Chapter 264 A man is determined to die

Xie Jingxing was ill. After returning to the company from the Meizu Blue press conference, he suffered from vomiting and diarrhea, and had a stomach cold and a low-grade fever.

Western medicine says that excessive physical fatigue causes the body's immunity to decline, while traditional Chinese medicine says that mental and physical labor consumes the heart and blood. Anyway, after a series of examinations, I got a room in the hospital.

"Go block the door, I'm almost recovering!"

Xie Jingxing looked pale and cursed weakly. People from all walks of life lined up to visit him the whole morning. Dealing with them was more intense than work. It would be strange if his cold got better.

Chen Xi walked out of the ward with her head hung. The person who was well-informed and qualified to come was at least a senior executive of Meizu, and she was really powerless to stop him.

A few minutes later, the door of the ward was pushed open again, and Song Anli appeared, exhausted. There was no need to stop her.

"Didn't the doctor say to rest?"

She sat down beside the bed, snatched the computer from Xie Jingxing's arms without saying anything, and said in a low voice, "It's confirmed."

"I'll talk to Brother Xiao Ma in a few days."

Xie Jingxing was slightly stunned, and after a moment of silence, he took a deep breath. Song Anli held his hand and smiled.

In September, Apple released new mobile phones as usual. The iPhone 6 continued its undefeated streak. In October, the mobile payment function 'Appel Pay' based on mobile terminals was launched.

At the same time, the US mobile payment giant PayPal has publicly acquired a series of Internet third-party currency settlement companies and officially announced that it will be listed independently from its parent company.

On the other hand, the overseas version of WeChat has invested 30 billion yuan in promotion budget. During the World Cup, Messi used the overseas version of WeChat advertisement with a simple smile on his face, which has no practical value except to arouse national pride in China.

It was defeated in the Japanese market by the local social giant Line, and in the Indonesian market by the local social giant BBM, and then it was defeated again in the Indian market.

Pony Ma once said that the only Tencent product that had a chance to go abroad was WeChat, but it only made it to Malaysia and Singapore, where there are large Chinese populations.

Not only has the overseas version of WeChat gradually become an unspoken marginalized product within Tencent, but the highly anticipated mobile payment strategy has also lost the ship that carried it on its voyage.

Fortunately, Pony Ma still has WhatsApp, a global super instant messaging product with 3.2 million users and revenue of US$7 million in the first half of this year and a net loss of US$ million.

Mobile payment transactions accounted for as much as 42% of the e-commerce Double Eleven sales, which stabilized Tencent's morale, paved the way for strategic financial investment in Southeast Asia, and pushed WhatsApp to launch mobile payment functions in Asia as soon as possible!
"Brother Xiao Ma has been in a bad mood recently, but he looks full of fighting spirit." Song Anli comforted him softly.

Xie Jing Xing was speechless: "He chose it himself, how could there be no wind and waves when going out to sea?"

"But I remember someone used the 'monkey and the wall' theory to lure people into the trap?"

Song Anli joked, and Xie Jingxing's mood improved slightly after she said that. He had almost forgotten how passionately he had been fooling around at that time.

But no matter what, since it holds a 7% stake in WhatsApp, it is unlikely to escape re-entering the game in the future, and it should have been mentally prepared.

As they were chatting, Huang Zhang and Bai Yongxiang walked into the ward side by side, and Chen Xi followed behind with an innocent look on his face. There was really no way to stop them.

"The doctor won't let me go, so I have to trouble you to come here."

Xie Jingxing waved the back of his hand that was receiving the IV drip to signal Song Anli to move two chairs over for him to sit on. Then he stood there without realizing it, peeling fruit stupidly.

"Thank you."

The orange was stuffed into his hand, and Wang Zhang thanked him awkwardly as if he was holding a hot potato. Bai Yongxiang also had a share, and he peeled the skin and ate it without hesitation.

Xie Jingxing looked sickly and had no deterrent effect at all, so Song Anli reluctantly left the ward.

"Mr. Huang, the shipment volume of 4Pro is expected to exceed expectations. I have been nervous these days and don't want to talk about it. Now I have to say that the credit is due to you." He started the conversation frankly. Huang Zhang held the orange in one hand and reached for the cigarette box in his pocket with the other, not knowing what to say.

