Chapter 193 Since you have breached the contract, let’s pay a huge amount of liquidated damages according to the agreement!
A major domestic smartphone manufacturer.
At this moment, an urgent meeting is being held to discuss, and the topic is to deal with being asked to terminate the business cooperation with Metaverse Intelligent Control.
"Are those capital consortiums at Bei Magnesium out of their minds? Do they really think they can curb the development momentum of Yuanjie Intelligent Control in this way? I don't know if they are stupid or too naive." A technical executive at the meeting held back his curse.
Another executive at the meeting said: "Who knows? But the problem now is that we have also been affected. If Qualcomm stops supplying, our flagship machine may not even be able to ship."
Not only this smartphone manufacturer, but also several well-known domestic mobile phone manufacturers actually rely heavily on the chips provided by Qualcomm.
It is no exaggeration to say that as long as Qualcomm runs out of chips, these mobile phone manufacturers will not be able to take the blame.
Although I was very unhappy when faced with the arrogance of the Omei people, I couldn't stand it and was really pinched by them.
What several major super consortiums are thinking about is that the technology of Yuanjie Intelligent Control is highly autonomous, and the "unable to be locked" physique cannot be used, but it can't be used by you?
At this time, a senior executive of the factory couldn't help but asked: "What are these major capital groups of Ou Magnesium doing, so crazy are they targeting Metaverse Intelligent Control?"
The colleague next to him immediately said: "It's probably because he was rejected by Lu An some time ago and he became angry. After all, Yuanjie Intelligent Control is such a big piece of cake, and Capital doesn't get a share of the pie. How can they be willing to accept it?" Speaking of this matter, these people present know more information than the public.
They have learned a shocking news from some channels.
It is said that several major Wall Street consortiums have promised Lu An quite astonishing benefits. As long as they are willing to list Metaverse Intelligent Holdings, the Wall Street consortiums have promised to help it raise more than 50 billion U.S. dollars, and the issuance of new shares accounts for less than 5% of the total equity.
This is just an appetizer.
It is rumored that the Wall Street consortium also promised to manage the market value of the listed Metaverse Intelligent Control, and several major consortiums worked together to help Lu An cash out at the high level of the company's market value, using 20% of its equity to cash out US$450 billion in real money.
As the largest shareholder of Metaverse Intelligent Holdings, Lu An still holds more than 82% of the shares. Even if he uses 20% of his shares to cash out US$450 billion, he still holds more than 60% of the shares.
It is also the largest shareholder of the company and has absolute control.
The executives present at the meeting were all shocked when they learned about this rumor.
This 450 billion US dollars alone, converted into RMB, has reached a terrifying 3 trillion yuan. The key is that this is all real money, not market value paper wealth.
At this moment, the head of this major mobile phone manufacturer sighed and made a decision: "Give up purchasing batteries from Metaverse." Another participant said: "This is the only way. If we don't use Metaverse's solid-state lattice batteries, at least we can continue to use the original batteries, and at least there are alternatives. But without Qualcomm's chip supply, there are no substitutes, and the products can't be shipped."
Faced with the pressure from several major European magnesium consortiums, they still chose to play GG and did not dare to compete with hard steel.
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Yuanjie Intelligent Control's new headquarters.
Meng Qiuyan came to Lu An's office with a material report, "There is a new situation. Several major mobile phone manufacturers have sent executives to visit urgently, saying that due to force majeure factors, they have to terminate the solid-state lattice battery procurement plan."
Immediately handed the materials to Lu An, and then added: "According to their private disclosure, it was Northern Magnesium that threatened to cut off Qualcomm's chip supply. They claimed that they had no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils."
Lu An took the materials and read them for a while, and then said calmly: "It is expected, being controlled by others is like this."
Meng Qiuyan accepted Lu An said: "Among the major domestic mobile phone manufacturers, only Hua Wei did not send anyone here. Other than that, the other mobile phone manufacturers have all succumbed."
Lu An was not surprised when he heard that Hua Wei was not among them. He said: "Hua Wei is still a powerful company and has its own Kirin chips. However, if Hua Wei does not buy into the accounts of the Wall Street consortium, it is estimated that Hua Wei will be hunted down soon."
Even without the element of Yuanjie intelligence control, Hua Wei would have been hunted by Lao Mei sooner or later. With this happening, there was absolutely no suspense.
This year is an important time point. The chips launched by Huawei this year include Kirin 659 chip and Kirin 970 chip.
The Kirin 659 chip uses a 16-nanometer process. The CPU is a 4-core A53 architecture and integrates Mali-T830MP2 GPU. Its performance is similar to Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, but the GPU performance is slightly inferior. Kirin 659 is positioned as a mid-range chip, focusing on the thousand-yuan phone market.
