Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 435 Offline Negotiations, The Changed Plan

"Lu Mingyuan is absolutely mortal enemies with Chuanyin."

His family's three generations of political accumulation were all destroyed by Shen Fei. His father originally had the opportunity to advance further, but now he has become an idle person.

This kind of hatred cannot be measured in money.

Although Lu Mingyuan is full of hatred and absolutely reliable as a puppet, his actual strength is indeed trash.

According to their investigation report, Ruiyi Mobile's revenue last year was only 12 billion yuan, after deducting hardware costs...

profit?

With that little money, trying to make a profit in the mobile phone industry is a miracle; you'd be lucky if you didn't lose everything. The fact that it's still alive is thanks to the Lu family's continuous investment...

After all, although Lu Mingyuan is not good enough, the technology industry is indeed the foundation for future development, so the Lu family has been supporting him.

"But given Lu Mingyuan's management skills, do you really think our investment hasn't been a complete waste of money?"

"His technical and marketing skills are indeed far inferior to Da Mi's."

But what kind of technology does a puppet need?

The worse the quality, the easier it is for us to control. Qualcomm will be responsible for supplying the chips, and Google will be responsible for optimizing the system. We have our overseas channels.

"Help them develop their export-to-domestic sales model, and they'll be able to become the next Transsion in just two years."

"And he has no way out."

Because of Lu Mingyuan's affair, they are already dead in political circles.

Their only way out is to tie themselves to us, create a platform even bigger than a telepathic device, and slap Shen Fei in the face.

"But there's not much point in acquiring him; the annual profit from his business isn't even enough to cover our management fees."

"We don't need to acquire it, we just need to give it a higher level of authorization."

We sell chips, they sell phones—it's a win-win situation.

As people looked at the proposal, more and more nodded in approval.

Ruiyi Mobile invested $500 million, acquiring 85% of the shares directly; the remainder was the commission paid by the Lu family as their agent…

The rest is no longer their concern; everything, from product appearance to system optimization, is handled by the elites on Wall Street.

But they weren't very confident about their chances of success, since Apple was practically the only tech company left in America.

Thompson looked at the document and hesitated for a moment: "Then let's talk to Rice first, they're the main option."

As for Lu Mingyuan, he can be a backup option for now, and we can use him to our advantage later.

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Kyoto, Rice Company Headquarters

This meeting, which had a profound impact on the rice company, was formally negotiated within the company premises and was not held outside for security reasons.

Both sides adhered to the principle of keeping a low profile, so there weren't many people in the meeting room.

Silver Lake sent a three-person team: a partner, a legal counsel, and a finance manager.

Lei Jun was accompanied by Lin Bin and Zhou Shouzi.

After listening to Lei Jun boast for a while, Thomson from Silver Lake gave him face and nodded.

He didn't want to argue with such a top marketing expert, because he might easily fall into their trap, so he quickly waved his hand and got straight to the point!

"Mr. Lei, I've come here with sincerity, but the 40% stake is unacceptable."

However, we can take a step back and allocate only two seats to the board of directors. We will not require management in normal times, but major decisions must be approved by us.

In addition, regarding the chip issue, we can take a step back and offer some suggestions for modification.

"We can negotiate the chips used in overseas markets, but the domestic market must use only Qualcomm chips."

The domestic market uses only Qualcomm chips, and Lei Jun's face instantly showed a helpless smile.

He didn't care about etiquette anymore and just pointed to his head.

Domestic companies are using only Qualcomm chips, and while that's how it's done now, what about the future?

If Qualcomm continues to falter, he will be criticized for doing this. Although he is somewhat dissatisfied, it doesn't mean he can tolerate it indefinitely.

"Mr. Thomson, according to our previous agreement, wasn't Qualcomm only to be used exclusively in overseas markets?"

Lin Bin, who was standing to the side, also opened the document and pointed to the first clause...

Thomson, on the other side, waved his hand.

"Sorry, we've changed our minds."

Based on our analysis, especially considering the experience of rice in the Indian market, we believe that rice will not achieve much success in overseas markets...

At the very least, you can't beat Transsion and Huawei!

Thomson spoke very bluntly, directly exposing Lei Jun's true colors, and Lei Jun's face instantly darkened... Lei Jun also pretended to be angry and slammed his hand on the table.

"Sir, you don't sound like you're here to negotiate, but rather to argue."

What does it mean that we have made no achievements in overseas markets?

"No matter what, we are the number one brand in India; Transsion and their local brands are all below us."

Lei Jun didn't mention Anil's brand, but it was indeed a scar he couldn't get over.

"Your overseas sales data is nowhere near as good as Transsion's overseas sales data, and you were also outmaneuvered by Anil..."

The Indian market, which was originally the private domain of any company, is now also a complete integrated design and production chain...

"Thanks to you!"

Today, Thomson is well aware that reaching an agreement will be difficult, so he came today to dampen Lei Jun's spirit.

Only when both sides understand themselves can the negotiations make steady progress, and all of this takes time.

Just as the two leaders were about to start arguing, Lin Bin, who was standing nearby, took the initiative to defuse the situation.

"Mr. Wilson, if it's 40%, then we don't need to negotiate anymore. You can find a new agent."

If we really want to choose a rice company, then we can only allocate 30%, and I can guarantee that 70% of the domestic market will use Qualcomm, while the remaining 30% will be self-developed, but primarily using MediaTek.

Wilson did not accept the way out offered by Lin Bin, but instead became even more aggressive.

After all, he's just a lackey; who gave him the respect he deserved?

Today's negotiations are essentially an unequal negotiation!

"30% are mainly MediaTek?"

Mr. Lin, I estimate that MediaTek's 4G chips may not be that good. Are these chip quotas reserved for Transsion?

"But we have rice today entirely thanks to Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Are you really willing to use their chips?"

After saying that, Thomson looked at Rebus with a smile, but Rebus saw deep mockery in his eyes.

But Shen Fei wasn't here, otherwise he would definitely say that he had met a kindred spirit.

Of course, this like-minded person refers to MediaTek, who also believes that MediaTek's chips are not very good.

After all, Qualcomm survived a series of powerful attacks during the 3G era, only failing because of the contrast provided by Chow Yun-fat.

For a long time to come, Chow Yun-fat will continue to be in a phase of accumulating strength, but his innovative ability remains outstanding.

After all, technologies like the world's first 10-core chip are indeed far ahead of their time...

However, their scheduling system seems to have some problems.