Technology: Start by selling mobile phones

Mo Ran's financial pressure is indeed great.

After a month of unlimited stocking of "Brilliant S1", Nietzsche's available funds have long been exhausted.

Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory has also been completely squeezed to the extreme, and every penny it can use has been invested in stocking the "Brilliant S1".

Not to mention "Yellow River Storage", which has always been a "big money burner". In addition, now that several chip projects have been launched at the same time, the money burning cannot be stopped, and the funds in the account have long been empty.

Jingdong's help made Mo Ran relieved. Although the bridge fund of 500 million was not much, sometimes it was just a penny that stumped the heroes, which relieved Mo Ran's urgent need.

After the 500 million advance payment arrived, Mo Ran first allocated 200 million to "Yellow River Storage" who called several times for help.

Then another 200 million yuan was transferred to "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" to settle the first batch of "Brilliant S1" orders.

Unlike "Yellow River Storage", Li Wanglong has not called Mo Ran once in the past week, and has never mentioned the issue of funds, but Mo Ran knows very well that the last loan from China Merchants Bank was given to "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" The 500 million yuan is almost used just to purchase the Snapdragon 845 chip.

In other words, so far, the stocking funds of 350,000 units of "Brilliant S1" have been shouldered by "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" without adding any burden to him!

In fact, not only did it not increase the burden, Li Wanglong didn't even say a word or complain.

Mo Ran came to "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" in person. In the office, Li Wanglong had obviously lost weight.

"Lao Li, you have worked really hard during this time."

Seeing that Li Wanglong wanted to make tea for himself, Mo Ran pressed Lao Li on the sofa, made a cup of tea himself, and then filled Lao Li's teacup with water himself.

"Mr. Mo, you're too polite. This is what I should do."

Li Wanglong was as pragmatic and low-key as ever. After making simple polite remarks, he continued:

"Mr. Mo, you haven't been here in person for a long time."

"Oh, yes."

Mo Ran nodded.

really,

In the past six months, his focus has been on the "Nietzsche Brand" and "Yellow River Storage", and he has paid too little attention to "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory", just like a picked-up child.

"Lao Li, you are really busy these days. How is the situation in the factory now?"

"not bad."

Li Wanglong said:

"We have orders from Nietzsche in the factory. The TV business and mobile phone business are growing rapidly. Last year's annual report has been released. Our operating income last year reached 2.1 billion."

"Last year, the profit also exceeded 120 million yuan for the first time, and the net profit margin also increased, reaching 6%!"

"Of course, such achievements are inseparable from your strong support."

Mo Ran shook his head.

Li Wanglong is right. A large part of the net profit of 110 million is indeed made possible by orders from the Nietzsche brand.

but.

Mo Ran knew very well that the profit from his OEM work for "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" was not high, and even the cost of some models, such as "Nietzsche A8", was lower than the market price!

On the contrary, despite the low price, my quality requirements for mobile phones have never been lowered.

Compared with the fact that I always leave 15% profit margin for "Yellow River Storage", it is not an exaggeration to say that I am harsh on "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory".

and.

I still remember that in the first year, the net profit margin of "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" was only less than 3%. Without any increase in profit margin, it was able to increase the net profit margin by three points this year. It is enough to show that Li Wanglong is really attentive to management and reducing costs and increasing profits.

Thinking of this, Mo Ran felt really emotional, and Li Wanglong continued:

"Originally, our funds have been somewhat tight in the past few days, but I just heard from the finance department that you have transferred a loan of 200 million yuan. Now that the funds have arrived, the crisis has been resolved, and we are back on track!"

"Everything is fine."

"Ah That's good!"

Mo Ran took a long breath, with a smile on his face.

After a while, he adjusted his mood slightly and asked the main topic of today.

"By the way, Lao Li, what's the situation with the Snapdragon 845 chip now? How many of them do we have in stock now?"

"Um……"

"Qualcomm only officially started supplying Snapdragon 845 in December last year, which was only two months ago last month. Currently, we are the only one purchasing in large quantities in the market, so the supply is still relatively sufficient."

