Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 582: Qualcomm is about to collapse and Apple’s winter is coming!

You treat me as a national hero, and I will repay you as a national hero.

After Franz Quentin discovered that Xingyi Semiconductor was poaching people, he immediately approached the chairman to remind Jacob to pay great attention to this matter.

If Qualcomm cannot prevent its core R&D personnel from being poached and drained by Xingyi Technology, it will collapse!
It can be said that everything is for Qualcomm!
But what about Jacob? How did he treat himself?

Just let him be in charge of the human resources department and be responsible for layoffs!
In a company, different business units represent different developments and different futures.

Logistics, personnel, supply chain, channels, etc., these have not developed much.

Franz Quentin was previously in charge of the core chip research and development department, and later he was also responsible for developing major customers.

Definitely the treatment of being the next successor to Qualcomm.

But now?

Transfer from the core department to the Human Resources Department!
It would be better to go to the logistics department!
After all, the current human resources department is mainly focused on layoffs. Whether you do this position well or not, you won't be able to stay in this position for long.

There is a high probability that after laying off employees, you will also lay off yourself.

Squeeze out the last bit of surplus value and kick them out.

Such treatment made Franz Quentin feel heartbroken.

But Qualcomm treats me like this and wants to marginalize me, so why should I be so open-hearted to it?

Is it time to find a way out?

Seeing Franz Quentin in a trance, Jacob said calmly: "What are you doing here this time?"

"I..." Franz Quentin took a deep breath and completely gave up reminding Jacob that Xingyi Semiconductor was poaching people. He said:

"There is nothing else to say, except that the layoff task has been successfully completed. The overall layoff of 45% has been achieved."

"Great, keep up the good work."

"Yes!"

Franz Quentin responded and turned to leave the chairman's office.

As for Xingyi Semiconductor, they poached a large number of people, including the core employees of the R&D department...

None of my business?

I've been marginalized, how can I expect you to be open-hearted?

joke!

Even if Qualcomm is finished, it’s none of my business!

On the contrary, I have to find a way out in advance.

Well, Xingyi Technology is good.

If they can go to Xingyi Semiconductor, so can I.

Especially now, I am in charge of Qualcomm's human resources department, it is really convenient.

Franz Quentin made up his mind that he would turn a blind eye to the core R&D engineers poached by Xingyi Technology and pretend that he didn't see anything.

All that can be approved have been approved.

Something that shouldn’t have been approved was approved!

In this way, it can be considered a great achievement, and Xingyi Semiconductor will definitely remember my kindness.

By then, leaving Qualcomm and joining Star Semiconductor will be smooth.

Franz Quentin understood everything in an instant.

That's it.

As for contacting Xingyi Technology in advance...

This is not necessary.

Once they make contact in advance and Qualcomm catches them, it would be commercial espionage and a crime, and they would have to go to jail.

But as long as you don’t contact them in advance, you will have nothing to do with Xingyi Technology.

Next, they will continue to give free rein to help Xingyi Technology poach people, so that when Qualcomm becomes suspicious, it will have no evidence.

After all, we have never contacted each other, so what evidence can there be?
But Xingyi Technology must have noticed all these things, so joining Xingyi Technology will be easy.

This can be considered a high-level tacit understanding!
Franz Quentin immediately had an idea and decided to do it!
For a moment, Franz Quentin's dim eyes were bright.

This is the way out!
In the following days, with the assistance of Franz Quentin, Xingyi Semiconductor recruited people much faster.

As long as Xingyi Semiconductor is interested in a company, contacts an engineer, negotiates a salary, and the engineer submits a resignation application, Franz Quentin will approve it.

All those who should have been retained were approved.

Even the core engineers who were supposed to sign non-compete agreements were all approved, and there were no non-compete agreements.

As the head of the Human Resources Department, Director Franz Quentin personally gave him leeway, so everything was not a problem.

In this regard, the employees of Xingyi International who were responsible for poaching were all confused!
It went smoothly. It went so fucking smoothly!

It went so smoothly that something was amiss!

As a result, employees of Xingyi International had to report the matter to higher levels, all the way to the group headquarters.

Seeing this scene, Williams was also confused and quickly found Wang Yi:
"Chairman, there is a problem at Xingyi International."

"Oh? What happened? Were the people trying to poach Qualcomm discovered? And we can't poach them anymore?" Wang Yi frowned.

Being discovered is inevitable, unless Qualcomm is full of good-for-nothings.

"That's not the case, it went smoothly, too smoothly!"

“???” Wang Yi was stunned: “Is it too easy to recruit people?”

"Yes, Chairman. It went abnormally smoothly."

Williams listed them one by one: "First, we kept poaching people, and R&D engineers kept leaving. Qualcomm would definitely notice it, and even find out about us and stop us. But they didn't."

"Secondly, when many of the ordinary engineers we poached applied for resignation, Qualcomm's HR department approved their applications too quickly, basically the next day or even the same day."

"Most importantly, some core positions are of great importance and should require non-compete agreements. But in the end, no non-compete agreements were signed and they were all approved quickly."

"This is very wrong!"

Wang Yi nodded: "It's indeed not right. It's as if the other party is deliberately letting us poach people."

"Yes, that's right. This is too abnormal. Is Qualcomm going to go bankrupt?" Williams had a complicated expression.

Wang Yi fell into deep thought: "But this is a good thing, and it won't last too long. Once the truth is revealed, it will be difficult to dig it up again. We have to seize the window of opportunity."

"Yes, I will have people go all out and recruit as many people as possible. It won't be long before Qualcomm notices this anomaly."

"Well, let's check who is in charge of the human resources department at Qualcomm." Wang Yi said meaningfully.

This matter would not be easy without the involvement of senior personnel from the human resources department.

In particular, the resignation of core R&D personnel must be signed and approved personally by the Director of the Human Resources Department.

Williams also understood what Wang Yi meant: "Chairman, do you think this is a token of his loyalty? Or is it a deliberate revenge against Qualcomm?"

Wang Yi smiled faintly: "Just check it out and you will know. But no matter what, this person has made great contributions. If he comes to Xingyi Technology in the future, I will definitely use him!"

Wang Yi always distinguishes between gratitude and resentment when doing things.

Wang Yi is very grateful to Brother Deng for breaking the Prism scandal, which led to the global popularity of parallel imported Xingyi mobile phones.

Wang Yi also kept in mind that the current Qualcomm HR director was helping Xingyi Semiconductor to poach people.

"Okay, let's arrange it!"

Williams left quickly to arrange everything.

Wang Yi got off work in a happy mood, went home and hugged the little rich woman.

Busy time passes quickly.

This year, Wang Yi and Lin Shu were both busy starting their own businesses, and time seemed to have wings.

Before we knew it, it was December.

Fortunately, Xingyi Technology and Lin Shu’s Bawang Tea Princess are both developing rapidly.

After this period of development, Lin Shu's Ba Wang Cha Ji has become a new star in the milk tea industry!
The unique new Chinese milk tea is very popular among young people.

Especially the song "Bo Ya Jue Xian", which has a more refreshing effect than strong coffee and quickly became popular.

It is for this reason that more and more branches of Bawang Cha Ji are opening.

From the imperial capital to the Magic Capital, from Jeju to the island city, it quickly spread across the country.

As a result, Lin Shu became busier and busier.

But the two of them will still try to make as much time as possible to spend time together.

Or go traveling together, or stay at home and play games or watch movies.

Or, just stay in bed together, it's wonderful...

Just like tonight, we started to get bored again.

At the same time, Apple headquarters.

Cook came to the company with dark circles under his eyes.

Recently his sleep has been getting worse and his temper has been getting worse.

Xingyi Tablet 2nd Generation and 2Pro are hot-selling around the world, and with the global launch, monthly sales have exceeded 2000 million units!

This directly led to the iPad mini 2 becoming unsalable.

Cook was very troubled by this, but he could do nothing about it.

对上搭载鲲鹏500的星逸平板1代，ipad mini2还有些优势，但对上搭载鲲鹏706的星逸平板2代，ipad mini2就不值一提了。

The gap is too big, whether it is performance or experience, they are not on the same level.

This directly led to users who were planning to buy iPad mini 2 giving up and choosing Xingyi Tablet 2nd Generation.

As for the iPad 1th generation, which can't even beat the Xingyi Tablet 2 Pro, it is no match for the Xingyi Tablet Pro.

Having lost all the tablet market at once, the sales of iPad and iPad mini 2 hit rock bottom.

What’s even more terrible is that sales have plummeted not only in Xiaguo, but also globally.

Unlike the Xingyi mobile phone, the Xingyi tablet is sold worldwide!
This hit Cook hard, but he was helpless.

But these days, Cook has been suffering from insomnia and nightmares more and more.

As we enter December, the day for the year-end financial report is getting closer.

Cook knew that could be the beginning of his tragedy.

Once the year-end financial report comes out, Apple’s stock price will plummet and shareholders will suffer heavy losses, so naturally they will not let themselves off.

"Ugh!"

Cook sighed and looked around at everyone with a complicated expression: "It's December, the last month. If nothing miraculous happens, I'm done for, and you won't have a good life either!"

Everyone fell into silence collectively.

As Cook said, Apple was completely suppressed this year.

From January to November, we have been suppressed for eleven consecutive months. Now in December, it is estimated that it will not be any better.

As for miracles?
How can there be a miracle?

"We were completely defeated in the tablet market. When the second generation of the Xingyi tablet went on sale worldwide, we couldn't handle it. We simply couldn't handle it."

Cook said in a deep voice: "The only way out is the iPhone. Fortunately, Xingyi mobile phones are not internationalized. Even if there are some parallel imports, the impact is limited. As long as we curb the sales of parallel imports of Xingyi mobile phones, iPhone will be a big seller!"

A vice president nodded and said, "This is a good idea. I have studied it. The parallel imports of Xingyi mobile phones in the European and American markets are mainly Xphone 3 and Xphone 3plus. The good news is that there are almost no Wujie S1 and S1 pro. The bad news is that the parallel import prices of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3plus are constantly decreasing and have fallen back to the price level of Xiaguo, and the sales volume is even higher."

The corner of Cook's mouth twitched: "..."

"This is such sad news!"

Previously, the prices of xphone 3 and xphone 3plus were twice that of Xiaguo, but the sales volume was slightly lower.

The current selling price is about 1.2 times that of Xia Country. If we round it up, the sales volume will be higher.

As a result, the sales of iPhone 5S and 5C are even lower.

"We must do our utmost to suppress the parallel import sales of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3 Plus!" Cook shouted, "We must do our utmost to suppress them no matter what method we use. Otherwise, our iPhone will be finished!"

"Yes, we must suppress it with all our strength."

"What are your thoughts?"

"Chairman, first put pressure on the channels and shopping malls and ask them to ban the sale of parallel imports of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3plus. Otherwise, Apple's flagship store will be withdrawn!"

"Good idea! Those regular channels and shopping malls will not dare to offend us for the parallel import of Xingyi mobile phones and be removed from our shelves by us!"

Cook agreed: "But what about those small channels, not large shopping malls? It's hard to put pressure on them, and we don't have direct stores."

"This is also easy. Send out a team to investigate the parallel import sales outlets of Xphone 3 and Xphone 3plus. Once found, report them immediately, impose fines, and confiscate them. If necessary, you can give the FBI some benefits. They will be happy to help."

"Third, continue to lower prices. Especially in Xia Country, after the release of the Unbounded S and Unbounded S1, the sales of iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C have been getting worse and worse. We can only continue to lower prices to exchange price for volume!"

Listening to everyone's words, Cook sometimes nodded and sometimes shook his head.

I just feel that Qualcomm’s winter has come, and Apple’s winter has also come.

For this reason, we have to take strong measures against the parallel imports of Xingyi mobile phones!
If the parallel-imported Xingyi mobile phones continue to sell well, Apple will be in trouble!
The next morning, Wang Yi came to the office and his eyes fell on the sales report.

As December approaches, the sales reports for November are out.

With the bonus of Double Eleven, a series of products are all hot-selling, especially the new products released on Double Eleven, which are very popular among users.

For example, the sales of the Wujie S1 exceeded 1300 million in three weeks after its launch.

The sales volume of the Wujie S1 pro also reached 1000 million.

The sales volume of xphone 3 is still good, reaching 800 million.

The sales volume of xphone 3plus exceeded 1000 million.

The monthly sales of xphone 2pro dropped to 500 million.

Of course, the best-selling product is still the Borderless mobile phone, with monthly sales of 1500 million.

As for other models, their sales volume was lower. After the production was discontinued, there was not much inventory, and they were taken off the shelves after the inventory was cleared.

Even so, total mobile phone sales broke records throughout November.

On the one hand, there is the Double Eleven bonus, and on the other hand, xphone 3 and xphone 3plus have just been on the market for more than two months and are in their hot-selling period.

The launch of the Unbounded S1 and S1pro, with their extremely high cost-effectiveness and high configuration, became a hot seller in China.

What’s interesting is that after the release of Ultrawide S1 and Ultrawide S1pro, the sales of xphone 3 and xphone 3plus did not drop much, but the sales of iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S dropped a lot.

Users regard the Ultrawide S series and iPhone as being on the same level, and Wang Yi doesn’t know what to say.

The price of iPhone 5C has dropped to over 1 yuan, which is about the same price as the S.

The price of iPhone 5S has also dropped to more than 1 yuan, which is about the same price as the S pro.

As a result, he was hit head-on.

Wang Yi was pleased to hear this.

Afterwards, Wang Yi looked at the sales of Xingyi TV 2nd Generation.

一次性发布了7款星逸电视2代，还有4款无界电视1代，总共11款电视在售。

From 40 inches to 60 inches, from 1080P to 4K, we have everything.

With so many TVs, plus the traffic from Double Eleven, high performance and high configuration, and the gimmick of 4K...it is natural that they are hot-selling around the world.

Throughout November, the total global sales of 11 TV models exceeded 2000 million units.

Not much is needed. If one model sells two million units, eleven models will sell more than 20 million units.

This is the advantage of the sea of ​​​​machines tactics.

It’s a tragedy for friendly competitors.

Especially Sony, LG, Samsung and the like, their prices are too high, 50% to 100% more expensive than Xingyi TV.

A 60-inch 4K TV is even 60% more expensive than the Xingyi TV X200pro!

In addition, the performance configuration experience is completely inferior to X60 pro, so naturally sales plummeted.

Seeing that all the sales were taken away by Xingyi TV, major TV giants could no longer sit still and began to cut prices.

A huge price reduction.

As soon as December began, the entire TV market became magical.

On the 4st, Samsung’s 3000K flagship TV dropped by yuan.

On the 4nd, Sony’s 5000K flagship TV dropped by .

On the 4rd, LG 8000K TV will drop by !

On the 20th, the Sharp 4K flagship TV, which was priced at nearly 5 yuan, was reduced by yuan!
……

Prices are falling rapidly not just in Xia Country, but all over the world.

In comparison, Xiaguo had the largest price reduction.

In the past, these major international brands have implemented differentiation strategies, and their prices in China are much higher than those in Europe and the United States.

But now, with the emergence of Xingyi TV and Wujie TV, the performance is stronger, the configuration is higher, and the AI ​​voice integration experience is better, but the price is lower!

As a result, most Xiaguo users have given up Samsung, Sony, LG, and Sharp and chosen Xingyi TV and Borderless TV.

As a result, these international brands will not be able to sell their products unless they drastically reduce their prices.

Samsung, LG and Sony are suffering from this.

Their television business, which accounts for a large proportion of their business, was severely impacted by Xingyi Technology, resulting in heavy losses.

As for Sharp, although it also suffered a lot of losses, the impact is not significant because the gains are offset by the losses.

First of all, Sharp’s TV business is only a marginal business, and its core business is still selling screens!
To put it bluntly, Sharp's TV sales were not high to begin with, and even if they decrease now, the impact will be limited.

Secondly, the screens used in Xingyi TVs are basically Sharp screens!
As a result, even though Sharp TVs, which originally had low sales, sold less, the impact was not significant.

However, the Xingyi TV was a global hit, and the sales of Sharp screens increased several times, which made Sharp earn a lot of money.

As one thing goes up, another goes down. Overall, Sharp TV is losing money, but the Sharp Group is making a lot of money, so naturally there is no objection.

As for choking off and cutting off the supply of Xingyi TV... that's impossible.

Neither the president of Sharp Screen nor the president of Sharp Group agreed.

Once Sharp chokes Wang Yi, he will quickly stop purchasing all Sharp screens, from mobile phones to tablets to TVs, and completely decouple.

At the same time, Samsung, LG, and JDI would all rush to the door and offer very attractive prices to grab Xingyi Technology's huge orders.

By then, what awaits Sharp will be a decline in performance or even bankruptcy.

There is no other reason. Currently, Sharp’s largest customer is Xingyi Technology, which accounts for 70% of the group’s screen sales and 90% of its high-end panels!
Once Sharp loses Xingyi Technology, it will be 70% sure to die.

Even now, JDI keeps begging Xingyi Technology, hoping that Xingyi Technology can purchase some of JDI's screens.

Similarly, LG and Samsung are also eager to try.

There is no way, the sales of Xingyi mobile phones, Xingyi tablets and Xingyi TVs are too high.

Everyone who sees it will be jealous.

As for why Xingyi Technology has always used Sharp and not considered other brands?

The reason is simple. First, we have been cooperating for many years and the cooperation is very pleasant and there are no problems.

Secondly, in order to prevent JDI, Samsung and LG from stealing its orders, Sharp will proactively lower prices and make concessions, and actively develop new screen technologies in order to retain Xingyi Technology, its super large customer.

The payment settlement has also been proactively extended to four months!
This allows Xingyi Technology to maintain at least three or four months of screen reserves at zero cost, completely free of worries.

With three or four months of screen reserves, even if Sharp encounters problems and cuts off supply, Xingyi Technology will have three or four months to switch suppliers.

It can be said that this is Sharp's attitude of loyalty!

Sharp is so sensible now that Wang Yi is too lazy to change it.

In addition, Sharp mobile phones and Sharp TVs will all be gone soon. Some will be abandoned, some will be sold, and they will only focus on being suppliers in the future. Wang Yi will be even less worried.

In its previous life, Sharp gave up on Sharp mobile phones within a few years and even sold Sharp TVs!
Focus on being a panel supplier.

It is for this reason that Wang Yi is very confident in Sharp.

But Samsung, LG and Sony are different. Their TV and mobile phone businesses are their core businesses.

Except for Sony, which will give up mobile phones in a few years, Samsung and LG will not give up.

As for JDI, we can consider cooperating with it as a way out. But we can also choose not to cooperate.

There is no other reason, Wang Yi still has a real way out, which is to invest in BOE!

Nowadays, borderless mobile phones and borderless TVs all use panels from BOE.

Such a large scale has led to a surge in BOE's profits.

Combined with Wang Yi's investment, BOE has sufficient funds to carry out screen research and development.

In the past few years, it cannot compare with the flagship screens of Sharp and Samsung, but in a few years, that may not be the case.

It is inevitable that by then the Xingyi series products will be fully switched to BOE.

If Sharp really has problems, BOE can also start production ahead of schedule. Although there will be a temporary gap, the cost is lower and can be fully made up.

For example, developing professional image processing chips to make BOE's display effects comparable to those of Sharp and Samsung is not a difficult task.

In the past, Sony TVs were so expensive but still sold so well. A big reason for this was that Sony’s display effects were excellent.

The reason is not that Sony's TV screens are so good, on the contrary, Sony's TV screens are not produced by itself, but by Samsung, Sharp, LG, JDI, BOE, Tianma, AUO, etc...

To put it bluntly, the screens of Sony TVs and other brands of TVs are similar, and are all purchased from third parties. Many screens are not even as good as Xiaomi TVs, but the display effects are much better.

The reason is simple, Sony has a powerful self-developed image processing chip X1 series!

It is this chip that has taken the entire industry by storm, allowing an 80-point screen to achieve a 120-point display effect, thus leaving the rest far behind!
Similarly, if Xingyi Technology can develop such an image processing chip, it will also allow BOE's screen, which is currently not as good as Sharp's flagship screen, to catch up with or even surpass Sharp's flagship screen!
If you don’t have the quality, make up for it with chips!
At present, the core competitiveness of Xingyi TV lies in performance, system ecology, AI, hardware, and experience.

But in the future, other competitors’ performance, hardware, and AI will catch up, and we will have to find new core advantages.

Image enhancement chip, the world's unique display effect, is one of them!

(End of this chapter)