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Zhang Ke stayed in Perth for two days, and left Perth with Weilan on a plane from Hong Kong, where he could see the vast desert and the vast blue sea of Western Australia through the portholes of the plane and the gaps in the clouds. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Sitting in the spacious and comfortable curved soft chair of the cabin, Zhang Ke saw Wei Lan staring out the porthole and asked, "Are you really deciding to come to Perth?" ”

"Well," Wei Lan nodded, "Surrounded by desert and seawater, it feels like it's isolated, it's pretty good." ”

"Oh......" Zhang Ke sighed slightly, so many things have happened to Wei Lan over the years, her family is not able to give her the protection she wants, the family is poor, in order to allow her two younger brothers to continue to go to school, Wei Lan had to drop out of school to work in the second year of high school, it was Zhai Danqing who protected her from sinking in the filthy turbidity, in her heart, Zhai Danqing is a closer and more important person than her family, and now there are still some gossips breeding in secret, Wei Lan wants to leave China and go to Perth to accompany Zhai Danqing, It's not hard to understand.

It was too heavy to think about it, Zhang Ke changed the subject, and asked with a wicked smile: "I forgot to ask you one thing, what were you doing with Danqing sleeping naked the morning before yesterday?" ”

"You!" Wei Lan stared at Zhang Ke with beautiful eyes, her pink face was crimson, what happened the morning before yesterday was really not explained clearly, she couldn't say that she took off her pants to sleep when she was soaked, and reached out to pinch Zhang Ke's waist, "You dare to talk nonsense again!" ”

Zhang Ke smiled evilly, raised his hand in surrender, and asked Wei Lan not to pinch his waist again.

While Perth is still the coldest winter of the year, flying over the clear blue ocean, Hong Kong is the hottest summer of the year just after the typhoon season, and the long journey can often give some strange feelings.

Zhang Ke and Wei Lan were prepared when they got on the plane in Perth, took off their coats, and wore light and thin summer clothes inside. Wei Lan no longer dresses as an office girl, wearing jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers, dressed as a pure student girl.

"Don't stay in Hong Kong for two days?" Zhang Ke asked.

After getting off the plane, Wei Lan did not go through the exit procedures, but planned to directly transfer to a domestic flight back to Jianye.

"The day after tomorrow will officially start classes...... "Even if she wants to transfer to Perth University as soon as possible, Wei Lan doesn't want to learn Zhang Ke's wanton truancy, and she doesn't look like a student at all.

Seeing Tang Jing go through the formalities and come to the waiting hall to meet, Wei Lan raised her hand and greeted her with a smile, seeing Tang Jing's delicate and smiling appearance, she thought to herself that if she were Tang Jing, would she ignore Zhang Ke flying back to Hong Kong from Perth, glanced at Zhang Ke, and thought of what Zhai Danqing said, "Love is not pure water", and Tang Jing smiled and greeted, thinking that it is much happier to have a lover than a lover to leave him. If this muddy ball hits the idea on him, he doesn't have the strength to push him away.

Tang Jing arrived in Hong Kong a week ago, and Zhang Ke put Wei Lan on a plane to Jianye before leaving the airport.

In the car, Zhang Ke told Tang Jing about Wei Lan's possible immigration to Western Australia.

Tang Jing hugged Zhang Ke's arm, Luo Guiyuan's case has been a long time, but some rumors are difficult to quell, Wei Lan, who has been hurt in her heart, wants to leave the country, and gently rests her head on Zhang Ke's shoulder, but she never thought about immigrating or anything.

Ye Jianbin and Sun Shangyi are not in Hong Kong, nearly half of the reclamation project of the 10-million-ton steel industry base has been carried out, and the merger negotiations between Donghai United Iron and Steel and Dongshan Iron and Steel are also in the final stage.

Although Ye Jianbin and Sun Shangyi are not in Hong Kong, Zhang Ke is not idle when he settles in Hong Kong, as soon as he arrives at the hotel, Jiang Wei's phone call comes in, saying that Xiao Ruimin of Unicredit is also in Hong Kong, hoping to meet him in private.

