Reborn Tycoon Rise

When the arcade arrived, Xu Zhi and others were still playing Disney. Yesterday, Robson and others also played a game, but they were immediately attracted. For more than two hours, they quickly became addicted.

With a keen sense of business, he immediately discovered that this was a huge business opportunity. He immediately approached Xu Zhi and wanted to obtain the general distribution rights for the entire North America, but Xu Zhi politely refused.

Accompanied by Matthew, Xu Zhi and others visited the largest chip production factory in California. Chip production factories are definitely the cleanest places in the world. The strict requirements of the production process are extremely abnormal. The requirements for particles in the air are a hundred times stricter than those of the most advanced ICU emergency rooms. The amount of money spent on air purification every year is astronomical. number.

However, compared with later generations of chip or LCD factories, this investment now is simply a drop in the bucket. In 2019, when Xu Zhi traveled back in time, the investment in a 10.5-generation LCD production line reached tens of billions of dollars, and the latest chip production line was also a drop in the bucket. However, starting from The one-time investment is only a small part, and the subsequent production costs are the biggest money swallower. Without sufficient technology, production team and experience, even if it is as strong as Apple with a cash reserve of 200 billion US dollars, and Apple with a cash reserve of 3 trillion US dollars Even the foreign exchange superpower dare not invest on a large scale.

Some people may say that the mainland in later generations is unable to enter this field because of technological blockades such as photolithography machines. But putting everything aside, even if there is a complete production line in China, a series of production experience and quality control will never be achieved overnight. The control of scrap rate is also an extremely important indicator. The decades of production experience of Samsung and TSMC will definitely Cost-effectively suppresses everything.

When the country starts to make profits after a long period of training, the foreign-invested production lines may have been updated. What's more terrible is that it will face Samsung's counter-cyclical and reverse expansion of production. This trick has been tried and tested by Samsung. In the 1980s and 1990s, RB The powerful semiconductor was also driven to death by this trick.

Of course, what we are talking about here is the economic ledger. From a national perspective, the difference is between having and not having it.

But it is still the late 1970s. Even in a few years, although the production cost of chips is high, companies of some sizes can still afford it. The main orders for TI's factory in San Francisco are from its own industrial products and other companies. Home appliance.

However, this is also an era when RB home appliances are aggressively invading the United States. RB Company pays more attention to the integration of the upper and lower industrial chains. Basically, all chip orders are produced by itself. This is a fatal blow to TI's factory.

The chip production workshop is a very confidential place in Deyi, and the process of entering is very complicated. Xu Zhi and others are just on the balcony on the second floor, looking at everything below through the glass. Although they have not entered the era of large-scale AI, However, there are not many employees in the tens of thousands square meters of workshop below. The workers mainly care and operate the machines. Compared with some light industries in Xiangjiang, they are many times taller.

After visiting the chip factory, Xu Zhi was invited to the motherboard factory, which is divided into:

Regarding machinery, Xu Zhi knew some basic knowledge, but he couldn't understand much about the most cutting-edge equipment of this era, not to mention that his current status did not require him to understand this knowledge.

It takes half a minute to complete the production of a motherboard. This speed is simply unbelievable, and this is just a production line in the workshop.

Matthew was extremely proud of his company's advanced equipment and said to Xu Zhidao: "Mr. Xu, our equipment is one of the most advanced in the world. There are not many similar factories in the entire United States."

Xu Zhi smiled and said: "What about RB? There are many powerful semiconductor companies over there."

Matthew said disdainfully: "RB is just relying on artificial intelligence to fight a price war. In terms of technology, our equipment far exceeds theirs."

The invention of semiconductors was basically independently promoted by the United States. This is of course understandable. The transistor was invented in the American laboratory in 1947. Both the U.S. military and major technology companies have discovered the scientific and technological value contained in it, so they have shown their own achievements. The supernatural is conducting research.

At the same time, other developed countries, such as Japan, Britain, Germany, and France, had just gone through war in their own countries. They had no food to eat and no houses to live in. How could they have so much energy to engage in scientific research.

It wasn't until the rise of the RB economy in the 1970s that American semiconductors ushered in an eyeing wolf.

But for many technology companies in the United States, they don't study why RB's semiconductor costs are so low. They just directly understand that RB's labor costs are lower than those in the United States.

In terms of labor, RB is indeed lower, but in fact it is not much different. What many companies in the United States do not know is that RB people are working overtime and are far more loyal to the company than American workers. They do not need to target the union. All employees regard the company as their own. As a second home, in terms of quality control, RB's semiconductor yield rate is far higher than that of companies in the same industry in the United States. This is the main reason why RB's products are popular around the world.

Because of his high self-esteem, soon all American semiconductors will suffer a fatal blow. However, this has nothing to do with Xu Zhi. After the tour, he had lunch in the factory cafeteria, rested for a while, and started in the afternoon. Formal business negotiations.

In the conference room, Matthew said directly: "Xu Sheng, because we have not yet designed the sample and debugged the production line, and the order is not yet certain, we must charge for the early design costs and production line trial debugging. As for the later costs, The product price will be determined based on the debugging results and the total subsequent orders.”

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "How much does it cost?"

This is actually the same as opening a mold for some products. The mold fee is a big sum at the beginning. If it is a long-term cooperation partner, the factory can advance the money first, but if it is the first time to cooperate, the money will basically be paid first. Charge.

Matthew quoted a figure: "$200,000."

Xu Zhi frowned and said, "The price is too expensive."

Matthew smiled and said: "It's not expensive. We need engineers to redesign the motherboard and then shut down the production line for debugging. It may take several weeks. You must know that shutting down our production line is very costly."

"Really, but I just saw two production lines parked over there in the workshop?" Xu Zhi shook his head and smiled. He had already investigated before coming. The factory was not operating at a sufficient rate and several production lines were already there. Edge collection ash.

If it was really busy and the production line needed to be shut down to debug the new motherboard for Xu Zhi, then 200,000 would be considered worthwhile. However, the other party counted the vacant machines as full duty. Of course Xu Zhi would not agree and said directly: " For one hundred thousand dollars, you are responsible for making the first complete production line prototype, if you don’t agree, forget it.”

Matthew whispered a few words to the person next to him, and then said to Xu Zhi: "Then Mr. Xu must ensure that the order in the future must exceed 20,000 pieces, then we can accept the price you mentioned."

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "This is impossible. We haven't even decided the price of the motherboard order. How can you promise me how many motherboards to purchase?"

Matthew thought about it for a while and said: "How about this, we don't adjust the production line first and just make a prototype in the laboratory. The cost is not high. After the prototype is confirmed and there are no problems, how about we consider the next step? "

"Okay." Xu Zhi nodded and said. In fact, the other party just wanted to take the first step. Once the samples were really released, if Xu Zhi did not agree to the subsequent cooperation, it would be delayed some time. But even this doesn't matter. As long as it is made, the main factor in price is the cost per picture in the later stage. Moreover, the electronics exhibition is about to start, so time cannot be delayed too much.

At the beginning of the cooperation, there were not many details. Xu Zhi paid 10,000 US dollars as a sample fee and promised that the arcade machine would be delivered within 2 days. The two parties officially entered into their first cooperation.

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It is really impossible to find some information that is too detailed in the electronics industry, so I try my best to ensure that there are no problems with the big numbers. Please forgive me if I am wrong with the small ones. After all, I don’t think anyone who really understands the electronics industry will come here. Wrote a novel...