Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2880 scattered pieces

Many times, Zhou Buqi is equivalent to an invisible chairman of Aisda Group.

It’s just that I have too many responsibilities.

It doesn't mean anything whether it's in name or not.

However, Boss Zhou's influence on Asda, and even his huge prestige in the entire domestic mobile phone industry, is well known in the industry. Especially this time, he coordinated to hold an industry symposium and called on mobile phone colleagues across the country to participate. The purpose was to bring down the American chip giant Qualcomm.

Regardless of whether this thing can be done or not, this courage and courage alone are enough to make every industry practitioner admire and awe.

Of course, there are also many people who are taking chances.

I'm not too optimistic about Boss Zhou's impulsive behavior.

They all have the mentality of watching a good show.

If Zhou Buqi fails to win Qualcomm, and then offends Qualcomm, Asda's future supply chain will be frustrated, then as Asda's competitors, they can secretly reap benefits.

The industry symposium will be held soon, so the heads of the mobile phone industry scattered across the country are coming to Beijing one after another.

When many people come to the capital, the first thing they do is visit Zhou Buqi.

After all, this symposium was organized because of him.

This morning, another industry leader came - Bai Yuanxiang, CEO of Meizu.

Zhou Buqi knew that the relationship between Meizu and Xiaomi had not been very good.

Mainly on Meizu’s side.

Before Lei Jun founded Xiaomi, he visited Meizu for a long time and studied in secret. Meizu was very open and basically presented everything to Lei Jun. Turning around, Lei Jun founded Xiaomi and entered the arena with Meizu, which made Meizu feel betrayed.

This is a bit too stingy.

In business competition, is it strange to learn from others?

Originally, Mr. Huang of Meizu and Lei Jun were good friends, but they broke up because of this incident. In Zhou Buqi's opinion, it was really unnecessary. There is no need for business competition to affect personal relationships. Before Lei Jun founded Xiaomi, he even took the initiative to invite the other party to inspect and study within Asda to understand the entire process of mobile phone manufacturing.

Zhou Buqi wanted to communicate with Meizu to resolve the dispute between them and Xiaomi.

Competition is competition.

There is no need to settle on personal grudges.

Zhou Buqi invited him to the reception room and said with a smile, "Why did you become CEO? Where is Mr. Huang?"

Bai Yuanxiang's posture was a little reserved and he sighed: "Meizu's sales have declined in the past two years, so he has been relegated to the second line. He hopes to change Meizu's market position through management adjustments."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "The current mobile phone market is very competitive! Foreign mobile phone manufacturers are nothing, these domestic mobile phone manufacturers are the most competitive."

Bai Yuanxiang was hesitant to say, "Samsung is still very powerful, especially with a very complete and powerful supply chain system."

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi glanced at him, "If you have anything to say, just say it!"

Bai Yuanxiang hesitated for a moment, feeling a little embarrassed, "Mr. Zhou, I know it's quite presumptuous of me to do this, and I'm sorry. But now Meizu really has encountered a big trouble. I hope you can help reconcile it."

"What trouble?"

"Three stars."

"Oh, tell me."

Zhou Buqi's expression was calm.

If it's not too much trouble, it's not impossible to do a favor and solve it.

Bai Yuanxiang sighed, "It's mainly about chip supply. In the past few years, Meizu has used Samsung's Exynos series chips. However, in a recent purchase, the negotiation did not go smoothly. If it continues to be delayed, our new phone will be damaged." The release is further delayed. But the 4G network will be opened in China next year. Once it is delayed for two or three months, the new 3G mobile phones we release will be difficult to attract, and consumers may wait to buy 4G mobile phones. "

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Will Samsung supply chips? No?"

Under the squeeze of Qualcomm, Samsung's chips originally lacked a market.

Even because of insufficient optimization, Samsung mobile phones have gradually given up on Samsung chips.

In this case, will Samsung refuse to supply?