Zhang Ke didn't know where Xiao Ruimin knew that he would settle in Hong Kong today, and since he asked to meet and there were no other arrangements for the night, he invited Xiao Ruimin to the Peninsula Hotel for dinner together.

Xiao Ruimin was only forty-six years old, but his hair was a little frosty, he didn't deliberately dye his frosty hair black, thinking that some gray hair would add some elegant temperament. The first time he met Zhang Ke was at Wang Xuchen's house, and that time he deliberately wanted to see what the people who created Kumho's economic empire behind him looked like, even if he admitted that Kumho had set off a lot of whirlwind in China at that time, he didn't particularly think so. It's been almost three years, and it's hard for Xiao Ruimin to prepare and describe all the things that happened during this time, and he has to admit that some things are born with talent to do well.

He got off the car in front of the Peninsula Hotel, it was dusk and sunset when the sky was full of sky, standing in front of the Peninsula Hotel, he could hear the sound of the waves in the distance, he knew that Zhang Ke habitually liked to live in the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, and he couldn't figure out why Kumho had such strong financial resources, why not buy a house in Hong Kong, it was always much more comfortable than staying in a hotel.

Seeing Fu Jun come out of the lobby to pick him up, Xiao Ruimin smiled and shook hands with him.

Xiao Ruimin no longer expects Zhang Ke to come downstairs to greet him in person, even if Ge Jiande and Kumho have no grievances, whether Zhang Ke can go downstairs or not, it is a matter between the two, he thinks about his private meeting with Zhang Ke, if it reaches Ge Jiande's ears, Ge Jiande will probably be thunderous again, right?

The French restaurant on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel, through the floor-to-ceiling glass, you can look out at the sea at dusk, like a forest fire in the roaring sunset dyeing the blue water, walking in, Xiao Ruimin also has to admit that sitting here to dine at this time is definitely a luxury enjoyment.

"Mr. Xiao also happens to be in Hong Kong?" Zhang Ke watched Fu Jun lead Xiao Ruimin in, stood up and shook hands with him, and invited him to take a seat.

"I heard that Ke Shao went directly to Perth from Dallas, and I thought that Ke Shao might stay in Hong Kong when he returned from Perth, and I had the opportunity to come to Hong Kong during this time, so I stayed for a few more days." Xiao Ruimin did not hide it, he stayed in Hong Kong just to wait to meet Zhang Ke, and it was always more convenient to meet in Hong Kong than in Beijing or Jianye.

Zhang Ke smiled, took the coffee pot from the waiter and helped Xiao Ruimin pour coffee, Xiao Ruimin probably didn't want Ge Jiande to know about the private meeting.

Xiao Ruimin is not beating around the bush, he also knows that he is not qualified to beat around the bush in front of Zhang Ke, in the restaurant on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel, he has a French meal with Zhang Ke and Tang Jing, and he is clear about his future while dining.

"Kumho officially set up a mobile phone chip R&D department under the ESS laboratory, and the outside world is speculating that Kumho has made some key progress in the research and development of baseband chips. Xiao Ruimin asked.

"I think the outside world has more doubts about us," Zhang Ke said with a smile, "After all, baseband chip technology is not something that can be developed by any institution that wants to develop, and there are too many examples of failure in the past." ”

"In my personal judgment, I prefer to believe that Kumho has mastered the commercially available baseband chip technology......"

"......" Zhang Ke pursed his lips slightly, did not say anything, and waited for Xiao Ruimin to say his intention directly.

"The Ministry of Information Industry has clearly agreed to Unicom to set up a wholly-owned subsidiary to be responsible for the construction and operation of the CDMA network, and it is also clear that this year will be separated from the mobile communications business from the telecommunications group to establish a first-class company......" Xiao Ruimin knows that these inside information is not much inside information for Zhang Ke, Yi Yunfei has publicly stood in support of Kumho's position within the Ministry of Information Industry, he said this, just think it can better explain today's intentions, "This year's mobile communication tariffs have dropped significantly compared with last year." , have prompted a sharp increase in domestic mobile phone sales, but this year to get the Ministry of information industry of the new mobile phone license of the 11 manufacturers, in addition to Kewang Hi-Tech, the other ten, including Lianxun, Lianxin, Dongxing, can not get sufficient supply of mobile phone components - otherwise, I think the first half of the domestic mobile phone market share will be higher. ”

Zhang Ke listened to Xiao Ruimin quietly, the supply of mobile phone components could not keep up, there were many reasons, and he could not complain about the lack of production capacity of upstream manufacturers.

