Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

Although the trip to Isaac has been confirmed, this is not something you can leave without saying. It is a country that has not yet established diplomatic relations with China, and the procedures are quite troublesome. Tan Zhenhua and the others need to wait for Isa’s IAI company to send a formal invitation letter. With the assistance of Counselor Tang, they will go through a series of complicated procedures. Of course, Tan Zhenhua is not idle during this period of waiting. Just to do a few other things.

The first of course is to inspect your company.

Although it has only been a short period of six months, ARM has already undergone a radical change. It no longer has the sorrow of living in a small barn. Instead, it rented a second-story building at Cambridge University. The number of employees has exceeded one hundred.

High-spirited CEO Herman Hauser introduced two new alumni colleagues to Tan Zhenhua-Dr. Sophie Wilson and Dr. Steve Fogle who also graduated from the University of Cambridge. Bit’s joining expressed a warm welcome.

In fact, these two have already met, and they were on the flight to China before Christmas, but at that time Tan Zhenhua focused on communicating with China’s technical delegation, so he ignored this for now. Two people, but today, he plans to have a good chat with them.

Several people held a small meeting in the company’s conference room. Hermann Hauser first introduced the company’s business development in the past six months-because ARM won the BBC’s large order, and there was a traditional The shopping season is Christmas, so the company's computer sales performance is very good. It has become a leader in the field of British local microcomputers. In terms of monthly market share, it has surpassed the traditional top two IBM and APPLE, and firmly occupy the first place. Throne.

This is of course a good thing, but it also brings a series of problems.

ARM’s original business was the production and sales of electronic gaming machines. The shipment volume was not large. Basically, the sales volume per month was only in double digits. A few people can barely handle the soldering circuit boards in the barn. It’s not the same. The company is facing a shipment of thousands of units per month. The original production and supply model obviously doesn’t work. In order to solve this problem, one of the company’s founders, Chris Kuh, an engineer, It was a racket.

Fortunately, Britain is a veteran industrial country after all. At present, there are still many small electronic processing companies in the country, and the supporting component supply chain is fairly complete. After a lot of hard work, Curry finally managed to guarantee the shipment of products. .

However, when it comes to this issue, Curry is still full of bitterness. Among them, there are two main problems. One is that ARM microcomputers are taking the cost-effective route in the competition with IBM and APPLE. In other words, The products are relatively cheap, and this also means that when the purchase prices of core components such as CPU and memory particles are not much different, the gross profit level of ARM computers is one-third lower than that of competing brands; 2. The product production structure composed of a number of small processing enterprises has caused great troubles in the arrangement of production and product quality control.

These factors also put additional pressure on Curry. The hardware purchase cost is almost the same, but the gross profit is lower by one-third. This requires him to reduce the cost as much as possible on the basis of quality control. The labor costs in Britain are notoriously expensive.

This is a major event that affects the company's profitability, so when Curry solemnly raised this issue at the meeting, it caused a heated discussion.

The ARM personal computer is currently the company’s most important or only product. Not only is it pointed to by more than a hundred people throughout the company, it is also another gold-swallowing behemoth project that the company is carrying out-the RISC architecture CPU development project can The continued funding guarantee can be said to be the cornerstone of the company's continued development.

So when Curry raised this issue, the discussion was very enthusiastic, and various solutions were also proposed. Radical such as Curry, even proposed a plan to build the entire production line by himself. He believed that only all production links should be Keeping it firmly in your own hands can guarantee the timeliness of response to customers, and it is also of great benefit to improving the quality of products-just to do that requires a large additional investment. After all, whether it is the construction of factory buildings or production lines, All must mean a lot of money, and this money, only relying on ARM's accumulation of just six months, is definitely not enough.

Speaking of this, Tan Zhenhua finally figured out the main purpose of this group of people taking advantage of their arrival to hold such a meeting. They were suffocating themselves to pay for it!

Tan Zhenhua is of course not reluctant to pay such a sum of money. After all, as a rebirth, he knows what kind of big development the personal computer market will usher in in the next few decades, although in his past life, ARM actually gave up With this business, the top few rankings in the personal computer industry are basically monopolized by several giants in the United States and later China, and countless companies have been eliminated from the competition, but he believes that as long as the operation is good, ARM computers, It may not be impossible to obtain a good market position.

But invest in a production line of personal computers in Britain... Tan Zhenhua never thinks that this would be a good idea.

Among other things, the trade unions in Britain are a difficult hurdle for foreign investors to overcome.

As the saying goes, “I’ve never eaten pork and I’ve seen pigs run.” Numerous reports on the Internet in previous lives have let Tan Zhenhua know that British trade unions, together with the British government and business owners, constitute one of the three pillars of British society. With a long history and great strength, there are not many countries that can match it on the entire Blue Star.

Moreover, the British trade unions, who are used to sabotage or strikes to solve problems, are indeed the public enemy of all business owners in Britain...Well, Xiao Tan Tan has admitted that his current position of considering the problem is a completely evil capitalist position.

This is actually one of the important reasons why the global manufacturing industry will migrate to China in the future. Since 1986, China, which was still poor at the time, tightened its waistband and enforced nine-year compulsory education. This makes China, the world’s most populous The country’s children have the right to education. The major national policy has a far-reaching impact. The vast majority of Chinese children have had the opportunity to change their destiny with knowledge. This has not only cultivated batches of social backbones and elites, but also cultivated them. Out of the world's largest base, the most disciplined, but also the highest quality, the most hard-working group of industrial workers, this is unmatched by any country.

What, children's shoes, did you say India, another populous country?

Haha, a country with 800 million illiterate people tell me that it can do a good job in manufacturing?

Although according to the official statistics of India, the illiteracy rate of its citizens is only about 30%. According to its population, it is about 300 million people. However, according to the official statistics of India, everyone just looks at it, because they I think the illiterate can write all 26 letters and his own name...

By the way, China!

Although it is still in 1983, China has not grown into the "world factory" that will scorn Bluestar in the future, but Tan Zhenhua knows that that day is not far away, and will eventually come.

If this is the case, why not take this opportunity of ARM's need to refactor the supply chain to make this move in China?

Thinking of this, Tan Zhenhua’s mouth showed a smile. He raised his eyes and looked out the window, but his eyes penetrated the haze of London City, crossed the stormy and surging Atlantic Ocean, across the vast and smoky Pacific Ocean, and landed on The future electronic capital of the world.