Chapter 358: Technological Breakthrough
"Liu Chang, our current computer chip research and development has made breakthrough progress. Will this news be announced?"
While chatting with Lao Huang, Lao Ni called him. He didn't seem so excited, which made Liu Chang a little confused.
"Breakthrough progress? Which specific aspects? What opinions do Lao Zhang and Lao Ren?"
Liu Chang is not investing in chip research and development alone. Lao Zhang and Lao Ren and Liu Chang have the same rights. Generally speaking, Lao Ren and Lao Zhang will know this breakthrough progress first than Liu Chang, because Lao Ni usually talks to them first and then goes to Liu Chang.
This has nothing to do with closeness and ability. The main reason is that Lao Zhang and Lao Ren are older than Liu Chang, so they communicate better with Lao Ni. So Liu Chang asked the other two about what happened, because Lao Ni must have gone to find them first.
“They don’t recommend it.”
Old Ni doesn't quite understand why the two of them have such great achievements, as if they are not interested in public, and they still want to hide and hide.
According to Lao Ni's understanding, such major achievements should be announced so that the whole world can know their achievements, so that leaders will pay more attention to them and may also provide them with various support.
"Well, actually, Lao Ni, do you think that our own strength can develop without some policy support. But once it is made public, we may be hit by various foreign blows?"
Lao Ren doesn't want to make it public, probably because of this concern. After all, they were surrounded and suppressed, and that time he was forced to almost jump off the building, so he didn't keep up with the most advanced technology in terms of technology. Lao Ren really doesn't want to cause trouble for himself anymore.
Lao Zhang's idea is even more special. He is now the target of A Bian's focus. If A Bian knows that he has actually participated in this project, he may be intimidated.
Only Lao Ni is different here. He is a person within the system. If the research and development of this thing is announced successfully, and he is the leader, the reputation among the various things is too great, so he wants to announce it.
Liu Chang did not express his views first, but instead told him about the difficulties they faced once they announced. Lao Ni is a smart person, and he was just fascinated for a moment. After all, this is a real major breakthrough.
"We are now pursuing our heads to develop and we will announce our ability to catch up with the technology and develop new technologies ourselves. Facing these difficulties, it will not be of much significance to us."
This actually has an impact. In order to appease Lao Ni, Liu Chang could only ask him to wait for a few more years. After all, even if he waited for more than ten years in China, few companies had specialties, so they were not in a hurry at all.
"I'm worried that I'm old by then and I don't have the ability to continue pushing these things."
Old Ni also understood Liu Chang's words. He was just worried that he would catch up with others and that he would be older by then.
"No, don't worry. This time won't be too long."
Liu Chang replied with a smile that they are now making global layouts, including other places in Asia and Africa.
After these layouts can work, they think that the development of technology should be better and will be announced at that time. Then they will not have to worry about any blows.
At least they cannot develop better, but they can protect themselves and then develop steadily.
Without Ome markets, the markets in other places are enough. And at that time, they also had enough ways to deal with them so that they would not be as hasty as they are now.
Now it is just a technological breakthrough, and it is still a bit far from catching up with others. If it is announced and attracts others' attention, it will be difficult to pursue and block it quietly.
Moreover, Liu Chang, like Lao Ren and others, does not value fame, so there is really no need to put satellites out now, so it is best to develop with peace of mind.
"Okay, let's have four of us together, and you three don't recommend it to be made public, so let's not make it public for the time being. Let's continue to work hard and make a fortune in silence."
Lao Ni was a little disappointed. For him, his pursuit of wealth was not that high. Unfortunately, he could not announce it now, so he couldn't get what he wanted now.
However, he actually knew a lot about what Liu Chang said and knew that what Liu Chang said was true. Domestic development has always been in the cracks, and with the misleading of some stakeholders, many projects have been cheated.
"In addition, some progress in our mobile phone chips is also good. How is the market situation now?"
Mobile phone chips have Warwick's previous technical reserves, which are very helpful for new research and development. However, it is still the same. It is difficult to catch up with advanced technologies, but there is no problem in dealing with mid- and low-end ones.
It will take several years to catch up with other people's skills.
"Now, many people in Huaqiangbei have taken a fancy to the mobile phone industry and have moved into the mobile phone industry. It is no secret that the technology in this area is now. There are various brand-name mobile phones now. For us, this market is good, but we still need guidance, and we also need to consume some of it."
Liu Chang is not fooling Lao Ni. Now the domestic mobile phone market is very good, and some people with flexible minds have also begun to pay attention to these things. For people in Huaqiangbei, technology has never been a problem.
Although they cannot develop advanced things, such as chips, after all new technologies arrive here, import core chips and want to crack other counterfeits. This is never a problem, it is just the length of time.
"So fast? But will there be a market for consuming these chips ourselves?"
Lao Ni has never been to Huaqiangbei and does not know much about the situation here. He always thinks that mobile phones are quite high-end, and only those capable manufacturers in China can do it.
After all, the profits of the mobile phone industry are so tempting. Now, companies with a little bit of strength in China are developing in this industry, and N models of mobile phones have appeared.
"Haha, there is no secret in Huaqiangbei for electronic products. It is normal to have counterfeit mobile phones, but it is hard to say how many of them can survive and grow bigger in the end."
Liu Chang smiled and replied, "He really has the most say in Huaqiangbei's technology. After all, he has more than 20 shops.
With some memories of his previous life, most people don’t know so well. But these things are just copycats. If they can become bigger and stronger, that is something worth talking about.
It disappeared as we did it, and there wasn’t much to say. In the final analysis, it was still a problem of technical reserves and technological research and development. It was just a copycat and it was difficult to become a big climate.
"This is the case without technical advantages. You can only drink some soup with others. Alas, I don't know when our technology can stand on the same line as others, and there will be no so many restrictions at that time."
After Liu Chang mentioned the situation in Huaqiangbei, Lao Ni felt a little moved. They had walked this path before, but now some people still have this mentality. This is what he opposed. In the future, he would have to justify himself, and the road is still long.
"There should be so many people who do this, and there are still some people with vision. They will be willing to invest more capital and spend time on researching and developing technology. In the future, these people will find that they will be the remaining people who will be the ones left in the big waves."
After hearing this, Liu Chang laughed and said in a joking tone when he said this. After hearing this, Lao Ni smiled, hoping that this would be the case, so that they would have more allies in the future.
What Lao Ni doesn’t know is that Huaqiangbei’s technology is updated very quickly, but every time there will be a few companies that stand out and become a big shot. This can be seen from the development in previous lives.
Mobile phone counterfeit technology is not considered high-tech in Huaqiangbei now. They just made some money at this time. He is definitely not the only one who wants to start a new business and become bigger and stronger.
"I hope all our arrangements will be the same in the future. It seems that I still need to pay more attention to Huaqiangbei's technology in the future. Perhaps although those people will not be completely innovative, they still have this talent in the innovation of fine-tuning."
After the two of them chatted, they no longer talked about the release of chip breakthroughs, but turned the topic to Huaqiangbei. Lao Ni had some hearing about those people and hoped that those people could truly develop, which would be beneficial to Liu Chang and the others' layout.
In fact, it is not just micro-innovation, but people who innovate Huaqiangbei can do it in one aspect. But I don’t know if it’s because there are too many copycats, and they don’t care much about innovation, and they can easily be imitated.
For example, mobile phones, at this time, many brand-name mobile phones have more functions than those produced by Huaqiangbei. However, in terms of performance, the mobile phones here are much worse, the signal and call quality are also poor, and they are not durable.
This has something to do with the materials and cost. People in Huaqiangbei want to make a quick vote. For quality and good things for those materials, it is difficult to make them spend some time.
There is no way, the mobile phones here are sold for a few hundred yuan or a mobile phone worth about a hundred yuan each. If they want to spend time on quality and materials, how can they make money?
But they can use some inferior things to make so many functions of mobile phones, which is a reflection of their technical capabilities. If the quality of the work is not good, it is a matter of vision and thinking.
Liu Chang couldn't make everyone do these things according to his own ideas. He just chose to find a few representatives to invest, and then sell his own chips, and in some aspects he supported these mobile phone manufacturers to grow bigger.
This is to cultivate a market for oneself. Although the domestic mobile phone market is becoming saturated now, there are still many places to develop if you want to do it.
For example, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, there are many poor people. They can’t afford to use high-end mobile phones, and they also need medium- and low-end mobile phones. These markets can just accumulate technology for themselves and gather more technical talents from China.
As for the things that some people say are so bad in China and so great in foreign countries, Liu Chang is just a joke.
It is undeniable that in some aspects, foreign technology is indeed better than domestic. However, domestic technology is not as bad as expected. Even if it is counterfeit, it can only be copied with technology. How can we copy it without this technology?
It’s just that many domestic civil projects lack funding and ideas for research and development. If you are willing to spend money on this and have clear ideas to develop, the country may not be as good as foreign countries. And having your own technology is the foundation of sustainable development.
Look at Lenovo and Huawei, this is a typical case of domestic independent research and development and non-independent research and development. When Liu Chang was reborn, their respective situations proved that technology is the foundation and R&D innovation is the long-term way.
It started at about the same time, and was also in the field of high-tech. In the early days, Lenovo, under the leadership of Lao Ni, had its own technology and was very arrogant to acquire this and that. However, Huawei initially represented other people's products, and had no advantage in technology.
