Chapter 727 The Peaceful Days Under Lies (4k)

Daxia has the largest manufacturing share in the world, and has vigorously cultivated several special circles that have achieved a leap from low-level to mid-level in just over twenty years.

Although the world is cultivating new markets, every increase in the share of high-tech products in Daxia is a challenge to those monopoly giants. This challenge has intensified since Daxia has independent high-end semiconductor chip design and manufacturing technology.

Especially when semiconductors and the military competed in several fields, Western companies and the military-industrial complex did not take advantage. The overlords who refused to admit defeat naturally set their sights on other fields.

First of all, some Ah Sans are clamoring randomly. Secondly, some gunfire has begun to occur in large oil-producing areas such as the Middle East from time to time. Under the influence of capital and the environment, large amounts of money in the global market have begun to avoid risks, including traditional petroleum energy, new energy, and rare metals. Wait for the section to start to fluctuate.

There was a gunshot.

According to media reports: On May 8, the Houthi armed forces attacked Saudi oil refineries and other oil facilities.

On the evening of May 8, the Houthi armed forces announced that they would unilaterally stop attacks on Saudi military targets and battlefields. They also mentioned that if Yemen can also stop the confrontation, the two sides may reach a permanent ceasefire.

As soon as this news came out, the world was shocked.

Concerns about energy supply have intensified in the global market, and U.S. capital companies have also begun to impose crude oil embargoes on some major oil-producing countries. International oil prices have risen by more than 10% in just one day.

Faced with soaring oil prices, many people tried to contact relevant forces in the Middle East in an attempt to solve the energy problem, but were rejected.

Uncle Sam was even more concerned and called Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates immediately, hoping that the two countries could increase oil production and balance the market.

However, it seemed that the Face Fruit had a fatigue effect after being used too many times, and both calls were rejected.

The user you dialed is temporarily unavailable, making communication technology in the new century as "unstable" as it was in the last century.

An Uncle Sam government official said that Uncle Sam originally had high expectations for this call. After all, under the auspices of Jiang Ying, the parties could sit down and have a good talk and stabilize the oil market, which was beneficial to everyone. There are huge benefits.

But I didn't expect that the routine that had been tried and tested was now rejected.

Not only that, the big players are like "taking the courage of a leopard" this time. They can no longer read the international news and do not return the phone calls. He also held a press conference and stated that he would not change the established plan easily.

Some media believe that the reason why the big players said no so decisively may be because Yingjiang recently prepared to restart the Iran nuclear agreement and wanted to win over Iran and allow its oil energy to enter the global market. This decision has harmed the interests of the big players.

Of course, some tabloid media covertly reported an old news, that is, a few years ago Uncle Sam once declared that he would turn big investors into "untouchables" in the international community.

Uncle Sam also didn't expect that this time he wanted to do some operations and once again grasp the currency and energy in his hands and arrange stocks, but he encountered this kind of thing.

While the media was making various interpretations of the current international situation and petroleum energy, a delegation of big investors who had been spending a lot of money a few days ago came up with a shocking event in Yanjing, Daxia.

Dahu and Daxia suddenly announced a cooperation to develop and build a large-scale oil refining facility in Liaojin, Daxia.

Huaxia Petrochemical also confirmed the news, issuing a statement saying that it had signed a further cooperation agreement with a large company, and the two parties would strengthen cooperation in refining and chemical projects.

According to Reuters, the two companies are preparing to develop a large-scale integrated refinery and petrochemical plant. The major player will provide up to 210,000 barrels of crude oil raw materials per day. The refinery project can carry a capacity of 300,000 barrels per day. The project is expected to be completed in 2018. It was put into operation in 1024.

The Senior Vice President of Downstream Business of Otomet Enterprise said: “This cooperation with Daxia will further promote the integration and expansion of our downstream business in Asia and meet Daxia’s growing energy needs by providing low-carbon crude oil to it. "

Mao Xiong Media noticed this incident and immediately published an article retelling Uncle Sam's embarrassment of being left out, and asked Uncle Sam, who had begged for a big account, "Who is the untouchable?"

European countries have stood up and called for a peaceful solution to the problem. Energy belongs to the world and environmental protection belongs to everyone.

Then some experts said that many European countries have secretly increased their share of oil purchases significantly, even if they have to pay more.

