"President! What should we do now? ”

"The company can have today, it all depends on Ni Gong, I think he should be invited back...."

"I said a long time ago, you can't give up technology...."

In Beijing, Zhongguancun, South Road of the Academy of Sciences, in the sixth-floor conference room of Lenovo Group, countless people quarreled together.

Liu Chuanzhi sat at the front of the conference table, bowing his head and saying nothing.

The "Dimensity No. 1" chip developed by Infinity has historical significance for breaking the monopoly of the semiconductor market.

The moment the chip was successfully released, the whole country rejoiced!

How exciting!

And the biggest contributor to all this is Ni Guangnan, who he personally drove out a year ago!

Now even the Ministry of Science and Technology can't hold back and nominate him as a candidate for this year's Science and Technology Progress Award, and now newspapers and media are everywhere to publicize his deeds.

Anyone can see who this award will be awarded to if nominated so early?

However, none of this is the most important thing.

The most important thing is that their chips seem to have really been successfully developed, and they have made such great progress in just one year.

Experts from the Institute of Computer Science conducted an all-round test on the "Dimensity No. 1", and the performance of the chip greatly exceeded that of Intel, AMD, and those international chip giants.

There's no way to fake it.

It is foreseeable that the next step for Infinity will be to enter the whole machine market, and when the time comes, they will be the first to be impacted.

Because in recent years, Lenovo has given up the route of independent research and development since the transition from technology, industry and trade to trade, industry and technology, and has focused on building a computer brand.

In other words, except for the occasional design of computer cases and motherboards, which have no technical content, all the rest of the hardware equipment is purchased through other manufacturers and then assembled into a complete machine for sale.

Lenovo itself, without any core technology.

Infinity, on the other hand, has solved the most important core component of the computer - the CPU.

The rest of the motherboards, memory, hard disks, graphics cards, power supplies, these five essential accessories for computers, are not very complicated, and there are many manufacturers around the world that can make them.

If they enter the whole machine market, then Lenovo will definitely have a strong opponent.

Everyone quarreled for a long time, and seeing that Liu Chuanzhi had not spoken, they gradually quieted down, staring at each other with big eyes, all of them patiently waiting for him to speak.

Finally, Liu Chuanzhi spoke, and he said: "Li Gong, you can ask Intel in a while, can their Pentium 4 surpass in performance." ”

The middle-aged man named Li Gong nodded.

A person next to him interjected: "President, should we send someone to contact Infinity, it is best to take over their chip business, and then our whole machine can also use their chips..."

"Why are you so naïve! Let's not talk about whether they want to or not, we have just signed a five-year supply agreement with Intel, and if we use Infinity chips, the other party will definitely terminate the cooperation with us! ”

Liu Chuanzhi slapped the table and said angrily.

He understands the mentality of these people, but the current Lenovo Group has long been bound to those European and American manufacturers, and it is not easy to get out at all.

It's easy to give up on working with Intel, but it's definitely going to anger the other party.

Once they improve their processes and make better-performing chips, the little advantage that Infinity now has will evaporate.

At that time, Lenovo will fall into a dilemma, if you want to cooperate with Intel again, even if the other party agrees, I am afraid it will be a big blood.

So now, it is absolutely impossible to jump to conclusions.

Although he doesn't know how Infinity made the chips, he believes that the chip giants in the United States will definitely catch up at all costs.

Because the semiconductor industry is their absolute counter-scale.

Almost every electronic device is inseparable from semiconductors, including mobile phones, cars, refrigerators, air conditioners, various household appliances and so on.

Semiconductors in the United States

The scale of the industry is huge, and it directly contributes a lot of tax revenue to the United States, and those semiconductor companies employ more than 200,000 workers.

By supporting the expansion of the semiconductor industry, almost all other industries in the United States will benefit.

Whether it is the increased demand for semiconductor equipment, tools and materials, or the more stable supply of chips for downstream industries.

Semiconductor R&D, design, and manufacturing are all an integral part of the American economy.

Therefore, they will absolutely not allow anyone to threaten their position as the supremacy of semiconductors.

After figuring this out, his psychological pressure was relieved a lot.

As for inviting Ni Guangnan back, he would not do it easily unless he had to, otherwise he would be embarrassed?

A meeting, without a result, dispersed.

South China City, Infinity Corporate Headquarters.

Lin Zeju has just finished a reception and is currently discussing the specific details with Chen Weidong.

"Ah Wei, several domestic institutions have proposed to purchase a large number of our chips, do you think you should supply them first?"

"Come on, we're not thinking about this kind of business for now." Chen Weidong thought about it and directly rejected the request.

Others may think that state-owned enterprises and institutions procurement, profit margins are large, orders are stable, and they are the best quality customers, but he doesn't care about this small profit.

Their goal is the entire huge PC market.

At that time, if you can occupy a place, the profit will be calculated in hundreds of billions, or in dollars.

"Okay, but recently, some domestic computer accessories manufacturers have come to the door, hoping to reach cooperation with us." Lin Zeju nodded slightly, and said with a smile.

After the release of their chips, they immediately attracted domestic accessories manufacturers, and many people hoped to launch a 100% domestic personal computer.

"This can be considered, but we must tell them well, if we enter the whole machine market in the future, we will give priority to the use of their products, after all, they are all domestic, and everyone should take care of each other." Chen Weidong touched his chin and thought of what he was about to face.

They have preliminarily determined that they want to develop their own complete machine business.

The problem with the processor is solved, and all that remains is the problem with the motherboard and graphics card.

The motherboard doesn't have to worry about it, the motherboard of the Lenovo 286 microcomputer was designed by Ni Guangnan, and he already has enough design experience.

Only the graphics card is blind.

But in fact, the manufacturing of graphics cards is not complicated, and the complex is some of the core components above, such as the core part of the GPU (graphics processing unit).

GPU is also a kind of chip, and it is also necessary to talk about the process, and Nvidia is an absolute graphics card giant, and they use 180nm process technology.

In this respect, Infinity Inc. is not bad.

As long as you increase capital investment, repeated experiments, and after a period of technology accumulation, it is not a problem to make a qualified and usable graphics card.

As for some other computer accessories, he is not ready to intervene, but chooses to cooperate with domestic manufacturers and let them produce on their behalf.

Eating alone doesn't end well.

It is still a little difficult for them to rely on their own enterprises to stimulate the local economy.

The best way to promote domestic R&D is to appropriately distribute some profits to downstream suppliers, or to drive the technological upgrading of surrounding enterprises.

Subsequently.

The two talked for a while, and Lin Zeju went back to his office.

He still has a lot of things to deal with.

Infinity Company, as long as it is a staff member above the director level, has its own office, only Chen Weidong and Li Xier are two people working in the same office.

And Chen Weidong is also famous, all in order to better improve work efficiency.

Chapter 212: Semiconductor Overlord