Chapter 1057: Private meeting
The direct flight from Sri Lanka to Beijing has not yet opened. Zhang Ke stayed in Perth with two transit planes and Wei Lan left Perth. Through the plane's porthole and the gaps in the clouds, you can see the vast deserts and the azure blue sea of Western Australia.
Sitting on the spacious and comfortable curved soft chair in the cabin, Zhang Tuoweilan stared out of the porthole and asked, "Really decided to come to Perth?"
"Well," Wei Lan nodded, "Surrounded by deserts and seas, it feels isolated from the rest of the world. It's pretty good." The novel chapters are updated fastest.
"Oh..." Zhang Ke sighed slightly. With so many things born to Wei Lan over the years, her family is unable to give her the protection she wants. The family is poor. In order to allow her two younger brothers to continue to school, Wei Lan had to drop out of school in the second year of high school. It was Zhai Danqing who protected her from sinking into the filthy turbid current. In her heart, Zhai Danqing is a closer and more important person than her family. Some rumors are growing secretly, and it is not difficult for Wei Lan to think about leaving the country to come to Perth to accompany Zhai Danqing.
It was too heavy to think so, Zhang sullen the subject, and asked with a smirk: "Forgot to ask you one thing, what did you do with Dan Qing sleeping naked the morning before?"
"You!" Wei Lan opened her beautiful eyes: her eyes stared at Zhang Ke, her face blushing, she really didn't explain what happened the morning before, and she couldn't say that she took off her underwear when she got soaked to sleep, and stretched out her hand to pinch Zhang Ke's waist. Meat, "Do you dare to talk nonsense anymore!" "Fiction" "Fiction chapters are updated fastest
Zhang Tianran smirked and raised his hand to surrender, telling Lan to stop pinching his waist.
Perth is also the coldest winter of the year, flying over the blue ocean, but Hong Kong is the hottest summer just after the typhoon season of the year. Long-term journeys often give people some strange feelings.
Zhang Ke and Wei Lan were prepared when they boarded the plane in Perth. They took off their coats and wore light and thin summer clothes inside. Wei Lan no longer dresses up as an office girl, but wears jeans, a T-shirt and sports shoes, as a pure student girl.
"Don't stay in Hong Kong for fun?" Zhang Ke asked.
Got off the plane. Wei Lan did not leave the country continued. Instead, I plan to directly transfer to a domestic flight back to build.
"The day after tomorrow will officially start..." Even if I want to transfer to Perth University as soon as possible, I don't want to play truant like Zhang Ke. It doesn't look like a student at all.
Watching Tang go through the formalities to meet in the terminal. Wei Lan raised her hand and smiled and greeted her to come over. See Tang> with a soft and smiling appearance. I thought if I was Tang. Will he ignore Zhang Ke's flight back to Hong Kong from Perth? Take a look at Zhang Ke. I thought of Zhai Danqing's words "love is not pure water". Smiled and exchanged greetings with Tang. Thinking of having a lover is much happier than if the lover leaves oneself. If the ball hits his mind on him, he hasn't had the strength to push him away.
Tang arrived in Hong Kong a week ago. And Zhang Qieweilan boarded the plane to Jiandi before leaving the airport.
on the car. Zhang Ke told Tang that Wei Lan might immigrate to Western Australia.
Tang>The case of Luo Guiyuan with Zhang Ke's arm is a long time ago. But some rumors are difficult to calm down. It's okay for Weilan to leave the country if he has been hurt. He gently leaned his head on Zhang Kedi's shoulders but never thought about where to emigrate.
Ye Jianbin and Sun Shangyi are not in Hong Kong. The reclamation project of the 10 million-ton steel industry base has been nearly halfway. The merger negotiations between Donghai United Steel and Dongshan Iron and Steel are also in the final stage. With the shipbuilding base project, Ye Jianbin and Sun Shangyi are both in the new Ting, Nanyang Haiyuan's high-rise buildings are also mostly in Xinting.
Although Ye Jianbin and Sun Shangyi were neither in Hong Kong nor settled down in Hong Kong, Jiang Wei made a call when he arrived at the hotel, saying that Xiao Ruimin of Lianxin was also in Hong Kong, hoping to meet him in private.
