The popularity of the Ice Bucket Challenge has swept the world, and social networks and headlines are full of reports about it. Google Duo, Bill Gai, Bezos and other well-known people have participated in it. Domestic Lei Jun, Lu Qi, Cursor and others also joined the event.

"What's wrong with Globalfoundries?" Zhou Shi's mind had long since stopped on the ice bucket challenge, and he cared about the semiconductor foundry. Earlier this year, Licensed Semiconductor announced that it had completed the 14nm process ahead of TSMC (Samsung announced around October 2014 that it would use the 14nm process to OEM Apple's A9 chip). Globalfoundries, who has been eye-to-eye with Chartered Semiconductors, has lost his voice.

In recent years, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has also been sad, not to mention how many customers it has pulled, even AMD's foundry business has not improved. wanted to merge and acquire licensed semiconductors, Zhou Shi refused without hesitation, and wanted to merge UMC and other foundry companies, but was still refused. Although Globalfoundries' losses are not as big as in their previous lives, they are losing money every year, and there is no hope of making a profit.

Two years ago, GLOBALFOUNDRIES cut off the acquisition plan of Chartered Semiconductor to IBM Semiconductor Foundry, and they have not reached an acquisition agreement for two years, which is also drunk.

"It's certain that IBM at GLOBALFOUNDRIES has a partnership, but I haven't heard of any plans to buy it. "Chen Wen

"What the hell is going on with these Arabas? Made, it's just not worrying. Zhou Shi scolded, fortunately, what he wanted to do was basically done. Even if it is the upstream and downstream industrial chain of FD-SOI foundry process in the direction of new technology, he has a layout, not to mention that he will definitely be able to occupy a leading position in the industry, at least he has completed the problem of whether there is a problem, and the technical gap with the West will not be too big.

"Shall we ask directly?"

"Well~~ Forget it, they just add, without them, the franchise semiconductor can be as powerful. "Zhou Shi, because of the yield problem, in order to ensure a good reputation, the licensed semiconductor accepted the foundry of Spreadtrum's flagship chip. Because of the yield problem, Spreadtrum's own brand will at least start from pricing to high-end, and compete directly with Qualcomm.

Although many people say that the combination of Spreadtrum and Time Android is a second-rate chip optimized to achieve a first-class effect, it still makes the combination of Qualcomm and Google Android system be beaten for a long time, of course, the combination of Spreadtrum and Google Android is even worse. It's a pity that Google's strength is strong, so that the smoothness of Android has gradually caught up with the time of Android. Guoke's dedicated chips are stronger than Qualcomm and worse than Apple's A-series chips, of course, this gap is mainly caused by the operating system.

Spreadtrum's development is a bit abrupt, as if overnight, China suddenly rose in the high-tech field, Spreadtrum suddenly crushed MediaTek, and now it has the confidence to compete directly with Qualcomm.

"I don't know how you did it, but all of a sudden, Spreadtrum became the world's best mobile phone chip manufacturer. Liu Chuanzhi once said this to Zhou Shi

Spreadtrum's R&D centers are all over the world, Silicon Valley, Israel, Japan, Singapore, and several first-tier cities in China have Spreadtrum's R&D centers, and only the number of domestic R&D teams has exceeded 10,000. Of course, these are subjective factors, and the objective factor is that Spreadtrum has a stable source of income, no matter how bad your chips are, mobile phone companies such as Nut Huawei will insist on purchasing. So, you know, Spreadtrum and MediaTek are not competing at the same level at all. It is also Qualcomm that occupies an absolute advantage, which is difficult to shake.

"There must be a dream, what if it comes true?" Zhou Shi said pretending to be forced at the time

In addition to semiconductor chips, smart phones, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, etc., even some important sub-industries, such as NetSuite, are thriving in the SaaS industry, and the accumulation of localized talents has given him a great advantage in China and become the boss of the domestic market. Oh, and forgot, NetSuite is an American business, and this domestic business is a subsidiary. It doesn't matter, the important thing is that this company is in the hands of Zhou Shi.

I don't know what Liu Chuanzhi feels, I think there should be a lot of experience, time is a very strong enterprise in the world. He has Github, which is used by most of the world's programmers, Chrome, an open-source browser that has almost become the browser standard, the world's second-largest smartphone operating system, Android, and the world's second-largest cloud computing service. Now even fintech is in a leading position in the world, and there is also investment in blockchain and quantum technology, and time has been chasing the forefront of industry technology from the beginning.

If you want to say that Zhou Shi's enterprises still have any defects, then there is only semiconductor chip foundry, licensed semiconductors and TSMC, Intel has a big gap, even if it launches the 14nm foundry process, ahead of TSMC and Intel, but the gap still exists, the advanced process is good, but the process maturity can not be improved casually.

Although the chip manufacturing process of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, that is, AMD, is not strong, it has accumulated over many years after all. When they were eyeing licensed semiconductors, Zhou Shi was also eyeing them. Coupled with AMD's basic fall into the palm of its hand, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has become a hurdle that is difficult to bypass in AMD's rise. A very simple example, without advanced manufacturing processes to reduce the energy consumption of chips and improve performance, AMD will not have the possibility of catching up with and surpassing Intel chips even if the design level is improved. The reason why AMD's stock price rose sharply in the previous life was that in addition to the latest Zen architecture, the most important thing was to cooperate with TSMC, GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and obtained the authorization and cooperation of the 14nm process.

After checking for a few days, there is still no progress in Grofoundries' affairs, at this time

"Mr. Zhou, Grofoundries suddenly sent someone over and asked if we had any ideas for acquisition?" Zhang Yujing

"Didn't I say it a long time ago, it was impossible to sell it to them!" Zhou Shi

"It's not to buy us, it's to buy GLOBALFOUNDRIES?" Zhang Yujing

"What's going on?" Zhou Shi wondered

"They're on good terms, and they're not buying them all, and they're going to keep the more sensitive assets. "Zhang Yujing

"Impossible, their brains are in water?" Zhou Shi, almost every big acquisition will have junk assets wrapped in, and AMD will inevitably have some worthless, unprofitable but relatively important assets. Listening to Zhang Yujing's meaning, it seems that the other party may sell profitable assets to himself and keep those that are difficult to deal with, is there such a good businessman in this world who sacrifices himself for others?

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