Rise of the Wasteland Chapter 1781: Come to the pond fish
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Fidel spent a period of time at Shanghai. The more he learned, the more complicated the problem between rabbit and eagle sauce. Both of you are me and you are me. They are interdependent opponents. It is difficult to describe the relationship between the two parties in short words.
However, in the semiconductor industry, Fidel saw the current plight of the rabbit. The low-end market has stabilized and can rely heavily on foreign products in the mid- to high-end. Many companies in the semiconductor industry need all kinds of support and cooperation from foreign companies to survive.
The rabbit government wants to make a breakthrough, but this is not a short-term effect. As previously stated by Samsung executives ... Japan, South Korea and an island can join forces to form an industry alliance to suppress the development of the rabbit semiconductor industry.
Today Fidel is going to accompany an IBM rabbit executive to visit customers. He just wanted to see what it looks like in the actual semiconductor application market.
The customer is a deputy general manager of Citibank in the Rabbit District. It is said that they want to expand their business in the Rabbit District and they need to purchase a batch of server equipment.
Fidel accompanied IBM executives to sit in the VIP area of the bank and casually chatted about the server market. "Is it true that rabbit-made servers have a lot of market share?"
The seated IBM executives laughed aloud: "Yes, several rabbit server manufacturers do occupy a large share. However, the servers they produce are all using our chips, and we cannot do without our software. They The more we sell, the greater our profit.
And most of the rabbit's servers are in the low-end market, and the high-end market is still firmly occupied by us. They are far from the brand. Especially in the bank server, they always wanted to come in, but they were not very successful. "
In this year, many industries that rabbits do are dominated at the low end. For example, IBM ’s PC business is simply dumped to the rabbit ’s Lenovo. Why? Low profits. How much does a PC make? In order to pursue profitability, people can't look down on that mosquito leg anymore.
While the server is tens of thousands cheaper and hundreds of thousands more expensive, the profit from selling a server is worth selling a bunch of PCs. Moreover, selling servers also has software and later maintenance costs, which is also a big profit. And I have never heard of how to make money in the later period when selling PC.
“For a long time, Rabbit Bank ’s servers were all owned by IBM, and basically no one could compete with us for this market. Whether it ’s stability or response speed, we have specialized optimizations, so the bank is so cautious Of customers are willing to buy our products. "
When it comes to their own products, IBM executives are quite proud. After all, everyone likes their products to be recognized, which is full of sense of accomplishment. But when Fidel wanted to echo a few words, the vice president of Citibank's rabbit area walked into the VIP area, his face somber.
"Hi, what happened?" IBM executives actively reached out and patted Citigroup's shoulder. "Old friend, you seem a little unhappy."
"Hum ..." Vice President Citi laughed at one or two, "I'm not unhappy, I just have bad news to tell you, I can't buy your IBM server directly."
"Ah ..." IBM executives rolled their eyes immediately. "Is that **** messing up? Hewlett-Packard or Dell? Their servers are not comparable to us, no one in the high-end server market can surpass us."
In the face of this self-confident words, Vice President Citi only smiled bitterly, "It ’s not HP nor Dell, it ’s a newly established rabbit company" Radiant Electronics. "
I heard that there are new opponents, but IBM executives are a little bit serious. Vice President Citigroup continued: “We are going to expand our business in the Rabbit District recently. In exchange for some kind of exchange, the Rabbit Government wants us to give their domestic companies equal opportunities in purchasing goods.”
"So ...?" IBM executives asked in doubt.
"So we have to conduct a tender, an evaluation, and allow this" radiation electronics "to submit their bids and products." Citi Vice President expressed helplessness.
When I heard the name "Radiant Electronics", Fidel regained his spirit, "I know this company seems to be newly established by the Rabbit Government and strongly supported.
According to the business intelligence I got, it was the emergence of this company that caused the stock of the Dutch ASML company to fall. Because this company said they have broken through the three-nanometer chip manufacturing process and are about to mass produce. "
"Isn't that company boycotted?" Obviously, IBM executives also know the news in the industry, "Aren't they going to build a fab? Why did they suddenly sell servers?"
Hearing the word "three nanometers", Citi ’s vice president also exclaimed: "Yes, the people of" radiation electronics "also promoted that their products use the latest three nanometer process, they said that their product performance A generation higher than the current mainstream. "
"Haha ..." IBM's senior officials yelled twice, apparently not believing, "If we want to bid, we can't lose. But the three-nanometer process can't be done by anyone, even We currently do not have similar products. I think this company is suspected of fraud. "
IBM executives are obviously very angry, but Fidel has calmed down as a bystander. He continued to ask: "This company advertises that its server uses its own three-nanometer chip?"
"Yes." Citigroup Vice President nodded.
"They also designed their own chips?"
"Supposedly yes."
"What architecture?"
This question is well asked, the chip design is not just drawing a picture. Large-scale integrated circuits are very complicated. The so-called architecture can be understood as certain rules followed when designing chips, and certain patents used. These are the key to big companies' technical blockade and making money.
"IBM's POWER architecture." Vice President Citi smiled bitterly again, "It is said that it cost a lot of money to buy a patent license from your headquarters, but I think IBM headquarters did not expect that it would be one more. Opponent. "
Patent authorization is an important means of technical blockade and an effective way to contain opponents. But now this sudden "radiation electron" actually crossed the barrier by smashing money, and Fidel could not help raising a shock in his heart.
And the bad news goes beyond that, Citi ’s vice president also said: "According to the publicity of the" radiation electronics ", they have made great improvements in the POWER structure, and these improvements have all applied for patents. .
I ’m not sure if this is true. If it is true, IBM will also encounter patent problems in the next step to develop the POWER architecture. "
"I heard about it, but it's too fast." IBM executives couldn't sit still. He apologized and walked to a remote place alone to call the headquarters.
After half an hour, he came back with sweat and said: "It seems that things are really a bit troublesome. We did sell the three-year use right of the POWER architecture."
IBM originally thought about the right to use for two years. There should be no major problems. After all, chip design is not a simple matter. A chip may not be designed for two years. To put it plainly, this is to underestimate the rabbit's ability to do things.
But it ’s messed up now!
At this point, Citi ’s deputy general sent a final blow, "It is said that the rabbit government has issued an administrative order. In the future, banks and government systems will replace server equipment, and radiation electronics products should be given priority."
My mother, this is really a big question!
IBM executives suddenly cried without tears: "Is n’t Radiation Electronics fighting against the fabs in Japan and South Korea? How did it come to mess with us? We did n’t mess with it!"