Thursday, June 23, 2016

Foxconn transformation or a tremendous impact on the mobile phone industry

Recently, Foxconn announced financial technology and services platform will be launched during the year in the rich rich, it is understood that the financial services for the electronics supply chain, not pre-oriented consumers. Foxconn has made loans, financial guarantees operating license qualifications and equipment leasing and factoring and other local services. The wallet management platform in addition to the supply chain partners, will also step into the P2P net loan field. In addition, Foxconn future will establish a private equity fund of 300 million yuan, the main investment in the mainland of start-up companies.
As Apple's largest contract manufacturer, Foxconn has set up at least six financial services companies in the Chinese mainland, and to provide 10 billion yuan of funds to the periphery more than 100 component suppliers.
Media that Foxconn main purpose is to reduce dependence on Apple and get involved in high-margin business areas, at present, about 50% of Foxconn's revenue from Apple, but it may not stop there.
If you do not read Foxconn purpose and future development of financial products available, let us recall that in the previous two months, Foxconn done.
In early April this year, Foxconn to 3,890 billion yen ($ 3.5 billion) acquisition of a majority stake in Japan's Sharp. Media said Terry Gou, Foxconn hopes to embark on the road of transformation, has become an international brand-name manufacturers.
The end of May, Foxconn with the transaction price of 350 million US dollars from the hands of Microsoft bought Nokia's functional machine business.
After reviewing these two news, Foxconn is not that more mysterious ...... so let us look at Foxconn depth this series of moves, what specifically do something.
It is understood that Foxconn has made propaganda in China Taiwan region to promote team while promoting InFocus phone Nokia and Sharp's mobile phone business, Nokia and Sharp to enter China Taiwan market. In the future, Sharp will only Foxconn mobile positioning high-end products, while the InFocus as low-end products. Nokia is a functional machine product line.
In the Japanese market, Sharp Foxconn before getting smart phone business has been promoting InFocus mobile phone brands, and after obtaining Sharp smartphones, given the Sharp has a higher profile in Japan, so the focus will be the promotion of Foxconn put Japan Sharp body.
So, Foxconn layout of the mobile phone industry to get involved in the financial industry and what is the relationship?
Foxconn financial services executives believe that "Foxconn supply chain has a natural advantage, we understand better than anyone the electronic component supplier's business situation, because they are our customers." Obviously, Foxconn is helping companies solve supply chain their financial problems should be noted that, although the pre Foxconn to do just to help enterprises solve financial problems, but the official also said that if this business progress, will launch a direct-to-consumer financial products. In short, supply chain finance Foxconn to start, and then goes directly to ordinary investors sold financial products packaged loans.
Although we can not predict how Foxconn which actions carried out in the consumer finance market, but what is certain is that after the phone has a complete product line to provide consumers with online financial services such as money market funds, consumer persons and micro-credit loans allow Foxconn to reach the fastest speed in transition.
Let us imagine that. Future, have a Sharp (high-end), InFocus (low-end), Nokia (low-end functional machine) three brands of enterprises to purchase installments 0 Interest way to provide consumers with similar microcredit finance products, while providing other financial services, and he is the mobile phone industry's largest OEM manufacturers, he is Foxconn after the transition, he would cause much of an impact the industry?
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Friday, June 17, 2016

The semiconductor industry M & A wave fundamental reason Secret

Expand market share, networking opportunities, increased research and development costs, China's ambitions for the semiconductor industry, all of which contributed to the recent mergers and acquisitions wave.
Not difficult to find, the recent surge in M ​​& A activity, including the Chinese consortium "aggressive" in the new program aims to strengthen its voice in the semiconductor industry.
Except that "fanaticism", "crazy" this word is really hard to describe 2015, the semiconductor industry's huge wave of mergers and acquisitions. In the first half of 2015 a short time, it has announced the acquisition of a semiconductor involving an amount of up to $ 72.06 billion (as shown in Figure 1), which over the past five years (2010-2014) the average deal nearly six times.

2010-2015 involving an amount of mergers and acquisitions in the first half of the semiconductor
Three acquisitions in the first half of 2015 has been the 2015 merger record history. First, NXP announced in March to $ 11.08 billion in cash and stock acquisition of Freescale; in late May, Avago announced a $ 37 billion acquisition of Broadcom; only four days later (June 1), Intel said it has reached an agreement to $ 16.7 billion cash acquisition of Altera Corporation. Avago surprisingly acquisition Broadcom IC industry and so far largest acquisition.
Throwing money to take the money
In many ways, 2015 has become a perfect storm in the joint between acquisitions, mergers, major suppliers, IC manufacturers saw sales slow down its existing market segments, need to expand their business in order to keep investors. Rising costs of product development and research of advanced technology, but also need to encourage manufacturers to make larger scale and in the next five years, a higher sales rate. Things huge market potential, but also led to a major supplier of integrated circuits readjust their strategy, and quickly fill part of their portfolio missing. China's ambitious goal, namely to reduce the imports of IC devices, and even self-sufficient, which also contributed to a number of Chinese companies and investment group acquisitions.
IC industry to mature
IC Insights analysts believe that an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions will lead to major chip manufacturers and suppliers less and less, which is a major change in the supply chain, indicating the maturity of the industry. In addition to the wave of mergers and acquisitions taking place, such as lack of start any new entry point for IC manufacturers, the strong momentum into the fab-lite business model, as well as capital expenditure as a percentage of sales ratio decline trend, are harbingers of the next five years, the semiconductor industry will remodeling.
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Apple set up a subsidiary to sell surplus energy solar power

According to foreign media reports a number of technology, Apple has just founded a subsidiary of energy "Apple Energy LCC", which is registered in Delaware, but the company is located in the Apple Cupertino headquarters.
The company's assets include Nevada and California power facilities, including for providing power to the headquarters of spacecraft solar panels and fuel cells.
Apple to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission indicated that it should be consistent with the market price, rather than the wholesale price of electricity sales standards, because there is no significant impact on the energy industry, will not affect the market price. Apple approved the request after filing the application to start selling electricity (June 6) in 60 days.
Many states implement net metering (Net Metering), the grid allows users to have green energy generation facilities to the grid transmission of electricity, the excess power to sell a profit. Because of the large scale power generation projects Apple and quite complicated, Apple needs to set up a subsidiary to sell surplus electricity.
Apple is unlikely to sell electricity to consumers, because it requires the establishment of costly new infrastructure, transmission of electricity to the home, but also face other obstacles. Instead, the excess power during the day and sold to local power companies to help offset the evenings and rainy days is insufficient solar power grid electricity costs.
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