Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 107 Crazy Zhiyun Technology
Outsiders, especially his peers, don’t really understand why Xu Shenxue is so crazy about spending money on R&D. However, those investors who are regarded as vampires have turned a blind eye to Xu Shenxue’s crazy R&D investment and even expressed support...

Because of Xu Shenxue's success in the mobile phone project, these investors saw a possibility that made them drool just thinking about it, that is, Zhiyun Technology has the hope of becoming China's fruit company.

That’s a company with a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars!

If you own the original shares of such a company, you will make a fortune...

So even though they were also suspicious of Xu Shenxue's crazy research and development, they did not object... at least not until Xu Shenxue failed.

Not only did they not object, they were also prepared to continue investing money... They were all waiting for Xu Shenxue to start the B round and then invest money in it.

However, the valuation of the B round will probably be very, very high... so high that many investment institutions will give up.

Xu Shenxue is not in a hurry for the B round. He plans to wait until after the autumn press conference, and after launching the future flagship phone and C2 phone to the market, tell the market a perfect story... and then take the opportunity to make another big sum of money.

It is the kind that has raised billions of dollars in financing and is not prepared to give up too many shares... If it wants to give up too many shares, it can do without raising funds. Anyway, Zhiyun Technology is now very capable of making money, and it won’t be a problem to slowly raise money on its own.

The financing money or subsequent profits of Zhiyun Technology will be used to promote the construction of the global market and truly sell Zhiyun phones all over the world.

At the same time, we will further deepen research and development, comprehensively promote the research and development of various types of chips, and support the research and development or self-research of core components such as screens, batteries, and cameras.

Finally...Xu Shenxue is ready to launch the "backup plan". This backup does not actually refer to the components in the mobile phone industry chain, or even just the chip foundries, but the upstream industries of the semiconductor industry: semiconductor manufacturing equipment and materials!
Such as photolithography machines, etching machines and other equipment.

Such as silicon wafers, photoresists, masks and other materials.

If Zhiyun Technology continues to develop in this way, it will sooner or later be subject to comprehensive sanctions... Even if it introduces foreign investment in the early stage and purchases a large number of products from foreign manufacturers to achieve a certain degree of interest binding, perhaps the sanctions can be delayed by a few years, but it will be useless in the end.

When the competition reaches a certain stage and affects the distribution of interests in the global smart device market, and then affects the interests of American companies and American jobs, no one can stop the Americans' determination to sanction Zhiyun Technology!
This has nothing to do with sentiment or anything like that, it’s purely a struggle for interests… The global smart device market is so big, and the profits are so limited.

If you Zhiyun Technology takes away too much, it will naturally affect the jobs of Americans... In order to keep their jobs, they will naturally think of all kinds of ways to deal with you.

When it comes to your job, who would reason with you?

At that time, whoever has the bigger fist will be right!
Therefore, being sanctioned is almost inevitable for Zhiyun Technology. It is just a matter of when it will be sanctioned and how severe the sanctions will be.

Unless Zhiyun Technology abandons the R&D path and takes the pure assembly plant route, and then earns some hard-earned money...then the Americans will let you go.

But in this case, Xu Shenxue would rather let the company go bankrupt...his knees are too stiff and he can't kneel down!
If you want him to earn money on his knees, forget it...

Not to mention that he has a system, even if he doesn't have a system, as a reborn person, he can't kneel down.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Xu Shenxue had the intention of getting involved in semiconductor equipment and materials... Otherwise, if you make a chip, others will block your chip foundry, and if you set up a chip foundry, others will block your semiconductor equipment and materials... It will be endless.

Therefore, to truly break through the blockade, we must start with the most basic equipment and materials.

If you are an ordinary person or a business, there is basically no hope...it costs too much money and takes too long!

But Xu Shenxue has a scientific research system, which gives him the confidence to accomplish it in a shorter time and with less investment.

Anyway, these things are not some black technology that only exists in legends... These technologies already exist and humans have already developed them. The next step is nothing more than recruiting R&D personnel to go through this path themselves.

It is definitely a bit difficult, but with the funding and personnel in place, it will be possible to do it!
Even if you don’t trust the R&D personnel, you have to believe that the system is not…

Xu Shenxue’s ambition is very big, so big that Xu Shenxue himself dare not tell others... If he said that Zhiyun Technology would be sanctioned in the future and that it would start to develop semiconductor equipment and materials now, people would think he was a lunatic!
Of course, doing these things is very expensive, so Xu Shenxue also has to make more money!
At present, Zhiyun Technology’s most profitable business is undoubtedly mobile phones!
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In May, Zhiyun mobile phones continued to be popular in the domestic and foreign markets, and its sales basically followed its production capacity!
Since the release of the mobile version of the TD-CDMA C1 phone and the telecom version of the CDMA2000 C1 phone in mid-May, the sales volume of Zhiyun C1 phone has increased significantly.

