Chapter 193: Find the Leader Directly
One by one, Yao Fei called the leaders of eight other companies such as Freescale, IBM, and DEC, and they didn't embarrass him, and they were very happy, and even Motorola's CEO Galvin became easy to talk to, and almost answered Yao Fei's questions.
After asking around, there were a total of twelve companies, and on a piece of scratch paper at hand, in addition to AMD and Texas Instruments, each of the other ten companies had the names of one or three other companies behind them, and these names were the result of Yao Fei's phone call.
"It's strange, it's really weird, I said why these guys are so good at talking, it turns out that they are playing ball with me!"
Looking at the frequency of the names of each company, the highest Intel and DEC are only three times, and the others are only two or once, and it seems that it is completely impossible to guess which one is the initiator of the matter, and this homework is done in vain, and it seems that the idea of trying to figure things out first from this aspect can only be his wishful thinking.
"Minister Kazik, I'm sorry to disturb you......"
Since it is not clear from other channels the reason for the incident, it is simply broken and broken, and directly communicates this matter with Commerce Minister Kazik in advance.
At the beginning, the other party asked them to choose their companies in the United States as much as possible in terms of order procurement, and Yao Fei also did so according to the other party's requirements, and threw the highest value chip orders to the 12 companies in the United States, but now. Ten of them, however, demanded a collective price increase, treating their companies as a winner, and if Kazik could not give him a satisfactory answer within the time he had set, he would have every legitimate reason to take the companies that had already signed contracts with them to court, and to find other sources of goods.
The stacked chips used in pagers are not as difficult to manufacture as microprocessors, only companies in the United States can make them, and there are still a number of companies in the world that can make them with a low level of integration, only tens of thousands of units of such low-integration chips.
And the other party should undoubtedly know this, so why do these guys dare to do this?
"Mr. Yao. Is there anything we can do for you? ”
Kazik has been in a good mood lately. As a middleman, his commission of up to one million dollars has successfully entered his private account, and when he saw Yao Fei calling, his smile became even bigger.
"Mr. Minister. As a full citizen of the country. It is an honor for me to be able to contribute to my country. I'm more than happy to do it.
However, our honor and willingness are being trampled on, and when there is no fluctuation in all aspects of the market environment such as raw materials, 10 semiconductor companies, including National Semiconductor, Intel, Freescale, IBM, DEC, Motorola, SMSC, LSI, Altera, and Avago, suddenly collectively asked us to increase the price of our orders. And the amplitude is 17%~30% all of a sudden.
If we accept such an unreasonable demand, then our production costs will be greatly increased, and it will also give our company a very disappointing start, which is not acceptable in any case.
I have not been a new member of this great country for long, but I am very willing to obey the will of the state, so I hope that Mr. Minister can give us some help in this matter, and if there is no satisfactory solution to this matter, then we will have to regret it......"
Jumping out of the routine and telling Kazik his request, Yao Fei only needs to wait for the other party to deal with the rest.
"I'm very sorry, I haven't received any news about this matter before, Mr. Yao Fei, please give me some time, I believe that every citizen who is willing to make his due contribution to the country should be treated more fairly.
I will be involved in this matter, and I will immediately start to deal with it, and try to give you a satisfactory answer in the shortest possible time, is that okay? ”
There is such a thing happening, Kazik was suddenly a little annoyed by the practice of the 10 companies such as the national semiconductor, you said that if the purchase order is in your monopoly of high-end chip products, it is just that, under the premise that people want to deliver within the specified time, they can increase the price significantly, and people can only admit it if they pinch their noses.
But now, if it weren't for the fact that people were afraid of this powerful country, I am afraid that they would not even notify him that the Minister of Commerce would have gone to play with other national enterprises a long time ago, and there would be nothing to do with these enterprises at that time.
Therefore, no matter what, the most important task now is to stabilize Yao Fei first, and then he will come forward to find the 10 companies to understand the situation.
"Thank you for your help, Mr. Minister, three days, since we don't have much time left, we only have a maximum of three days to wait, and I think that's already the best we can do......"
In order to prevent the other party from procrastinating, after the opinions of the two sides reached an agreement, Yao Fei directly set a time point for Kazik.
"Please be patient and wait for our news, if there is any progress in the matter, I will let Alex inform you as soon as possible!"
Three days? If all of it is used to track and deal with this matter, it may be okay, but he Kazik is the country's Minister of Commerce, and there are many things that need to be dealt with by him, even if Yao Fei makes such a clear request, he can't give people a positive guarantee.
"Mr. Kazik, both as our company and as a country, we must hope that the matter can be resolved in the end, and I have heard that you have always had a soft spot for the wines produced by Petru Estate, and I think I will have to treat you to a few glasses if I have the chance......"
As for the Minister of Commerce of such a pivotal country as Kazik, it is necessary to make clear his hobbies, and the so-called money is hard to buy, as long as he can do what he likes under "reasonable" circumstances, it can often play a certain role, and it is still possible to at least give certain inclinations and conveniences.
"Looking forward to ......"
Kazik did not affirm, nor did he say no, just an official polite answer, but this is often the best answer.
"Dick, I think we must find another solution to this matter, and although Minister Kazik has promised me to help us, we still need to prepare on two fronts.
Is there any progress in sourcing PCB printed circuit boards and chips from other regions and companies? ”
After talking to Kazik on the phone, Yao Fei invited Dick to his office, and the other party has been thinking about this matter for the past two days, even if it is late at night, he has not rested.
As for expanding procurement channels, this is the response taken by Yao Fei to the company's procurement department as soon as the incident happened, and he wanted to know the progress of the matter.
"So far, we haven't made much progress......" (To be continued......