Chapter Ninety-Four: Year-end Inventory
At the end of each year, the news media will always release all kinds of year-end inventory, and in this year's various inventory, Xingchen Technology is the most eye-catching color.
The media unanimous in using extremely exaggerated words such as miracle, greatness, and incredibleness to describe the achievements of Xingchen Technology this year.
Interestingly, those media that release the inventory in advance often publish a supplementary note.
Inform readers that in addition to the four major innovations of optimization, display, wireless charging, optics, and optimization, Xingchen Technology has also inserted its black hand into the upstream of semiconductors this year, becoming the world's largest supplier of semiconductor consumables in one fell swoop.
There is no way, Xingchen Technology's New Year's offensive was launched late, and when they attacked cities and seized land around the world, the editors had already written the draft of the year-end inventory.
What's more interesting is that the description of Xingchen Technology by major media completely exceeds people's general impression of high-tech enterprises.
Usually the manuscript of the editor will say that a certain company attaches importance to research and development, or dares to innovate.
In this year's inventory, the media caliber is the same, and a hat full of combat effectiveness is installed on the head of Xingchen Technology.
They used a lot of space to describe the direct subordinate nature of Xingchen Technology, the mental outlook that can endure hardships and fight.
It's as if it wasn't a high-tech company, but an army.
The domestic media is generally still tolerant, and the fact that Xingchen Technology is completely composed of straight men of steel is either brushed aside, or it is based on the consideration of combat effectiveness.
However, in the articles of foreign media, it is not so polite.
Time Magazine named Xingchen Technology the most influential company of the year, and also unceremoniously satirized the steel straight boys.
The accompanying picture uses the four otaku protagonists in The Big Bang Theory, and the introductory text says that the reason why Xingchen Technology is a male world is because there are no women willing to work with them at all.
Le Figaro is one of the most influential newspapers in France, and the country is the birthplace of neoliberalism and the stronghold of feminism.
In the article of Le Figaro, it is simply a bloody scold for Xingchen Technology, calling them a group of sexist people and a cancer in the scientific and technological world, and the success of Xingchen Technology is an insult to women around the world and a serious provocation to freedom.
In addition, Le Figaro also called on all women not to buy products related to Xingchen Technology, and to support the male compatriots who support women's independence, but also to stay away, and work together to make this company with strong straight male cancer attributes go bankrupt as soon as possible.
However, some good people helped Figaro report to count that it is almost impossible to completely boycott Xingchen Technology's products.
Even if they can not buy the mobile phones produced by the Big Four, almost all processors and displays in the world now use photoresists from Xingchen Technology in the production process.
Unless feminists are willing to go back to primitive times, no longer surf the Internet, and no longer watch TV, they can't avoid using Xingchen Technology's products.
There is one more interesting thing to do in this New Year.
The global academic community issued a joint statement, signed by thousands of well-known scholars, strongly urging the journal to provide an English version.
In recent months, they have been tormented by the journal, which requires absolute rigor and is always uneasy for academics to read articles translated by individuals.
What made them even more unacceptable was that since Xingchen Journal had never authorized anyone to translate, all the articles they saw were illegal pirated books.
Hundreds of thousands of scholars and professors around the world, as well as millions of college and graduate students, all held pirated books together, read them with relish, and had lively discussions after reading them.
This is shameless!?
Over the years, developed countries have repeatedly accused China of lacking intellectual property protection and piracy.
Fortunately, the most elite intellectual class in the developed countries, one counts as one, and all of them have become pirated readers, which makes people feel embarrassed.
The requirements of the academic community, of course, were ignored by Luo Jia, who originally wanted to challenge their academic hegemony, and if they changed to the English version, it would also challenge a hammer.
Of course, Luo Jia did not make any provocative moves, such as asking science and nature journals to launch Chinese editions.
At the critical juncture of the struggle for the hegemony of the operating system, Luo Jia does not want to break out with anyone now if it is not necessary.
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All in all, since there is Xingchen Technology in this world, the world has become more and more lively.
On the last day of the year, his parents arranged a table of good dishes, and Luo Jia called the company's management to his home as a guest, and by the way, discussed the development of the company next year.
"Why hasn't Wuchang come back yet, I haven't seen him for two or three months, so I'm panicking." Hong Tao muttered that he and Di Wuchang used to be roommates and had a very good relationship.
