Coquettish Rebirth

However, whether to buy a factory or not depends on the actual situation.Because although there are not many baseband chip production lines here at Philips, they have the production capacity of 0.25 micron and 0.18 micron!In other words, this 0.18 micron is a 180-nanometer production process. To put it bluntly, this process is likely to be the most advanced process that Huaxia Hi-Tech can obtain!You must know that the "Copper Mine" series chips of Intel's Pentium III processors use a 180-nanometer production process.In the first half of 1999, the "Tulatin" series CPUs were manufactured using a more advanced 2000-nanometer production process.

In addition, as a computer enthusiast, Jia Hongjian vaguely remembers that Intel has been a key node in the promotion of Pentium 02 in the past two years, and at such a node, the progress of Intel's own process accuracy is a bit slow, and it does not upgrade the process once a year as before. , probably after Intel's Pentium 130 officially used 90nm technology in 2004, the next innovation to 3nm will have to wait until 180!what does that mean?This means that if Jia Hongjian and the others buy a factory from Philips now, they will basically get such a technology that seems to be one generation away from Intel. After three years, it will only be two generations behind!Historically, domestic independent research and development to 06 nanometers has to wait until the end of 180!So why not buy such a factory?After all, they are all making chips, and they are all wafer silicon factories. In fact, there is not much difference in making CPUs... and TSMC in Dawan, so far, the strongest foundry process in hand is only [-] nanometers. of!This is still for via VIA foundry cpu!

So it seems that the factory still wants to buy it?But even if they want to employ American workers, they may have to buy the factory and keep it here—it’s not that Jia Hongjian doesn’t want to move the production line back.Rather the problem is that the factory cannot be moved back for the sake of the design team.As a designer or engineer, you must often go to the factory. If the factory is in China and the design center is in the United States, you will have to travel across the Pacific Ocean every now and then. Is this going to be troublesome?Originally, according to the analysis, the operating cost of the US design center is already too high. If the factory is moved back, the travel cost will be higher?

You must know that Philips divides the two design teams in the United States with 50 people on one side, adding up to a hundred people, and then the salary is 10 times that of an engineer with a similar position in the mainland, and then the various benefits are in a mess-just say The travel expenses are business class every time.Go out and live in a five-star hotel!Then in terms of medical treatment, the company has to buy them the best medical insurance from the insurance company.Feelings These engineers don’t need a penny of their salary to buy insurance, but all the cost is passed on to the company. This is of course one of the reasons why Philips could not persist.It can't be said that Jia Hongjian and the others are thinking about cutting various operating expenses in the future, but in the end they have to arrange such a time-consuming and expensive business trip?

Of course, some people may say that if the chip factory is moved back to China.The wages of the workers are much lower.Overall operating costs are also much lower.The operating cost of hiring a hundred Chinese workers may be about the same as one American worker.But the problem is that even if an engineer from the United States travels to China in economy class, the air ticket alone costs 3000 US dollars! A $3000 air ticket is calculated at the current exchange rate of 8, which is [-] per person per time!Just one person coming here is worth a year's wages of a worker in China, and going back is another year's wages of a worker!Not to mention the various costs of relocation of the production line.Not to mention the time lost to go back and debug.In fact, in general, at least Jia Hongjian judged that the cost of the two sides was not much different. If you really want to move back, you can mass-produce it when you move back, and it is not far from being left behind by others for two generations of craftsmanship!

And relatively speaking, Jia Hongjian paid more attention to engineers from the United States.Although it seems to a layman that there is no difference between engineers in the United States and those in China, especially after 08, many returnees went back to find jobs, but the problem is that it is not after 08!Although China's development is really fast in this golden age, but in this dark period before the dawn of the WTO, many industries in China really cannot keep up with high-end development and cannot cooperate!Not to mention anything else, just like Microsoft's Venus Project, Huaxia Gaoke produced the Venus computer cvd, but because there is no embedded low-level software engineer with a certain level in China!

