Gou: the United States wants to attract more Foxconn-Foxconn factory floor have to study China, GOU-IT information

According to foreign media reports that Foxconn is still currently in active discussion with the parties in the United States to build flat panel factory. But in China, Foxconn Super Panel factory broke ground for the total investment of 8.8 billion dollars, which also highlights the China and the United States of the big differences in manufacturing.

According to earlier media reports, Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision (subsidiary Foxconn technology group) founder and Chairman, Terry GOU, and was attended by Guangdong Province at local time Wednesday under the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new flat-screen plant in Guangzhou, and initially only 50 days to reach the plant agreement.

At a press conference after the groundbreaking ceremony in the question and answer session, Mr Gou said Foxconn is currently bidding for Toshiba Flash memory subsidiary, because the businesses of both companies are able to form a very good complementary relationship. Analysts expect, Toshiba PC chip sector valuations may reach 20 billion dollars, even higher.

In this regard, the Toshiba spokesman declined to comment. The company previously has said it hoped that in the next fiscal year beginning on April 1 to complete the Flash memory chip business for sale.

Meanwhile, despite news that the company has also wanted in the United States to build a Super flat panel factory similar to the Guangzhou factory, but after several years of consultation still failed to reach a final agreement. In this regard, Mr Gou said in January that he "still hopes to create a 7 billion-dollar factory in the United States, and openness to engagement with the individual States of the United States Government."

In fact, he recently personally visited Washington on the matter, but he declined to say more about negotiations.

It should be said that both build factories in Guangzhou and in the bid for Toshiba's chip business, move closer to the operation mode of Samsung Electronics is Foxconn committed part. As we all know, is a consumer electronics brand Samsung, but also for themselves and other key parts of a company. As a traditional contract manufacturer, Foxconn was acquired last year by sharp, which makes the company the first major consumer brands, and a new flat-panel plant in Guangdong is to "Samsung" took an important step.

"We see the efficiency of the Guangdong Government, Guangdong officials also saw leadership and ability. "Terry said.

He also said that if the US Government wanted to secure such construction project must provide tax incentives, developing a training plan, and to study and learn the Chinese Government practices.

"Our feeling is that if any US State governments want to attract local at Foxconn factories, they are supposed to be here (Guangzhou) studies and research, in particular, to look at how we can use so much within such a short time. ”

It should be said that flat panel factory is one of the United States Government attached great importance to the project, because this class factory production process is highly automated, at the same time than iPhone assembly plant can create higher paying jobs.

In this regard, Foxconn Vice Chairman Jacob Chen (Jacob Chen) at the commencement ceremony, HD flat screen Panel of the Guangzhou factory production in the future will be mainly used for sharp's large-screen televisions. China's current largest television market is the sharp, and Foxconn in China in November after a marketing campaign last year, sharp's television sales rose more than seven times.

Buy sharp is Foxconn's first attempt to become a branded company, not just a supplier's bold attempt. Jacob Chen said that after the purchase of sharp, Foxconn has been with youku, China's two leading video service provider potatoes and aiqi smart TV arts reached a cooperation agreement, as well as in cooperation with Tencent Holdings in negotiating new issues.

Jacob Chen expects sharp two months ago listed the latest smart TV product sales will reach 1 million units at the end of March or so. Furthermore, Foxconn will also be opened in China this year, "hundreds of" new stores.

However, it still has some analysts questioning whether Foxconn can simply rely on sharp products create enough Panel needs to digest the enormous capacity of its Guangzhou plant.

On the other hand, while China is the most main Foxconn's manufacturing base, but Mr Gou said, if they find a more cost-effective manufacturing base will consider the production line moving out of China. Among them, the most obvious example is that the company bought last year for Nokia mobile phone factory in Vietnam.

"One of my colleagues asked me, should we Vietnamese factories moving to China. And I put the first question to him is, where it's cheaper? "Terry says.

It is obvious that Vietnam would cost less, so the line will continue to stay there.

