Chapter 1781: Affecting Pond Fish

Fidel stayed in Shanghai for a while, and the more he learned, the more complicated the problem between Rabbit and Eagle Sauce became. There is me in you, and you in me. They are opponents who rely on each other. It is difficult to describe the relationship between the two parties in short words.

But in the semiconductor industry, Fidel sees the current plight of the rabbit. The low-end market has been firmly established, and the mid-to-high-end market can rely heavily on foreign products. Many companies in the semiconductor industry need all kinds of support and cooperation from foreign companies to survive.

The rabbit government wants to break through, but it won't be effective in a short time. As Samsung executives said before... Japan, South Korea and a certain island can join forces to form an industrial alliance to suppress the development of the rabbit semiconductor industry.

Today, Fidel is going to accompany an executive from the Rabbit District of IBM to visit customers. He just wants to see what it looks like in the actual application market of semiconductors.

The client 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 want to purchase a batch of server equipment.

Fidel sat with IBM executives in the VIP area of ​​the bank, and casually chatted about the server market, "I heard that domestically produced servers have a large market share, is it true?"

The seated ibm executive laughed loudly and said: "That's right, Rabbit's several server manufacturers do occupy a large share. But the servers they produce all use our chips, and they are inseparable from our software. The more they sell, the more they sell. The more, the greater our profit.

Moreover, most of Rabbit's servers are in the low-end market, and the high-end market is still firmly occupied by us, and their brands are far from each other. Especially in the bank server area, they have been trying to get in, but they have not been very successful. "

These days, many industries that Rabbit is engaged in are dominated by low-end companies. For example, IBM's PC business is simply dumped to Rabbit's Lenovo. why? The profit is low. How much does a pc earn? In order to pursue profit margins, people even look down on those 'mosquito legs'.

The server is tens of thousands cheap, and the expensive one is hundreds of thousands or millions. The profit of selling one server is worth selling a bunch of PCs. Moreover, there are software and post-maintenance costs for selling servers, which is also a major profit item. And selling PCs has never heard of how to make money in the later stage.

"For a long time, Rabbit Bank's servers were all owned by our ibm, and basically no one could compete with us in this market. Whether it is stability or response speed, we have special optimizations, so cautious customers like banks Willing to buy our products."

When it comes to their company's products, IBM's executives are quite proud. After all, everyone likes their products to be recognized, which is full of sense of accomplishment. But just when Fidel wanted to echo a few words, the vice president of the rabbit area of ​​Citibank walked into the VIP area with a gloomy expression.

"Hi,

What happened? The executive of IBM reached out and patted the shoulder of the vice president of Citigroup, "Old friend, you seem a little unhappy." "

"Hmph..." The vice president of Citigroup sneered, "I'm not upset at all, I just have some bad news to tell you, I can't directly buy your IBM server."

"Ah..." The IBM executive immediately rolled his eyes, "Which bastard came to make trouble? HP or Dell? Their servers are not as good as ours, and no one in the high-end server market can surpass us."

Faced with such confident words, the vice president of Citigroup could only smile wryly, "It's not HP or Dell, it's a newly established company called Radiation Electronics."

Hearing that there was a new opponent, IBM's executives took it seriously. The vice president of Citigroup continued: "We are going to expand our business in the Rabbit area recently. In exchange, the Rabbit government hopes that we will give them the same opportunities for their domestic enterprises in purchasing commodities."

"So...?" The IBM executive asked in confusion.

"So we have to conduct a bidding, an evaluation, and allow this 'Radiation Electronics' to submit their bids and products." The vice president of Citigroup expressed helplessness.

Hearing the name 'Radiation Electronics', Fidel cheered up, "I know this company, it seems to be newly established and vigorously supported by the Rabbit government.

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

"Isn't that company being boycotted?" Obviously, IBM's executives also know the news in the industry, "Aren't they going to build a fab? Why are they suddenly selling servers?"

Hearing the word 'three nanometers', the vice president of Citigroup also exclaimed: "Yes, the people from 'Radiation Electronics' also promoted that their products use the latest three-nanometer process, and they said that their products have better performance than current ones." The mainstream lifts up a generation."

"Haha..." The senior ibm official screamed twice, obviously not convinced, "If you want to bid, bid, we can't lose. But the three-nanometer process is not something anyone can handle, even we are currently There is no similar product. I feel this company is involved in fraud."

The executives of IBM were obviously very angry, but Fidel calmed down as a bystander, and he continued to ask: "This company advertises that its servers use its own company's three-nanometer process chips?"

"Yes." The vice president of Citigroup nodded.

"Their chips are also designed by themselves?"

"It is said to be so."

"What structure?"

This question is a good one. Chip design is not just drawing a picture casually. Large-scale integrated circuits are very complicated. The so-called architecture can be understood as certain rules and certain patents used when designing chips. These are the keys to technology blockade and making money by big companies.

"IBM's power architecture." The vice president of Citigroup smiled wryly again, "It is said that it spent a lot of money to buy a patent license from your headquarters, but I don't think the IBM headquarters thought that they would have an additional opponent because of this."

Patent authorization is an important means of technology blockade and an effective way to contain opponents. But now this "Radiation Electron" that popped up suddenly managed to overcome this obstacle by throwing money at it, Fidel couldn't help but feel horrified when he heard this.

And the bad news doesn't stop there, the vice president of Citigroup also said: "According to the external publicity of 'Radiation Electronics', they have made great improvements in the power structure, and all of these improvements have applied for patents.

I'm not sure yet if this is true. If it is true, IBM will also encounter patent problems when it develops the power architecture next. "

"I've heard about it, but it's too fast." The IBM executive couldn't sit still. He apologized and went to a remote place alone to call the headquarters.

After half an hour, he came back sweating profusely: "Things seem to be really troublesome. We did sell the right to use the power architecture for three years."

IBM originally thought about two years of use rights, so there shouldn't be any major problems. After all, chip design is not a simple matter. A chip may not be designed for two years. To put it bluntly, this is to underestimate the ability of rabbits to make trouble.

But now it's fucked up!

At this point, the vice president of Citigroup sent the last blow, "It is said that the Rabbit government has issued an administrative order that in the future, when replacing server equipment in banks and government systems, products that radiate electronics should be given priority."

My god, this is really a big problem!

The executives of IBM suddenly wanted to cry without tears: "Isn't Radiant Electronics going to fight with the fabs of Japan and South Korea? Why did they come to make trouble with us? We didn't provoke it!"