It's unimaginable. Bai Yuanxiang said: "It's not that they don't supply, it's that they want to get rid of the goods. They have a batch of loose chips in their hands, which seem to have been withdrawn from other business lines."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I'm not afraid of loose pieces, the price is even lower! It's not second-hand, as long as it's new, it's more cost-effective."

Bai Yuanxiang said distressedly: "But this is not the model we want. What we want to purchase is another newer generation model. But Samsung refused to provide it, saying that we must eat this batch of loose chips. "

"Well, that's a bit much."

Zhou Buqi frowned slightly.

Those loose pieces are probably returned from the Samsung mobile phone production line. It should be a certain Samsung mobile phone. I had previously ordered a large number of chip orders from the company. As a result, the market was cold after the mobile phone was released and it could not be sold.

This leads to a backlog of produced chips.

Chips become less and less valuable the longer they sit in the warehouse. If they are left in the warehouse, they will be useless. Selling them to Meizu is a good way to get back the funds.

Anyway, Meizu's mobile phones are all low-end and mid-range, and their performance is just that. Ordinary consumers won't notice the difference between using a new model or an old model, which is about 15%, and it can also reduce costs.

In fact, such things are common in the mobile phone industry.

Many mobile phone manufacturers can develop more than a dozen new models every year. The dazzling array of new models is really dazzling. Many new phones are developed by "trainee teams" and use off-the-shelf products from the supply chain. The prices are extremely low and it would be a waste to just leave them alone. It is better to just develop them to occupy a small part of the market and give people more opportunities. The "trainee team" provides an opportunity to face the market directly.

If it really produces results, then this small and unimpressive team will be taken seriously, and someone will be given the opportunity to be promoted.

It is also a channel for companies to discover talents.

Generally speaking, each model will have a team.

The best team, of course, makes flagship models.

The remaining second team, third team, fourth team... are slowly moved back according to the importance of team capabilities and product positioning.

Many mobile phones are not good. It is not necessarily because the quality of the mobile phone manufacturer is not good, but because this mobile phone is a product developed by the 18th-tier team and is not taken seriously at all.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Buy chips from other companies, Qualcomm or MediaTek."

Bai Yuanxiang said: "In the past few years, we have been using Samsung chips, and we have invested a lot of technical strength to optimize them. If we change to chips from other manufacturers, it will waste a lot of initial investment, and it will also Delay our plans."

Zhou Buqi found it a bit funny.

Samsung's chips are not well optimized by Samsung themselves, so Meizu can optimize them?

"It would be best if this matter can be solved. If it can't be solved..." Bai Yuanxiang sighed, "Then we can only accept their plan."

Not just Meizu.

This is a shortcoming of the entire domestic technology industry.

Because Aisida had Boss Zhou supporting the show and his face, he did not suffer too much pressure. The same cannot be said for other colleagues. Every family has been bullied, and Koreans are especially unreasonable in this regard.

In comparison, doing business with Japan and Baodao is smoother and more practical.

It's a pity that Japan's technology giants are not doing well, and MediaTek in Baodao is also not up to par.

Zhou Buqi said: "MediaTek is developing a 4G chip, isn't it? It has been promoted everywhere."

Bai Yuanxiang said: "Yes, we already have a plan. Meizu's first 4G mobile phone will use MediaTek's 4G chip. But the current cooperation with Samsung is the most difficult. Unless there is really no other way, I really want to Develop a mobile phone that meets our own requirements. Even if such a mobile phone fails, I will be convinced. But if we always have to settle for second best because of the supply chain... it is really difficult.”

Small companies are like this.

Not just Meizu.

The same is true for Lao Luo's Smartisan mobile phone. Because the company is too small and lacks industry resources, industry contacts and entrepreneurial experience, the mobile phones it launches are always unsatisfactory. Let alone the first plan, it may even be the fourth and fifth plans. Neither can be done.

That is, Xiaomi is different.

Lei Jun is so powerful that countless small companies and outsiders think that it is really easy to do this business, and that they can make mobile phones by just copying.

But even Xiaomi, in its previous life when it was known as the largest mobile phone manufacturer in the country, was suppressed by Samsung, which brought great shame and humiliation to Lei Jun.