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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.mtlnovel.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!Yang Qing believes that the success of Lianxiang must be the success of Intel, and such ideas and concepts must be seriously told to Intel's executives.

Three days later, when the Shenzhou Shenchuan Experience Store was in full swing, Yang Qing took Lianxiang's high-level executives to visit the United States.

And met Intel's executives at Intel's headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, and met with Intel's CEO Barrett.

Barrett is not a fool. Of course, he knows why Yang Qing and Lianxiang's team rushed to the United States to meet with him at this time.

After a chat between the two sides, Yang Qing went straight to the point.

He reported to Barrett the predicament that Lianxiang encountered during this period.

The biggest dilemma is not that the number of Lianxiang's agents has decreased, or that Lianxiang's market share is not wide, but that the competitiveness of Lianxiang's products in the market is extremely reduced. .

Last year, Lianxiang was preparing for the acquisition of IBM. The acquisition of IBM was to integrate Lianxiang's global sales chain and industrial chain, and to increase Lianxiang's global popularity and market share.

Things have come to a juncture, and Yang Qing has begun to express some hesitation about whether to acquire IBM.

If only Intel's chips could be a little more powerful.

Yang Qing said unceremoniously as if venting: "With the successful research and development of Pangu chips and the wide application of Firefly os, Shenchuan has madly occupied the market in the mainland of Xia Kingdom."

"As for Lianxiang, it is because of the cost of hardware that the selling price has repeatedly failed to come down, so its share in the traditional consumer market has been declining."

Yang Qing said: "At present, Shenchuan Computer has turned their attention to domestic centralized procurement, some of which are government agencies, enterprises and institutions of Xia Guo, and used to be mainly our inherent customer groups of Lianxiang."

"Now there is a development trend in Xiaguo mainland, which requires centralized procurement agencies, enterprises and institutions to purchase domestic computers as much as possible."

"The domestic computer here does not only mean that the computer itself is produced in the country of Xia, but requires the computer's chip memory and other hardware, mainly produced by domestic technology companies."

"So in comparison, Lianxiang's advantage has further shrunk. If our price is higher than others, the performance is not as good as others, and it is not domestically produced, I think Lianxiang will definitely suffer from Waterloo in the field of centralized procurement."

"Mr. Barrett, centralized procurement accounts for more than 70% of Lianxiang's profits in Xiaguo!"

This data is not fabricated by Yang Qing, but the actual situation in China.

It is true that in recent years, the number of personal computer users in Xia Guo has indeed increased rapidly, but most of the growth areas are in first- and second-tier developed cities, and the user group is shared by compatible computers and so on.

There are still a small number of users who really buy brand PCs. Most of Lianxiang's profits come from centralized procurement.

Yang Qing has been expounding the specific situation facing Lianxiang. He said that the main purpose of so many is to tell Intel and tell Barrett that the cost of hardware purchased by Lianxiang is too high, which affects the cost of his own products. and sales.

Barrett also listened carefully to Yang Qing's report. Barrett knew very well that Lianxiang, as the top three in Asia (surpassed by Toshiba and Fujitsu last year), the sixth PC vendor in the world, is also the largest in the Intel international market. One of the purchasing partners, if Lianxiang's market is in crisis, then Intel's sales in Asia and Xia will also fluctuate.

After all, among all the PC manufacturers, Lianxiang has the highest purchase price, and it is also the most straightforward to give money, which is much cuter than several PC manufacturers in the United States.

Therefore, ensuring Lianxiang's sales in the Xiaguo market is also tantamount to protecting Intel's interests.

Yang Qing talked so much, but in the end, he meant only one thing—that is, he hoped that Intel could lower the ex-factory price of its products, especially the ex-factory prices of some high-end chips with strong performance.

Only when the price of the chip is reduced, can Lianxiang's computer cost be reduced, and it will have the opportunity to compete with the Shenchuan Jiaolong series of computers and win the final victory.

In fact, the use of computers in government agencies, enterprises and institutions will not use the extreme performance of the computer at all, so the price advantage is more advantageous than the chip advantage.

When Barrett was talking with Yang Qing, he smiled and didn't express any opinion.

After Yang Qing spent nearly an hour reporting Lianxiang's current difficulties to Barrett.

