Technological Hegemony

China time, the evening of July 30th.

Google officially announced that it has simultaneously acquired LG's mobile phone division, HTC, and Nokia's mobile phone division, HMD Finland.

This news, like dropping a blockbuster around the world, quickly occupied the headlines of major media.

For three months, the mobile phone war that has always been full of gunpowder has finally ushered in the final madness.

At this point, the Warring States Era, which was dominated by heroes, has come to an end. Outside of China, there are only three major players, Samsung, Apple, and Google.

Others such as LG, Nokia, HTC, and Alcatel have all become yesterday's flowers and disappeared completely from the stage of the history of the mobile phone industry.

In China, the Big Four frenziedly acquired other small and medium-sized manufacturers, and the pattern of the top seven in the world was formally formed.

Except for the Transsion company that was mixed in Africa, they became an exception in this cruel war.

Even when Nokia and LG gave up treatment, they are still alive, and they are living quite well in Africa...

Only one day later, Luo Jia suddenly received a call from President Ren of Huawei.

"Do you know what day tomorrow is?" Mr. Ren asked.

Luo Jia smiled, "Of course, tomorrow is the day when your new mobile phone will be launched. I saw that the posters of the major specialty stores have been posted, and people are talking about it on the Internet. How can we get the goods in the first time?"

Mr. Ren laughed heartily, "To be precise, it is our new mobile phone. Without your energy wave wireless charging module, without your front and rear cameras, without your mobile assistant, there would be no epoch-making new product. Let me say Ah, the one who contributed the most this time is Xingchen Technology."

"No more polite words, I'm in Kunshan, do you have time to come?"

"What? Mr. Ren wants to invite me to dinner?"

"There is food to eat, but there are other things, you will know when you come."

After hanging up the phone, Luo Jia got into his Tesla and went straight to Kunshan.

You don't have to give others face, but you still have to respect Mr. Ren's personal invitation.

Along the way, Luo Jia looked out to see the vehicles driving on the road.

Recently, he has disliked his car more and more, and the battery life is too bad.

It is said that it can run 400 kilometers, but Luo Jia drives more vigorously, and with the air conditioner turned on in hot weather, he can't run 300 kilometers even if he dies.

He thought about changing to a traditional gasoline car, at least he didn't have to worry about battery life.

 …

On the outskirts of Kunshan, a large LCD display factory.

Mr. Ren's secretary was waiting for Luo Jia outside the factory and took him directly into the workshop.

Mr. Ren and a few assistants were going around the production line to inspect the equipment. The equipment was almost brand new. Luo Jia had heard of this factory in his memory. Jinghong showed that a not-so-famous display manufacturer in China seems to be headquartered in Dongguan, while Huawei It also recently moved its headquarters there.

"This is the 8.5th generation line that was just built last year. Although it can't be compared with BOE's 10.5th generation line, it has invested a lot of money, probably a little over 10 billion." Mr. Ren pointed to the production line and said .

Luo Jia frowned, "Why are you telling me this?"

Mr. Ren asked back: "I heard that you have encountered financial troubles recently?"

Luo Jia nodded, "Yes, we want to enter the display industry, but the purchase of production lines and equipment exceeds the company's current financial resources, and we are applying for a loan from the bank."

Mr. Ren waved his hand, "You don't need to go to the bank anymore. This 8.5-generation line is looking for sale. It's 20% off. How about selling it to you for 8 billion?"

Luo Jia smiled wryly, "I can't even come up with 8 billion, I have to find financing in the end."

Mr. Ren smiled, "For a three-year interest-free loan, each of the four of us will lend you two billion. Let's reciprocate. If you want, call the finance and legal affairs to sign the contract immediately."

Luo Jia was taken aback. He began to observe the 8.5-generation production line carefully.

The equipment is almost brand new, and there are sixteen sets of Nikon FX85 exposure machines alone.

You know, the unit price of this kind of exposure machine imported from Neon is more than 200 million yuan, and the exposure equipment of this production line alone has reached an astonishing more than 3.2 billion yuan.

Eight billion yuan, obviously Luo Jia took advantage of it!

Moreover, in addition to the production line, there are also skilled workers.

If he opened a new factory by himself, the training of workers and engineers would be enough for Luo Jia to have a headache.

"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It's so cheap to buy a factory with your money." Luo Jia said.

