Reborn Entrepreneurial Giant.

Chapter 313 Samsung Mitsubishi

I took an impromptu trip to Kimchi Country, mainly about the supply of OLED screens, as well as Liang Mengsong and Qu Li. Although they took the initiative, they have a strong foundation. Doing business is not about enmity. Of course, we must maintain a good cooperative relationship.

In fact, Samsung Electronics regards Honor mobile phones as one of its biggest competitors, making them the target of imitation. Unfortunately, Samsung’s mobile phone chips are not powerful. The reason why Honor mobile phones are considered to be no worse than IPhone is largely due to the performance of Qualcomm chips. And the signal is much stronger than Samsung's chip.

But Honor Mobile has always insisted on purchasing chips from Samsung Display and is one of their most important customers. Cooperation and competition coexist.

The head of the Li family, Li Jianxi, met Qu Li enthusiastically. Although he could not explain why Samsung and LG mobile phones were not as good as Honor phones, the media in Kimchi Country generally believed that Honor’s success was due to Google’s support and had little to do with the Chinese people. So I bought Honor G3 with peace of mind, the best mobile phone in the world.

Yes, this is what the media brags about. Although the overall experience of IPhone 3GS is better than Honor G3, now that Yangou is in power, more people like G3, and Kimchi Country has gradually accepted Honor’s mobile phones.

Fortunately, Samsung and LG mobile phones are better, otherwise it would be difficult to enter the Kimchi Country market. In a few years, this market will gradually be monopolized by Samsung and iPhone. No one will naively say that Huami OV’s inability to enter Kimchi Country is the result of market competition. Bar?

After meeting with Chairman Lee of Samsung, I discussed cooperation with his son, prepared a banquet for him, and met many "big shots".Kimchi Country’s chaebols may not have much apparent wealth. Most of Samsung Electronics’ shares are owned by U.S. companies, but control itself means wealth and influence. The transfer of interests between listed companies and private companies is difficult to detect.

Qu Li remained quite humble and did not become arrogant because he had more wealth than the Li family. Even when he wanted to arrange for people to study in Kimchi Country, he used a very gentle tone.By the way, I talked about the chip foundry business with Young Master Li. Before the launch of Honor's Orion chip, it cooperated with Spreadtrum to sell to other domestic mobile phone manufacturers. Choosing Samsung to be the OEM was another big business after the purchase of LCD panels.

"Are you also preparing to develop your own chips?" Mr. Li

"Of course, how can we compete with Apple's iPhone without self-developed chips?" Qu Li

"Why not purchase chips from Samsung?" Mr. Li wanted to fight for it, but this strategic decision was not within the scope of exchange of interests. The reason why he chose Samsung as an OEM was because TSMC's current advantages are not obvious, and it uses ARM's public version architecture, which is confidential. It is not meaningful.

Apple purchases retina screens from LG, Sharp, Sony, and AUO are all good.Samsung's LCD panel advantage at this time is not great, and it is obviously very important to have a stable large order, especially from a leading mobile phone company like Honor.

However, Mr. Li has been reluctant to guarantee the supply of SuperAMOLED, so he has no choice but to purchase retina screens. Two versions will be launched by then. The one using OLED screen will be called magic1, and the one using retina screen will be called mate1. Priority is given to ensuring the supply of retina screens. .

The mobile phone chip OEM business is temporarily uncertain, and Qu Li doesn't know when Su's mother will be able to provide him with suitable mobile phone chips.

At the end of the conversation, Mr. Li finally relented: "We can arrange for three people to study in Seoul."

"Thank you, and wish us a happy cooperation." Qu Li was very happy. No threats were needed throughout the process, and normal business cooperation achieved its purpose.

Young Master Li nodded, he was not happy, this matter was found out because of his carelessness.The impact of this incident is not over yet. In the future, Honor and Samsung are destined to compete in cooperation and cooperate in competition.

This is nothing. Qu Li originally regarded Samsung Group as his goal to surpass. Although Warwick is powerful, in his opinion, it is not as good as Samsung after all.Just looking at revenue, Samsung Electronics, a subsidiary of Samsung Group, will have revenue nearly twice that of Warwick in 10 years, reaching 1.35 trillion yuan, with a net profit of about 1632 billion.

The road is long, but the road is coming; if you keep walking, you will have a bright future to look forward to. Qu Li originally wanted to return to Beijin, but unfortunately Mitsubishi Motors of Japan once again asked for cooperation, so he had to transfer to Japan with a business invitation letter. Come to visit Mitsubishi Motors headquarters.

At this time, Mitsubishi Motors was in ruins. The core R&D team was gone. Although it relied on the big tree of Mitsubishi Group, it did not bloom again later.

The difficulty in cooperation between Mitsubishi Motors and Qiancheng Motor is not that the conditions are harsh, but simply that Qu Li looks down on them and does not want to cooperate with them. However, if both parties really want to reach a cooperation, it will have a boost to Qiancheng Motor's stock price, and it will also promote Pajero. promotion of.It was possible to make a quick buck, but the only difficulty was that Qu Li didn't want to pay or increase the financial pressure on Qiancheng Automobile.

However, Mitsubishi Motors directly proposed this cooperation to the Hunan Provincial Government, and Xingsha was willing to contribute money and land, and was willing to help Mitsubishi Motors obtain low-interest loans from banks for the future.

"I can let one of your people serve as the CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, but I really can't think of what conditions you can give. I want to build a pure electric car. There really is nothing I want here." Qu Li still has the same attitude. He doesn't have to Qiancheng Mitsubishi, the premise is that you can offer a sufficient price.

"Mitsubishi also has electric vehicles, we can use..."

"Glory doesn't need anyone to teach us how to build a pure electric car..."

"Mr. Qu may have some ideas about the Japanese market. We may be able to help you in other aspects."

"You want to teach me how to do e-commerce?" Qu Li couldn't help but smile.

"Mr. Qu is not only the chairman of Jumei Glory, but why would it be difficult for you to invest so much in Japan? We are backed by the Mitsubishi Group..."

"..." Qu Li thought for a while: "As you said, there is one thing. Honor mobile phone camera capabilities are somewhat lacking. We want to find a Leica, Zeiss, and Nikon to cooperate, but if we can acquire Pentax cameras, it would also be a good choice. choose."

Pentax cameras are a well-known camera brand, and they are no worse than the Hasselblad cameras that DJI later acquired. In 2007, the entire business of Pentax Co., Ltd. was absorbed and merged by HOYA Co., Ltd., another major Japanese optical manufacturer, through a stock acquisition.After the subprime mortgage crisis, the digital camera market was impacted by smartphones, so there was the possibility of selling Pentax's imaging division.

As for why Honor acquired Pentax, it’s hard to say. It may be to improve the camera capabilities of mobile phones, or it may be to improve the photography capabilities of drones and action cameras. Anyway, it has many uses.

"We can try Pentax cameras." Several people did not refuse. As long as they are not Canon, Nikon and Sony, they can talk about anything else.

"Well, future cooperation with Mitsubishi depends on your sincerity." Qu Li said nothing nonsense.

"We only help you contact HOYA to ensure that your acquisition is not affected by external forces. If they are unwilling to sell, or you cannot agree on the price..."

"It's enough for me to see your sincerity. Pentax is not a necessity..."