Barrett took a sip of coffee and said to Yang Qing, "Mr. Yang, the problem you are worried about is also the problem we are worried about."

"However, our chips have dropped a certain percentage on the basis of market prices, and there is no more room."

Barrett is scheming, and he is determined to win!

Because in the mid-to-high-end field, Lianxiang has no choice but Intel!

This is the monopoly business.

When Yang Qing negotiated with Barrett, he used English throughout.

The reason for using English is to show Lianxiang's respect for Intel, unlike when Changtian Technology negotiated with Intel, even if Wang Xiang's English was not bad, he used Chinese throughout the whole process, and let the interpreter translate it. Wang Xiang's words were translated into English.

This is the gap between companies. No matter how weak Changtian Technology is, it must also ensure the confidence it should show.

Yang Qing said so much, originally thought that Barrett might make even the slightest concession in terms of price, but unfortunately, no!

Yang Qing opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but nothing came out.

But Barrett did not completely deny the negotiation logic between Intel and Lianxiang.

"Mr. Yang, as far as I know, Lianxiang is looking to acquire IBM's personal PC business," Barrett said.

Yang Qing nodded and said, "Yes."

Barrett: "IBM's personal PC business has a complete raw material supply chain and sales market, which should be a good opportunity for Lianxiang."

"We also have a headquarters in Xiaguo, and our marketing specialists will investigate Xiaguo's PC market every quarter. You just said it is very correct. In recent years, Xiaguo's PC market has indeed grown very rapidly, but it is subject to Xiaguo's PC market. The economy is not as developed as the US and Europe, so the amount of growth in the individual user market is limited."

"IBM has the world's third-largest market share for individual users and is located in mature Western markets such as the United States and Europe."

"If Lianxiang can acquire IBM, it will definitely open up the market in Western countries such as the United States and Europe. This volume is much higher than that in Xia."

"In addition, IBM's supply chain advantage is also not available at Lianxiang at present, and the price of many of the hardware will be 30% or even 50% of your company's current purchase price."

Barrett's meaning is very clear, he is to inform Lianxiang that there is a second way to go - that is to complete the acquisition of IBM as soon as possible and take over IBM's supply chain and sales market.

Although the price of chips on Intel's side cannot be reduced, the price of other hardware is definitely much lower than that of Lianxiang's current procurement channels.

In this way, Lianxiang can reduce procurement costs and expand the global market.

At this time, Yang Qing's mobile phone received a text message.

This is a text message sent by the relevant person in charge of Lianxiang's visiting team.

The content of the text message is very clear: the team has negotiated with Seagate, Kingston and other companies, and will appropriately reduce the purchase price of Lianxiang. If Lianxiang can complete the acquisition of IBM, then Seagate and other companies will abide by the conditions negotiated with IBM and supply Lianxiang at a lower price.

Seeing this, Yang Qing knew what Lianxiang could do.

He nodded to Barrett and said, "Mr. Barrett, it is a great honor to have a meeting with you this time, and I hope our cooperation will reach a higher level."

Barrett nodded in relief, "As a large international company, Lianxiang deserves the same treatment as other PC companies in the United States."

This sounds so good!

Yang Qing now has a very impulsive idea in his heart. He hopes to discuss with Mr. Liu, or set up Lianxiang's headquarters in California or New York. This is the most important step in Lianxiang's internationalization.

After all, in the past few years, Yang Qing has clearly felt the constraints of Xia Guo's international development.

If Lianxiang is a large international company, it can enjoy the same treatment as Dell, HP and other companies, which is the best choice for Lianxiang.

Before the meeting ended, Barrett and Yang Qing left the conference room together.

When sending Yang Qing to the door of the company, Barrett accidentally revealed a more exciting news.

Barrett said: "We have quite sufficient evidence on our side to prove that the Pangu chip of Changtian Technology may have stolen the relevant intellectual property rights of Intel and TiSMC."

"At the right time, the relevant media will break the news and seek legal means to solve the problem."

This news made Yang Qing extremely shocked!

If it is true, don't say Yanjiang Semiconductor Company at that time, even Changtian Technology may be claimed by American technology companies.

After saying this, Barrett patted Yang Qing on the shoulder, as if to tell Yang Qing that according to Lianxiang's plan, seize the time to acquire IBM, which is absolutely beneficial to Lianxiang's development.

