Chapter Twenty-Eight: Everything Is Ready
"Jirun Food Processing Factory, specializing in the production of granulated milk tea for a big Wanwan brand, half of the machines are used to make this, and some of the machines are used to process snacks such as cookies..."
Wang Jinli recalled the information about the Jirun Food Processing Factory, the head of which was named Peng Wen, an intellectual wearing gold wire glasses, who was very enthusiastic when he saw him:
"Hey~ Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang! You're finally here, I'll tell you... If you don't come, our factory will probably have only one way to resell the machine..."
"Boss Peng is polite, I'm just here to investigate, I'm afraid the final decision has to be made by our chairman, but don't worry, I will truthfully feedback the situation of our factory~"
"Come on, come on, this way, please..."
There are no problems with the procedures and machines of Jirun Food Processing Factory, and the reason why it is on the verge of bankruptcy is because there are too many competing products of the same type on the market, and their brand is a little stretched.
Wanwan's brand is like this, it may be the main domestic market in the last second, and the next second it will start to withdraw its investment, so that these food processing factories really have nothing to say, so they can only take orders from other brands.
After Wang Jinli took a brief look, he asked a question he was more concerned about: "By the way, which supplier's goods are used for the milk in our milk tea?" What about the quality? Is the shipment volume stable? β
He always remembered that Chen Zifan mentioned that the current No. 1 domestic brand of reindeer milk powder would go out of business soon, although from his point of view, he couldn't see where the reindeer milk powder was going out of business.
But he still chooses to believe Chen Zifan, combined with the safety and quality problems that Chen Zifan has always mentioned, there is only one possibility: the reindeer milk powder product will have serious quality problems in the future.
"But how is this possible..."
If it is true, then the milk tea brand invested by Stardust Technology can use this matter to make a fuss about it, who expected Peng Wen to be a little overwhelmed after hearing Wang Jinli's question:
"Milk? Need milk for milk tea? β
"Don't you need it?"
"Do you need it?"
ββ¦β¦β
Wang Jinli was stunned, Peng Wen was also stunned, one naively thought that there would be milk in the milk tea, while the other forgot that Wang Jinli was not specialized in food, and he was not very clear about some of them.
In order to save costs, almost all the powdered milk teas on the market use non-dairy creamer, and even later in the street-side milk tea shops, 99% of the creamers used are also non-dairy creamers, and the milk powder creamer is almost extinct.
"Uh... No milk in milk tea? So why is it called milk tea? So why exactly? Is it because you can't put milk or to reduce costs? β
"What else can it be for? Our milk tea powder only sells for one dollar per pack, although it will not lose money when we put milk... But why not make more? β
"That's true, but our Stardust Technology's requirements are different, since we have accepted our investment, we have to follow our requirements..."
"I understand that."
In the end, after preliminary discussions between Wang Jinli and Peng Wen, Stardust Technology invested 3 million yuan and took 35% of the shares to create a milk tea brand based on street dine-in, and the details have to be discussed again.
This matter is not in a hurry, and the expansion rate of milk tea brands is not so fast, especially in this year, ordinary people do not have a high acceptance of milk tea.
In contrast, another project is much more important, after Wang Jinli returned to the headquarters of Stardust Technology, he began to contact a foreign manufacturer named BALD, and the general manager was named Andrews.
WiFi abroad... Or wireless fidelity, this kind of technology is not controlled by a single company, they have a special alliance, and there are many competitors at the same time, and all kinds of patents are flying all over the sky.
However, what Chen Zifan is most afraid of is patents, and he extracted the public patents of some of these companies and produced an "imitation", and then obtained the new technology through [analysis copycat].
Some were kept for backup, while the rest were his bargaining chips for cooperation, and with technology, BALD, who was originally not interested in Stardust Technology investment, suddenly came to his senses and began to take the initiative to contact them.
After a period of discussion between Wang Jinli and his small team, the specific model is: Stardust Technology provides technology β BALD to produce finished productsβ and then obtains a certain market position β reverse licensing to domestic operators.
It seems that there is a big circle, but only this is the safest way, there is no benefit to being alone, whether it is at home or abroad, Chen Zifan needs some strong partners.
There are still some things that Stardust Technology can afford now, Chen Zifan wants to advance the era of smartphones and let Stardust Technology occupy a certain initiative, he will inevitably have to pay the price.
"WiFi, milk tea... It doesn't matter whether these two things are successful or not, they are just icing on the cake, and the real decision on the future will depend on Stardust1..."
The hardware of Stardust 1 has all been put in place, and Stardust OS1.0 is also steadily advancing, and there is only one problem left: chips, Chen Zifan needs a chip with strong enough performance to support the operation of Stardust OS.
As a result, after looking around the market, he didn't find such a chip at all, and the feature phone chip closest to his request was also out of stock, and the orders were all occupied by brands such as Nokia and Motorola.
If you want to solve such a problem, there are only three ways in front of Chen Zifan: one is to forcibly use [analysis copycat] to analyze the chip drawings and combine them to design a new chip.
But the cycle of doing this is too long, and there is no way for the foundry to mass produce all kinds of tests without half a year, and the production capacity is limited, even if it is really energy, the early production capacity cannot meet his requirements.
The second is to analyze all the machines and technologies of some foundries through [analysis copycat], and build Stardust Technology's own chip production line after getting the new technology, Chen Zifan also thinks so.
In addition, there is a third path to choose, that is, the [Stardust Technology] in his consciousness, and there is also a [Synthesis Creation] that has not been unlocked, and he doesn't know the specific unlock level now.
"Since the launch of the 'box', 570,000 units have been sold, and with more efforts, the level of [Stardust Technology] can be raised to lv.20, I don't know if lv.20 can unlock [Synthesis Creation]..."
If not, then Chen Zifan can only take time to go to some chip foundries to "visit", and by the way, sort out the content of the patents published on the market, and prepare to do it alone.
The risk of doing so is also very high, but Chen Zifan can't choose it, unless he replaces the chip of Stardust 1 with the low-end feature computer chip in the test engineering machine... Downgrade Stardust OS one more notch...
"Impossible!"