Zhang Ke didn't know where Xiao Ruimin knew that he would settle down in Hong Kong today, but he asked to meet, and there was no other arrangement at night, so he invited Xiao Ruimin to the Peninsula Hotel to have dinner together.
Xiao Ruimin was only forty-six years old, but he was a little frosty. He didn't deliberately dye the frost black, thinking that some whiteness would add some refined temperament. He first met Zhang Tuo, or in Wang Xuping’s second time, deliberately wanted to see what the figure behind Kumho’s economic empire looked like, even though he admitted that Kumho had set off a big whirlwind in the country at that time. There is no special opinion. It has been almost three years, and Xiao Ruimin had difficulty preparing to describe the various things born during this time. He had to admit that some things, some were born with talent to do well.
When I got off the car in front of the Peninsula Hotel, it was dusk and sunset. Standing in front of the Peninsula Hotel, he could hear the sound of the waves in the distance. He knew that Zhang Ke liked to live in the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, but couldn’t figure it out. Kumho has such strong financial resources, why not buying a house in Hong Kong is always more comfortable than staying in a hotel.
Watching Fu Jun come out from the lobby to pick him up, Xiao Ruimin smiled and shook hands with him.
Xiao Ruimin no longer expects Zhang Ke to come downstairs to greet him personally. Even if Ge Jiande and Kumho have no grudges, Zhang Ke does not come downstairs, it is a matter between the two. He thinks about meeting Zhang Ke privately. In Ge Jiande's ears, Ge Jiande is about to furious again, right?
The French restaurant on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel, through the floor-to-ceiling glass, you can see
The sea of time, like a forest fire in the blazing sunset glowing the azure blue sea, walked in, Xiao Ruimin had to admit that sitting and dining at this time is definitely a luxury enjoyment.
"Mr. Xiao also happens to be in Hong Kong?" Zhang Ke watched as Fu Jun led Xiao Ruimin in, stood up and shook hands with him, and invited him to take a seat.
“I heard that Ke Shao went directly to Perth from Dallas, thinking that Ke Shao might stay in Hong Kong when he returned from Perth. During this time, he just had the opportunity to come to Hong Kong, so he stayed for a few more days.” Xiao Ruimin also covered up. Staying in Hong Kong is just waiting to meet Zhang Tuo. Meeting in Hong Kong is always easier than meeting in Beijing or Jian.
Zhang Ke smiled and took the coffee pot from the waiter to help Xiao Ruimin pour coffee. Xiao Ruimin probably didn't want Ge Jiande to know about meeting in private.
Xiao Ruimin didn't circumspect, he also knew that he was not qualified to circumscribe in front of Zhang Ke. In the restaurant on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel, he had a French meal with Zhang Ke and Tang.
"Kumho officially established a mobile phone chip research department under the ess laboratory. The outside world is speculating that Kumho has some key progress in the research of baseband chips. Would it be too presumptuous to just say this?" Xiao Ruimin asked.
"I think the outside world will give us more quality voices," he said with a smile, "After all, baseband chip technology can't be developed by any organization, and there are too many examples of failures. "
"As far as my judgment is concerned, I would rather believe that Kumho has mastered the commercially available baseband chip technology..."
"..." Zhang Ke pursed his mouth slightly without saying a word, waiting for Xiao Rui to directly say his intention.
"The Ministry of Information Industry has explicitly promised China Unicom to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to be responsible for the construction and operation of the cddma network, and it has also made it clear that the mobile communications business will be spun off from the telecommunications group this year to establish an independent company..." Xiao Ruimin knows the inside information For Zhang Ke, it’s not much insider information. Yi Yunfei has already publicly stood in support of Kumho within the Ministry of Information Industry. He said so, but he just thinks it can better explain today’s intentions. "Compared with the mobile communication tariffs this year Last year there has been a substantial decline, which has led to a significant increase in domestic mobile phone sales. However, this year, the eleven manufacturers that have obtained the new mobile phone license from the Ministry of Information Industry have been awarded by Kewang Hi-Tech, and the other ten, including Lianxun , Lianxin, and Dongxing are unable to obtain sufficient supply of mobile phone components. However, I think the market share in the first half of the year will be higher."
