153. Chapter 152 Forcefully Cutting in Line
Chapter 152 Forcefully Cutting in Line
Yanjing, Yingdu Business Building, Longteng Technology Yanjing Office.
”… This is probably the situation. If everyone can accept it, we will sign the order.”
In the conference room, Kang Chi first re-introduced the performance of Qin Guang No. 1, explained their current project progress, production capacity and the date when it can be officially delivered.
After listening to Kang Chi’s introduction, the wafer factory executives present frowned, and Qiu Zhongyuan spoke first: “Can’t we make 20 units every year? Why is the earliest delivery date waiting until the end of the year?”
”Sorry, I have to meet our own internal needs first.”
Internal needs? Hearing Kang Chi’s direct showdown and expressing his intention to enter wafer manufacturing, these people’s faces changed slightly again.
This is no different from the referee going down to play football!
“Mr. Kang has expanded the company so much, can he handle it?” Qiu Zhongyuan couldn’t help but say, “In fact, you can ask us to do the OEM, maybe the cost will be lower than if you make it yourself?”
Kang Chi just smiled faintly at Qiu Zhongyuan’s suggestion: “Don’t worry, the main purpose of my building a wafer factory is to meet our own internal chip needs, and it will not pose a threat to your existing business.”
After hearing this, the people present were relieved.
But Qiu Zhongyuan caught a key word that Kang Chi said,
Existing business!
This means that if there is a new demand in the market, he will not guarantee that he will not enter the market.
And this new demand will definitely explode with the emergence of EUV lithography machines.
For example, Daqin Optics currently has the CMOS chip manufacturing technology, and the GPU field, which is relatively blank in China…
However, China’s market is so large, and with the emergence of lithography machines, the market pie will definitely become larger. Even if there is one more referee, they will definitely get more pie than before.
Therefore, although Qiu Zhongyuan had doubts, he still did not raise any objections.
And he couldn’t stop them from doing whatever they wanted. If they really offended him, they might not even sell them lithography machines directly…
In fact, in addition to meeting his own needs first, Kang Chi also promised Dong Jianyuan to give priority to selling a few units to Shencheng Silicon Industry.
Kang Chi still has a good impression of Shencheng Silicon Industry, especially Dong Jianyuan.
On the other hand, Kang Chi has always been a little disgusted with people from SMIC.
In fact, in that difficult era, the market was like a battlefield, and intrigue and deception were nothing.
This is why Kang Chi hates capital, especially foreign capital.
They don’t even have the right to autonomy, and they think about self-protection all day long.
Even if they can develop, they are essentially no different from Samsung Electromechanical.
Therefore, in this procurement meeting, Kang Chi directly limited each company to one unit. Those who want a second unit can wait until the first batch is delivered.
And the delivery order is also determined by drawing lots, which is fair to every company.
Among the nine companies, SMIC unfortunately drew the eighth place.
When Qiu Zhongyuan saw the number on the lot, his heart sank.
This means that they, SMIC, will probably receive the goods in the middle of next year, and one lithography machine is not enough to quench their thirst.
Just when Qiu Zhongyuan wanted to say something, a man in a neat military uniform suddenly walked in.
Everyone, including Kang Chi, couldn’t help but have some changes in their expressions.
No wonder the people outside didn’t dare to stop him…
”Hello, Dr. Kang, I’m Cai Yaobin from the Equipment Department, you can call me Director Cai.”
Cai Yaobin saluted Kang Chi, and then said: “We plan to purchase five Qin Guang No. 1 from your company, and hope you can deliver it as soon as possible.”
As expected of a military man, he speaks with a firm voice!
Although he said to deliver as soon as possible, everyone present could hear that it was clearly to be delivered first! Of course, no one dared to object to this queue-jumping behavior.
As for Kang Chi…
It doesn’t matter who he sells to,
With an additional 4.95 billion orders, what else can he say?