Yang Qing was ecstatic.

He knew how Xiaguo Technology Company could develop its own domestic chip in such a short period of time!

It turned out that the design and development of Pangu chips by Changtian Technology and Yanjiang Semiconductor Company all came from the plagiarism of the knowledge technology and patent rights of Intel and other companies.

This news is definitely good news for Lianxiang!

If Changtian Technology could not further design and optimize Pangu chips, Yanjiang Semiconductor Company would not be able to produce Pangu series chips again due to legal reasons.

Then the Pangu chips in the entire market will definitely face the dilemma of cutting supply, and the production and launch of Shenchuan's Jiaolong series computers will definitely be affected.

At that time, the credibility of Changtian Technology and Shenchuan in the entire PC industry will no longer be available.

Both the consumer and the country would certainly be quite angry and humiliated for this kind of thing.

At that time, it will be Lianxiang who will gain the upper hand.

Yang Qing felt that his trip was worthwhile, at least he knew the origin of Changtian Technology's chips.

What can be respected and feared by companies with technology plagiarism and intellectual property plagiarism?

When Yang Qing came to the United States this time, he still had an important task - to continue the negotiation with IBM, and to seek a consensus on the final acquisition with IBM.

December 8, 2004, is destined to be an important date recorded in the history of global science and technology.

Xia Guolianxiang Group Co., Ltd. and IBM of the United States signed an important agreement.

Under this agreement, Lianxiang Group will acquire IBM's Personal Computer Division (PCD).

The total transaction amount is 1.25 billion meters. The two parties expect that before May 2005, Lianxiang Group will officially complete the acquisition of IBM's global personal computer business.

This marks the birth of the world's third largest personal computer company.

So far, Lianxiang Group will form a long-term strategic alliance with IBM in the fields of global PC sales service, customer service financing, etc., and build the world's third largest PC manufacturer with an annual revenue of 12 billion meters.

According to the ranking of suppliers in the global PC market in the first three quarters of 2004, Dell took the top spot in both desktop and notebook computers, with desktops accounting for 17.3% and notebooks 15.6%.

Hewlett-Packard ranks second, IBM is third, Toshiba is fourth, and American manufacturers Getaway and Toyo's Fujitsu are fifth. (Getaway will also be acquired by Acer in the Wanwan area of ​​Xia Guo in the next few years.)

Lianxiang originally called itself the No. 1 PC maker in Asia, but this year it ranked No. 3 in Asia and No. 6 globally.

So Lianxiang also felt that his life was not easy.

But if IBM is acquired, Lianxiang will become the third largest PC vendor in the world and the largest PC vendor in Asia!

It will be second only to Dell and HP in terms of shipments.

Lianxiang's goal is to surpass HP and Dell to become the global numberone within 2 to 3 years after acquiring IBM.

Yang Qing's inspection trip in the United States was full of rewards. He not only got low-price promises from many hardware manufacturers, but also got important loopholes in chips from Changtian Technology and Yanjiang Semiconductor. In addition, he completed the acquisition of IBM.

Yang Qing believes that the coming 2005 must be the year of Lianxiang's take-off, and Lianxiang will not take it seriously for small manufacturers such as Shenchuan.

The news of Lianxiang's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division directly caused a stir on Wall Street.

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and even many media in Asia are reporting.

"Wall Street Journal": A PC manufacturer from Xia Guo purchased IBM's personal computer division with a lot of money. This transaction will build the world's third largest PC manufacturer, and Lianxiang refers to the global PC market.

"Tongyang Daily": Lianxiang focuses on the global market, and the acquisition of IBM will build its own PC empire.

The content reported by the "South Korea Daily" was even more positive, and it strongly praised Xiaguo's PC company for going out, saying that this acquisition will also greatly show the image of Xiaguo Technology Company to the world.

The people of Xia Guo were also enthusiastic when they got the news. In fact, many netizens didn't read the news carefully. Everyone thought that Lianxiang bought IBM.

The words IBM are eternal gods in the PC industry of Xiaguo. In the eyes of many Xiaguo users, IBM is an unattainable company.

No one would have thought that this company was acquired by Lianxiang overnight.

Also overnight, Lianxiang's image was completely reversed, becoming a hero company of Xia Guo and even a national enterprise.

