporary loss-making supply, but the lack of orders!
If the order volume is huge, the manufacturer can quote a price of 10 yuan or even less for products with a cost of 11 yuan. Because, if the order comes, the manufacturer can reduce the product cost to 9 yuan, 8 yuan, 7 yuan or even less.
The cost of mass-produced and non-mass-produced products is far different.
This is still traditional industrial production. If it were the semiconductor industry, it might be a small batch of product. Only a few suppliers are willing to make it. A product is priced at $100,000, but they like to buy it. Because there are really few user orders, and the R&D cost and the cost of small production are very expensive. After mass production, the product priced at $100,000 can even be reduced to $1,000, and there is still a huge profit margin.
Just like the desktop CPU commonly used by ordinary users, the performance of a $300 CPU is sometimes even stronger and has higher technical content than some niche semiconductor chips worth thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of dollars.
Why are those niche chips so expensive? The main reason is that there are too few orders. For the sake of R&D of a few users, those users will naturally need to pay for the R&D costs of R&D and small-scale production.
The type of chip produced in mass production, such as the current xrm chip, may be tens of millions of users, paying for a chip. In this way, the expensive R&D costs may be less than $10 for each user. Last year, the cost of Luban 1-generation chip was still more than $200, but it has now been reduced to $160. It is expected that the cost of the four-core Luban 1-generation chip next year will be less than $100. It can be seen that this kind of consumer electronic product cannot look at too much profit indicators, but should also look at the number of patents, market share, shipment volume, yield rate, etc.
Lin Qi arrived at the new entrepreneurial communications company and found that the first generation of Kirin GSM communication baseband production line has been put into production. In essence, the communication baseband is not more complex than the CPU, but is a simpler chip and a metal antenna that receives signals.
In this regard, although there was no production experience in China before, wireless broadcasting, radar, TV antennas, etc. are also radio-related antenna technologies. In addition, with the information provided by Meng Xin, the current baseband and antenna of Kirin mobile phones have begun to be gradually mass-produced.
"In other words, Kirin can achieve a production capacity of more than 50,000 next month, and 100,000 units will be produced next month?" Lin Qi asked.
"Yes!" Li Ruoxi said confidently, "After that, these antennas and communication baseband technologies can be outsourced. Now there are three suppliers, Huawei, ZTE, and Datang, all of which are ready to manufacture communication basebands and antennas for us."
"Are these three companies?" Lin Qi was surprised. He was still quite excited when he heard the familiar companies. Of course, these companies are now tied together, which is not as good as a fraction of the new entrepreneurial communications company.
Many new entrepreneurial communication companies are also an absolute oligopoly in their projects. Many domestic telecommunications and communications-related companies are currently mainly working in a new entrepreneurial communications company. They line up to express their respect, brother, let’s have a meal.
Chapter completed!