Chapter 567 This is my only hobby

After having lunch in Tangdu, Zhou Jing and her bestie Bai went to Ideal Technology Co., Ltd. When they arrived at the company, Zhou Jing first went to the production workshop office.

Ideal smartphones are about to face a shortage of supply. In this situation, the requirements for quality control cannot be relaxed in order to meet production targets. Zhou Jing asked Bai Xiyao to notify Xu Jun, the executive director and production manager, to come to the workshop for a joint inspection.

"Mr. Zhou."

After receiving the notice, Xu Jun went to the workshop office immediately.

"Take a seat." Zhou Jing nodded and said, "The response to our first batch of smartphones in the market has been good. Next, let the after-sales department pay more attention to after-sales issues, and the operations department pay more attention to the problems exposed online. If it is a product problem, solve it. If it is not a product problem, let the operations department do public relations in a timely manner."

As always, Zhou Jing speaks directly to the point when talking to senior executives at both Chuangzhi Technology and Ideal Technology.

"If the production capacity cannot keep up, we can sell less, but we cannot relax quality control for the sake of sales."

Seeing Xu Jun open his notebook, Zhou Jing slowed down his speech.

"it is good."

Xu Jun was even more certain that he had come to the right company. He originally thought that the boss came all the way from BJ and came to the production department without a break to urge production capacity. However, the reality was beyond his expectation. The boss was still most concerned about product quality. At such a young age, he had such a long-term vision and such determination. Xu Jun admired this boss even more.

"We adhere to the principle of loyalty to our customers and take all feedback seriously. Mr. Bai asked the marketing department to organize a special training on after-sales service and strictly require the service attitude of offline stores. We cannot pass the buck when facing customers who seek redress. If the problem is not caused by improper use by the user, we support returning the store to the factory for repair."

"Ah."

Bai Xiyao also listened carefully to every word Zhou Jing said.

After establishing the development route for when smartphones are in short supply, Zhou Jing took a sip of water and went to the workshop locker room. The three of them changed into work clothes and put on all the protective equipment for the dust-free workshop before entering the production workshop.

The production workshop of Ideal Technology is brightly lit and spotlessly clean. High-precision CNC equipment operates in an orderly manner. Technicians in work clothes shuttle between the equipment to operate each process, and the workers on the assembly line are conscientious and responsible about their tasks.

This time Zhou Jing did not conduct random inspections of products. He walked around the workshop and left. The purpose of the inspection was to make Xu Jun pay attention to quality control, rather than to find problems on the spot and embarrass Xu Jun. Just like the advance notice of an official inspection meeting, the leader's goal is to make corrections at the lowest cost, rather than to find problems and hold them accountable.

If you want to make an example of someone, that’s different. If you find problems during surprise inspections, you can criticize and deal with them accordingly.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Bai, take care."

Xu Jun escorted Zhou Jing and Bai Xiyao out of the production department.

Zhou Jing nodded and went to Ideal Technology to expand its factory. After more than four months of construction, the main construction of the first phase of the site has been completed, the new production workshop is neat and tidy, and the public area accommodation building and office have completed the roof.

"There's no need to rush to put the first phase of the production line into production this year to control production capacity, right?"

Bai Xiyao took two safety helmets, gave one to Zhou Jing and put one on herself.

"No rush, let's build it all at once!"

Ideal smartphones currently have a monthly production capacity of 2.5 million, which is enough in the short term. As this is the company's first generation of smartphones, Zhou Jing did not dare to make a special report about it. Internal testing of electronic products such as smartphones is different from actual use. The largest batch of test machines produced by Ideal Technology is only 2,000 units, and the testing time is limited, only one or two months. Compared with the millions of units put on the market, internal testing cannot be compared.

Bai Xiyao thought so too.

"Starting next month, we will control the total monthly supply of Ideal 1 to within 1 units, and the supply of Imagine to within million units."