When his young CEO was scolded by employees and the public, he acted as determined as a man who would not give up until his death, as if he didn't care about anything and was omnipotent.

After the dust settled and the battle was won, he was knocked down by a burst of light applause and sent to the hospital. Huang Zhang's face turned red when he heard about his contribution. He racked his brains to think of the words that were on the tip of his tongue but they went around in circles and he swallowed them back.

Bai Yongxiang sighed secretly and gritted his teeth, pretending to be relaxed and said: "Boss Xie, there is no rush to reward you according to your merits. It is more important for you to take care of your health than anything else."

"No, it's urgent."

Xie Jingxing forced himself to continue the topic: "The shipment volume exceeded expectations. The company's books have recovered a large amount of cash, which will be reflected in the year-end financial report very well. The timing for another round of financing is just right. The chip business should be started sooner rather than later. We can't delay it any longer."

"The industry and the public believe that this year's Huawei Mate 7 has exceeded expectations, but you and I both know that this is self-deception. Huawei is equipped with its self-developed Kirin 925 chip and held a press conference in Europe."

He swallowed hard and his throat hurt. He took a breath and said, "Both Xiaomi and VO have been repeating the rhetoric of using Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship chips over and over again. We are even using Samsung chips, which were abandoned by Samsung's own flagship phones!"

"Luo Yonghao called everyone a supplier of integrated solution factories. The so-called suppliers are screens, batteries, and cameras? Only Qualcomm is, and Huawei is not."

Huang Zhang lowered his head and stared at the ground. Bai Yongxiang couldn't sit still and walked to the window with his back turned. The ward was in a stalemate for a while.

Chips mean technology, and technology means high premium.

This is a mountain with no top in sight. Everyone is trying to climb it, but Apple's self-developed A-series chips are climbing very fast and are ranked first, so they can print the sentence "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China" on the packaging box.

Behind the Made in China products, the foreman would kick open the dormitory door in the middle of the night, throw a bag of biscuits and a bottle of herbal tea to the workers like feeding a dog, and then drive them into the workshop to start working, mechanically assembling various parts into machines.

These parts come from Japan and South Korea, who are in the second echelon of this mountain and decide whether the workers who are cheaper than grass behind China's manufacturing work during the day or late at night.

Qualcomm in the Android camp is on par with Apple. No domestic mobile phone manufacturer wants to be a good person and would be content to be a dog for Qualcomm.

Even Xiaomi, which knelt the fastest and most resolutely, is trying to stand up and fully invest in AI to build an intelligent ecosystem; Vivo, which survived the era of feature phones, was the first to use high-fidelity audio technology two years ago; and Meizu now has the front-press fingerprint touch technology.

From sound quality to cameras, everyone has been working on innovative technologies bit by bit, but no one has dared to touch the ultimate answer: the "chip".

Huawei entered the chip market more than a decade ago. As of now, Kirin 925 is the upper limit, and the price of the whole machine is yuan, which makes domestic peers envious.

Before that, they equipped their successive models with self-developed chips, and each product was doomed to failure. They were supported entirely by cooperation with telecommunications operators and their main telecommunications base station business.

Its founder, Mr. Ren, joked that this is dog food that you make yourself and you want to eat it yourself.

What about Meizu?
Which of the four mobile phone models released each year dares to be equipped with self-developed chips as guinea pigs? The annual salary expenditure of the technical R&D team of hundreds of people is 3 to 5 million yuan. The one-time patent purchase fee for each chip, testing, packaging, tape-out and even final production is another 3 to 5 million yuan in basic expenditure.

"I said we want to make chips. If ten billion dollars isn't enough, then ten billion will be enough, right?" Xie Jingxing licked his cracked lips.

Huang Zhang finally couldn't help but took out his cigarette case, took out a cigarette, lit it, and puffed out the smoke: "Can you think about it again? The overall mobile phone market has not yet reached its peak, and it's not time to compete in chip technology!"

"Just imagine, when Qualcomm bans sales to domestic mobile phone manufacturers, and even chip manufacturing is banned, where will we go?"

Xie Jingxing pulled out the needle, turned over, got out of bed and walked out.

Bai Yongxiang suddenly looked back and looked at Huang Zhang. It's not just chip design, but chip manufacturing?!

(End of this chapter)