Yang Qing, who had returned from the United States, immediately informed Uncle Liu of the content of the negotiation.

Uncle Liu immediately convened the senior management of Lianxiang, and the whole meeting determined the three development directions of Lianxiang:

The first is to take the acquisition of IBM's personal computer division as an opportunity to accelerate the globalization of Lianxiang.

Uncle Liu asked Yang Qing and other senior executives of Lianxiang to move the headquarters of Lianxiang from Yanjing to California or New York in the United States by May next year, which is an important symbol of Lianxiang's globalization.

"Lianxiang is not a Xiaguo company, but an international company!"

Second, firmly follow the line of trade and engineering.

Because Uncle Liu has already learned from Yang Qing that the so-called Pangu series chips designed by Changtian Technology actually come from Intel and other semiconductor companies in the United States. This is technology plagiarism and plagiarism!

Inter and other companies in the United States are ready to go through the legal process.

This firm Uncle Liu and Lianxiang executives believed that the people of Xia could not come up with chips.

If you can't do it, why pay for it?

Since Xia people must not be able to produce chips, it is better to seize the time to expand their trade chain, increase more markets, establish good relations with Western semiconductor companies, and honestly do their own processing, production and sales.

The third thing is to cooperate as much as possible with Intel and TiSMC and other companies in the legal proceedings against Changtian Technology and Yanjiang Semiconductor, which not only protects the rights and interests of Intel and other semiconductor companies, but also protects the rights and interests of Lianxiang.

Jiangzhou Changtian Technology Headquarters.

Song Yi handed Chen Xiao news about Lianxiang's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division from various media.

At this time, Chen Xiao was discussing matters with Zhou Linghua, Wang Xiang and others in the conference room.

Seeing such a report, Chen Xiao still had some sighs.

Although he was reborn, and he was reborn in a parallel world.

But there are many historical events and processes that have not changed because of their own appearance.

Among them, Lianxiang's acquisition of IBM's personal computer division is one of the major events that Chen Xiao thinks.

He changed the global technology landscape, whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, and the future generations have different opinions.

Some people say that this is an important step for Xiaguo's technology companies to go out, and it has established Lianxiang's global PC hegemony, which is the pride of the country and the nation.

Some people say that this step of Lianxiang is a bad move, because the PC business has no technical content at all, and the acquisition of IBM's personal PC business with a lot of money has restricted Lianxiang's innovation and scientific research capabilities, allowing Lianxiang and scientific research to gradually develop. Far.

Twenty years later, when PC profits were reduced to the extreme, the side effects of this acquisition became more and more serious, and even nearly dragged down Lianxiang.

Wang Xiang was very nervous when he saw such news. because

As everyone knows, Lianxiang will expand its channel supply chain after acquiring IBM, and have greater bargaining power, and also have the market of IBM's personal computer division in the United States and Europe.

Wang Xiang said with a sad face: "Big Mac enterprises were born, and national enterprises were born."

The word "national enterprise" was not given to Lianxiang by Wang Xiang, but was given to Lianxiang by the major media and the public opinion circles of Xia State.

During this period, Lianxiang has completely overshadowed the limelight of Changtian Technology and production, and has become a veritable national enterprise in the eyes of all the people of Xia.

Hearing these words, Chen Xiao wanted to laugh a little.

Perhaps in the context of this era, Lianxiang's decision to make such a decision is correct to a certain extent, but this also shows a problem - the vision of Lianxiang's senior management is indeed shorter than Chen Xiao imagined.

Chen Xiao analyzed: "Everyone thinks that the personal computer business is IBM's main business? It's not."

"IBM's main business is his services business, to put it more bluntly, his mainframe computer servers, supercomputer Unix system extension services, and his software business, including Lotus, WebSphere, DB2 and so on."

"From this perspective, IBM's personal computer business is actually dragging down IBM's development and is their negative asset."

"Moreover, the global PC industry has entered a stage of day-to-day competition, and IBM's business has been severely impacted by Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and PC companies in Toyo and Wanwan."

"All PC companies in the world basically use those brands of hardware, which means that the homogeneity of PC products is extremely serious."

"I have to admire IBM's executives for their unique vision and long-term vision."

