The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide

For a new company, it is not easy to find people who are really experienced enough.

Especially for a manufacturing industry with a very long supply chain such as mobile phones, it takes years of immersion in the industry to know exactly which company can produce your parts and have the highest cost performance.

If everyone has no experience, the cost of trial and error alone is a very high cost.

Taking Nokia 3210 as an example, it is equipped with Texas Instruments MAD2PR1 CPU, and the display is a monochrome LCD display with only 64 PPI.

It also only needs the hardware of this parameter to meet the software requirements of the mobile phone.

Seamus didn't necessarily know such details, but he knew how to find someone who did.

"I know what you are worried about. You are worried that you have to invest in research and development in the early stage, but you will not see the return for a long time.

And I am so young, and I have never experienced failure since I started my business. Others have been unable to achieve profitability in Internet entrepreneurship for a long time, and some of them have no way to achieve profitability until the company goes public.

But when I started a business, I quickly achieved break-even in the early stage, and then realized profitability.

So you worry that I don't have the patience to wait for the company to grow, and I don't have the patience to keep investing in it.

So you can't make up your mind, even if you have been convinced by me in your heart, your age does not allow you to take risks.

You are not short of money, and on the premise that your career has come to a perfect end, you don’t want to do this kind of risky attempt again. "

Zhou Xin went on to say that he could tell from Simo's expression that he was right.

"But are you really willing? After Nokia was almost kicked out, the chairman left that position after only two years.

It stands to reason that an executive like you who resigns, even if it is because of age, will be hired back as an honorary consultant.

But you didn't, instead you came to New York from Finland. "

Seamus wasn't angry at all because of Zhou Xin's critical words, "Can't it be because I like the climate in New York?

The long winters in Finland are beyond my age. "

Zhou Xin got up and shook his head: "If you really obeyed the old, you wouldn't come to see me."

Zhou Xin was engaged in semiconductor entrepreneurship before, and when he attended entrepreneurs and investors’ gatherings, he often heard them talk about poaching high-end talents of Neon, as long as American’s suppression of Neon Semiconductor was mentioned, the other party would not show any emotion on the surface. , actually heartbroken about it.

A typical case is that Yukio Sakamoto went to China at the age of 72 to join Tsinghua Unigroup.

Of course, there are also remarks that Yukio Sakamoto came to steal secrets and interrupt the research and development process of Huaguo Semiconductor.

It is not necessary for the elderly to do this kind of thing.

Seamo's gray hair was slightly lifted by the wind, and his eyes suddenly became less cloudy: "Of course not reconciled, not reconciled may not be useful.

I don't regret coming to see you. You can understand my fundamental demands in just half an hour. You are indeed the world's top Internet product manager.

It is no surprise that you can develop a series of excellent products such as Quora, Riot Games, and NewPay just because of your ability to understand people's psychology.

The headhunters didn't know that I left Nokia due to internal struggles, they thought I was getting old and retired.

Including the job opportunities recommended to me by previous headhunters, I have not even met them, including the president of Sony North America and the global vice president of Samsung Electronics.

I also hope to launch revenge on Nokia in the field of mobile phones, but this is too difficult, Nokia is powerful, and I have worked in Nokia for 20 years.

Even small well-known mobile phone brands such as Samsung and Sony can only rely on their domestic market and barely compete with Nokia. It is too difficult to build a brand from scratch to compete with Nokia. "

Naturally, Simo would not have imagined that the Nokia Kingdom, which he considered indestructible, would see their mobile phone business decline in just ten years, and be packaged and acquired by Microsoft within fifteen years.

Zhou Xin said, "So why did you come to see me?"

Simo: "Because I'm very curious about you, and I want to hear if you have any insights that can impress me."

Zhou Xin said: "I will combine Internet products and mobile phones to make a product that is differentiated enough for users to pay."

Simo shook his head: "Nokia is already doing it internally. They are already working on a product that integrates Quora into mobile phones. They should have been talking to Time Warner."

Quora no longer belongs to Zhou Xin. Even if Zhou Xin still manages Quora, he would not know such specific news.

It's just that Zhou Xin's consent is required before reaching a cooperation.

Zhou Xin said: "It's not Quora, I still have a lot of ideas, and I can use Internet products to occupy a place in the mobile phone market."

Simo: "This is a corner overtaking in a certain sense, but it will also cause a problem, that is the cost.

