Chapter 919 Bad News

Fang Zhuo returned to Shanghai on the last day of August.

It is natural that Yike mobile phones are selling well in China, and some waves did not cause big ripples. Instead, the company received enthusiastic calls from many channel dealers and many inquiries from friends about running the Android system.

The company once again reiterated the open source of the Android system and the significance of the PRO Alliance, and welcomed more friends to join the Android camp.

There are two companies that have been confirmed, one is Hanwang and the other is Meizu. They are expected to launch products equipped with Android system at the end of the year or the beginning of the year.

This may have more implications for companies on the sidelines.

Fang Zhuo is looking forward to the blooming of a hundred flowers in the Android camp.

As for competition with each other, from the foreseeable period of time, Yikedu has a strong advantage.

Before replying, Fang Zhuo also hosted a high-level meeting focusing on the future at Sina.

The news of the launch of Yike mobile phone is still in our ears. Sales volume exceeding one million is already in front of us. Is the future of tens or even hundreds of millions of users still far away?

This will surely have a profound impact on the Internet industry.

Fang Zhuo has said similar things on different occasions, but this time at Sina, the board of directors meeting was held first and then the executive meeting was held. This was an expression of indifference. The next step for Sina's development is to actively embrace the mobile Internet.

In the past few years, Fang Zhuo, who has acquired Sina in good faith, has expressed his respect for Sina's management with practical actions and rarely interferes in the actual operations of the company.

However, this time the formation was very serious and had the tone of setting the tone.

After the executive meeting, the level of communication between Fang Zhuo and CEO Wang Yan went further, directly using the "ALL IN" rhetoric.

If today's Sina website is evaluated from the perspective of traffic, it is indeed lagging behind Penguin Portal, but its ten years of hard work in the content, especially the news field, is still the most professional in the country.

In particular, in August this year with "Watch the Olympics, go to Sina", it has gained new brilliance.

Fang Zhuo believes that Sina’s characteristics cannot be wasted, and it is necessary to look forward to new developments in the mobile Internet era in a timely manner, to make Sina a traffic depression in the next era, and to make Sina the most dazzling headline in the next generation.

Of course, this still requires the foundation of a large amount of smart hardware, and is linked to the development of the Android camp next year.

Fang Zhuo talked a lot with Wang Yan to ensure that he could understand his intentions and determination.

When Fang Zhuo first took over Sina, he had a crucial communication with Wang Yan.

At that time, he made a statement - should he be an ordinary Sina CEO with no aspirations, or a business strongman who could solve Sina's profit dilemma and lead Sina to create glory?

Now is the time to fulfill the second half.

As long as Sina seizes the opportunity of ALL IN mobile Internet, his CEO will be a figure that Sina and even China Internet must write more about.

The communication between the two was generally smooth.

Wang Yan only asked the question at the end: "Mr. Fang, you actually think that Sina is not brilliant enough now?"

Sina has a portal website that remains at the forefront, a vibrant social platform, and online games with high reputations. It is a company that needs to add an S to go from the Three Musketeers of the Internet to BAT.

Wang Yan is quite satisfied with Sina today. He still remembers the time when he was struggling to earn advertising fees.

Fang Zhuo was very emotional: "Since I became the chairman of Sina, there has been a saying that I don't care about Sina and that Sina is just my godson. This is complete nonsense. I treat Sina as my own!"

He then said: "Brother Wang, you have done a good job. It's not that Sina is not brilliant enough. Who doesn't want his own son to be more brilliant?"

Wang Yan thinks it makes sense. Mr. Fang is definitely not the kind of person who is distant and distant.

Sina's next development will take time, and strategic awareness is the first thing to build.

Fang Zhuo planned to have another communication with Wang Yan and others before the Spring Festival, and also take a look at their internal arrangements for Sina.

When people return to Shanghai, a dense schedule immediately appears in front of them.

This trip to the capital was more or less like a vacation in conjunction with the Olympics. He had a few days to watch the games live, but his family basically witnessed the entire Olympics, which was the first time it was held in China, and they were much more involved.

In the first week of September, I need to fly to Hong Kong. Morningstar Semiconductor is about to go public. As a shareholder and partner, Fang Zhuo happily accepted the invitation. I am very happy to see that Morningstar has reached a new stage of development.

However, it is a little regrettable that MediaTek seems to have made progress in the field of TV chips, and Morningstar's competitive pressure is further increasing.

And mobile phone chips, which are regarded by Morningstar as an important opportunity for transformation...

Qualcomm has officially initiated an internal project to create a mid- to low-end product.

Yike mobile phone Mars2 continues the best-selling momentum of the previous generation, which consolidates the relationship between the iron (3+1) angle. The cooperation between Qualcomm, Yike and Bingxin is still in the sweet period, not to mention, Fang Zhuo also helped introduce the intention to change Product positioning customer Huawei.

Unlike Morningstar and MediaTek, which are stumbling on chip development, Qualcomm is very confident and does not think this is a difficult task.

In response to such a situation, even if the two heads of Morningstar and MediaTek met and communicated in person, Fang Zhuo could only do business. It was not that he had not been given a chance, but the chance was indeed time-limited.

On the evening of September 3, after a busy day, Fang Zhuo came home and was about to relax when he suddenly received a call from an American golf friend.

This golf buddy Austin is a friend introduced by Geithner of the New York Federal Reserve. Like Lu Peining, a core staff member of O'Neal, he is basically a spokesperson for Geithner.

Austin enthusiastically invited Fang to practice golf again when he was free, and also talked about the increasingly disturbing atmosphere in the US financial market. Everyone seemed to have lost their direction.