Zhang Ke quietly listened to Xiao Ruimin. There are many reasons why the supply of mobile phone components cannot keep up, and he cannot complain about the insufficient production capacity of upstream manufacturers.
This year, the demand in the domestic mobile phone market has nearly doubled year-on-year. Foreign brands and Kumho are fighting fiercely in the mid-to-high-end market, leaving a lot of room for domestic mobile phone manufacturers in the low-end market. How much are domestic mobile phone manufacturers preparing? Some are inadequate, and the procurement management is relatively in the early stage. The supply volume is far below the design capacity requirements, and money cannot be made.
Most of the components required by Kewang Hi-Tech are supplied by Kumho, and a considerable part of the components are customized. Since the communication with each other is sufficient and effective, Kumho can adjust the production of components in a timely manner according to the needs of Kewang Hi-Tech.
Other domestic mobile phone companies cannot enjoy such high-standard treatment. The demand for components of these mobile phone companies is not greatly valued by upstream component manufacturers. Even if Jian and Haizhou have formed a certain scale of supporting industrial clusters, the overall production capacity is still very limited, and the construction of factories is still a bit lagging. In addition, some core components need to be purchased from overseas electronics companies often because of the lack of a certain kind of spare parts. It takes two or three months to wait for the entire production line to be forced to stop. Even Lianxin, Lianxun, and Dongxing often have such troubles.
This phenomenon is somewhat similar to the DVD player market in 1995. At that time, the demand for the disc player market was erupting like a volcano, and the demand for the disc player movement was severely in short supply because Kumho was able to obtain 100,000 times the monthly supply of the movement from the Philips Shanghai factory. The contract only took the share of the disc player market in one fell swoop.
Zhang Ke looked at Xiao Ruimin quietly and said, "I also understand this situation. I think this situation will gradually change, but don't expect to be completely improved all at once..."
"When you think about it, you also know the countermeasures of some domestic mobile phone companies in response to this situation," Xiao Ruimin said. "Many companies increase the purchase of components, increase inventory, and increase the stock of mobile phone products..."
"What about Lianxin's countermeasures?" Zhang Ke asked directly without taboo.
"Lianxin is a little confused now," Xiao Ruimin said, "I am a little worried. Increasing the inventory of components and increasing the stock of finished products can cope with the current market dilemma. But there is a fatal problem that lies in front of us. We can't ignore it. "
"What problem is fatal?" Zhang Ke asked.
Xiao Ruimin glanced at Zhang Ke. He did not believe that Zhang Ke would not know what was fatal. Since he asked, he explained in detail: "Domestic mobile phone companies have limited ability to develop new products, increase component inventory, and improve The inventory of finished products is only to increase the inventory of components and finished products of a certain two models of mobile phones. However, Kumho and foreign mobile phone companies have such a strong ability to develop new products. Once Kumho and foreign mobile phones
When the competition becomes fierce, new mobile phones will continue to be introduced to the market, so that the rapid depreciation of mobile phones and the elimination of the market. The one or two old models of mobile phones that domestic mobile phone companies rely on will be severely unsold. At that time, a large number of components and finished products Inventory has become a terrible thing..."
Zhang Ke kept a faint smile on his face, but he sighed slightly in his heart. At this time, there are really not many domestic mobile phone companies who can sensitively see the subtleties of market changes. It takes almost a year or more for domestic mobile phone companies to open new mobile phones. For a long time, when foreign mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola launch one or several new mobile phones every two or three months, domestic mobile phone companies will truly feel the destructive power of the sea tactics.
Samsung has also suffered a severe setback in China due to the continuous launch of heavyweight gem mobile phones and dual-screen foldable mobile phones by Kewang Hi-Tech and Kumho in June and July. However, Samsung’s technical strength and capital strength are there, and the temporary setbacks are fundamentally hurt. Without Samsung's muscles and bones, the key Samsung also quickly realized where their problems lie.
