This question is somewhat of a cross-line.

The question of how many orders have been placed by other companies can be a business secret. But on this occasion today, when all the bigwigs focused on Liu Jiren, the chairman could only temporarily suppress his dissatisfaction in his heart, and replied after a slight groan: "6.3 million pieces have been delivered, and there are still more than 16 million pieces of order production line, which is the total amount of full-load production of this line in the next three months, and Changxiang Technology has added 20 million pieces of orders, and we are preparing to open a new production line to cope with this batch of orders." ”

Tim Cook nodded and replied: "Very good, that is to say, all the brain-computer chips in the hands of Weihua and Changxiang Technology add up to only 6.3 million pieces, so who can tell me whether Samsung will become the new supplier of Weihua and Changxiang Technology?"

Pichai replied, "Or I can talk to Samsung on your behalf, and of course Tim, you should talk to Samsung as well." ”

Stephen continued: "Well, Tim, even in the worst-case scenario, even if those Handao people take over the order of brain-computer chips, there will be a long window period. We all know that brain-computer chips are a brand new chip, and they first need to debug the equipment, conduct small-scale process verification, and then go to large-scale production, and the yield rate may be too low if they are not careful. ”

"In short, the intermediate fault can reach three months or more. If you add external pressure, this time may be longer. So Tim, I don't think there's anything to worry about at that. ”

Tim Cook took a deep breath and then asked, "So everyone's opinion is to temporarily cut off the production of brain-computer chips before we can produce chips with the same function, or before the other party completely abandons the idea of producing chips independently?" ”

Stephen was the first to raise his hand, followed by Pichai, then Paul......

In the end, only Tim Cook, Pitt and Liu Jiren were left without a vote.

Tim Cook didn't raise his hand because it didn't make much sense to say that he agreed with it in terms of numbers, Pitt probably thought the same as him, and as a manufacturer of lithography machines, he was reluctant to get involved in this matter, and it didn't matter what he chose.

As for Liu Jiren, it's really a dog.

was dragged into this file for no reason.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is an OEM company, who is OEM not OEM?

As long as you can make money, it's enough.

But today's rhythm is obviously to make TSMC stop the foundry of brain-computer chips.

Not only that, Liu Jiren seems to have smelled the meaning of letting TSMC give up the order.

From the perspective of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., this is naturally a pit daddy.

Who doesn't want to be famous for doing business?

However, the representatives attending the meeting today are either shareholders of TSMC or major customers of TSMC, so they can only continue to have a complicated mood.

Not raising your hand is enough to represent TSMC's attitude.

"Okay, then the next thing is to study our brain-computer chip technology, technology sharing needs a charter, how to allocate funds, how to distribute research results, we need to draft a charter!" Tim Cook said.

"Wait!" Liu Jiren, who had been reluctant to speak, said.

"What's wrong? Liu, do you have any questions?"

"Yes. Does everyone mean that TSMC needs to give up the orders that have been placed for China and Changxiang Technology?" asked Liu Jiren.

"Of course, that's not what I meant, that's what everyone meant!" said Tim Cook, nodding and rubbing his eyebrows.

"So what about the loss? We have signed the contract, and if we break the contract, we will have to pay liquidated damages! In addition, there is a new production line that has already started commissioning......

Liu, you should know that once Huaxia has the chip manufacturing technology of the 7nm process, it will also have a great impact on TSMC. Stephen shook his head and said.

"But we also know that even if we have the equipment, it will take countless funds to invest and accumulate technology to study the 7nm process, which is almost impossible in a period of time!" Liu Jiren retorted.

There is no way, when it comes to their own interests, they must fight on the basis of reason.

"Okay, or maybe we should really compensate TSMC a little bit, so that Apple's chip orders at TSMC will increase by 30% starting next quarter, I think that's enough to offset your company's losses, right?"

After saying that, Tim Cook looked at Google and AMD.

"Google's order can be increased by 20 percent. Pichai said after a moment's thought.

"AMD can also increase orders by 30 percent. Dr. Su spoke.

Liu Jiren was silent for a moment and asked, "What about liquidated damages and loss of goodwill?"

"Liu, it's too much for you to say that. Everyone has losses, for example, Apple could have used the orders that were only increased in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. for negotiations with Samsung, we all know that Samsung also has a 7nm process process, and similarly, Google is even cooperating with Samsung, but they have paid a lot. So does TSMC want to give nothing?" said Stephen.

Well, successfully talked to death.

"Well, I don't think I need to attend the next meeting. After the results of today's negotiation come out, TSMC will implement the signed agreement, but before that, we will arrange the production tasks according to the customer's order. ”

"Okay, we'll get the file out as soon as possible!"

"Goodbye then. ”

The video was turned off, and Liu Jiren quit the group chat.

After a moment of silence, Tim Cook spoke: "Alright, then the meeting continues, gentlemen, we need to reach an agreement as soon as possible." Don't get too busy, time is very important for us from now on, and first of all, on behalf of Apple, I announced that we are willing to invest a billion dollars in the development of the next generation of brain-computer chip technology. And what about you, gentlemen and ladies?"

......

Huaxia, Huaqing University, Bauhinia Apartment.

Wang Yufei stretched.

After two days of hard work, the tutorial for the new language was completed, as well as the documentation for the new system.

Now that it is time to choose a name, Wang Yufei consulted Lu Yuxin's opinion and named the new language Macro Language.

Essentially, macro languages still rely on Intel's CPUs, after all, any language ultimately relies on the compiler to translate into CPU instructions to run smoothly.

But the macro language is a completely new language after all, and its library is richer because of the addition of support for brain-computer chips.

The same goes for the new operating system.

I guess it can surprise the whole world, right?

As soon as he was free here, Wang Yufei received a call from Ge Lingyue.

"Mr. Lu Taiwen, the new president of Samsung's mobile phone division, hopes to meet with the boss, are you free at ten o'clock tomorrow morning?"

"Okay! Where will we meet?"

"Why don't you just stay at the company, I'll send a car to pick you up tomorrow morning." ”