"They believe that the competition in the PC market will be more intense in the future, and the profits will be lower and lower. Instead of being slaughtered by several other companies at that time, it is worthless, it is better to take advantage of the high added value now. Lead the title of the third largest PC maker in the world and sell yourself a good price."

"He also got more than 1 billion meters in cash and related equity from Lianxiang, which can be used to upgrade his service industry."

"In the eyes of outsiders, this transaction is that a great Chinese hero company has acquired the Big Mac PC company in the United States, but in my opinion, this is a dizzy PC company in the Xia Kingdom, using hard-earned hard-earned money to Acquired a U.S. company with negative equity and pushed itself into a state of irreversible destruction."

Chen Xiao's analysis made everyone stunned.

No one would ever have imagined that behind the seemingly glamorous acquisitions, there are still some naked practical problems.

If you really follow Chen Xiao's analysis, Lianxiang's future may be really difficult.

Yang Fei said something coldly. Although he said it casually, it reflected the essence of the problem.

Yang Fei said: "More than 1 billion meters to buy a company's PC business. To put it bluntly, it is the computer assembly business. Isn't this dizzy?"

"If you have this money, you can do scientific research well and develop your own chips and operating systems. It's more than that."

The truth is indeed this truth.

In fact, Chen Xiao did put himself in the shoes and thought about how Lianxiang could break the game.

The best way is to abandon the identity of the poor man and think seriously about how to develop in the long run.

Integrate into the Xiaguo technology enterprise matrix built by Changtian Technology.

Unfortunately, Lianxiang has been reluctant to open this mouth.

However, Chen Xiao sneered and said, "Forget it, we are not the CEO of Lianxiang Company, so don't worry about Lianxiang."

"Finish what you are doing well."

Chen Xiao is ready to quickly lay out the chip production chain in the new year and extend it to the mobile phone chip industry.

If possible, in 2005, Changtian Technology will definitely launch its own mobile phone business.

In order to achieve this goal, Chen Xiao has optimized the chip team at the end of the year and established a chip hardware equipment research laboratory.

The laboratory is affiliated with chip research and has a professional team.

It is a pity that Xia Guo's development in this area is too slow. In addition to the support of several outstanding experts from the Xia Guo Academy of Sciences, most of the talents are only recruited from overseas, including foreign experts and Xia Guo's international students.

However, there are still many risks involved in this recruitment.

For example, you will spend a lot of energy to screen, whether the other party came to work to help you in scientific research or a spy?

Chen Xiao has always wanted to cultivate his own talents, and he is even preparing to establish a joint training agreement with Xia Guo Academy of Sciences or several other scientific research universities in Xia Guo.

Cultivate talents related to chip equipment and chip research and production according to their own knowledge system.

After all, according to the current knowledge system of Xia Guo colleges and universities, there is no way to teach high-definition talents.

Most college professors only care about one thing - making money, and have no interest in scientific research at all.

Even doing scientific research is just to make money under the guise of scientific research.

How could such a person have the intention to teach his students well?

Masters only have three skills, how can you hope that your students have 10% skills to break through?

Xia Guo Yanjing.

The procurement bidding announcements of government agencies, enterprises and institutions in Yanjing have been posted on the Internet and the public resource trading center.

Lianxiang, which was originally at a disadvantage, became a national enterprise because of the acquisition of IBM, so the probability of winning the bid this time has greatly increased.

The main body of the tender will also consider the fact that Lianxiang has become the third largest PC manufacturer in the world.

Dell, Hewlett-Packard and many other companies are interested in this tender and bid in accordance with the requirements.

Lianxiang's bid price was much lower than what the relevant departments expected at the beginning, which is the benefit of acquiring IBM's personal computer division.

Because most of the hardware purchase channels have changed~www.mtlnovel.com~ Lianxiang has stronger bargaining power. After the purchase price of hardware is reduced, the production cost will also be reduced, and of course the product price will also be reduced.

Changtian Technology will not care about this tender.

After all, the main body of Changtian Technology's PC business is not Changtian Technology, but the Shenchuan Company under Changtian Technology.

Next is the evaluation period of about a week.

After dismantling the tenders of all the bidding companies, experts still found that even if Lianxiang acquired IBM, the relevant price has also been reduced, but in terms of comprehensive scores, Shenchuan still has a great advantage.

