The two-year contract has 4 million chips per year, totaling 8 million, with a total value of up to US$124 million in purchase orders. This is the nectar after a long drought for Sgopa's chip factory. Of course, Zhou Liwen cannot pay the full fee in one go. According to the negotiation between the two parties, the purchaser will purchase with Sgopa in a monthly settlement. But even so, with the working capital and the production and sales costs of the factory, Zhou Liwen has to prepare nearly US$10 million in funds. This money investment almost spent the last penny Zhou Liwen got from the financial market.

However, these are worth it. How big is the mobile phone market and how terrifying its profits are, I am afraid Zhou Liwen will know more than anyone in the world. Moreover, with the good operation of Guo’s hematopoietic machine, he was not worried about shortage of funds in a short period of time, and when the product is launched, all other problems will be solved more easily.

As for Sgopa's CEO Diff, although the business was not as good as he expected, it at least greatly alleviated Sgopa's dilemma. With this order, there will be no problem in maintaining the chip factory. If Sgopa's other business revenue is added to Sgopa's headquarters, Sgopa's financial situation will be alleviated. Now that the high-tech industry is hit hard, Diff, as CEO, has tried his best, and even believes that even if he changes someone, he cannot do better than himself.

But Diff was not happy for long. When he was trembling and thought that he had finally snatched the deal from Cisco's teeth, an unexpected news left him stunned.

On the third day after Zhou Liwen and Sgopa signed the contract, Cisco announced to the public that they had reached a technology exchange agreement on the same high-tech company in the Far East. This agreement will greatly enhance Cisco's technological leadership in the field of network storage and communication systems. Through negotiations with the other party, the two parties also determined to work together to develop a system software platform dedicated to mobile phones...

"Mad! I'm fooled!" At this time, Diff suddenly realized. After a long time of trouble, Zhou Liwen and Cisco had a private engagement. The purpose was not to make chips, but to have other plans. Moreover, Zhou Liwen cleverly used Diff's illusion to make the other party think that he and Cisco were talking about the same project. What annoyed Diff even more was that he actually believed it and was worried that the contract would be snatched away by Cisco, so he had no choice but to make concessions, causing the company to suffer unnecessary losses.

$15.5! Diff's heart hurts as if it was cut by a knife. You should know that for every $1 difference, the company reduced its profit by 8 million. Originally, Diff's bottom line was $17.5, but this calculation was a total of $16 million. He gave up such a huge profit, so depressed that he almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

Just when Diff hid in the office and regretted it, stomped his feet and scolded Zhou Liwen as a shameless liar, Zhou Liwen had already left Silicon Valley and boarded the return flight.

Zhou Liwen is not worried about Diff's knowledge of the cooperation between him and Cisco. This matter will be revealed in the end, and it will be a matter of time before Diff knows the truth. But business is business, and the contract is in hand. Zhou Liwen is not afraid that Sgopa will regret it. First, no matter how small the mosquito is, it will be meat. This transaction is not only good, but also profitable. Moreover, Sgopa also needs this order to alleviate financial pressure. Second, the US law is sound, and Sgopa cannot afford the price of breaking the contract. Black and white paper is placed there, and even if Diff is angry, he can only produce chips for Zhou Liwen according to the contract.

The cooperation with Cisco was planned by Zhou Liwen. With the imminent elimination of 2G mobile phones, the era of new smartphones, 3G mobile phones, is approaching. The mobile phone market will no longer rely solely on branding, appearance design and hardware as before, and its software will become increasingly effective, and even affect whether a mobile phone product is suitable for the survival of the market.

To give the simplest example, it is the mobile phone giant Nokia. As the once-defeated Nokia company, the most powerful mobile phone overlord on the planet, it declined at a speed that shocked the world when it was most brilliant. Although Nokia's failure had various decision-making mistakes, most people basically agreed after studying why the Nokia business empire fell that the most important willingness of this once-poaching business empire was to hold on to its exclusive system - the Saipan system, attempting to dominate the market, and thus ruthlessly abandoned by consumers, and eventually embarked on the road to destruction.

On April 25, 2014, Nokia sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft, officially announcing its withdrawal from the mobile phone market. A multinational company that once occupied the largest share of the mobile phone market and the world's largest mobile phone brand ended in this way, which is a pity.

To be honest, Nokia's mobile phone is indeed a good mobile phone, durable, stable, and has good styling and design. Just like the mobile phone that Zhou Liwen uses now is also Nokia. The mobile phone that used to smash the other party's head when fighting with someone was also Nokia. If it weren't for the excessive force that the shell was deformed, and the blood stains solidified in the gap were really inconvenient to continue using, Zhou Liwen would not be willing to replace the original phone, because even so, there would be no problem with the phone calling and answering the phone. I would like to ask if there is still a brand of mobile phone that can achieve such quality.

