Minister Kwon, this is an official document from Jiangnan Group that our secretarial department just received. They are asking why we did not supply them with the latest 2x screen.
Did we not already reply to them? Why are they asking again? Minister Kwon asked impatiently.
We are not very clear about this, perhaps Jiangnan Group did not receive our reply?
No, I understand. They are furious and unwilling to accept our explanation, so they are pretending not to have heard it! Minister Kwon suddenly revealed a smile. Well, since they are asking again, we will reply again. Just send them the same reply as before!
Yes, Minister Kwon. Should I have someone rephrase the text before sending it? After all, sending the same text twice...
No, not a single word changed. Send it exactly as it was sent before! Minister Kwon ordered. Although the secretary felt it was inappropriate, in the Korean workplace, subordinates are absolutely not allowed to question their superiors, and even the word "cannot" is not permitted. So the secretary quickly went to carry out Minister Kwon's orders.
This Minister Kwon is the highest responsible person in Samsung's display department, a powerful figure in Samsung. After all, the display business is one of Samsung's trump card businesses, and they hold the world's most advanced LED display production and manufacturing technology. Therefore, it is very normal for Minister Kwon to be so arrogant, and he also has backing.
Or rather, it is precisely because of his backing that he issued such an order, so he did not take Jiangnan Group's questioning seriously at all.
If Jiangnan Group has the guts, then don't use Samsung's LED screens! Minister Kwon said domineeringly to his trusted confidant.
Minister Kwon was quite confident about this.
Around 2010, Samsung's LED touch screen technology was indeed leading the world, almost a whole level ahead of its competitors.
Even though the screen Samsung sold to Jiangnan Group was ranked second internally, it was still far superior to the screens produced by competitor LG.
Because of this, Minister Kwon was very confident that Jiangnan Group would not dare not to buy Samsung's screens. Because apart from Samsung, unless Jiangnan Group was willing to sacrifice the quality of its own terminal screens, they could only choose Samsung as their screen supplier.
If Jiangnan Group insists on making trouble for us, then we will use the excuse of material shortage and directly increase the price of that screen by 10%. Let's see if they dare to make any more trouble! Minister Kwon said domineeringly one last time.
With the scale of Tianzhou Terminals, a 10% price increase would mean losses of several hundred million US dollars. He believed that the entire situation was under his control.
Minister Kwon waited for a long time, but he did not receive any retaliation from Jiangnan Group. The monthly orders were still delivered on time, which were super orders for tens of millions of high-end screens. The order volume was even higher than the previous month, which clearly indicated that Tianzhou Terminals' sales had increased again this month, driving the continuous increase in Tianzhou Group's production.
Everyone says Huang He is such a patriotic entrepreneur, but I think he is also a complete capitalist! Minister Kwon commented on our Boss Huang.
Minister Kwon's comment was not a negative one. After all, in the minds of these people, capitalists are the highest achievement and the goal that everyone yearns for.
Minister Kwon did not receive retaliation from Jiangnan Group, but what Minister Kwon did not expect was that his colleagues within the company sent him a series of stern emails, demanding that he quickly resolve the conflict with Jiangnan Group, otherwise it would greatly affect the company's revenue, and they would exert the strictest control over Minister Kwon at the board of directors.
Minister Kwon did not care about one or two such emails. After all, the various product departments under Samsung Group operated independently, and who was afraid of whom?
But when four or five subsidiary ministers sent stern emails, and even the chairman seemed to have some reservations, Minister Kwon finally became restless and began to inquire about the specific situation.
It turned out that the first to send emails were other departments under Samsung Electronics, the first being Samsung's terminal department.
After the terminals completely stabilized in the market, any entrepreneur could see that terminals would replace mobile phones and become the strongest electronic devices of the future. Samsung naturally could not miss this opportunity.
So they quickly announced the establishment of the latest terminal department and transferred a large number of elites from the company, especially a large number of elites from the mobile phone department.
As a result, this terminal department, which had been established for just over a year, quickly became the most important department under Samsung Electronics, which made Minister Kwon very uncomfortable, or jealous. His display department had been working for so long, only to be overshadowed by a suddenly emerging department, which he naturally could not tolerate.
