Chapter 747: A New Era of the Pangu Camp
After the end of the meeting, Lin Qi signed a production authorization for compatible machines with 37 machine manufacturers on the spot. There are 11 Chinese manufacturers, 9 Japanese manufacturers, 6 American manufacturers, and 6 European manufacturers...... The rest of the regions either do not have industrial manufacturing capacity or have limited market capacity.
For example, there are only 0 manufacturers in Africa, after all, even in the 21st century, Africa's industrial products account for only 1% of the world market, and there are very few African scientific and technological innovations.
Although there are 11 compatible machine manufacturers in China, it seems that there are a large number, but in fact, the strength is relatively weak manufacturers. The strongest ones are Lenovo and Konka, and the rest of the current strength is all miscellaneous fish, but after all, the current Pangu industrial chain is concentrated in China, and the domestic Pangu compatible machine has a production cost advantage.
The number of Japanese manufacturers is second only to that of Chinese manufacturers, because, although there has been some decline in Japan's economy, it will still have to wait until the end of the 90s to really admit it. At that time, the Japanese government and enterprises lamented that Japan's economic development had stagnated for ten years, and the concept of losing ten years had only begun to be put forward with hindsight. But after 10 years of loss, if we fail to seize new opportunities, we will inevitably lose another 20 or even 30 years.
At present, Japan's semiconductor industry is still the largest in the world. In addition to the strong memory business in the Japanese semiconductor industry, it currently has a monopoly market share of 70%. Other inconspicuous small parts, capacitors, resistors, etc., Japanese companies also occupy seventy or eighty percent of the market share. The market share of various other inconspicuous semiconductor parts is quite high. It can be said that in the early 90s, Japan was the largest country in the semiconductor industry, and after the Gulf War, the whole world lamented the advanced technology and weapons of the United States, and Japanese companies said that without the electronic chips supplied by Japanese companies, the United States would not have been able to fight overseas wars so beautifully.
Although, what Japanese companies supply to the United States are low-end and low-profit products abandoned by the American chip industry. However, these low-end products are often ubiquitous and are used in many fields.
Therefore, several Japanese companies, Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Sharp, NEC, and Hitachi, are basically in the consumer electronics industry, or the semiconductor industry has a significant market share. In later generations, most of these companies were miserable, but now they are all Fortune 500 companies. You must know that there are currently more than 150 Japanese companies in the world's top 500, which is slightly more than the number of Fortune 500 companies in the United States. At present, these enterprises, more or less feel that the traditional business has encountered the problem of weak issuance and even declining market share. Therefore, many consumer electronics companies are looking for a way. For these Japanese consumer electronics companies, Pangu compatible machines are unintentionally a very tempting way out.
You know, Pangu currently occupies half of the world's personal computer market. In addition, these companies have more or less monitors, memory, motherboards, etc., and after obtaining the technology open authorization of the Pangu compatible machine market, these manufacturers can pay a hardware patent again, and can produce motherboards, memory, and even graphics cards, hard disks, etc. By entering the shipment of new products, we will increase the shipment of our own other parts and components.
Generally speaking, these Japanese companies are still trying to resolve their own crises through the success of their business operations. As everyone knows, these practices are basically useless. In later generations, eight of the 10 largest companies in Japan were automobiles or related to automobiles. Among the 100 large companies, the above are generally automobile-related. To a certain extent, the Japanese economy in later generations is no longer a hundred flowers blooming, and there are a bunch of world-class giants in all walks of life. Instead, it is basically relying on the automobile industry to thrive and maintain the dignity of the Japanese economy. With the exception of automobiles, most of Japan's industries in later generations were either too small or in long-term decline.
Finally, among the six compatible device companies in the United States, Apple, Dell, HP, Compaq, and the new Apple founded after Jobs left Apple. The last compatible machine company, Lin Qi felt surprised, it was actually Microsoft!
Microsoft applied to make a compatible machine, and it is also a Pangu compatible machine.
An agreement was signed with the manufacturer of the compatible machine in the field, and the agreement was basically the same, stipulating the standard and price of the patent. In addition, there is also the ex-factory price of hardware, which also needs to be discussed with the majority of compatible machine manufacturers, and cannot adopt a separate pricing mechanism.
Just like the CPU used in the current flagship Pangu 7th generation, the Luban 1st generation architecture, and the quad-core 66MHZ main frequency CPU chip. At present, the production cost of chips is as high as 150 US dollars, and for these large factories that have signed orders of more than 100,000 pieces, a friendly price of 180 US dollars is given. At present, the retail price of this flagship chip in the market is as high as $279.
Of course, most of the users who bought this chip were Pangu 5th and 6th generation users, and they completed the upgrade by replacing the CPU.
Basically, after the end of this conference, the orders for the supply of CPU chips signed on the spot exceeded 10 million in total. Sixty percent of the CPU orders were obtained by Xinchuang Semiconductor, and in addition, Lishan Semiconductor also received forty percent of the orders.
Among them, it is mainly overseas manufacturers who are more suspicious of Lishan Semiconductor, so they send fewer orders. Domestic manufacturers know that Lishan Semiconductor's chip process is synchronized with the newly started semiconductor company. Although the two companies have different systems and different shareholders, they are technically cross-licensing.
In essence, there is no obvious difference in the chip quality of Lishan Semiconductor and Xinchuang Semiconductor. In addition, the chips of Lishan Semiconductor are slightly cheaper than the ex-factory price of chips of Xinchuang Semiconductor, although the difference is often only a few dollars lower when converted into US dollars.
In order to seek stability, overseas manufacturers mainly focus on chips from newly-known semiconductor companies with higher reputations. After all, Pangu Computer, a subsidiary of Xinchuang Semiconductor Group, is developed and produced by Xinchuang Electronics Group, so these compatible machine manufacturers must trust the golden sign of Xinchuang Department more.
In the case of Lishan Semiconductor, since international manufacturers have not cooperated with this company in the past, it is normal to have some concerns.
However, domestic manufacturers do not think so, because they are domestic enterprises, so they often watch the news. On the news broadcast, when reporting on the technological breakthrough of the domestic semiconductor industry, Lishan Semiconductor is often mentioned. In addition, at least 40% of Pangu Computer's current chips are supplied by Lishan Semiconductor.
Pangu's 6th ~ 7th generation chips, Xinchuang Semiconductor production and Lishan Semiconductor production of chips, are each half. Basically, as long as the chip is qualified, it can be used no matter which factory comes out.
Since the Pangu computer officially produced by Xinchuang Electronics Group believes that the chips produced by Lishan Semiconductor and Xinchuang Semiconductor are similar, what concerns do compatible machine manufacturers have, of course, it is...... It's cheap to use that!
Converted into RMB, it may be cheaper than the difference between ten yuan and twenty or thirty yuan, but the cost saved is profit. One is 20 yuan, and 100,000 units is 2 million profits!
In the manufacturing industry, who would think that the cost will be reduced and the profit will be increased? It is precisely this kind of machine that makes dozens of dollars and accumulates a lot of money before it gathers into a very huge number.