Late October.
Four months had passed since the release date of the "Xing Hai Second Generation" computer.
Regarding the sales of this computer, Li Yuan Liang, the marketing manager, reported to him.
"Mr. Chen, in the personal computer market, Xing Hai computers have occupied 60% of the new market share. They have beaten the traditional computers into a corner and even forced Microsoft to repeatedly lower the price of the original operating system. You can use the original operating system for only $50."
But it's still useless. Compared to our Xuanyuan operating system, the Windows system is not competitive at all. It is being eliminated by the market. After all, they are not only expensive, but also have many backdoors and loopholes. The user experience is also not as good as ours. The consumers know how to choose. "
Chen Jin glanced at him. "Don't talk so much nonsense. I'm asking about the sales of the Xing Hai computers. Don't talk so much nonsense."
"Yes, yes, yes."
Li Yuan Liang stopped smiling and said, "According to the data submitted by various agents, there are currently 6.5 million Xing Hai computers shipped. Among them, 3 million are Xing Hai First Generation and 3.5 million are Xing Hai Second Generation. In addition, about 60% of the sales are desktops and 40% are notebooks.
However, the sales of these millions of Xing Hai computers are not equal to the revenue of Xing Hai Technologies. We are only selling the core CPU. Due to the large purchase volume of downstream manufacturers and online orders from the majority of DIY players, our company has shipped a total of 10 million CPUs.
The average price of each CPU is $1,800, bringing a total revenue of $18 billion to the company. The profit is about $10 billion. "
Of course, the processor market was huge.
Besides the personal computer that needed to be equipped with a CPU, large servers, supercomputers, professional workstations, advanced military equipment, and other fields also needed processors.
The annual sales of processors in the Z country alone was more than $100 billion.
If Xing Hai Technologies could swallow up this entire market!
It could create hundreds of billions of revenue and earn more than $50 billion in profits every year.
It could be said that Xing Hai Technologies was sitting on a big gold mine.
However …
The revenue of Xing Hai Technologies this year was not very optimistic!
Compared to last year, there was even an obvious trend of decline and contraction.
Li Yuan Liang said worriedly, "Mr. Chen, the company's revenue this year is likely to decline by more than 30% compared to last year.
The market for cleaning robots is basically saturated. The sales of the Wa-wah robot have fallen by more than 40% compared to last year.
The medical robots are also not selling well. Several products with similar functions have appeared on the market at cheaper prices. This has caused our sales to fall by 50%.
The intelligent learning machine is the main source of revenue for the company. Last year's shipments were close to 100 million units. Almost every student had one. This year's demand is not enough. Shipments are less than 30 million units. I'm afraid next year's shipments will be even lower.
"In addition, the company has launched several models of industrial robots this year, and domestic factories are purchasing them. The sales are not bad, and we have achieved a revenue of about ten billion."
"The company, Xinghai computers, Computers, has become the company's revenue growth.
"But even so, we still can't stop the trend of declining revenue.
"Of course, the company's Work Assistant, Virtual Factory, Special Effects Engine, Game Engine, and other software products are performing well. This year's revenue is expected to exceed 150 billion, an increase of 80% compared to last year. However, after the company launched the 'Star Alliance' and 'Star Brain Alliance', it has been spending money like water. The speed at which the software products are making profits can't keep up with the speed at which the company is burning money … Moreover, this money will have to be burned for one to two years, which will offset the profits from the software products.
. So, not only will the company's revenue decline, but the company's profits will also decline. The financial statements may not look good. "
Fortunately, Xing Hai Technologies was not a listed company. If the shareholders saw Xing Hai Technologies' revenue drop by 30% and profits by 50%, they would immediately sell their shares, causing a sharp fall.
But this was also the law of the real economy.
No matter how big the market was, there would be a day when it would reach saturation. A huge stock would limit your growth. It was somewhat similar to the growth curve of living things.
There would be less and less cake to be divided.
No company could break away from this law, including Xing Hai Technologies.
