Hearing Jiang Wanmenn ask about Qingtian's situation, Sun Yansheng's face couldn't help but change slightly, and his expression became a little unnatural.

Seeing this, Jiang Wanmeng's expression also changed, and he looked at Sun Yansheng intently.

When he saw Sun Yansheng like this, he immediately knew that something was wrong. After pondering for a moment, he said directly: "Old Sun, we have been working together for almost a year. It seems that the VCD has been successfully developed. If everything goes well, it will take another five years."

It has been successfully mass-produced within a month and has been officially launched on the market. What can't you say to me before? I can handle no matter how bad things happen."

Hearing this, Sun Yansheng breathed a sigh of relief and said frankly: "Actually, there's nothing bad to say. I don't even know if it's good or not."

He paused and then said: "I don't know exactly what the progress of Qingtian is. Last year, Qingtian asked Scobo to send a group of engineering and technical personnel to cooperate with Qingtian's work to solve the problem of decoding chips and VCDs.

There were other problems encountered during the hardware configuration, but this work was completed in November last year, and my people left Qingtian after it was completed, so I don’t know what the progress of Qingtian is.”

Having said this, Sun Yansheng took a deep breath, "And there is one more thing that I have never told you. In May last year, Qingtian placed an order for three million decoding chips from Scobo."

"Three million decoding chips, is Qingtian crazy?" Jiang Wanmeng burst out excitedly.

What is the concept of three million decoding chips?

It represents three million VCDs!

This is such a terrifying number. If calculated based on his planned price of 5,000 yuan per VCD, then these 3 million VCDs would be equivalent to 15 billion sales.

As a new product that has never appeared in the world, the public is undoubtedly very ignorant of VCD.

Under this situation, he really wanted to grab Fang Chen by the collar and ask who gave Fang Chen the courage to think that he could sell three million VCDs.

Why should the Chinese people, who had just had enough to eat, pay Fang Chen 15 billion?

Moreover, Fang Chen ordered three million decoding chips at once, apparently thinking that he could sell three million VCDs very quickly, even within this year, otherwise he would not have done so.

After all, decoding chips are not cheap goods. A chip the size of a fingernail costs US$50. Three million pieces, that is US$1.5 billion and 800 million Chinese coins.

With these 800 million Huaxia coins, Qingtian can do nothing wrong. Even if he puts them in the bank to earn interest, he can still earn over 100 million yuan a year.

But the problem is, based on his understanding of the domestic market and the degree to which Chinese people accept new things, he feels that selling 30,000 VCDs this year is already a good deal.

And this figure is only one percent of Fang Chen's three million units. He even deceived Sun Yansheng before, and the maximum prediction value he made for the domestic VCD market was only two million units per year after the VCD market matured. For example

The three million units Chen has settled on are still one million units short.

To be honest, Jiang Wanmeng was thinking hard at this moment and couldn't figure out how Fang Chen could sell three million VCDs.

He really doesn't know if the world is changing too fast and he has fallen behind, or if Fang Chen has gone crazy?

The expression on Sun Yansheng's face was a little embarrassed.

There is no way, his current status is really embarrassing.

He is the founder and main investor of Wanyan Company. He has half of Wanyan Company's income, but at the same time, he is also the chairman of Scoop Company, a company that developed decoding chips.

As a decoding chip that was just made public in April last year, although the MPEG-1 single-chip video decompression chip has been generally praised by the industry, it has not found any practical application areas.

In other words, there are chips but no products.

And there is no product to apply it, which means that the decoding chip he worked hard to develop cannot be sold. After all, components such as chips must rely on the whole machine. A single chip will not be sold for money, but will be given away for free.

No one wants it, it's too prickly.

This is why he hit it off with Jiang Wanmen and was even willing to invest in Wanyan Company and manufacture VCDs with Jiang Wanmen.

