The Black Technology Era of Xueba

Banning the sale of chips is already a big move in the United States. To ban the use of the Android system on the basis of the banned chips is basically to seize the seven inches of the Xiaomi mobile phone and make it immobile.

The U.S. also gave Xiao Mi a way to survive. "Abandoning the dark and turning to the bright" returned to the embrace of the U.S. with the Pangu Technology Cooperation Agreement.

The United States likes obedient technology companies, not creative and thoughtful technology companies.

This time, this is the reason why Xia Guo's technology companies are treated differently.

The same Qualcomm chip and Android system are used. Manufacturers such as O and V will be fine. The production and sales of the production can even be sold to the United States with great fanfare and advertised in Times Square.

But Huawei and Xiaomi can't.

Why?

Because O and V manufacturers are more obedient, although they also make mobile phones and have direct competition with Apple, in the eyes of Americans, these two companies are just assembly and processing plants, and they cannot pose any threat to American technology.

O and V do not master any core technology. The United States can make O and V make money in Xia and the world today, and they can immediately go bankrupt tomorrow. The reason for ignoring O and V is because Qualcomm and other US technology manufacturers also need to ship, need revenue, and need to make money.

Huawei and Xiaomi are different. After Qualcomm chips and other communication electronic equipment in the United States are sold to these two companies, there will indeed be trade volume, and the United States will indeed be able to make money. However, these two companies cooperate with Pangu Technology. Like Pangu Technology, they want to innovate and have the idea of ​​challenging the authority of the United States.

If you want to innovate, you can innovate your advertisement, consider which celebrities to endorse, or innovate the design of the mobile phone, the position of the camera and other innocuous things, as long as it does not threaten the technological hegemony of the United States.

But what is not good for these two Pangu technology companies to innovate, to innovate chips, innovate systems, and innovate communications, which are all forbidden by the United States.

Who do you clean up if you don't clean up?

After the U.S. ban, Xia Guo's technology companies are in a double world.

On the one hand, after a period of declining sales of O and V mobile phones, they rebounded again, surpassing Xiaomi and ranking third and fourth in Xiaguo.

The increase in sales this time is mainly from low-end and mid-range mobile phones, because Xiaomi and Huawei's mid- and low-end mobile phones cannot be produced at all after being unable to obtain permission from Android.

All three models Xiaomi planned to launch, with a total of 13 million mobile phones, all caused the foundry to strike due to the inability to import chips and other mobile phone components. Both Xiaomi and the foundry suffered serious losses.

The mid-to-low-end mobile phone models that have already been announced are a major blow to consumers.

Apple, which was about to die in the Xiaguo market, jumped to the second place in sales overnight, and Samsung, which was already dead, jumped to the fifth place.

"If we don't take measures again! We are facing a collapse in profits, and the resulting break in cash flow is unbearable!"

At the Xiaomi headquarters in Yanjing, after the communication with the United States was invalid, the high-level executives held an emergency meeting to find a way.

"In terms of chips, contact MediaTek immediately and replace Qualcomm with MediaTek's chips. For systems, we can use the low-profile version of Tiangong system. We still have a certain amount of other components in stock, so that we can complete orders for about 7 million Hongmi series. , so that the entire series of mobile phones will not be collectively missed."

Since it is a low-end model, the cost must be controlled, so in terms of chips, Xiaomi does not dare to consider Prajna.

After the headquarters meeting was settled, Xiaomi immediately contacted MediaTek, hoping to get support.

Xiaomi's negotiating team even came to MediaTek headquarters in Yizhou with cash to apply for the purchase of chips.

However, MediaTek seems to have received pressure from the United States, and rejected Xiaomi's request on the grounds that the inventory was insufficient and the order took half a year to a year.

Xiaomi negotiator: "I remember we purchased from your company the year before last, and your company guaranteed your production capacity."

"I'm sorry, but there's really not enough capacity."

The most humiliating scene in the history of Xia Guo's science and technology appeared.

The Xiaomi mobile phone, which once ranked second in sales in Xiaguo and fourth in global sales, thought that there was no core available.

Several local companies in Xiaguo, similar to Foxconn, which manufacture mobile phones for Xiaomi, declared bankruptcy due to a broken capital chain.

Xiaomi herself, if not supported by high-end mobile phones (Prajna chip + Tiangong system), may not be able to die as early as those OEM companies.

For a time, the entire Xiaguo technology industry and mobile phone-related processing industries were in danger.

Manufacturers such as O, V, and Meizu seized the time to sign huge orders with Qualcomm, MediaTek, etc., to prepare the chips for the next year.

Qualcomm slaughtered Xiaguo manufacturers fiercely, and the price of the chip increased by 10%.

10% have to be bought too, who can't produce it by themselves.

What annoyed Xiaomi the most was MediaTek. After saying that there was no inventory, it sold the goods to other companies in Xia Guo in a blink of an eye. Isn't this an obvious trick for yourself? !

In the face of interests, it is normal for major companies to make such choices in order to survive. Xiaomi will not blame MediaTek, nor O and V manufacturers.

The only thing that Xiaomi has to blame is that she did not innovate and make efforts in independent research and development at the beginning.

When the U.S. sanctioned Warwick, Xiaomi himself was buying Qualcomm chips in a muffled voice, which is not fundamentally different from today's O and V.

Xiao Mi, who is in an extremely critical situation, holds a press conference.

At the meeting, Xiaomi's press spokesman said: "For well-known reasons, some of our mobile phone products cannot be produced and sold... But please rest assured that all Xiaomi employees will work together to overcome the difficulties... We will never Giving in to some forces. Adhering to independent innovation will be the only way for Xiaomi in the future..."

The speech is undoubtedly tragic and touching, but it cannot solve the fundamental problem.

But Xiaomi also released a strong signal to the outside world, since everyone broke up, they will fight to the end.

In comparison, Warwick is much better.

The chip problem of low-end mobile phones can be solved by Huawei's own HiSilicon, and the system problem can be solved by Tiangong.

Although the output of Huawei's mid-to-low-end mobile phones has been greatly reduced and the cost has increased, Huawei's equipment exports have encountered obstacles, but at least it can survive.

Xia Guo's entire technology industry, including the public opinion circle, was shaken. No one thought that Xiaomi and Huawei, who were proud of everyone, were actually relatively vulnerable.

Especially Xiaomi, the lifeline is basically in the hands of the Americans, if you give birth, you will live, if you die, you will be disabled for life.

Pangu Technology is silently paying attention to all this, and Lin Li and Xu Limin have been discussing emergency strategies with the technical team.