Chapter 69: Hot Sales
With the arrival of the old chairman, the intense crashing sounds in the office stopped.
“You know, when Grandfather took over San Xin back then, internal power struggles within our San Xin led the company to the verge of bankruptcy several times.”
Jin Ze remained silent beside him. He knew everything Grandfather was saying; this was all the history of San Xin Group.
“San Xin was beset by internal troubles and external threats back then. How does it compare to now?”
Jin Zhiyong’s gaze fell on him. Jin Ze hesitated for a moment and shook his head slightly.
“No need to be embarrassed. Back then, San Xin was abandoned by capital. Even my two brothers were clamoring to split the company into three parts. For the company’s development, I ran into walls everywhere in the United States, even acting like a clown in front of those people for a small order, just so they would take pity on me and help save San Xin.”
As he said this, a self-mocking expression appeared on his aged face.
“Grandfather is telling you this—do you understand?”
Jin Ze didn’t answer and continued to remain silent.
“Our San Xin can’t be the one sticking its neck out. China has long since become a soaring giant dragon, and the position our San Xin occupies is the closest to them. Why go against China?”
Jin Zhiyong paused, sighed, and said with emotion: “At least in the thirty years since I took charge of San Xin, China’s attitude toward us has always been very friendly, compared to the White Alliance. Do you understand?”
A conflicted look began to appear in Jin Ze’s eyes.
Seeing this, Jin Zhiyong couldn’t help but regret not sending his grandson to the United States for cultivation early on, so that he wouldn’t still hold such deep prejudice against China now.
After thinking for a moment, he said in a low tone: “Now the Group is handed over to you. I won’t interfere much with San Xin’s future direction.”
He took a deep breath and said slowly: “But Grandfather hopes you can face the current China squarely. In this regard, Qiaoying has done well. Think about it carefully.”
At his age, coming here today had already left him extremely fatigued.
Jin Zhiyong supported himself on his knees to stand up. He looked at Jin Ze, who was hanging his head and saying nothing, sighed, and slowly walked out leaning on his cane.
In the office, Jin Ze’s eyes were filled with reluctance.
At the main entrance of Xinghai Technology in Linhai City, it was crowded with people.
Jin Qiaoying led the Marketing Department employees, continuously receiving clients from the chip industry, with hardly any time to rest.
She had just seen off a group of clients from a domestic mobile phone manufacturer when the next group in the reception room had already grown impatient waiting.
Thinking of that guy who hid in the laboratory after the press conference and didn’t show his face, a mix of amusement and exasperation appeared on her cold and glamorous face.
“General Manager Jin, hello. I am the executive general manager of XX Mobile Phone Company.”
She had just zoned out for a moment when the person from the reception room came out to greet her.
Jin Qiaoying took a deep breath, reached out to lightly shake hands with the other party, exchanged polite greetings, and then walked with him to the reception room.
She hadn’t even started with her prepared pleasantries when, as soon as she sat down, the middle-aged manager eagerly handed over a document.
“General Manager Jin, it’s like this: For the chip released by Xinghai, our company urgently hopes to use it first thing. To that end, we are already developing related new products. The first batch is tentatively set at 500,000 units. The payment is ready and can be transferred to Xinghai’s account at any time.”
This manager clearly knew the current situation. Test samples of Star Core Number One had already been delivered to many manufacturers at the time of release.
The direct result was that manufacturers in various chip application fields squeezed out every bit of cash they could to be the first to obtain this epoch-making graphene chip.
The term “lifting a flying brick” found its most perfect embodiment on Star Core Number One.
The powerful performance unleashed by its 100GHz main frequency could crush the top chips currently on the market without any fancy drivers, leaving them defeated and fleeing.
Even the miniaturized mobile chip adapted for mobile phones could burst out 70GHz main frequency, with extremely low power consumption and excellent thermal control advantages.
What kind of concept is this? This thing the size of a fingernail already surpassed traditional PC silicon-based chips by more than 10 times in performance!
Precisely because of this, after the press conference, these application field manufacturers had no time to hesitate and flocked to the door to place orders.
Jin Qiaoying’s eyelid twitched. According to the mobile chip price of 5000 yuan per unit announced at the press conference, 500,000 units would be a full 2.5 billion!
Cash!
Anytime!
Having battled in the marketplace for so many years, this was the first time she had seen such a straightforward order.
But her next words were bound to disappoint this middle-aged man.
“I’m really sorry. Xinghai’s current production capacity hasn’t caught up yet. According to our company’s internal strategy, we can only supply 50,000 units per month to each client for now.”
Hearing this, the middle-aged manager rubbed his temple in distress.
To be honest, if the company hadn’t been short on cash, let alone 500,000 units—they could have taken 1 million units.
Unfortunately, reality was that Xinghai could only supply 50,000 units per month.
And their company’s high-end phones, while monthly sales couldn’t surpass foreign mobile phone manufacturers like Apple or San Xin, could easily sell tens of thousands of units.
But that wasn’t the key point. The main thing was that currently, only domestic manufacturers could use this chip.
Xinghai’s pricing had effectively shut foreign manufacturers out.
Moreover, a while ago, Xinghai announced an increase of 330% in the export patent price for solid-state batteries.
With these two measures combined, they now had the qualification to take a bite out of the high-end mobile phone market.
Apple sold 1.2 billion units globally per year. If they didn’t make a move on this market share, they would be unqualified professional managers.
Seeing the silent and reluctant expression on the other party’s face, Jin Qiaoying smiled faintly.
“It’s like this: In a few days, Xinghai plans to hold a domestic chip application meeting, where we will discuss a win-win cooperation solution with various application-end manufacturers.”
At this point, she couldn’t help but recall Fan Ren’s highly aggressive demeanor at the press conference a few days ago.
“You must know that the relationship between Xinghai and the White Alliance cannot be eased for the time being. The purpose of Xinghai organizing the domestic semiconductor meeting is right there. Now, due to export pricing issues, a huge gap will inevitably appear in the high-end chip application market. This is Xinghai’s strategic policy, and we also hope that domestic manufacturers can unite to seize this market in one fell swoop.”
Pausing for a moment, she joked: “After all, no one wants the 30% consumption tax to appear on Chinese consumers’ heads again, right?”
After she said this, the manager opposite deeply agreed.
He immediately said: “In that case, let’s tentatively go with the order for 50,000 units. I’ll transfer the payment to Xinghai’s account right away. Rest assured, for the Chip Alliance matter, we certainly won’t fall behind others.”
Only then did Jin Qiaoying smile and shake hands with him, and sign the 2.5 billion chip sales contract.
She was now feeling both pained and happy. Amidst continuously signing orders and collecting money, there was no time to rest at all. After seeing off this wave of manufacturer representatives, guests from another reception room had already come forward.
