Zhongguancun, in the sixth-floor conference room of Lenovo Group. @精华\/Shuge*First update~~

More than 200 key members of the group looked left and right, whispering, but they didn't think that it had only been a few months, and they were sitting together again.

And this time, the problem is much more serious.

The capital market has been the first to reflect it, and shareholders have sold off, and Lenovo Group's stock price has fallen 14%.

After the release of Infinity's Dimensity machine, it was a dimensionality reduction blow to the entire computer market.

Especially when it comes to exterior design.

Any brand of computer is miserable when compared together, dirty and bulky, and at least 20 years behind.

So much so that the Chinese people are now willing to spend more than 3,000 yuan to buy a Dimensity machine, and for their Lenovo computers, they have long been abandoned and are not considered.

"President, can we reduce the price and stabilize the market share first!" The head of the sales department raised his hand and expressed his opinion loudly.

There was an instant silence in the meeting room.

Liu Chuanzhi frowned, and after a while said, "Price reduction?" How much? Did you find it helpful? ”

"This...."

He asked several questions in a row, and directly left everyone speechless.

Now their Pentium 4 host market price is 8,000 yuan, even if it doesn't make money, the price is reduced to 5,000 yuan, isn't it just as competitive as an infinity company?

Even if it is the same price, the Chinese people will not choose theirs.

Many people in the group participated in the rush to buy the Dimensity machine of Infinity Company, and they couldn't put it down after getting it, and they couldn't imagine that the computer could be so "exquisite".

Especially the ultra-thin LCD monitor, when it is placed in the office, the temperament of the whole room has been improved by several grades!

No matter how reluctant they are to admit it, they have already acquiesced in their hearts, this is what they imagine high-tech products should look like.

"President, we have to think of a way, we can't go on like this, otherwise we Lenovo will face the risk of bankruptcy in less than a year!"

The engineer surnamed Li, who was sitting next to Liu Chuanzhi, had already panicked in his heart.

As the current chief engineer of Lenovo, he has only been in this position for a long time, and he did not expect that the company is already facing a major crisis.

And the one who defeated them was Ni Guangnan, who was driven out by them.

The outside world has already spread that they are illiterate and have given up such a talent in vain.

There are even some netizens who said that from the moment they gave up independent research and development.

Lenovo is no longer a national enterprise that people have expectations.

Even within the group, many employees secretly slandered themselves and felt that the president had made a mistake and made a wrong decision.

Liu Chuanzhi sat at the front of the conference table, his face was impassive, in fact, he regretted it in his heart, but he couldn't show it, because it would damage the majesty of his president.

After some careful consideration, he decided to take a multi-pronged approach to try to stabilize the market.

After years of ups and downs in the business world, he is not a small setback that can be defeated.

"The sales department, first reduce the price of the whole machine to our cost line."

"Li Gong, you go to contact Intel, explain the situation on our side to them, and be sure to let them reduce the price of the CPU again, otherwise we will lose the market, and they Intel will not want to be alone!"

"Also, Lao Wang, you go to contact the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Computer Science, let them talk to the subordinate units, and ask them to designate the purchase of Lenovo when replacing computer equipment, otherwise there will be no subsidy..."

....

At the meeting, Liu Chuanzhi put forward several measures in a row, which temporarily stabilized the hearts of the insiders.

However, after the meeting was disbanded, he hesitated and dialed a phone number....

Meanwhile.

Far across the ocean, Santa Clara, California, USA.

Intel's headquarters.

The conference room was silent and the atmosphere was very depressing.

It has been almost ten minutes since the meeting began, except for the opening, various material manufacturers and process departments have reported. (This chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 227: The Tide of Price Wars

R&D progress, no one spoke.

The venue fell into a deathly silence.

"Gentlemen, why don't you all speak?" Intel President Craig banged on the conference table, reminding sleepy vendor representatives to pay attention to the occasion.

"Ahem. _o_m "The representative of TSMC, seeing that the others did not speak, could only bite the bullet and say: "Mr. Craig, this cost control is a systematic project, it takes a certain amount of time, and we are ....."

"Time! Time! Craig interrupted his perfunctory speech angrily, "Will the Huaxia people give us this time?" How much effort did it take us to enter the Chinese market, and now we are directly defeated by a company that has only been established for a few years! ”

"So, I don't want to listen to your prevarication, but I want to get an accurate time, when exactly, in order to reduce the cost!"

The representative of TSMC is quite unreasonable to the president of Intel, and from the bottom of his heart, he can also understand it.

Who isn't in a hurry?

They are more anxious than Intel, because they are responsible for the production process of chips, and they have a lot of workers to feed, and now their chips are not selling, and they are already considering whether to cut some production lines.

He explained to the president of Intel with a sad face: "Mr. Craig, the channel of cost control is nothing more than to start from two aspects: internal management and hardware technology, but now, our internal management process has tapped the potential to the extreme. ”

"The problem lies in the hardware, in order to ensure the quality of the chip, we also use the same 158-nanometer manufacturing process as Infinity, of course, our technology is much more mature than theirs, but despite this, there are many problems."

"The main reason is that the processing difficulty and yield rate are too low, only reaching 30% of the yield rate!"

His words were sincere, and the manufacturers in the room couldn't help but nod their heads, indicating that they had indeed done their best.

However, Intel's president, Craig, didn't buy it, and he said angrily: "What the hell! You say that you have made your best efforts, but what about the Chinese people, reducing the cost? ”

He didn't say anything about the Huaxia people, everyone was fine, as soon as he said it, the whole conference room shouted excitedly.

The representative of AMD, who was closest to him, immediately exclaimed: "This is the most incredible part!" We learned some information from the side, Infinity is still using eight-inch wafers for processing, which is an order of magnitude different from our ten-inch wafer production line! ”

The representative of Nvidia also shouted: "Judging from the information analyzed by our engineers, their commercial processing technology is only at the level of 300 nanometers, but we obtained a computer of theirs through special channels and found that their CPU actually uses 150 nanometer technology!" ”

"Not bad! Our laboratory, dismantling their chips, found that the level of internal processing and packaging processes, is still very rough, which makes all scientists miserable! The representative of Qualcomm, who joined temporarily, also blushed and said.

"Judging from the internal structure of their chips, they used some kind of workaround technology to produce such a super-quality chip!"

"It stands to reason that they can produce such a piece, which is already very surprising, because they can't have such an advanced lithography machine!"

"But we disassembled several computers in a row and found that all the chips were like this!"

What's even more incredible is that the cost of this chip should be very high, but the price of their computer is only $600! It's like you're dreaming! ”。

Chapter 227: The Tide of Price Wars