The richest man starts with a blind box

"Professor Zhao's last wish is also the last wish of our entire Jiangnan Group!" Boss Huang slapped the table excitedly and said, "How can our Jiangnan Group be controlled by others? We can own what others have. Since the Europeans don't let us use their high energy Particle collider, then we will build a stronger one ourselves, and after we build it, we will not let them Europeans use it!"

"..." The executives at the scene were a little numb. Why does it sound like they are really about to start building?

So some executives couldn't help it, and Liu Xiangjiang took the lead to ask, "Boss, for these things, wouldn't it be too wasteful to spend a lot of money to build a set of high-energy particle colliders?" As far as the main business is concerned, there is not much positive impact!"

"I heard that the budget for the equipment in the United States has expanded to 2000 billion US dollars, and it was rejected by the Congress of the United States. Even the United States cannot afford such equipment. Should we be more cautious?"

"Well, you really need to be more cautious!" Boss Huang nodded, then looked at Yang Yunhe and asked, "How much money do you estimate to build this equipment?"

"It only needs 180 billion at most...Forget it, relax a bit, 200 billion is enough!" Yang Yunhe said very simply.

"Okay!" Huang He nodded, then looked at the director of the financial department and asked, "How much is our scientific research budget for this year?"

"Boss, this year's original scientific research budget is 98 billion US dollars, and there is still 42 billion US dollars left, and it is estimated that by the end of the year, there will be about 30 billion US dollars!" The main pipe.

"Oh, then there is still a shortfall of 170 billion US dollars!" Huang He nodded, and then asked, "How much money is left on the company's books? I mean the cash that can be used immediately!"

"Not much, a little less than last year!" The financial director shook his head and said, "Currently, the cash we can use is less than 3000 billion U.S. dollars!"

"Puchi..." Upon hearing this number, many executives at the scene immediately sprayed out all kinds of things from their mouths.

Well, although they are all the top executives of Jiangnan Group, they have never understood the company's financial situation, because Boss Huang keeps it strictly confidential.Except for the relevant executives in the financial department, no one knows the specific economic situation of the company.

So this is the first time they heard about the actual capital situation of the group, and then they were directly blown away. The company actually has 1 billion U.S. dollars in operating funds. Confused, is our company already rich enough?
It just feels unreal, how could a company have so much cash?You can’t even write novels like this!

But in fact, this data is true, and it is even said that the financial manager only reported the cash figures, and did not report the funds of some securities and other financial products held by the company, otherwise the actual figures would be even more terrifying, because at this moment, Jiangnan Group has completely brought the entire terminal system under its own control.

Apple in another world was exposed by the media in 2016. The total amount of cash that Apple can freely use in its hands is as high as 6 billion U.S. dollars. This figure has defeated all companies in the world.

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To put it bluntly, if this money is stored in the bank, it can earn 200 billion US dollars every year just by eating interest, and there are less than 200 companies with a global profit of more than 5 billion US dollars. Apple’s cash flow is There is such a horror.

So why does Apple make so much money?
Of course, it is because the Lilan of Apple mobile phones is extremely amazing. In 2016, the model Apple sold to the outside world was iphone7, and the average price in the Chinese market was 6000 yuan per unit.

During this period, the flagship Android model competing with it was Mi 6, with an average selling price of around 2600 yuan, and the price difference between the two was more than double.

So will the manufacturing cost of Mi 6 be lower than that of iPhone 7?
The answer is that the manufacturing cost of Mi 6 is much higher than that of iPhone 7.

This may sound unbelievable. How can the cost of a mobile phone priced at 2600 yuan be lower than the cost of a mobile phone priced at 6000 yuan?

But the facts are like this. First of all, the global sales volume of any iPhone starts at 1 million units, which leads to the fact that all the parts it needs are also in units of [-] million. The demand is very strong and the order is very huge. The cost of each part can be kept extremely low.

On the contrary, even the Mi 6, which is at the peak of sales, has an annual sales volume of less than 1 million units, and the demand for orders is less than 000/7 of that of the iPhone 1, which is far lower than Apple in terms of unit price negotiation. The price of goods will naturally be higher than that of apples.

To put it simply, the original price of the same part is two dollars each, and Apple wants to buy 1 million pieces at the same time, so it can’t be very domineering and say to the supplier that I will pay the purchase price of 40 cents at most, if you don’t sell it to me, I'll just go buy it from someone else.

Although the supplier has a bitter look on his face, but after careful calculation, although the price of 40 cents is equivalent to a 1% discount, if the total number is 40 million, and mass production is used to reduce costs, then the 10 cents will be paid by himself. If you can earn 1 cents, 1 million is 000 million Lilan, which is money anyway.

