A strong technological nation starts with repairing mobile phones

Chapter 73 released half a year in advance?

"Over there?" Rudet looked at Kuk in disbelief.

As one of the company's senior executives, Rudet is not only the company's chief engineer but also one of the company's vice presidents. Naturally, he knows Ge Yue, who is also a vice president, and knows that she is currently in charge of the entire Greater China region.

"That should be it. Here is the other party's detailed information. It seems that Vice President Ge Yue attaches great importance to this!"

This sentence was not said by Kuke, but by the investment manager who had just read the information.

"Impossible!" Rudet's first reaction was disbelief.

He immediately snatched the information from the other party and read it carefully.

At first he didn't care, thinking that the investment manager was just joking with him, but the more he looked at him, the more his brows furrowed.

Ku Ke and the other two did not interrupt him at this time. Ku Ke and the investment manager just sat there without any movement, and no one knew what they were thinking.

The company's chief designer and head of the design department found some paper and pen from somewhere and kept writing and drawing. It seemed that he was using new technology to design new products.

After a long time, Rudet slowly put down the information in his hand, looked up at Ku Ke and said: "The information provided by Vice President Ge Yue is not complete. The introduction of Tiansheng Optics is not detailed enough. It can be said that we still know nothing about them.

As for the patent information of this glass technology, after my preliminary research, it is indeed very likely to realize this function. It is amazing how the other party came up with this idea! "

"BOSS, it is necessary for us to change the glass panel supplier for our next generation model. If we use this glass panel, our mobile phone will be more perfect!" The chief designer put down the pen in his hand and looked at Kuke excitedly.

"Impossible!" Ku Ke bluntly denied the other party's idea. "The Fruit 12 model will start mass production soon. Besides, we have signed a purchase contract with Corning Group, and the Sixing Group has already bonded this batch of Corning super-ceramic panels.

It’s too late to change it now!”

If this news had been known three months earlier, before May, Kuke would have considered changing suppliers and chosen this epoch-making glass panel.

But it is really too late now. If they choose to replace it now, the loss of their Fruit Group will not be just billions, but at least tens of billions of US dollars. Although the Fruit Group can bear this loss, Kuke cannot afford it!
Kuke directly denied that the glass panel of Fruit 12 was temporarily replaced, which made the three people look at each other in confusion, and none of them knew Kuke’s real purpose this time.

Looking at the confused three people, Ku Ke didn't continue to talk nonsense and said directly: "Since the 12th model cannot be used, we can use this thing in the next model. I plan to contact Tiansheng Optics first, and then develop the 13th generation product as quickly as possible.

As long as everything goes well, I plan to launch the 13th generation product directly in March next year!"

The three people in front of him were almost shocked when they heard Ku Ke's decision.

The 13th generation product will be launched in March next year. Please note that the 12th generation product has not yet been launched and is scheduled to be put on sale in September.

Since the Steve Jobs era, Apple has set the requirement that its digital series should be upgraded one generation per year. Now Kuaishou actually wants to change this rule because of this thing.

"Boss, our opinion doesn't count. This has to be voted on by the board of directors. I don't think that just this glass panel will convince all the directors to support us in launching a new product six months ahead of schedule!"

The person who said this was Nils, the investment manager.

Niels holds a very special position in the Fruit Group. Normally, the Fruit Group is not an investment company and does not need an investment department. However, due to many reasons, over the past decade or so, a lot of the Fruit Group's funds abroad have not been transferred back to the head office, but have been kept in the branch.

If the funds are not taken back, there will be no way to distribute dividends or repurchase shares. The company's board of directors was also worried about the money at first, and later decided to set up this investment department to handle these foreign funds.

Ku Ke was silent for a rare moment. He knew that normally the directors would most likely not approve his ideas as Nils said.

If he just wanted to change the glass panel supplier, even if the original supplier was an old supplier that Corning had cooperated with for more than ten years, he would not need the consent of the directors and could make the decision on his own.

But what he is deciding now will change the company's business strategy for more than a decade, which is a rule set since the Jobs era. There is no way he can do it without a vote of the board of directors.

"Let's not talk about this today!" Ku Ke did not discuss this with them and said, "Niels, I'm going to ask you to go on a business trip to contact Tiansheng Optics to confirm the authenticity of this matter. If possible, we can include the other party in the supply chain and even invest in them!"

Nils naturally had no objection, he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded in agreement.

Ku Ke then turned to look at Rudet and said, "You are familiar with the technology. This time you should bring a few people to accompany Niels. We must make sure that there is no problem with the technology of Tiansheng Optics. I know that many companies there will hide many problems in order to raise funds.

There is often hype about technology, and you must make sure that they have really mastered these technologies and have achieved mass production! "

Rudet naturally had no interest in it. As soon as he saw these products, he became very interested in the company that could develop such products, and he couldn't wait to go and learn about Tiansheng Optics.

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The Fruit Group acted quickly and contacted Zhou Pingshen through the Greater China branch on the same day.

"What? Fruit Group?" Zhou Pingshen said in disbelief.

"We are the domestic headquarters of the Fruit Group. Are you Mr. Zhou Pingshen, the general manager of Tiansheng Optics?"

The person on the other end of the phone heard Zhou Pingshen's unbelievable voice and immediately began to repeat it.

After hearing the other party's introduction again, Zhou Pingshen immediately reacted and said excitedly: "I am Zhou Pingshen!"

After making sure that he had not found the wrong person, the other party immediately began to explain the purpose of this visit.

"Mr. Zhou, this is the case. Our fruit group is very interested in your company's products and would like to include your company's products in our supply chain. This time we are looking for you to ask if your company is interested!"

The fruit group was very polite in their words, and it was obvious that they had gone through a long period of training.

Zhou Pingshen would naturally not refuse since his company's products were favored by the fruit group and were about to be included in the supply chain.

Everyone knows that as long as Tiansheng Optics enters the other party's supply chain, it will gain huge benefits in the future.

"I wonder what we need to do here?" Although Zhou Pingshen was very excited, he was still cautious and did not trust the other party 100%.

(End of this chapter)