"How long can our chips last?" Boss Jia asked Ma Huatou after he received news of Sony's price increase.
"At most, it can only last for half a month!" Ma Huatou's expression was ugly. "We are only left with 200,000 decoding chips. Based on the current sales speed of Daqian VCD players in Fusang, I am afraid we can only last for half a month!"
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"They have at most 300,000 decoding chips left!" During a meeting at Sony, a manager said confidently. "We had increased the price of the decoding chips to 200,000 Yen per chip. Now, we do not have any orders. Based on our previous sales figures, Daqian can only manufacture another 300,000 VCD players!"
"Very good!" Nobuyuki Idei nodded. "Hua Xia cannot last for more than a month. Mr. Sakata, you only have one month. After one month, Sony's VCD players must be mass-produced. Two months later, it must be launched into the market. In the first month, you must manufacture 2 million units. At the same time, our Guangying Supermarket must be up and running. You all go and talk to those cultural companies. You all must get their cultural content onto our platform! "
"Yes!" All the higher-ups who attended the meeting replied confidently.
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"Boss, I suggest that we stop the production of new VCD players and store the decoding chips. If not, those VCD players that were already sold will not be able to maintain their warranty!"
"Other than that, we should shift our focus to Guangying Supermarket. Only by using Guangying Supermarket to control most of our content, we still have the capital to compete with Sony!" Ma Huatou suggested.
Ma Huatou felt that he could not win against Sony in terms of hardware. He could only compete with Guangying Supermarket, which was not restricted by the decoding chips.
But Ma Huatou was not confident that he could win against Sony. Because his opponent was Sony. Just based on their name, most of Fusang's customers would change their allegiance. This was too difficult.
Thinking about this, Ma Huatou sighed. Why was it so difficult for him to start his own business? It was not easy for them to meet a wise boss, Boss Jia. But in the end, they were blocked by that damn Sony. Talking about this made them want to cry!
From this, it could be seen that Ma Huatou did not understand Boss Jia and Daqian.
"I know!" After hearing what Ma Huatou said, Boss Jia nodded and asked. "In the next two months, how many VCD players do we need to expand without any obstacles?"
"Then we need at least 1 million units!" Ma Huateng lowered his head and said. "But this is only a conservative estimate. Based on my estimation, Sony should be trying their best to increase their production capacity and start the production of VCD players. Within 2 months, Sony's VCD players will be on the shelves. At that time, our chances of winning will be very slim. We can only make use of these 2 months to set up our strategy and get more market share. This is the only way we can have a better chance of winning!"
"So, if we really have enough VCD players, then we are confident that we can sell at least 2 to 3 million units. This way, we will be able to capture at least 3 million households. This way, we will have a higher chance of winning against Sony."
"Ok!" Boss Jia nodded. "Since that is the case, then you should plan and prepare according to the 3 million units sales target. Don't slow down the company's development!"
"Boss! What did you say? " Ma Huatou raised his head and looked at Boss Jia. He could not believe his ears. "Where are we going to get 3 million units?"
"You don't need to worry about this. If I say we have it, then we have it!" Boss Jia narrowed his eyes and said. "You just need to focus on expanding the Fusang market. That will be enough!"
"Yes!" Ma Huateng looked at Boss Jia in confusion. He couldn't understand how Boss Jia could get his hands on the 3,000,000 VCD players. But since Boss Jia had said so, Ma Huateng had no choice but to follow his orders.
At the same time, Ma Huatou suddenly felt confident. Since Boss Jia said so confidently, then he might be able to find a way to get 3 million VCD players within two months!
"Make the arrangements. We will return to China tonight!" After Ma Huatou left, Boss Jia immediately said to his secretary. That night, Boss Jia flew back to China.
Because there were no flights to Hua Xia that day, Boss Jia spent 100,000 USD to charter a flight back to China.
Because the solution to this problem could only be found in China, Boss Jia did not place his hopes on the Fusangpeople.
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After returning to China, Boss Jia did not return home. Instead, he directly went to the Daqian Electronics Laboratory. Ni Guangnan, who had received the news, brought along a group of researchers and waited for Boss Jia's return at the entrance.
Then, Ni Guangnan took Mr. Jia to visit the joint laboratory. "This is the 200nm photolithography machine that we have mass-produced. We have manufactured three of these photolithography machines in the laboratory, which can increase the daily output of 200nm chips to 20,000 chips per machine!"
Ni Guangnan pointed at the photolithography machine in front of him and proudly said to Boss Jia.
One machine could produce 20,000 chips a day, 600,000 chips a month, and three machines could produce 1.8 million chips. It seemed that at least six photolithography machines were needed to meet the demand of 4 million decoding chips in two months.
"These 200nm chips can be used to produce decoder chips, right?" Although Boss Jia already knew the result, he still wanted to confirm it.
"More than enough!" Ni Guangnan laughed. "Decoder chips are actually very simple. As long as the design of the chips is done, the 200nm chips will be enough. In fact, Sony's decoder chips are only 250nm chips. If we use 200nm chips, the decoder speed will be 3 times faster than Sony's chips! "
"This way, the stability and smoothness of the image will be improved!"
"Then the design of the decoder chips should be completed, right?" Boss Jia asked again.
"It was completed in February this year. At that time, I was wondering why you wanted to use almost half of our research resources to design the decoder chips. You even wanted to buy Sony's chips!"
"Now I understand. You had expected this day to come. You expected Sony to strangle us!" Ni Guangnan sighed.
"No. I did not expect Sony to strangle me today!" Hearing what Ni Guangnan said, Boss Jia shrugged his shoulders. "At that time, I only wanted to break Sony's arm first!"
So, when Boss Jia was sending out the VCD players, Boss Jia had already asked the laboratory to start developing the decoder chips for the VCD players. This was mentioned in the previous chapter, but not many people knew about it.
But just like what Boss Jia said, when Boss Jia was developing the decoder chips, he did not expect Sony to strangle him today. It was because Boss Jia did not want to pay more to Sony. From the start to the end, all the profits from the VCD players belonged to Boss Jia. Why should he let Sony take away so much of the profits? After all, a chip cost 40,000 yen, and the profits should be at least 35,000 yen.
Boss Jia wouldn't share this part of the profits with others for a long time. Therefore, Boss Jia had already arranged for the preliminary research of the decoding chip. At the same time, it was completed in February.
At that time, Ni Guangnan was still complaining. The decoder chips required a lot of manpower, and it had affected the mobile phone and PC CPU development.
But now, Ni Guangnan could only sigh at Boss Jia's foresight.
But Daqian's photolithography machine could not be mass produced. So, even though the decoder chips were developed, only some prototypes were produced. The actual mass production had not started yet.
Now, the time had come.
Since Sony did not want to sell, then Daqian will manufacture their own chips!
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