Cannon Fodder Dedicated to Death[Transmigration Book]

After the infringement case broke out, the whole company of Zhengrong was trembling.Since the price war, the company's performance has been very unsatisfactory. It was only after the launch of the new mobile phone in March that the sales increased. Everyone pointed to this new mobile phone to continue their lives, but in the end there was an infringement case that was more terrible than the price war. Come.

Although everyone knows that it was Zhao Yang who framed it, the deal is done, and the order has to be bought by Zheng Rong.

The company is facing a huge economic crisis. For individuals, the most direct impact is salary cuts and layoffs. The old employees are terrified and cautious, for fear that they will be caught and fired if they are careless.

Wen Zheng tried his best to mobilize his contacts, tried to contact the person in charge of Samsung, and discussed another solution to the problem. Compensation is okay, but at least the patent can be used.After unremitting efforts, Samsung finally relented and agreed to reconcile. In addition to compensating for infringement losses of 50 billion US dollars, each chip has to pay 50 US dollars in patent fees.

This is simply a lion's mouth wide open, Wen Zheng was so angry that he threw the teacup into pieces: "I am really humiliating myself, they just want me to die, and I naively thought that they would let me go."

Wen Rong also scolded: "Fuck it, the alveoli are almost blown up."

Chen Zhou was also pissed off. Qualcomm's chips only charge 70 US dollars in patent fees, so it's worth 50 US dollars?The profit of a mobile phone is less than 200 yuan, and it has to pay hundreds of yuan to sell a mobile phone. Samsung's calculation is really loud.

Wen Rong said: "Why don't we recall it, and we will sue him. Didn't the legal department say that this kind of infringement lawsuit will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation at most, and it should not exceed [-] million dollars."

Wen Zheng pinched his brows wearily: "Should we use the original chip when we recall it? Qualcomm was calling us just now to urge us to pay the chip patent fee." They have produced 2000 million chips so far, that is to say, they have to pay Qualcomm 14 billion. In U.S. dollars, if you still use Qualcomm's chips to replace the chips in the 1000 million mobile phones that have already been produced, you will have to pay Qualcomm $7 million.Where are they going to find so much money, and will Qualcomm give them a break?Most of them will also be killed.

Chen Zhou made a suggestion: "Why don't we replace the chip."

Wen Zheng shook his head: "I also thought about it. At that time, our mobile phone was going to enter the mid-to-high-end market. The various configurations were the best, and the chip was also the latest. The cost price itself is not low. The problem is the core chip. , Change to a slightly inferior chip, even if the price is lower than the cost price, users will feel that it is not worth it, how will our company develop in the future?"

1000 million mobile phones, each with a loss of several hundred yuan, add up to billions.Especially the quality of mobile phones will affect the company's reputation. Once the reputation is ruined, it may be difficult to gain a foothold in the industry in the future, and it will really be eliminated into the mobile phone museum.

Wen Rong was not happy: "Then we have to use Qualcomm chips? But apart from Zhaoming and Samsung, other companies can't produce 5nm chips. Needless to say, Samsung, Zhaoming is one of the behind-the-scenes people who cheated us this time. To work with them would kill me."

Wen Zheng leaned his head back on the chair, stared blankly at the ceiling, and murmured, "Is the sky going to kill me?"

Chen Zhou raised his hand and said weakly, "Actually, I still have an immature plan."

Wen Zheng and Wen Rong cheered up: "Say it quickly."

Chen Zhou licked his lips: "We can replace the slightly worse chip and add another chip in."

The two brothers said in unison: "What chip to add?"

Chen Zhou said: "It is the chip we are designing to connect to the cloud server, and the cloud mobile phone will be launched in advance."

Wen Rong's eyes lit up: "Zhou Zhou, is your chip designed?"

Chen Zhou scratched his head: "It can only be regarded as preliminary completion, and there are still many details that need to be perfected. I originally waited until it was perfected before trying, but now the situation is urgent, maybe I can take a risk."

Wen Zheng's face became clearer: "Well, let's make a prototype first to test it."

