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Zhou Buqi said: "Many repair shops in China claim to be original and genuine, especially those in Huaqiangbei, which provide all kinds of original spare parts. Are they all like this?"

Zhou Shaoning smiled and said: "Yes, if it is not a scam, it is this kind of defective products that have flowed out of the foundry. For example, unqualified chips do not mean that the chips cannot be used, but that the chips have black spots and bad spots, which may affect performance and may crash at any time, but they are indeed original and genuine. Now the foundries of mobile phones and computers are generally in China, and a whole set of black industries has been formed."

Zhou Buqi shook his head, "These foundries have done everything they can to reduce the losses of defective products."

"Well..." Zhou Shaoning hesitated, "It may not be the foundry's fault. It can even be said that most of the defective products that flow out are not the foundry's behavior, especially for large factories like Samsung and TSMC, which is even more impossible. It is mainly due to collusion between insiders and outsiders, corruption within some companies, and private transactions between executives and external buyers."

He is an insider, so he understands it too well.

No matter what you produce by OEM, you will definitely produce defective products.

However, most of the defective products just do not meet the high standards of upstream manufacturers, not that they cannot be used. High-standard spare parts may be perfect as new after ten years of use, while unqualified spare parts may break down after five or six years of use.

These defective products still have great market value!

For example, if the battery of a Mac is broken, you want to replace it. Normally, if you want to replace the original battery, you can only go to the Apple store, and the price is too expensive. If you go to a third party and replace an original battery, the price will be very low.

Where does this third-party original battery come from?

There are only two possibilities.

One is fake, which is not an original battery at all.

The other is outflow, which comes from the gray channel of the OEM factory.

When big companies like Asda, Samsung, Apple, ZTE, and Huawei place orders with foundries, the scale is very large, at least hundreds of millions or even billions. The foundries dare not offend such big customers, and operate privately and deliberately sell these unqualified products to reduce the loss of defective rate. Once discovered, future orders will be gone, and the loss will be too great.

However, some people inside the foundry are not necessarily the same, and there is a possibility of collusion between insiders and outsiders.

Several executives joined forces to secretly sell the unqualified products in the warehouse to the gray market channel, and then reported to the company that they were destroyed in accordance with regulations, and they could make a lot of money from it.

Zhou Shaoning said: "Some executives are even more excessive, and they will even cooperate with assembly line workers to deliberately reduce the process and increase the defective rate."

"Ah?"

Zhou Buqi was slightly stunned and unbelievable.

Zhou Shaoning said: "With a high failure rate, there will be more defective products eliminated, and they can ship more and make more money in the future, so they don't care about how much loss they will cause to the company. Last month, there was a case in China where more than a dozen people were arrested in the foundry, and the amount involved was nearly 300 million yuan."

"Is it from the Apple supply chain?"

"Yes, the largest market for this industry is the Apple supply chain. Most of the parts and components of Android phones are universal and highly replaceable. Apple is different. The original products are difficult to replace. Even if it is a charger, there is a huge gap between the original charger and the third-party charger."

"It should still be the party A who takes over and disposes of these defective products, and the foundry should not be allowed to handle them by themselves."

Zhou Buqi gave his own suggestions.

Zhou Shaoning smiled and said, "Well, this is indeed the mainstream way of dealing with it. However, the so-called 'original' spare parts of the Apple chain on the market are not missing at all. However, it is generally not a big problem to find Samsung or TSMC for OEM. This kind of black industry is mainly in the mainland market. Moreover, mobile phone chips are not replaceable. If the mobile phone chip is broken, the mobile phone cannot be turned on, and users generally buy new phones." Zhou Buqi nodded, "So from the perspective of Esda, there is no difference between choosing Samsung or TSMC for OEM?" "Well, there is not much difference." Zhou Shaoning still considers Boss Zhou very much, "It depends on your opinion. Samsung is trying to promote the development of chip OEM business and has invested a lot of resources. This is their strategic decision. If we give the order to Samsung, maybe we can get some other strategic benefits from Samsung. See if you need it." "Okay, I'll think about it." With such benefits, Zhou Buqi will naturally not let it go. If it is some high-end chips, the process requirements are very high and the technology is more confidential, then it must be TSMC that is chosen for OEM. But now the 4G chip developed by Asda is just an entry-level product. If the order is given to Samsung and some valuable strategic resources are exchanged from Samsung, it will be a great deal.

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When Zhou Buqi returned home, there was no place to stay in the cloakroom.

Bottles and jars were everywhere.

“Senior sister, don’t put them around like this. If someone accidentally touches them, it will ruin the antiques.” Zhou Buqi was helpless when he saw Wu Yu carefully looking at a landscape painting.

Wu Yu turned around and said excitedly: “Look, husband, is this painting beautiful?”

“Beautiful.”

Zhou Buqi smiled, how could he appreciate this. If it was a salon oil painting of nude women in Europe, he could appreciate it well.

Wu Yu said very eloquently: "This is Wen Zhengming's painting!"

"That's worth a lot of money!"

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but look at it a few more times, but he really couldn't appreciate this kind of ink landscape painting.

Wu Yu said to himself: "This painting is a family heirloom. Look here, there is also Tang Bohu's promotion, um... and Kangxi and Qianlong's money. This should be treasured well. Back then, When old Rockefeller bought it in China, it cost him 40,000 yuan! A Shang Dynasty tripod only cost 4,000 yuan.”

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, you have to keep them well. And these porcelains are so beautiful, so keep them well. Don't let the children come over and break them for you."

Wu Yu said nonchalantly: "I know, let's put it here for now. I'll move it over there after I pack it up in a few days."

After all, Zhou Buqi is not a big collector, and he lacks the emotional bond to put it down.

Not a pretty woman.

It's really not of much interest.

Putting on shorts and short sleeves, Zhou Buqi walked around the house, kissed Yaxian, hugged Baoshan, and touched Aunt Xue's body several times. Finally, he walked around the house on the west side of the fourth floor. I found Senior Sister Zhen Yu in a study room.

Zhou Buqi knocked on the door and asked in a low voice: "Senior sister, are you busy?"

Zhen Yu just came back from New York today. She looked up and saw him. She pursed her lips and smiled softly: "Come in! We are settling accounts!"

Zhou Buqi walked over with a smile.

Zhen Yu stood up and gave her seat to him. After he sat down, she sat in his arms and said happily: "The cash flow issue has been resolved. I have reached an agreement with Rockefeller." . Pay $900 million this year, $900 million next year, and $900 million the year after that. Also, Tesla’s delisting case is over. You can go to New York tomorrow and follow. Musk and the others can just sign and sign together.”

"Thank you for your hard work." Zhou Buqi hugged her slender waist, "It's good to have a good wife at home."

"My husband is the one who works hard."

Zhen Yu hooked her arms around his neck and snuggled into his arms.

Zhou Buqi whispered: "Do you want to sleep with me tonight?"

"want."

Zhen Yu nodded lightly.

Zhou Buqi said: "Okay, if I hurt you again tonight, I'll tell you something. Pluto Capital's Qualcomm stock, please prepare it and deal with it..."