Chapter 1715: Dead Taoist friends do not die poor Taoist
Chen Chu suddenly heard Martin Eberhard's words and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, then smiled.
It seems that the life of Sharp, the "king of LCD" is a bit difficult. He actually found Martin Eberhard. The grudge between Sharp and Chuko originated from Onyx's first generation e-reader.
When it was the first generation of Onyx e-reader, Onyx Technology purchased the screen from Sharp. Only Sharp can meet the technical requirements for Onyx e-reader.
However, the cooperation between the two sides was still a mess in the end. Even though the screen price and orders given by Onyx Technology were quite generous, Sharp still didn't care about this cooperation and was unwilling to set up a dedicated production line for Onyx, and then the two sides parted ways.
After that, Onyx Technology and Sharp had several talks. Sharp's president Katsuhisa Machida also made a fuss on Japanese Benzene TV, saying that he was not optimistic about the Onyx electronic reader industry, and he scoffed at Onyx Technology's choice to purchase screens from LG and self-developed panels. Even though Sharp's panel technology is indeed a bit stronger, Onyx Technology has never cooperated with Sharp again since then.
However, the feng shui has changed. Onyx Technology has now begun to use self-developed screens on some e-readers and smartphones. In terms of top LCD screen technology, it is even better than Sharp, Samsung and LG, but it is a world of difference compared to being strangled by Sharp.
On the other hand, Sharp, the "king of LCD" now seems to be a little difficult. Although he has only technology, he has retreated in the field of LCD TVs. Today, the global LCD TV market has less than 5% of the market share, which is considered a failure.
The reason for the recession in the LCD TV field is that the electronic reader industry is missing. The reason why it is also blocked from the "Global Electronic Industry Alliance" led by Onyx, there is no big cake for smartphone screens at all!
The most profitable thing about Sharp is not the screen panel, but the mobile phone business, but not the smartphone, but the feature phone. Sharp has begun to feel shaky now, but there are three kilograms of iron in the broken ship, let alone Sharp.
But it is hard to say how long it can last. Sharp's revenue this year is barely maintaining a balance of revenue and expenditure. When the competition in the LCD TV market becomes more intense next year, the speed of smartphones eliminating feature phones will be faster, and Sharp's LCD empire collapse will also increase faster.
At present, Sharp is revealing information through a third-party agency to cooperate with Idonis Electric Vehicles, but in fact he is still putting on airs and is unwilling to bow to Chuko.
"Don't worry about Sharp's side. Onyx Technology and LG will provide a central control screen for Idonis electric vehicles. Onyx Technology and Idonis electric vehicles will not need to cooperate with Sharp in a short period of time!" Chen Chu said to Martin Eberhard, directly cutting off Sharp's idea of turning around with an electric vehicle!
Chen Chu was still a little thoughtful about Sharp's fat meat. If Sharp had a good life, how could Chuke Technology swallow this piece of fat? Chuke not only would not give Sharp the order, but would start to compete with him in a comprehensive manner. Only when Sharp fell down can Chuke Technology and Onyx Technology swallow this piece of fat meat.
Martin Eberhard naturally would not object to Chen Chu's words. There are so many manufacturers who can provide panel screens for Idonis electric vehicles, and the price is lower than that of Sharp. Why should Martin Eberhard get along with a crooked tree?
After Martin Eberhard reported to Chen Chu about the Idonis electric car, he hurriedly hung up the phone. He had to be too busy and spent such a big pie. If he didn't take action, those Wall Street institutions could have tormented Martin Eberhard to death.
Martin Eberhard has been making constant moves in North America. He first negotiated with a number of Wall Street institutions and obtained a sky-high investment of $870 million led by North American trust investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan, setting the largest investment in the automotive industry in three years.
Seeing this made Musk and Tesla begin to be jealous. Tesla has tried hard to make an investment. As a result, Martin Eberhard won more than 800 million US dollars in a global press conference. It is really a car with different lives!
But there is no way to do this. Who makes the supporters behind Tesla not good? And there is a large group of supporters on Yidonis, especially Chuko, who has received support from big financial supporters. Goldman Sachs' investment institutions don't have to worry about Martin running away. Anyway, Chuko is carrying it, but it's different if it's on Tesla.
However, Tesla is not without supporters. Although car brands such as Peugeot and Toyota are unwilling to make electric cars, traditional car giants are not all in this way. Mercedes-Benz quietly found Tesla, gaining 9% of Tesla's equity for 50 million US dollars, and in addition, it supports Tesla in technologies such as "transmission".
BMW has also launched its own independent brand of electric vehicles, which is basically a test, but it is also trying.
