"Jirun Food Processing Factory specializes in producing granulated milk tea for a certain famous brand. Half of the machines are used to make this, and some of the machines are used to process snacks such as cookies..."
Wang Jinli recalled the information about Jirun Food Processing Factory. The general manager of this processing factory is called Peng Wen, an intellectual wearing gold-rimmed glasses. After meeting him, he was very enthusiastic:
"Hey~ Mr. Wang, Mr. Wang! You are finally here. Let me tell you...if you don't come, our factory may have no choice but to resell the machines..."
"Boss Peng, you're welcome. I'm just here for an inspection. I'm afraid our chairman has the final say. But don't worry, I will give you truthful feedback on the situation in our factory~"
"Come on, come on, please..."
There are no problems with the various procedures and machines of Jirun Food Processing Factory. The reason why it is on the verge of bankruptcy is because there are too many competing products of the same type on the market, and their brands are somewhat stretched.
The Wanwan brand is like this. One moment it may focus on the domestic market, but the next moment it may start to divest. As a result, food processing plants like them are really speechless and can only take orders from other brands.
After Wang Jinli took a brief look, he asked a question he was more concerned about: "By the way, which supplier does the milk in our milk tea use? How is the quality? Is the shipment volume stable?"
He still remembered that Chen Zifan mentioned that the current number one domestic brand of reindeer milk powder would go bankrupt soon, although from his perspective he could not see where the reindeer milk powder would go bankrupt.
But he still chose to believe Chen Zifan. Combined with the safety and quality issues that Chen Zifan had always mentioned, there was only one possibility: reindeer milk powder products would have serious quality problems in the future.
"But how is this possible..."
If it is true, then the milk tea brand invested by Stardust Technology can use this matter to promote it. Unexpectedly, after Peng Wen heard Wang Jinli’s question, he seemed a little overwhelmed:
"Milk? Milk tea needs milk?"
"Don't you need it?"
"do you need?"
"..."
Wang Jinli was confused, and Peng Wen was also confused. One naively thought that there would be milk in the milk tea, while the other forgot that Wang Jinli was not specialized in food and was not very clear about some of the details.
In order to save costs, almost all granular milk teas on the market use non-dairy creamer. Even later, 99% of street milk tea shops used non-dairy creamer, and those using milk powder and creamer were almost extinct.
"Uh... there's no milk in milk tea? Then why is it called milk tea? So why exactly? Is it because you can't put milk in it or to reduce costs?"
"What else could it be for? Our milk tea infusion only costs one yuan per pack. Although we won't lose money by adding milk...but why not if we can make more money?"
"That's true, but our Stardust Technology's requirements are different. Since you have accepted our investment, you have to follow our requirements..."
"I understand this."
In the end, after preliminary discussions between Wang Jinli and Peng Wen, Stardust Technology invested 3 million and took 35% of the shares to create a milk tea brand focusing on street food. The details still need to be discussed.
This matter cannot be rushed. The expansion of milk tea brands is not that fast, especially these days, ordinary people are not very receptive to milk tea products.
In comparison, the other project seemed much more important. After Wang Jinli returned to the Stardust Technology headquarters, he began to contact a foreign manufacturer called BALD, and the general manager was named Andreuz.
Foreign wifi... or wireless fidelity, this technology is not controlled by one company. They have a special alliance, and there are many competitors at the same time, and various patents are flying all over the sky.
However, what Chen Zifan is not afraid of the most is patents. He extracted some of the companies' public patents and produced a "imitation", and then obtained new technologies through [Analyzing Copycats].
Some were kept for later use, while the rest were bargaining chips for his cooperation. With the technology, BALD, who was not interested in Stardust technology investment, suddenly became energetic and began to contact them proactively.
After a period of discussion between Wang Jinli and his small team, the specific model is: Stardust Technology provides technology → BALD produces finished products → and then obtains a certain market position → reverse licenses to domestic operators.
It seems to be a big circle, but this is the safest way. There is no benefit to one company being the only one. Whether it is domestic or foreign, Chen Zifan needs some strong partners.
There are also some things that Stardust Technology cannot afford now. If Chen Zifan wants to advance the era of smartphones and allow Stardust Technology to take a certain initiative, he must pay a price.
"Wifi, milk tea...it doesn't matter whether these two things are successful or not, they are just icing on the cake. What really determines the future is Stardust 1..."
The hardware of Stardust 1 is all in place, and Stardust OS 1.0 is also progressing steadily. There is only one problem left: the chip. Chen Zifan needs a chip with sufficient performance to support the operation of Stardust OS.
As a result, he searched around the market and couldn't find such a chip at all. The chip for a functional phone that was closest to his requirements was also out of stock, and all orders were taken by brands such as Nokia and Motorola.
To solve this problem, there are only three ways in front of Chen Zifan: First, forcefully use [Analyze Copycat] to analyze the chip drawings and combine them to design a brand new chip.
But the cycle of doing this is too long. Without half a year to do various testing, the foundry has no way to mass-produce. In addition, the production capacity is limited. Even if it is really capable of production, the early production capacity will not meet its requirements.
The second is to analyze all the machines and technologies of some foundries through [Analyzing Shanzhai], and after obtaining new technologies, build Stardust Technology's own chip production line. Chen Zifan also thinks the same.
In addition, there is a third way to choose, which is [Stardust Technology] in his consciousness, and there is also [Synthetic Creation] that has not been unlocked. He doesn't know the specific unlocking level yet.
"'Box' has sold 570,000 units since its launch. If we work harder, we can raise the level of [Stardust Technology] to lv.20. I wonder if lv.20 can unlock [Synthetic Creation] …”
If not, then Chen Zifan can only take time to "visit" some chip foundries, and by the way, sort out the patent content disclosed on the market, and prepare to go it alone.
The risk of doing this is also very high, but Chen Zifan has no choice, unless he replaces the chip of Stardust 1 with the low-end functional machine chip in the test engineering machine...and then downgrades Stardust OS to another level...
"Impossible!"
