After the establishment of the smart tablet project, Luo Sheng took the lead in upgrading Cortana again, this time to upgrade the supercomputing hardware.

Before you know it, a year has passed, and Sugon Technology is also very powerful, "Nafu" surpassed "Jaguar" to become the world's fastest computer last time, which was completed by Luo Sheng through system architecture and algorithms.

But this is far from enough, now a year has passed, the hardware research and development of Shuguang Technology is also progressing, once the hardware performance advances by a gear, with Luo Sheng's set of algorithms and system architecture, the performance of supercomputing will rise by a whole order of magnitude, which is an exponential skyrocket, which is quite terrifying.

Luo Sheng's private supercomputer strives to be in 2010, the speed of operations per second will be advanced from the current petaflop to 100 billion times, and the current computing performance of "Nafu" on the bright side is 230 trillion times, but the actual data has not been disclosed, and the supercomputing performance has won the world's first place since last year.

It's just that Luo Sheng likes to keep a low profile and doesn't make a big announcement, but Shuguang Technology wants to do this to enhance its brand awareness, but then Luo Sheng will not give the other party the exclusive authorization of the system architecture and algorithm he developed.

Therefore, Shuguang Technology is also holding back.

This time Cortana's big upgrade, Luo Sheng doesn't have to spend a penny, because the "child support" is fully covered by the strategic partner Dawning Technology, and all the costs of hardware upgrades and updates in the future will be borne by Dawning Technology, not only that, but also pay Luo Sheng hundreds of millions of dollars every year because of the system architecture and algorithm authorization.

It's really the rhythm of lying down and earning a profit in the supercomputing industry.

The big data and cloud computing sector is grasped by Bluestar Technology Group, but it can be effectively used and needs the support of artificial intelligence technology, which is directly the growth efficiency of Cortana.

Cortana's fast upgrade means that many innovative application scenarios can be realized faster, and the core technology of this smart tablet is the combination of AI + big data + cloud computing services, all of which are indispensable.

Therefore, even if outsiders know about this business model, they will not be competitive at all if they do not master the core technology.

Luo Sheng is leading the climb of core technology, while project leader Li Chunsheng is the senior product manager of the smart tablet, and Yao Jianhong is also actively integrating the supply chain.

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On December 22, Yao Jianhong came to the headquarters of Lift Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation for a business negotiation.

"What? Do you want to place an additional order for 35 million pieces? The head of the TSMC was stunned.

Yao Jianhong looked at the head of the TSMC in front of him, nodded and smiled: "Yes, Mr. Zhang, we even want to add 50 million pieces." ”

After a moment, Mr. Zhang shook his head: "At most, 30 million pieces, 50 million pieces is too much, so the Cote d'Azur will occupy more than 70% of the production capacity of my 45nm process, other customers and partners are already very dissatisfied, your order is very large and attractive, but we have to take into account the attitude of the Americans, in fact, you also know that our cooperation has made SIA quite dissatisfied." ”

Yao Jianhong nodded again: "Okay, then 30 million pieces, the remaining 20 million pieces, we will go to Samsung foundry to provide solutions, their foundry should be fine." However, Mr. Zhang, the production capacity of 45-nanometer chips should not be less than 50%. ”

As soon as Mr. Zhang heard that the Samsung foundry seemed to be stimulated by something, his words suddenly changed: "Wait a minute, 50 million pieces, we will take them all!" ”

Yao Jianhong smiled, but did not show it, and immediately said: "For this batch of new orders, we need to achieve the first batch of 15 million pieces of supply from the second quarter of next year, and the production capacity of SMMC can be even higher?" ”

Mr. Zhang responded decisively: "If the production capacity is not enough, you can expand the production capacity, and it is a big deal to delay the delivery time of other customers." ”

This money is too easy to make, although SIA is very dissatisfied, but there is no way, the Côte d'Azur gives too much money.

Just some time ago, the Cote d'Azur invested in 7.2% of the shares, which brought tens of billions of dollars in cash, and the funds are quite abundant, and a new batch of lithography machines is about to be in place, and the production capacity can be doubled in 15 months at most.

You know, the reason why TSMC can't let go of the customer of the Cote d'Azur is just look at its market value, and now it has rushed to $150 billion, surpassing IBM.

Many of the equity deconstruction of the TSMC are composed of shareholders in the United States, and the Cote d'Azur has invested more than $10 billion into the board of directors of the company, although the Cote d'Azur is not listed, but it is still related to Wall Street.

The current profits of the Cote d'Azur are so terrifying, Wall Street has been doing "ideological work" for Luo Sheng, and trying to realize it in various ways has forced him to make the Cote d'Azur listed.

Because of this, Luo Sheng shared another part of the profits, so the pressure on the Cote d'Azur to go public was also reduced a lot in the face of Wall Street's pressing.

Stabilize Wall Street first.

The international market can not be lost as much as possible, and a part of the profits is of course shared in order to obtain greater profits.

The interests of multinational corporations, especially multinational giants, are complex, and it is not so easy to sort out the intertwined interests.

Some people want to block the Côte d'Azur on the surface, but this is just to buy a "Zhengzhi insurance" for themselves, and the cooperation behind the scenes is still correct.

Who among the capitalists is at odds with profits?

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After Yao Jianhong left Timb, he met with Lao Guo, the head of Fushikang, that afternoon, and naturally he didn't go to ask for warmth.

The business cooperation negotiated this time is the OEM problem of the smart tablet business, and the Cote d'Azur decided to hand over all the OEM orders for this product to Fushikang, and Lao Guo was happy.

This order has greatly alleviated the competitive pressure from Piadi for Fushikang, who previously got an order for 10 million Azure mobile phones, and this time directly got an OEM list of 50 million smart tablets in one go, which can be described as a super large order, and it is definitely a super growth point for Fushikang's foundry business.

The specific OEM products are naturally confidential, and Lao Guo will not be stupid enough to disclose this information to the outside and offend a big customer and lose a big order, but Yao Jianhong, as the No. 2 person on the Cote d'Azur, also allowed Fushikang to announce that he undertook this list, but the specific OEM product cannot be disclosed to the outside world.

Soon after Yao Jianhong returned to the mainland, Fushikang announced the news, and its stock price rose sharply, while Biardi's market value reversed, falling about 3% on the same day.

The head of Biard, Mr. Wang, is very helpless, and it is obviously impossible not to be angry about the behavior of "stepping on two boats" on the Cote d'Azur, but there is nothing to do.

The current Piardi OEM and Fushikang OEM can be said to be incompatible, and it is impossible to join forces to fight against the "big carrot" of the Cote d'Azur, otherwise if he finds a fourth party, then Bidi and Fushikang will cry and can't find the land.

Another thing that everyone has meat to eat now is the most important thing, next to the big thick legs of the Cote d'Azur, you can eat into a big fat man, a little sensible, and you will never do anything offensive to people before you have no bargaining power.

The supply chain of the Cote d'Azur can make a lot of money, this is the consensus of the industry, lick it and it's over, lick everything in the end, and have nothing in the end.

At the end of the year, the Cote d'Azur accelerates the supply chain integration speed of smart tablets, Luo Sheng is a person who pursues "fast action and breaking the routine", and the time must be very fast for supply chain partners, and the yield rate must be ensured, and the product will be launched next year.

In other words, only a little more than half a year.

Fortunately, the technical problems have been solved, the supply chain integration is completed, the production capacity is in place, and new products can be launched as scheduled.

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