Rebirth 1999: Opening the Age of Black Technology

Body Chapter 553 Feeling scared (two in one)

Barrett asked the relevant personnel of Intel's personnel department to analyze the core members of Changtian Technology's chip research style one by one.

I have to say that Intel has a lot of ways. The information of Changtian Technology's chips and laboratories and chip researchers is kept secret from the outside world.

Even the Xia Guo Academy of Sciences does not know the background of the members of the Changtian Technology Chip Lab, but the information on the personnel on Barrett's desktop not only includes the list of personnel, gender, address, etc. , and even where they have participated in work, when they were in college or graduate school, which school they studied in, and what kind of papers they published.

I don't know how Intel got this list.

But through the information on this list, Intel can clearly see that there are two key points.

The first is that the person in charge of the Lab on a Chip is named Wang Yu, and Wang Yu has a very rich resume.

Wang Yu graduated from the Department of Computer Science of Shuimu University. He published many papers on integrated semiconductors in college. He was accepted as a graduate student by Stanford University with excellent grades.

He then earned a Ph.D. at Stanford University and worked at Texas Instruments…

Some of this content seems to have nothing to do with Intel.

But Wang Yu's experience during his Ph.D. caught Intel's attention.

Wang Yu once went to Intel to exchange and study as a member of the Stanford elite team.

Elite teams are mainly related teams set up for high-quality talents from Ivy League universities in the United States. Technology companies in Silicon Valley of the United States will provide team members with internship and work opportunities.

Wang Yu once worked as an intern at Intel for half a year as a team member.

Because Wang Yu is Chinese, his internship position is not the core department of Intel.

In this regard, Intel, like other high-tech companies, is prepared for Chinese students, especially those from Xia Guo, and it is impossible for Chinese students to contact core industries.

On the surface, Wang Yu definitely has no chance to get in touch with Intel's core industries, but why does he want to add guilt?

Now that Intel has begun to doubt you, it must be taking you to the worst possible place.

In addition to Wang Yu, there are three other employees of the Changtian Technology Chip Lab who have studied or worked in the United States.

Finally, under the investigation of the personnel department, a lot of useful information was found.

for example. Wang Yu once asked the relevant personnel of Intel's core department some academic and professional questions, and these questions are very sensitive and related to the content of the core design of the chip.

Three other employees also tried to apply for internships at companies such as Texas Instruments or Qualcomm.

Well, just these few points are enough.

Intel's personnel department and security department have characterized Wang Yu and others, and made it clear that four core employees of Changtian Technology's chip laboratory, including Wang Yu, stole relevant industry secrets of the semiconductor industry in the United States while studying or working in the United States.

In particular, Wang Yu, who once worked at Intel, used improper means to obtain the core confidential documents related to Intel's dual-core chip design, and brought this series of information to Xia Guo.

Using these data, the dual-core design of Pangu 2 chip was completed in Changtian Technology's chip laboratory.

In this way, the closed loop of the entire chain of plagiarism evidence is very perfect. The idea of ​​dual-core chips was first proposed by Intel and tried to develop it.

However, because Xia Guo's student Wang Yu and others obtained relevant information through improper means, the dual-core chip was provided by these people to Changtian Technology.

It is with the support of these materials that Changtian Technology completed the design of the dual-core chip.

Intel believes that this kind of report will definitely be supported by the technology and capital circles in the United States and the global technology community.

After all, in Western society, no one would believe that it is possible to develop a dual-core chip only by relying on Xia Guoren himself, a technology company that has just been established for a long time, and a technology team that has just been born for about a year.

Intel found a perfect excuse for its lag.

In addition, the production of chips is completed by Yanjiang Semiconductor, and the technical team of Yanjiang Semiconductor is Xiaxin International.

The senior management and technical team of Xiaxin International came from TiSMC. Intel immediately reported the situation to TiSMC, and asked TiSMC to strictly inquire whether it had stolen TiSMC’s chip production technology and materials when Zhang Jing’s team left. related issues.

