"Chen Yu, damn. You're really selling high-end laptops."
"That's good. Calm down, Old Wu."
"Calm down, my foot. How can I be calm?"
"Why didn't you do it when I asked you to?"
"I was afraid that I couldn't do it."
Wu Haijun regretted his decision to sell the Demon God series of laptops.
He never thought that Huanyu Technology would be able to push out a high-end notebook so easily.
They did not seem to have done anything.
All they did was win the title of the Dota International Tournament and sponsor the computers used for the tournament.
However, the Demon God notebook had become the first choice of gamers for such a simple operation.
Although Wu Haijun thought that way, he knew that Huanyu Technologies might look simple, but other companies would not have been able to do it.
First of all, the positioning of the product.
Turning high-end laptops into high-end gaming laptops was not something an ordinary company could think of.
Even if one could think of it, it would be difficult to sell gaming laptops without the Dota International Tournament.
Even if one could create a gaming competition, it would be impossible to create a game as popular as Dota.
Looking at it now, the successful launch of the Demon God notebook was completely based on Huanyu Technologies' plans over the past few years.
"However, I want to do it now. I plan to create a gaming laptops too. You call it Demon God, and we'll call it God of War. What do you think?"
"That's possible, but it's a little late for you to do it now."
Huanyu Technologies and Shenzhou were strategic partners. Chen Yu naturally did not object to Shenzhou joining them.
Of course, he also knew that other computer manufacturers would join them even if Shenzhou did not join them.
Now that video games were becoming more and more popular, there were more and more gamers. It could be said that this group of gamers was the first to want to buy a computer. If it was an ordinary computer, there would not be much competition and they would not be able to earn much. After all, the price of computers was very transparent now. Even if you were 100 yuan more expensive than others, others might not buy your computer.
However, gaming laptops were different.
Demon God's pricing was inhumane. The profits from this were simply terrifying.
However, even though the Divine Boat wanted to do it, Chen Yu did not think that they could do it.
Although the profits of the gaming book were huge, it was actually a niche product.
Of course, Huanyu Technologies would be able to eat their fill if they took over the company. However, if a series of computer manufacturers came in, they would starve to death.
Wu Haijun was also aware of this.
If you don't take the lead and push it into the market, you won't be able to make much money if you follow behind.
However, things were different now.
In the past, Huanyu Technologies had not created a game, so it did not matter if Shenzhou was pushed or not.
But now that Huanyu Technologies had started it, other computer manufacturers would definitely follow suit.
They didn't follow him to earn money.
This was completely the mentality that others had, and he had to have.
Huanyu Technologies had a gaming laptop, and so did they.
If he didn't have it, it meant that he was inferior to others. If he didn't have it, he would be embarrassed to meet others.
It was just like a bunch of car manufacturers wanting to produce sports cars. Even if sports cars weren't profitable, they still wanted to produce them.
Although Shenzhou was not considered an impressive computer company, they could not fall behind in this area.
It would be good even if it was just for show.
However, Wu Haijun's idea gave Chen Yu an idea.
If Shenzhou wanted to produce a high-end computer even if it wasn't profitable, other companies would obviously think the same.
However, other computer manufacturers would definitely not be able to sell their high-end laptops.
This was because there weren't many high-end laptops. If they produced them themselves or got others to do it, it wouldn't be worth it.
For example, if Asus Computer wanted to produce a high-end laptop, they would first produce 100,000 units.
Did you think that someone would be willing to produce 100,000 units?
Sorry.
Large-scale OEMs wouldn't want to do it.
As for why they didn't want to do it …
That was because the order was too small, and there was no money to be made.
These OEMs wouldn't set up a production line just for high-end laptops.
However, if they didn't do it, they wouldn't be able to produce high-end laptops.
At this time, Huanyu Technologies was the best choice.
Huanyu Technologies was producing high-end laptops. Whether it was OEMs or efficiency, it was more cost-effective than doing it themselves.
Huanyu Technologies was their competitor.
However, this was nothing.
