Chapter 401

These few years, Li Dongling has successively invested in and bought shares in some companies, which definitely need these companies to do things for Dongling Gao Ke and need to make the best use of everything. It is impossible to raise them for nothing.

Dongling Gao Ke has a software department. Tianya Network Company basically counts as Dongling Gao Ke's software department.

But when it comes to developing functional software, including mobile phone functional software, computer software, electronic dictionary functions, etc., and even developing mobile phone systems and EDA software in the future, Kingsoft is definitely more capable. Qiu Bojun and Lei Jun are experts in this.

There is another point. Li Dongling hopes to support Kingsoft to become a "model," letting the outside world see that it is precisely because there is a Bole like Dongling Gao Ke that Kingsoft can be saved from danger, attracting more software companies and individual developers to join Dongling Gao Ke's camp and develop products around Dongling Gao Ke's hardware products!

As for what is the use of this?

Then you have to ask a group of companies like Microsoft, Apple, DJI, and Nvidia, and ask how many companies and developers rely on the Microsoft system platform, Apple system platform, DJI drone platform, and Nvidia platform to eat.

In the past life, DJI was able to reverse price increases in America. Even if Capitol Hill issued an order, there were still countless people in America who withstood the pressure to buy DJI drones. And those who bought DJI drones were not ordinary enthusiasts, but American farmers, police stations, health departments, environmental departments, and even American soldiers. Why can't they leave DJI?

There are many manufacturers that make computing graphics cards, such as AMD, Google, Intel, Broadcom, and Qualcomm, but truly in this field, in the short term, only Nvidia is lonely and undefeated, while the others drink soup at most.

There are many manufacturers that make drones and computing graphics cards, but in these two industries, the only ones that can really fight are DJI and Nvidia.

Technology is one aspect, of course. In their respective industries, the technology of these two companies is naturally the top-notch, but more importantly, they spent several years building an ecosystem around their respective platforms.

Like Nvidia's CUDA platform, there are over 5 million software developers, including a group of companies and individual developers who use Nvidia's CUDA to develop software, and the users are all over the world.

And conversely, the more software developed based on Nvidia CUDA, the more users use Nvidia graphics cards, and the more users buy, the more revenue Nvidia can get to research more advanced computing chips, forming a cycle.

Developers and users all stand on Nvidia's side, making the Nvidia of the past life look more like a software ecosystem company relying on graphics card chips. It sells not only graphics cards but also various games and software brought by this set of graphics cards, etc.

The same goes for DJI. DJI has two most important magic weapons in the drone field: a large number of drone patents and various software developed around DJI.

These software can allow drones to perform agriculture, environmental surveying, film and television shooting, and even military operations, etc., and the companies that develop these software can also get revenue. These software developers and industry users are DJI's iron-clad supporters. It concerns their rice bowls. Is it something that can be done by just saying don't let them use it?

Li Dongling hopes to attract a large batch of software development companies and individual developers to develop products around Dongling Gao Ke's products. These futures can also become the advantages of Dongling Gao Ke's products!

"If Kingsoft and Seasun can develop supporting functional software and games for electronic dictionaries, the technology department is confident in launching these two products, repeaters and electronic dictionaries, in the second half of the year!"

Chen Tao said to Li Dongling. He is very confident in the hardware aspect. The strength of Dongling Gao Ke's technology department is not to say how good it is overseas, but domestically, it is among the best.

Dongling Gao Ke's most important major departments are basically the technology department, marketing department, financial department, and production department. Other departments are naturally important, but only these major departments can support the entire Dongling Gao Ke.

Subsequently, the persons in charge of personnel, logistics, and other departments also reported, which meant that the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters had basically finished this year.

Overall, this year, the entire Dongling Gao Ke headquarters was basically in a period of explosive growth, whether it was revenue or personnel scale, which expanded rapidly.

When promoting outside, it is definitely promoted in a good way, but behind closed doors, it definitely cannot be self-aggrandizing.

The big sales of products like Little Smart this year also caused a pile of problems for Dongling Gao Ke. Supply chain problems, the production capacity problem of Shougang NEC, which is an OEM for Dongxin Semiconductor, insufficient after-sales maintenance points, and logistics chain problems, etc., all appeared. After all, a shipment volume of over 10 million is not so easy to achieve.

Not only Dongling Gao Ke, Nokia is also the same. This year, there were rumors that Nokia's supply chain was on the verge of collapse due to skyrocketing sales, which is actually not much different from Dongling Gao Ke's supply chain. Component suppliers' production capacity couldn't keep up, and the speed of production expansion couldn't keep up with the speed of machines being sold!

However, for these tuition fees and experience, other companies want to learn but don't have this opportunity, because sales volume is too large and the supply chain collapse is much better than producing it but not being able to sell it and letting it rot in the warehouse!