"As for the inventory... we have used 350,000 pieces of 'Brilliant S1' in stock, and we still have about 1 million pieces in stock, which is relatively sufficient."

Mo Ran nodded slightly, almost without hesitation, and continued:

"Lao Li, keep stocking up, 1 million is not enough!"

"While ensuring the normal operation of 'Wanglong', you can stock up on Snapdragon 845 as much as you can!"

One million is not enough? !

Still continue to stock up? !

Lao Li was obviously a little surprised, with a trace of surprise in his eyes.

He hurriedly explained:

"Mr. Mo, as I just said, the supply of Snapdragon 845 is relatively sufficient. Our inventory of 1 million units should be enough to cope with all problems."

Mo Ran was very determined and shook his head.

"not enough."

"..."

Li Wanglong suddenly fell silent. He hesitated for two seconds looking at Mo Ran's determined expression, and finally sighed.

"Okay, Mr. Mo...I listen to you."

The unusual sense of loss in the words made Mo Ran pick up some clues. He picked up the tea cup and took a sip.

He put it down gently and looked at Li Wanglong.

"Old Li, do you have something to hide?"

Li Wanglong was silent. After a few seconds, he nodded slightly and said:

"Mr. Mo, there is indeed something wrong."

"Huh? Let's talk about it."

Seeing this, Li Wanglong sat up straight, then looked at Mo Ran, and said slowly:

"Mr. Mo, our 'Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory' has developed rapidly in the past two years. Now there are a total of 5,128 employees in the factory. According to the plan, I plan to move to another place in the second half of this year. The current old industrial park has It’s no longer appropriate.”

"The conditions of the employee dormitories here are not good, and all the places to live are already full. If we want to recruit people and expand the scale, there will be no place to live."

"Moreover, many advanced equipment cannot be installed due to site constraints, and advanced assembly processes have never been able to be introduced..."

"So whether from the perspective of expanding production or improving technology research and development, moving to a new industrial park is imperative."

Mo Ran frowned slightly, and suddenly understood the source of Li Wanglong's loss.

Moving to a new factory will inevitably involve a series of things such as site selection, purchasing new equipment, adding new production lines, etc., and the core of all of this is naturally the need for money.

If he did not stock up on Snapdragon 845 chips, with the sufficient liquidity of "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory", Lao Li would naturally be able to move to the new industrial park smoothly and complete the future planning of "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory".

But now,

His words of "Store as much as you have" undoubtedly completely disrupted Lao Li's plan.

He was thinking, and at this moment, Lao Li's voice continued to come to his ears.

"In addition, the scale of our factory is not too small now. The leaders of the district also came to me personally a few days ago, hoping that we can move to the new industrial park."

"The conditions provided by the district are also very good. Not only have the venue fees been halved in the first two years, but there are also tax exemption policies. I also think this opportunity is really rare."

Mo Ran nodded, he completely agreed with Lao Li's words.

"besides……"

"The district has also promised that there are two kindergartens and a primary school near the new industrial park. As long as we move there, the district is willing to coordinate with the schools so that our employees' children can go to school nearby."

Speaking of this, Li Wanglong stopped and looked up at Mo Ran.

"Mr. Mo, I came up step by step from the bottom. I know the actual difficulties of the brothers below, so I want to do something practical to really help the brothers solve their difficulties."

"With such good conditions now, I feel it would be a pity to miss it both emotionally and rationally."

Moran pursed his lips and nodded silently.

Now he can completely understand Li Wanglong's loss. This is completely harming the interests of "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" to fulfill Nietzsche, or to fulfill his plan.

This is unfair to Li Wanglong, unfair to "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory", and unfair to all employees.

but……!

This time Mo Ran was silent for a long time. Finally, he raised his head and faced Li Wanglong directly, and said sincerely:

"Lao Li, I can understand your difficulties, but..."

"Forgive me for not being able to change my mind. The Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory cannot be relocated in the future, and all the liquidity on the account will still be used to continue to stockpile more Snapdragon 845 chips."

After the words fell, Li Wanglong couldn't hide the disappointment in his eyes. Then, with a look of disappointment, he shook his head and whispered:

"Mr. Mo, can you tell me the reason?"

