216: Chapter 217 Free Outsourcing and Super Commissions! Locking in the Loyalty of International Giants

In early April, the air in Shanghai already held a hint of early spring warmth.

Jiyuan Technology headquarters building, Vice President's office.

Kim Cheon-sik strode into the room, without any pleasantries, he placed a heavy black briefcase on the table.

"Click, click," two crisp sounds, the latches popped open.

He pulled out three paper documents sealed tightly in top-secret folders.

Along with a heavily encrypted independent storage drive, lined up, he slapped them onto General Manager Chen Shengqiang's desk.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang stopped the pen he was using to sign documents.

His gaze swept over the obscure physical material codes on those folders, and his eyelids jumped violently.

In the past, when facing these foreign representatives, General Manager Chen Shengqiang was always used to playing Tai Chi and passing the buck.

Using a set of impeccable business jargon to run the other party in circles.

But this time, he unusually put away the trademark slick smile on his face.

He knew better than anyone.

Just how terrifyingly valuable these materials, bought with the money of a Korean conglomerate, really were.

This was the final piece of the puzzle for Jiyuan Technology to completely shake off Western constraints.

And achieve 100% fully autonomous production of underlying semiconductor equipment!

General Manager Chen Shengqiang grabbed the desk phone receiver, just about to dial an extension, but hung up instantly.

"Let's go."

He stood up abruptly, locking the documents and storage drive on the table into his briefcase.

He tilted his head decisively at Kim Cheon-sik: "Follow me, we're going to the top floor."

Kim Cheon-sik was slightly stunned, and asked subconsciously:

"General Manager Chen, these technical parameters and underlying patent authorizations, don't they need to go through your company's technical department for process verification first?"

"The process can't verify this."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang picked up the briefcase, strode out of the office door, and threw a sentence over his shoulder:

"This thing involves a level that is too deep; it concerns whether we can completely clear the lifeline of semiconductors.

The people below can't make the decision; you take it and explain it to my direct superior personally."

The heavy double-leaf wooden door of the top-floor President's office was pushed open gently.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang walked quickly to the large solid wood desk, placed the briefcase on the desktop, and deftly entered the password to unlock it.

He didn't say a single word of nonsense, just nodded slightly at Shen Du, who was sitting in the executive chair.

Then he tactfully turned around, walked out of the office quickly, and pulled the door shut seamlessly behind him.

The large office fell silent instantly.

Kim Cheon-sik took a deep breath and stepped forward quickly.

He took the documents and storage drive from the opened briefcase, crossed his hands, and respectfully pushed them toward Shen Du.

"Mr. Shen."

Kim Cheon-sik switched directly to extremely fluent English, without any preamble, straight to the point:

"The technology you wanted, we at Samsung have already used our overseas authority to buy everything back from the international market, along with the underlying patents."

Shen Du leaned back in the leather chair, his gaze sweeping calmly over the folders, not rushing to reach out and take them.

Seeing Shen Du unmoved.

Kim Cheon-sik gritted his teeth, then pulled another business document as thick as a brick out of his suit's inner pocket.

He slammed it onto the desk.

"Besides the technical 'pledge of loyalty', this document contains our Samsung's massive cooperation OEM orders for the whole year."

Kim Cheon-sik's eyes revealed an irrepressible anxiety and despair.

As the current world-class leader in mobile phones and storage, Samsung's current situation was no different from walking on the edge of a cliff.

"Our current production capacity gap has reached a fatal point.

In the international market, we can't grab the quota for the latest process Lithography Machines at all.

And the OEM scheduling at TSMC has pushed us back by a year!"

Kim Cheon-sik's hands pressed tightly on the order document, the veins on the back of his hands slightly bulging:

"For memory and storage iteration businesses, waiting a year is chronic death.

Therefore, we need Jiyuan Technology's production capacity!"

"To show that this is by no means a short-term exchange of interests..."

Kim Cheon-sik straightened his back abruptly, throwing out Chairman Lee's final trump card: "Chairman Lee has already completed the full deployment at the Seoul headquarters.

The plan to build a full set of supporting factories locally in Shanghai has officially started.

Before long, our people will start comprehensive docking with the high-level officials of the Shanghai City Hall regarding factory construction!"

Facing Kim Cheon-sik's almost heart-baring disclosure of his trump card, Shen Du's expression remained without any ripples.

He extended one finger and casually pushed the encrypted storage drive of the cross-border technology aside.

Then, he pulled over the brick-thick business order and factory construction plan, and flipped to the first page.

The office fell into an extremely long and oppressive silence.

A full thirty minutes.

In this half-hour, Shen Du just leaned back in the chair, his slender fingers occasionally flipping through the paper, making a slight rustling sound.

And Kim Cheon-sik, standing opposite the desk, felt like he had been roasting in a pan of oil for half a century.

The custom-made shirt on his back was already completely stuck to his skin by cold sweat.

"Clap."