There were too many OEM operations in electronics companies.
These computer manufacturers were only responsible for the design. As for the OEMs, they didn't need to do anything.
This was similar to the chip design.
Those doing the chip design would do the chip design, and those doing the chip OEM would do the chip OEM.
Although it wasn't impossible to do everything together, it might not be as efficient as this division of labor.
This was also why in the future, even Intel would order TSMC for OEMs.
Hence, Huanyu Technologies contacted Asus, Mingji, Hongji, HP, Toshiba, Sony, etc. Although not all companies agreed, Huanyu Technology still received quite a number of orders after a round of sales. Although the orders weren't large, it didn't matter. No matter how small a mosquito was, it was still meat. When all the orders were added up, it would be a lot.
As for why they didn't contact Lenovo and Dell.
This was because they had high-end laptops.
For example, Lenovo's Thinkpad and Dell's recently acquired Alibaba computer.
They were Huanyu Technologies' main competitors. They didn't need Huanyu Technologies to OEM.
However …
Although this was what he said, Chen Yu still called Yang Yuanqing.
"Brother Yang."
"What …"
Yang Yuanqing, who received Chen Yu's call, instantly had goosebumps.
He almost peed himself when he heard Chen Yu call him Brother Yang.
"Boss Chen, don't … Just call me by my name."
"How can I do that? We're good partners now."
"Erm, Boss Chen, what's the matter?"
Yang Yuanqing complained in his heart. Who's your good partner?
"It's like this. I believe Boss Yang has paid attention to the Devil series notebook that Huanyu Technologies recently launched."
"Yes, Mr. Chen. Your Devil God series of notebooks is really amazing."
"Is Boss Yang interested?"
"What do you mean?"
"We're also launching a high-end notebook."
"Boss Chen, we already have the Thinkpad brand. We don't need to launch it anymore."
"Boss Yang, the Thinkpad will always belong to IBM. Although you've acquired it, it's still branded with IBM's name."
According to the agreement.
Although the Thinkpad notebook business was acquired by Lenovo, the Thinkpad still had to be branded with IBM's name within three years.
If it wanted to be branded with Lenovo's name, it would have to wait for three years.
"Although your company can really own the Thinkpad brand in three years, I don't think everyone is particularly optimistic about Lenovo. Everyone will always think that the Thinkpad belongs to IBM and has nothing to do with Lenovo. Rather than that, it's better to use IBM's technology to build your own high-end notebook brand. "
"This …"
Hearing this, Yang Yuanqing was tempted.
In fact, regarding the acquisition of IBM's personal notebook business, Lenovo had always had internal opinions.
Everyone could see the benefits of acquiring IBM's personal PC business.
However, there were downsides as well.
The biggest problem was that Lenovo was worried that IBM's personal PC business would not be integrated into Lenovo's.
When Lenovo acquired IBM, the entire company thought that this was the biggest risk.
Yang Yuanqing and the others had made various plans to ensure that IBM could integrate into Lenovo's business.
However, who could guarantee that this would work?
What if IBM's logo was replaced with Lenovo's? Who else could they look for?
In that case, they might as well follow Chen Yu's plan and use IBM's technology to create their own high-end notebook brand.
Although this high-end notebook brand might not be able to be launched, it was still worth a try.
Even if he had to be a backup, he had to be there.
"Boss Chen, let's have a meeting to discuss this."
"Ok, I'll wait for your good news."
Chen Yu knew that Yang Yuanqing was tempted.
In fact, Chen Yu really wanted to say that the Thinkpad brand would not be of much help to Lenovo in the future.
Other than the Thinkpad selling well in China.
In Europe and the United States, ever since the Thinkpad got rid of IBM's brand, the market no longer bought the Thinkpad.
From this perspective, Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's personal PC business was not as profitable as expected.
Of course, Chen Yu did not do this for Lenovo.
On one hand, he did this for his own orders.
On the other hand, he wanted to destroy the Thinkpad brand.
Calling Yang Yuanqing was just planting the seed to destroy the Thinkpad brand.
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