Chapter 46: The Last Stand
Any high-tech enterprise has a strict confidentiality system. It would be too vague to reveal the projects under development casually.
Although Huawei is Luo Jia’s largest customer at present, it is best not to open this precedent.
However, Luo Jia thought again and again that Gong Xiangdong was eager to visit and tried his best to help him find a new office address. All of them revealed Huawei's current anxiety. It's better to listen to what they said first.
So Luo Jia smiled, "Director Gong, how are your 2012 laboratory doing recently?"
Alas ~
Gong Xiangdong sighed deeply, "How could it be good? The tragic level of this mobile phone war has far exceeded everyone's expectations."
"I'll tell you this. Apple had a cash reserve of up to $300 billion three months ago, but now it's only 270 billion left."
Luo Jia was stunned, "The news is reliable?"
Gong Xiangdong nodded, "We have accurate sources within Apple."
Luo Jia didn't say anything. It was tacit practice to mix sand between giant companies and send commercial spies.
However, this news still surprised Luo Jia. Within three months, Apple consumed up to $30 billion in cash flow, and it is definitely impossible to use all of this money for marketing.
There is only one truth. They are secretly preparing a nuclear bomb and are trying their best to accelerate research and development at all costs.
Next, Gong Xiangdong's words also confirmed Luo Jia's speculation.
"According to our intelligence, Apple and Samsung are preparing for a big project. In the past month, the number of charter flights from Seoul to Los Angeles has increased by thirty times. The two of them have been visiting each other and dispatching a large number of engineers to each other's companies."
"Not only us, but all of our domestic peers are very anxious now. Although we have temporarily taken the lead in terms of market share, it cannot be ignored that Samsung and Apple are both the world's largest giant companies with the highest market value, and the resources and connections they have are not comparable to those of us."
"This is an averaging war. Behind Samsung is the entire South Korea, and Apple is related to the glory of the king of high-tech in Silicon Valley, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and other giants are all assisting Apple in secret."
Sha Zhan interrupted and said, "You should know the news that Jinhua in southern Fujian was banned by the United States recently?"
Luo Jia nodded, feeling a little heavy.
Jinhua, Tsinghua Unigroup, Yangtze River Storage, and Anhui High-ranking Official Xin are four important pieces laid out in the memory field in my country.
Memory refers to memory chips and flash memory chips. This thing has a very high technical content. How high is it?
So far, my country's four major storage factories have invested hundreds of billions of dollars, and have poached thousands of engineers and R&D personnel from South Korea, Wanwan, Neon, and the United States, but so far, no convincing product has been produced.
Occasionally, you can see DDR3 memory with a Purple Cursor and a small number of flash memory chips on the market, which is the result of years of efforts by the four major manufacturers in my country's storage industry.
It's really sad to say that. I burned countless money, but it's like a bottomless pit. I still don't know when I will be proud.
Ladies will never know what kind of life are those engineers working in storage.
There is no technical data, semiconductor raw materials are monopolized by Neon, semiconductor design tools are monopolized by the United States, and semiconductor equipment is monopolized by Neon, Europe, and the United States, and it is completely from scratch.
Recently, good news has finally come. my country's four major storage factories may launch mass-produced products in the past two years. People in the circle have embraced each other to celebrate, feeling that the hard days have finally come to an end.
However, at this time, Jinhua, southern Fujian, was banned. I don’t know what kind of mood the engineers of Jinhua are now.
Luo Jia grabbed his head, "Breaking the blockade and hegemony is like climbing a mountain. Climbing from the foot of the mountain to the mountain is relatively easy. The most difficult thing is to reach the top. Once you climb to the mountain, there will be strong winds and blizzards, all these tricks will come out."
"The United States banned Jinhua, which means that Jinhua did a good job and made his opponent feel scared."
Gong Xiangdong agreed with Luo Jia's judgment, "I heard from industry insiders that the four major storage factories stay up late to work overtime every day, and many engineers are so tired that they are hospitalized. It's a matter of time to achieve results when working so hard. But suddenly Jinhua was completely banned, which is really a pity for them."
After a pause, Gong Xiangdong said, "According to the rumor coming from Samsung, they may hold a joint press conference with Apple in July."
“When?”
“July 16th.”
Swish ~
After hearing Gong Xiangdong's words, Luo Jia jumped up from the chair directly!
I set the start time of the May storm on May 16th, and then launched an epoch-making super camera on June 16th.
Now, Samsung and Apple are going to hold a press conference on July 16?
The fool also understands that this is a provocation, and they are seeking revenge!
"Do you know what products they are going to launch?" Luo Jia asked.
"They did a good job of keeping confidentiality this time. We are not clear about their actions at the moment, but according to speculation, it should be related to screens and storage, these two core components, but it is not ruled out that they will start a war with us in other fields." Gong Xiangdong said.
Luo Jia frowned and paced back and forth in the office.
After all, it is Samsung and Apple. Apple has almost the strongest design capabilities in the world. Samsung has successfully surpassed Intel and ranked first in the world in high-tech manufacturing. One of them is good at software and the other is good at hardware. Both are super giants and can naturally complement each other.
Is the situation that I finally opened up, will it be reinstated by my opponent?
Luo Jia is definitely unwilling to give up. At this time, he would help the four giants to withstand the joint attacks between Samsung and Apple.
At this time, another sentence from Gong Xiangdong made Luo Jia finally make up his mind.
"Yesterday, Opal quietly announced that all employees would cut their salaries by 20%.
Luo Jia stopped and asked in confusion, "Salary cut? The war has just arrived, and it is very harmful to the morale at this time."
Gong Xiangdong shrugged, "There is no way to stop the market. This mobile phone war is too expensive. Every morning, we wake up and spend hundreds of millions of dollars. Our financial director has half of his white hair in just three months, because he is worried that he can't sleep for many nights."
"Samsung and Apple have hundreds of billions of dollars in their hands, and behind it are the support of nine major Korean banks and Wall Street. We are competing with the old foundation we have finally saved over the years."
"If Samsung loses, there are also huge Samsung Electronics, Samsung Real Estate, Samsung Insurance, Samsung Automobile, Samsung Heavy Industry, Samsung Chemicals, Samsung Hotels, and Samsung Aibao Amusement Park."
"Samsung Tyco is even a military industry player, even his fucking armed helicopters and self-propelled artillery."
Gong Xiangdong paused, "If we lose, we will really lose our underwear. Reducing salary is nothing. Once we lose this mobile phone war, millions of employees will lose their jobs, which will affect countless ordinary families."
Luo Jia nodded. This was indeed a war that could not afford to lose, breaking the hegemony of overseas manufacturers' mobile phones.
"Come with me." Luo Jia suddenly said, and a light that was not easy to detect was seen through his eyes.
“Where to go?”
Chapter completed!