Chapter 178: Computer Alliance
Sient's impassioned statement gave Bill and Eubank a glimmer of hope. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but the CEO of Leten and other hardware manufacturers did not say anything, the research of a new chip, easy to say, is a very expensive thing, they have been investing in this aspect has not been small, but the progress is not satisfactory, as a director and boss is not too willing to put too much money into research and development, after all, research and development is very expensive and difficult to see the results, will make the company's liquidity be dragged down. They will do things that cost money, but they will definitely not do things that do not see the future.
Siente looked at Leten and the others, who were not too enthusiastic, "If we join forces, all the chip processing of our troops can be outsourced to you, and we will invest 200 million M yuan every year." ”
200 million M yuan, is a lot of money, which makes leten and others understand the unusual taste of this, the chips used by the army are all produced by themselves, and now they want to outsource, this is a lot of money, but the update of the army is not so fast, and the annual order volume is also very fixed, not a very large amount of money, even if the right to supply, the oil and water are limited, but the military experts participate in the research, it will definitely be beneficial to the development of the company, the military's chip design is not complicated, However, he has his uniqueness in protection and encryption, and it is good to be able to learn from it, and the military's system is completely different from WM, it is a set of systems designed by itself, and it is only applicable to their chips, which is a special part of development, and now the army wants to subcontract this part, which makes people a little confused. Now for chips, the most difficult is the development of the future, now is slowly approaching the bottleneck of development, according to Moore's law, every thirteen months to update the technology, will soon reach the bottleneck of development, and can not inch in, is the military industry to provide a new direction and development opportunities?
"The world should follow the development of country M, they all need to learn from country M, if you want to maintain your advanced nature, if you want to continue to make money in the world, it is best to cooperate with the military, it is beneficial to both sides, isn't it?" Siente smiled coldly.
"General, according to the International Trade Law Convention, if the government is involved in business development, we will be blocked all over the world, and we will lose even more at that time." Leten expressed his concern, although the future described by Siente is very beautiful, but the future is the future after all, in the distant future, there is still a long process to wait, and now the most worried should be a few software vendors, they have been squeezed by Hualong has almost no room for development, is it they who put forward this request? Preparing to unite and bundle hardware together against Hualong seems a bit too risky, and it is extremely dangerous.
"We don't choose to affect your business operations, we are the military, we have the right to choose, and we can also decide the price."
"I'm afraid not, now that the public call for domestic military spending is getting higher and higher, you can't be the master." Dale stood up, he didn't believe that Siente could make decisions for the military department, and now the military expenditure is not as much as before, many of them have been reduced, and the people in the country have long been dissatisfied with spending huge amounts of money on the Middle East battlefield every year, and now they have to repeat the old saying, Dale is the first to believe it.
"Really? We have already invested a lot of money in the space plane project and the Earth Warrior Project, so can't this satisfy everyone? Military programming experts, but you don't need to pay for it, the military pays for it, or some of you engineers are willing to turn into military personnel, and we are willing to pay this money. Siente was clearly prepared, and he had a lot of resources at his disposal, and he didn't understand why he wanted to bring these people together to join forces, but he wouldn't question the demands issued by the state security services either.
Everyone was silent, it is indeed a good plan, in recent years, the best business, the most profitable are the arms dealers, they have made enough, the military may really want to develop some plans, these projects proposed by Siente have been going on, they are all projects that cost money, why did they suddenly put it forward, and strongly intervened? No one figured it out.
Eubank and Bill glanced at each other, they seemed to have no reason to refuse, no matter what, it was beneficial to them, very conducive to their development, with the military's funds, their software company could be supported, and only then could they have the money to develop, and resist Hualong's aggressiveness.
"General Sient, I don't think I have a reason to refuse." Bill was the first to speak, looking at Siente with a smile, he invested a lot of money in the election of the president of the current world, and now it finally has some effect, no matter what the purpose is, as long as it is not harmful to him, why not agree!