But he also said that he was very confident in the current administrative stability. Important companies like the two housing agencies must have a stable prospect.

When the call ended, Su Wei found that Fang Zhuo was thoughtful and asked, "What good thing made President Fang so dazed?"

"It's really a good thing. Someone wants me to close the net." Fang Zhuo thought, "But I wonder if Geithner will get a good position by November. He has begun to avoid suspicion."

O'Neal avoided it earlier, and Lu Peining became a member of his mobile phone address book a few months ago.

But Austin is different. This is the first time the two have had a more formal communication.

Su Wei listened to this so-called closing in and asked, "Isn't this too vague? Is it really a signal?"

"I talked to Geithner about the two housing agencies last time." Fang Zhuo shook his head slightly, "They know what this golf club does better than I do, but they are still happy to do it. Austin will not find me for no reason. This is a tacit understanding."

He added, "I asked Kong Yu to meet Austin in the United States and talk again. It may not be possible to talk in detail over the phone."

The last time I talked to Geithner about the gossip that the United States would take over the two housing agencies, it was partially denied at that time. Now, it is very likely to be a belated verification.

The two housing agencies will not be allowed to go bankrupt.

Correspondingly, when the two housing agencies began to be taken over, the Lehman moment was not far away.

Fang Zhuo went to the study to contact Kong Yu who was in New York, and simply and obscurely mentioned the possible change in the situation. This is a signal from a high-end customer, and the authenticity is quite high.

Kong Yu has been in charge of the operation of the MIGA fund system from last year to this year. His tone at this time has a feeling of "finally coming to an end". He also did not say much on the phone, but just said steadily that he would do his job well.

Fang Zhuo put down the phone and thought about the next situation for a while.

Once Lehman collapsed, the companies on the acquisition list could be questioned one by one, just like Morningstar Semiconductor, which was right in front of it. It would encounter a series of bad news, and the attitude of Germany in attracting investment would surely be different.

However, Bingxin still has to maintain a low-key development, and it will be as low-key as possible.

Fang Zhuo's thoughts came and went, and finally he couldn't help but grab the phone and call Liang Mengsong, who had quietly joined Luzhou Bingxin.

"Dr. Liang..." Fang Zhuo paused after the call, and then he started with the usual greetings, "How are you doing in Luzhou? Are you adapting well?"

"Very good, it can't be better than now." Liang Mengsong still sounded very energetic in the middle of the night, "The foundation of Bingxin Wafer Factory is very good. Except for Mr. Qiu's poor technical ability, everything else is good."

Fang Zhuo: "..."

He pretended not to hear such an evaluation of the CEO as soon as he joined the company, and asked warmly: "Dr. Liang, if you have any problems in life and work, you can tell me as soon as possible."

"Mr. Fang, you don't have to worry about life problems. Bingxin has a good foundation, but there is still a big gap between him and the reporter." Liang Mengsong was not very polite, "But since the reporter replaced Cai Lixing, they have been messing around. I heard that the human resource optimization plan that they had always insisted on has changed its taste and started to make disguised layoffs. This is a good opportunity for us."

The human resource priority plan is an internal policy of the reporter. It is a special management of the last 4% of employees in the performance appraisal to help them improve and improve the quality of the company's human resources. These people are rarely used for layoffs.

However, the recorder led by Cai Lixing began to show different changes from the past.

Although Liang Mengsong left the recorder, there is still the latest news.

He may be the one who cares about the recorder the most in Bingxin now.

"Well... I have also heard some rumors, and there will be some follow-up in this regard." Fang Zhuo pondered. He may be the second person in Bingxin who cares about the recorder, and his focus is more focused, that is, to see if there are suitable talents to be brought to Luzhou.

"Very good, Mr. Fang, dig like you did to me in the beginning." Liang Mengsong was very happy.

Fang Zhuo: "..."

Dr. Liang's words are indeed a bit straightforward.

But it is more or less a compliment.

Fang Zhuo can understand Dr. Liang's emotions within the non-compete agreement in the past two years, and believes that he can turn all of this into a continuous source of motivation for progress.

It was late at night, and Dr. Liang quickly said that he would continue to sort out some research, and he did not mean to continue the politeness.

Fang Zhuo let Dr. Liang go, thinking that Bingxin could at least narrow the process gap by half a generation next year, and after 40nm, the master and apprentice might be able to make efforts in the second half.

Eleven o'clock in the evening.

When Fang Zhuo got up and prepared to rest, Yu Hong suddenly called from his mobile phone in his pocket.

"It's probably bad news." Yu Hong's tone was very solemn, "Five minutes ago, the Taiwan reporter and SMIC reached a settlement again. Mr. Zhang announced his resignation as CEO of SMIC. This may be one of the conditions for the settlement."

There was no sound on the phone.

Yu Hong waited for twenty seconds: "Hello, Mr. Fang?"

"It's probably good news to hear that it's not bad news from Yike." Fang Zhuo exhaled.

Yu Hong heard the humor in the bitterness and said slowly: "I happen to be in Washington State, I will help keep an eye on the latest news. You probably need to use the phone now, so I won't talk."

"Yeah." Fang Zhuo didn't say much, and he didn't even have the mood to ask about the latest market situation of Yike Mars2 in the United States.

He held the phone and found Mr. Zhang's number. He hesitated for a long time but never called.

Two minutes later, he suddenly received a message from Mr. Zhang on his phone.

"I'll take a flight back to China later. See you in Shanghai."

Fang Zhuo only replied with one word: "OK."