Mo Ran's eyes flashed, he hesitated for a moment and then answered:

"Can."

"You must have also watched the new product launch of the 'Brilliant S1' yesterday, right?"

Li Wanglong nodded.

"A month ago, I stocked up on Snapdragon 845 because I wanted to make a business, but since yesterday, I've been stocking up on Snapdragon 845 because I'm afraid I won't be able to buy it anymore."

"Can't buy it anymore?"

Li Wanglong was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted:

"Are you worried that we will be restricted like Huawei? Qualcomm won't sell chips to us?"

Mo Ran nodded heavily.

In an instant, Li Wanglong's originally disappointed expression became serious. He took a deep breath, and the only trace of incomprehension in his mind completely disappeared.

If it is for this reason, he and "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory" are willing to pay!

He sat up straighter and there were no more distracting thoughts in his eyes.

"Mr. Mo, I have nothing more to say. I am willing to listen to your arrangements for everything."

Mo Ran stood up and gently patted Li Wanglong on the shoulder.

"Lao Li, thank you for your hard work."

…

Jingdong's advance payment of 500 million only brought a moment of relief. After leaving the "Wanglong Electrical Appliance Factory", Mo Ran felt solemn and felt the huge financial pressure again.

In fact, regardless of the financial pressure to purchase Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, "Yellow River Storage" is now being developed by several chip projects at the same time.

The yield rate of 32-layer "3D-Nand" memory particles has been improved;

Research and development of 48-layer "3D-Nand" memory particles;

32nm "Pony Crossing the River" chip development;

The yield rate of 38nm "Pony Crossing the River Pro" has been improved;

None of these projects are fuel-efficient, and there is no way to stop burning money if they want to be successful.

That's all.

and.

The biggest headache was that as Jiang Lan spoke at the press conference, Mo Ran realized that he had to start developing Nietzsche's own SOC mobile phone chip.

The difficulty and the amount of continuous investment are definitely not comparable to the current NPU chips or "3D-NAND"!

Back in Nietzsche's office, Mo Ran gradually recovered from his depressed mood and immediately entered the system.

Mobile phone SOC chips are different from the chips that everyone traditionally knows, such as computer CPUs, graphics cards, and GPUs.

Mobile phone SOC chips are equivalent to integrating the functions of CPU, GPU, NPU, ISP and other chips into one chip, which places extremely high requirements on the overall design of the chip and is extremely difficult.

If you start from scratch, this is definitely not a task that can be completed in a short time.

Mo Ran is very clear that his biggest reliance is the system. If he can purchase an advanced mobile phone SOC design drawing from the system, it will undoubtedly greatly promote Nietzsche's research and development and design, and even the progress of producing high-end chips.

Here I have to mention the two fields of chip design and chip manufacturing.

In the eyes of most people, chip design is a matter of design engineers; chip manufacturing is a matter of foundry fabs, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

But actually, it's not.

The chip design link and the chip production link are highly related and closely coordinated.

To put it simply, an excellent chip design drawing can greatly reduce the complexity of the production process, thereby improving the chip yield rate.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, chip design companies will maintain full communication with OEM wafer factories at any time, listen to opinions on the production process, and improve chip design to achieve higher yield rates and even reduce power consumption.

And once Nietzsche gets a top-level SOC chip design drawing from the system, it will have a huge improvement in the production process just like the previous "Pony Crossing the River Chip".

Clicking on the system mall, Mo Ran scanned around and quickly found the target.

[TB-2 mobile phone SOC chip design drawing, quality: B level, manufacturing process: 38 nanometers, can be improved. 】

[This chip is a ‘Star Speed ​​Series’ chip with built-in four 1.8GHz main cores and four 1.3GHz secondary cores, and also integrates the Mali-T628MP4 graphics processor...]

[This chip is ‘improveable’ and can be improved to up to 5 nanometers under the current design framework. 】

[Points required: 300,000 points. 】

38nm.

Improveable type.

300,000 points.

After winning the "Samsung Galaxy S10" in the lottery, over the past three months, the system points have been accumulated to 570,000.

500,000 points is completely acceptable to Mo Ran.

