Chapter 380

Moreover, the reason why Li Changheng didn't believe it at all was that it was a direct manifestation of lost water in the membrane.

To put it bluntly, it is recurrent rotational vertigo, fluctuating hearing loss, tinnitus and ear fullness.

That is to say, if Allen's surgery three years ago had not been successful, his nearly two-year test pilot career and the three-month training would have already made him unable to carry on, and it was impossible to delay until now was discovered.

"You want to break up my teammates with 56 days until launch?"

"Sorry, Henry," said Dick resignedly, "like when we found out that Jim's partner West might have measles three days before Apollo 13.

Whether it is true or misdiagnosed, he can only be replaced and Jack can replace him.

So, if there's even a little bit of uncertainty, we'll either have to switch people, or we'll have to delay your team's liftoff.

and,,,".

After hesitating for a few seconds, Dick said, "To be honest, it's not just the rules and safety precautions that make us not make any mistakes.

I believe at least 200 of the 1,000+ people in the entire aviation center will not put you in any danger that can be ruled out. "

FK.

Li Changheng immediately thought of the at least one hundred replies he had received for working for him in the past few months.

Then in the past ten days, more people began to approach him intentionally or unintentionally.

The reason is that half a month ago, the first calculator, which was prepared for nearly three months, has been sold all over the United States.

And one month before the release, 10,000 of them were bought by the US Navy and the National Guard.

Then after a month of fermentation in the Navy and National Guard, there is no need to advertise.

The remaining nearly 90,000 calculators were directly bought by those merchants who had relations with the National Guard and the US Navy and had business dealings with each other for $180.

And as long as the contract is signed, the funds will be directly transferred to Intel's account.

Before, in order to convince the scientists in the aviation center and management talents like Dick that he had enough financial strength, he deliberately paid for 200 of them and sent them to the aviation center.

Let thousands of people in the command center, plus more than 2,000 people in the launch center, and hundreds of related companies directly related to the moon landing know that he is Intel's major shareholder.

Then in the past half a month, it can be held in the hand, and the weight has been directly reduced to 110 grams after optimization by Intel's Robert, Moore, Andy and engineers.

As expected by the three of Robert, the market prospect of this kind of calculator is very good.

In addition, there is no competition for similar products, so that every time a batch is produced, it will be pulled from the warehouse and sold in California and several nearby states.

The sales amount of the 100,000 pre-produced and the 50,000 urgently produced in two shifts in the past half month alone was 27 million U.S. dollars.

The gross profit is 180 minus the cost of 37, which is 21.45 million US dollars.

After Robert reported the money to Li Changheng, only 450,000 US dollars was left as the company's operating funds.

Other full-scale production orders were handed over to the chip production company under Citigroup, which can be said to control most of the manufacturers in the Apollo project.

A production company specializing in the production of cash registers since the 1930s, and then began to produce chips in 1966, and changed its name to a production company of precision instruments.

Needless to say, this chip manufacturer that Li Changheng has never heard of in the future must have not survived for many years, and it closed down or was merged early.

Therefore, people from precision instruments and other component manufacturers related to Citigroup, facing a full contract of 600,000 units of full OEM, not only stated in the contract that all calculators will be delivered within 40 days, but also took the initiative Also reduced the cost from 37 to 35.

Regarding the cost, Andy wanted to continue negotiating with the chip production company.

But Li Changheng and Robert both understand that their profit margins are so large.

It's not a matter of earning a few dollars with others, but trying to sell at least 2 million units before the islanders and other companies in the United States react.

Let's talk about getting back the gross profit of 290 million US dollars.

Then Intel's 10% foundry fee is 29 million US dollars.

With this money, they no longer have to worry about funds, and they don't have to worry about going to court with the islanders and fighting for prices.

Because the 261 million cash in Li Changheng's hands is enough to compete with any island company.

Intel only needs Li Changheng to continue to authorize them, place orders with manufacturers, and sell them.

You can always get 10% of the selling price minus the cost.

Therefore, both Li Changheng and Robert understood very clearly that even if Li Changheng himself owns 51% of Intel's shares, they would not have time to worry about the cost of a few dollars just to seize the market first.

But the business was so good that many people approached him proactively, and at the same time, too many people were unwilling to take Li Changheng's risk.

Even the people at Citigroup don't want him to take the risk of going to the moon because of Boeing and the foreseeable larger orders.

If something really happened, the equity dispute alone could drag on for a year or two, and it might not be settled.

The most troublesome thing is that all the patents and ownership of the calculator are in the hands of Li Changheng.

Intel received only 10% of the foundry fee.

In other words, if something happened to him, the business would have to wait until the heir clearly inherited everything from Li Changheng before he would be eligible to continue to authorize Intel and place orders with foundry companies.

During this period of time, it was enough for the islanders or other American manufacturers to follow up, causing the little-known precision chip production company under the name of Citigroup to lose the foundry profits in vain.

Also lost the opportunity to rapidly expand market share.

For precision instruments, grabbing the market is the key to whether they can grow bigger.

In this case, it can be said that not only the one or two hundred people in the aviation center, but also more than a dozen companies that received orders for various parts of the calculator, directly promoted him from a rich man to a diamond customer.

Therefore, as soon as Alan found out that there might be a problem with his ears, he immediately accompanied Li Changheng to train and explain for the past three months, even when Alan and the spaceship pilot Lothar needed to rest.

Accompanying Li Changheng into the simulated command module, Jim, Jack and Fred who simulated the training of the lunar module came here.

Then after a psychological evaluation, Jim, who passed with a high score, became Allen's replacement.

Become a backup astronaut for this assessment.

If there is no problem with the daily training and assessment in the next 56 days, Jim is likely to directly replace Alan and become the moon landing pilot of Li Changheng's team.

As for whether Jim can do it, anyway, before Apollo 13, he was not only a spaceship pilot, but also a lunar module pilot.

Moreover, he was also the command commander who was promoted from the pilot of the lunar module to the command module.