Chapter 114: Acquisition of the Factory

Yang Lin stayed in the United States for nearly ten days before leaving Baltimore under his sister's reluctant gaze, and his sister was accompanied by Lin Qingya during the next recovery period, and Yang Lin was more relieved.

However, this time he did not return to China directly, but took a plane to San Francisco with Liang Xingguo and found Page at Google's headquarters.

"What, you're going to buy a Motorola phone factory?"

Page was slightly stunned and looked at Yang Lindao with interest.

"Yes, I am going to enter the mobile phone design and manufacturing industry, and I heard that Motorola is interested in selling the mobile phone manufacturing plant in Jinmen, China, so I want to ask you about the situation." Yang Lin smiled.

Just two years ago, Google simply bought Motorola's mobile business for a sky-high price of $12.5 billion in order to prevent Motorola's growing wave of lawsuits over the Android operating system.

However, Google is not very concerned about how to run a mobile phone company, and in the past two years, Motorola Mobility has laid off more than 20% of its global workforce and closed 1/3 of its offices, and Motorola Mobility's market value has also fallen to a low point.

At this time, Yang Lin was preparing to set up Matrix Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. to prepare for the launch of Matrix mobile phones in the future, and it happened that he heard that Motorola wanted to sell the mobile phone factory in Jinmen, so he hurriedly rushed to Google's headquarters.

After all, he is not familiar with Osterlo, the president of Motorola, but he is familiar with Osterloh's big boss!

Page smiled: "There is no need to buy a factory to enter the mobile phone manufacturing industry, after all, there are so many foundries now, how simple it is to design and then find a foundry for processing, and the investment is so large." Aren't you worried about the cost? ”

Yang Lin smiled and said, "I'm going to install the MatrixOS system on my phone next, and the requirements for the new phone are a bit high. I don't have a manufacturing plant of my own, so I always feel a little uneasy. ”

Page didn't ask much. said: "Okay, let me inform Ostrow, you can talk about it yourself, whether you can talk about the achievements is up to you, now Flex is also determined to win this factory!" ”

Yang Lin smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Page, don't worry, the price I offer will definitely satisfy Mr. Ostelo!" ”

Page nodded, for the young man who had made a name for himself. He still has a very good impression, after all, from Yang Lin, he seems to see the shadow of his youth.

But more importantly, in the past six months, the performance of [Matrix Optimization] has been so good, not only bringing nearly $400 million in net profits to Google, but even expanding Android's market share by 5%.

Although there are also factors to increase the market share of smart phones, the factor of [matrix optimization] also has to be considered.

Therefore, it is conceivable that Page attaches great importance to Yang Lin.

Soon. Page informed Ostrow, who was far away at Motorola's headquarters in Chicago, by phone, and Yang Lin also booked a ticket to Chicago.

Osterloh did not dare to slack off on the guests introduced by the big boss, although at this time he and Flex were close to reaching an agreement to sell the Motorola Jinmen factory, but Yang Lin suddenly stepped in. Let it all go down the drain.

What's more, Yang Lin's offer was $50 million higher than Flex's, reaching $250 million. Flex finally chose to give up, and Yang Lin also took Motorola's world's largest mobile phone factory into his arms.

Yang Lin even took the opportunity to dig up Cheng Haoqian, the former vice president of Motorola Greater China. He was responsible for the formation of the newly established Matrix Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.

After staying in the United States for nearly a month, Yang Lin chose to return to China. And borrowed to Jinmen to visit the Motorola China factory that he had just taken into his pocket.

The factory was once Motorola's largest mobile phone manufacturing plant in the world, with a monthly output of more than 300,000 units.

But in recent years, Motorola has been in a state of flux, with a full production line, and less than 2,000 employees.

Even if there are 2,000 people, it would be nice to be on duty half of the time every month.

However, Yang Lin's arrival gave everyone a lot of hope, after all, the news of Matrix Digital's large-scale entry into the mobile phone market is in full swing in the media, and maybe the original withered mobile phone factory will come back to life.

Yang Lin was not satisfied with the dim state of the factory, and the only thing that made his eyes shine was the modern industrial process in the production of mobile phones.

At present, the orders for this factory are mainly based on the MotoX that Motorola just released.

Although Matrix Digital has taken the factory under its command, Yang Lin has already negotiated terms with Osterloh that the factory will be OEM for Motorola until November this year, and then the production line will fully switch to the new mobile phones launched by Matrix Digital.

Accompanied by the factory management, Yang Lin visited the SMT and board testing process, the MotoX assembly workshop, and the processing of the Moto steel frame.

The so-called SMT is the abbreviation of SurfaceMounted Technology, and it is also the most popular electronic assembly technology at present. First, the circuit board (PCB) is printed, and then the solder paste is pasted onto the PCB to the chip, such as the processor, and the temperature is fixed. The entire process is fully automated.

To enter this workshop, you need to wear a head covering, anti-static uniform, shoe covers, etc

Even at work, workers have to wear anti-static bracelets.

The motherboard is machined in four pieces together, and after the SMT process, it is initially inspected under a magnifying glass. This is followed by segmentation and a series of more complex tests.

After Yang Lin visited the SMT and board testing processes with the highest automation, he then visited the assembly workshop with the highest degree of labor.

In this workshop, various components such as screen modules, motherboards, and shells are combined into a complete mobile phone through one process after another.

During the assembly process, the factory also designed two silicone protective cases for MotoX to prevent possible cosmetic wear and tear during the assembly process.

Then go through a series of sound, camera, reading and writing tests, etc., and flash into the designated Android system. Permission to post into the network, etc.

Finally, in order to achieve the tightness and perfection of packaging, the production line is equipped with an automatic packaging machine to replace the original manual packaging.

After visiting the mobile phone factory, Yang Lin was basically satisfied with the current situation of the factory, and at the next staff meeting, Yang Lin did not meet expectations, immediately announced a 10% salary increase, and promised to renovate the living area of employees, which solved the biggest problem of employees' opinions.

Then, he transferred ten middle-level managers from Matrix Digital to join the management team of the new factory, which was considered to have stabilized people's hearts. (To be continued......)