Age of Dreams

() The next day, that is, Tuesday, April 12th, Xiao Qi got up early in the morning, took a taxi, and went to Corning City in upstate New York. After spending a day, he signed a contract with Corning Corporation. Customized contract for tempered glass.

Corning Corporation may not be so well-known in the ears of Chinese people, but this Fortune 500 company is a leader in the American glass industry, which is equivalent to the status of Jingdezhen porcelain in the eyes of Chinese people. It is loved and sought after by users all over the United States.

The 9.7-inch tempered glass with a thickness of 1 mm required by Xiao Qi has to be at the S level. For other companies, it may be quite difficult, but for Corning, it is not a problem at all.

Several managers saw Xiao Qi's order size and other requirements, and directly asked Xiao Qi to go around Kangning City, have a light meal and then come back, and you can see the finished product.

Xiao Qi was shocked by the efficiency of this group of people, so he, accompanied by a beautiful woman from the public relations department of Corning, took a look around the small town of Corning, and happily ate the most famous The Devil's Sandwich—that is, extra-large bread and a lot of meat and vegetables put together. I have to say again that the American diet is almost a hundred blocks worse than that of China.

However, the devil sandwich with a little green onion tasted pretty good. During the meal, Xiao Qi began to practice his eloquence again, and it didn't take long for the beauty to laugh out loud for the nth time today. She looked at Xiao Qi His eyes were also full of appreciation. If the boy proposed to have a pleasant date tonight, it would not be difficult to get the beauty into bed.

American girls, especially those who are not married, are very open about being happy, and if they like this man, they can have a good night.

Looking at the beauty's delicate eyes, Xiao Qi immediately knew that he could not go too far, so he gradually changed the conversation to other aspects, so as not to be eaten up by this beauty later, that would be sorry for the fairy and Meiji.

Fortunately, not long after, the beauty received a call from the company, and reluctantly took Xiao Qi back to Corning Company.

When Xiao Qi followed the managers into the finished product workshop, the beauty hugged Xiao Qi before leaving, and kissed Xiao Qi on the face by the way, making several managers secretly give Xiao Qi a thumbs up .

Not to mention gossip, under the leadership of the managers, Xiao Qi passed by several large factories, and finally came to a huge finished product workshop with a very detailed division of labor.

Many small shuttle buses in the factory are moving back and forth outside the workshop. Many finished products are placed in a fixed area, and the number is not too many. The probability of looking like a sample is more than that of a large batch. Finished product production.

Sure enough, after Xiao Qi entered one of the rooms, there were already two or three skilled workers waiting.

Following the gesture of one of the managers, the skilled worker lifted the cloth covering the ru-white workbench, revealing three pieces of ultra-thin glass with a little dark color inside.

"9.7 inches... 1 mm thickness... Adding MTT material makes the color of the glass soft... The strengthening degree is S-level... Excellent conductivity..."

Every time the manager repeats Xiao Qi's request, the technical workers will test a technical index. All the tests are very strict and institutionalized, and Xiao Qi can observe all the processes.

Including the last item of conduction performance, although Corning's tempered glass is very expensive, you get what you pay for. Many expensive high-end mobile phones will use its tempered glass, so they also have their own touch conduction function. A set of purchased instruments can fully test the conductivity of multi-touch.

Facts have proved that Corning is worthy of being the leader of American glass companies. The tempered glass that should have appeared on iPhones and iPads is quite good in quality and has fully met Xiao Qi's expectations. When using it with an ipad, there is not much difference.

Once the quality is passed, the rest is price negotiation.

Before Xiao Qi came, he did some research and found out the approximate price of Corning Company, but Corning Company didn't know how big Xiao Qi's business was, so they were sadly fooled.

"If the order quantity is more than one million pieces, the price is US$10 per piece; for more than five million pieces, the price is US$8 per piece; for more than 10 million pieces, the price is US$6 per piece; for more than 20 million pieces, the price is It is five dollars per piece.... If the annual order quantity exceeds 20 million pieces, this price will remain unchanged for three years.”

Of course, in addition to this, starting with the supply contract of Corning Corporation, every supply contract Xiao Qi signs will require them to keep it strictly confidential in black and white, and not to disclose the news of his order.

The price of each piece of tempered glass is five dollars, and Corning still makes money, but it is a small profit and quick turnover.

But Corning’s managers don’t think that they will make small profits but sell more. They think that if a Huaguo’s electronic products can sell two to three million units a year, it will be the top of the sky, so the price of ten dollars per piece is absolutely Huge profits.

As a deposit, Xiao Qi handed over 5 million US dollars when signing the contract, and asked Corning to send 100 pieces of samples to Chenhong Optoelectronics and Wintek Technology in Baodao, and they integrated the touch screen and LCD together. Only screen and tempered glass can make better products.

As the saying goes, good things usually come one after another. After Xiao Qi returned to the Hilton Hotel at night, he received a call from a private detective company, and then a stack of information about Linus Torvalds was sent to Xiao Qi s room.

Looking at it, Linus' current situation is indeed similar to what he imagined. After leaving Transmeta, his family moved to New York. Now he is helping a technology company with some system construction tasks, and at the same time, he is also perfecting the system in his spare time. And developing his linux system.

Linus is not a person who loves money, and he doesn't like to enjoy himself very much, so he lives in a very popular place, just in an apartment next to a school, in a noisy environment, which is not suitable for the work of programmers, but He also enjoys it, and takes his children out to play with a smile every day.

The most feared thing in business is people who have nothing to ask for, and Linus is exactly this kind of person, so he dares to scold Gang Leader Joe, the vice president of Microsoft, and the president of the Americas of Nokia... as long as he thinks it is someone who is greedy, He dared to scold.

However, due to his outstanding achievements, Leader Joe and the others will not bother with him—anyone with extraordinary abilities should be respected, which is the consensus of people engaged in technology.