Scholars majoring in international relations pointed out that in the new international environment, Yingjiang's various measures against Daxia companies have overdrafted its own credibility, and other companies and Guojia institutions have begun to re-evaluate their relationship with Uncle Sam. relationship between.

Crown Prince Oto said in the interview: “Uncle Sam is our strategic partner, but we are strengthening cooperative relations with other countries such as Daxia and Mao Xiong.

At present, Daxia’s oil is growing every year, so in the next 50 years or even longer, we still regard ensuring Daxia’s energy security as our top priority. "

It can be seen that the previous series of shutdowns have affected many companies and capital. This time, the drama of controlling energy to control the world is not easy to play.

However, before Uncle Sam had a good night's sleep, on May 10, Bear Oil Company announced that it had discovered a large oil deposit in the Pechora Sea, with resource reserves equivalent to 82 million tons of oil. The discovery was made possible by oil drilling activities in the Medinskovarandsky area.

Mao Bear Petroleum noted that the discovery demonstrates "the enormous oil potential of the Timano-Pechora area, which will form the basis for the company's continued research and development of the area."

This news shocked the international oil prices.

Of course, it is not that oil prices have skyrocketed, but that they have begun to shrink from the skyrocketing, and some of the funds flowing into North America have begun to slowly flow back.

After all, polar bears don’t have weapons of mass destruction, and there are no penguins that need animal rights protection.

All capital, institutions, and retail investors who are making money in the U.S. stock market have also discovered that the "Twilight of the Gods" advocated by the small media seems to have begun to take place.

Although I don’t know if it is Ragnarok, but there is indeed a good show being performed on the stage.

Daxia's carbon-based chips are rapidly replacing the previous silicon-based chips, so will the previous high-performance silicon-based chip production lines and factories be no longer needed?

The answer is of course not.

The demand for 80-nanometer chips on the enterprise side has always been strong, but now Daxia Semiconductor Enterprises is like a peerless master who has practiced a swordsmanship but has nowhere to use it, and just uses two random moves.

All companies and institutions in the international market that need to use chips have ushered in the dream moment when chips are "free of charge".

Because the chips provided by Daxia Semiconductor are really high-quality and low-priced, and can even directly provide a series of projects from design to production, packaging, and assembly of processors, many international manufacturing giants, car companies, home appliances, and industrial Machinery and other companies are placing crazy orders for Daxia Semiconductor.

Investors and institutions are certainly not fools.

On May 11, local time in North America, the stock price of TSMC, the former leader in wafer foundry, fell rapidly after the opening. It finally closed down 5.81% to US$77 per share, with a market value of US$399.3 billion. Compared with the high price of US$145 per share in January this year, TSMC's market value has shrunk by US$350 billion.

In addition to TSMC, semiconductor stocks such as ASML, Ram Research, Kelei, and Applied Materials (AMAT) have also plunged.

According to incomplete statistics, a total of US$500 billion evaporated from major institutions and exchanges in North America that day.

In this environment where the market is about to collapse, as the "mainstay" of the consumer electronics market, the smartphone industry is also beginning to show signs of decadence.

According to a report by an authoritative organization, global smartphone shipments will decrease to 1 billion units in 2023, a year-on-year decrease of 8.5%.

In this turbulent situation in May of this year, news came out that the three major mobile phone manufacturers in Daxia, rice, OPO and vio, had notified suppliers that supply volume from April to June 2023 would be reduced by about 2.50% from the previous plan. .

In addition, according to Reuters, TSMC has started mass production of the Apple iPhone 14 series, but its target of shipping the first batch of 90 million units has been cut by 30%.

House seemingly endless rain.

Order anxiety from TSMC and other companies using Western semiconductor technology suddenly spread from the mobile phone industry to PCs, home appliances and other fields in May.

In the first quarter of 2023, according to a survey by an authoritative organization, the global computer market fell by 6.6%. At the same time, almost all first-tier PC brands have recently begun to lower their annual shipment targets, including Xianxiang, HP, Acer, and Asus. Some computer manufacturers have even seen their shipment targets drop by double-digit percentages.

According to a report by a market agency analyst, due to the subsidence of the "mining" craze and the "vicious competition" from companies such as Daxia Jiuzhou Technology and Xia Wei, market demand and profits of industry companies have plummeted, and the global semiconductor industry will usher in a cold winter. .

