However, if it was only about not using Huanyu Technologies' chips, then these big shots wouldn't have to sit together.
These companies had already formed a tacit understanding.
Just like how ASML didn't sell the most advanced photolithography machine to China, they would also restrict China.
Although this time it was a little awkward, it became them boycotting Tianwen's second-generation chips.
Before this, they had always been the ones restricting others.
As for boycotting, it had always been synonymous with the weak.
The reason they were sitting together was because there was something more important than boycotting Tianwen's second-generation chips.
They knew.
Boycotting Tianwen's second-generation chips didn't have much effect.
It was their business if they didn't use the chips, but there were so many mobile phone companies in China. Just the orders from China to Huanyu Technologies were enough for Huanyu Technologies to make a lot of money. Needless to say, Huanyu Technologies also came up with a mobile phone integration plan, allowing ordinary people to make mobile phones. Although they weren't optimistic about this plan, they only thought it was Huanyu Technologies digging a hole for others. The purpose was to sell their chips. As for whether these people could succeed or not, it had nothing to do with Huanyu Technologies.
The most important thing to do was to prevent Huanyu Technology from growing too big.
"Everyone, other than this matter just now, let's talk about Huanyu Technologies. This company has always been in the internet business. Although they later entered the mobile phone industry, we didn't pay much attention to them. However, now it seems that this company is different from ordinary companies. If we sit back and watch them grow, they will be a strong competitor in the future. "
The Motorola representative continued.
Motorola didn't only compete with Huanyu Technologies in the chip industry.
Similarly, in the consumer mobile phone industry, they also competed with Huanyu Technologies.
In the previous competition, Motorola had lost one after another.
Of course, it wasn't just Motorola. Among them, the company that was most affected was Nokia.
Originally, Nokia was about to become the largest mobile phone manufacturer in China. However, Huanyu Technologies came out and took away Nokia's market share.
First, it was the low-end market.
Next was the middle end.
And Huanyu Technologies wasn't the only company that was fighting for it.
With the support of Tianwen, a series of other China mobile phone manufacturers began to compete for Nokia's market share.
"Huanyu Technologies is ambitious. We should take this seriously."
"That's right. Huanyu Technologies is making more and more moves in the mobile phone industry. We can't let them grow."
"We need to work together to give Huanyu Technologies and the mobile phone manufacturers in China a heavy blow."
Sony, Ericsson … … and other mobile phone companies also nodded.
They were facing the same problem as Nokia and Motorola.
As soon as Motorola made the suggestion, all the mobile phone manufacturers quickly reached a consensus.
As for what these big shots were up to, outsiders would not know.
Although outsiders didn't know about it, the revenge of some global mobile phone manufacturers soon came.
First, the battery.
Sony, Sanyo, Panasonic … these traditional battery giants immediately announced price increases.
Next, it was the memory.
Siemens, Toshiba, Infineon, Hitachi … … also announced price increases due to the increase in raw materials and labor costs.
That wasn't all.
For sensors, a series of American companies also announced price increases.
For LCDs, Sharp, LG, and Samsung also announced price increases.
If only one company announced price increases, it wouldn't be a big deal.
But these companies joined forces to raise prices. This was a fatal threat to domestic mobile phone companies.
"Damn, these mobile phone companies are joining forces to raise prices."
"Batteries, memory, sensors … … With such price increases, our manufacturing costs will increase by one fold."
"How are we going to compete?"
In an instant, many domestic mobile phone companies felt that they were done for.
"Boss Chen, have you received the news? All the major mobile phone components have greatly increased their prices."
The mobile phone manufacturers immediately contacted Chen Yu.
"Yes."
Chen Yu frowned.
Naturally, he had also received the news.
"Boss Chen, what do you think?"
"I think we're being targeted by these mobile phone companies."
Although he didn't know the reason, it was obvious that these mobile phone companies had joined forces to kill them.
Although these mobile phone companies only sold mobile phones, their influence was extremely terrifying.
Not to mention others, just Sony, Aicin, Siemens, and some other companies.
They sold mobile phones and also produced a series of mobile phone components.
For example, batteries and memory, they were involved in all these.
Since I can't beat you in consumer terminals and mobile phones, I'll play with the upstream industry.
"Boss Chen, should we contact the higher-ups?"
"It's useless to contact the higher-ups."
Chen Yu shook his head.
Usually, in such situations, they could only contact the higher-ups when there was no other way.
Because only the higher-ups could solve it through other means.
However, Chen Yu knew that this kind of thing was not so easy to solve.
Look at the strength of these companies joining forces, and it involved more than one company.
He had dozens of brands, which involved the interests of dozens of countries.
Although the higher-ups might be able to solve it, it was still quite troublesome.
Even if the higher-ups stepped in, the other party would say that this was the business behavior of the major mobile phone manufacturers and they would not interfere.
In fact …
It was really hard for the higher-ups to interfere.
These mobile phone manufacturers were also using commercial means.
Can't I increase the price of the products I produced?
Of course, if this happened in the future, these companies would not be able to use these means.
This was because the series of components produced by these companies could be fully produced in China.
But it was still 2005.
This series of components could only be imported.
Batteries were still fine as they had already started in China. BYD was doing well.
But BYD was doing well, but their production volume was not up yet. They could not supply all the mobile phone manufacturers in China.
This meant that they still had to use these overseas battery brands.
If they did not use these batteries, then they could not even produce mobile phones.
So, in Feng Yu's previous life, many companies faced competition from overseas companies. Only they knew how it felt.
As for the memory, there was no other way. They could only import it.
Also, in Feng Yu's previous life, this move had always been restricted by others.
For example, Samsung used the memory to increase the price of the memory twice or thrice a year.
It was not until Zi Guang came up with the DDR4 memory that the situation became better.
As for the LCD screen, they had to rely even more on imports.
This kind of situation could only be avoided in the future when LCD screen manufacturing companies like Beijing Oriental became popular.
The various sound sensors, image sensors … also had to be imported in large quantities.
Although Chen Yu knew that in the future, these domestic companies would not be afraid of them.
But the future was the future. Now, it was really a big problem.
(End of chapter)
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