Chapter 325: Matching Parts
Taking advantage of this time, Xiao Qi continued to work on the procurement of several other important but relatively small components of the tablet.
The first is the horn.
A haode electronic device, the speaker is a tiny, but absolutely important component.
The various materials and processes of the horn are very particular, and if you take it casually, it is very likely to harm a very haode product itself.
Just imagine, if everyone is very excited to play tablet games, but the sound made by the horn is the same as a broken gong and drum, do you still have the interest to play games?
Fortunately, in recent years, Huaguo has become a shijie factory, and many large audio equipment companies' speaker products are OEM in Huaguo, so many factories have mastered excellent jishu, and it is not difficult to make micro excellent speaker parts.
Originally, Xiao Qi wanted to find local enterprises in Shuchuan, but Huaguo's manufacturing industry was mostly in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and eastern Guangdong, and Shuchuan was not proficient in horns at all, so under the introduction of Cai Guozhi, he found a Huaguo private enterprise called Fuda Technology in Suzhou Industrial Park.
Although Fidelity Technology is not famous, it was previously a mobile phone speaker OEM for Nokia and Motorola, and it has been doing it for about 12 years in one go, and their speakers occupy 15% of the speaker parts of the two major mobile phone manufacturers, which shows that their strength is still very strong.
Fidelity Technology also attaches great importance to the orders given by the fairy company, and has called several times to communicate before, and when Xiao Qi has time to spare, their general manager rushed over directly and determined the cooperation with Xiao Qi yard by yard.
Each ten-dollar speaker, with an annual order of 50 million, signed a contract for five years in one go, which made the general manager of Fidelity Technology and his party smile from ear to ear.
Xiao Qi is indeed generous. When negotiating prices, they are not as ruthless as foreigners, so that their gross profit margin can reach about 20%.
The most important thing is that he uses RMB to settle the bill, the RMB has appreciated every day in recent years, and if he earns US dollars, he will turn from profit to loss in a few days, so it is better to settle in his own currency.
Xiao Qi's money is enough. Correspondingly, his requirements are not low, they are higher than Nokia's medium standards, but this kind of jishu is already very mature in Fidelity Technology, as long as they do it seriously, they must only do it better.
The contract is still set by the American law firm, and the constraints are very strict, so that the general manager can't help but be secretly vigilant: this young man seems to be a harsh master, and he must do a good job seriously when the time comes. So as not to lose face at the beginning of cooperation, then I am really sorry for the price given by others.
In addition to the speakers, another slightly simpler thing is the metal case of the tablet.
THE SHELL OF THE IPAD TABLET, INCLUDING THE BACK SHELL AND THE RECTANGULAR FRAME ON THE SURFACE, IS MADE OF ALUMINUM ALLOY, WHICH IS SILVER-WHITE, WHICH IS VERY BEAUTIFUL.
But in fact, the jishu content of the aluminum alloy shell is not high. As long as the high-precision grade B level can already meet the use standard.
Merely. XIAO QI FELT THAT THE PREVIOUS IPAD SHELL WAS TOO MONOTONOUS, IF IN ADDITION TO SILVER AND WHITE, IT COULD ALSO BE MADE INTO SEVEN COLORS IN THE COLOR SPECTRUM: BLUE, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, RED, BLUE, PURPLE, IT SEEMED TO BE MORE COLORFUL.
WHATEVER, ANYWAY, THE IPAD HASN'T COME OUT YET, AND THE TEENAGER IS THE "FATHER OF THE TABLET". He can do whatever he wants, and no one else can criticize him.
The process of adding color is not complicated, Xiao Qi is in line with the purpose of supporting local manufacturers, before going to the capital. Just inform Yu Chengsheng.
Then with the help of Li Baohong, he selected eight aluminum alloy manufacturers in Shuchuan Province, zuihou a series of grinding, molds, finished products, coloring and so on, just when he returned to Rongcheng, after checking various samples according to memory, a total of three manufacturers with outstanding strength were selected as suppliers of IPAD aluminum alloy shells.
Xiao Qi is aware of the inferiority of these domestic factories, and when he makes orders for foreign companies, he can basically make high-quality products that meet foreign requirements without being urged; However, if you want to replace it with a domestic company to provide products, it is to procrastinate if you can procrastinate, and if you can reduce the quality, you can reduce the quality...... It's very polarizing.
Therefore, when the teenager signed the contract, he put forward strict requirements for product quality, and if the failure rate reached 5/10,000, then the manufacturer would pay the most severe economic compensation.
It's a pity that Xiao Qi's thoughts were a little in vain, the three big factories that won the bid, that attitude is called groveling, obviously they already know Xiao Qi's origins, and who is supporting Xiao Qi behind them, with Yu Chengsheng here, how can they move those boring careful thoughts?
There is a saying that as the saying goes, the most feared is that domestic officials do things seriously, and this sentence can also be used in state-owned enterprises, usually if they really do things with their hearts, then with their strong jishu reserves and personnel, both production quality and speed, can be called the first in China.
Xiao Qi, the king of dismantling, can tell the good and bad of the aluminum alloy shell, a product with no jishu content, with his eyes closed.
ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW WHICH MANUFACTURER PRODUCED THE ALUMINUM ALLOY SHELL OF THE IPAD IN HIS PREVIOUS LIFE, AS FAR AS THE DOZENS OF SHELLS HE HOLDS IN HIS HAND ARE CONCERNED, INCLUDING THE BACK SHELL AND THE SQUARE METAL FRAME, THE QUALITY, FEEL AND COLOR ARE NO WORSE THAN THE BACK COVER OF THE IPAD.
Once the whole machine is assembled and all kinds of tests and debugging are completed, then at least 50 million aluminum alloy shells can start mass production.
Xiao Qi's control of their profits is far less harsh than that of Qiao's gang leader, the purchase price is set at 80 yuan each, because of the advantages of various costs, and they do not have to bear exchange rate losses and freight, etc., the profits of the three large aluminum alloy manufacturers can reach at least 15%, which is enough for them to make a lot of money.
There is also a language system for tablets.
There is a big reason why Apple's products sell so well, because their products cover almost all languages, as long as you tune to your country's language mode, you can use the most familiar way to experience the fun and enjoyment brought by Apple technology, without having to adapt to other people's culture and usage habits like the previous parallel mobile phones.
The production of the language system is closely related to the fairy operating system, but even if the fairy operating system is not fully perfected now, it is only some improvements that do not involve the use of functional instructions.
Therefore, Xiao Qi has long asked the hacker consultants in the United States to take out the various functional data and language instructions of the system, so as to make an operation mode and language system that can support various languages, which is consistent with the final product that will be passed. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )