Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 479: The Cell Phone Business Is Over

Chapter 479: Chapter 479: The Cell Phone Business Is Over

"Hmm, let me think about it." The people from Longxin indeed found Chen Yiyang quite sincere.

After pondering for a moment, they replied, "I did learn about a new technology some time ago, but this technology is currently still in the theoretical stage, and the initial investment is quite high."

"Tell me more." Chen Yiyang curiously asked.

"I won’t get into the technical details with you. Simply put, the current lithography machine is actually not very large.

On one hand, it’s due to technical reasons, and on the other, if the lithography machine is too large, it’s not convenient for transportation.

Because the lithography machine’s manufacturing factory is in the Netherlands, and the two major companies using the lithography machine are located on Taiwan Island and in South Korea.

So the lithography machine requires long-distance transport to reach these two places, and if it’s made too large, it will be inconvenient to transport.

But for the domestic situation at present, the size of the lithography machine is not an issue.

Because if we produce and manufacture lithography machines domestically, the companies using these machines to produce chips will also be domestic, and the main market will be domestic as well.

There’s simply no need for long-distance transportation.

So Tsinghua has proposed a plan to use particle accelerator technology to replace EUV lithography, creating a lithography factory to replace the lithography machine, enabling mass chip production.

The advantage of doing it this way is obvious. Once the lithography factory is established, it can produce all chips from low-end to high-end.

It’s all about brute force and using scale advantages to compress costs."

Chen Yiyang felt that this project seemed quite reliable.

In the field of technology, the biggest fear is the lack of successful experience.

Without successful experience, money must be spent to trial and error.

Moreover, this trial and error seems to have no end.

You might throw in ten billion and get no results, or you might succeed after just one trial.

This unknown is most torturous for investors.

"Help me get in touch with experts in the relevant field, I’m ready to give it a try."

Chen Yiyang made up his mind that regardless of whether the idea of this lithography factory succeeds or not, he intends to pour in tens of billions to study it.

If successful, he would gain unimaginable prestige, gaining a high position both in the government and among the public.

Even if it doesn’t succeed, investing so much money could be seen as trial and error for the country.

At least it would show the higher-ups his attitude, proving that he’s not just an entrepreneur purely pursuing financial gain.

After talking with the people from Longxin, Chen Yiyang approached Gena.

"My good brother, I’ve already connected you to a company." Chen Yiyang said, putting his arm around Gena, "But due to your specific situation there, they are quite worried about the partnership, I really had to put in a lot of effort to negotiate it for you."

"Rest assured, brother, we won’t treat you unfairly." Gena straightforwardly stated his terms.

"How about this, our country has opened many fields to you in the Far East. I’ll give you a list later, and you see which field you’re interested in entering, and we’ll provide you favorable terms."

Chen Yiyang didn’t expect Gena to have already thought of the benefits he wanted to give him in advance.

Russia has indeed opened its doors to domestic investors in the Far East now, allowing free investments in agriculture, automobiles, mechanical parts that were previously not permissible.

Of course, in Russia’s commercial environment, venturing into business hastily without backing is easy to get into trouble.

But with backing, the profits can indeed be high.

After all, even if Russia is poor, they can still offer plenty of resources to sell.

"Alright." Chen Yiyang nodded with a smile in agreement, "I’ll arrange the negotiation between you and the other party in the coming days."

After handling the matters of connecting Longxin and Gena.

Chen Yiyang received a call from Germany shortly after returning to the villa.

"Schaefer, my good brother, what happened?"

"I feel like I’ve been cursed by some demon lately."

Schaefer said in a low tone, "How come unexpected events happen every time I do business?"

"Is that deal with France selling fighter jets you brokered in trouble?" Chen Yiyang inquired.

"Not that business, it’s the one cooperating with you, making mobile phones for the United States Great Commander that got exposed."

Gena explained to Chen Yiyang what happened.

Previously, Schaefer approached Chen Yiyang hoping to procure mobile phone components from him.

These components would pass through him to be resold to the United States, ultimately being assembled into a phone marketed as locally manufactured in America and sold at high prices.

Originally, it was a good business.

But unexpectedly, soon after phones started selling in America, the media investigated and discovered the components originated from Huaxia.

"Which part went wrong?" Chen Yiyang curiously asked, "When I introduced the business, I specifically emphasized not to print logos on the parts to prevent them being identified as exported from here."

"There was no problem at any stage, brother." Schaefer said, "You must trust my professional ability. Your side didn’t leak, and neither did mine.

But once this phone launched in North America, it was scrutinized by the media. Because currently, the only place capable of supplying phone components on such a large scale is Huaxia.

So they didn’t even trace the source, directly concluding that it was produced by Huaxia. If they wanted to refute, they’d just have to say which factory produced these parts."

Chen Yiyang understood Schaefer’s point.

They overlooked a detail.

Domestically in the United States, there’s no complete phone components supply chain.

This is like someone claiming that a man got pregnant and gave birth to a child.

As the United States has only a handful of manufacturing plants, you just need to name your supplier, and they can immediately verify it.

Since they couldn’t name it, it had to be purchased from Huaxia.

Leaving no room for argument.

"So is the business over?"

"Not exactly." Schaefer shrugged and said, "After the media exposure, the American company removed the ’American-made’ claim, and the phones continued to sell as usual.

It’s just that they no longer needed to go through our intermediary steps; they directly went to the supplier for purchases.

So after all our efforts, we only received money from the first transaction."

"Alright then." Chen Yiyang didn’t mind, as it wasn’t a lot of money anyway.

He considered it as having introduced a business to someone; in the future, this supplier would owe him a favor.

"I’ve found a new opportunity recently, but I might need your help."

"What opportunity?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Helping a European country attract investment, my good brother, have you heard of the country Serbia?"