I can become stronger by paying salaries. I have one billion employees!

Chapter 600: Hundreds of Billions in Losses? The first generation sells, the second uses, the third hoards! The DRAM chip sector!

The next morning, as soon as the Orange Supermarket in Shanghai opened its doors, it welcomed its first wave of customers, mainly elderly men and women from the neighborhood.

"The bok choy at Orange Supermarket is so fresh and delicious! My daughter rarely eats bok choy, but yesterday she ate a small plate of it for the first time ever."

"The beef is of good quality, and when stewed with potatoes, it has a rich aroma and tastes delicious."

"The best thing to use is their garbage bags. They are sturdy, durable, and inexpensive. I heard they are made by Yunsu Express and are the same type as their express delivery bags."

Several familiar aunties gathered together, chattering and sharing their favorite orange products.

Xu Xinlei sat at the cashier with a bright smile on her face.

She had worked in the supermarket industry for over a decade, and this was the first time she had encountered a company and a boss like this, who had actually arranged high stools at the checkout counter.

When there are no guests, I can sit back and relax with my back against the chair back, feeling very comfortable.

Unlike before, when I would stand for more than ten hours at a time, and by the end of the day my feet would be swollen and my back would be stiff.

"Brother Sen is the real entrepreneur. What's the difference between those previous bosses and the slave owners of the past?"

Xu Xinlei muttered to herself.

Her base salary is 3600 yuan, and she works a six-hour day. Although her actual working hours are eight to ten hours a day, the company will pay her overtime at 1.5 times the hourly rate for the extra two to four hours, down to the minute.

Thinking about this, she couldn't help but smile.

The only thing that bothered her was that her supervisor said there was too much overtime on weekdays, and the boss wanted to reduce it to less than two hours.

She's not afraid of working overtime, she's only afraid of not getting overtime pay, and she's only afraid of not earning enough money.

About twenty minutes later, several women slowly walked over pushing shopping carts.

Xu Xinlei then moved her bottom and used the scanner to settle the bill for the customer.

"Little sisters, you even have chairs to sit on. This job is comfortable."

An older woman remarked after seeing the chair behind Xu Xinlei.

"The boss was very understanding. The total was 93.7 yuan. Should we pay by card, cash, or QR code?"

Xu Xinlei asked with a smile.

"Scan the code, of course! There are random discounts."

The woman opened her payment code and said with a smile.

The page displayed on the screen was clearly OrangePay.

It's worth noting that OrangePay's branch in Shanghai has been operating for almost two years, with a 70% occupancy rate in offline payment scenarios.

Other cities may be slower to accept new things, but in Shanghai, many women in their fifties and sixties have long been proficient in using WeChat, Douyin, and electronic payments. They are also adept at group buying and hailing ride-hailing services.

After dealing with this wave of guests, Xu Xinlei breathed a sigh of relief and returned to her chair.

People who haven't experienced standing for long periods of time simply can't understand how standing can be tiring.

But once you try it, you'll find that even if you only stand for a few hours, let alone a whole day, your legs will feel sore.

At the same time, employees in various positions throughout the supermarket were busy. Some were wiping down workbenches, while others were stocking, sorting, and restocking goods. Meanwhile, staff in the baking area were making cakes and bread.

Orange Supermarket remained bustling on its second day, although it couldn't compare to the previous day, the average transaction value had increased significantly.

at the same time.

Inside a Kuaipao (a type of online running game) station located on Bibo Road.

Holding her daughter's hand, Liang Yue recounted to the legal staff at Kuai Pao how her in-laws had embezzled the death compensation money.

“You should tell the company that in your case, you can at least get back half of the death compensation. Don’t worry, the chances of winning are very high. I’ll go back to the company first, get your in-laws’ identity information, and then go to Huian to file a lawsuit.”

Sheng Benkun closed his notebook, then stood up, looking confident and composed.

He was a graduate of East China University of Political Science and Law. He had been interning at a law firm, but his internship salary was so low that it couldn't even cover his rent. So when he saw Kuaipao's recruitment information, he immediately ran away without looking back.

When he joined Kuaipao, he was immediately stunned; there were more than 300 people in the department.

This doesn't look like the legal department of an internet company; it looks like a medium-sized law firm!

Their daily work mainly involves traffic and medical litigation cases, serving clients ranging from business owners and management to delivery drivers on the streets.

For example, last winter, a deliveryman was hit by a car, but the driver refused to pay compensation, and the legal department had to step in to resolve the issue.

After Liang Yue's story was featured on a local news channel in Shanghai, it received attention from the company.

"Thank you, Attorney Sheng." Liang Yue leaned forward and bowed in gratitude.

"Just call me Sheng Benkun. We're colleagues, no need to be so polite."

Sheng Benkun waved his hand and said.