Xiao Ruimin could not understand what Zhang Ke was thinking. In any case, Kumho and one are privately-owned and the other is state-owned. Under the domestic market economy system, they can be regarded as natural competitors. In addition, at the beginning of the year, mobile phone licenses were opened. In addition, Huaxia Electronics secretly encouraged the Ministry of Information Industry to directly target Kumho’s relations to make the relationship worse. Kumho fully supports Kewang Hi-Tech, temporarily not supplying spare parts to other domestic mobile phone manufacturers, for this reason.
Xiao Ruimin didn’t expect Zhang Ke to treat him sincerely. He only hoped that his sincerity would impress him a little, and continued: “In fact, this trend has already begun. In July, foreign mobile phone manufacturers such as Kea, Motorola and other foreign mobile phone manufacturers launched new mobile phones quickly. Samsung’s domestic product development and design department immediately added nearly 300 researcher positions... It is only limited to the competition between Kumho and overseas mobile phone manufacturers in the high-end market, but this trend will spread to the low-end market, I think it is also very fast."
"Well," Zhang Ke put his arms around his chest, leaning comfortably on the back of his chair, and said, "Domestic mobile phone companies may indeed face such a dilemma, and specific problems need to be resolved by each company..."
"I want to confirm whether Kumho has already mastered the commercial technology of baseband chips?" Xiao Ruimin asked seriously, propping his hands on the table.
Zhang Ke also wanted to perfuse Xiao Ruimin at this time, saying: "Mr. Xiao came to see me in private. I think the news spread has made some people unhappy. If Lianxin breaks away from the scope of the Digital Mobile Technology Promotion Association and will follow us alone, I'm afraid It will make some thunderous!"
"So the lake has indeed mastered the commercial technology of the base chip?" Xiao Ruimin's eyes are gleaming.
The prototype of the 35-micron thread-based chip was developed years ago, but the stability has not been satisfactory. He said, “It can barely be used on cell phones now...”
) One of Kumho’s earliest mobile phones launched in 1997 was only positioned as a mid-to-low-end mobile phone. More than two years later, Kumho has long since phased out) and no longer produces it. However, other mobile phone manufacturers such as Lianxin still have Mobile phones of the same specifications are on sale.
"I want you to know that even if AlliedSignal is willing to use the baseband chip produced by Kumho, it does not have enough technical strength to solve other technical problems besides the baseband chip hardware..." Xiao Ruimin said.
Zhang Ke raised his head, looked at Xiao Ruimin, and said: "We will not simply sell baseband chips. We will provide customers with a complete set of digital mobile phone technology solutions based on baseband chips and other hardware architectures at low prices..."
"Excuse me a lot today," Xiao Ruimin got the answer he wanted to know, stood up and said goodbye, "I will take the night plane back to Beijing, and there should be a definite reply to Kumho within three daysZhang Ke He smiled, shook hands with him and said: "I will be waiting for you in the construction in three days. "
After Xiao Ruimin left, Zhang Ke talked with him on the phone, telling him that Xiao Ruimin intends to promote the use of ess baseband chip technology in Lianxin's mobile phones.
"It's not easy for Xiao Ruimin to do this," Chen Xinsheng sighed softly on the phone, "but the road left for them seems not to be wide. If Xiao Ruimin is not tolerant of China Electronics, can he please come? Kumho is coming?"
"Isn't this holding the palm to the Ministry of Information Industry and fanning the face of Huaxia Electronics?" Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Let's talk about it then. At this time, Xiao Ruimin is not without a desperate situation. It is possible that at least China Electronics has not been removed from the Ministry of Information Industry. Xiao Ruimin also regards this as the last opportunity, otherwise he will not wait for me in Hong Kong."
"..." Chen Xinsheng groaned on the phone for a few seconds, and then said, "If it goes well, will Kewang Hi-Tech and AlliedSignal compete on an equal footing?"
"Well, that's for sure," Zhang Ke said. "Also, we also have our own products that use ess baseband chip technology. We don't use it ourselves, so how can we reassure others?"