Zhou Jing folded his arms and said as he looked at the tower crane that was building the building.

"it is good."

Although she felt that the supply volume was too conservative, Bai Xiyao still carried out it. Ideal Technology was developing too fast and indeed needed some time to settle down. Firstly, the stability of the first generation of smartphones needed to be verified by the market, and secondly, the market construction and after-sales service could not keep up due to its rapid development.

Bai Xiyao looked at her male bestie and said with a smile, "You are becoming more and more stylish."

"It's called confidence."

Zhou Jing turned on his mobile phone and took a few photos of the construction site, then turned to go to the office. Before going to the office, he stopped by the Finance Department to hand over the financial matters of Ideal Technology and Chuangzhi Technology.

"just came back?"

Liu Hanyu looked up inadvertently, and what caught her eye was a handsome face that was familiar yet unfamiliar, very close yet very far away. Liu Hanyu was stunned for a moment and then spoke.

"Well, are you tired from work?"

Zhou Jing opened the file bag, took out the financial information and handed it to Liu Hanyu with a smile.

"Not tired." Liu Hanyu said softly: "Have you eaten?"

"No, shall we eat together this afternoon?"

Zhou Jing stood behind Liu Hanyu's chair and watched the girl operate the computer.

"I'll go if you treat me."

Liu Hanyu pursed her lips, and her heartbeat, which had been silent for a long time, began to speed up uncontrollably.

Liu Hanyu originally thought that she could forget Zhou Jing as time went by, and that she would give up after Zhou Jing had a child. However, as Zhou Jing became more mature, his mature and somewhat passionate temperament made Liu Hanyu unable to forget him, and she even liked him more.

Zhou Jing is probably the overbearing CEO-like boy that countless girls dream of. He is capable, successful, rich, philandering but gentle, responsible and accountable but not loyal. Even if girls want to forget him, they are firmly tied by a glimmer of hope, so that Liu Hanyu can't attract any other boys.

"Shouldn't you welcome me back when I come back?"

Zhou Jing smiled and said.

Looking at Zhou Jing who was chatting and laughing freely and Liu Hanyu who was a little shy, Bai Xiyao said in her heart that Zhou Jing was hopeless. Originally, Bai Xiyao thought that Zhou Jing should be more stable recently because he was always thinking about his children at home when he was away from home. But it turned out that she thought too much. Zhou Jing was still the same Zhou Jing, a sentimental scumbag. It is true that it is difficult to change one's nature.

“Would you like to print a receipt?”

Liu Hanyu registered the financial information and spoke softly.

"Print it, in triplicate."

Zhou Jing nodded and said.

Liu Hanyu set up the printing options on the computer, pushed her chair back, stood up, smiled, and turned to the printer.

Zhou Jing's eyes followed Liu Hanyu's figure. The girl had long naturally yellow-brown hair on her shoulders, which was straight and smooth. She was wearing a white shirt on her upper body and blue slim jeans on her lower body. The jeans perfectly set off her figure, and her curves were quite beautiful.

"Are you going to Sheng Tang Research Institute today?"

Bai Xiyao raised her hand and waved it in front of Zhou Jing and said.

Zhou Jing came back to his senses and said, "I'll go the day after tomorrow. How is the work going over there?"

Bai Xiyao said: "Start planning."

"Sheng Tang can proceed at normal speed, and Taiwei Research Institute should work harder."

Shengtang Research Institute is responsible for chip design. Zhou Jing is not worried about chip design as six or seven years is enough to catch up with Qualcomm. What Zhou Jing really cares about is Taiwei Semiconductor. The goal of Taiwei Semiconductor Research Institute is to conquer the key technologies of EUV lithography machines. Even with Zhou Jing's strongest brain involved, it is not easy to conquer all the key technologies.

If the Taiwei Research Institute cannot achieve the set goals, the designed 7-nanometer and 5-nanometer chips may not be produced. "Understood."

