Chapter 3891

Just after the 2008 Spring Festival, Hanhai Technology held a press conference again and released several heavyweight pieces of news. The first was that the Hanhai third-generation mobile phone would be launched in two months, and at that time, it would still be a global simultaneous release model.

The Hanhai third-generation mobile phone had a significant improvement in hardware configuration compared to its predecessor, with superior performance, allowing for a better user experience. And in terms of the system and some hardware, it used some new technologies, so this was a new mobile phone very much worth looking forward to.

The upcoming release of the Hanhai third-generation mobile phone was enough to make those fans ecstatic. Many people were waiting for the release of the Hanhai third generation. In addition, Hanhai Technology also had some digital products that were about to be released, which could also satisfy the needs of some digital product enthusiasts.

And there was another heavyweight piece of news: Hanhai Technology would invest over ten billion in Linshan City to build a factory to produce memory chips. This news was too shocking.

The design and production of memory chips had always been a field monopolized by foreign countries, including Hanhai mobile phones themselves; the mobile phone memory used in the past was basically imported from South Korea. Domestic technology found it difficult to achieve mass production of memory chips. In this field, China was at least more than ten years behind the advanced international level.

But now, was Hanhai Technology finally going to enter this field too? This news made industry insiders run around telling each other.

At the press conference, Hanhai Technology announced that this memory factory was just Hanhai Technology's first step in this field, and it would continue to expand production scale in the future, which would be good news for related domestic manufacturers.

For a long time, because this technology was monopolized by a few foreign manufacturers, especially South Korea's Samsung, their output accounted for more than half of the total output. And memory was an indispensable component for products like computers and mobile phones, so the pricing power had always been in the hands of South Korea's Samsung.

This made the price of memory very unstable; it could be said that Samsung raised it when they wanted to and lowered it when they wanted to. When they were dissatisfied with the annual financial report, they would raise the price of memory, and their profits would immediately go up. This feeling of "others are the butcher, I am the fish" was simply too terrible.

And now that Hanhai Technology could also produce memory, this would be good news for the pricing of domestic memory. With competition, the price of memory could not be raised as they pleased, but would be determined according to actual value. How many slashes could this save one from?

Although this factory of Hanhai Technology would also take at least one or two years to reach full production, and although Hanhai Technology's current production capacity was still far from sufficient and might only be able to meet its own needs, this had already made people see hope. At least in the future, they would not be at the mercy of others.

Therefore, this news was even more sensational than the upcoming release of the Hanhai third-generation mobile phone. Major global media outlets published this news. This news meant that the global semiconductor landscape might be about to undergo major changes.

This was not alarmist. Hanhai Technology had such ability. More than a decade ago, when Hanhai Technology was just established, it was just a small-scale IT company. At the beginning, it mainly engaged in software and network industries, and it only took a few years to become a top company in the industry, leaving a crowd of old-school companies behind.

Subsequently, Hanhai Technology began to enter the hardware industry and spent huge sums of money to build research institutes, starting to take the technical route. After that, Hanhai Technology had explosive news announced almost every year. The number of patents they obtained each year was already ranked first among global companies. Such an upward momentum was truly too fierce.

For technologies where China was once lagging behind, Hanhai Technology caught up one by one. In several fields like smartphones, it had even achieved overtaking. Then, in the memory field, what reason did Hanhai Technology have not to catch up with the industry leader?

Many people had already begun to mourn for Samsung. Samsung's once-proud mobile phone field, with the rise of Hanhai mobile phones, had begun to decline, only able to eat dust behind Hanhai Technology. Whether in mobile phone hardware configuration or system optimization, they were comprehensively lagging behind Hanhai mobile phones.

Now, Samsung's once-dominant memory field had also encountered a strong challenge from Hanhai Technology. How many more years could their good days last?

In recent years, due to the downturn of the mobile phone department, Samsung Technology had repeatedly raised prices in memory to make up for the losses of the mobile phone department. Now their days were still okay, but after Hanhai Technology used the memory it produced itself, their days would not be so good.

After this press conference, Hanhai Technology's status was already at its zenith in the country. Chinese people hoped that they would be the strongest in the world in any field, and Hanhai Technology satisfied this wish of theirs very well. Now, Hanhai Technology had already become the strongest in the world in several fields, and in other relatively lagging fields, they were also catching up.

It could be said that Hanhai Technology had already become the pride of the Chinese people. Even when facing foreigners, they could proudly say that Hanhai Technology was China's.