Whether the technology and equipment used by Xiaxin International to produce chips also infringe the relevant intellectual property rights and patented technologies of TSMC?

The best way to kill a tech company is to find the root of the problem and make their technology no longer legitimate.

The legality of technology is the biggest difference between the technology industry and other traditional industries.

After TSMC got the letter from Intel, it attached great importance to it!

Zhang Jing and his team left TiSMC for Xia, and the establishment of Xiaxin International in the mainland made TiSMC's executives somewhat annoyed.

After all, many people in Zhang Jing's team are the backbone members of TSMC, master the most advanced chip production technology of TSMC, and have a lot of upstream and downstream resources in their hands.

Upstream resources include some equipment necessary for the production of chips - the purchase channels of lithography machines, etc.

Downstream resources include potential customers of TSMC.

Therefore, from the day Xiaxin International was established, TSMC has never given up its suppression of Xiaxin International.

On the one hand, it slandered the reputation of Xiaxin International in the world, claimed that Xiaxin International could not produce high-quality chips, and asked customers not to cooperate with Xiaxin International.

On the other hand, through legal means, it has continuously filed a lawsuit with Kaixiaxin International, accusing Xiaxin International of infringing on the patented technology of TiSMC.

Today, after receiving a letter from Intel, TiSMC felt that Intel's ideas coincided with its own.

TiSMC immediately held a meeting and wrote back to Intel, saying that TiSMC would fully cooperate with Intel to find out all evidence that Yanjiang Peninsula Company infringed TiSMC's related patents, and strive to win the relationship with Xiaxin International. lawsuit.

The top management of TSMC is also very clear that as long as Xiaxin International collapses, more than half of the chip production capacity of Yanjiang Semiconductor will be lost.

Yanjing.

Lianxiang is mourning the related performance of Pangu chips.

Lianxiang Laboratory has completed the testing of Jiaolong series computers.

Of course, the test results made Yang Qing very embarrassed. Everything he was worried about happened.

The marketing department and the technical department of Lianxiang have evaluated and assumed that the Jiaolong series of computers can be mass-produced and the production capacity level can reach hundreds of thousands or even millions of units. This is a devastating blow to Lianxiang.

At present, there are only two Jiaolong series announced by Shenchuan - one is equipped with Pangu No. 1 chip, and the other is equipped with Pangu No. 2 chip.

However, Shenchuan can completely differentiate computers with more price points by adding or reducing other hardware configurations such as memory hard disks, graphics cards, etc. according to different user groups and different consumption levels.

It can even achieve full computer coverage from more than 4,000 yuan to 8,000 yuan.

This price range is a good range for Xia Guo's sales.

The most important thing is that Yang Qing has clearly understood that the relevant departments of the state, especially the more sensitive fields of military scientific research, have begun to focus on purchasing the Jiaolong computer of the Shenchuan.

Will this type of procurement spread to other areas of centralized procurement?

If it spreads to other fields, it will have a greater impact on Lianxiang.

How to do?

U.S. hardware companies such as Intel and Seagate have been unable to exert any pressure on Changtian Technology or Shenchuan.

Because Shenchuan's Jiaolong computer has completely realized the localization of hardware, and even the operating system has nothing to do with the United States.

Under such circumstances, it is impossible for American hardware technology companies to exert any pressure on Shenchuan.

Yang Qing must find a way to solve the problem immediately.

Lianxiang held a meeting between the high-level and the technical department for three consecutive days, and the only way to think of it was to introduce more advanced chips from inter to launch computers with cheaper prices and better performance as soon as possible.

But this kind of countermeasure is almost impossible for the current Lianxiang.

The price of Intel's high-end chips is there, and it is absolutely impossible to be cheaper than the Pangu 2 chip.

Lianxiang is just a computer assembly manufacturer without any technical intellectual property rights, and the lower limit of the assembly cost has been fixed there.

It is impossible for Lianxiang to sell points at a loss, right?

At this time, Lianxiang's high-level people's hearts are floating!