The entire electric vehicle industry also began to snowball slowly, but the biggest move was Idonis Electric Vehicle. It first obtained a huge investment, and then announced that it would start the construction of a super factory in California and Yanjing at the same time. It would not produce large-scalely in a short period of time, and it would not require such a large output, but it would be better to circle the land first.
Idonis Electric Vehicle began to invest heavily in cooperation with F1 company and obtained a large number of patents and technologies from F1.
Then he cooperated with Onyx Technology to integrate the electric vehicle industry chain. The electric vehicle industry has no reference at all. Yidonis Electric Vehicle can only go this path by itself. It is simply a dream to rely on which automobile giant to lend the industrial chain to Yidonis Electric Vehicle.
Therefore, based on the preparation of Donis electric vehicles, combined with many parts, relying on the support of investment institutions such as Chuke Technology, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan, and guided by Onyx Technology, it directly creates a fully closed industrial chain system like Onyx Technology, and all patents and parts suppliers are in their own hands!
The "electric vehicle concept" that has been launched in Idonis is the most exciting charging pile that can be seen by countless people. Idonis electric vehicles have spent as much as 200 million US dollars to cooperate with major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Yanjing, and Shanghai to build super charging piles in airports, stations, highway service areas, parking lots and other areas.
How about electric cars? You don’t know what it is if you don’t drive them. Most people in the production company can’t see them, but charging piles are something that everyone can see.
Therefore, the super charging piles established in the transportation points of several cities were naturally seen by countless people.
Of course, it is impossible for Idonis to use super charging piles by themselves. The production of Idonis electric vehicles is only a lot now, so these super charging piles built will also be provided to other electric vehicles or hybrid cars for use, which can be regarded as seizing the car charging market.
Martin Eberhard and electric vehicles are constantly moving. Although many auto parts suppliers have not received much order, their stock prices have begun to rise with the spring breeze of the "electric vehicle concept".
But not all suppliers can take advantage of it. Yidonis Electric Vehicle officially announced that it will not cooperate with Sharp, nor will it purchase Sharp's screen. As soon as he finished speaking, Sharp's stock price fell.
Even though Sharp later announced that it would not supply screens to Idonis electric vehicles, implying that Idonis did not purchase Sharp screens, which was Idonis' loss, rumors that Idonis electric vehicles refused to cooperate with Sharp still spread wildly.
No matter who rejects whom on both sides, the matter between Sharp and Idonis electric vehicles still makes people think of Chuko behind Sharp and Idonis.
The old accounts of Sharp, Chuko and Onyx Technology were still turned up by the media. Many technology media have said that Sharp's dilemma today was caused by not receiving the orders from Onyx Technology back then.
If Sharp hadn't been so arrogant back then and had not refused to set up production lines for the Onyx electronic reader screen, Onyx Technology would not have blocked Sharp from the smartphone industry chain, and Sharp would not have fallen into this predicament today.
Sharp was naturally dissatisfied with this statement. Katsuhisa Machida, who is in charge of Sharp, claimed that Sharp is the best LCD panel manufacturer in the world. Without Sharp's LCD panels, they would never be the best electronic product!
It is unknown whether this statement is right or wrong, but in order to show that Sharp is not in trouble now, Sharp, who has just tried to produce the eighth-generation LCD screen, announced the development of the ninth-generation LCD screen and began to design the world's first tenth-generation LCD display, announcing that Sharp will lead his peers in the field of LCD panels!
This almost started the arms race of LCD panels barely. As soon as the news came out, Samsung, Sony, Philips, AUO, and Chimei also directly announced that they would join the competition and were unwilling to be thrown out by Sharp.
At this time, Onyx Technology joined forces with LG, BOE, Panda Electronics, etc., and began to join the battle group. Now Onyx Technology's panel production lines are mainly based on the sixth and seventh generation panels.
In order not to be strangled by Sharp again, this time Omyx Technology, LG and a number of domestic panel manufacturers have all started to invest a lot. Onyx Technology directly announced that it would take out $3.2 billion to directly launch the eighth-generation panel production line, and start the research and development of the ninth-generation and tenth-generation panels.
For a time, the entire panel industry was full of major projects. In order not to be eliminated, major panel manufacturers began to invest heavily, but none of them were willing to give in. The increasing production capacity also caused the panel price to collapse in a straight line, and the price was falling almost every day.
But Onyx Technology doesn't care about this situation. Anyway, most of the screens produced by Onyx, LG, etc. are used for their own use. BOE, Panda Electronics and other increased panel production capacity is also the most of Onyx Technology purchased, preparing for the smart TVs and tablets launched next year.
As for whom Sharp will sell the panels to in the end, it is unknown whether they will be ruined. Anyway, the panel price has collapsed, and Onyx Technology doesn’t feel sorry for it!
Chapter completed!