"I have no reason to refuse, and I join." Eubank looked at Sient, a former colleague, although the two of them went on different paths, but there was some friendship between comrades-in-arms!
With the expression of the two people, most software manufacturers also agreed to the request, because for resisting Hualong alone, only by uniting can there be enough strength.
"How many of you?" Siente looked at Leten and others, if these hardware manufacturers can join in, they will be able to have enough funds to develop.
"We don't see any future here." Leten frowned, the whole thing is like a stage for the military and software vendors, what are their hardware manufacturers? Is it wronged? Leten is absolutely reluctant to pay for it, and it's a project that requires a lot of money.
"Leten, we have also been friends for many years, if we join forces, driver software and special software, we are all zero M yuan license, and free to help you develop the software you need." Bill decided to take a gamble and add more weight to Active, and he clearly realized that without the participation of hardware manufacturers, they would be in vain.
This is an attractive condition, although the licensing fee of Hualong is not very high, but because they occupy more than 70% of the world's share, so the cost of licensing is still amazing, to save such an expense, it is still a lot, especially the temptation of developing software, which can allow them to save enough money every year, and can also make up for the loss, and the longer the time, the more beneficial it is for them, if there are new chips in the future, through the way of bundling, they can make a lot of money.
"Bill and I are here to help." The addition of Eubank has made this temptation more weighty, now the world can only use their hardware, what do they have to worry about, even if Hualong is angry, there is no way, their hardware can still develop, and it seems that there is no problem.
It just so happened that they were planning to develop some ancillary industries, and perhaps because of this negotiation, they could become big profitable industries, and Leten finally voted in favor.
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September is destined to be a big event month, the five major hardware manufacturers and six software companies of the whole M suddenly announced the establishment of a computer alliance, will develop future chips, develop future systems, release this good news to the world, the world's eyes were suddenly focused on M country, what they plan to do, software is Hualong is the only one, why Hualong did not join, everyone smelled a bad situation, is it that Hualong is too strong, so that hardware manufacturers are also afraid? So I am ready to unite to fight against Hualong together, although Hualong is indeed powerful, but it is not strong enough to stand alone in the world and influence Intel them.
Suddenly, AMD, crilys and several other small chip manufacturers extended an olive branch to Hualong and wanted to unite with Hualong to fight against the attack of manufacturers in country M, but what is strange is that Hualong did not react to this matter, and it was a little unimaginable to be calm, and they couldn't help but think of the jokes of the system released by the three major software vendors throughout the year.
The entire computer industry has become confusing, many experts have come out to speak, but there is no unified opinion, all the experts of country M believe that Hualong will come to an end within five years, but many experts in Europe and Asia believe that the hardware manufacturers of country M are playing with fire, and both sides are playing ambiguous.
The eyes of the world are focused on these manufacturers who can influence the world, are waiting for their results, Hualong is not moving, not only let the people in the industry not understand, the old M manufacturers did not understand, Hualong did not have any internal reaction, I thought that this was an excuse, Hualong would reduce the authorization of the driver software, but Hualong did not do this, everyone thought that if Hualong was angry, he would increase the license fee, or he felt threatened, and would reduce the license fee, but neither of these situations happened, Hualong didn't seem to hear the news at all, so that Hualong employees feel that Hualong is not deaf, such a big thing has not reacted, but Hualong finishing staff has no such troubles, their sales have been very good, orders have been booked to the year after tomorrow, even if their factory is completed, there is no way to complete all the orders in the past year, the most orders are machine tools, many people are left a deposit, set aside time, as long as they can produce to place an order, in the eyes of many people, Even now, there is no problem with precision machining and Hualong software.
What everyone didn't understand was the reaction of Hualong's upper echelons, as if nothing had happened, neither meeting to discuss it, nor preparing to make any statements, which made the whole world a little strange? Is Hualong going to concentrate all his energy on Hualong finishing? They are indeed now arguably the only ones in the world, is their upper echelons going to abandon software companies? This makes people from the outside world incomprehensible, and it also makes people inside a little anxious.