Although he couldn't understand Chen Yansen's actions or the boss's true intentions, he had to work hard since the company had given him generous treatment and benefits.

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"Currently, the monthly production capacity of Tiangong A100 is 800 million units, Tiangong B100 is 640 million units, Tiangong C100 is 1200 million units, and Tiangong T100 is 300 million units..."

In a conference room on the top floor of the main building of Senlian Science and Technology Park, Mike Keller was giving a presentation. To his left were Wu Shengyu and Yu Xianyang.

One of them focused on the CPU module, while the other was responsible for the GPU module.

Chen Yansen leaned back in the main seat, his gaze fixed on the screen beside him.

In addition to being used in Orange phones, the Tiangong series mobile processors will also be featured in new models from Xiaomi, 360, Meitu, LeEco, NetEase, Meizu, and OPPO.

As for the chips he purchased from Nvidia and MediaTek, they were mostly used in the African market and are about to enter the South American market.

The main buyers of the Tiangong T100 are Amazon and Xiaomi.

Two weeks ago, Huawei also purchased 50 units, clearly indicating its intention to enter the smart speaker market.

After all, Huawei spent almost two years refining the Xiaoyi voice assistant after purchasing the speech analysis development tools, so it's understandable that they want to promote the development of the hardware side now.

"Huawei will most likely place additional orders, and Amazon's smart home orders also need to keep up. We must not let the supply chain break down. We need to increase the production capacity of T100 to 400 million units first."

Chen Yansen began by giving instructions.

“Yes, boss,” Mike Keller nodded in response.

"The prices of memory chips from Toshiba, SK Hynix, and Sanfos have increased by another five percent, so I'm planning to establish a semiconductor memory business unit to develop our own DRAM chips. Do you have any suitable engineers you could recommend?"

Chen Yansen continued to ask.

The reason why Xiao Rizi and Goryeo dare to raise prices is simply because they rely on their monopoly position in the DRAM chip field.

No problem, once the contract expires, he will raise the supply price of Deep Blue batteries by another 10 percentage points, only for Sansung, Toshiba and Hynix.

"Boss, Daniel Skinner, Micron's director of mobile DRAM architecture, is quite capable. He greatly improved concurrency performance by introducing the Bank Group architecture."

Mike Keller was the first to answer.

Wu Shengyu and Yu Xianyang exchanged glances, thinking: Directly poach Micron's architecture director? Is that even feasible? Would they even be willing to come?
They knew some top experts in memory chip technology, but most of them worked for companies like Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, or Intel.

"You know him?" Chen Yansen asked noncommittally. "We are both graduates of MIT's microelectronics program. Daniel is three years ahead of me. In memory technology, he is an absolute genius, proficient in the core design of DRAM, especially the DDR4 version."

It's easy to tell from Mike Keller's tone that he highly admires Daniel's skill level.

"Send me his contact information, and I'll communicate with him personally."

Chen Yansen thought for a moment and said.

Mike Keller responded and sent the other party's private contact information to Chen Yansen via Yunzhou.

"Meeting dismissed."

Chen Yansen threw down a sentence, pushed open the door, and walked out.

Guo Shenyi followed closely behind.

"Boss, there's a short business meeting for Pinduoduo at 2 PM. The weekly business meetings for Orange Communications, Orange Technology, and Orange Payment are scheduled for 3, 4, and 5 PM."

Guo Shen said as he walked.

During his time as Chen Yansen's assistant, he broadened his horizons and gained a preliminary understanding of the business of Senlian Capital's subsidiaries.

"Call Lao Gao and have him come to my office."

Chen Yansen casually gave the order.

"Okay," Guo Shenyi replied.

The meeting room and Chen Yansen's office are only about 60 meters apart, just a short walk away.

Guo Shenyi placed the meeting minutes he had compiled on his boss's desk and then left on his own.

Chen Yansen plopped down, put his feet up on the table, leaned back in his office chair, took out his phone, replied to a few messages, then opened Mimo, switched to the Annam region, and started scrolling through his phone.

North American car headlights are large and bright, but not very refined, while Southeast Asian car headlights, though smaller, are superior in shape.

After sweeping across North America and Europe, Mimo has successively entered Australia, South America and Southeast Asia, with a total of over 7 million registered users and nearly 2 million daily active users.

Especially in Siam, Luzon and Annam, Mimo quickly became the most popular social platform among young people after its launch.

Under his instructions, Mao Chaorong has added a friend list and chat function.

In overseas markets, Mimo's influence is in no way inferior to that of Facebook.

In other words, once Mimo goes public, its value will be at least $1000 billion.

Therefore, after Pinduoduo went public, Wall Street financial giants would call Chen Yansen every now and then, their intentions being nothing more than to invest money and get a share of the profits.