Chen Zhou asked: "Which CPU chip do you use?"

"Use Xingji's." Wen Rong looked at his brother who was about to refute, and said, "Tang Yun said, you can pay on credit, and it's cheap."

Chen Zhou looked at Wen Zheng who was blocked before he could speak, and couldn't help laughing: "I think it's okay. Xingji's chip is 10nm, and it can be handed over to Qiguang for production."

Wen Zheng was full of depression, but he couldn't refute it. He was so poor now that he couldn't afford to buy chips at all. Xing Ji's chips could not be paid for the time being, and he would pay back slowly later. Besides, he avoided Zhao Ming. , it couldn't be better.

Wen Zheng said: "I have an idea. Since the cloud mobile phone chip is not yet mature, we can try it on a low-end mobile phone first. The company currently has a backlog of 3000 million low-end mobile phones. We will choose one and add a chip to it, and then start again. Hold a press conference to test the waters."

The annual sales of Zhengrong mobile phones are hundreds of millions of units, with an average monthly sales of more than 1000 million units.Since the price war last year, there has been a large backlog of goods, and the orders that have been placed with processing factories cannot be cancelled, so that there is a backlog of more than 3000 million mobile phones. This is the result of no additional orders later.This backlog of inventory has become Zhengrong's biggest burden.

Wen Rong snapped his fingers: "Wonderful, brother, you are so smart. In this way, we can deal with all the mobile phones we have backlogged." Among them, this is also the reason why the company's funds are so tight.

Wen Zheng looked at Chen Zhou: "Can it be done?"

Chen Zhou clenched his fists: "I will try hard."

From this day on, Chen Zhou stopped asking about other matters of the company, and devoted himself to chip development and grafting.

The advantage now is that all the tens of thousands of technicians in the company's R&D department are at Chen Zhou's disposal.Chen Zhou re-planned the assignment, and all the departments of the R&D department, which had been restless for a long time, had new tasks.

Since the infringement case occurred, the entire company has almost been in a semi-stagnant state, and everyone has no new jobs and new goals, quietly waiting for the second shoe to drop.Some people with active minds are already looking for another way out. Two of the supervisors who were very close to Zhao Yang were fired by Wen Rong, and three others resigned voluntarily, and two are still in between leaving and staying. hesitated.

When Chen Zhou was assigning tasks, he deliberately assigned some unimportant tasks to Chen Zhou's former cronies, for fear that they would turn against him again.Wen Rong didn't dismiss them because they were not considered core members of the Zhao Yang faction.

After those supervisors left, Wen Rong promoted a group of capable technicians to serve as project managers and supervisors.These people are much easier to use than those old fritters. For them, this is both a danger and an opportunity.

The company is at a critical juncture of life and death. If they get through it, they are the heroes of the company.So they all cherished this opportunity and worked very hard.

Compared to Chen Zhou who devoted himself to technical research, Wen Zheng was much more unlucky. He had to take care of everything in the company.Huge debts, public relations, lawsuits, etc. are all heavy mountains on his head, especially the debt problem, which makes him breathless.

The patent fee cannot be less, and the compensation is still a matter of the future. After all, it will take at least a few months to get the result of the lawsuit, and the money is not in a hurry. , neither of which is urgent.

Manufacturers with a good relationship have postponed as much as possible, but it is not easy for everyone. Employees are waiting for wages to support their families, and friends and businessmen are also waiting for capital turnover, so no matter what, they have to pay back.

There is another thing that makes Wen Zheng quite depressed. He borrowed money from the bank and had to mortgage the hotel and real estate. He only borrowed more than 20 billion yuan. However, this amount of money is not enough to pay Qualcomm's patent fees, so he can only pay part of it first.

All the relatives and friends who could borrow also borrowed, but the hole was too big to be filled.Wen Zheng thought of the old employees who had followed the company for many years, he really didn't want to lay off people unless he had to.

After work that day, Wen Zheng was still busy in the office, waiting for Chen Zhou to get off work.Wen Rong came over, followed by Tang Yun: "Brother, Tang Yun has good news for you."