Great Power Technology

For Huang Qi, the purpose of asking Gao Wenxiong to reimburse expenses is not the small amount of money. He just wants to send a signal to the other party before this negotiation:

We are the party taking the initiative, and you are the service provider of this cooperation.

Once the other party accepts this setting, it will have to follow its own pace in subsequent negotiations, and the initiative can be established smoothly.

The development of things was almost exactly as he expected. Under the strong pressure from Spark Factory, or the entire Chinese semiconductor industry, Gao Wenxiong maintained a low-key attitude throughout the subsequent meetings, although he failed to do so. Apart from this meeting, a constructive outcome was reached, but nevertheless, it was a good start.

What is even more iconic is that after meeting with Gao Wenxiong, TSMC arranged a new special car and driver, which means that the other party seems to be struggling to eliminate influence from the top.

Huang Qi immediately reported the situation to his superiors. From their perspective, this was the first flaw of the other party.

As soon as a crack appears, the separation between capital and the upper class will develop at an unstoppable speed.

What China has to do is to use certain means to further intensify this separation.

For example, the loss of a large order; for example, the delay in the delivery of equipment; for example, a betrayal that does not have such a big impact, but makes people think about it.

Cupertino, California.

In a small cafe on the street, two men with different skin colors were sitting leisurely opposite each other, enjoying carefully brewed coffee in their cups.

One of the men had a typical white face, with slightly white hair, and fine wrinkles on his forehead and corners of his eyes, while the Asian man opposite him was young, with smooth skin and thick hair.

After taking the last sip of coffee, the Asian man named Huang Weiyi put down the cup in his hand, smiled and said:

"Mr. Coors, as you said, the coffee in this cafe is great. But to be honest, as a Chinese, I still prefer tea. Maybe I should bring some when we meet next time. The tea set will show you the Chinese tea culture."

Coors on the opposite side also smiled back, and then replied:

"This is a good idea, but you probably need an assistant who can make tea. In fact, I have heard rumors about you from other colleagues. They said that you promised to show them tea art every time, but in the end It’s just a matter of grabbing a handful of tea leaves, throwing them into a cup and brewing them with hot water.”

"This is not even as good as Lipton's instant tea bag, right? You Chinese people have a saying called 'wasting natural resources', and it couldn't be more appropriate to put it on your body."

"Hahahahaha, maybe that's the case, but it's not important. As long as you can drink good tea, it's considered a success, isn't it?"

Huang Weiyi obviously heard the hidden edge in the other party's words, but he did not show any sullen expression at all, but responded lightly along with the other party's words.

You say that technology is a waste in my hands, then I will tell you that as long as I can create something, it is not a waste.

A seemingly peaceful exchange actually contained murderous intent from the beginning, but both parties were accustomed to it.

Hearing Huang's only answer, Coors shook his head slightly and said:

"That's not necessarily the case. Just like our coffee, even if the raw materials are exactly the same, the flavor displayed is different when brewed using freshly ground coffee or instant coffee."

"I am a person who pursues perfection, so I only drink freshly ground coffee - this is probably some kind of insistence on the quality of life? Of course, I have the same attitude in many other aspects."

"Yes, yes, this is a very good attitude. But I think, in addition to freshly ground coffee and instant coffee, maybe there are other ways to brew coffee in this world? For example, distillation?"

Kors gently turned the quilt in his hand. There was still the last sip of coffee left in the cup, but he did not drink it all like Huang Weiwei.

"Distillation may be a good method, but you also know that people like me, at this age, are already very insensitive to change."

“I don’t have as much energy to try new things because that means I’m probably going to have a cup of coffee that I don’t like, which will ruin my mood for the whole day.”

“Instead of that, why don’t I choose a cafe I like, a barista I like?”

"Or is this cafe going to close down? Or is the barista going to get sick in the near future?"

After hearing his words, Huang Weiwei put away the indifferent and meaningless expression on his face and replied seriously:

"You know, that wouldn't be our choice. We are a peaceful group of people and we would never blow up someone else's cafe just to sell our espresso."

"But we might make an offer that coffee drinkers can't refuse."

"Oh? What about, for example?"

Huang Weiwei took out a stack of documents from the briefcase beside him, pushed it in front of Coors and said:

"For example, as you know, in addition to opening coffee shops and providing coffee technology, we also sell coffee to customers - which is the same thing as what you do."

"We can also be considered as competitors - it can even be said that the coffee we produce through distillation technology is not bad in the market."

"The market share of your freshly ground coffee has been getting lower and lower. If this continues, it is likely to be completely replaced by espresso coffee."

"This is probably not the result you want, right?"

Coors opened the document handed over by Huang Weiwei. After seeing the content clearly, his expression instantly became solemn.

"Is this the new model you are going to release?"

At this moment, he no longer had the energy to play charades with Huang Weiyi, because the information on the document made him feel a huge crisis.

Unprecedented powerful performance, almost a bucket-like functional configuration, coupled with ultra-low pricing that breaks the limit of his imagination. If this machine is released without preparation, it will have a negative impact on our spring market in the terminal field. will cause a devastating blow.

However, now the other party actually disclosed this information directly to me?

what does that mean?

He raised his head and looked at Huang Weiwei, who smiled and replied:

"Yes, this is our new model."

"Mr. Coors, you have probably already thought of it. The reason why I dare to disclose this model to you directly is because we are absolutely confident that you cannot achieve the same performance at the same cost."

"On this model, there is no competition - it is a killer model, just like the iPhone 4 you released before."

"In addition, I can also tell you that this model will also integrate a new technology module that has never appeared before. This module will completely change the entire personal terminal ecosystem. In front of it, you will not have any Chance."

After listening to Huang Weiwei's words, Coors frowned and asked:

"So, you mean, you will use the technology of this product in exchange for our order?"

"Hahahaha, Mr. Coors, you are so funny."

"Technology for orders? What kind of pie is this? Do you think we will be that stupid?"

"We will indeed transfer some of our interests to you, but this kind of interest will certainly not be our core competitiveness."

After a pause, Huang Weiwei continued:

"To be precise, we want to give you a chance."

"what chance?"

Coors' voice became deeper, his whole body had tensed up unconsciously, and his arms were folded in front of his chest in a defensive posture.

"A chance to live."

The corner of Kors's mouth raised a mocking arc, and then he asked:

"You mean, you think we will die after your product is released?"

"You probably underestimate our strength and overestimate yourselves."

Huang Weiwei shook his head and replied:

"No, of course not with this one product - we're not that naive."

"But I can also tell you that at this point, we absolutely can do it."

"Or do you need me to demonstrate it to you?"

"How do you want to demonstrate?"

Coors asked warily.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you - trust me, you won't want to see it, because once something starts, it's almost impossible to stop. Do you understand what I mean?"

After Huang Weiyi finished speaking, the two people in the cafe fell into a long silence.

Coors looked directly into the other person's eyes, trying to find any trace of hesitation, guilt, or withdrawal, but unfortunately, he found nothing.

This is a gambling game. You only have a "full house" in your hand, but the other party holds countless trump cards.

Are you going to bet on those cards that don’t have four of a kind or a straight flush?

Coors suddenly felt that he didn't dare to gamble anymore.

You lose half if you surrender, but if you insist on revealing the opponent's trump card, you will probably lose everything.

Just changing suppliers

This is not a big strategic adjustment for our side, and it will not cause too much damage to the supply chain. What's more, from an objective point of view, the other party's technology is enough to support our own supply chain.

In this game, if you choose to cooperate, the one who will be injured is actually just a company on the island that has nothing to do with you.

After a long time, Coors finally spoke.

"I will consider your suggestion, but you need to know that this is definitely not something that I or our company can decide. What we need is advice from a higher level."

"You can rest assured about this."

Huang Weiwei interrupted him and continued:

"The opportunities we offer them will be more irresistible than what I can tell you."