Chapter 137 INTEL's New Choice "Ask for a Monthly Ticket"
As a high-end processor manufacturer, INTEL is the leader in the industry. For mainland China, which basically has no decent chip manufacturing industry in China, when a company like INTEL has the intention to invest and build a factory, it is natural. very positive.
Shanghai attaches great importance to the idea of building a packaging factory proposed by INTEL, so it hit it off, and it is not necessary to know what the function of this packaging factory is, nor how many benefits it can bring to Shanghai.
Anyway, the scale of this kind of factory will not be too small, and at least thousands of employees are needed to support it, which can be regarded as solving some jobs, and the establishment of a chip packaging factory in the mainland is of great significance in itself
The Western world led by the United States has a long-standing arms ban on China. In the early 1980s, in order to ease Sino-US relations and attack the former Soviet Union, this ban was appropriately relaxed. However, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, mainland China The role in this strategic system immediately declined, and it became the biggest enemy of Western countries such as the United States. Therefore, five years ago, the Paris Coordinating Committee decided to cancel the further relaxation of export controls to China.
On the issue of technology export control to China, the United States takes strict precautions against China. Its fundamental concern is that China will make a rapid leap in national power through technology imports, and increase its military power to gain dominance in East Asia, especially challenging the United States on the Taiwan issue. Benefit.
Therefore, INTEL's chip packaging factory in mainland China can be said to be a hard-won achievement. At least in the political sense, its role is far greater than actual commercial interests. with great enthusiasm.
However, Fan Wubing always believes that it is advisable to sacrifice some interests appropriately to obtain greater interests, but for some unnecessary fame. It takes a lot of extra work, but in the end I find that I have miscalculated. Such a thing seems a bit brain-dead.
Therefore, he felt that it was necessary for INTEL to build a factory in Shanghai. He felt that it was necessary to intervene horizontally, at least to let the initiative be in his own hands, which would also have a positive effect on the chip factory he established.
As for the fact that INTEL is going to build a factory in Shanghai, it is indeed a bit tricky.
INTEL has many experts on China issues, so they are very clear about the thinking of Chinese people, especially the thinking of high-level people. The performance of INTEL in terms of operation strategy is indeed very different from other semiconductor companies. From marketing strategy to public relations, it is completely detached from the semiconductor industry.
Historically, from Shanghai to Chengdu and later to Dalian, INTEL’s packaging factories, every time they invested in setting up factories in China, they followed the baton of the government’s regional development. Therefore, INTEL was ridiculed by the Chinese as The company that closely follows the government's policies, and the presence of INTEL has also become a good selling point for the local government to attract foreign businessmen and invite credit.
"At least we need INTEL to operate according to our baton. It can only build factories in Suzhou or Hangzhou. It cannot be in Shanghai." Fan Wubing said to his subordinates.
"Perhaps we don't have such influence? And the government is not happy to see us intervene in this matter. After all, this is their political achievement project." Immediately, some subordinates expressed different views on Fan Wubing's opinion.
Fan Wubing shrugged his shoulders. "Of course I won't be so stupid as to openly sabotage this matter. If they think there is a problem with this matter, they won't want to operate it
"It's less likely, right?" Everyone felt that Fan Wubing was a little too self-righteous.
No one believed that Fan Wubing could mess up this matter quietly. But two days later. A piece of news broke out that was a big blow to INTEL. Let them suffer heavy losses.
It was pointed out. INTEL's Pentium processor. There is a problem with the design of the floating-point number division calculation part. VBug will cause errors in floating-point operations. This thing will have a serious impact on scientific computing.
As soon as this news is released. It caused an uproar in the market. Everyone immediately expressed distrust of INTEL's new products. At the same time, the old rivals of INTEL also jumped out one after another. Cynically expressed great concern about Pentium processor systems. Without losing the opportunity, he said that his company's products are worthwhile, and INTEL immediately fell into a passive position. On the issue of floating-point division errors. It has now been confirmed. This problem does exist. But it is puzzling. But this time the news did not come from competitors. But it came from the folk. It is hard for them to believe that there are individual users to verify such things as floating-point calculation errors. But whatever. They smelled the smell of conspiracy.
