Chapter 607: Cakes Are Coming!

If Xia Wei's rise that year moved Western high-tech companies, then Jiuzhou Technology's series of big moves in July were equivalent to thundering over the heads of many high-tech foreign companies such as Intel, Pingguo, and NVIDIA.

What day is it in July?

NVIDIA originally planned to release the 40 series graphics cards, just before the iPhone 13 series prototypes were released.

And now?

"Fake! I really don't want to use such simple and vulgar words to describe those Daxia manufacturers who eat meat without spitting out bones!"

Pingguo CEO Cook slapped his desk with an angry expression, but his slightly trembling hands showed that he was a little frightened.

This is a situation that has rarely been seen in Cook's career, or has never been seen before.

He was horrified by Jiuzhou Technology's unreasonable technological research and development capabilities, by Pingguo's increasingly backward products, and by the increasingly depressing atmosphere within the company.

A few months ago, Cook's annual salary of 600 million as CEO was exposed. This amount was more than 1,400 times more than that of employees. Not only did employees and middle managers feel dissatisfied, it also made investors, shareholders and directors somewhat dissatisfied.

Reuters, Financial Times and other mouthpieces also reported, saying: "The design and scale of the equity awards received by CEO Cook in fiscal year 1021 of the Xia Yin Star Calendar are very worrying... More than half of the awards lack performance standards."

Yes, many shareholders and directors are not satisfied with the results of Cook's current leadership.

Although Pingguo has been able to kick out Intel and use its own chips to develop personal computers and tablets. But in the eyes of American capital giants and financial giants, Pingguo is no longer the most advanced technology company on the planet.

Aerospace cannot compare to the Starlink project, mobile phones and computers cannot compare to Kyushu Technology, and even the ecology and security that we rely on for survival have been discovered by many countries and exposed behind-the-scenes tricks.

In addition, Jiuzhou Technology is currently speeding up the deployment of the Lingjing lander and the digital assets of the Lingjing project. As long as the Lingjing ecology is enriched and breaks through the shackles of the prison, what else can U.S. technology companies and entertainment companies have to boast about?

To sum up, Cook was certainly panicked.

And in the eyes of current employees working in Western high-tech companies, Daxia Jiuzhou Technology is already a new holy land.

"I heard that Jiuzhou Technology's management of foreign employees is very strict, but the knowledge of Jiuzhou system will definitely become the mainstream in the future. If we don't learn it, what will happen in the future?"

"Alas, these laymen don't know how powerful Jiuzhou Technology is, but what about our executives?"

"I heard from my former colleagues in Daxia that they now use the Jiuzhou compiler. When it comes to certain projects, they can complete our month's workload in one day, and they also have their own platform to run bugs, which is more efficient than ours. ”

"I heard that someone in the chip project team has switched to Xia Xin Technology. The management of foreign employees there is not very strict. Maybe they want to use Xia Xin Technology as a springboard and then go to Jiuzhou Technology."

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Because Western technology was powerful at the time, elites in developing countries regarded working in European and American companies as an honor, or in other words, as a sign of superiority. This is a normal phenomenon. After all, in the law of the jungle, the strong are not guilty.

Due to the development of the Internet, communication within the industry is now very convenient, and when many Western elites communicate with their former colleagues who "came here to make money" and now return to work in Daxia companies, they increasingly feel that they have never been able to do so before. There was a sense of alienation and work barriers.

Almost every time after communicating with friends about the industry situation, and then returning to the company to work on a project, all the technical employees of Pingguo Company will have these thoughts of war between heaven and man in their minds.

It's like watching the job you are engaged in countdown to death day by day. Maybe one day the devil called Jiuzhou Technology breaks through the blockade, and you will become a jobless vagrant in an instant.

At that time, the loan will oppress you and you will have to work day and night. Even if you fail to repay the loan, your house and car will be forcibly mortgaged and auctioned by the bank.

There is nothing more desperate than this, but there is nothing you can do. ,

Cross-border work may sound romantic, but it requires you to give up your current connections and assets.

It's okay for ordinary employees, and they can make a living in factories, but technical employees in industries such as system software engineering and semiconductors must go to work and study in companies such as Xiaxin Technology and Jiuzhou System. If they just go to Intel or Microsoft These companies may be optimized and laid off in the future.

Who can do anything good under such suppressed emotions?

The pie painted by their bosses is big enough, but when taking money, young people will also consider whether they can get the money, and whether they will really lose their jobs and leave the industry in the future.

If Pingguo's employees can still hold on, then Nvidia's employees can't.

The atmosphere in the conference room at Nvidia's headquarters was gloomy. Even the profiteer Lao Huang, who was always optimistic about taking advantage of the pie, had a dead look on his face.

The 30 series are all mining cards by default by the market, but now amid the mining disaster, the 20 and 30 series graphics cards have become literally "garbage", and mining has caused crazy damage to Korean video memory, and the graphics card failure rate is alarmingly high.

And the 40 series graphics cards that have always had high hopes...

Lao Huang drank a large cup of coffee, regained his energy, and said to the senior management and directors: "Gentlemen and ladies, in fact, this matter is far less serious than everyone thinks. The 40 series is just a short-term transition." , the next 50 series will be the time for Nvidia to win back the market.

You can think about it, why is the market not optimistic now?

It is because there are too many mining cards, and the player user end and corporate user end are seriously stratified.

But how long can mining cards be used? It can be as long as one year or as short as a few months. As long as we maintain an alliance with companies such as Pingguo and Intel, and do not allow Jiuzhou Technology's Titan processor to enter the market, then when the graphics cards in the hands of users are eliminated, won't our 50 series return to the first place?

And there are many users who just need it. What they need is a brand new graphics card with warranty. The 40 series is born for them, so we don't need to worry too much. "

When talking about the Titan processor, Lao Huang's heart is very jealous. The word Titan is the suffix of its own top-tier flagship graphics card, but Jiuzhou Technology has made it a flower.

But no matter how uncomfortable he is, Lao Huang still has to continue to paint the pie for the company's prospects...

"In addition to our advantages in the GPU graphics card market, we have now entered the CPU industry. When the time is right, we, NVIDIA, will become the strongest technology company with an independent architecture, making both top-level GPUs and CPUs. "