Rebirth 1984: Starting with the development of Hanka

The sales of PHS base station equipment and PHS mobile phones have made Wujiang Group a lot of money. PHS's profitability is second only to Wujiang Group's gaming business.

Excluding R&D expenses, the production cost of PHS mobile phones is actually only one or two hundred yuan. The domestic price is 5,000 yuan, and the profit is very high.

The cost of the entire PHS base station is only about 10 yuan, but the price is yuan.

So far, Wujiang Group has created astonishing revenue through PHS: about 460 billion yuan!

Among them, about half of the revenue comes from Japan.

At this time, PHS was more popular in Japan than in China. It wasn’t that the Chinese didn’t like PHS, but they couldn’t afford it.

Therefore, the current main consumers of PHS are still Japanese.

In the previous life, according to statistics from the Ministry of Information Industry, as of the end of August 2006, the number of PHS users in China reached 8 million. There are over 9300 million PHS users overseas. The number of PHS users worldwide has exceeded 700 million.

In this life, if there are not 1995-7 million PHS users, it will be a failure. In the previous life, PHS was only opened for operation in July 1988. It’s now 7, years too early! ! !

7 years is enough time for PHS to grow wildly all over the world!

It is worth mentioning that when Motorola mobile phones cost tens of thousands of dollars, a PHS phone suddenly appeared that cost several thousand dollars. This huge gap made countless consumers feel that they were making a big deal by buying a PHS phone. .

As a result, many people rushed to buy PHS mobile phones for fear of missing this opportunity. This is also one of the reasons for the explosion of PHS mobile phones.

As PHS became popular around the world, more people saw business opportunities.

Telecom companies around the world have purchased PHS base station equipment from Wujiang Communication Technology Company, and some companies have purchased PHS patent licenses from Wujiang Communication Technology Company.

All in all, everyone wants to enter the PHS market and get a piece of the pie.

The PHS explosion is probably coming soon.

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As we all know, before there were any decent competitors, Motorola, which was in a monopoly position, was hard at work... Even in the early 90s, the price of a Motorola mobile phone was still tens of thousands of yuan.

At this moment, the PHS developed by Wujiang Communication Technology Company teaches you how to be a good person and not be too Motorola in business... Otherwise, you will make a lot of money!

For now, Motorola still has no plans to cut prices. However, they have developed a new generation of mobile phones. To be precise, they should be considered mobile phones, and they no longer need to carry "big bricks" with their hands.

The MicroTAC personal cellular phone is Motorola's latest masterpiece. It is very novel in design and is the world's first flip phone. Its size and weight are greatly reduced, making it a true handheld phone. Its size is only smaller than "Borderless". Lingtong-1" is a little smaller.

There is no doubt that this phone is definitely a classic that is popular all over the world!

Motorola has developed MicroTAC and is preparing to enter mass production and will be on the market next year.

This is why Motorola is not afraid of PHS.

However, in its previous life, the MicroTAC personal cellular phone was expensive, as high as $3995.

The international price of the PHS mobile phone is only US$2500, which may seriously affect the sales of MicroTAC.

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Zhao Ye looked happy but helpless when he saw Wujiang Microelectronics' latest report.

"I found that it is really difficult for Wujiang Microelectronics to develop wafer foundry business!" Zhao Ye lamented, "The new wafer factory has just been built, and it has not yet had time to launch wafer foundry business. , and we have to first meet the group’s own chip needs, which is really difficult!”

“The explosion of the PHS industry chain and the rise of borderless program-controlled switches require hundreds of millions of chips.

Wujiang Microelectronics is also expanding its wafer fab step by step to avoid heavy losses due to failure in the wafer foundry business.

But now it seems that the steps are still small! "

"In addition, the VCD and PC projects are about to be completed. By then, I'm afraid more chips will be consumed!"

"Therefore, Wujiang Microelectronics Company has to continue to build new wafer fabs..."

After Zhao Ye finished speaking, he thought for a while, his expression condensed, and he shook his head and said: "The expansion speed cannot be too blind. Once the second generation of home game consoles is launched, a large amount of chip production capacity should be freed up for foundry business. !”

The second-generation home game console of Wujiang Group, codenamed "Tomahawk", the game storage medium is no longer a game cartridge, but a CD-ROM.

In other words, Wujiang will no longer produce chips specifically for game cartridges for home game consoles in the future.

You know, there are many chips on every game cartridge, including EPROM, MMC chips, etc...

So far, the sales volume of "Qiongqi Home Game Console" has exceeded 1.5 million units.

I would like to ask, can the sales volume of game cartridges be reduced? How many chips will be used?

Assuming that each game console corresponds to 20 game cartridges, at least 30 billion game cartridges have been sold.

In addition, there are handheld Gameboys, arcade machines and corresponding game cartridges.

In addition, we also count the domestically produced “learning machines” and pirated game cartridges.

All added up, the "core" consumption is huge.

Therefore, once the gaming industry achieves technological upgrades, it will surely free up huge chip production capacity.

Not only will CD-ROMs replace game cartridges for home game consoles, but NAND Flash memory can also replace Gameboy game cartridges.

As for MMC game picture enhancement chips, they have been transferred from game cartridges to game consoles, and the demand is naturally much smaller.

Ahem, in fact, when the first generation of home game consoles were developed, the MMC chip could be directly integrated into the motherboard of the home game console. However, as a capitalist, if you do this, it seems a bit unqualified.

Precisely because of the MMC chip, it is reasonable for game cartridges to be expensive. Otherwise, how can we explain to consumers that Borderless game cartridges are more expensive than Nintendo game cartridges? What's so expensive about it?

However, CD-ROM is used as a game storage medium, and MMC chips can only be installed on game consoles, which makes it impossible to continue to collect wool as before.

Game Boy's game cartridges can continue to be used. The second-generation Game Boy will also use game cartridges as game storage media, but by then the memory chip will be replaced by NAND flash memory, which can accommodate games with larger content and greatly reduce the cost. The number of EPROM memory chips…

After careful consideration, Zhao Ye still felt that Wujiang Microelectronics Company could only build a new wafer fab for the time being. Otherwise, when the game industry upgrades and frees up huge chip production capacity, I don’t know if the whole world can digest it...

He immediately wrote his own opinions behind Wujiang Microelectronics' report, including his predictions and concerns about future market changes.

After writing it, he asked Liu Yinyin to send a fax to Wujiang Microelectronics Company.

As soon as he finished doing these things, his phone rang.

The outside world may have never imagined that the boss of Wujiang Group is still using products from rival Motorola. There is nothing we can do about this unless we wait until the mobile phone developed by Wujiang Group is launched on the market.