Chapter 370: Drawdown
Suddenly said that he wanted to divide the server market to IBM, Wang Zhengguo was really distressed.
Of course, if you don't hand over all the server CPU market in the ABC-PC system to IBM, in fact, IBM itself is also the top boss in the server field, and the large, medium and small computers produced, and even in the field of supercomputers, these are the world's top agricultural products.
Moreover, RISC technology was originally developed by IBM back then, but considering that this thing was positioned for large-scale servers at that time, and no one could shake its absolute dominant position in the entire server market, this is the case, IBM did not apply for a patent!
Yes, you read that right, IBM didn't apply for a patent after inventing RISC, but took out the technology and made it public.
Wang Zhengguo did not know what to say about IBM's huge strategic mistake, which was due to the disclosure of technology, and later ARM rose to prominence, and seized the advantage of RISC technology in low power consumption, and showed its strength in the field of mobile devices.
Later, Intel took this opportunity to use RISC technology and CISC as a peripheral translator for the CPU, so that RISC technology could be compatible with the X-86 architecture, so as to create the famous E-series processors, successfully enter the server market, and gradually encroach on IBM's traditional market share starting from the minicomputer.
But now this is the late 80s, IBM is still the big brother, Intel E-series processors have not yet been launched, the whole market is really hard to say and IBM in the field of large servers.
can only sigh a long sigh, Wang Zhengguo is also helpless now, he is desperate!
"Then listen to you, let's hand over all the RISC server products of the alliance to IBM, originally people are experts in playing RISC servers, let's dispel this idea, but we give up so much, IBM should still show enough sincerity, about semiconductor process technology, IBM must sell to the members of the alliance at the market price. ”
Kaiyang has been gradually developing semiconductor production process-related technologies, but now it can only be said to be above the middle, and there is still a distance between it and the first echelon, as for the top level, not to mention, Kaiyang still needs to develop slowly.
As for how IBM avoided American censorship in the 90s, it was really not too much.
To be simple and rude, I directly chose to completely disclose part of the process technology, anyway, by the nineties almost all of the people who could do this line of work have been decided, and the announcement of a small part of the technology does not affect the overall situation.
To put it mildly, then there will be technical exchanges between the two sides at the level of scientific researchers, such as the alliance conference held in the United Kingdom, when the scientific researchers of the two sides only need to mention each other's exchanges, anyway, everyone is doing this, but it is just a layer of window paper.
So sometimes don't think too complicated about the government-led technology embargo, there is a saying that rules are dead, people are alive, as long as you think, both sides are you and I will, people's subjective initiative can always be infinite.
Wang Zhengguo remembers most clearly that when Nanbang's three funerals developed semiconductor processing technology, they directly dug the corner of Taipower's wall, and Taipower saw that everyone had already made up their minds, so they signed a high-value non-compete agreement, thinking that this would prevent the outflow of technology.
At this time, the talents directly dug up to the university to become professors, and the company's technical personnel went to the school to return to the furnace again, and they could directly learn the technology, and then the three funeral semiconductors took off rapidly.
And this is also the fundamental reason why Sanfu Semiconductor gave up the IBM process route in terms of process technology and suddenly turned to the Taipower route, and Taipower later got a look at the production process of Sanfu products.
Well, you are highly similar to my process technology, and you can directly find out seven key process characteristics that are exactly the same.
For example, the shape of the shallow groove isolation layer, the material combination of the dielectric layer in the back section, etc., these things are exactly the same as the meaning of the toolway in machining production.
As for the future, I won't say much, this is nothing more than fighting each other, fighting verbal battles, and lawsuits.
But the problem is that Sanfu has taken this opportunity to develop its own semiconductor processing and manufacturing capabilities, and it is-for-tat with Taipower in the global semiconductor foundry market, which actually reflects a very profound truth: people's subjective initiative is really terrible, and the rules are always dead, depending on whether you are willing to find a way.
In fact, many of the technologies of Nanbang are made by digging the foot of the wall, including the three funerals and Hynix memory technology.
For example, Toshiba NAND and DRAM patents, all of which have been infringed by Nanbang, and they are all achieved by Nanbang by poaching people with high salaries, of course, Toshiba is also suing every year, Sanfu and Hynix are losing lawsuits every year and losing money, and even in 14 years, Toshiba sued commercial espionage for stealing secrets, demanding compensation of 1.1 billion US dollars, and finally Nanbang lost money.
But then again, this is also a slap in the face from the side of the lifelong employment system (which is actually no different from the employment system of state-owned enterprises) brought by the loyalty brought by the book's face.
Even the T-50 trainer aircraft, which is the only one that can be proud of in the military industry of Sanfu, is also poaching the IDF backbone R&D team from Duwan with a high salary, so there is a team to cooperate with Loma, otherwise how could Nanbang suddenly have the ability to develop jet supersonic fighters, isn't that funny!
Many Han Chui thinks that the technology of Nanbang enterprises is made by Nanbang itself, but people with their own ideas think about it with their heads, and the patent technical barriers and experience base are all accumulated over time.
Therefore, some people probably have blocked meridians in their faces, and they need to be slapped twice with hatred to help them move the meridian acupuncture points to be comfortable.
Looking back at the issue of semiconductor equipment, it is definitely not to blame IBM for not producing semiconductor processing equipment, so Kaiyang still has to rely more on the support of domestic friends in this regard and take the route of self-reliance.
If the semiconductor industry is analogous to the machinery industry, semiconductor processing equipment can be regarded as the machine tool produced by the machine tool factory, and the essence of the process technology that IBM can provide lies in how to use the machine tool equipment to develop a superb processing program, so as to be able to produce products with the highest precision, highest efficiency and lowest cost.
IBM is an old company in the industry with rich experience in technology, and Kaiyang's latecomers are inexperienced, so it is natural to learn from their predecessors.
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Coming out of Boston's Jobs Computer Company, the next step is another important goal of Wang Zhengguo's visit to the United States this time, poaching people!
That's right, Wang Zhengguo is here to poach people this time, only digging talents is the best way to quickly enhance technological competitiveness, at present, Kaiyang semiconductor talents are still in urgent need, before the era of Wang An Computer Company, Lao Wang An generously pulled out the semiconductor integrated circuit personnel who were temporarily unused from the company to Kaiyang support.
But now that Jobs has taken down Wang An's computer division, many Americans who originally worked in Kaiyang Semiconductor also saw hope, and more than half of the company's American non-Chinese technicians have proposed to return to the United States, if it were not for the good relationship between Wang Zhengguo and Jobs, temporarily pacify these people, I am afraid that Kaiyang will collapse directly.
So now there is no way, Wang Zhengguo can only go to the United States again to issue the "Talent Seeking Order", hoping to find some talents from the United States who are interested in returning to China for development.