Chapter 538 Frontal Conflict? (Medium)

Although Yang Yiwei and others guessed the content of Intel's press conference, and most of the media also guessed about the same, Intel's press conference still caused a huge sensation. Although Yang Yiwei turned off the TV,But after that, intel's press conference will naturally continue,Just like Konishi guessed,The new I9 series of CPUs is only priced at $299, not to mention,The previous price in the United States$299 I73770K has also been directly reduced to about $200,And the I5 series has been directly reduced to the standard of the same price as the new CPU。

This price is already very cheap, which means that intel has not only adopted the latest policy in the high-end market, but also taken out a new series of CPUs, and will also reduce the price of the original CPU, and began to impact the low-end market, since the I5 series have begun to reduce prices, then the I3 series of CPU prices will undoubtedly be lower.

Although countries outside the United States have taxes, for the same reason, prices will still fall by 30% or 40%, and even close to half in some countries. So the impact of Intel's press conference is undoubtedly huge, first of all, AMD has risen to about $30 billion in market value and started a new round of decline, not enough to fall is not large, but it has also fallen close to $10 billion, retaining the position of market value of about $20 billion.

The market value of intel has begun to rise, but unlike companies with a low starting point like AMD, intel's market value has not increased much, and it has increased by about a dozen dollars per share. But even so, the increase in market value is not a small amount.

The stock market in the United States is very responsive, in general. Something like this will always have a chain reaction, but the shares of Xingnuo Communications, which rose slightly because of the acquisition of AMD by Xingshen Group, did not fall, mainly because AMD could not even reach a fraction of Xingnuo, and the main profits of Xingnuo Communications did not come from AMD, so this could not affect the shares of Xingnuo Communications in the slightest.

However, the acquisition of AMD by Xingluo Group can make the shares of Xingnuo Communication Company rise, because Xingnuo Communication Company is not a listed company, and even if these shareholders want to buy the shares of Xingnuo Group, it is impossible for them to buy this one. Moreover, the current stock of Xingnuo Communication Company is actually not inflated, although the actual number of total share capital is relatively large, but the profit ratio per share is not low.

Even Apple's companies may not be able to compare, Intel now has a gap with the market value of Xingshen Group, but it can be regarded as a first-class group in the world. Now this head-on confrontation between the two companies is undoubtedly beneficial to the entire market! After attending Intel's press conference. Major media reporters immediately described the incident as a head-on confrontation between the two new and old CPU companies.

As for the previous AMD. Everyone directly ignored it, because AMD was not qualified to confront intel head-on at all, and now it has this capital after being acquired by Starfall Group. Not long after Intel's press conference ended, Yang Yiwei received a call from Shi Chongtang.

"Mr. Yang, are you sure that our CPU can catch up with the latest CPU performance of intel? And it is also in the case of a price war between the other side. Shi Chongtang is a little weak-hearted, after all, Intel is still famous in this field. Companies like Shi Chongtang's ASUS, which have been working in this field for many years, can naturally feel it.

"Mr. Shi, don't worry, regardless of whether our CPU performance can surpass him, even if it can't surpass intel. But don't worry, I assure you that there will be no impact on your company, and you can't talk about cooperation projects with Intel, right? Could it be that Intel is pushing big customers like you out? Lenovo I think it will stand on the united front with me, in this case, do you think Intel will give up on your two major customers? Yang Yiwei smiled slightly.

Of course not, Shi Chongtang doesn't need to think about it to know the answer, intel is not an idiot, such as Asus, Dell, Lenovo, these whole machine sellers are their big customers, although they assemble personal PCs also sell a lot of money, but that kind of retail has to go through several channels, and the profits they get may not be higher than those from ASUS and their manufacturers! What's more, cooperating with ASUS manufacturers can also get a one-time payment.

It's not uncommon to work from multiple angles, and Intel won't make such idiotic mistakes. "Okay, actually, I'm just asking how tomorrow's press conference is going to be held?" Shi Chongtang thought about it, and did not continue, but changed the topic with a smile. If it weren't for AMD's cooperation with Starfall Group, Shi Chongtang would not have signed the cooperation with AMD, although the motherboard still supports AMD's production of CPUs, the problem this time is not just as simple as producing motherboards.

Although it is said that the interests of ASUS have been damaged, but the bad people have also given compensation, after all, if the Star Fall Group authorizes other motherboard manufacturers to also produce motherboards with the Star Fall Group's independent wireless network card, then this single meal is not so delicious! It's all a huge benefit.

Is there anything in this world that has a monopoly and has greater benefits? Shi Chongtang didn't forget that Starfall Group did not have multiple authorizations, so what did it mean to only choose the authorization of ASUS.

"It's very simple, how to open intel, how can we just open it? As for the price war, have you forgotten that although our company is not a diversified enterprise, it has a lot of resources at its disposal. Yang Yiwei said with a smile, he didn't give Shi Chongtang an accurate answer, as soon as he heard Yang Yiwei's explanation, Shi Chongtang knew that Yang Yiwei was not going to tell him, but just asked him to watch the press conference tomorrow. In desperation, Shi Chongtang could only say a few words, and then hung up the phone and waited for tomorrow's press conference.

It's not just Shi Chongtang who is waiting, all the media reporters are waiting, and even the group of reporters who attended the Intel press conference hurried to the vicinity of AMD's headquarters almost after the press release, waiting for tomorrow's press conference.

The confrontation of two super-large companies, and now one company has made a move. What about the other company? All journalists are waiting for AMD's move.