Everyone is thinking, if Ni Lao did not leave, would this still happen?

At this moment, what Yang Qing was most worried about happened.

Enterprises and institutions in Yanjing announced the tender documents for the centralized procurement of computers for office use in 2005.

Requirements of the bidding documents: the computer is of good quality and can meet the daily work, and the unit price does not exceed 12,000.

These requirements are all routine requirements, whether it is Shenchuan's computer or Lianxiang's computer or other brands, all of them can meet the requirements.

However, there is a bonus item in the bidding announcement - if the bidder uses a domestic system and domestic hardware, there will be bonus points in the bidding process.

Bonus points shall not be less than 30% of the total score.

Seeing such a supplementary agreement, Yang Qing's heart went cold.

At present, the state's requirement for the development of Xiaguo Technology Company is indeed to support the development of domestic innovative technology companies.

In the past, the new technology company that innovated in the computer field was Lianxiang.

This is the only one, there are no branches.

But now, this title has been ceded to Changtian Technology and Shenchuan.

Yang Qing knew very well in his heart that according to such a tender document, 99% of the winning bidders were Shenchuan, definitely not Lianxiang.

This batch of computer purchases by government agencies, enterprises and institutions in Yanjing involved a total of more than 4,000 computers.

How much is the total?

In fact, it's not too much, and Lianxiang's general representative does not only sell such a little product.

But this time the tender is of representative significance and has absolute influence on other enterprises and institutions in the country.

In addition, Yanjing is an international metropolis, and there are many multinational companies in Yanjing.

This time, if the results of the centralized procurement of government agencies, enterprises and institutions are announced, it will also have a wide international influence.

At that time, Western multinational companies would think that even Xia Guoyanjing had given up on Lianxiang brand computers and switched to purchasing domestic computer magic ships. Does this mean that Lianxiang computers have no advantage in performance and price?

So even if multinational companies want to purchase computers globally in the future, what brands will they consider?

They will definitely not consider Shenchuan, but they will no longer consider Lianxiang, and will consider other brands such as Dell more.

Yang Qing's contacts in Yanjing are still very wide, and he immediately found a way to contact the relevant leaders of procurement.

The other party's answer made Yang Qing quite disappointed.

"This time, the procurement standards of government agencies, enterprises and institutions in Yanjing are strictly in accordance with the recommendations of relevant state departments and relevant industry experts and scholars."

"Referring to the procurement plan of Xia Guo's military scientific research and other units that just completed the chip procurement some time ago~www.readwn.com~ It proves that the country is promoting localization and autonomy on a large scale. This trend is irreversible."

The leader said to Yang Qing earnestly: "Mr. Yang, it can be seen from the relevant procurement plan this time that the country will support domestic chips and domestic computers for a long time in the future."

"You Lianxiang have a unique advantage! With the most extensive market and customers, you can think of some ways in it, and you can also make your own domestic chips."

The words of the leaders here are of course good intentions, but Yang Qing only smiled bitterly.

Because the leaders do not know how difficult it is to develop domestic chips and domestic operating systems, far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Even if Lianxiang has now changed its development direction and invested a lot of profits in the research and development of chips and operating systems, it is too late to start.

Not to mention the competition with Changtian Technology's Firefly OS and Pangu chips, there is still a big gap to compete with the Red Star system, which is known as a liar project, or the poorly developed Godson.

For Lianxiang, starting to develop chips now is simply not worth the loss, and there will be no gain.

Lianxiang is currently the most difficult time. Yang Qing felt that Lianxiang really had no choice but to seek cooperation with Intel and ask Intel to lower the price of related chips.

Yang Qing couldn't help but smile bitterly. Although he didn't believe in fate, he had to accept it.

A few years ago, how could Lianxiang have thought that he would have such an experience today?

Lianxiang did not call Intel immediately, but asked the assistant to urgently purchase the latest flight to California, the United States.

At this critical time, Lianxiang felt that he had to conduct interviews with high-level executives such as Intel, Seagate, Kingston, etc., and the hardware cost must be reduced!