However, seeing the last column,

[Remarks: This chip is based on ARM architecture. 】

Mo Ran hesitated.

He remembers clearly that after 2019, ARM will no longer license the latest ARM V9 architecture to Huawei. This makes Kirin Chip unable to update the next generation of chips and has to make great efforts to develop a new architecture again.

In 2023, ARM directly announced that it would no longer license the most advanced CPU chip design IP-Neoverse V1 and V2 products to all Yanguo companies.

This also means that all Yanguo companies that rely on ARM architecture will not be able to obtain ARM’s latest architecture authorization in the future and will completely lose their competitiveness.

There are lessons learned from the past,

If given the choice, Mo Ran would naturally prefer to buy a brand new structure and never be controlled by others again.

I carefully looked around and found one.

[Name: LD-1 mobile phone SOC chip design drawings, quality: Class A (excellent); process: 38 nanometers; improveable drawings. 】

[This chip is a ‘neural network engine processor’ with built-in four 2.0GHz main cores and four 1.5GHz secondary cores, and also integrates the Mali-T628MP4 graphics processor...]

[This chip is ‘improveable’, and the current design framework can be improved up to 1 nanometer. 】

[Remarks: The chip architecture is PX architecture. You need to purchase the PX architecture before purchasing the chip drawings, otherwise it cannot be used. 】

[The system detects that you have not purchased "PX Architecture" and has automatically combined and settled the required points for you. 】

[Points required: 2 million points (including "38nm LD-1 mobile phone SOC design drawings" and "PX architecture patent"). 】

Mo Ran was excited to see the end, but Mo Ran shook his head in disappointment.

Quality: Grade A;

Can be improved up to 1 nanometer;

Independent PX architecture.

It can be said that every point completely surpasses the 300,000 chip drawing just now.

But there is only one drawback to good things, and that is - they are expensive.

Nietzsche's current sales volume can earn about 100,000 points per month, and 2 million points is equivalent to 20 months, nearly two years.

Two million points is simply an astronomical figure!

But……

Did you buy the previous 300,000-38nm drawings?

Mo Ran hesitated. The 2 million drawings were obviously out of reach. It was indeed possible...or in other words, we could only buy the 300,000 drawings first so that the technical team could accumulate some experience.

[Dear host, are you sure to purchase the ‘TB-2 type’ mobile phone SOC chip, quality: B grade. 】

[Points required: 300,000. 】

"..."

"Forget it, cancel."

During the final confirmation step, Mo Ran hesitated for a long time and finally canceled it. He wanted to hear the opinions of Zheng Qian and Li Zhi.

The failure of the system mall made Mo Ran feel even more stressed. Now Nietzsche is not only facing financial constraints, but also facing the problem of insufficient points, which is his biggest reliance.

He exited the "Super Store System" and his eyes gradually fell on the "Brilliant S1" on his desk.

"There is no other way to earn points for the time being. My only hope now is to see if I can sell more 'Brilliant S1' this time, which will alleviate the financial pressure."

"call--!"

Mo Ran's pressure can be felt through the screen, but...

Not long after, on March 10, the third day after the "Brilliant S1" went on sale, the sales of the "Brilliant S1" suddenly exploded again, and it quickly entered the top ten of JD.com's mobile phone sales list!

What are the top ten? !

Iphone series, META series, Redmi series!

All of them are top-notch popular models!

And the sales time of "Brilliant S1" in just two days exceeded the sales volume of most brands in ten days. What a concept!

This is a precursor to a hot model!

Take a closer look,

The first batch of customers who purchased the "Brilliant S1" in physical stores and online have already received the phone, and a large number of real phone reviews swept the entire Internet like a tsunami!

After the focus on domestic chips has passed, Nietzsche's "Brilliant S1" has become a hot search again based on its own strength!

The power of Android Machine King is gradually revealed!

"Brilliant S1" - the king of Android phones is here!

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PS: Thank you to Zhang Qingming for the 2,500-coin reward!

Thanks to Ye Wuqing for the big reward of 1,500 coins!

There have been so many rewards recently, which makes me feel embarrassed. I will start adding more rewards tomorrow!