When the arcade arrived, Xu Zhi and others were still playing Disney, that is, yesterday, Robson and others also played a game, but they were immediately attracted to it, and for more than two hours in a row, they quickly became addicted to it.

With a keen sense of business, he immediately discovered that this was a huge business opportunity, and immediately found Xu Zhi to obtain the general distribution rights for the entire North America, but Xu Zhi politely refused.

Accompanied by Matthew, Xu Zhi and others visited the largest chip production plant in California. The chip production plant is definitely the cleanest place in the world, the strict requirements of the production process are extremely perverted, the requirements for airborne particles are 100 times stricter than the most advanced ICU emergency room, and the annual investment in air purification is astronomical.

However, compared with the chip or LCD factory of later generations, the current investment is simply a drop in the bucket, in 2019, Xu Zhi crossed over, a 10.5 generation LCD production line investment of up to 10 billion US dollars, the latest chip production line is also half a catty, but the beginning of the one-time investment is only a small part, the follow-up production cost is the largest money swallowing machine, there is not enough technology and production team and experience, even if it is as strong as Apple with 200 billion US dollars in cash reserves, and a superpower with 3 trillion US dollars in foreign exchange, do not dare to invest on a large scale.

Some people may say that the mainland in later generations was unable to enter this field because of the blockade of lithography machines and other technologies. But aside from everything, even if there is a complete production line in China, a series of production experience and quality control will never be achieved overnight in a short period of time, and the control of scrap rate is also an extremely important indicator, and Samsung and TSMC's decades of production experience will definitely suppress everything in cost.

And when the domestic after a long time of tempering began to make profits, the production line of foreign capital may have been updated, and what is more terrible is that it is about to face Samsung's counter-cyclical reverse expansion of production, this trick, Samsung tried a hundred times, 80-90s, RB's powerful semiconductors were also played by this trick to death.

Of course, this is talking about the economic ledger, and from the perspective of the state, the difference between having and not is what is.

However, it is still the late 70s, and even in a few years, although the production cost of chips is high, some companies of some sizes can still afford it, and the main orders for Deyi's factory in San Francisco are from its own industrial products and home appliances from other companies.

However, now is also the era of RB home appliances invading the United States, RB company pays more attention to the integration of the upper and lower industrial chains, and basically all chip orders are produced by themselves, which is a fatal blow to Deyi's factory.

The chip production workshop is a very confidential place for Deyi, and the process of entering is very complicated, Xu Zhi and others are just on the balcony above the second floor, looking at everything below through the glass, although they have not entered the era of large-scale AI, but there are not many employees in the workshop of tens of thousands of square meters below, and the workers are mainly to take care of and operate the machine, compared to some light industries in Xiangjiang, I don't know how many times taller.

After looking at the chip factory, Xu Zhi was invited to the motherboard factory again, which is divided into:

For the mechanical aspect, Xu Zhi knows a little basic knowledge, but he can't understand too much about the most cutting-edge equipment of this era, not to mention his current identity, he doesn't need to understand these knowledge.

The production of a motherboard was completed in half a minute, which is simply against the sky, and this is just a production line in the workshop.

Matthew was extremely proud of his company's advanced equipment, and said to Xu Zhi: "Mr. Xu, our equipment is one of the most advanced equipment in the world, and there are few similar factories in the United States. ”

Xu Zhi smiled: "What about RB? There are quite a few powerful semiconductor companies over there. ”

Matthew said disdainfully: "RB is just relying on manual low price wars, and in terms of technology, our equipment far surpasses theirs." ”

The invention of semiconductors was basically promoted by the United States independently, which is of course understandable, the transistor was invented in 1947 in the United States laboratory, whether it is the US military or major technology companies, have discovered the scientific and technological value contained in it, so they have their own magic to carry out research.

At the same time, other developed countries, such as Japan, Britain, Germany, France, etc., had just gone through the war in their homeland, and they had no food to eat or houses to live in, so how could they have so much energy to engage in scientific research.

It wasn't until the rise of the RB economy in the 70s that semiconductors in the United States ushered in jackals that were eyeing each other.

But for many technology companies in the United States, they don't study why RB's semiconductor costs are so low, but directly understand that RB's labor costs are lower than those in the United States.

In terms of labor, RB is indeed a little lower, but in fact, there is not much difference, what many companies in the United States do not know is: RB people are working overtime, loyalty to the company is far more than American workers, they do not need to target the union, all employees regard the company as a second home, and in terms of quality control, RB's semiconductor yield is far more than that of companies in the same industry in the United States, which is the main reason why RB products are rampant all over the world.

Because of his high self-esteem, soon, all American semiconductors will be fatally hit, however, these have nothing to do with Xu Zhi, after the visit, I had lunch in the canteen of the factory, rested for a while, and began formal business negotiations in the afternoon.

In the conference room, Matthew said directly: "Xu Sheng, because we have not yet designed a sample and debugged the production line, and the order is not yet determined, so we must charge for the design cost and trial commissioning of the production line in the early stage." As for the later product price, it should be decided according to the results of debugging and the total amount of subsequent orders. ”

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Then I don't know how much it costs?"

This is actually the same as opening a mold for some products, at the beginning of the mold fee is a large amount, if it is a long-term partner, the factory can pay the money first, but if the first cooperation, this money will basically be charged first.

Matthew reported a statistic: "$200,000." ”

Xu Zhi frowned and said, "This price is too expensive." ”

Matthew laughed: "It's not expensive, we need engineers to redesign the motherboard, and then stop the production line for debugging, it can take a few weeks, you know, our production line shutdown is very costly." ”

"Yes, but I just saw that there are 2 production lines stopped over there in the workshop?" Xu Zhi shook his head and smiled, he had already investigated before coming, this factory was not operating at a sufficient rate, and several production lines had been placed over there to collect ash.

If it is really busy and the production line needs to stop work to debug the new motherboard for Xu Zhi, then 200,000 yuan is also worth it, but the other party counts the vacant machine as full attendance, Xu Zhi of course will not agree, and said directly: "100,000 US dollars, you are responsible for making a complete first batch of production line samples, if you don't agree, forget it." ”

Matthew whispered a few words to the person next to him, and then said to Xu Zhi: "Then Mr. Xu must guarantee that the order in the future must exceed 20,000 pieces, then we can accept the price you said." ”

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "This is impossible, we haven't even set the price of the motherboard order, how can you promise me how many copies will be purchased?"

Matthew thought for a while and said, "In this case, we don't adjust the production line first, and only make a prototype in the laboratory, which is not a high cost, and when the prototype is determined, we will consider the next step."

"Good. Xu Zhi nodded and said, in fact, the other party just wants to take the first step, once the sample really comes out, if Xu Zhi does not agree to the following cooperation, it will delay some time. But even so, it doesn't matter, as long as it is made, the main part of the price or anything is the cost of each ticket in the later stage, and the electronic exhibition is about to start, and the time can not be too delayed.

At the beginning of the cooperation, there were not too many details, Xu Zhi paid 10,000 US dollars as a sample fee, and promised that the arcade would be delivered within 2 days, and the two sides officially carried out the first cooperation.

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Just as Xu Zhi was about to leave, Lin Siqi walked up to Xu Zhi and said, "Charlotte just called, and the person you want has been found." ”