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Chapter 208 Corning Incorporated

The next day, Tuesday, April 12, Xiao Qi got up early, got in a taxi, and went to Corning in upstate New York. He spent a day signing a contract for tempered glass with Corning.

custom-made contract.

Corning may not be that well-known in the ears of Chinese people, but this Fortune 500 company is the leader in the American glass industry, equivalent to the status of Jingdezhen porcelain in the eyes of Chinese people. The glass they produce,

It is deeply loved and sought after by users across the United States.

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

Several managers looked at Xiao Qi's order size and other requirements, and directly asked Xiao Qi to go to Corning City, have a light meal, and then come back so that they could 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 Company, took a look around the small town of Corning, and happily ate the most famous restaurant in Corning.

The Devil's Sandwich is just an extra-large piece of bread with a lot of meat and vegetables. I have to say again that the American diet is a hundred times different from that of China.

However, the Devil's Sandwich with a little green onion tasted pretty good. During the meal, Xiao Qi began to practice his eloquence again. It didn't take long before the beauty laughed heartily for the Nth time today. She looked at Xiao Qi.

Her eyes were full of appreciation. If the boy proposed a pleasant date tonight, it would probably not be difficult to get the beauty to go to bed.

American girls, especially those who are not married, are very open about having sex. If you like the man, you will have a wonderful night.

Looking at the beauty's charming eyes, Xiao Qi immediately knew that he couldn't go too far, so he gradually turned the conversation to other aspects, lest he be eaten up by this beauty later, which would be a shame to the fairy and Meiji.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for Meiren'er to receive a call from the company, and then she reluctantly took Xiao Qi back to Corning Company.

When Xiao Qi followed the managers into the finished product workshop, Meirener hugged Xiao Qi before leaving. By the way, she also kissed Xiao Qi on the face, which made several managers secretly give Xiao Qi a thumbs up.

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Without further ado, under the leadership of the managers, Xiao Qi passed by several large factories and finally arrived at a large finished product workshop with very detailed division of labor.

Many small intra-factory shuttle buses are moving back and forth outside the workshop. Many finished products are placed in fixed areas. The quantity is not very large. The probability of them looking like samples is much higher than that of large batches.

Production of finished products.

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 technical workers removed the covering on the milky white workbench, revealing three pieces of slightly dark ultra-thin glass inside.

"9.7 inches... 1mm thick... Add MTT material to make the glass soft in color... Strengthening level S... Excellent conductive performance..."

Every time the manager repeated Xiao Qi's request, the technical workers would test a technical indicator. All tests were very strict and institutionalized, and Xiao Qi could observe all processes.

Including the last item of conductive performance, although Corning's tempered glass is very expensive, you get what you pay for. Many expensive high-end mobile phones use its tempered glass, so they also have their own touch conductive function.

A set of purchased instruments can fully test the conductivity of multi-point touches.

Facts have proved that Corning is worthy of being the leader of American glass companies. This kind of tempered glass, which was originally supposed to appear on iPhone and iPad, is of very good quality and fully meets Xiao Qi’s expectations. The feeling of holding it in his hand is as good as his.

When using it with an iPad, there isn't much difference.

Once the quality has passed, all that's left is price negotiation.

Xiao Qi did some research before he came and knew Corning's approximate price, but Corning didn't know how big Xiao Qi's business was, so they were sadly fooled.

"For an order quantity of more than one million pieces, the price is US$10 per piece; for orders of more than five million pieces, the price is US$8 per piece; for orders of more than 10 million pieces, the price is US$6 per piece; for orders of more than 20 million pieces, the price is US$8 per piece;

It’s five dollars per piece...If the annual order volume exceeds 20 million pieces, this price will remain unchanged for three years.”

Of course, in addition, starting from Corning's supply contract, every supply contract signed by Xiao Qi would require them in black and white to keep it strictly confidential and not to reveal the information about his order.

Each piece of tempered glass costs $5. Corning still makes money, but it's just a small profit but quick turnover.

But Corning's managers don't think that they can make small profits but quick sales. They think that a Chinese electronic product can sell two to three million units a year, which is already sky-high. Therefore, the price of ten US dollars per piece is definitely

Huge profits.

As a deposit, Xiao Qi handed over five million US dollars when signing the contract, and asked Corning to send 100 samples to Chenhong Optoelectronics and Shenghua Technology in Baodao. Together, they integrated touch screens and LCDs.

Screens and tempered glass can make better products.

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

room.

Opening it up, 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 is also improving it in his spare time.

and developing his LINUX system.

Linus is not a person who loves money, and he doesn't like to enjoy much, so the place he lives in is very popular. It is just in an apartment next to a school. It has a somewhat noisy environment and is not suitable for the work of programmers. However,

He also enjoys it and takes his children out to play with a smile every day.

The most fearful thing in doing business is people who have no desires or demands, but Linus is this kind of person, so he dares to scold Gang Leader Qiao, Microsoft Vice President, Nokia's President of the Americas... As long as he thinks that people are greedy for profit, he dares to scold them.

Go scold.

However, due to his outstanding achievements, Gang Leader Qiao and others will not care about him yet - anyone with extraordinary abilities should be respected. This is the consensus of people engaged in technology. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, Novels
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