But who would have known that Fang Chen came out on the way. After failing to subdue Jiang Wanmen, he threw off his arms and went to work on his own, and then changed hands and placed an order for three million decoding chips at Scobo.

And when it came to bargaining, he was a little more difficult to deal with and abruptly reduced his quotation of fifty US dollars per decoder chip to thirty-four US dollars per piece, which almost wiped out his profit.

However, as more and more decoding chips are produced, the cost of this part will be diluted a lot, and its profit margin will also increase. A conservative estimate is that it should be no problem to earn about ten dollars per decoding chip.

As for the rest, they were all relatively formal, and could even be said to be easy to talk to. On the second day after signing the contract, the deposit of US$30 million was paid. The speed was a bit scary.

Qingtian Company does this as if it thinks that if it doesn't give him money, Scoop Company will close down immediately.

This is extremely unbelievable for someone like him who often interacts with East Asians and is accustomed to the East Asian way of doing things. After all, this speed is not found in Europeans and Americans who have always been generous, or even in the extremely rigid Eastern Japanese.

Or is China really so rich that it doesn't even care about thirty million US dollars?

Over the past year, although he has been vigorously promoting Scobo's decoding chips, there are very few people who are actually willing to buy them. Even if there are people who are willing to buy them, they are only for an experimental purpose, buying thirty or fifty pieces.

After all, not everyone is like Fang Chen. He dared to place such a large order and put out a deposit of 30 million US dollars before product research and development had even begun and when the product had no roots.

Almost all companies and experimental institutions, like Wanyan Company, use a small amount of chips for research. Only after the research results are produced can they place large-scale orders.

But even then, he didn't think anyone could place an order for three million pieces in one go like Fang Chen.

This put him in an extremely embarrassing situation.

It is foreseeable that Fang Chen will be Wanyan Company's biggest competitor in the future, so as the major shareholder of Wanyan Company, he should regard Fang Chen as his enemy.

At the same time, as the chairman of Scobo Company, Fang Chen is the largest customer of Scobo Company, and can even be said to be the only customer. After all, Fang Chen alone accounts for the order volume of Scobo Company.

99% of the quantity.

Such large customers have the ability to determine the life or death of any company.

As a result, he has been worried that Fang Chen will use his advantageous position to put pressure on Scoop Company, asking him not to support Wanyan Company, or even asking him to divest from Wanyan Company.

After all, although he is the chairman of the company, he is not the absolute owner of the company. His shares only account for 30% of the company's total shares. If other major shareholders unite to oppose him, it will be really troublesome.

Besides, other major shareholders also have reasons to do this, after all, Wanyan is not the company they invested in.

Fortunately, Qingtian has never done this, and has not even mentioned Wanyan, as if there is no such enterprise as Wanyan Company in this world.

While acknowledging that Qingtian is a majestic company, he also secretly speculated that the reason why Qingtian is so generous is probably related to the fact that Scoop is the only company in the world that can produce MPEG-1 decoding chips.

As for why he never told Jiang Wanman about this matter, it wasn't because he didn't dare to say it or it was difficult to say, but because he was afraid that Jiang Wanman was frightened by Fang Chen's order of three million pieces and even developed VCD.

All the courage is gone.

Anyone who knows that there is no progress on their side, and the opponent has already prepared three million ammunition, will subconsciously feel fear, or even lose their mind.

At this time, Jiang Wanmeng suddenly patted Sun Yansheng on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "Yansheng, I know you are doing it for the good of the company and for me. I won't blame you. If you want to..."

Jiang Wanmenn's mouth showed a trace of helplessness and a self-deprecating smile, "It's just because our opponent is too powerful."

In April last year, when he met Fang Chen for the first time, he didn't think anything of it. But this year, as Fang Chen gradually surfaced, there were more and more reports about Fang Chen and even rumors from street stalls.

, he also understood Fang Chen's strength more and more, and even couldn't help but feel afraid.

If he hadn't already started making VCDs and felt that he could make VCDs well, he might have started to give up now.