Chen Yansen neither agreed nor refused, keeping the group in suspense.

Suddenly, a call notification popped up on my phone screen.

Yu Chendong!
After a moment's thought, Chen Yansen guessed the other party's purpose and pressed the answer button.

"Mr. Chen, there is a dismantling company overseas that removed the battery from the Yaocheng X2 Plus and conducted energy density and cycle life tests. They found that the deep blue battery used in the Yaocheng X2 Plus has 40% higher energy storage capacity than the Yaocheng X2."

Yu Dazui cleared his throat and cautiously probed, choosing his words carefully.

Could this disassembly company be Huawei?
Chen Yansen chuckled softly, secretly thinking to himself.

However, he didn't care.

Given that the Yao Cheng X2 Plus has made certain technological breakthroughs in areas such as high refresh rate screen, triple camera module and battery, isn't it normal for it to be disassembled and studied?
Just like the iPhone 4s back then, it was copied and imitated by countless counterfeit phone factories in Huaqiangbei.

"40%? Which teardown and testing company? That doesn't sound very professional."

Chen Yansen vehemently denied it.

The second-generation Deep Blue battery has an energy density of 800 watt-hours per kilogram, and only a small portion has been produced so far, which has been used in the Shiny Orange X2 Plus.

Yu Chendong opened his mouth, thinking: I'm a tech guy, Mr. Chen, do you have to treat me like an idiot?

Is it possible that Huawei can't even measure the energy density of a lithium battery?

His purpose in making that call was simple: Huawei also wanted to use the latest Deep Blue battery technology, but Chen Yansen refused to admit it, which clearly showed that he didn't want to sell the product to Huawei.

"Mr. Chen, could Huawei replace a batch of Deep Blue batteries? We plan to launch the Ascend P7 at the Paris Mobile Expo early next month. The Kirin 910T is one of Huawei's trump cards, and I want to bring out another trump card to give Chinese mobile phones some face."

Yu Chendong pretended to be confused, and said meaningfully.

"Let's talk about it after October." Chen Yansen naturally understood the implication in Yu Dazui's words.

"The price is negotiable," Yu Chendong added.

"It's not about the money," Chen Yansen said decisively.

Providing the first-generation product to the buyer while using the second-generation product himself is not very ethical, but Chen Yansen's attitude has always been: I am not an ethical person. Use it or don't, it's up to you!
If you're so capable, then don't use the deep blue batteries; just stick with the old lithium battery products.

Yu Chendong had no choice but to hang up the phone after exchanging a few pleasantries.

Chen Yansen tossed his phone aside, opened Lingxi Search, entered keywords, and soon found the disassembly video that Yu Chendong had mentioned.

"No wonder my Shiny Orange X2 Plus has such great battery life. I fell asleep last night and it automatically played TV series all night. When I woke up the next day, the battery was still more than half full."

"My Shiny Orange X2 Plus is the same. I don't even bring a power bank when I go out."

"The deep blue battery equipped in the Shiny Orange X2 Plus is definitely a new product. There are bloggers on YouTube who have reviewed it and found that the energy density is 30% higher."

"Does this even need testing? You can see it with the naked eye. The battery capacity of the Yaocheng X2 Plus is 7400 mAh, while that of the Yaocheng X2 is 6100 mAh. As a result, the battery of the Yaocheng X2 Plus is obviously much smaller."

“I used to use an iPhone 5s, which required charging once or twice a day. Now that I’ve switched to the Shiny Orange X2 Plus, I can go three days without charging.”

Chen Yansen glanced at the comments section and smiled with satisfaction.

Isn't this exactly what he wanted to see?

Since the Yaocheng series started late, it's necessary to add some product advantages to it.

Next, Apple Greater China President Ge Yue, Shanxing Greater China President Park Jae-soon, ZTE Mobile Head He Dingyou, and others called one after another.

The implication is clear: they want to purchase a second-generation product with superior performance.

In response, Chen Yansen stated that there is no second-generation product and that all teardown reviews online are false information.

In the end, the group of competitors could only hang up the phone, cursing and swearing.

the other side.

In the DeepBlue Technology R&D laboratory in Shenzhen, Huang Renhua, wearing a pair of thick black-rimmed glasses, rested his left hand on the temple of the glasses, but his eyes were fixed on the electrolyte formula on the screen.

With his limited access, he could only view a small portion of the technical documentation.

But the buyer said he was willing to pay $500 million to buy it, regardless of its value.

What does $500 million mean in 2014?
Enough to live a prosperous life in any country in the world.

"Mr. Chen, I'm sorry, I just wanted to make more money."

Huang Renhua silently defended himself in his heart.

However, he selectively ignored one point: if the electrolyte formula of Deep Blue Battery were leaked, it would cause China a loss of hundreds of billions of US dollars.

(End of this chapter)