Chapter 424: Accused

After walking out of the box, Chen Changliu's smiling face slowly turned into a serious expression.

"What's going on?"

Zhao Yanan reported as he walked:

"Just now, General Manager Wu Bo of the Chip Division called and said that our company was sued.

It is said that a US semiconductor company named SigmaTel filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Austin, USA, accusing our MP3 chips of infringing its multiple chip patents for MP3 players.

They asked us to compensate them for their economic losses of 50 million US dollars and asked us to remove all related MP3s from the shelves."

Hearing Zhao Yanan's words, Chen Changliu frowned. He had never heard of this SigmaTel company.

And the lawsuit was for patent infringement, so Chen Changliu had no idea.

When the chip was developed, Wu Bo poached people everywhere. He didn't dare to conclude whether the root of the trouble was buried here.

After all, the patent infringement case between Hua Mouwei, the former prince's company and Hua Mouwei was still being fought.

Some time ago, I was still secretly laughing in my heart, who knew that my company would become a defendant again not long after.

Moreover, they demanded compensation of 50 million US dollars, which is more than 400 million, and they also had to remove all MP3s from the shelves.

Damn, the company has sold MP3s for two years and still hasn't made 400 million.

"What does this SigmaTel do?"

"This company is a semiconductor company in the United States, mainly providing IC technology and solutions for portable electronic products and computer products!"

After hearing what Zhao Yanan said, Chen Changliu understood that it was a wafer design company in layman's terms.

"Any more information? What did Mr. Wu say?"

"No, Mr. Wu has already reported to Mr. Feng and Assistant Ke."

Chen Changliu thought about it and felt that there was nothing for him to do in Guangnan City. Someone would follow up on the details, including donations to Guangnan City and the 15th Middle School. Someone would come to connect with them.

"There's nothing to do here, let's go back to Yangcheng overnight!"

"Okay"

Just like that, Chen Changliu rushed back to Yangcheng overnight.

When Chen Changliu left Guangnan City, the deputy mayor of Jingjiang City in charge of industry and his entourage had just arrived in Guangnan City.

On the way back to Yangcheng, Chen Changliu sat there quietly thinking.

In fact, as the market share of Zhonghuajia MP3 has become more and more stable in China, it can be said that it is now the only one in the market.

Since the MP3 price war started in the second half of 2004, especially with the rapid rise of Zhonghuajia, these big brands in the market at home and abroad have been forced to the limit.

At the beginning, Zhonghuajia focused on mid-range products, which was fine. Although Zhonghuajia occupied the top position in the market, each company was still profitable in low-end and high-end products.

And in order to drive out all these miscellaneous brands, they all tacitly started a price war that was even more fierce than Chen Changliu's previous life.

And the overall sales of MP3 have also increased significantly this year. Last year, the domestic sales of MP3 were less than 4.5 million units.

But in the first five months of this year, the total sales have exceeded 3 million units, and it is expected to exceed 7 million units for the whole year.

But the annual production of MP3 by various manufacturers is more than 7 million units.

After Zhonghuajia launched its low-end MP3, after only a few months, the price war caused the low-end MP3 of all brands to drop to the beginning of 2.

This is also one of the reasons why those miscellaneous MP3 brands have gone out of business.

In the first two months, Zhonghuajia tried to launch MP3 chips on the market. Needless to say, the popularity was beyond Zhonghuajia's expectations.

After all, the quality of Zhonghuajia's low-end MP3 is well-known, so it is normal to be popular.

In the past two months, orders have begun to grow explosively.

It's just that because of the mobile phone business, Chen Changliu didn't focus on it. After all, the profit of mobile phones sold in a month is more than the profit of the MP3 business in a year.

So it's normal that he didn't put too much thought on MP3.

The reason why chip orders soared is that after Zhonghuajia sold mobile phones in Africa at the end of last year, all small home appliance manufacturers have begun to turn their attention to foreign countries.

Not only Africa, but also many people in Europe, America, Southeast Asia, etc. have begun to enter.

The many small MP3 factories that went bankrupt at the time also set their sights on these markets.

Chen Changliu guessed that the Flower Planting Company accidentally snatched many orders from this American company, so it was targeted.

Unlike Chen Changliu who was thinking about serious things, Zhao Yanan was now thinking about something else.

Originally, she was unable to become the boss's more trusted person because of something else this morning.

She spent the whole day thinking about how to become the boss's more trusted person tonight.

She didn't know how much psychological preparation she had done for herself throughout the day, so that she wouldn't be shy and not be bold enough when the time came.

But she knew that the prince charming boss she loved and admired was a little idle now, and she didn't know how to take the initiative.

This time, she finally had a chance, but because of this sudden incident, she had to go back to Yangcheng overnight. So, would she have a chance in the short term?

After all, there was Assistant Ke in Yangcheng, and her junior sister was also going to take a vacation and go back to Zhongda to study.

Thinking about it, Zhao Yanan felt that her life was miserable. She and her prince charming had known each other on the surface, but they didn't know each other deeply.

Ah, thinking about it, Zhao Yanan couldn't help pouting!

PS: The typos will be updated first and corrected later.