After all, it is difficult for ants to compete with elephants.

As for blaming Sun Yansheng, he had no intention of doing so.

Although VCD was his hard work, it was obviously Sun Yansheng who contributed more money. The US$17 million used to found the company was basically generated by Sun Yansheng, but he only spent less than US$500,000.

Although he was already the director of the Jianghuai Provincial Modern Television Technology Research Institute, his monthly salary was more than 400 yuan. These 500,000 US dollars were still his life savings, plus loans from other relatives and friends.

I did it after trying it over and over again.

But the two people's shares are equal. Even as the general manager of the company, he took a symbolic 1% more shares. After all, the law does not allow two people to have 50% of the shares.

Moreover, from last year when he decided to develop VCD to now, Sun Yansheng has never stopped supporting VCD. Basically, he wants money for money and people for people. He has never shied away from anything he asked for.

If under such circumstances, he still suspected that Sun Yansheng was flirting with Fang Chen in private, then he was really not a person.

However, there was something in Sun Yansheng's words just now that made him a little confused.

Sun Yansheng previously said that Qingtian Company had completed the matching work of decoding chips and various hardware in November last year, while Wanyan Company only completed the matching work in January.

This also means that Qingtian’s VCD progress is two months faster than Wan Yan’s.

In other words, Qingtian had completed the formal research and development of VCD as early as two months ago, and would mass-produce it two months faster than Wanyan Company.

No, it should be faster. After all, Qingtian is rich and powerful, and has more manpower and material resources to invest in the research and development of VCD. The progress should be three months faster than that of Wanyan Company.

Doesn't that mean that Qingtian's VCD will be ready for mass production in another two months?

When he thought of this, Jiang Wanman's expression changed drastically, and a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead. After all, according to his estimation, after the formal development of VCD was successfully developed, the first batch of VCDs would be produced in five months.

Moreover, the first mass production of Wanyan Company is expected to be only one thousand units, but he no longer knows how many units Qingtian has. At least it is calculated in units of ten thousand units, or even twenty thousand or thirty thousand units.

It's not surprising to him.

If his prediction is correct, there is only room for sales of 30,000 VCDs at most in China this year. Wanyan, whose production capacity is lower than Qingtian and whose mass production time is three months later than Qingtian, is going to be dead.

At this time, Jiang Wanmeng suddenly hoped that Fang Chen's prediction was correct, otherwise his Wanyan Company would really have no chance of survival at all.

Seeing Jiang Wamann's pale face, as if he was mourning for his heir, Sun Yansheng sighed helplessly. Now it was his turn to comfort Jiang Wamann.

"Wan Meng, the situation is not as bad as you think. It is absolutely impossible for Qingtian to sell three million VCDs. And didn't you say that the market for VCDs can be as high as two million units per year in the future?

Such a big market cannot be eaten by Fang Chen alone, so there must be a place for our Wanyan Company."

Speaking of this, a strange smile flashed in Sun Yansheng's eyes, "And I believe that according to Mr. Fang's character and work style, since he dares to buy three million pieces of MPEG-1 decoding chips, what about other MPEG-1 decoding chips?"

He will never buy less parts. If the market sales are not as good as Mr. Fang imagined, and he cannot clear out the three million inventory in one year or even two years, he will be dragged down.

, I’m afraid it’s Qingtian.”

"After all, in two years' time, the cost of MPEG-1 decoding chips will definitely drop a lot. If Fang Chen's decoding chips are not used up by then, it means that his cost of using MPEG-1 decoding chips will be at least more expensive than ours.

Double, and although the production of other parts does not meet Moore's Law, I believe that the cost will definitely drop a lot. After all, the cost of new products and mature products is absolutely different. In this way, the cost of VCD produced by Qingtian

There will definitely be many more than us."

According to Moore's Law, when the price remains unchanged, the number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 18-24 months, and the performance will also double.
Chapter completed!