Mr. Ren shook his head, "There is nothing to be ashamed of, you are our most important supplier, and you are our favorite category. You only provide products and have no competitive relationship with us."

"It's not like Samsung, which on the one hand sells us screens and flash memory, and on the other hand, competes with us in the mobile phone market."

"When we cooperate with Samsung, we always have to keep a hand. As for you, you deserve our absolute trust!"

Ren finally told the truth.

Luo Jia's Xingchen Technology belongs to the invisible giant, a pure supplier, only produces products, not markets, and has no commercial disputes with the Big Four. Some of them are all benefits and care for each other.

Luo Jia's top-level design for the company has begun to show results. The degree of trust that the Big Four have in Star Technology is by no means comparable to that of Samsung.

"Since this is the case, then I will not say anything more. I hope we will continue to cooperate sincerely in the future."

Luo Jia stretched out his right hand and shook hands with Mr. Ren, and then notified the company's finance and legal affairs to come over to handle the handover.

"Why don't you make OLED?" Before leaving, Mr. Ren also asked the same question as An Ran.

"In addition to the high cost, we really can't make the vapor deposition machine." Luo Jia told Mr. Ren the truth.

It is a long process for extraterrestrial civilizations to move into Luo Jia's brain, and the knowledge that has entered his mind so far is very basic.

Luo Jia pondered for a long time, but still couldn't find a solution to the problem of the evaporation machine. Coupled with cost and market considerations, he finally decided to take the already mature LCD route.

 …

The dust on the production line has settled, and the scale of Xingchen Technology has also exceeded 1,000 employees for the first time.

The newly opened display department is the department with the largest number of people in the company's history, and the software center that Li Moran is in charge of is also quietly recruiting.

Luo Jia became busier than a rabbit again. He wandered between various project teams, constantly reminding and pointing them, researching and improving the direction, leading the whole company, and at the same time, on the two roads of display and operating system, more and more go faster.

On August 1st, the flames of war burned all over the world again!

The press conference on July 16 was just a warm-up for new products.

After half a month of intense preparations, Samsung and Apple’s 4,000-screen folding mobile phones, and the four giants’ full-screen wireless charging mobile phones have finally begun to distribute goods in large quantities around the world, pushing new products to the market frantically, and launching a desperate battle.

With the world's major players being overwhelmed and forced to withdraw from the battlefield, the seven giants who are still alive are completely desperate and crazy, pushing this all-out war that has lasted for three full months to the final stage. climax.

In August, another interesting thing happened.

The Indian authorities lodged a serious protest against my country against the Big Four and other domestic companies. In the past two months, almost all factories in India have been shut down and withdrawn to the country.

As a result, India's mobile phone manufacturing industry, which has just emerged, was directly cut off, which made the Indian authorities extremely angry.

A few years ago, India relied on rogue tariffs to force the Big Four to set up factories in India.

If mobile phones are produced in India, you only need to pay a small amount of taxes and fees, but if you import mobile phones, the customs will make things difficult, and the tariffs will be even higher.

As a result, the Big Four were forced to set up factories in India, enduring the poor environment, backward infrastructure, and ignorant and undisciplined employees.

However, the situation is different now. The key components of Star Technology are not exported, but only sold domestically.

The factories of the Big Four in India, no matter how much they spend, cannot buy under-screen cameras and wireless charging modules.

How can this be done?

As a result, the Big Four directly withdrew capital on a large scale from India, returned to China and opened new factories, leaving India with a feather.

As for high tariffs, let's be high.

China sells 2,000 mobile phones, while India sells 3,000, 3,500.

No way, it is India who has to collect tariffs. If consumers think it is expensive, just scold your own government.

For a while, the Indian authorities were not human inside and out.

Big money owners like the Big Four ran away, a large number of employees lost their jobs, and they took to the streets to gather crowds to demonstrate. Domestic consumers complained that the tariffs were too high and the authorities were incompetent.

Shrewd businessmen began to smuggle a large number of mobile phones to India from the Pakistan Railway next door, Bangladesh, and Nepal.

All of a sudden, the major crossings in India were crowded with people. They used trucks and manpower to try to transport domestic mobile phones into India.

The unprecedented scale of smuggling activities has had a profound impact on the Indian economy, and tax revenue has plummeted. The Economist magazine predicts that India's GDP in the third quarter will plummet by 0.6 percentage points.