However, Lenovo gave up its own technological research and development and chose commercial action. Huawei just turned to its own research and development because of its limited technology.
Many years later, Lenovo is getting back and forth, but Huawei is spreading the world and making its business bigger and bigger. Lenovo can only sigh. Even foreign companies are not as good as Huawei in some aspects, which is the best proof.
After making money, Liu Chang was willing to enter the chip field, which means he hoped that one day he would have his own technology and would not be restricted. Of course, he could still make money.
I once heard a saying that the XX Revolution cut off the braids on the heads of the people in China, but they did not cut off the braids in their hearts. No matter how our country progresses or how slowly our country is stronger, there are always some slack people.
There are also some people who can't straighten their backs, and they always think that foreign things are strong and foreign skills are good. Whatever they do, it is like that.
It’s just that I can’t do it in China. There are many reasons why I can’t do the technology or the environment can’t do it. Liu Chang was indeed a little impulsive when he entered the chip field before, but it doesn’t mean he didn’t think about it.
At most, it’s just to spend more time and more money. For Liu Chang, he has time and he can earn money again, so why can’t he test it first?
Not to mention anything else, just like the smartphone, the later generations of Pingguo used some appearance designs to deceive many people. Liu Chang did not have the ability to develop the best chips and systems, so could he not create obstacles in appearance?
You should know that Pingguo hasn't entered this area yet, so it is even more impossible for him to apply for a patent for his appearance. Liu Chang casually lets someone out a mobile phone, no matter what the function is. He takes down various appearance patents first, and then he can disgust them if he takes these.
If Pingguo still uses the looks from their previous lives, the mobile phone company invested by Liu Chang will save even the advertising fee and sue them directly, and the global fame will become popular.
This is a later story, and it is also a means that cannot be put on the table. It is roughly the same as when others restrict chips in the future, so we restrict others from buying pork. It is meaningless and very shabby.
The most important thing is to concentrate on developing your own technology, which is very important.
"Yes, we are now spending our time and spending a lot of money on chip research and development, just to be able to compete with others one day? As long as we work hard, I think that day will not last long."
Liu Chang laughed and said that Lao Ni knew less about business matters than himself and Lao Ren. However, technically, he and Lao Zhang were big shots among the four.
The layout of counterfeit mobile phones here in Huaqiangbei is just one aspect. This place is just to cultivate the market and provide some funding sources for their chip research and development.
After the two chatted, Liu Chang called Lao Ren and Lao Zhang again. The three of them communicated again, and then asked the two to do Lao Ni's work separately to prevent him from being unbalanced.
"Are you talking about investing in mobile phones?"
When talking to Lao Ni, Liu Chang avoided Lao Huang's words. The fewer people knew about these things they were doing, the better. Liu Chang would naturally not announce them all over the world.
No matter what the relationship is, those who should keep the secret must keep the secret. Even Lao Zhang doesn’t know much about some of the situations in the industrial park in Liu Chang’s hometown.
After returning to the room, Lao Huang listened to Liu Chang talking about his mobile phone and couldn't help asking curiously. He was not optimistic about the mobile phone industry now, and anyone with a discerning eye could tell that there are too many people making mobile phones now.
"Well, that's right. I have invested in several manufacturers of mobile phones in Pengcheng. Anyway, I don't invest a lot of money, so I'll just try it."
Liu Chang was telling the truth. He didn't make any mobile phones because Lao Ren was doing it. But it was obviously not enough for Lao Ren to do it alone, and it was too conspicuous.
So Liu Chang invested in several small companies that are still copycats. These companies have some skills and the boss also has some abilities.
The purpose of Liu Chang investing in them is to cultivate his own chip market, and even the application of smartphones. The development of these things also requires a process, and it takes a slow step.
If you can get ahead of others, it's best. It doesn't matter if you can't keep up, they will develop slowly later.
"There are too many mobile phone companies now. Are you afraid of losing money if you invest in this?"
Liu Chang's words made Lao Huang a little confused. He, who doesn't understand the mobile phone industry very well, knows that mobile phones are not that easy to make. Liu Chang has always had a good vision, so why would he jump into the trap?
"It's different. The mobile phone companies I invest in are not big and the funds are not much. Moreover, the market positioning they take is different. They are mid- and low-end positioning, and the conflict is not that big."
"By the way, Uncle Huang, can you check if you can arrange a time with the senior management of Binhai to see the following, and then determine the investment of the project? I will go to Xiangjiang in two days and stay there for a few days."
Liu Chang couldn't explain this to Lao Huang in detail, otherwise the more he explained, the more he had problems. I guess Lao Huang would be confused by it, but he just skipped this topic after roughly speaking.
Chapter completed!