213 The Business Strategy Behind Capricious Price Hikes (3/6)
Lu Yuxin, who was immersed in studying Sudoku, glanced sideways at Wang Yufei.
It's not because of the fact that I lent out a thousand yuan, but mainly because I don't think my man likes to meddle in things.
"It's interesting to see the price increase of chips. Wang Yufei said a word, and then took his mobile phone and started to surf the Internet.
It doesn't matter, the average teacher doesn't look at them in the last row.
I casually searched for the word chip on the browser, and it was overwhelming with news of CPU price increases.
There are also various self-media that have given sensational titles to make up for the heat.
Wang Yufei went directly to several official media and roughly browsed the information.
Probably just like what the students in the front row said, the price of CPU has risen across the board, which directly leads to the price increase of those OEM computers.
The rise in the price of CPUs has also driven the GPU to move, and the market price has begun to rise before the graphics card manufacturers have spoken.
There is no doubt that other manufacturers are watching the market reaction of Huaxia.
If there is no action, the price of GPUs will rise in the future.
I just don't know what kind of ramp it is.
After all, there are still differences between graphics cards and CPUs, there are too many brands and mixed models.
Also rising is memory.
Basically, these products, which Huaxia cannot produce independently for the time being, have risen in different ranges.
"The CPU is really going up very fast!" Wang Yufei sighed.
"Could it be that the price of sand on the earth has risen?" Lu Yuxin shrugged her shoulders and teased.
This is a joke, of course.
Although the main material of the CPU is silicon, and the sand contains a large amount of silica, and the wafers, the raw materials for Intel's CPU production, are indeed extracted from the sand, it is absolutely impossible for Intel to let the sand trucks enter the CPU production park......
"It may also be that Intel has decided to use the sand of the moon to produce all the CPUs sold to Huaxia!" Wang Yufei replied with a smile.
This is actually one thing that makes Wang Yufei very angry, because he is preparing to buy a batch of computers and servers in the name of Changxiang Technology and build a laboratory.
CPUs drive the collective price increase of all hardware, which means that laboratories need to pay higher costs.
If it is a global general rise, it is understandable that only the price of products sold to China will increase, which is a bit of a suspicion of bullying.
Regardless of whether there is money or not, no one wants to be wronged for no reason.
And when things go wrong, there must be demons.
After thinking about it, Wang Yufei took his mobile phone and walked out of the classroom.
"Go call Professor Gao?" Lu Yuxin asked.
Wang Yufei nodded.
It's just a matter of using a mobile phone to surf the Internet in the classroom, and Wang Yufei can't do this kind of thing openly on the phone.
After all, the Academic Affairs Office's refusal to bring electronic products into the classroom is still ongoing.
The teacher was allowed to bring his phone into the classroom not to show off, but to get down to business, but he wanted to know what was going on.
......
Coming to the corner of the unmanned corridor, Wang Yufei dialed Gao Deyuan's phone.
Unlike his usual call, which was answered immediately, this time the phone rang a little longer.
"Wang Yufei, what's the matter?" Professor Gao's voice was visibly tired.
Wang Yufei did not ask a direct question, but first reported his research progress: "Oh, Professor Gao, I will almost finish digesting the information on the hard drive last time. ”
"I'll get out as soon as I can, and then I need some research on the reception and amplification of brain wave signals. It would be better if the laboratory had an experimental catalogue of new materials and the effect. ”
"Whew...... You're getting faster and faster, boy!"
Gao Deyuan sighed, as if he felt that something was wrong, maybe someone had made a similar joke, and quickly corrected it: "I mean the speed of research!"
"Otherwise, what speed can it be?" Wang Yufei was a little puzzled.
"Ahem, okay, I'll mail you the materials you want as soon as possible. But to be honest, you're going to take me out...... No, I'm about to empty my lab!"
Gao Deyuan sighed.
This is a big truth, just because Wang Yufei's learning speed is too fast, and now some laboratories are carrying out laboratory reports that should be encrypted, and Gao Deyuan also directly decided to Wang Yufei.
As a result, the encryption level of the hard disk data has also been improved a lot, and after Wang Yufei receives the hard disk, he has to contact Gao Deyuan to obtain several layers of passwords before he can get these materials that are burned after reading.
The idea is simple, and you can't show your timidity in front of a child.
Another point is that every time Wang Yufei submits a high-quality report, he can always find another way to inspire him, which is very helpful for the progress of laboratory research.
So Gao Deyuan became addicted......
And comforted himself in his heart, anyway, Wang Yu flew to Huaqing and could be arranged into the laboratory, and these materials could be accessed sooner or later, it didn't matter.
"Thank you, Mr. Gao, these materials have really helped me a lot. ”
Wang Yufei thanked him every day, and then asked: "By the way, Mr. Gao, I saw that there has been a lot of uproar about the price increase of CPU on the Internet in the past two days, what is going on?
"Hmmm, you'll probably see more information by the afternoon. ”
Professor Gao paused when he heard this question, and seemed to feel that he had given Wang Yufei enough information, and it didn't matter if the information would be released in an afternoon: "Actually, this matter is very simple, you know Huaxin Precision, right?"
Wang Yufei replied: "I know, the subordinate enterprises of Huaxin Intelligent Manufacturing were established specifically to study general-purpose chips with independent intellectual property rights. ”
"Huaxin Precision's third-generation Huaxin architecture has been designed, and the test effect after tape-out some time ago is not bad, and it has been able to reach about 63% of the effect of the same level Core architecture, which is 21 percentage points higher than the previous generation of floating point computing efficiency. ”
"Of course, this is just saying that the computing performance is reached. For domestic general-purpose chips, it is only a small step, after all, this effect is difficult to get the support of the upstream and downstream industry chains, but there is one thing to say, we are indeed improving. Stick with it and there will definitely be rewards in the future. ”
"But now someone is quitting. Probably because they were afraid that Huaxia's self-developed chips would rob them of their business in the future, Intel and AMD jointly issued a statement on price increases in Huaxia. ”
"What's even more infuriating is that the batch of CPUs ordered by Huaxin Zhizao from these two companies has been settled clearly, but now the other party requires that it be settled at the price after the price increase. Otherwise, these two companies will no longer accept orders from Huaxin Intelligent Manufacturing in the future, and now you know why, right?"
The old man snorted and said, this matter is actually quite aggrieved.
Wang Yufei can probably understand Lao Gao's feelings, and can also understand the feelings of Huaxin Intelligent Manufacturing at this time.
I even began to understand a little bit of how Tim Cook felt the other day.
The other party sits on the ground and starts the price, but you have nothing to do!