"The P5 are still in the United States." Luo Jia took a sip of red wine, "I asked him to make some preparations there, after all, our next move will definitely make huge waves in the United States, and this supply to Intel is also for future considerations." ”
What's next?
Everyone showed curious eyes, Luo Jia knew that there was no point in hiding it any longer, so he motioned to Li Moran and told everyone about the situation.
Virgo's Li Moran, slowly and logically, told everyone present about the company's software department's research and development of operating systems.
When they heard this, their jaws almost fell to the ground in surprise.
No one thought that while the hardware department was in full swing to capture the global market, the software department quietly completed such a big move!
They made the operating system!
"It's been packaged and tested." "But Google is not moving now, so we are still seizing the time to do more testing and optimization of the system." ”
"The longer it drags on, the better it will be for us, after all, against a formidable opponent like Google, no amount of preparation is always enough."
Everyone was speechless for a while, no wonder the software center was always working overtime, and the lights were on at night, it turned out that they were writing the operating system!
An Ran solemnly raised his wine glass and said seriously, "Brother Mo Ran, this cup is for you!" ”
Li Moran smiled, "Actually, I'm just assisting Mr. Luo in managing the team, and several of the most core modules are written by Mr. Luo in his spare time, he is so busy, it's really not easy." ”
Luo Jia hurriedly waved his hand, "Needless to say, let's drink this glass of wine together." ”
Drinking all the wine in the cup, Luo Jia put down the wine glass and wiped her mouth with a napkin.
"All in all, all of our plans for next year will revolve around the operating system, and we will concentrate all our efforts to do this."
"Li Moran's current task in the United States is to assemble a legal team and a lobbying team."
"After all, we are going to move the foundation of the United States, the world's three major operating systems, all controlled by the Americans, if we lose, it's okay, if we win, there will definitely be a strong reaction over there, I don't know how many parliamentarians, the Senate will jump out, bloody the dogs we attacked, Di Wuchang is in order to deal with the future reaction of the United States, doing work."
An Ran nodded, looking suddenly realized.
"No wonder you want to sell the seventh-grade photoresist to giants like Intel and Texas Instruments, at that time I was still wondering, if it is only sold in the domestic market, it will greatly enhance the competitiveness of SMIC, those Chinese semiconductor companies, why do you have to sell to the Americans."
"It turns out that you are here to make sure that once the war with Google breaks out, we can have enough allies in the United States!" Enron said.
Everyone was moved, what is a rainy day?
That's it!
Long before the war began, Luo Jia was already in the United States.
Once the war starts, if the U.S. authorities sanction Xingchen Technology, they will also be in trouble, giants such as Intel and Texas Instruments, using Xingchen Technology's photoresist, use Zhengshuang, and suddenly don't let them use it, they will definitely not agree.
Hong Tao frowned, "Look at it this way, Samsung, LG, Hynix, we also have to take orders from those Koreans?" ”
Luo Jia smiled, "Pick it up, why don't you take it?" ”
"Children can distinguish between right and wrong, and adults only talk about interests!"
"Samsung and Hynix are the overlords of the global storage industry after all, and among the other two major players, Toshiba Storage has been acquired by a consortium led by the United States and South Korea, and Micron's production capacity cannot meet the needs of our country, and the technical level is also a notch lower."
"Therefore, South Korea is the de facto monopolist in the storage industry in the world, once they cut off the supply of Huaxia, the result will be very troublesome, so we have to deeply bundle with them, so that Koreans dare not fight the idea of memory chips, if they dare to cut off our goods, we will cut off their photoresist."
Everyone nodded.
International competition is a very complex game, and it is also a good choice to deeply bundle Samsung and Hynix before they have the ability to replace them.
Take the mobile phone industry as an example, no matter how fierce the war is, the big four domestic giants will still use Korean-made memory chips, which is the industry bundle, and no one can do without anyone.
Everyone drank a lot of wine and talked very enthusiastically, and when the New Year's bell rang, they went out into the courtyard and looked out into the distant night sky.
Although the goal is the sea of stars, the road has to be taken step by step.
I thought that this year would be lively enough, but I didn't think that Luo Jia's plan for next year would be even crazier!