This year, the demand of the domestic mobile phone market has nearly doubled year-on-year, and foreign brands and Kumho are entangled and fierce in the high-end market, leaving a lot of room for development for domestic mobile phone manufacturers in the low-end market, but the preparation of domestic mobile phone manufacturers is somewhat insufficient, and the procurement management is relatively chaotic in the early stage, and the supply is far from meeting the requirements of design capacity, and there is no money to make.

Most of the components required by Kewang Hi-Tech Gem mobile phones are supplied by Kumho, and a considerable part of the components are customized, due to the full and effective communication with each other, Kumho can cooperate with the needs of Kewang Hi-Tech to adjust the production of components in a timely manner.

Other domestic mobile phone companies are unable to enjoy such high-standard treatment, and these mobile phone companies have little demand for components and are not valued by upstream component manufacturers. Even if Jianye and Haizhou have formed a certain scale of supporting industrial clusters, the overall production capacity is still very limited, the construction of supporting factories is still lagging behind, and some core components still need to be purchased from overseas electronic enterprises, often because of the lack of a certain kind of spare parts to wait for two or three months, resulting in the entire production line is forced to stop - even Lianxin, Lianxun, Dongxing often have such troubles.

This phenomenon is somewhat similar to the DVD player market in the 95th Five-Year Plan, when the market demand for disc players erupted like a volcano, and the demand for disc machine movements was seriously in short supply, and it was because Kumho was able to obtain a contract for the supply of 100,000 times the number of movements per month from Philips' Shanghai factory, and it won nearly 40% of the market share of disc players in one fell swoop.

Zhang Ke looked at Xiao Ruimin quietly and said: "I also understand this situation, I think this situation will gradually change, but don't expect to be completely improved all at once......"

"I think you also know the countermeasures of some domestic mobile phone companies in response to this situation," Xiao Ruimin said, "many companies are increasing the purchase of components, increasing inventory, and increasing the stock of mobile phone products......

"What about Unitrust's countermeasures?" Zhang Ke didn't hesitate to ask directly.

"I'm a little worried that increasing the inventory of components and increasing the stock of finished products can cope with the current market dilemma - but there is a very fatal problem in front of us, and we cannot turn a blind eye." ”

"What's the problem that's deadly?" Zhang Ke asked.

Xiao Ruimin glanced at Zhang Ke, he didn't believe that Zhang Ke would not know what the problem was fatal, since he asked, he explained in detail: "The ability of domestic mobile phone companies to develop new products is limited, increase the inventory of components, improve the stock of finished products, and only improve the inventory of components and finished products of one or two models of mobile phones, but Kumho and foreign mobile phone companies have such a strong ability to develop new products, once Kumho and foreign mobile phone companies compete fiercely, they will continue to launch new mobile phones to the market, As a result, the old models of mobile phones will be rapidly depreciated and eliminated from the market -- the one or two old models of mobile phones that domestic mobile phone companies rely on will be seriously unsalable, and then a large number of components and finished product inventories will become a fatal thing......"

Zhang Ke maintained a faint smile on his face, but he sighed slightly in his heart, at this time, there are not many people in China who can sensitively see the subtleties of market changes, and the cycle of domestic mobile phone companies to develop new mobile phones takes almost a year or even longer, when Nokia, Motorola and other foreign mobile phone manufacturers launch one or several new mobile phones every two or three months, domestic mobile phone companies will really feel the devastating power of machine sea tactics.

Samsung's mobile phone business in China has also suffered a heavy setback because Kewang Hi-Tech and Kumho have launched heavyweight gem mobile phones and dual-screen folding mobile phones in June and July, but Samsung's technical strength and capital strength are there, and a temporary setback can't hurt Samsung's muscles and bones at all, and the key Samsung is also quickly aware of where their problems are.