Throughout the month of May, a crazy two million mobile phones were sold!
On June 3, Ji Chenghe, vice president of Zhiyun Technology, who is an old friend of a large number of media reporters and likes to make all kinds of bold statements, officially announced the sales volume of Zhiyun mobile phones in May at a press conference, which was a full 2.12 million units!

Before the press conference was even over, the news had already been urgently sent out by reporters via wireless networks, and then various portals and technology websites quickly released corresponding news briefs.

Big news: Zhiyun C1 sales exceeded two million units in May, beating all its competitors!
Shocking, Zhiyun Mobile earned 6 billion in just one month!

Jobs said that Xu Shenxue was the most powerful competitor he had ever encountered!
Not long after the press conference ended, the entire Internet was in a frenzy of discussion about the Zhiyun phone... Many websites reported on it. This news was really shocking...

There are a lot of domestic mobile phone manufacturers, and many of them have annual sales of tens of millions... But look at the mobile phones they sell. Tens of millions of sales do not generate much revenue. Most of them are mobile phones that cost a few hundred yuan or at most a little over a thousand yuan. They don't have much revenue and even less profit.

What kind of phone is Zhiyun? It is a high-end phone with an average selling price of 3,000 yuan... These domestic mobile phone manufacturers can’t make as much as others can by selling one feature phone even if they sell ten!

What Zhiyun Technology is doing now is not doing business, but picking up money... The streets are full of hundred-dollar bills, and it is impossible to pick up all the money.

This kind of news heat and netizens' discussion is also what Zhiyun Technology's marketing department hopes to see...

Zhiyun Technology's publicity strategy has always been to use the company's strength, exaggerated revenue, large R&D team and R&D expenditure as an introduction, and then highlight the high-tech characteristics of Zhiyun Technology...

A high-tech company with an annual revenue of hundreds of billions or even trillions, a high-tech company with R&D of tens of billions or even more...the things they make must be super powerful and full of technological attributes.

Zhiyun Technology's publicity department uses various channels, soft articles, and press releases almost day after day to implant this concept into existing users and potential supporters.

then……

Such high-tech stuff is sold to you at several times the premium. Isn’t it expensive?

High-tech products are not cheap.

Can something cheap still be called high-tech?
This is basically the logic.

This time, Ji Chenghe brought people to do this again and promoted it every day.

Marketing funds are flowing out in a rush, and various websites and even some personal media are making a fortune.

In the contemporary media world, especially in the technology media industry, Zhiyun Technology is a well-known money-spending boy, spending a lot of money quickly. On some small and medium-sized vertical technology websites, Zhiyun Technology's advertising can even reach a considerable proportion of the market share.

Faced with the publicity demands from their financial sponsors, they have to brag about it to their heart’s content!
Zhiyun Technology not only likes to spend money on research and development, but also on corporate and product promotion.

Then, in order to promote the 3G network and compete for 3G users, the three major operators also used Zhiyun phones to carry out various large-scale offline promotions, which greatly increased the fame and brand value of Zhiyun phones.

All these factors combined have kept the popularity of Zhiyun phones high... That is to say, the current production capacity of Zhiyun phones has increased significantly, otherwise they would have to rush to buy them in May...

Since June, Zhiyun Technology has continued to prosper.

Weiku Electronics was also getting restless. Bai Qiwen once again called Xu Shenxue to see the prototype, saying that they had already prepared the mass production prototypes, and if there were no major problems, they would start the preliminary preparations for mass production.

Compared with Zhiyun Technology's initial hasty release of new products and then slow mass production, Weiku Electronics was much more relaxed, with enough time to carry out early preparations for mass production and to stock up on certain products, so that they could start large-scale sales right after the launch conference.

Xu Shenxue soon arrived at the laboratory of Wecoo Electronics and saw several prototypes that were finally finalized.

Bai Qiwen pointed at the various cell phones on the tray and said, "This silver-gray one is the Little Blue 1, which uses a 7200A chip, 256MB of RAM, 4G of storage space, and a 3.5-inch screen. Its hardware configuration is basically the same as the prototype that Mr. Xu saw before, but we have made some modifications to the appearance!"

"The main color is this blue, and there are also three other colors: silver gray, black, and red!"

"For this phone, we expect the 4GB version to be priced at 1999 yuan, and the 8GB version to be priced at 2299 yuan, targeting the yuan market!"

Xu Shenxue picked it up and took a look. This blue phone looked rather ordinary in appearance. Due to cost constraints, the texture was not as good as the C1 phone, and it also looked a little thicker.

Bai Qiwen then pointed to several other identical mobile phones and said, "These two are also 1, the mobile version and the telecom version. They look the same, but the internal structure has changed because of the change in the chip!"

"This model of the Little Blue 1 mobile phone is still trendy and fashionable, aiming to be priced at yuan."

This price is not expensive compared to the hardware configuration, but it is not cheap either.

This phone is actually considered a "mid-to-high-end" phone for Wecoo Electronics. As for the mid-to-low-end phone, it is actually another model, that is the Blue M7225 phone which uses a lower-end 3.2 chip and a 1-inch screen.

(End of this chapter)