Samsung's terminals soon launched their own product, the Samsung Galaxy Terminal, and its performance exploded in its first year.
To be fair, Samsung still had its unique advantages in electronic products. The Galaxy Terminal was not inferior to the Tianzhou Terminal in many aspects. Therefore, as soon as the Galaxy Terminal was launched, it achieved sales of over 2 million units in just half a year.
Although this figure was still a fraction of Tianzhou Terminal's, the figure itself was strong enough. If it were not for the emergence of Apple and Google this year, and their slogan of supporting domestic products, the second position in the terminal market would still belong to the Galaxy.
And two months later, Samsung was about to launch the latest generation of Galaxy Terminal 2, which received attention from the entire Samsung Group and was a highly valued department and project.
Even Minister Kwon was ordered to provide his best screens to the terminal department, so Minister Kwon was dissatisfied from the beginning and completely ignored the department's complaints.
Only when the complaints increased did Minister Kwon have to take a look, and he became even more angry, directly cursing, You can't get the best storage chips, what does that have to do with me!
It turned out that the reason the terminal department complained to Minister Kwon was that they were suddenly informed that they could no longer obtain the originally planned model of storage chip and could only get a secondary product.
So the minister of the terminal department got angry and directly confronted Minister Kwon, which made this email seem inexplicable to Minister Kwon.
Fortunately, the secretary beside him reminded him softly, Minister, I remember that all the storage chips for the terminal department are supplied by Jiangnan Group!
Damn it! Minister Kwon cursed. But he finally understood why the terminal department had come to blame him for that damn chip. This was clearly retaliation from Jiangnan Group.
He just didn't expect that Jiangnan Group's retaliation wouldn't directly target the display department, but rather the terminal department. This made Minister Kwon exclaim that it was unbelievable.
But what was even more unbelievable was that after that, the reason for the complaints from other departments was the same: they all could not obtain the best storage chips they wanted, and all supplied chips were downgraded.
Some departments even stated directly in their emails that representatives from Jiangnan Group had explicitly told them that this was Jiangnan Group's means of retaliating against Samsung Group.
If you don't sell us the best screens, then don't expect to get the best storage chips.
These bastards, is Jiangnan Group the only one in the world that sells storage chips? Can't they buy other brands of storage chips? I remember that Samsung Electronics itself also has its own storage chip department and production line! Why use others' stuff! Minister Kwon asked angrily after reading all the complaint letters. What's the point of storage chips being advanced or not? As long as they can store data, isn't that enough? Why do they need the best ones?!
Hearing his minister's angry roar, the secretary did not dare to explain at first. Only after his minister's emotions had somewhat calmed down did the secretary lower his head and tell Minister Kwon.
In fact, there was an error in his minister's words. Jiangnan Group had already monopolized the entire storage chip industry in fact. Samsung, besides buying storage chips from Jiangnan Group, really could not buy storage chips from other manufacturers.
As for Samsung's own storage chip unit, although it still existed in name, it was actually gone. It was just a brand. Because Samsung could not accept the fact that one of its own products had been driven to extinction by a competitor, even if it was just an empty sign, it could maintain Samsung Group's dignity.
The reason for this situation was entirely because Jiangnan Group's storage chip technology was too powerful. Most importantly, the cost-effectiveness of a single chip was incredibly high.
Take the 4GB storage chips commonly used in electronic products today. Jiangnan Group's selling price to the outside world is currently only 9 US dollars.
Keep in mind that this is not a TF card installed in a mobile phone, but a genuine super storage chip with extremely high read and write speeds, several times faster than previous computer memory modules.
If Samsung were to manufacture such a chip itself using traditional technology, the production cost would be around 19 US dollars. However, Jiangnan Group managed to reduce the selling price to the outside world to 9 US dollars, which is more than half the cost of Samsung's production.
How could they sell it like this? They would lose money on every chip they produced!
Not only Samsung, but all chip manufacturers in the world could not find the reason for this. This remains an unsolvable mystery for other manufacturers.
No... it's not that it's completely unsolvable. At least the industry has figured out one fact: the key lies in the special material film covering these chips. However, the industry has used all means and mobilized the world's top laboratories, but has still not been able to determine the composition of this special material, let alone how to industrially produce it. This is a completely unsolvable puzzle.