Chapter 1358 Only Interests Are Eternal
"Gordon, is there any way we can ease our relationship now?" It was a meaningless statement, but Andy Grove understood that after so many years with this old guy, who wouldn't know who he was?
Andy Grove stood up and opened some windows slightly. The two big smoking guns had smoked the mosquitoes for a long time. If there was no ventilation, they might be finished first.
"Old man, this looks difficult. William White's strategy has undergone a major change, and this change was forced by us intentionally or unintentionally. I really can't say anything about this." In Andy Grove's view , these guys screwed up from the beginning. All along, William White has not tried to open up the upstream and downstream relationships. He produces CPUs, dynamic memories, video accelerator cards, and LCD panels.
In this way, he can certainly turn these things into products. In the PC market in the 1980s, Commodity and Texas Instruments did this. The personal PC market under $500 was strangled to the last bit by these two companies.
Turning to look at William White, he is stronger and has stronger capital. However, he did not touch the production of the final product. In this regard, William White and Intel are very similar.
It is very boring to compete for the market with your own customers. There is really no need for tailors to start with wool. Only through division of labor and cooperation can one thing be done perfectly.
However, a group of idiots didn't seem to appreciate it.
Since you don’t have an end product, what else is there to say? Try not to buy from you. Your William White family already has enough money, and there is really no need to add more.
It's a pity that they forgot a basic common sense. Compared with PC design and assembly, semiconductor investment is greater, product cycle is longer, and competitors are relatively concentrated.
Speaking of which, there are few companies that can survive under the siege of Japan. The cost is higher than others, and the final retail price is at least 10% higher, so if it doesn't die, it probably won't.
These guys would never have dreamed that the price war initiated by William White would directly disrupt the semiconductor industry. Not only did boycotting White's system not weaken him, but it actually helped him eliminate many potential opponents.
It's even better now. With the advent of the legendary computer, the war will further extend downstream.
You see, by unifying the currency, there is no exchange loss. Although the European financial markets were affected by the collapse of the Nasdaq, their mutual trade volume was accelerating. If they had not seen this, how could the think tank under William White make further investments? judgment.
Compared with exchange losses, anyone with a discerning eye can see clearly how much cost advantage William White has after integrating the industry. The successful launch of the second-generation Legend Computer has also made more people understand clearly the disaster of cheap PCs in the 1980s. , is likely to happen again.
A laptop costing more than a thousand dollars caught many people off guard. Now this is just a Windows system. Thinking about how cheap the next Android version will be is mind-numbing.
It's hard to say about other places. The market in Big Rabbit Country is probably going to be in trouble. I really don't care whether you have win98 pre-installed or not. As long as the performance is stable and the price is low, I don't care what system you use.
As for the reason?
A Microsoft family portrait costs ten yuan, and it also comes with commonly used software. The only thing that was unexpected was the software mall.
Yes, there are certainly many paid software, but a large part of them are free. In this way, the income of the software mall in Big Rabbit Country is also pretty good. Others may not be able to do it, but the payment rate of anti-virus software is still quite good. If it weren't for some barriers to online payments, William White believes this number would be even higher.
In the past, Intel didn't care about the legendary world because we didn't have much interaction with each other. Speaking of contradictions, or some, they gave up on dynamic memory and William White picked it up. Later facts proved that they did appear to be relatively stupid.
The CPU packaging factory in the Lion City originally planned to be a quiet third-party supplier, and had no intention of participating in their battle with AMD.
But the situation is a little different now. Since you can break the tacit understanding, William White doesn't care. Many people may not realize that if he takes the price advantage of Baodao and Big Rabbit Country to the extreme. Hehe, it is impossible to dominate the world, causing most PC manufacturers to suffer heavy losses, but it is not too difficult.
"Meet me? Tom, what's going on with Andy Grove? From what I hear, they don't seem to like doing business with us."
Looking at Fat Cat Tom's greasy head, William White was speechless. This guy is being driven around like a donkey all day long, yet he keeps getting fatter and fatter.
"The bosses, Dell and Compaq, their AMD-based personal PCs were launched on the market only two weeks later than us. Now except IBM and Apple, almost all PC manufacturers have begun to turn around.
Just now, AMD's stock price actually rose against the trend. As for Intel, the situation seems to be worse. They seem to have no solution except to increase the frequency of Pentium III again. "
Regarding Intel's dilemma, William White is happy to see the outcome. Sometimes it’s hard to understand how something so weird could happen despite being managed by very smart people.
"Hmph, when they were short of my processors, did they expect this result? They actually asked me to go to the market to recycle them, and they disappeared, disappeared, unless they had a beautiful daughter to send them over."
Fat Cat Tom shrugged and said with some disapproval: "Well, boss, even if you do have a daughter, she is already very old, so you are really at a disadvantage!
I can’t tell, what will I do if I give you the money then? "
Pfft, William White immediately squirted. Damn it, this wretched fat man is so disgusting, but William White couldn't help but shuddered as those inappropriate scenes flashed through his mind.
Hiss, it’s really terrible. Are you a drug addict?
Fat Cat Tom had a bitter look on his face, and he took out a handkerchief to wipe his head very resentfully. Damn, fortunately it was just mineral water, if it was coffee.
The reason why he was joking unscrupulously was because he knew his boss didn't care. In the business world, there is no immutable opponent. Palmerston's sentence, there are no permanent friends, only eternal interests, is very appropriate here.
William White had no intention of expanding sales of cheap PCs. He was not Commodity or Texas Instruments. The end of these two second-hand goods is not very good. It can be seen that the means of extending the industrial chain are inappropriate in the IT industry.