Therefore, the company's revenue decline and profits decline was something that would happen sooner or later.
Many famous companies that were once all-powerful and famous declined and disappeared not because they did not work hard enough, but because of the law of the market.
Especially in the field of cutting-edge technology, those old companies that were known as "century-old brands" could be said to be few and far between.
Chen Jin had long predicted this day.
He also had sufficient countermeasures to effectively curb the declining trend of Xing Hai Technologies' revenue … and maintain the scale of annual revenue of more than a trillion dollars.
After all, Xing Hai Technologies had only been established for a little more than four years. He could not accept that it would enter a downward trajectory so quickly.
At least for the next 20 years, he would keep Xing Hai Technologies in a state of prosperity.
What gave him the courage to say such words?
Big moves.
Big moves that were constantly released.
Constantly bringing new profit growth points to Xing Hai Technologies and never stopping the pace of innovation.
For example, recently, the new materials research department of Xing Hai Technologies made a major breakthrough. They completely conquered a new material technology and entered the "free application era" of this material.
Graphene.
This material was graphene, which did not sound very new.
In the conference room.
In the remote video call.
Tang Shengwu, who was in charge of the "Graphene" project, reported their results with great excitement.
"President Chen, President Ling, and other leaders, we have made a breakthrough. We have completely broken through the graphene production technology.
Whether it is single-layer graphene, double-layer graphene, low-layer graphene, or multi-layer graphene, or even profiled graphene or football-phenol, we can achieve mass production of any material with a carbon atom structure.
Moreover, the production cost is not high. It has reached the standard of moving from the laboratory to full-scale commercial use.
Our research center can be said to be the first institution to reach this level. We are the first to enter the free kingdom of the graphene field. As long as we want to produce graphene products, there is nothing we cannot produce.
Our research center will bring this planet into the 'graphene' material era! "
Tang Shengwu's words were not exaggerated in the slightest.
Graphene was the thinnest and hardest nanomaterial in the world. It was almost completely transparent and only absorbed 2.3% of light. Its thermal conductivity was as high as 5,300
/m · K, higher than that of carbon nanotubes and diamond. Its electron mobility at room temperature exceeded 15000
Cm2/V · s, which was higher than that of carbon nanotubes or silicon crystals. Its resistivity was only about 10-6
Ω · cm, which was lower than that of copper or silver.
Due to these excellent physical characteristics, graphene had extremely broad and bright application prospects.
For example, the manufacture of the next generation of computers. Graphene was currently the material with the best electrical conductivity. This characteristic was particularly suitable for high-frequency circuits. Graphene would be a substitute for silicon. It could be used to produce future supercomputers, making them run faster and consume less energy.
It was used to make "space elevator" cables. Scientists imagined that in the future, space satellites would be connected to the ground by cables. At that time, satellites would become wired kites. Scientists had now finally found a special material that could make such space cables. This was graphene.
It could also be used as a liquid crystal display material. Graphene was a "transparent" conductor that could be used to replace the current liquid crystal display material for the production of the next generation of computers, TVs, and mobile phone displays.
It was used to make a new generation of solar cells. Graphene transparent conductive film was highly transparent to all infrared rays, including mid-to-far infrared rays. It was the most ideal material for a new generation of solar cells with very high conversion efficiency.
It was used to make medical disinfectant drugs and food packaging. Researchers found that bacterial cells could not grow on graphene, but human cells would not be damaged. This characteristic of graphene could be used to make bandages, food packaging, antibacterial clothing, bedding, and so on.
It was used to create "new super-strong materials." Graphene and plastic composite could rely on toughness to be ultra-thin, ultra-soft, and ultra-light. It was the next generation of new plastics.
And graphene was suitable for making transparent touch screens, light transmitters, photodetectors, and so on.
It had a wide range of uses.
It could be said to be a material that could set off a technological revolution.
But previously, graphene had not been fully promoted due to the difficulty in producing it, high production costs, and other reasons.
But now, the R&D staff of Xing Hai Technologies had completely swept away these obstacles.
A new era was coming.
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