However, it was because after the emergence of smartphones, Nokia mistakenly judged the market and thought it had the largest share, and attempted to use the exclusive Symbian system to unify the world. But they did not expect that open systems were the way to smartphones, and they even charged fees to companies that developed software. This was a way to perish.

Because of this, Nokia fails, and its failure depends on the system. Zhou Liwen, who acts as a rebirth, will certainly not follow Nokia's footsteps. He is very clear that it will be the world of smartphones in the future, and the biggest advantage of smartphones is its open system and platform.

IOS and Android are the two most famous mobile phone system platforms in later generations. The former owns Apple and the latter is Google. It can be said that when the Nokia Empire collapsed, almost all mobile phones on the market were these two systems. The two competed for the market, forming a situation where the two heroes competed for each other.

Zhou Liwen has a reason to cooperate with Cisco. Although the owner of the IOS system is Apple, its real developer is Cisco. The two systems cannot be said to be better, they can only say that each has its own strengths and each other has its own strengths. But according to Zhou Liwen's personal hobbies, he prefers the IOS system platform. However, in his era, the ownership of the IOS system belongs to Apple, and only Apple uses the mobile phones. But Apple accounts for half of the market with the IOS system and Jobs' unique marketing creativity. From this point of view, it is enough to prove the power of the IOS system platform.

Of course, the IOS system also has its flaws, just like Microsoft's system, with all kinds of patches and upgrades constantly. Moreover, although Apple has opened the software platform for the IOS system, it does not make any concessions in the use of mobile phone systems, which also makes mobile phones of other brands only use Android systems.

This time, Zhou Liwen cooperated with Cisco to reach a technology exchange agreement and was preparing to cooperate in the development of IOS systems. Unlike Apple, Zhou Liwen did not have the idea of ​​exclusively occupying the IOS system mobile phone. He was planning to fully authorize the IOS system to various mobile phone brands like Android system. In addition, the software platform open to the IOS system, as long as the smartphone appears, Zhou Liwen can sweep the world with this system.

This trick is actually not surprising to put it bluntly, because Microsoft's Bill did that back then. Zhou Liwen's small plan is just to pick up people's wisdom, but the road to success is not impossible to be copied. As long as you win the bet, Zhou Liwen will be the second Bill. Even if you lose, Zhou Liwen will not lose much. At most, just like in later generations, IOS will compete for the world with Android or other systems that may appear.

Thinking of this, Zhou Liwen, who was sitting on the plane, couldn't help but laugh. With his joy, Pang Yishan, who was sleeping beside him, woke up.

Unlocking the seat belt, Pang Yishan stretched his body, and looked at Zhou Liwen with a smile on his face in confusion and asked him what he was so happy about.

"You said, is Diff greeting us elders now?" Zhou Liwen joked.

Pang Yishan was happy as soon as he heard this, shook his head and smiled, "This is hard to say, but I think it's very likely."

"I feel so too." Zhou Liwen blinked playfully, and the two of them laughed again at the same time.

Like the trip, their plane went directly to Xiangjiang Airport. Liao Yuancheng did not travel with Zhou Liwen because Cisco had some technical communications that required him to stay in the United States. After completing chip production and having obtained cooperation intentions with Cisco, Zhou Liwen was in a good mood. This time he returned to China, he had to arrange for Sha Zihao to expand the factory immediately. According to the procurement agreement, the first batch of chips is expected to arrive in the southeast in 2 months. If everything goes well, his first official mobile phone will be produced from the assembly line within 3 months.

This time when he returned to China, Zhou Liwen mainly deals with many tasks, one is production, the other is sales, and the third and most important is the license or access qualification of the telecommunications department. Regarding this matter, although the Academy of Sciences promised to help clear the links, there was no news after so long. This made Zhou Liwen a little uneasy, so he prepared to follow up on this matter after he returned and resolve the most important problem as soon as possible.

The plane landed at Xiangjiang Airport, and Zhou Liwen and Pang Yishan broke up. Zhou Liwen directly transferred back to Huacheng at the airport. After arriving at Huacheng, he took his car to the institute. When Zhou Liwen arrived at the institute by car, the car had just stopped in front of the building. Before Zhou Liwen could get off the car, he had not had time to step up the steps, and when he looked back, he saw a shout from behind. Before he could recognize who was calling him, the other party rushed up and cursed: "Zhou Liwen! You bastard!"
Chapter completed!