Bai Xiyao knows what is important and what is not. She has invested tens of billions in Taiwei Semiconductor, including the acquisition and restructuring, and the payment of the final payment for seven lithography machines. If she fails, all the money will be wasted.

"Let's have dinner together after get off work."

Zhou Jing sorted out the information, put it into a file bag and said to Liu Hanyu.

Liu Hanyu nodded subconsciously.

Zhou Jing turned and left the financial director's office to go to Bai's best friend's office. When they got to the office, Bai Xiyao took the key to open the safe and said as she opened it, "I thought you forgot about Liu Hanyu."

"Wealth will eventually turn to dust, but beauty will never be forgotten."

Zhou Jing sighed. Even if he forgot about Liu Hanyu, there were still Wang Hanyu and Li Hanyu. How could he not be fickle at his age? Compared with other girls, Liu Hanyu and Chen Jiaqian knew Zhou Jing inside and out. If he got into trouble one day, they would not retaliate against Zhou Jing.

"You are really talented. Aren't you embarrassed to talk about a scumbag so confidently?"

Bai Xiyao took out the Zhongtai Micro-semiconductor reorganization data and Ideal second-generation smartphone research data from the safe and threw them to Zhou Jing.

"Look, I'm blushing."

Zhou Jing took out the information about Taiwei Semiconductor and looked at it.

"So shameless."

Bai Xiyao pulled Zhou Jing's face and said.

“That’s all I have a hobby of.”

Zhou Jing sighed.

For a moment, Bai Xiyao actually understood her male best friend a little. Her male best friend regarded money as dirt. Apart from women, there was really nothing else that made him lose his mind. Apart from being a little fickle, he had no other shortcomings, and he was fickle-minded in moderation. The only girls he was involved with were Chen Jiaqian and Liu Hanyu.

"These seven lithography machines were all handed over to the research institute for dismantling."

The seven lithography machines cost more than 500 million yuan to buy, but Zhou Jing didn't even blink an eye when he dismantled them for the research institute.

At present, the gap between domestic lithography machine technology and ASML is much smaller than it was 18 years ago. Currently, EUV lithography machines have not yet been mass-produced. In 14, ASML delivered the first EUV lithography machine that supported chip production. The truly disruptive EUV lithography machine in the previous life was the one that supported 19-nanometer and 7-nanometer chip production in 5.

Now it’s 12 years, and we are trying our best to catch up. Zhou Jing doesn’t believe that he can’t catch up with ASML in ten years.

"Kuaiki, when will you let Taiwei produce chips for Bluetooth speakers and traditional mobile phones?"

Bai Xiyao had previously thought of giving a brand new ASML lithography machine and a brand new R-made lithography machine to the research institute for research. Zhou Jing gave it all to the research institute in just one sentence. It is estimated that no company in China can match Taiwei Semiconductor in terms of support for lithography machine research.

"In the fourth quarter, we can just let Taiwei produce part of it."

Taiwei Semiconductor's equipment can produce Bluetooth speakers and traditional mobile phone chips, but Zhou Jing does not intend to disrupt Ideal Technology's industrial chain and will continue to place orders with other chip foundries. Building an industrial chain is not easy.

"OK." Bai Xiyao said with a smile: "It is hard to imagine the reaction at home and abroad to our company's breakthrough in EUV lithography key technology."

The technology that is most severely monopolized by foreign countries is semiconductor equipment. If China can help break through a key technology, it will be enough to shock both home and abroad.

"If we can solve the problem of light source technology, there will be a page of ours in the history books of China. If we can build EUV lithography machines, there will still be a page of ours in the history books thousands of years later."

Zhou Jing smiled faintly.

After hearing what Zhou Jing said, Bai Xiyao became full of motivation.

After a break, Zhou Jing familiarized himself with tomorrow's arrangements. Secretary SW will come at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to mainly visit the R&D department and production workshop. During the visit, he will definitely demonstrate Ideal Technology's products under the recording of the TV camera. Finally, a technology symposium will be held in the Ideal Technology conference room. Zhou Jing needs to prepare a manuscript for the symposium.

