#25 - Section: Meeting Lei Jun

"It's surprising that Dami Corporation actually invited you, President Lu, to attend their new product launch event. I wonder what they're up to. Could they have their eye on our chips? After all, we have several types of chips..."

Zhang Yu looked at the invitation letter on the desk and said,

"Tomorrow, you come with me," Lu Haifeng said.

Dami Corporation can be said to be a relatively popular company in the Daxia Kingdom's mobile phone market in the past year.

Although it was established for a very short time, in this one year, Dami Corporation, relying on its own efforts,

even holds a position in the top ten of the mobile phone market. This is very valuable for a company that has been established for less than a year.

On the evening of October 16th, the scene at Dami Corporation's launch event was a sea of people, with many 'Mi Fans' attending.

Lu Haifeng and Zhang Yu looked at the lively scene and couldn't help but sigh, feeling that they still had much to learn.

"Excuse me, are you President Lu and Manager Zhang from Huaxing Corporation?"

Just as Lu Haifeng and Zhang Yu were sighing, a young man wearing a Dami Corporation employee T-shirt came up to them and asked.

Lu Haifeng and Zhang Yu didn't feel too nervous when the Dami employee approached them and readily acknowledged their identities.

"Our President Lei wants to meet with you two to catch up. Please follow me."

The Dami employee confirmed their identities and politely led them to the meeting room. In the Dami meeting room, Lei Jun was sitting on the sofa, chatting with his assistant, Lin Wen, about the launch event today.

However, upon seeing the arrival of Lu Haifeng and Zhang Yu, Lei Jun and Lin Wen stopped their conversation and quickly stood up to greet them.

"President Lu, it's been a long time."

"President Lei, it's been almost a year, right?"

The group exchanged pleasantries, and at Lei Jun's invitation, Lu Haifeng and Zhang Yu sat down on the sofa.

Lu Haifeng said, "President Lei, we are very honored to be invited to attend this launch event."

Lei Jun laughed and glanced at Lin Wen beside him, signaling him to pick up the box next to the sofa. The box slowly opened, revealing a mobile phone inside, which was the main attraction of today's launch event.

"Let me show you a new product that our company is about to release. This is a major product for Dami Corporation."

Lei Jun took out the phone from the box and said with some emotion. Lu Haifeng looked at the phone in Lei Jun's hand and immediately recognized it as the first phone from Dami Corporation's sub-brand, Mi Hong.

"Guess how much this phone costs?"

Lei Jun handed the phone to Lu Haifeng, saying that in his mind, this phone to be released would become synonymous with cost-effectiveness. Just as Lei Jun was waiting for him to say "over 1000", Lu Haifeng said, "If I'm not mistaken, 799?"

Hearing Lu Haifeng accurately state the phone's price, Lei Jun stared at him with surprise. All the words Lei Jun had prepared were stuck in his throat.

Zhang Yu, who was beside him, was also stunned by Lu Haifeng's words, but he quickly understood. Cost-effectiveness... Huaxing's subsidiary, Huaxing Xingchen, was also making cost-effective phones, but they hadn't been released yet.

When it comes to discussing Mi Hong's phones, perhaps no one knows more about the Mi Hong phone in front of him than Lu Haifeng. In his previous life, he had owned four different Mi Hong phones.

It can be said that the emergence of Mi Hong phones did contribute to the popularization of smartphones, because the affordable configuration, coupled with extremely favorable prices, basically wiped out counterfeit phones priced above 500.

Mi Hong's development was very smooth. It also brought good revenue and a good reputation to Dami Corporation, allowing more people to learn about Dami Corporation.

The Mi Hong series of phones are basically sold at prices below 1000, and Mi Hong phones have always been valued by Dami Corporation. Even later, the Mi Hong brand will be spun off to become a subsidiary of Dami.

"Am I wrong?" Lu Haifeng asked.

Seeing that Lu Haifeng had already asked him, Lei Jun no longer hid anything and directly stated his purpose: "Yes, you guessed it, President Lu. I wanted to ask if your chips are for external sale."

"Not for external sale at the moment."

Lei Jun admired the young man in front of him. Generally speaking, most of the chips used in domestic Android phones are imported.

Currently, the strongest processor chips are the Kunpeng series and Zhulong series under Huaxing, the A series of Fruit Corporation, and the processor chips of Gaotong and Sanxing.

These five processors can be said to be the five most powerful processors in the world today. Huaxing accounts for two of these five top chips, and there is also a Jinwu series chip with unknown performance. After that, there are the processors developed by Lianf科.

These phones with Gaotong processors are not bad, but many companies are very unwilling to use Gaotong's processors. Using Gaotong's processors not only requires high costs, but also requires paying the so-called Gaotong tax.

This means that whether you use Gaotong's processor or not, you have to pay a portion of the communication technology patent fee.

And the current Dami Corporation is also facing such a situation, and even Dami Corporation is trying to get rid of its dependence on Gaotong chip processors.

"Then please let us know when you start selling externally."

Lu Haifeng doesn't want to sell chips yet, because in the minds of most people, domestic processors have always been a few years behind those across the ocean.

Even people still have a high prejudice against Lianf科, which has come from behind. This is also the reason why Huawei's Kirin chips were not sold externally in later generations.

"Okay, President Lei, we will let you know as soon as they are for external sale."

Seeing that Lei Jun didn't continue to delve into this issue, Lu Haifeng quickly changed the subject. In this situation, the most important thing to do is to shift the topic of processors.

The two briefly chatted about the progress of the mobile phone market in the office, but Lu Haifeng also admired Lei Jun's vision and insight.

Although the two had only chatted once, they clearly saw the future development of the mobile phone market and the popularization of mobile phones.

It seemed that the two had chatted for a while, but nearly two hours had passed. At this time, it was dinner time. Lei Jun invited the two to have a simple meal in the industrial park before temporarily parting ways.

"Old Zhang, what do you think of Lei Jun?"

Hearing Lu Haifeng's words, Zhang Yu didn't rush to answer. After thinking for a while, he said: "Lei Jun is very daring and capable, and he has extremely unique insights. It can be said that having such a person in the mobile phone market is both a blessing and a curse."

Lu Haifeng said with a slight smile, "Such a person has a unique personal charm. For consumers, it's a blessing. For other mobile phone manufacturers, it's a scourge, a scourge that you can't hate. Let's release our Xingchen series in April next year and give other mobile phone manufacturers more than half a year to transform."

Lu Haifeng originally planned to release it this month, sending out one million units a month, giving other mobile phone manufacturers enough time to transform. Now that Lei Jun is releasing it, that's fine, after all, Dami Corporation doesn't have that much production capacity.

At night, Dami Corporation held its launch event as scheduled, and the protagonist of this launch event, the Mi Hong phone, officially entered the eyes of consumers, and the price of 799 for the Mi Hong phone shocked everyone even more. In addition, the linkage between Dami Corporation and Penguin Corporation's Penguin Space had already attracted the attention of many Mi Fans.