The impact of this report was an uproar on the stock market.

The media reporters were like sharks smelling blood, targeting the semiconductor industry and starting to report crazily.

"TSMC's market value plummeted, but its new employee turnover rate last year exceeded 20.6%, a five-year high"

According to Ryukyu media reports, a report released by TSMC on May 10 showed that last year, the turnover rate of all TSMC employees was 9.8%, and the turnover rate of new employees was 20.6%, both hitting a five-year high. There is also a gap between Korean stars and Intel, major semiconductor manufacturers. Not a big turnover rate.

As soon as this news came out, netizens questioned why the annual salary of one million yuan could not retain talents. One of the internal employees revealed the secrets of work online, admitting that he was once so stressed that he "went to worship the gods every day before going to work."

He went on to take his own situation as an example, "Our CMP (Chemical Mechanical Planarization) process is already considered to be less tiring among the four major processes, but the products of Daxia Semiconductor Company have caused our company's orders to begin to decline year by year. In recent years, it has even more It’s getting more and more excessive every year!

For a long time, I was very depressed every night. I even doubted how many years TSMC could last.

If any junior students want to enter this major, it is recommended to apply for a school in Daxia Mainland. Their technology has far surpassed ours. "

Some colleagues also expressed similar feelings of concern.

"I haven't taken a vacation for three months because my supervisor needs us to develop a new generation of high-performance processors that can rival the Titan processor..."

"I have encountered companies that have been working overtime since September last year, and night shifts are commonplace."

"Normal people can't stand this kind of stressful job with no holidays, let alone wearing a full isolation suit to enter the laboratory. It's too hard to make money..."

"It feels like there is a vicious cycle inside. Every old man has the mentality of a daughter-in-law who has become a mother-in-law, but will Jiuzhou Technology give us a chance to take care of our old age? We should have joined the Daxia Semiconductor Alliance earlier. After all, we are also a family, okay."

The semiconductor industry in the Ryukyu Province began to be in chaos in the midst of the storm.

And Japan, which has recently been forced to donate blood crazily, is even more miserable.

The ministers and corporate chaebols who once took out trillions of yen to make Japan's semiconductor industry overtake others are no longer willing to mention this sad past.

Because the two pillar industries of semiconductors and automobiles were "taken away" by Daxia enterprises, and they themselves were sucked blood crazily.

Prices in Japan began to soar.

According to Reuters on May 10, in recent months, the soaring prices of Japanese food have caused trouble for the kitchens of Tokyo schools. One school was forced to replace fresh fruits in the recipe with jelly or other foods.

At the same time, according to Kyodo News, Japan's inflation trend continues, the yen depreciates, and prices soar. Inflation is becoming an increasingly politicized issue in Japan.

Prices have risen sharply, and many families are feeling the pressure. Due to rising crude oil and food prices, the consumer price index rose by 3.1% year-on-year for two consecutive months in April and May 2023. This is a sharp increase in ten years. ,

The most important thing is that the consumer price index has risen, but people's wages are falling, and the economic burden of many families has increased.

Now a can of 18 liters of cooking oil in Japan costs 1,750 yen more than a year ago, and the prices of vegetables and fruits have doubled.

Akihabara, which was noticed a few months ago, has gradually turned from a second-dimensional holy land to a custom street due to the economic downturn. After "rectification", it has not only not been solved, but has become more and more serious.

Maids who go out to solicit customers on the street have begun to work part-time as one-day zero girlfriends, and underground idols who wear cool clothes are no longer reserved and take sexy photos every day.

Even for many gray projects, they have gradually moved from physical stores to the Internet and started Internet+ solutions.

Countless men who have failed in their careers or even been fired by their companies, in addition to hanging out in bars, will choose to order a cheap and good girlfriend for a day through video selection on the Internet, go to the river to relax and fish.

At night, they have to pretend to be tired and go home, give the fish they caught to their wives who take care of the children full-time, and happily say: "This is a gift from the client, Emiri, let's eat fish tomorrow~"

And the housewife who just finished her "hard part-time job" during the day will say with joy: "Wow, Yasashi, you are so great, husband, I will make tofu fish soup for you tomorrow."