If this order is handed over to a competitor, it will be equivalent to a loss of 2 million US dollars, and this 000 million US dollars is likely to be a fixed loss every year, who can bear it.

So although the price is very outrageous, the supplier can only bite the bullet and agree.

In the same situation, Xiaomi also proposed 40 cents for each part, but only 1 million pieces. In this case, the actual cost of each part can only be reduced to about 000 cents at most, and I have to earn at least each part. 60 cents each.

So the price of the supplier is deadly, the minimum is 70 cents or even 80 cents each, otherwise you can go to whomever you like, anyway, I rely on Apple as my father, and there is no shortage of orders.

Well, Xiaomi can only accept its fate and purchase the same parts at a price of 70 per ton.As the quantity of each part increases, the cost will naturally follow.

In addition, there is the cost of research and development. Although it is a bit frustrating to mention here, it has to be admitted that Apple is one of the few companies in the world that can independently complete the entire mobile phone design.

Domestic Android mobile phone brands such as Xiaomi basically play the role of assembly plants.

And this will bring about a huge gap in Lilan.

The most obvious of these is mobile phone chips.

As we all know, almost all mainstream Android phones now use Snapdragon chips developed by Qualcomm, while Apple uses its own A-series chips.

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In this way, the cost of the chip is completely two different models. Apple directly completed the design and manufacturing plan of the entire A-series chip, and then threw the entire plan to chip packaging manufacturers such as TSMC, allowing them to follow their own design. To complete the production and manufacturing, TSMC only charges a material fee and a processing fee, and the cost of a complete set is less than US$50.

And if it is replaced by a Snapdragon chip, the front is the same. Qualcomm has completed the design of its own chip, and then handed it over to TSMC to be responsible for the foundry.

Unless there is a huge gap between the materials used by the two parties and the process of the lithography machine, the cost of materials and processing is basically the same, that is, a set of about 50 US dollars.

But the problem is that this is the cost of Qualcomm, not the level of Android phones such as Xiaomi.In fact, Qualcomm sells such a set of Snapdragon chips to those Android manufacturers for a terrifying $250 a set.

This is not fabricated out of thin air, but a product quotation accidentally leaked by TSMC. They quoted a price of $875 for a complete set of Snapdragon 50, while Qualcomm quoted a price of $250 for Xiaomi. Double Lilan.

And 250 US dollars is almost equivalent to about 1800 yuan, which is almost half the price of a whole smartphone

And even if this data comes out, Xiaomi can only bite the bullet and accept the price of 250 US dollars, because Xiaomi can use the most advanced Snapdragon 875 chip for its new flagship model as soon as possible, so as to lead other competitors, then It is necessary to accept Qualcomm's price, which is almost blackmailed.

Of course, after about half a year or a year, the price of a complete set of Snapdragon 875 will be reduced to around US$150 to US$100, which is considered to be back to the normal price range, but at that time, both Apple and Qualcomm have already launched performance upgrades. The powerful new-generation chips, and the flagship models of Android can only bite the bullet and continue to buy the latest and most advanced Snapdragon chips, otherwise they will fall from the first echelon. The biggest pain point of some domestic Android manufacturers.

So when you see Xiaomi and other domestic mobile phone manufacturers holding their own flagship model launch conferences, they all say that this price does not make them money, and they just want to make friends.

They didn't lie, if you count the cost of publicity and other aspects, maybe these mobile phone manufacturers are really losing money and making friends!

On the contrary, Apple looks at these competitors like a joke.

Except for the core part of the chip, the situation of many other devices on the mobile phone is similar. The procurement cost of Apple is almost half that of an Android mobile phone.

所以当一台售价6000元的iphone7和一台售价2600元的小米6放在一起，小米6的制造成本可能是2500，但iphone7的制造成本绝不超过1000元，一台手机的毛利澜也就能够达到惊人的5000元左右。

And Apple sells at least 5 million such mobile phones in the world every year, which is 000 billion yuan, or about 800 billion US dollars.

In fact, the average annual sales volume of Apple's various models of mobile phones can reach about 1.5 million units, and the actual annual gross profit may be 1 billion US dollars.

And Apple is not just a product like mobile phones. Thanks to the drive of mobile phones, Apple is also making a lot of money in other product lines, such as watches, ipads, desktops, notebooks, etc., and earn a few more dollars a year. Ten billion U.S. dollars is not too much, and net profit exceeding 1 billion U.S. dollars in a year is not too much.

It only takes 6 years to accumulate $000 billion in cash, so easy!

The richest man starts with a blind box