Based on the principle of fairness and impartiality, many bid evaluation experts still hope that Shenchuan can win the bid.

But at this time, a blockbuster news appeared on the front page of the New York Times in the United States.

"New York Times": According to people familiar with the matter, the dual-core design concept and specific design materials of Pangu's chip came from Intel. There is definite information to prove that the chief expert of Changtian Technology's chip laboratory and the head of the laboratory Wang Yu is a commercial spy.In this era, American media such as The New York Times have no such title as fake news.

On the contrary, in the eyes of many people of Xia, especially intellectuals of Xia, the words spoken by these overseas media must be authoritative and credible, and even bring some heroism that dares to expose the fact that the Xia media dare not reveal the truth.

So when the hat of Wang Yu as a commercial spy was put on the head of Changtian Technology, the whole event and the atmosphere of the industry suddenly became different.

Many Western media have reprinted this report from The New York Times.

The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal analyzed the so-called connotation of the news from multiple angles.

For example, the "Washington Post" said it even more miraculously, portraying Wang Yu as a chess **** that is ambushed in the United States by the relevant scientific research institutions of the Xia Kingdom.

And gave this behavior a very loud name called the Hermes Project.

And it is asserted that there are still a lot of scientific and commercial spies like Wang Yu, and they are common among Xia Guo international students and Xia Guo scientific research people who communicate with scientific research institutions in the United States. .

Hermes is a man in Greek mythology. His most classic behavior is theft, and he also stole a herd of cattle from Apollo.

This kind of description is an absolute insult to Xia State students and scientific researchers for those who know Greek mythology and Western history.

Because they sent Xia Guo international students and Xia Guo related scientific research institutions to the American academic circles to communicate with the experts and scholars who think they are robbers and thieves.

And it is concluded that these people came to the United States to steal semiconductor technology such as computer chips.

As soon as the news came out, the PC industry and public opinion circles became lively.

In the PC industry in the United States, especially in the Silicon Valley of the United States, many elite scholars have launched a heated discussion on this news.

The results of the discussions were surprising.

For example, why did Xiahui suddenly develop a chip behind it?

Because Wang Yu is a commercial spy.

It must be a fact that Xia Guo relied on spies to develop the chip.

Some people even concluded, "Did the carbon crystal hard drives and carbon crystal memory produced by Changtian Technology also steal related technologies from the United States?"

"The answer is very obvious. Those people from Xia who work in scientific research institutions in the United States are trying to steal the technology in the United States, so there are masterpieces such as carbon crystal storage, Firefly OS and Pangu chips."

Not to mention, such rumors are well-founded and well-founded.

In order to make this rumor more real, some media have turned up the research and related papers on carbon crystal materials by relevant research institutions in the United States in the early 1990s.

It is pointed out that the reason why Changtian Technology can develop carbon crystal storage is because the people of Xia Guo obtained the complete experimental content and related results of carbon crystal materials by improper means, and based on this, they obtained the research and development of carbon crystal storage. success.

Not to mention dual-core chips, the concept of dual-core chips is proposed in the relevant research materials published by Intel.

Wang Yu got Intel's research materials, so he helped Changtian Technology develop the Pangu 2 chip with a dual-core structure.

Under the reminder of the so-called Intel insiders, everyone also knew that it was because Changtian Technology suddenly used Intel's scientific research results to create a dual-core chip, which disrupted Intel's scientific research rhythm.

Some of these news are buzzing in the United States, and they have also been reprinted by the media in the East, South Korea, and Lion City.

"South Korea Ilbo" even used "Can plagiarism save Xia Guo's semiconductor industry? "The title.

And it is believed that the Pangu chip is the result of Changtian Technology stealing Intel.

This report made South Korean semiconductor companies such as Samsung LG gloat.

The successful development of Changtian Technology's Pangu chip has indeed shocked the entire semiconductor industry in South Korea. They did not expect that Xia Guo, who had lagged behind him for so many years, could actually develop a chip by himself.

Well now, it's decrypted, and it's just technical plagiarism.

Pangu chips will certainly be held legally accountable by Intel and other companies, accusing them of infringing intellectual property rights.

Of course companies like Samsung are happy.

Xia Guoyanjing, Lianxiang headquarters.

Lianxiang's executives and employees have learned about the business espionage of Changtian Technology.

