Chapter 1518 High Cost, Capacity Limitation(1/2)
In fact, in addition to these three names, there is another name.
That was the original name "Chaos".
To be honest, Liu Mingyu is very satisfied with these four names.
Since you like them all, why make a choice? These four names will all be included in the series names of future Xingchen mobile phones.
But before that, you still have to choose a name as the name of the first Xingchen mobile phone.
After much thought, Liu Mingyu felt that it was most appropriate to choose the initial name.
chaos.
It refers to the fuzzy state of the universe before the creation of heaven and earth.
It is the beginning of everything.
Xingchen mobile phone is a brand new mobile phone, which is different from previous mobile phones and is an epoch-making mobile phone.
The name of chaos.
feasible.
In the end, Liu Mingyu chose the original name.
Liu Mingyu finally wrote the original name on the document review comments.
Finally, it was the launch date of Xingchen mobile phone, and Zhao Qingsong and others also gave several choices.
One is to choose June 18th.
618 was originally a store anniversary day for Youdong. As more and more platforms joined in, it was no longer just a store anniversary day for Youdong. It also became a national online shopping carnival like "Double Eleven".
Every year during this festival, the power of nationwide online shopping is huge.
Almost all products can receive greater traffic than usual, and sales are also rising.
It's getting higher every year.
If you choose this day, the sales of Xingchen mobile phones will become even better.
From a timing point of view, this timing is indeed good, as it can attract the attention of countless people and give the product greater exposure.
But there is a fatal flaw, which is insufficient production.
Although Xingchen Group has already increased production capacity after establishing the subsidiary Xingchen Mobile and developing a preliminary prototype.
But after all, it has only been established for such a short time that it is not easy to produce the required spare parts normally, let alone large-scale production.
Liu Mingyu frowned and decided to ask Zhao Qingsong to find out more about the situation.
A simple text report is still not comprehensive enough.
Liu Mingyu immediately called Xu Ranran outside: "Go find Mr. Zhao and ask him to come to my place when he is free."
As the general manager of Xingchen Group, Zhao Qingsong is quite busy. Although Liu Mingyu wants to know the specific situation of Xingchen mobile phone, he does not want to disturb his work.
Zhao Qingsong works hard for himself, and all he loses is his.
"Okay, boss." Xu Ranran nodded and responded.
Less than half an hour later, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in." Liu Mingyu shouted in a low voice.
The door opened, and Xu Ranran brought Zhao Qingsong to the office.
"Director Liu, Mr. Zhao is here."
Liu Mingyu stood up from his seat, came to the sofa, pointed to the seat opposite, smiled at Zhao Qingsong and said: "Here, sit down and talk."
After the two sat down, Xu Ranran went outside to make a cup of coffee for Zhao Qingsong and a new pot of tea for Liu Mingyu.
After doing this, he wisely exited the office, leaving space for the two of them to talk.
Liu Mingyu smiled slightly and said, "I didn't disturb your work."
Zhao Qingsong smiled slightly and said: "Boss, why did you come to me to explain something important?"
When she came here just now, Zhao Qingsong asked Xu Ranran, but she didn't know what happened and couldn't get the answer from Xu Ranran.
Liu Mingyu smiled and said: "Don't be nervous, it's not a big deal.
I came to you this time just to find out how the Xingchen mobile phone is progressing.
I have already read your previous report, and I have basically made a decision in my mind, but there are some issues that I still need to understand personally before making a decision."
"I wonder if the boss has any questions?"
Zhao Qingsong quickly realized what Liu Mingyu said.
The Xingchen mobile phone can be regarded as the recent key project of the Xingchen Group. I have a relatively thorough understanding of all the details of the Xingchen mobile phone.
Liu Mingyu smiled slightly and said: "Based on your previous report, there are several aspects that I need to tell you. First, in terms of naming, I think we should choose the original name, Chaos, as the first series of mobile phones of Xingchen Mobile."
"No problem." Zhao Qingsong nodded slightly. He didn't have much opinion on the name matter. The reason why he came up with a few names was mainly to seek Liu Mingyu's opinion.
Even if he chooses someone else's name, there's nothing wrong with it.
"Second, the pricing issue. According to the documents you submitted, the cost price of our mobile phone is around 11,000, and the estimated sales price is 15,000.
Is this price a little too high? Can the cost be reduced further?”
In fact, at the very beginning, Liu Mingyu already had a certain estimate of the price of the Xingchen mobile phone. The estimate at that time was around 10,000.
But Liu Mingyu did not expect that the production of core chips in the apocalyptic world would require such a high cost.
Zhao Qingsong shook his head slightly and said: "Boss, this is the cost after significant compression. The main reason is that the spare parts of Xingchen mobile phones are top-notch products here. The price is there. Even if it is purchased in large quantities, it can
The magnitude of the decrease is also very small.
Only by compressing the quality of the material can the cost of the mobile phone be reduced."
In terms of reducing costs, Xingchen Group has achieved the ultimate.
Since Zhao Qingsong took over, he has been preparing to build a closed full ecological platform.
Xingchen Group has a wide variety of end products and a huge quantity, and the number of spare parts it needs to purchase has also reached a terrifying amount.
Xingchen Group directly acquired the manufacturers of related accessories and let those manufacturers produce the spare parts they need specifically for themselves.
In this way, costs can be significantly reduced.
The idea is quite good, but it still cannot be truly self-produced and sold.
Some spare parts still need to be purchased from other companies.
This will cause a problem. Other companies have limited production capacity and very unstable quality, resulting in great restrictions on production capacity.
In order to solve this problem, Zhao Qingsong finally chose to produce it himself.
However, this takes time and cannot be solved in a short time.
Give Zhao Qingsong another year, and the ideal fully closed ecosystem can be completed.
By then, Xingchen Group will be able to truly produce and sell its products by itself.
Of course, this kind of self-production and self-marketing is only in name only.
Some basic resources cannot be monopolized by Xingchen Group.
Since most of the spare parts production is to be done in the real world, this is bound to happen.
Compared with the apocalyptic world, the industrial foundation in the real world is relatively weak. Technologies that seem extremely sparse and ordinary in the apocalyptic world are top-notch technologies in the real world.
Liu Mingyu naturally knew this truth, and nodded slightly in response: "Can you make the Xingchen mobile phone into two versions? One is a low-profile version. In addition to the core chip, other materials are assembled with relatively cheap spare parts. The other one is
It will exist as a high-end version according to the existing version."
Zhao Qingsong nodded and responded: "There is no problem with this, but I am just worried that the technology may not be able to support it.
After all, the Xingchen mobile phone was originally the lowest version that could be manufactured based on existing industrial technology.
I'm afraid that if I continue to castrate, many functions won't be possible."
Originally, this mobile phone was the product of castration from the apocalyptic world with reference to the industrial technology from the real world.
If castration is carried out again now, I am afraid that the Xingchen mobile phone will only become a relatively high-end mobile phone and will not reach the level of an epoch-making product.
Liu Mingyu was also slightly taken aback. He just thought about reducing costs and did not consider other aspects.
Reducing costs will inevitably reduce performance.
Reducing performance will inevitably lead to the inability to implement many functions.
And isn’t it precisely because of its unique functions that the Xingchen mobile phone has attracted the attention of consumers?
If it is only slightly higher-end than other mobile phones, it cannot be said that there is no market, but it can be said that it may disappoint everyone in the end.
Until then.
Products produced by Xingchen must be of high quality.
This sentence is likely to disappear.
To be continued...