Su Xinghui also attended this press conference. Before the press conference, Su Xinghui already knew the content that Hou Wenchang was going to say, but at the press conference, when he heard Hou Wenchang's words, he still could not stop his heart from surging. He applauded vigorously just like those who attended the press conference, and even discovered that there was a hot tear in the corner of his eye.

This could not help but make him excited. Although he had long anticipated this day, when this day truly arrived, he only then knew what kind of taste this was. This was what was called "exhilaration." Hanhai Technology could be said to have been built by him through painstaking efforts. Now, it had grown to this point. Compared to his previous life, China's technological strength had already become much stronger.

Su Xinghui also could not help but feel proud of himself. In the more than ten years since his rebirth, he had already done too many things. He was striving to make this country better and better. Now it seemed that he was still very successful.

After the press conference, Su Xinghui had a meal alone with Hou Wenchang because there were some things that could only be said when the two of them were alone, and could not be said to anyone else.

In the private room, Su Xinghui raised his wine glass and said to Hou Wenchang with a smile, "Wenchang, congratulations to you!"

This matter was indeed worth congratulating. Being able to make a breakthrough in the memory field meant that the shackles on Hanhai Technology would be one layer less, and the shackles on China would also be one layer less. In the future, it would not be so easy for others to choke our necks again.

And Hou Wenchang's status in the history of Chinese technology was also almost unshakable. He was destined to leave his name in history, which was a huge honor for anyone.

Hou Wenchang raised his wine glass with high spirits, drank a glass of wine with Su Xinghui, and then said to Su Xinghui, "Xinghui, this is all thanks to you! If it weren't for you letting me increase investment in technical research and development, we wouldn't have such a breakthrough now."

Hanhai Technology had begun to increase investment in technical research and development very early. Their annual investment in technical research and development was an astronomical figure, which could be considered one of the best among technology companies in the world. Plus, with Su Xinghui's guidance, Hanhai Technology rarely took detours, which made their R&D investment achieve twice the result with half the effort. It was not strange that they could achieve such a breakthrough.

Speaking of which, Hou Wenchang indeed had to thank Su Xinghui. Of course, the two could also be considered to have achieved each other.

Without Su Xinghui, Hou Wenchang certainly could not have his current achievements, but without Hou Wenchang, there were many things that Su Xinghui could not realize.

Su Xinghui smiled and said, "Now Hanhai Technology's status in the world should be unbreakable, but investment in technical R&D still cannot be reduced. Only technical R&D is the kingly way!"

Hanhai Technology's annual investment in technical R&D was increasing, and several companies in which they had shares, such as Xuanwu Technology, Hengxing Microelectronics, etc., also had very large investments in technical R&D. This was implementing Su Xinghui's philosophy: technology is king.

Of course, Su Xinghui's reminder was also necessary. Technical R&D is like sailing against the current; if you don't advance, you retreat. As long as R&D investment is reduced, it can be seen immediately, and soon you will be caught up by others. Therefore, only by always maintaining large investment can you maintain a leading position in technology.

Hou Wenchang said, "Of course it won't be reduced. I am even preparing to increase the investment ratio. I haven't sat enough in this seat; I hope to always sit in the highest position."

Hanhai Technology now could certainly sit firmly in the top chair of Chinese technology companies. And looking at the world, even if Hanhai Technology could not enter the top three of global technology companies, at least it could enter the top ten. And Hanhai Technology's development momentum was incomparably strong. Su Xinghui believed that one day, Hanhai Technology would be able to sit in that highest position!

Su Xinghui raised his wine glass again and said, "I believe there will be that day. Come, let's drink a few more glasses!"

Hou Wenchang did not usually drink much, but today he was truly very happy. He drank a few glasses of wine with Su Xinghui and talked about many heart-to-heart things.

When Hou Wenchang was in his twenties, he was still a young man who liked computers but was not very mature. It was Su Xinghui who let him reach his current position, let him find his life goal, and have a huge sense of achievement. Therefore, he would treat Su Xinghui as his best friend for his whole life.

Actually, sometimes, how could Hou Wenchang not feel suspicious about Su Xinghui's suspected ability to predict? The things Su Xinghui knew were too advanced. Almost until now, Hanhai Technology had benefited from these abilities of Su Xinghui.

However, so what? As long as Hou Wenchang knew that Su Xinghui would never be detrimental to him, would always be his friend, and was a good person, that was enough.

It is enough to have one confidant in life!