郭台铭：美国想吸引富士康更多工厂落地还得学中国 - 富士康,郭台铭 - IT资讯

据国外媒体报道称，目前的富士康仍在积极同各方磋商在美国建造平板面板厂的事宜。但在中国，富士康总计投资88亿美元的超级面板厂已经破土动工，而这也凸显出了中国和美国制造环境所存在的巨大差异。

根据此前媒体报道称，台湾企业鸿海精密（下属富士康科技集团）创办人、董事长郭台铭和广东省官员在当地时间周三参加了下属广州新平板屏幕工厂的奠基仪式，而双方起初只用了50天就达成了这一建厂协议。

在奠基仪式结束后的记者问答环节中，郭台铭还透露，富士康目前正在竞购东芝闪存子公司，因为两家公司的业务能够形成很好的互补关系。分析师预计，东芝的PC芯片部门估值可能达到200亿美元，甚至还会更高。

对此，东芝发言人拒绝发表置评。但该公司此前已经表示，希望在始于4月1日的下一个财年内尽快完成闪存芯片业务的出售工作。

与此同时，尽管有消息称富士康也希望在美国建造一个类似于广州工厂的超级平板面板厂，但在展开了数年的磋商后依旧没能达成最终协议。对此，郭台铭在今年1月表示，自己“仍然希望在美国打造一个70亿美元的工厂，并对同美国各个州政府进行接洽持开放态度”。

事实上，郭台铭不久前刚刚就此事亲自造访了华盛顿，只是他拒绝透露有关谈判的更多内容。

应该说，无论是建造广州工厂还是竞购东芝芯片业务，都是富士康向三星电子运营模式靠拢所实施的部分举措。众所周知，三星是一家消费电子品牌，但它同时也为自己和其他公司生产关键零部件。作为传统代工厂商，富士康在去年已经成功收购了夏普，这使得公司获得了首个重要消费者品牌，而在广东新建平板面板厂则是向“三星模式”迈出重要一步。

“我们看到了广东政府的办事效率，也看到了广东官员的领导力和推进能力。”郭台铭说道。

他还表示，如果美国政府也想争取到这样的建厂项目必须提供税收优惠、制定工人培训计划，并着手研究、学习中国政府的作法。

“我们的感觉是，如果任何美国州政府想要吸引富士康到当地建厂，他们都应该来这里（指广州）学习和研究，尤其应该来看看我们是如何在这里用这么短的时间内做成这么多事情的。”

应该说，平板面板制造厂是美国政府非常重视的一个项目，因为这类工厂的生产流程高度自动化，同时可以创造出比iPhone组装工厂收入更高的就业岗位。

对此，富士康副董事长雅各布-陈(Jacob Chen)在动工仪式上表示，未来广州工厂生产的高清平板面板将主要用于夏普的大尺寸电视产品。中国是夏普目前的最大电视市场，而且自富士康去年11月在中国展开营销攻势后，夏普的电视销量增长了足足七倍。

收购夏普是富士康首次试图成为一家品牌公司，而不仅仅是一家供应厂商所展开的大胆尝试。雅各布-陈表示，自收购夏普后，富士康已经与中国两大视频服务提供商优酷土豆和爱奇艺达成了智能电视合作协议，同时还在与腾讯控股磋商新的合作事宜。

雅各布-陈预计，夏普两个月前上市的最新智能电视产品销量在3月底将达到100万台左右。而且，富士康今年还将在中国开设“数百家”全新门店。

然而，依然有部分分析师质疑富士康是否能单单依靠夏普产品创造出足够的面板需求，以消化其广州工厂的巨大产能。

在另一方面，尽管中国是目前富士康的最主要制造基地，但是郭台铭表示，如果自己找到了更为节省成本的制造基地就会考虑将产线迁出中国。其中，最明显的例子就是富士康在去年收购了为诺基亚生产手机的越南工厂。

“一个同事曾问我，我们是否应该将越南工厂迁至中国。而我对他提出的第一个问题就是，哪边的成本更低？”郭台铭最后说道。

显而易见的是，越南成本会更低一些，所以该产线会继续留在那里。