Because Internet products need to be implemented through mobile phones, this has higher requirements for the CPU, memory and storage of mobile phones. "

Zhou Xin nodded: "I have always positioned Matrix as a mid- to high-end product, and we need to use product differentiation to enjoy high pricing.

It is impossible for a consumer electronics brand to only have mobile phones, and other products can also enjoy the premium brought by the brand.

I can't tell you the specific product plan and design now, I can only say that I am not a momentary impulse, but a long-term plan.

Building a brand inspires my desire to win far more than ordinary entrepreneurship. "

Seamus: "I need time to think, let me, an old man, think about it."

After Zhou Xin left, Seamo took a walk in New York's Central Park, and called his wife during the walk:

"Alena, Newman came to talk to me about work. He wants to start a new consumer electronics company and wants me to be the CEO of this company."

Alaina is Seamus' wife, ten years younger than him, and she heard on the other end of the phone: "Congratulations, this is a good opportunity."

Seamus asked: "Why do you say that? This new company has nothing but Newman's name. Compared with Sony and Samsung, the possibility of it beating Nokia is infinitely close to zero."

Alena mopped the floor on the other end of the phone and said, "Seamo, you are wrong, the probability of its success is infinitely higher than that of Sony and Samsung.

Because the possibility of Sony and Samsung beating Nokia in the field of mobile phones is zero, and even if the possibility of this new company beating Nokia is close to zero, it is not zero.

A number that is not zero is much better than zero anyway, it means hope.

At your age, what you need most is hope. After you have hope, your mental state will be much better.

The reason we moved from Helsinki to New York is because you've been in a bad mood.

The traces of that company are all over Helsinki, and every time you see it, you get into negative emotions, so we moved to New York.

And when you receive a call from a headhunter, it is obvious that your whole state is different.

Because Newman brings you hope. With Newman's performance, he is synonymous with miracles.

It is when you realize this that your mood improves dramatically. "

Alaina knew Seamus too well, and her words woke him up sharply.

Regardless of whether Matrix can succeed or not, with him joining, the probability of successfully defeating Nokia will be much higher. As long as this is clear, the answer to whether you are willing to join Matrix has already been answered.

"Seniors, I'm sorry I have to answer the phone." After Zhou Xin finished speaking, everyone indicated that there was no problem.

After answering the call from Simo accepting the position of CEO of Matrix, Zhou Xin returned to his seat. He continued to keep quiet and listened to the big guys talking about the association.

The leaders present here are Hu Zhengming, Qiu Chengtong, Li Zhengdao, Ding Zhaozhong and Zhang Zhongmou (in no particular order).

The third thing to do when you come to New York is to discuss associations.

"I think there is no problem with Zhengming's organizational vision to promote scientific exchanges between Huaguo and American.

But many other Chinese organizations also have this vision. Should our vision be a little different from other Chinese organizations? "Qiu Chengtong said.

According to rumors, Qiu Chengtong has a strong desire for power, which is also the source of He Tiangang's public confrontation after returning to Tsinghua University.

Zhou Xin had never been in Yanda, where Tian Gang taught, or Harvard, where Qiu Chengtong taught, so he didn't know much about it.

But judging from this meeting, the rumors are indeed groundless.

From the name of the association, to the vision, to the personnel admission standards, Qiu Chengtong and Zhang Zhongmou were basically expressing their opinions.

Others, like Ding Zhaozhong and Li Zhengdao, think that this is fine, and that is fine, anyway, you decide.

They will only feel that there are some places that are not working, and they will not give suggestions.

And Qiu Chengtong and Zhang Zhongmou will keep expressing what I think should be done, and then try to convince others.

"I think it should be added to strengthen the academic training of overseas Chinese students.

I have seen many Huaguo scholars. Their abilities are good, but their academic taste is average. This is not conducive to fully exerting their academic role.

Many Huaguo international students come to study in American. They work very hard and spend their time in the laboratory and library, but they lack communication and do not know which questions are good questions and which questions are really worth doing.

I think we need to start from this aspect and give them lectures from the perspective of the seniors.

Both Mr. Li and Mr. Ding have first-class academic taste and have made first-class academic achievements. "

Zhang Zhongmou disagreed: "We are an organization of scientific and technological talents, not only scholars in academia, but also engineers in the industry.

Engineers in industry need to explain academic training?

This has a certain deviation from our organizational positioning.

I think this vision is enough to promote scientific and technological exchanges between Huaguo and American.

It's normal to have similar visions between different organizations, we just need to do our thing. "

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