Ideal Technology is already the No. 1 technology company in Tangdu. After Secretary SW's inspection, he will definitely designate Ideal Technology as a model enterprise for the development of technology in Tangdu. While enjoying convenience, it must also assume more social responsibilities. Zhou Jing drafted a plan centered around technological development and social responsibility.

Bai Xiyao looked at Zhou Jing's draft paper and said, "Technological development and social responsibility still require you to speak eloquently. If you don't come back, I don't know what to do."

"It's not that difficult. Just bend down more when you see someone wearing an executive jacket."

Zhou Jing raised his head, and the fragrance of Bai's best friend's hair came towards him. Zhou Jing pinched a strand of Bai's best friend's hair and smelled it.

Bai Xiyao not only did not dodge, but asked with a smile: "Is it feminine?"

"Just be gentle."

Zhou Jing put down her bestie Bai's hair and said.

Bai Xiyao is not gentle. If it weren't for those few days every month, she would also doubt her chromosomes.

"Have you chosen the address for the communications company?"

Zhou Jing glanced at his bestie Bai and said.

Bai Xiyao said, "I've chosen one. It's not far from Chuangzhi Building on Keji Road."

After finishing tomorrow's draft, Zhou Jing went to the R&D department.

The R&D department made preparations in advance and built an ideal product display stand, which displayed Bluetooth speakers, power banks, traditional mobile phone series, smart phone series, smart speakers, as well as mobile phone batteries and Bluetooth headset batteries jointly developed by Ideal Technology and Yuanchi, speakers jointly developed with Jingyin Technology, as well as Bluetooth chips developed by the Joint Research Institute of Tangdu Jiaotong University, and small integrated circuits developed by Tangdu University of Electronic Science and Technology and graduate students.

On the wall behind the display stand are hung certificates of all joint graduate students of Ideal Technology, Chuangzhi Technology and schools and enterprises. The certificates indicate the main research and development directions of the institutes, providing an intuitive understanding of the joint research projects with nearly 20 schools and enterprises. These institutes consume at least 8 billion yuan of Ideal Technology's funds every year.

"Mr. Zhou, this is the hardware design for the Light Enjoy series."

Zhang Yonghua, director of the R&D department, gave Zhou Jing several mobile phone design drawings for review.

Zhou Jing took all the drawings and looked at them one by one and said, "How are the domestic industry chain companies doing now in terms of screens, cameras, batteries, memory, touch screens, and speakers?"

"There is still a certain gap compared with foreign countries."

Zhang Yonghua answered truthfully.

"Development can only be achieved if there is market promotion." Zhou Jing looked at Bai Guimi and said, "Give some orders to domestic suppliers and select some batches of low-end machines to match with domestic accessories."

In addition to various chips, basebands and other core hardware of smartphones, the most important ones are screens, cameras, etc. Since the mass production of Ideal Bluetooth speakers and traditional mobile phones, more than 40 billion yuan has been injected into the domestic supply chain, greatly promoting the development of domestic electronic manufacturing. The benefited suppliers produce poorer smartphone accessories, which can barely be used in low-end mobile phones. Only when manufacturers use technology can there be progress.

Ideal Mobile can use its advantages in software systems to gain development opportunities for the domestic supply chain. Once the technology matures on low-end mobile phones, it can gradually be installed on mid- to high-end models.

Bai Xiyao nodded and said, "Okay, what's the price?"

"As long as the performance is stable, we will give you a price similar to that of foreign suppliers."

From a certain perspective, giving concessions to domestic suppliers can reduce Ideal Technology's R&D costs. It is impossible for Ideal Technology to start from scratch if it takes the route of self-research, which will help the development of the domestic industrial chain to be more cost-effective.

(End of this chapter)