The Kirin 970 chip uses a 10-nanometer process and is equipped with dual-core NPU, 4-core A73 and 4-core A53 CPU. The GPU is Mali-G72MP12. It realizes AI license plate scene recognition on the mobile phone for the first time and supports GPU-Turbo technology. However, the single-core performance is still lagging behind compared with mainstream high-end chips.
This chip is positioned as a flagship phone. The Mate10 mobile phone planned to be launched in Australia in September this year uses the Kirin 970 chip.
Lu An doesn’t know much about the Mate10 mobile phone, but based on the memory information from the previous life, he still remembers some general information. The sales of this model are still good, becoming the best-selling model in 2018, and the cumulative sales have exceeded 10 million units.
Although the Kirin 970 chip is not the most advanced in the industry, it is a domestically developed and designed chip.
Lu An read the contents of the report.
·Several manufacturers who plan to terminate their procurement plans want to sell miserably without paying liquidated damages. Please give me some advice.
"In the face of the extreme pressure from the Ou Mei people, I have to do my best, and I will be miserable." Lu An chuckled, then turned to glance at Meng Qiuyan, "Tell Yu Changle, don't worry about anything. People are wise, and in business, business is done. Since they are going to breach the contract, they must follow the terms of the agreement, and the liquidated damages must not be less. There is no need to discuss." Meng Qiuyan nodded and said, "Yes."
Lu An said calmly: "As long as they can be tough and not give in, they will work together to put pressure on Qualcomm and take a tough stance and clear attitude. If they are not allowed to use Metaverse Intelligent Control's solid-state lattice batteries, they will not use Qualcomm chips at all, and Qualcomm may not be able to withstand it."
For Qualcomm, the sudden loss of so many customers is also a huge revenue loss, and it will also promote the rise of competitors.
Even if Qualcomm does not dare to openly oppose the major capital groups behind the scenes, it will secretly transport chips to the Greater China market through re-export trade and other means. Major mobile phone manufacturers will still be able to obtain goods in the market, as long as they do not use Qualcomm's chip debut as a promotional selling point.
镁西方都是你越强势，他反而越软，你越是软蛋，他越会进一步极限施压。
If he really doesn't give up, Lu An won't even mind tiring himself out to work overtime to help promote the development of the domestic semiconductor industry chain.
As it turned out, he had just made an opening move, and before he even made a move, he was so frightened that he immediately played GG.
This makes it difficult for Lu An. Let's go and cool down. Anyway, Yuanjie Intelligent Control will not be affected by the semiconductor industry chain, and the 28nm process can be used for a long time.
Meng Qiuyan said: "These major smartphone manufacturers are going to suffer a lot. In the past year, their latest flagship phones were designed and developed to be equipped with solid-state lattice batteries. Without our batteries, many designs have to be overturned."
Last year, the battery contract was signed. Mobile phone manufacturers develop and design new products that are designed to exceed 10,000 mAh, and many modules have increased power consumption.
If it is not equipped with a solid-state lattice battery, the old version of 3000 or 4000 mAh battery cannot be carried at all.
In other words, the newly designed models will have to be scrapped, and new models may not be released in 2017.
Hence the undoubtedly huge loss of development funds and time costs, and if the solid-state lattice battery breaks the contract, it will cost a lot of money.
According to the agreement, a sky-high liquidated damages must be compensated, that is, 35% of the advance payment will be directly used as compensation to Metaverse Intelligent Control.
Several manufacturers that plan to terminate cooperation signed a supply contract with Metaverse last year for a total of more than 70 million solid-state lattice batteries.
The total order amount is about 50 billion yuan. According to 35% of the order amount as liquidated damages, 17.5 billion yuan will be paid. This money has been paid to Metaverse Intelligent Control as early as last year.
In the year when new machines were not released, if the money that should have been earned was not earned, it would be a loss. The losses caused by the front and back are equivalent to super doubling, and the losses will be sent to grandma's house.
What's more important is that because of this incident, new models cannot be released in 2017, which gives Huawei's mobile phone business a full year to seize market share. Moreover, Huawei is equipped with a large-capacity solid-state lattice battery, and its performance will definitely be significantly improved compared to the previous generation model.
Is this the beginning of a double helix take-off? Market share should not be rattled?
It’s a complete loss!
· Yuanjie Intelligent Control does not have any real losses, because according to the agreement, the supply will be in the second half of the year, and the second and third phases of the super factory are still under construction at this time.
In other words, Yuanjie Intelligent Control has not yet produced batteries.
Then there will be no risk of inventory backlog, and you will earn 17.5 billion in vain with tears in your eyes.
Although huge investments have been made in the second and third phases of the Gigafactory construction plan, solid-state lattice batteries are the future, and the general trend is not subject to human will.
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(End of this chapter)