"Dongxin Semiconductor, currently in terms of landline phone chips, has surpassed Toshiba and Infineon to become the world's largest shipper. In addition, Dongxin Semiconductor is currently also the largest domestic mobile phone chip shipper!"

After Hu Zixian, Chen Tao, Zhang Ao, and others, the one who stood up was Wu Xinyi, general manager of Dongxin Semiconductor under Dongling Gao Ke.

Relying on the parent company Dongling Gao Ke, Dongxin Semiconductor's life is actually quite good because it doesn't lack orders!

Why did those domestic chip and semiconductor manufacturers fail to mix well before? It was because they had no orders.

But for Dongxin Semiconductor, this problem does not exist. The orders given by its father are too many, and Dongxin Semiconductor can't finish them all.

Since developing the "Sirius" domestic landline chip, the price of global landline chips was immediately beaten down, especially on Toshiba's side, which no longer lacked goods, but the orders were still snatched away by Dongxin Semiconductor.

By now, Dongxin Semiconductor is already the world's largest landline chip shipment volume. Although it is global, in fact, the world's largest landline phone production place is domestically, so Dongxin Semiconductor's Sirius landline chip is actually sold to domestic manufacturers.

The Sirius chip developed by Dongxin Semiconductor has already been magically modified into multiple chips with different prices. The Sirius chips sold to domestic landline phone manufacturers are not expensive, but they win in large volume and full supply.

And mobile phone chips are Little Smart chips. Current mobile phones have not yet entered the 2G era and have no internet requirements. They can only make calls and send text messages. As for mobile phone games, there are none, so the requirements for mobile phone chips are really not high, and there are not a few companies in the world that can produce them.

It will have to wait until the 2G mobile phone era, when mobile phone functions increase, for the requirements for chip performance to increase. In the smart mobile phone chip era, baseband chips are when it's time to play tricks. This thing is, to put it bluntly, the network card in the mobile phone. Without it, no matter if you buy a mobile phone for thousands or tens of thousands, you can't go online, which is about the same as a brick, and it also became the last straw that crushed countless mobile phone chip manufacturers.

Qualcomm, relying on the means of buying basebands and sending chips, drove the old mobile phone chip manufacturer Texas Instruments out of the mobile phone chip industry. Apple's self-developed baseband chip also failed, and after tossing for a few years, it obediently paid patent fees to Qualcomm.

As for now, mobile phone chips don't have such high requirements, and Dongxin Semiconductor has developed them itself, relying on Little Smart's crazy shipments.

However, in the next few years, Dongxin Semiconductor will also start to fight in baseband chips, because the 2G era is about to come. This fight will last for more than ten or twenty years. It is estimated that only a few three or five companies will be able to sit at the card table in the end. However, from beginning to end, the only one that has never been absent is Samsung, the old six.

And Samsung is also the only company that can design, research, and produce baseband chips by itself. Dongxin Semiconductor can't help but have to cross the river by feeling Samsung.

"This year, Dongxin Semiconductor's profit is... 270 million yuan!"

After Wu Xinyi's voice fell, the group of people in the conference room all looked at Wu Xinyi with stunned expressions, suspecting whether they had heard wrong.

This revenue, at first glance, is naturally acceptable. Other semiconductor manufacturers are still losing money, but can Dongxin Semiconductor be the same?

Dongling Gao Ke and its subsidiaries, and even the companies of its allies, as long as they are orders related to chips, have all been given to Dongxin Semiconductor.

Yes, Dongxin Semiconductor only designs chips and has no chip production lines. After getting the orders, it hands them over to Shougang NEC for foundry production. It actually earns design fees and price differences, but how many orders does Dongxin Semiconductor have this year in total?

Products like Shenzhou digital cordless phones, Little Smart, Silver Mink optical mice, and Feiyan radios, as long as they are orders related to chips and motherboards, have all been handed over to Dongxin Semiconductor. Even if it earns the price difference, it shouldn't earn just this little, after all, the Dongling Gao Ke headquarters hasn't missed a cent!

Wu Xinyi could feel the gazes of the group of people in the conference room, and his old face also flushed, but he was also somewhat helpless. Outsiders only see Dongxin Semiconductor as infinitely beautiful, but only their own people know what it's like inside.

"Dongxin Semiconductor has quite a few projects in R&D, and the main revenue has been used for projects like computer chips!"

Wu Xinyi didn't say specifically, but Li Dongling, Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, and others were all clear about where Dongxin Semiconductor's earnings were spent. Researching lithography machines is really too money-burning. Dongxin Semiconductor earns quite a lot, but raising this money-swallowing beast is still somewhat strenuous!

However, Li Dongling is already quite satisfied with Dongxin Semiconductor's performance. To tell the truth, not losing money is earning, which is not in vain for Li Dongling pulling so many orders for it.

(End of chapter)