Seeing such news, the feelings of many Lianxiang people are still very complicated.

On the one hand, the employees of Lianxiang, as people from Xia Guo, were absolutely astonished to see such news.

This means that there has been no essential change in the Western-centered rhetoric for hundreds of years, that is, high-tech products can only be researched by Westerners or even white people, but people of the yellow race and Xia people cannot make them. of.

This conclusion will make people very inferior and sad.

After all, the greatest despair is not not seeing hope, but seeing hope and then shattering it.

On the other hand, Lianxiang's employees feel a little fortunate.

Because if it is determined that all the technology of the Pangu chip comes from Intel.

Then Intel and related technology companies will definitely use legal means against Changtian Technology.

Whether Pangu chips can be sold in the market has also raised a big question mark.

If the Pangu chip cannot be sold in the market, the most competitive Jiaolong series PC of Shenchuan will have only one way to go, and the biggest beneficiary will also be Lianxiang.

At that time, a large number of computers purchased by government agencies, enterprises and institutions only considered Lianxiang.

After all, Changtian Technology and Shenchuan have already carried the stigma of theft. At this time, the state-owned enterprises and institutions representing the country's image will purchase Shenchuan's computers. Isn't this a slap in the face?

No matter what the employees of Lianxiang think, the executives of Lianxiang are happy.

By the end of 2004, the pattern of the PC market will undergo major changes.

Lianxiang successfully acquired IBM's personal computer affairs department, jumped to the world's third largest PC manufacturer, has a good global reputation.

Under such circumstances, which brand of computer will be purchased in the domestic centralized procurement, that is to be expected.

Yang Qing, who learned the news, was overjoyed. As expected, the American technology company hit the fame of Changtian Technology and Shenchuan as soon as it made a move.

Yang Qing also changed Lianxiang's advertising slogan at the right time - emphasizing the authenticity of the system and emphasizing that the chip was authorized by Intel.

In fact, this is also playing the faces of Pangu and Changtian Technology from the air.

That is to say, although Changtian Technology has developed the Pangu chip and the Firefly OS system, neither of them is legal and is a disgraceful act.

Gu Sure enough, the impact of the commercial espionage thing is quite large.

In Yanjing, the leaders responsible for the procurement of government agencies, enterprises and institutions were very surprised when they heard the news.

Yanjing is an international metropolis, even a window city of Xia Kingdom.

There are some things that can have a major international impact if they are not handled properly.

"We must verify whether the Pangu chip of Changtian Technology is legitimate? If it really comes from Intel, as reported by The New York Times and Western public opinion, then the impact of this incident will be very great!"

"Xia Guo has just joined the WTO a few years ago, and he has a commitment to respecting intellectual property rights among technology companies around the world."

"Under this premise, a large number of overseas technology companies will establish factories in the mainland of our Xiaguo, and are willing to transfer the relevant industrial chain to our Xiaguo."

"If we know that the source of Pangu's chip design and production technology has serious legal and moral flaws or even involves knowledge plagiarism, and we continue to purchase Shenchuan's computers regardless of it, it will be quite detrimental to our country's reputation."

The relevant departments of Yanjing, which had already signed a contract with Shenchuan, directly stopped this procurement and activity, and requested the relevant departments to investigate and study.

Intel also seems to be quite cunning, and immediately announced to the global media the development of its next-generation chips.

The next generation of chips, named Core chips, are dual-core chips.

The two cores in the Core chip will share a 12-megabyte L2 cache.

From the perspective of performance and chip structure, Core chips and Pangu chips have too many similarities.

This makes it even more doubtful whether Changtian Technology has indeed stolen Intel's relevant knowledge and technology.

Intel announced this news, which almost nailed Changtian Technology to the position of a plagiarist.

In fact, this world is extremely unfair and absurd.

Developed countries have a great say in the world, so many so-called facts and truths are not real facts and real thoughts.

Who would have thought that it was Intel who dissected the Pangu 2 chip of Changtian Technology and found the inspiration and method to develop a dual-core Core chip?

In this absurd world, it depends on who has a louder voice and who controls more media, so whoever speaks is the truth,

From the "New York Times" breaking the news of Changtian Technology's commercial espionage time to the global media rushing to forward the report, and now causing a sensation in the entire academic circle, no one wants to listen to the voice of Changtian Technology from beginning to end.