Xiao Ruimin can't see through what Zhang Ke is thinking, no matter what, Kumho and Huaxia Electronics are privately owned and state-owned, and they can be said to be natural competitors under the domestic market economy system. Kumho fully supports Kewang Hi-Tech and does not supply spare parts to other domestic mobile phone manufacturers for the time being, which is also for this reason.

Xiao Ruimin didn't expect Zhang Ke to treat him sincerely, he only hoped that his sincerity could impress him a little, and continued: "In fact, this trend has obvious signs, Kewang Hi-Tech launched a gem mobile phone in June, Kumho launched a dual-screen folding mobile phone in July, Nokia, Motorola and other foreign mobile phone manufacturers quickly launched new mobile phones in August, and Samsung's domestic product development and design department immediately added nearly 300 researcher positions...... It seems that this trend is limited to Kumho's competition with overseas mobile phone manufacturers in the high-end market, but I think it will be very soon if this trend will spread to the low-end market. ”

"Well," Zhang Ke clasped his hands on his chest, leaned comfortably on the back of the chair, and said, "Domestic mobile phone companies may indeed face such a dilemma, and specific problems need to be solved by various enterprises......"

"I want to confirm whether Kumho has mastered the commercial technology of baseband chips?" Xiao Ruimin propped up the table with his hands and asked seriously.

Zhang Ke didn't want to perfunctory Xiao Ruimin at this time, and said: "Mr. Xiao came to me privately, I think the news has made some people unhappy, if Unicredit is out of the scope of the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association to cooperate with us alone, I'm afraid it will make some people thunder!" ”

"So, Kumho has indeed mastered the commercial technology of baseband chips?" Xiao Ruimin's eyes were shining.

"The prototype of the baseband chip with 0.35 micron threads was developed many years ago, but the stability has not been satisfactory," Zhang Ke said, "and now it can barely be used in i08 standard mobile phones......

i08 is one of the first two mobile phones launched by Kumho in 97 years, 97 years are only positioned in the low-end mobile phone, more than two years have passed, Kumho has long since eliminated i08 and no longer produces, but other mobile phone manufacturers such as Unicredit still have mobile phones of the same specifications on sale.

"As you know, even if Unicredit is willing to use Kumho's baseband chips, it doesn't have enough technical strength to solve other technical problems other than baseband chip hardware...... Xiao Ruimin said.

Zhang Ke raised his head, looked at Xiao Ruimin, and said: "We will not simply sell baseband chips, we will provide customers with a complete set of complete digital mobile phone technology solutions based on baseband chips and other hardware architectures, and the price is low......"

"I'm sorry to be there today," Xiao Ruimin got the answer he wanted to know, stood up and said goodbye, "I will take the night flight back to Beijing, and there should be a definite message back to Kumho within three days." ”

Zhang Ke smiled, shook hands with him and said, "I'll wait for you in Jianye in three days." ”

After Xiao Ruimin left, Zhang Ke talked to Chen Xinsheng on the phone and told him that Xiao Ruimin intended to promote the use of ESS's baseband chip technology in Unicredit's mobile phones.

"It's not easy for Xiao Ruimin to do this," Chen Xinsheng sighed softly on the phone, "But the road left for them doesn't seem to be wide—if Xiao Ruimin can't tolerate Huaxia Electronics, can you invite him to Kumho?" ”

"Isn't this a slap to the Ministry of Information Industry and Huaxia Electronics' face?" Zhang Ke smiled and said, "Let's talk about it then, Xiao Ruimin is not without the possibility of desperate survival at this time, at least now Huaxia Electronics has not been drawn out of the Ministry of Information Industry, Xiao Ruimin also sees this as the last chance, otherwise he will not wait for me in Hong Kong." ”

"......" Chen Xinsheng muttered on the phone for a few seconds, and then said, "If it goes well, will Kewang Hi-Tech and Unitrust compete on an equal footing?" ”

"Well, that's for sure," Zhang Ke said, "Also, we also have to have our own products using ESS baseband chip technology, and we don't need it ourselves, so how can we reassure others?" ”