Super Copy of Great Power Technology

Chapter 200 Hard disk price increase controversy

There are also many capable and ambitious scientific researchers who have resigned from their original units and joined Reda Technology Company. Thanks to a combination of measures, the number of employees in the R&D department increased several times to 1000 in just a few months. With so many people, the original Hailong Building couldn't accommodate it, so they had to rent three floors in a nearby office building as a new office space.

Even so, the number of talents in the R&D department of Ruida Technology is still seriously insufficient, and overtime work has almost become commonplace. Of course, employees who work overtime are paid overtime pay by the company. If they work overtime on holidays, they can get double wages. Qiao Ruida would never be able to do that kind of stingy behavior of only talking about ideals but not money, and not paying employees for overtime work.

In terms of chip research and development, we have the mature architecture and design drawings provided by ARM as a reference. The progress is pretty good, and the talent gap is not huge. In terms of mobile phone system research and development, we start from scratch, and there is too much code to be coded. Even if the software development team has hundreds of people, working hard from dawn to dusk, the development progress is still not too fast. In order to solve the problem of shortage of manpower, Qiao Ruida had to outsource some less important peripheral modules to other domestic software companies or universities to write. Among them, the Software School of Peking University organized teachers and students to take over a lot of business.

Software outsourcing is an activity in which an enterprise outsources all or part of the work in a software project to an enterprise that provides outsourcing services to complete the software requirements in order to focus on its core competitive business and reduce the cost of software projects. As early as the beginning of the 21st century, with the establishment of the international Internet, the software outsourcing model was born and developed rapidly. Now, in 11, the domestic software outsourcing model has become quite mature, and many large-scale outsourcing companies with large personnel and powerful technologies have emerged.

With the participation of these outsourcing companies and several famous universities, the research and development of Kaitian mobile operating system is finally on the fast track, and the first test version is expected to be released before the end of the year. With Qiao Ruida, a reborn person, in charge, he avoided too many traps in advance, allowing the Kaitian system to always be on the right path from the beginning of its development, with very few detours. When the system development is completed, I believe that the system's fluency, ease of use, and functionality will be much better than the current ISO and Android systems.

This morning, Qiao Ruida was sitting in the classroom and listening carefully to the class, when her cell phone on the desk suddenly vibrated. Qiao Ruida picked up the phone and saw that it was a call from Morris who was far away in Hong Kong. Qiao Ruida raised her head and took a look at the situation in the classroom. The professor on the podium was pointing at the circuit diagram on the projection screen and explaining it while frothing at the mouth. The students around are listening carefully and taking notes from time to time. The learning atmosphere of the prestigious school is strong, and the students are self-conscious enough that the phenomenon of falling asleep in class does not exist at all.

The position where Qiao Ruida is sitting is in the middle and back of the classroom. Not far to his right is the back door of the classroom. It was autumn at this time, the sun was shining brightly, and the temperature was still a bit high, so the doors and windows were open. Seeing this, Qiao Ruida picked up her mobile phone, ducked her waist, and quietly slipped out of the back door of the classroom.

Qiao Ruida walked to the corner of the corridor, then turned on her mobile phone and answered the call, "Maurice, I'm in class, you're in such a hurry to call, what's the matter?"

Morris' plastic Mandarin mixed with an American accent and a London accent came from the receiver, "I'm really sorry, BOSS. I didn't want to disturb you at first, but the situation is urgent and I have to make this call. That's it, BOSS, The batch of hard drives you bought last month have all been sold out by Reda Technology. Now that they have come to order again, I have no hard drives to provide them here. Let’s see how to solve this matter. Is it to stop supply? goods, or buy another batch of goods and sell them to them?”

Hearing the news, Qiao Ruida couldn't help but frowned and said: "The batch of hard drives I purchased last month cost tens of millions. It should be enough for Ruida Mall to sell until the end of the year. How could it be sold out so quickly? of?"

Morris organized his language and then spoke from the beginning, "BOSS, things are a bit complicated. Please listen to me. In March this year, an earthquake and tsunami occurred in the island country, which affected the supply of hard disk parts and components, resulting in an imbalance between supply and demand. The price of hard disks once rose by tens of yuan! Since the earthquake did not have a serious impact on the hard disk industry, the price of hard disks has fluctuated slightly since then. In September this year, a flood hit Thailand and flooded a Seagate hard disk production plant. Prices rose again. The first half of the month was fine. Hard drive sellers of all sizes had some inventory to support them, so the price increase was not too large. Everyone thought that the hard drive shortage was only temporary, and Seagate's hard drive factory would resume production soon.

Now half a month has passed, and no one expected that not only Seagate's production capacity has not been restored, but other hard disk manufacturers have also reduced production due to some inexplicable reasons, so the price of hard disks has doubled. Consumers who needed to install machines saw that the situation was not good and quickly bought hard drives. Some profiteers even took the opportunity to hoard, sweeping up all the affordable hard drives available on the market, and then reselling them at a price increase of tens or hundreds of yuan. The prices of hard drives sold in Ruida Mall have also increased several times, but the prices are relatively cheap and the supply is sufficient. As a result, many consumers logged into Ruida Mall to buy hard drives, and profiteers and scalpers also took action and bought a lot of goods. So many people participated in the rush to buy that all tens of millions of hard drives were sold out in just half a month. "

Qiao Ruida dug out the memories of her previous life and looked back. In the second half of 11, there was indeed a price increase by hard disk manufacturers that lasted for half a year. The reasons for the price increase were % natural disasters and % manmade disasters. The floods in Thailand and Seagate's reduction in hard drive production were a natural disaster. Later, other hard drive manufacturers took the initiative to reduce production, and agents and scalpers hoarded them. It was a man-made disaster.

"Okay, I understand. I will fly to Hong Kong tomorrow. I will contact the supplier to solve the problem of hard drive shortage. You don't have to worry. By the way, I will ask you to find overseas agents to promote Reda mobile phones to the market. How are overseas things going?"

"We have found several local mobile phone dealers in Southeast Asia, Brazil, Australia, and South America. Our Ruida mobile phones are of high quality and low price, and they are happy to represent our products. In addition, island countries, Europe, and countries, There are also dealers who want to represent our Ruida mobile phones, but before their phones can be put on the market, they must first get certification."

(End of this chapter)