Chapter 233: Abandoning the United States and Turning to Europe

In fact, for every multinational company and foreign trade enterprise, the United States is the most important and the largest market.

They are small in population though.

But they have the largest middle-class consumer group in the world, and their people have a lot of dollars to spend.

The spending power of a middle-class family is far greater than that of ten ordinary families.

No matter what business you do, the quality of customers is always more important than the number of customers.

As long as the product is good enough to gain a foothold in the United States, whoever can make countless fortunes.

On the contrary, the loss of this market is also quite a big blow for a multinational company.

Chen Weidong is not a person who is willing to be beaten and will not fight back, he said with a smile: "Everyone is usually responsible for a piece, and I am afraid that I don't know much about the company's operating conditions, so in order to let everyone have a clearer understanding of the company, I still have to talk about it." ”

"Our foundation, in addition to finance, is instant messaging and computers."

"Instant messaging we have entered the earliest, after several years of development, it can be said that it has gained a firm foothold, and the number of users is also increasing, so we always have a business, which is stable!"

"Secondly, computer products, to be honest, our technology, compared with island countries, Europe and the United States, there is still a big gap."

"In the last year, we have made progress by leaps and bounds, and now the laboratory has reached ......"

He slowed down his speech, and Li Xi'er whispered behind him with understanding: "The laboratory manufacturing process has reached one hundred and five nanometers, and the commercialization is one hundred and fifty nanometers. ”

“.... Our laboratory level is in the early 100 nanometers, and this time, Intel, in a very short period of time, has launched an upgraded version of the Pentium processor, using 150 nanometer technology, which shows that their laboratory level is not much different from us, and our advantage is already very small. ”

"We still have a lot of difficulties to overcome if we want to open the gap."

"However, in terms of supercomputers and large-scale servers, we can be said to be not inferior to foreign countries, or even surpassed, and only half the price of similar products."

"The United States won't let us sell, so we will expand to the European and South American markets."

"The European computer market has long been occupied by the United States, and for them, it makes little difference who uses their products, so the Europeans' determination to resist us will not be as big as that of the United States."

"There are many small and medium-sized companies that can't afford expensive American products, so they choose to buy our supercomputers and servers, which can save a lot of costs. _o_m ”

"With the quality of our products, it should be possible to win these customers."

"In this way, the United States' encirclement of us can basically be broken, and our products have truly sold well all over the world!"

There was a round of applause in the company, even more intense than just now.

In fact, there is no problem with the company's fundamentals, and withdrawing from the American market is at most just a little less.

By opening up the market and taking advantage of the price advantage, the company's products are promoted to Europe and Asia, which is the main measure to avoid the American market.

The meeting dispersed, and Chen Weidong deliberately asked Professor Kruger and Zhao Gong of the precision instrument department to stay.

"What is the reason why our semiconductor instrument development has never been able to open a real gap with foreign countries?" Chen Weidong asked straight to the point.

That's what he cares about the most.

The company's chips have developed rapidly in the past two years, faster than any domestic institution, but the development of infinity companies is faster abroad, which is also incomprehensible to him.

Isn't their R&D investment big enough? Why is this still happening?

Zhao Gong explained with a wry smile: "Mr. Chen, although we have also invested a huge amount of money, but people are not idle, this chip preparation is a systematic project, which involves mechanical, chemical, optical and other comprehensive disciplines. ”

"In terms of machinery, we use the miniature CNC machine tools that we got back from the island country as the mother machine, and we have continuously improved and manufactured more advanced high-precision.

Dense CNC lathes. ”

"After the use of the most accurate measuring instruments and automated production equipment, the gap between us and foreign countries is negligible only from the perspective of processing."

"However, this is a micro machine after all, and it can only process small workpieces of no more than one meter, and our largest CNC machine, although it can process components of more than three meters, will generate a lot of heat during processing, and although coolant will be added, it will not avoid slight deformation, which is very troublesome."

"The material side is really a problem." Chen Weidong nodded slightly, and asked Li Xi'er to write it down.

"In addition, there is also the most important lithography machine in the semiconductor production line, which is very dependent on the development of optical instruments, some optical instruments, foreign countries do not sell to us, domestic own level, you also know."

"Our own laboratory can manufacture two or three high-precision lenses in small quantities, but the manufacturing cost is high and the quantity is too small, so it can only be applied to some small lithography machines, and cannot be used by large lithography machines."

Optical equipment, Li Xi'er noted down another aspect that needs to be improved.

"Anything else?" Chen Weidong asked.

Zhao Gong thought about it, shook his head again, and said: "In fact, there are many related problems, but as long as these two bottlenecks are solved, we have other difficulties, we have ways to overcome them." ”

Chen Weidong turned his head to look at Lin Zeju and asked, "Can we buy a special optical instrument factory and a material factory in Europe and the United States in the name of a third party?" ”

"This.... It should be fine. Lin Zeju's face showed a hint of hesitation, and he was not too optimistic.

"However, these equipment are all on the list of the Batumi agreement, and the transportation is restricted to us, regardless of the price, even if you buy it, you will not be able to move them back from Europe and the United States."

"Since the accident at the Larsen Machinery Factory a few years ago, which shocked the world, the United States will regularly send people to those important factories to check, if the equipment is missing, just wait for the lawsuit!"

"You don't have to worry about this! Let's go find someone to do it first, and then report a budget and I'll think about it. Chen Weidong sighed and still said so.

Lin Zeju and Chen Jie glanced at each other strangely, and the two of them said in their hearts: What does he want to do this time?

Are you planning to take advantage of the dark and windy night to empty the entire factory of the people like when you were in the island country, and then walk away, leaving an empty shell?

Lin Zeju was secretly frightened and decided to be careful and must find a reliable pedal.

Don't get burned at that time, you will be miserable if you can't get out.

"By the way, there is another thing, the domestic personal computer market, we should also firmly grasp it, don't be afraid to compete with Lenovo, 90% of their accessories are imported."

"Most of this money goes into the pockets of foreigners, so it is better to let our own domestic enterprises make ......"