"As for the third point, I heard that your chip suppliers are mainly Lanna and Plaster in the United States, right? You and these two companies should have supply contracts, and they cancel their supply to you without reason, and you should go to court to sue them. Feng Xiaochen said with a smile.

Wang Weilong said: "The group contacted the two companies about this problem, and they said that the reason for canceling the supply was the ban imposed by the US government, which is a force majeure and can be found in the contract." ”

Feng Xiaochen asked: "The US government's sanctions against you are unreasonable. They, as American businesses, have an obligation to defend their customers, and have they done that?"

"There shouldn't be any of this, right? Now that many people in the United States support Map, Lanna and Plaster certainly don't dare to defend us. Wang Weilong said. Don't look at him has been retired for several years, but he is still very concerned about things related to the company's operation.

Feng Xiaochen spread his hands and said, "Isn't this enough? As partners, they have not fulfilled their obligations, is it not worth your lawsuit? You go back and tell your group leaders, and ask them to arrange for the legal department to file a lawsuit against Lanna Company and Plaster Company, demanding that these two companies compensate you for your losses for the interruption of supply." If I think about it, the amount of compensation should be set at $5 billion. ”

"$5 billion!" Wang Weilong's eyes widened, "Xiaochen, you're not wrong, right? We import their chips a year, and it's not even $20 million, and we ask them to compensate $5 billion, isn't this a sky-high asking price?"

Feng Xiaochen said seriously: "Why is it not worth $5 billion? How much has your goodwill been lost? How much has your market been lost? How much has you had to modify your design because of the chip supply outage?"

"But will the court grant such a request?" asked Wang Weilong, puzzled. He doesn't know the law very well, but he can also know that in this matter, Lanna Company and Plaster Company can indeed invoke the force majeure clause to shirk responsibility, even if Luo Ye can find some of the responsibilities of the other party, let the other party pay $1.8 million to the top, Feng Xiaochen said $5 billion with one mouth, isn't this a bit of child's play?

Feng Xiaochen said: "Lao Wang, just go ahead and handle this matter." On the court's side, I will let people say hello, the litigation fee is not calculated according to the subject matter, you say 5 billion, 50 billion, it will not increase your costs. Chen Yu Company and Lin Zhong Company, I have asked them to sue, and the court will not make a judgment in this case immediately, just as a follow-up for us. ”

"I see. Wang Weilong vaguely guessed what Feng Xiaochen meant, and a knowing smile appeared on his face.

"Finally, it's not me who is here to talk to you. I'll look at the time, well, it's almost time, I've got two other guests over and you can talk to them. Feng Xiaochen said.

Before he finished speaking, the secretary Hang Jin pushed the door and came in. He made eye contact with Feng Xiaochen, and after obtaining Feng Xiaochen's permission, he turned around and went out, and soon brought in two people, one old and one young.

"Hey, isn't this Mr. Ruan?"

Without waiting for the two people who came in to say anything, Wang Weilong had already recognized the old man, who was Ruan Fugen, chairman of Haidong Quanfu Company. As for the young man, Wang Weilong hadn't seen it, but from the other party's eyebrows, he could see that there was a bit of Ruan Fugen's appearance, and he should be Ruan Fugen's nephew.

"Secretary-General Feng, hello! Mr. Wang, haha, I haven't seen you for a long time, are you okay? Come on, come on, Shouchao, this is Secretary General Feng, this is Mr. Wang of Luo Ye, come forward and say hello!"

Ruan Fugen greeted warmly as always, and then pushed the young man forward to salute Feng Xiaochen and Wang Weilong. Wang Weilong heard it, this person should be Ruan Fugen's son Ruan Shouchao, although he has not seen it, but he has also heard Ruan Fugen talk about it.

"Secretary-General Feng, Mr. Wang, hello. Ruan Shouchao greeted the two politely. Feng Xiaochen just smiled and replied, and Wang Weilong politely praised the other party, but because he didn't know Ruan Shouchao's situation, this kind of praise was also a little marginal.

After everyone finished greetings, Feng Xiaochen motioned for the Ruan family father and son to sit down, Hang Jin came in and poured tea for them, and then sat aside and waited to make a record.

Feng Xiaochen spoke first, and he said to Ruan Fugen: "Mr. Ruan, just now Mr. Wang came to inform me that the Lanna Company and the Plaster Company in the United States interrupted the supply of chips to Luo Ye, and now Luo Ye's equipment manufacturing has encountered a bottleneck, can you give Mr. Wang some advice?"

Hearing Feng Xiaochen's words, Wang Weilong was stunned for a moment. Ruan Fugen's company is engaged in machinery, and its main product is chemical machinery, what does it have to do with chips?

Ruan Fugen laughed and said: "Secretary General Feng, this is a problem for me, Mr. Wang, they all find it troublesome, I am a farmer, what can I know?

"Xiao Ruan is making chips?" Wang Weilong was taken aback, thinking of what Feng Xiaochen said before, he seemed to understand something, and hurriedly said to Ruan Shouchao: "Xiao Ruan, which company do you make chips in, and does your company also engage in industrial control chips?"

Ruan Shouchao was a little shy, mainly because the few people present were his elders, and they were also in high positions, so he couldn't be arrogant. He nodded and said, "Mr. Wang, let me introduce myself, my current company is called Chaoheng Integrated Circuit Company, which I co-founded with a few friends. By the way, when we were founded, Secretary-General Feng also gave us a lot of help. Our company specializes in the design and production of industrial control chips, and at present, my father's Quanfu company, Secretary Feng's Chenyu company, and some other companies are our customers. By the way, Luo Ye has also used some of our chips, and the amount is not too large, and Mr. Wang may not have paid attention to it. ”

"Chaoheng Company, I have heard of it, it is very good in China, but I didn't expect it to be Xiao Ruan's company. Tut-tut, sure enough, the tiger father has no dog son, and Mr. Ruan's son is different. Wang Weilong gave a thumbs up and praised, a small part of his words were compliments, but more than half were sincere.

Since the beginning of the new century, the domestic integrated circuit industry has developed rapidly, and a number of large-scale integrated circuit industrial parks have been formed in Pujiang, Pengcheng, Jianlu, Jiangcheng and other places, and a large number of enterprises engaged in integrated circuit design, manufacturing, packaging and testing have emerged.

However, because these companies are relatively new, their technical strength and brand awareness are far inferior to those in the United States, Europe and Japan, their market share in China is very low, and most of them are trying to survive on the edge of the market. Luo Ye has indeed purchased the industrial control chip developed by Chaoheng Company, but it is mainly used in some irrelevant places, such as controlling the backrest adjustment of the excavator workbench seat, etc., the performance requirements of the industrial control chip used in this place are not high, and domestic goods are enough to replace imports.

In fact, Chaoheng company has also developed some chips with relatively high technical performance, which are not inferior to some foreign chips, but the market promotion is very difficult, and most domestic users are unwilling to accept it. After all, accepting a new supplier is risky for the enterprise, and most companies are willing to use some familiar brands without special necessity, and are not willing to try new brands, especially if the new brand is still from China.

Nguyen Phuc Gen's Quanfu Company gave full support to Chaoheng Company. Many of Chaoheng's new products have been tried on Quanfu's equipment. In order to appease customers, Quanfu even gave price discounts to equipment that used Chaoheng's chips. During this period, due to the immaturity of Chaoheng's chip design, the equipment sold by Quanfu Company to customers failed in use, and Quanfu Company also compensated the customer. Speaking of which, Lao Ruan spared no effort to support his son.

This time, because the United States interrupted the supply of chips to Luo Ye, Luo Ye's technical department also contacted some domestic industrial control chip manufacturers, hoping to obtain alternative chips from them. However, because Chaoheng Company had not launched the chips required by Luo Ye before, Luo Ye's technical department did not include Chao Heng Company in the scope of consultation. Knowing this, Wang Weilong was a little curious, Feng Xiaochen arranged for Ruan Shouchao to come to talk with him, could it be that Chaoheng Company wanted to get involved in this field?

Ruan Shouchao saw Wang Weilong's doubts, he smiled slightly, and said: "Mr. Wang, as far as we know, Luo Ye used mainly Lanna's LNC4028 series microcontrollers in the past, as well as Plaster's SID377 series and HEL670 series, these chips are characterized by strong stability, can meet the requirements of high real-time control, and have a variety of functional interfaces, including CAN controllers, pulse width modulators, EMC, UART, A/D conversion, etc. At present, there is no domestic company's products that can perfectly replace these chips. ”

When it comes to these technical issues, Ruan Shouchao has completely lost his previous restraints, but calmly and eloquently, with full confidence in his words.

"What does Xiao Ruan mean is that your Chaoheng Company can come up with products that perfectly replace these chips?" Wang Weilong heard Ruan Shouchao's subtext and asked tentatively.

Ruan Shouchao said: "In fact, from the beginning of our Chaoheng company, we have taken Lanna and Plaster as the goal of catching up. We've been developing chips with similar performance to LNC4028, and we've made some progress. We originally planned to use another five years or so to design alternative products with completely independent intellectual property rights, but now it seems that time is running out, and we intend to break through all technical barriers within half a year and come up with products that are enough to replace them. ”