Here in Shanghai. Under the clamor of Fan Wubing, the local media began to focus on INTEL. Every day, everyone can see a lot of negative information about INTEL from the media, and it lifts out competitors such as AMD and fully promotes it.
And AMD suddenly discovered such an opportunity, and immediately expressed its yearning for mainland China very enthusiastically, and accepted interviews with several Shanghai newspapers, revealing its intention to build factories in mainland China.
All of a sudden, the Shanghai side was a little bit blind. They never thought that the contract was about to be signed, but INTEL made such a huge oolong. Wasn't this discrediting themselves? Not to mention how INTEL will deal with the current unfavorable situation, even if it reports this matter of building a factory, maybe the high-level executives will think that the local government's vision is problematic, right?
As a result, the matter of building the factory was postponed indefinitely. It's very annoying, as the saying goes, Lu Yao knows the horsepower and sees people's hearts for a long time. The company has such a small problem, and the partner who intends to cooperate starts to distance themselves. Can this business still be done? Just make up your mind, if it turns yellow, it will turn yellow. There is no place to stay here, but there is a place to stay.
At this time, Fan Wubing once again expressed his willingness to cooperate, and expressed concern about what is happening now, and believes that this is just a small flaw that will not affect INTEL's global strategic layout. Fan's Investment Group Still willing to cooperate with INTEL on the construction of chip packaging factories.
The headquarters of INTEL company finally sent an invitation letter to the headquarters of Fan's Investment Group, asking their executives to visit the headquarters of INTEL company and important processing plants for further understanding.
"Mr. Fan, I didn't expect you to be able to make this happen. How lucky is this?" Everyone was amazed by Fan Wubing's good luck. God knows that Intel's Pentium processor has a flaw. ? If it weren't for the impact of this incident, their cooperation with Shanghai is obviously a certainty.
Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "You can't just attribute the cause of the problem to good luck. In fact, I was the one who discovered Intel's floating-point calculation errors. Otherwise, how could I be sure that they would not escape my grasp?" My heart was dumbfounded, and my heart said Mr. Fan is indeed a genius, and he can find this kind of problem. "Mr. Fan, do you have any opinions on the Shanghai government? Why must this matter be messed up? "A senior executive asked with some curiosity.
"Because it's not suitable here!" Fan Wubing said, "If you choose a paradise for the semiconductor industry in China, it must be Shanghai. If you choose a city with the highest enthusiasm for semiconductors, it must be Shanghai. If you choose a city that is most interested in semiconductors Local leaders with feelings can only be Shanghai. From the perspective of the semiconductor industry layout, Shanghai has almost concentrated half of the country's semiconductor production capacity and nearly half of the design capacity. It is the last hope of China's semiconductor industry."
"In that case—" someone said.
"If that's the case, why should I bother with Huang?" Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "Because we can't put all the good things in one place and create a false prosperity. Shanghai It is a city located in the financial center, and the nature of the industry determines the location. The significance of the financial center means that various costs must be based on the capital operation industry at the highest end of the entire wealth pyramid. For Shanghai, investment should say goodbye to manufacturing In this era, after all, with the continuous development of the economy, it is impossible to rely on cheap labor forever to become the world's factory. If you really have the ambition to challenge Tokyo, London or even New York, you should not be depressed about losing one or two manufacturing factories. Some opportunities , should be left to others." "It sounds reasonable." Someone said.
"President Fan's words are always very reasonable." A person curled his lips and said.
Regarding the invitation from INTEL, Fan Wubing thought about it, and decided to go to the United States in person to implement this matter. It has been more than three years since he came back from the United States.
This time, we still need to pay attention to a quick solution, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with it after others react. If the city government or Boss Zhu greets me in person, I am really too embarrassed to say no to them.
So Fan Wubing took two senior executives and a dozen staff members to take the passenger plane of China Eastern Airlines and fly directly to the headquarters of INTEL, Santa Clara, California, USA.
After getting off the plane, Fan Wubing found out that the original INTEL company also sent a very strong lineup to deal with his visit.
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