Xing Baohua also wanted to use a calculated move to prepare for a showdown with Sony.
To make things difficult for him, Xing Baohua launched a full-scale lawsuit in the United States, where the patents also belong to the same country. His first step was to apply for the removal of Sony's infringing products from the market, and then see who suffers first.
Patent disputes often involve many similar cases, even those that are only marginally related have been involved in lawsuits, and even those that are completely unrelated will find fault with you.
Look at Samsung, Apple, and Motorola—these companies all emerged from patent lawsuits. Samsung and Apple, in particular, have a supply partnership, but that didn't stop them from going to court over patents.
They're the kind of games that last for several years.
Xing Baohua has plenty of money, and so does Sony; both can afford to wait. So let's not wait, just find some fault and get to it.
It also serves as an advertisement for rice, demonstrating that rice is excellent in technological research and development, and that its technology has been stolen and infringed upon.
When Xing Baohua was replicating Sony products, he always tried to avoid their products, for fear of offending them and causing them harm.
Now, it's all good; we can use it as a counterattack.
Disassembling and searching for patents takes time, so Xing Baohua went home to rest after giving the instructions.
The next day, Xing Baohua went down to the workshop to inspect it. He had been running around outside lately and hadn't checked on the production situation.
The rice factory has been fully integrated into a modern assembly line, and skilled workers are generally able to keep up with the pace.
Look at your phone, then look at your computer.
Then I saw Director Li and Liu Quan at the inspection station, seemingly studying a computer with several engineers, so I went over. I thought there might be a quality problem, but it didn't seem like it.
He walked over, greeted the group, and asked, "What's going on?"
Liu Quan said, "I found a minor flaw. I can't pinpoint the problem."
"?" Xing Baohua was also taken aback.
Now that there are quality inspections at every stage, it's a bit much to say there are defects in the finished product. It shows that the management is not in place and there must be a mistake in some process.
"What's the problem?" Xing Baohua asked with a stern face.
“Look at this computer. All the components are in perfect condition, but after booting up and entering the system, it gets slow and laggy after running for a while or when using programs,” Liu Quan said, pointing to the computer in front of them.
"Were all the parts checked before assembly?" Xing Baohua asked.
"We checked and there's no problem! The instruments are showing normal data. We then suspected a system problem, but we brought in two experts from the lab, and they found that the system also wasn't faulty. We're still investigating the cause," Liu Quan continued.
Xing Baohua said to the two engineers who were inspecting the system, "Pull up the hardware information and take a look."
After reviewing the hardware information, Xing Baohua couldn't find anything wrong with it.
He turned to Liu Quan and asked, "Is this the same problem with every machine that's taken offline?"
"We have assembled more than 500 machines so far. This one was a random inspection. We only found out that it had a problem when we were running it. We haven't had time to inspect the other machines yet," Liu Quan said.
"Organize people to select ten machines and check the situation first," he instructed.
Afterwards, I went outside the workshop with Factory Director Li to smoke while waiting for the inspection results.
Half an hour later, the ten machines that were randomly selected for testing showed the same problem. Some of them also experienced noticeable lag.
Xing Baohua rolled up his sleeves and personally conducted the test.
Especially when testing the running speed, the line goes up first and then comes down, forming an arc.
When viewing Task Manager, CPU utilization increased to 100%.
Xing Baohua turned and called for someone to bring over a CPU from the assembly line. He couldn't tell anything from its appearance alone.
The model number written on it is JP.
Needless to say, it's manufactured by NEC.
Xing Baohua looked up and asked Liu Quan, the factory manager in charge of production, "Is the CPU a genuine original or a counterfeit?"
"Wait a moment, I'll go ask." Liu Quan also realized the problem. Xing Baohua had said that they would use imported goods first, and then use counterfeit goods if they ran out of stock. That is, the batch that we produced ourselves.
Although Liu Quan was in charge of production, he didn't really know what goods were needed. He needed to ask the workshop director and the packer to find out if the warehouse had given him the wrong goods.
Xing Baohua had the problematic machine disassembled and collected more than a dozen CPUs. When Liu Quan returned, he told him that this batch of goods was counterfeit, and the warehouse had mixed up the products, resulting in more than a thousand CPUs being found.
“Management is still inadequate; even this kind of thing gets mixed up. Fortunately, it's not a large number. And no goods have been shipped yet. Correct this immediately, deal with the people who need to be dealt with, and strengthen management while you're at it.” Xing Baohua said, turning to leave.
Factory Director Li asked Xing Baohua, "Aren't the chips we produce already up to standard? Aren't they almost identical to the genuine ones? How could there be quality problems? I feel the problem needs to be investigated further into the lithography process at the photolithography plant."
“You’re right, I’ll go over there and check it out.” After saying that, Xing Baohua turned to Liu Quan and said, “Pack up all the counterfeit chips and return them.”
After saying that, Xing Baohua left the rice factory.
Fortunately, they came to inspect this place; otherwise, it would have been difficult to resolve any real problems that might have arisen.
Back at the lithography plant, we found the person in charge and gathered several experts to study where the chip was malfunctioning.
After testing with professional equipment, the chip was found to be qualified.
This is strange. Problems occurred after the machine was put into use, but no problems were found when tested with professional equipment.
Therefore, they also use instruments to test the data during random inspections, and once the data values meet the standards, they package and ship the goods.
To find the cause, you need to open the package and use a small polisher to polish out the outer seal.
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