The next day there is more than an hour before the press conference, and the venue of the AMD press conference is already crowded with major media companies, and even some media have begun to hold live broadcasts, and people who pay attention to this matter do not know how many people have to say, yesterday's stock fluctuations of the two major companies made many people on Wall Street make a lot of money, and countless people are still staring at this matter today.

It's not just that the people on Wall Street are not stupid, even ordinary people are not stupid, with yesterday's lesson, don't you know that the stock will fluctuate today? If you react immediately, you will at least make a lot of money. The proportion of people speculating in stocks in the United States is much higher than that in China.

The press conference is just a few minutes away. Thomas looked at the information in his hand again, and looking at the information in his hand, Thomas couldn't help but swallow his saliva, is this really the case? This information is the latest from the Starfall Group, although he said that he knew about it last night. But Thomas couldn't help but feel excited. In fact, it is like the cost of the CPU, although it is not cheap. But it's definitely not high! This is true even for the most advanced CPUs.

Even the labor cost is higher than the cost of its materials itself. Of course, if you include the depreciation cost of the factory production line, although it will increase somewhat, the increase is definitely not as much as you think. The latest 3770K of an I7 is priced at about 2100 in China, but its cost is 50RMB at most! You read that right. It's really only 50RMB, maybe the cost announced by intel is more than that.

But it includes R&D costs, as well as brand value! Among them, the R&D cost and brand value should account for more than 90% of the cost announced by Intel! And in the middle of this 90 percent, these two costs are almost half in half. As for the production line. It's a one-time investment, it can produce multiple CPUs, flattened out, and it doesn't cost much.

But for Yang Yiwei, is there a R&D cost? No! Brand Value...... Well, this thing actually has for consumers, and for the company itself, isn't the brand value also profit? Even if the new material given by Yang Yiwei is a little more expensive than the silicon, aluminum, copper and other raw materials used in the original CPU, it is extremely limited, and more importantly, this material is synthesized by Xiaoxi, and it consumes less energy. It's not too difficult to synthesize it even with Earth Technique, but it's just that trying to get a recipe for this material is difficult for other companies to get to the top.

So its cost is pitifully low, unless intel wants to completely destroy the order of the entire circle, otherwise, the first thing that can't hold up the price war must be intel not AMD. So after seeing these bottom lines, Thomas doesn't know how much saliva he swallowed, at least he knows that AMD's profits may be terrible in the future, of course, when it is announced, it is necessary to calculate the cost of research and development and the cost of the brand.

Otherwise, so much of the profits will be distributed to other shareholders, right? AMD is not a wholly owned subsidiary of Starfall Group. Although Thomas also has a stake in AMD, he is not stupid, and of course he knows that it is impossible to tell other shareholders about this news.

Because for the Starfall Group, these materials have no cost or anything, but for the other shareholders of AMD, these are there.

After the host above made a brief speech and let Thomas come to the stage, Thomas secretly shook his fist, and then took a deep breath and walked onto the podium, from his initial experience in AMD from a department, to senior vice president, and then to the current president, Thomas didn't think about how Intel could be suppressed, and now that he finally has this opportunity, can Thomas not be excited?

Originally, Thomas thought he would be excited and incoherent, but after standing on the podium, he found that he was surprisingly calm. Looking at the black reporters below, Thomas smiled slightly and then said: "Hello fellow journalists, I know that everyone must be waiting here to see the excitement." Thomas is not usually a humorous person, but he doesn't know what he is talking about, but at this time he told a bad joke.

Thomas's cold humor made the reporters below let out a burst of laughter, and when the laughter below stopped, Thomas continued to speak: "But I don't think everyone should be disappointed, now, I will announce the first news, this news is already known to the reporter friends, of course, if you still don't know the way, then I think you should resign, the journalist industry is not suitable for you." ”

This time Thomas did not pause, and after making a joke, he continued: "First of all, a week ago, Starfall Group acquired 55% of AMD's shares for $1.5 billion and became AMD's holding company, and from today, AMD will officially become one of the subsidiaries of Starfall Group. ”

Everyone knows the news, but Thomas officially announced it on behalf of AMD, so these reporters still gave applause.

After the applause given by the reporters dissipated, Thomas continued: "The second news, I think it may be a little disappointing to journalists, I think you should be waiting for AMD to also launch a new product after AMD's acquisition, to fight against intel's two new CPUs that have just been listed, and their price reduction policy, but you are going to be disappointed, first of all, our new products will probably not be on the market in a period of time, this time will take about half a year, Because our new product is a completely new, new concept, new architecture CPU. ”

"We named it Photon Type I. Its architecture, and even the materials used are completely new, of course, it is definitely different from the CPU on the market now, but you don't have to worry, although its architecture is different, but it can still support the existing Microsoft system, you only need to install the system, choose a special version, which we have communicated with Microsoft, they will soon open the download of the new system version. Although it is said that the new CPU will not be available anytime soon, Thomas still introduced the new CPU.

"As for its specific performance, its interior is a new honeycomb architecture, so it is not described as a single core and dual core of a traditional CPU, but according to the complexity of the internal honeycomb, and this new CPU will no longer need a fan, because the new material makes it even if it is in the highest computing state, its temperature will not exceed 35 degrees Celsius." Thomas gave a general introduction, but these brief introductions made the reporters below start to make a noise.

These reporters didn't understand anything, although it was not time to ask questions, but seeing that Thomas was no longer ready to continue the introduction, these reporters immediately raised their hands frantically, wanting to ask questions, and even some of them had already asked their own questions directly. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )