Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 574 Company Relocation
After the Ideal smartphone was launched with limited sales, there were many different opinions in the online digital circle. Two viewpoints stood out more than others. One was to criticize the Ideal smartphone for engaging in hunger marketing, while the other was to firmly defend the Ideal smartphone.

After Zhou Jing posted a clarification, people who support Ideal Mobile Phone forwarded it one after another. Most people believed what Zhou Jing said. After all, it was Ideal's first generation of smartphones. It was understandable that the technology was polished more rigorously, and it was also a manifestation of responsibility to users. On the contrary, they had a better impression of Ideal Mobile Phone. The fact that the first generation of Ideal Phone beat the models of competitors of the same level was enough to explain the problem. They believed that it was because of Ideal's rigorous attitude that the product was so excellent.

In any case, in the fiercely competitive environment of the domestic mobile phone industry, it takes strong strength to engage in hunger marketing. If your own products are not good enough, engaging in hunger marketing will only kill you.

The Ideal smartphone has been on the market for more than half a month. The phone experience is unquestionable. It is conservative to say that it is invincible in the same class. If you ignore the hardware configuration, the smoothness of the Ideal 1199 priced at 1 is no worse than that of mid-range phones from rivals.

After the limited sale, the brand power of Ideal smartphones has been significantly enhanced. The number of reservations online and in physical stores has increased rapidly. In just two days, the total number of reservations for Ideal 1 and Imagine 1 exceeded 12 units. Although the reservations were free, the fact that they received such attention in is enough to illustrate the popularity of Ideal smartphones.

[With such good booking data, should we increase production capacity appropriately?]

Bai Xiyao sent a message to Zhou Jing.

[Look at the feedback from the marketing department and after-sales department, and improve appropriately if the quality and after-sales service can be guaranteed]

Of course Zhou Jing wants to sell more, but the prerequisite is that the product quality and after-sales service can keep up. He must proceed step by step. If he only sells products while the popularity is high and the product technology is defective or the service cannot keep up, it will be tantamount to destroying his own reputation. Zhou Jing is not in this business of one-time deal.

[OK, the online criticism of our hunger marketing is clearly organized, and our competitors are really stupid, they are just promoting us]

Bai Xiyao overestimated the means of her competitors. Ideal smartphones sold more than two million units in less than a month after their release. This figure has exceeded the sales of most domestic brands in the first half of the year. At this juncture, it can be said that Ideal smartphones' hunger marketing is truly a genius.

[Handle the relationship between the industrial chain and supply chain well, fully verify the technology based on after-sales feedback, and start to release production capacity in January]

What Zhou Jing is most worried about is still the chip supply. No matter how well mobile phones are selling now, once there is a problem with the chip supply, their prices will fall directly from the sky to the ground. Only by developing slowly for three or four years can one get out of this situation.

The online platform most affected by the limited sales of Ideal smartphones is JD.com. As Ideal Technology's supply began to decrease, JD.com's inventory dropped rapidly. QD Liu personally called Zhou Jing to discuss the matter, hoping to increase the supply to JD.com.

QD Liu has a big plan. If he can provide JD.com with more products during the limited sale period of Ideal Mobile Phone, it will not only improve JD.com's performance, but also provide an opportunity to enhance JD.com's influence.

Zhou Jing told Liu the purpose of Ideal mobile phone verification technology, but since Liu called personally, he certainly had to give him face. Zhou Jing said that he would reduce the supply of Ideal official website and offline stores, and provide JD.com with an additional 1 Ideal 1s and Imagine s every month.

This amount of allocation is not too much under the ideal situation of no capacity restriction, but it is not too little under the situation of capacity restriction. It can bring JD.com more than 30 million in profit every month. The goal has been achieved. Liu readily offered to treat Zhou Jing to a meal, and Zhou Jing put the matter of meal aside.

This will definitely cause dissatisfaction from Taobao, but Zhou Jing doesn't take it to heart. Now, both Zhou Jing's personal strength and the strength of his company are no worse than Taobao and Mr. Ma.

The child is being taken care of by his cousin and Gu Jiahong, while Zhou Jing is working in the study. All matters concerning the launch of Ideal smartphones in Europe have been settled. The European version has begun production and will be available in Europe before National Day. It has also been agreed that Ideal Technology will invest 500 million euros in France to build an artificial intelligence and AI chip R&D center, and the project is about to be implemented.

15 million euros is equivalent to more than billion RMB. Ideal Technology is divided into three phases. The first phase is to build a base, which is expected to be completed years ago. This is the nature of Europe, with high costs and slow work. The second phase will start R&D work and share R&D results.

In addition to helping Ideal smartphones better enter the European market, Zhou Jing's other goal in establishing a research and development center in France is to use the development of AI chips to acquire chip design and lithography machine technologies that are not accessible to domestic companies.

As long as we can acquire some key technologies, the investment of billions is worth it. In China, some technologies cannot be bought with money.

The last month of the third quarter is already halfway through. In the first half of September, Ideal Technology sold more than 15 million traditional mobile phones. If it can maintain this figure in the second half of the month, Ideal's traditional mobile phone sales in the third quarter will exceed 90 million units, and its net profit will reach more than 20 billion.

The profit of traditional mobile phones is always much lower. If the sales volume of Ideal smartphones reaches 1 million units, even if all the sales are Imagine , the net profit can reach more than billion. However, it is impossible for smartphones to have such sales in a quarter. Selling million units a year is already good. The reason why Ideal traditional mobile phones can sell so many is that it has swallowed up the market share of traditional mobile phones of many brands and copycat manufacturers.

Smartphones have become Ideal Technology's second largest source of revenue. Ideal smartphones began to be released in limited quantities in the second half of September. According to the plan, about 1 million smartphones can be sold in September, about 1 million Ideals and about million Imagines. In September, these two smartphones can bring the company more than billion in net profit.

After taking a quick look at the financial report, Zhou Jing checked the chip design status of the chip design institute.

Sheng Tang Chip Design Institute has started working for more than half a month, continuing to design based on the Tianji chip architecture designed by Zhou Jing. The team's progress is good and the design is basically reasonable. Zhou Jing does not give any instructions, and lets them figure out some small problems on their own. Chip design requires continuous reasoning, design and verification.

Zhou Jing focuses his time and energy on the Taiwei lithography research project. The R&D team of the Lithography Research Institute has not yet been established. It is planned to complete the preliminary establishment of personnel before October and start work after the National Day holiday.

Zhou Jing couldn't sit still, so he looked up the research data on lithography machines obtained after the acquisition of Taiwei Semiconductor. Before, Taiwei Semiconductor only studied DUV lithography machines, and had studied the structure, basic technology and principles of DUV lithography machines in depth, but was stuck on key technologies.

Since the beginning of this year, Zhou Jing has been learning about the technology and principles of lithography machines. It is not difficult to learn with Zhou Jing's mind. He has the confidence to make it in two years with the drawings. The difficulty lies in how to circumvent foreign patents and find another way.

The concept of "photolithography factory" that Zhou Jing had seen in his previous life popped up in his mind. In theory, this method can filter out the required wavelength, and even filter out light with a shorter wavelength than the EUV lithography machine. Theory is theory, and in reality it will definitely not work relying on a single company, so he still has to choose a miniaturized modular solution.

Zhou Jing spent the whole afternoon in the study thinking about lithography machine technology. After dinner, he sent his cousin back to school. Gu Jia took the child with her. They also went to Central Finance University for a stroll. He brought homemade mooncakes for his cousin and bought some fruits for her outside. They were all in a foreign land during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so Zhou Jing took care of his cousin as if she were his own sister.

"Brother and sister-in-law, go to the playground first. I'll go to the dormitory to deliver the things and find you guys."

Wu Yuan said when we arrived at the Central University of Finance and Economics campus.

"Okay, say goodbye to my aunt and say goodbye."

Zhou Jing said while holding the child.

"zhahu~"

The little girl waved her hands.

"Goodbye."

Wu Yuan held the child's hand and returned to the dormitory.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the festive atmosphere on university campuses is quite strong. Student clubs organize activities, classes organize activities, dormitories organize activities, and some celebrate the festival in groups on the playground. Some bring mooncakes, and some bring fruit drinks.

"Are you tired? If you are, let me hold you for a while. Zhou Zhou, do you want to come with mommy?"

Gu Jia opened her arms and said to the child.

"Ho~"

The little girl looked at Gu Jia and smiled.

"If you don't want to come, let Dad hold you." Gu Jia poked the back of the child's hand and said, "Didn't Tangdu Normal University contact you?"

"No, I guess I forgot I was their student."

Zhou Jing has little presence in college.

"How could I not remember? I will ask you for money sooner or later."

Gu Jia said with a smile.

"Everything in the world is for profit."

Zhou Jing was used to it. His high school alma mater had started treating him as a financial sponsor since the year before last. Every semester, they would ask for financial support under the guise of inviting him to participate in activities.

Gu Jia pointed at a stray cat in the school playground and said, "Zhou Zhou, look at what that is. Is it a cat?"

"Momo~"

The little girl observed the cat curiously.

"Do you remember the story about the kitten fishing that your father told you?"

Zhou Jing kissed the child's cheek and said, "Uh~"

After spending some time at Central Finance, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went home. The Mid-Autumn Festival holiday was coming to an end unknowingly, and it was September 18th before the holiday ended. Chuangzhi Technology began to work on its relocation to Jingfu Software Park. In order to minimize the impact on the company's normal work, the company's departments moved in batches. At the same time, the software park office building began to form an artificial intelligence and AI project team, an AI chip design team, and a semiconductor production technology R&D team.

Zhou Jing plans to build Chuangzhi Technology into a technology company integrating software and artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence and AI levels will determine the competitiveness of smartphones and new energy vehicles in the future. Future technology cannot be separated from computing power, and advanced computing power is based on AI chips. Therefore, the semiconductor industry chain is Zhou Jing's key investment direction. He began to vigorously develop AI in 12. Ten years later, Zhou Jing is confident that he will be far ahead.

Zhou Jing teamed up with Ideal Technology to provide the R&D funds for Chuangzhi Technology. This way, he could avoid a lot of taxes. A company with the revenue of Ideal Technology would need to pay a lot of taxes.

[Mr. Zhou, I want to talk about the short video project again]

Project Director Wang Tao sent a message to Zhou Jing.

【Go to the lounge to chat】

Zhou Jing replied and went to the lounge.

“I still think it’s a pity to give up the short video project. According to the development of smartphones and Internet services, the short video project will not be mature until two or three years later. The short video project does not need to provide many offline services like taxi-hailing and food delivery.”

Wang Tao has invested a lot of energy in planning the online car-hailing, food delivery and short video projects. There is already a company doing online car-hailing. The food delivery project does require dealing with a lot of offline store relationships and is very complicated to operate. The short video project is much simpler, and online services are much easier to do than offline services.

After thinking about the short video project originally planned by Zhou Jing, Wang Tao firmly believes that the short video platform can become a platform integrating social networking, media, entertainment, online shopping, live broadcast, etc. in the near future, and it would be a pity to give up.

"Then keep the short video project. You are fully responsible for this project."

Since Wang Tao didn't want to give up the short video project, Zhou Jing kept it for the time being.

"Okay, then I'll go back first."

Wang Tao nodded and said.

"What's the matter?"

Gu Jia said to Zhou Jing who returned to the office.

Zhou Jing said: "Wang Tao wants to keep the short video project, so let's keep it for now!"

“It’s a pity to abandon this project. P站’s second round of financing list.”

Gu Jia has the same idea. Compared with Pornhub's text and picture social software, the short video model has more development potential.

The target of P Station’s second round of financing has been preliminarily determined, and Gu Jia printed it out for Zhou Jing.

"That's it. Let Qin Zhengyu take charge."

Zhou Jing glanced at the list and said.

Gu Jia nodded and replied to Qin Zhengyu.

Bai Xiyao sent a message to Zhou Jing, asking how the Double Eleven activities would be arranged. JD.com and Taobao both contacted Ideal Technology and invited Ideal products to join the Double Eleven shopping spree.

Zhou Jing: [Ideal 1 is reduced by 1, Vision is reduced by , and the others are up to you]

Bai Xiyao: [How many mobile phones are in stock?]

Zhou Jing: [On Double Eleven Day, a total of 100,000 units were stocked, with JD.com and Taobao each stocking 50,000]

Bai Xiyao: [Okay, Yindu invited us to build a factory there]

Zhou Jing: [No, be careful when doing business with yindu]

【clear】

After half a year of dealing with them, Bai Xiyao has some understanding of yindu. One must be more careful when doing business with yindu, because the other party is too cunning and always delays paying the balance.

At noon, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went home for lunch, and then went to Jinlin Capital in the afternoon. Jinlin Capital had already invested hundreds of millions of dollars in projects, and Zhou Jing wanted to know where the money was invested. Returning to Chuangzhi Technology, Zhou Jing went to the R&D department to look at the software system design of the Qingxiang series of smartphones.

In the future, the Light Enjoy series will inherit the Ideal series and become the core 2,000-yuan model. The main design inherits the foundation of the Ideal series. Li Jianwei gave Zhou Jing a copy of the latest design report and introduced it.

Zhou Jing was very satisfied with the revised plan and ordered that the software system be improved according to the plan. Ideal smartphone's new sub-brand Xingyue series can begin to be considered for design. The Xingyue series is Ideal's backup plan if it is sanctioned in the future to continue to retain overseas markets, especially the European market.

After get off work, Zhou Jing and Gu Jia went home. As soon as they entered the door, they heard the child talking to herself in the bedroom. Zhou Jing changed his shoes and went to the bedroom. The little girl was sitting on the bed, playing with various toys.

"Dad~"

Hearing the familiar voice, the little girl dropped her toys, crawled to the bed, stretched out her hands, and waited for a hug.

"Are you having fun, little cutie?"

Zhou Jing kissed the child and said.

"Oh woo~"

The little girl naughtily pushed against Zhou Jing's face.

"Mommy wants a kiss, too."

Gu Jia put her face in front of the child and said.

"Ha~"

The little girl seemed to be overjoyed when her two closest people came home.

The child clung to Zhou Jing and wouldn't leave, so Wu Suqin brought Zhou Jing and Gu Jia's meals to the coffee table in front of the sofa.

"Would you like to sit here and watch Mom and Dad eat?"

Gu Jia put the child on the sofa.

Even with the adults around, the little girl didn't cry or make a fuss, but just sat on the sofa and played with her toys.

Starting from mid-September, the various adjustments to holidays seemed very hasty, and the relocation of Chuangzhi Technology was busier than expected.

Zhou Jing simply did not take a day off and took a weekend off to arrange the relocation. It was the end of the month when Chuangzhi Technology had all moved into the office building in Jingfu Software Park and welcomed the National Day holiday.

(End of this chapter)