Rise of the Wasteland

Fidel stayed in the magic for a while, the more he learned, the more complicated the problem between rabbit and hawk sauce became. I have you on both sides and you on me. They are interdependent opponents. It is difficult to describe the relationship between the two sides in short words.

But in the semiconductor industry, Fidel saw the rabbit's current plight. The low-end market has established itself and can rely heavily on foreign products at the mid- to high-end. Many companies in the semiconductor industry need the support and cooperation of foreign companies to survive.

The rabbit government wants to make a breakthrough, but this will not be effective in a short time. As stated by Samsung executives before ... Japan, South Korea and an island can unite to form an industrial 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 wants to see what it looks like in the semiconductor application market?

The customer is a vice president of Citibank in the rabbit area. It is said that they want to expand their business in the rabbit area and buy a batch of server equipment.

Fidel accompanied ibm executives to sit in the VIP area of ​​the bank and talked about the server market casually. "I heard that domestic rabbit servers have a lot of market share, is it true?"

The seated ibm executive laughed loudly: "Yes, the rabbit server makers do occupy a large share. However, the servers they produce all use our chips and cannot be separated from our software. The more they sell The more we make, the greater our profits.

And most of Rabbit's servers are in the low-end market, and the high-end market is still firmly occupied by us. They are very different in brand. Especially in the bank server area, they have always wanted to come in, but they have not been very successful. "

Many industries made by rabbits these years are dominating the low-end, such as IBM's Lenovo's PC business simply dumped to rabbits. Why? Low profits. How much money does a pc make? In order to pursue profitability, people don't care about that mosquito leg.

Servers are tens of thousands cheaper, hundreds of thousands more expensive, and the profit of selling a server is worth selling a bunch of pcs. In addition, there are software and maintenance costs for selling servers, which is also a big profit. And I have never heard of how to make money after selling a pc.

"For a long time, the rabbit bank's servers were all our ibm, and basically no one can compete with us in this market. Whether it is stability or response speed, we have special optimizations, so the prudent customers of the bank are Willing to buy our products. "

When it comes to his company's products, ibm's executives are quite proud. After all, everyone likes their products to be recognized, which is a sense of accomplishment. But just as Fidel wanted to echo a few words, the vice president of Citibank Rabbit Zone went into the VIP area, his face was somber.

"Hey, what happened?" The ibm executive reached out and patted Citigroup's shoulder. "Old friend, you seem a little upset."

"Hum ..." Vice President Citi laughed a moment or two. "I'm not unhappy at all. I just have bad news to tell you that I can't buy your IBM server directly."

"Ah ..." ibm executives rolled their eyes immediately. "Is that **** to make trouble? HP or Dell? Their servers are not comparable to us, and no one in the high-end server market can surpass us."

In the face of this confident speech, the vice president of Citigroup only smiled bitterly, "It is not Hewlett-Packard or Dell, but it is a rabbit newly established company 'Radiation Electronics'."

Hearing that there are new opponents, ibm's executives took it seriously. The vice president of Citi continued: "We are going to expand our business in the rabbit area recently. As a kind of exchange, the rabbit government wants us to give them domestic companies the same opportunity in purchasing goods."

"So ...?" Ibm's executive asked in confusion.

"So we have to conduct a tender, an evaluation, and allow this 'radiation electronics' to submit their bids and products." Citigroup Vice President expressed his helplessness.

When he heard the name of "radiation electron", Fidel was excited. "I know that this company seems to have been newly established and strongly supported by the rabbit government recently.

According to the business intelligence I got, it was the appearance of this company that caused the stock of Dutch asml company to fall. Because the company said that they broke through the three-nanometer chip process and are about to mass-produce. "

"Isn't that company boycotted?" Obviously, ibm executives also knew the news in the industry, "Aren't they going to a fab? Why are they selling servers suddenly?"

Hearing the word "three nanometers", the vice president of Citigroup exclaimed: "Yes, people who radiate electrons also sell that their products use the latest three nanometer process, and they say that their products perform better than current ones. The mainstream has raised a generation. "

"Haha ..." ibm's senior official screamed twice, apparently disbelieving, "If you want to bid, you can't lose. But the three-nanometer process can't be done by anyone, even we are currently No similar product. I feel this company is suspected of fraud. "

ibm's executives were obviously very angry, but Fidel calmed down as an onlooker, and he continued to ask: "This company advertises that its server uses its own three-nanometer process chip?"

"Yes." Vice President Citi nodded.

"Their chips are also designed by themselves?"

"Supposedly yes."

"What architecture?"

Good question, chip design is not just a random drawing. Large-scale integrated circuits are very complex. The so-called architecture can be understood as certain rules followed in the design of chips, and certain patents used. These are the keys to big companies' technology blockades and making money.

"Ibm's power architecture." Vice President Citi smiled again, "It is said that this spent a large sum of money to buy a patent license from your headquarters, but I think the ibm headquarters did not expect that they would have an opponent.

Patent authorization is an important means of technological blockade and an effective way to contain opponents. But now the sudden emergence of the "radiation electron" actually surpassed this obstacle by throwing money, and Fidel felt a horror in his heart when he heard this.

The bad news doesn't stop there. Citi's vice president also said: "According to the external publicity of 'Radiation Electronics', they have made great improvements in the power architecture, and these improvements have all been patented.

I'm not sure if this is true. If it is true, ibm will also encounter patent problems when it develops the power architecture ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ I have heard of this, but this is too fast. "Ibm executives couldn't sit still, he apologized and went to a remote place alone to call the headquarters and ask.

He returned with sweat after half an hour and said, "Things seem to be really troublesome. We did sell the three-year right to use the power architecture."

ibm originally thought of two years of use rights, there should be no major problems, after all, chip design is not a simple matter. A chip may not be able to design for two years. To put it plainly, this is to despise the rabbit's ability to do things.

But it's messed up now!

At this point, the vice president of Citigroup also sent a final blow. "It is said that the rabbit government has issued an executive order. In the future, banks and government systems should replace server equipment. Priority should be given to radiant electronics products."

My mother, this is really a big problem!

The ibm executive suddenly cried without tears: "Isn't Radiation Electronics fighting with Japanese and South Korean wafer fabs? How did it come to trouble us? We didn't provoke it!"