Because the size of Changtian Technology is too small compared to Intel.

And Xia Guo Media has no right to speak in the international arena.

Even if there are some conscientious Xia Guo media to speak out internationally, the kind of news they give will be considered unreliable.

Intel announced its own dual-core chip - Core chip research and development plan at once, which made people believe in such reports in the West. Intel also successfully played the role of the victim, arousing the incomparable audience and industry people around the world. pity.

The relevant situation was also known to the Xia Guo Academy of Sciences. Li Huaibin, director of the Institute of Computer Science of the Xia Guo Academy of Sciences, was quite angry when he learned the news.

As a witness of the development of Xiaguo's computer and chip industry, Li Huaibin, how much effort has Changtian Technology made to develop chips? Li Huaibin knew it.

Moreover, Li Huaibin also participated in the research of Pangu chip almost in the whole process. When Changtian Technology was developing Pangu chip, it also discussed and discussed with the Computer Research Institute of Xia Guo Academy of Sciences in a timely manner in many key fields and application links.

The Institute of Computer Science, Xia Guo Academy of Sciences has even undertaken some research on the application of Pangu chips,

This kind of news from "New York Times" almost killed the entire high-end chip industry chain of Xia Guo, and also put a **** pot on the head of Xia Guo Academy of Sciences.

Such an arbitrary conclusion is absolutely unacceptable to Li Huaibin!

Li Huaibin immediately called a meeting of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Xia Guo Academy of Sciences, and made a solemn protest to the New York Times and Intel in the name of the Xia Guo Academy of Sciences.

Xia Guo Academy of Sciences immediately issued a statement to the public: strongly protesting the unprovoked attacks on Xia Guo scientific research institutions and scientific research achievements by the New York Times and other media. Strongly protest the unprovoked slander of Xia Guo researchers by relevant media.

Relevant media are required to watch and listen strictly and apologize!

Xia Guo Academy of Sciences, as a scientific research institution based on seeking truth from facts and peaceful development of scientific research technology, will retain legal rights and interests.

Xia Guo Academy of Sciences immediately released the statement on the official website and media of Xia Guo Academy of Sciences.

The statement was reported by Xiaguo state television and state media.

After the meeting, Li Huaibin also got in touch with Changtian Technology immediately, hoping to hear the opinions of Changtian Technology.

In fact, before Li Huaibin called, Chen Xiao had already received relevant reports.

These random reports and inters were all justified by Chen Xiao's expectations.

Seeing the "New York Times" and Intel's relevant statement, Chen Xiao's first feeling is that Intel is really in a hurry.

After all, Intel has been brewing a dual-core chip project for several years. Before it was successfully developed, it was given the first win by Changtian Technology.

The blow was too big for Intel.

Chen Xiao said to the phone, "I see. Thank you Director Li for your concern. We'll be fine."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Xiao smiled and looked at Wang Xiang and other senior management of Changtian Technology.

Wang Xiang looked at the relevant reports and scolded: "Since Intel said we copied Intel's dual-core chip technology, why have we all successfully developed it~www.mtlnovel.com~ But Intel just announced the relevant R&D plans and R&D. progress?"

"Instead of directly publishing the successfully developed chips! Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Intel currently does not have the technology and ability to develop dual-core chips."

Wang Xiang is a man of understanding!

Song Yi said angrily: "These reports from the United States have no principles of their own. They directly exposed the list of personnel in our chip research laboratory, and even named Wang Yu as a commercial spy."

In fact, the internal personnel of Changtian Technology is the most clear. The core figure of the chip research institute is not Wang Yu, but Chen Xiao.

The success of Pangu's chip development is inseparable from Chen Xiao's chip design ideas. If Chen Xiao did not lead the research in the laboratory, even 100 Wang Yus would be useless.

Chen Xiao was very calm in the face of such news.

He said calmly: "It has been fully proved by this incident that the Pangu chip has had an important impact on the entire chip industry and the PC industry. Otherwise, the capital and technology circles in the West could not have adopted such a panic."

Chen Xiao said confidently: "This world is never about the truth, but about power and absolute strength!"

Chen Xiao's remarks made the people in the conference room very excited. They knew that Changtian Technology would never be a knife, I would be a fish!