He could only shrug his shoulders to Qiu Zhongyuan and the others, then turned back to Cai Yaobin and replied, “No problem.”
“Well, besides… I hope to talk to you privately.” – After handing over the signing work to Fang Qiming, Kang Chi took Cai Yaobin to aA small reception room.
”Director Cai, do you want tea or something?”
”No need to bother.”
Cai Yaobin shook his head, then took out a small instrument from his briefcase and began to scan the reception room.
Kang Chi reminded speechlessly: “This reception room has been handled by Comrade Hua An.”
”Just in case.” After Cai Yaobin insisted on scanning, he sat opposite Kang Chi, put the instrument back into the briefcase, and took out a red dot holographic sight from it and put it on the table.
”What is this?”
”Doesn’t Dr. Kang recognize your company’s products?”
Kang Chi immediately picked up the sight and took a look, and found that it really had the Daqin Optics logo on it.
Good guy, although we discussed this matter in the meeting before, I didn’t expect Fang Qiming to actually make this thing quietly…
More importantly, he even called in the military!
I was very panicked! But on second thought, if making this thing is illegal, it shouldn’t be Cai Yaobin who came, but the police uncle.
”Well… this is something my subordinates did for fun. I know about it. Is there any problem?”
Someone under me did it for fun?
Hearing this answer, Cai Yaobin was a little disappointed.
Originally, he thought Kang Chi was also interested in making military equipment, but now it seems that he was just being sentimental…
But this also shows that in addition to Kang Chi, the R&D team of Daqin Optics still has other capable people.
“No problem.”
Cai Yaobin smiled and said:
“It’s such a good thing, it’s a pity to sell it to the M country guys, so we are going to let you help us make the sights, but the standard of metal materials may be higher than this.”
It turned out that the order came!
Kang Chi breathed a sigh of relief and nodded with a smile: “That’s easy, we will definitely give you a better price!”
”The price is not a big deal. We will pay you the same price as you sell it to the M country guys. We will never let you make a loss.”
”???”
Hearing Cai Yaobin’s reverse bargaining, Kang Chi was also a little puzzled.
“Dr. Kang… Actually, I have a question for you.”
”Well, go ahead.”
”Do you have plans to sell your company’s products abroad in the future?”
”Of course, this scope is one, and we also sell silicon wafers.”
”Have you ever thought about what to do if the United States sanctions your company and doesn’t allow them to buy your products?”
Kang Chi pondered for a moment before saying, “Director Cai, just say what you want to say.”
”History has taught us a painful lesson. If we don’t have enough strength, let alone selling products to make money, we may not even be able to keep our wealth.”
Kang Chi immediately understood what he meant.
History, it must refer to the two tooth wars.
At that time, the Western powers, which had experienced two industrial revolutions, had greatly improved their productivity.
However, their domestic markets were relatively small and could not meet the needs of dumping goods, so they used strong ships and powerful guns to forcefully open the Qing court’s door, in order to use their cheap products, even tooth slices, to harvest China’s rich resources and wealth.
In fact, after China has become the world’s factory, it is not necessarily easy to sell many products.
Usually, you can only sell them when others ask you to sell them.
If you are not allowed to sell them…
Although he can’t restrict your exports, he can directly silence buyers through hegemony. In the end, even if the goods are shipped out, no one dares to buy them at a bargain price.
And those who usually let you sell them,
Either the core technology is their product, and you are just an OEM assembly plant, and you will always make only hard-earned money.
Or it is something that has no technical content at all and can’t make much money.
For example, clothes, shoes, agricultural products, furniture, toys, etc., many of which are outdated products used by the great powers to reap wealth in the last two centuries…
As for lithography machines like Daqin Optics, which have their own core technology, even if the price is cheaper than ASML, TAIC and Samsung would definitely not dare to buy them without the consent of their father, Mr. M.
The same is true for silicon wafers.
And this problem is likely to become more and more serious with the upgrading and transformation of the industry.
(End of this chapter)