The next morning, after having breakfast, Lu Feng called Zhu Lidong and asked him to come to his house for a meeting. Since he no longer held any actual management position, inviting him to his home to discuss matters was a compromise.
Before nine o'clock, Duoduo was sent to school, Jiang Xiaoyan went to the factory, and cars arrived one after another at the villa gate. Zhu Lidong, Wei Yandan, Liu Cheng and his group were all present.
The dozen or so people made the villa feel crowded. Lu Feng, wearing shorts and slippers, looked at them with a smile. This is what corporate control is all about!
"Has everyone had breakfast? There are fried dough sticks and soy milk in the kitchen. If you haven't, have a quick bite. First of all, I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Please make yourself at home." Lu Feng sat on the sofa, a cigarette dangling from his hand, and said casually, "I called everyone here so early in the morning just to chat and have a bit of fun. Please sit down."
Everyone present knew that the so-called casual chat was just the next move of the group. For the past few months, he had been in a semi-retired state. The senior management did not understand why he had given up management power in the first place. Even though Zhu Lidong and a few others had talked to him privately a few times, they could not come up with a clear reason.
Actually, one reason for doing this was to show the Schroder Group, and another was to test whether he could control the management team. If the management team immediately turned against him as soon as he stepped down, Lu Feng would definitely not hesitate to cash out his shares and start anew.
It can also be considered a test.
After everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, they sat down. Lu Feng looked at them and said, "I called you here to talk about the company's development. What do you have to say?"
"President Lu, the R&D company received a Scientific Research Pioneer Award last month, and this year's subsidies have also come through. The city attaches great importance to this, and we received a Science and Technology Progress Award for our technological breakthrough in semiconductors. The Science and Technology Commission said they would lead us to cooperate with other 909 Project projects in China. I've been making some plans over the past few months to establish several R&D centers and cooperate with several science and technology universities to recruit talent," Liu Cheng introduced.
"That's good. With standardized development, semiconductors are on the right track. Let's not worry about when we can start production. We have the technology. I've spoken with Minister Niu a few times recently. The most fundamental issue is the market. Even if we can produce them, nobody will use them!" Lu Feng said to everyone, "We can't exactly put chips in old bicycles, can we?"
Zhu Lidong thought for a moment and said, "This is indeed a problem. If it cannot be realized in the market, then this investment is a bottomless pit, a bottomless pit from which we can never get our money back."
“In the past, we could rely on overseas markets. For semi-finished products like wafers, we could have them manufactured for overseas companies. But that’s no longer possible,” Wei Yandan said.
In fact, many chip companies started out as wafer foundries and gradually upgraded. Lu Feng initially thought the same way, but he didn't expect such a strong reaction from overseas.
The group looked at each other, exchanging glances. With such a large investment in semiconductors, if they couldn't turn a profit in the short term, they wouldn't be able to explain it to the board of directors. This was a problem that not just anyone could handle, and it could even lead to Jiafeng's bankruptcy.
Zhu Lidong knew Lu Feng quite well. If this path really couldn't be followed, he wouldn't be so calm. But the lack of a market was not something that could be easily resolved. Now, he was afraid that this guy would do something crazy again.
Seeing that no one spoke, Lu Feng took a deep drag on his cigarette, stubbed it out in the ashtray, and said, "Mobile phones need to be produced, and chips need to be produced and sold. If there's no market, then create one. If history has destined us to face these difficulties, then let's change history. The mobile phones will be launched early next year!"
There's nothing there, yet they've already set a date for the phone to launch early next year?
Zhu Lidong hurriedly said, "I heard from President Liu that the 2G thing, that is, signal compilation and stuff, that integrated circuit is not yet finished, we can't produce it now, there is no domestic production."
"No domestically? You said it? Yes, domestically!" Lu Feng said to everyone, "We will get the mobile phone business sorted out in 1996, and in 2000 we will promote the prosperity of the domestic chip market. We will rely on our mobile phones to drive the prosperity of the domestic chip, storage, and processor markets."
Although Wei Yandan, Du Guoying, and the others didn't quite understand what they were hearing, they were deeply shocked.
Liu Cheng frowned and said, "Even if a god came, it would be impossible for things to develop that quickly in just a few years."
"President Lu, even if our phones sell well, it won't boost the domestic market for processors, storage, and chips." Zhu Lidong felt this was a nonsensical argument; these things aren't something anyone can just produce, the barriers to entry are too high.
"Don't worry, as long as there's money to be made, the counterfeit phone market will explode!" Lu Feng muttered to himself.
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