Shen Du closed the last page of the document and threw the heavy file folder casually on the desk.

"No problem."

Shen Du finally raised his eyelids, his deep gaze piercing Kim Cheon-sik:

"Since you've even bet your family assets, it would be too unprincipled for Jiyuan Technology not to accept.

We won't charge you exorbitant fees either."

He crossed his fingers and rested his elbows on the desk, throwing out an extremely unconventional final offer in a flat tone:

"All cooperation orders belonging to Samsung, Jiyuan Technology will take them all, free OEM."

Just as Kim Cheon-sik widened his eyes at the word "free," Shen Du's extremely cold voice followed immediately:

"However, once this batch of chips becomes the final product and sales are completed, we want to take 15% of the net profit."

Watching Kim Cheon-sik's rapidly heaving chest.

Shen Du leaned forward slightly, giving a guarantee that would make all semiconductor giants around the world turn red with envy:

"As long as you agree to this condition.

I guarantee to you here, and also to Chairman Lee —"

Shen Du's eyes revealed an arrogance and certainty of dominating everything:

"From now on, no matter how much Samsung's business line expands in the global market, and how terrifying the OEM production volume required is.

All of Jiyuan Technology's cold-engraving production lines will implement the highest level of priority opening for you.

We will guarantee your production capacity supply without limit!"

"Fifteen percent..."

The moment he heard this number, Kim Cheon-sik gasped, his pupils trembling violently.

At first glance, this was a lion's mouth wide open, enough to bite Samsung's carotid artery.

In the iron law of international semiconductor OEM, even TSMC and Samsung's own wafer fabs.

Never dared to go directly over the OEM fees and force a cut from the brand's final sales profit.

But this shock only stayed in Kim Cheon-sik's mind for less than two seconds before being completely washed away by ecstasy.

As a core executive of a multinational conglomerate, he knew too well how to calculate this.

Waiving the sky-high OEM fees and tape-out costs.

Meant that Samsung didn't need to bear any terrifying financial pressure in the early stages.

And the promise that Shen Du finally threw out, "priority and unlimited capacity guarantee."

Pulled Samsung directly out of the quagmire of chronic death!

Using 15% of the back-end profit to exchange for an invincible moat that would never be cut off in the future global market.

This was not extortion at all; this was a life-saving deal so cost-effective that all peers would be jealous to the point of madness!

"Samsung sees Mr. Shen's sincerity!"

Kim Cheon-sik was afraid that Shen Du would change his mind, so he didn't even bargain for half a word.

He nodded decisively, his voice even trembling with a hint of excitement.

He took a step back abruptly and bowed deeply to Shen Du, who was sitting in the executive chair:

"Your condition, no problem at all!

I will take my leave now and convey this good news to Chairman Lee without missing a word!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Kim Cheon-sik didn't even bother to take the empty briefcase on the table.

He turned around abruptly, stepped with hurried steps, and ran almost at a jog out of the President's office.

Accompanied by Kim Cheon-sik's hurried footsteps, he completely disappeared at the end of the corridor.

The door of the President's office was pushed open again by General Manager Chen Shengqiang from the outside.

He walked quickly to the desk, looked at Shen Du, and a hint of irrepressible confusion appeared in his eyes:

"Mr. Shen, 15%... are we asking for too little?"

"If these high-end chips were put on the current international market, calculated according to normal OEM fees and tape-out costs.

This 15% commission wouldn't even be enough to pay for our underlying technology patent fees."

Shen Du leaned back in his chair, shook his head gently, and a coldness that pierced through the big picture appeared in his deep gaze.

"What they brought is the technological lifeline we are most urgently lacking right now.

Moreover, they are taking the huge death-penalty risk of being completely blockaded by the entire West."

Shen Du pointed to the storage drive on the desk, his tone calm but extremely penetrating:

"Not only that, they have to take huge risks to complete the final docking of the chip architecture with us using their own global channels."

"At this time, if we still want to ruthlessly gnaw away at their core profits, the way we eat would be too ugly."

Shen Du crossed his hands, pointing out the core logic of this alliance:

"Cooperation is nothing more than for profit.

If we extract without any bottom line, then this so-called China-Korea semiconductor alliance will become fragile.

It will completely collapse from the inside when it encounters a little external force."

"Using this reasonable concession to completely lock in the loyalty of an international giant.

Let them loyally serve as our vanguard.

This deal is very cost-effective."

General Manager Chen Shengqiang took a deep breath, his mind suddenly enlightened, and he instantly understood Shen Du's kingly art of not draining the pond to catch the fish.

He didn't say another word.

General Manager Chen Shengqiang took a step forward, solemnly picked up the heavy encrypted storage drive on the desk.

He grasped it tightly in his palm, turned around, and strode out of the office.

He had to rush to Li Jianfeng's laboratory immediately.

With the injection of these three top-secret core technologies.

Jiyuan Technology was only one last thorough detonation away from a 100% fully autonomous technology closed loop for the entire semiconductor industry chain!