I couldn’t find it even though I was looking for it. There are engineers of Chinese nationality who can embed the underlying software, but they are all working hard in the United States, and there are basically no domestic ones!This means that after taking an embedded system like Microsoft's wince, if you want to modify the driver according to the technical information provided by Microsoft, you have to find the foreigner engineer stationed in Huaxia Hi-Tech sent by Microsoft to do it!The Chinese don't know that at all!So Jia Hongjian wanted to keep these two American R&D teams, in order to be like an educational base, and let the engineers of Huaxia Hi-Tech come over and learn a little bit from the work!Otherwise, there is no way to keep up with the footsteps of the United States at many subtle levels!If the R&D team wanted to stay in the United States, the time factor was considered, so Jia Hongjian decided to buy a factory and use it as a similar training base. Of course, he was also responsible for research and development of many things.

How to reduce operating costs after the acquisition has to start from other places, such as office space - now the two Philips design teams in Dallas and Vancouver each occupy a total of 50 square meters with more than 3000 people A small building with several floors is used as an office space, which is simply a luxury!Wouldn't it be nice for 80 or so people to squeeze into a 3000-square-meter company at Ams?Therefore, one must be cut off in the office.Then the travel expenses must be changed from business class to economy class, and then the accommodation must be changed from five-star hotels to starless hotels below three stars, so as to reduce costs as much as possible!

Now, the money that Philips spends on these two R&D teams every year is about 1000 million US dollars, which is almost [-] million yuan.What Jia Hongjian can think is to reduce operating expenses as much as possible while maintaining investment in research and development, and even increase investment in research and development. The money he gives as the boss does not mean that the employees are allocated for planes and hotels!If you have this money, everyone saves a little money. Isn’t it good to give it to everyone as a bonus at the end of the year?At least a one-time payment can increase employees' sense of belonging to the company, and it can also make them really take charge of the company, instead of treating the company like a fool with a lot of money!

Just when Jia Hongjian and the others made an in-depth investigation and study of these things that Philips wanted to sell, so as to determine what price to buy them, two more American companies became interested in these "legacy" of Philips.However, neither of these two American companies is a big company, presumably at most it is to acquire the exclusive right to use a few patents.Such a company is not a threat at all to Huaxia Hi-Tech, because Jia Hongjian knows that for Philips, they certainly want to get back as much as possible of the [-] million US dollars they invested in this cdma as soon as possible.Selling [-] million to Huaxia Hi-Tech will at least get back [-] million, and the remaining [-] million will be lost.But if the ten million level sells the right to use the patent, but Philips can use it again, they still haven't recovered the investment they invested in the early stage!

Thinking of this, the people from Huaxia Hi-Tech slowly started bargaining with Philips. "Mr. Jia, after purchasing these items from Philips, should we merge them into China Communications?" Ni Guangnan asked Jia Hongjian curiously.That's right, the communication department in Huaxia Hi-Tech is now catching up with Huber and preparing for a joint venture. Now that I bought a set of Philips, it can't be regarded as something in another stove?When the time comes, Huaxia Communications under Huaxia Hi-Tech Holdings will make a set of things, and then Huaxia Hi-Tech will make another set of things itself?Is that what happened?It's better to merge directly and turn Philips' R&D center and factory into an American branch of a Chinese company.And in this way, it can also expand Huaxia Hi-Tech's equity in Huaxia Communication, can't it?

The negotiation with Philips was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the specific negotiation had nothing to do with Jia Hongjian, and it was useless for him to go up and say it. All in all, everyone was grinding each other to see if they could get a price that was acceptable to both parties.The formal negotiation started here, and Luo Feng went back with the engineers from Shanghu Bell. Now that the formal negotiation started, there is no need for too many technical teams to do research here. The previous research was all in vain. up.But who knew that just as Jia Hongjian ordered two special planes to send Luo Feng and the others back, someone called the next day!

Who's calling?Wang Xuehong!That is, VIA's female boss!After the eldest sister called Jia Hongjian, she hurriedly asked: "Hongjian, you want to buy Philips' cdma-related technology and R&D team in the United States?" "Yes, how did you know, Miss Wang? News Quite well-informed!" Jia Hongjian said with a smile.In the end, who knew that Sister Wang said in a hurry, "I happened to come to your company yesterday, and I heard what your parents said... By the way, we are also optimistic about the cdma technology and production line of American Merchant Juji, and originally planned to go there in the second half of the year Get in touch to see if they sell it! I thought that if they sold it, I would buy it back, and then ship it to Dawan to open a branch called Weitong, which specializes in communication chips..."

Whoa!This is a bit of a hero's attitude!What shall we do now?Is it for VIA to buy?Or do you mean unite? (to be continued..)