Global monopoly of technology

After the smart tablet project was established, Luo Sheng took the lead in upgrading Xiaona again, this time it was an upgrade of supercomputer hardware.

Unknowingly, one year has passed, and Sugon Technology is also very powerful. "Nave" surpassed "Puma" to become the world's fastest computer last time. Luo Sheng completed it through system architecture and algorithms.

But this is far from enough. Now that one year has passed, Sugon Technology's hardware research and development is also progressing. Once the hardware performance advances by one level, with Luo Sheng's algorithm and system architecture, the performance of supercomputing will rise by an entire order of magnitude. , This is an exponential skyrocketing level, quite scary.

Luo Sheng’s private supercomputing strives to advance from the current petaflops to exascales in 2010. The current computing performance of "Nave" is 230 trillion times. However, the actual data has not been made public. Since last year, the supercomputing performance has won the world's first throne.

It's just that Luo Sheng likes to keep things low-key and didn't make a big announcement. Sugon Technology wanted to do this to increase its brand awareness, but then Luo Sheng would not give the other party the exclusive authorization of the system architecture and algorithms he developed.

Therefore, Sugon Technology is also holding back.

This time Xiaona’s big upgrade, Luo Sheng doesn’t have to spend a penny, because the "support fee" has been fully covered by the strategic partner Sugon Technology. All future hardware upgrades and updates will be borne by Sugon Technology. Not only that. Every year, Luo Sheng has to pay hundreds of millions of additional dollars for obtaining system architecture and algorithm authorization.

It is really the rhythm of lying down and earning a profit in the supercomputing industry.

The big data and cloud computing sectors are handled by Bluestar Technology Group, but they can be effectively used and need the support of artificial intelligence technology. The direct point is Xiaona's growth efficiency.

Xiaona's rapid upgrade means that many innovative application scenarios can be realized faster. The core technology of this smart tablet is the combination of AI + big data + cloud computing services, which is indispensable.

So even if an outsider knows this business model, but does not master the core technology, there is no competitiveness at all.

Luo Sheng is leading the rise of core technology, while Li Chunsheng, the project leader, is the senior product manager of smart tablets, and Yao Jianhong is also actively integrating the supply chain.

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On December 22nd, Yao Jianhong came to the headquarter of QJPC for a business negotiation.

"What? Does your company have an additional order of 35 million pieces?" The head of the company was surprised.

Yao Jianhong looked at the re-emergence of the head of the company, nodded and smiled: "Yes, Mr. Zhang, we even want to add to 50 million."

For a moment, Mr. Zhang shook his head: "Up to 30 million pieces, 50 million pieces are too much. As a result, the Côte d’Azur will occupy more than 70% of the production capacity of the company’s 45nm process. Other customer partners are already very dissatisfied. , Your order is very large and attractive, but we have to take into account the attitude of the Americans. In fact, you also know that our cooperation has made SIA quite dissatisfied."

Yao Jianhong nodded again: "Okay, then 30 million pieces, and the remaining 20 million pieces, we go to Samsung foundry to provide solutions, their foundry should be no problem. However, Mr. Zhang, the company’s 45-nanometer chip The production capacity cannot be less than 50%."

As soon as Mr. Zhang heard that Samsung foundry had been stimulated, his conversation suddenly changed: "Wait a minute, 50 million pieces, we have all taken!"

Yao Jianhong smiled knowingly, but didn't show it, and immediately said: "For these new orders, we need to achieve the first batch of 15 million pieces in the second quarter of next year, so that the production capacity of the company can be better?"

Mr. Zhang replied decisively: "The capacity is not enough to expand the capacity, the big deal is to delay the delivery time of other customers a little bit."

This money is too good to make. Although SIA is very dissatisfied, there is no way. The Côte d'Azur gives too much money.

Just some time ago, Côte d’Azur invested 7.2% of the stock, which brought tens of billions of dollars in cash. The current capital of the company is quite abundant, and a new batch of lithography machines will be in place soon, at most 15 Monthly production capacity can be doubled.

You know, the reason why the company can't let go of the Côte d'Azur customer is to look at its market value. Now it has rushed to 150 billion US dollars, surpassing IBM.

Many of the equity deconstructions of SPC are made up of American shareholders. Côte d’Azur invested more than US$10 billion on the board of SPC. Although Côte d’Azur is not listed, it is still related to Wall Street. You must know that before issuing bonds, Wall Street There are also several major creditors.

The current profits of the Côte d'Azur are so terrible, Wall Street has been doing "ideological work" for Luo Sheng, trying to realize it in various ways to force him to list the Côte d'Azur.

Because of this, Luo Sheng shared part of the profits again, so the pressure on the Côte d'Azur to be listed on Wall Street has been reduced a lot.

Hold on to Wall Street first, then.

The international market can not lose as much as possible. Sharing part of the profit is of course to obtain greater profits.

The interests of multinational corporations, especially multinational giants, are complicated. It is not so easy to sort out the intertwined interests.

Some people obviously want to block the Côte d'Azur, but this is just to buy themselves a "right governance insurance", and the cooperation behind them is still true.

Who is a capitalist who can't live with profits?

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After Yao Jianhong left the company, he met with Lao Guo, the head of Fushikang, in the afternoon. Naturally, he did not go to ask for warmth.

The business cooperation discussed this time is the OEM problem of the smart tablet business. The Côte d'Azur decided to hand over all the OEM orders for this product to Fushikang. Lao Guo was happy.

This order has greatly eased the competitive pressure from Biadi for Forscom. It has previously received an order for 10 million Azure mobile phones, and this time it directly received an order for 50 million smart tablets. , Can be described as a super big order, for Fu Shi Kang's foundry business, it is definitely a super growth point.

The specific foundry products are naturally kept secret, and Lao Guo will not be so stupid as to disclose this information to the outside world and offend big customers and lose big orders. However, Yao Jianhong, as the No. 2 person on the blue coast, also allows Fushikang to announce and accept it. This list was issued, but the specific products of the foundry cannot be disclosed.

Soon after Yao Jianhong returned to the mainland, Fushikang announced the news. Its share price rose sharply, while Biadi’s market value sprinted in the opposite direction and fell by about 3% that day.

The head of Biadi, Wang always, was helpless. It was obviously impossible to say that he was not angry, but there was nothing to do with the behavior of "stepping on two boats" on the Côte d'Azur.

The current Biadi OEM and Fushikang foundry are incompatible with each other, and it is impossible to join forces to fight against the "big radish" of the Côte d’Azur, otherwise he will find a fourth person, then Biadi and Fushikang will Can't find the ground crying.

Moreover, now that everyone has meat to eat is the most important thing. The big thick legs next to the Côte d'Azur can be eaten into big fat people. It is a little bit sensible and will never do anything to offend people without bargaining power.

It is the consensus of the industry that you can make a lot of money by going to the supply chain of the Côte d’Azur. It’s the consensus of the industry. You will have everything you need in the end, but you will have nothing in the end.

At the end of the year, the Azure Coast accelerated the integration speed of the supply chain of smart tablets. Luo Sheng is a person who pursues "quick action and break the routine". For the supply chain partners, time must be very short, and the yield rate must be ensured next year. The product is about to be launched.

In other words, it only takes about half a year.

Fortunately, the technical problems have been resolved, the integration of the supply chain is completed, and the new products can be launched as scheduled with the production capacity in place.

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