Berlin, Germany.

The headquarters of the Iron Sheet Company.

A solemn and serious Gothic building, the bottom eight floors have been completed.

Although the climbing frame is still slowly rising, with the help of Kirov, it is enough to supply building materials from the air, and it does not affect the use of the floors below.

The office area originally set up in the podium was relocated upwards, and the vacated three-storey podium was used to display all the products of the Iron Sheet Company.

Including toys, semiconductors, XLED, new materials, processing and manufacturing machinery.

As well as hundreds of individual equipment, mechanical exoskeletons, motorized exoskeletons, aerodynamic war robots, mini kirovs - little sharks, terror robots - little spiders, remote control tanks - little weasels, mini V series rocket vehicles - sky monkeys.

March 18th coincided with the weekend.

Named 'Federation Building', the headquarters of the Iron Sheet Company, is open to the public.

The citizens who came to visit lined up like a long line, blocking the entire Wilhelm Street.

Today's eight states in northern Germany, under all kinds of propaganda, are deeply influenced by the 'iron-blooded prime minister, Foreman, and the ideology has undergone a huge change.

People advocate peace, but they are proud of the Iron Sheet Company's armament.

People worship freedom, but they are eager for the 'Iron Cross call-up'.

People advocate equality, but they look down on Denan more and more.

In particular, the products of the iron sheet company have been resold to all parts of Europe, and the people of Debei who have made money have greatly improved their quality of life. Boost your board of up across the

Plus backed by the Iron Cross, and the iron-blooded Prime Minister Forman's 'German supremacy, philosophy......

When the people of the eight northern states of Germany saw the people of Germany, they would even reprimand them loudly, and then walk, discuss, and do things with their heads held high.

This is true of the masses, of the police, of the army, and of the Berlin Parliament.

The Denan people, who had been excluded, finally realized what it meant to be 'inferior'.

Wealthy people moved to Berlin, those who didn't have money applied for welfare housing, and businesses followed with generous tax rates.

Berlin and the whole of Germany, the economy took off by leaps and bounds, allowing the world to witness what is called the "Foreman era."

And the people who lived in Foreman's time were happy, proud, proud, and not to be humiliated.

When people stand on the street, through the bus stop XLED prompt screen,

or stand in the square, through the XLED outdoor screen,

Or stand in the exhibition hall, through the large display, see the 'Wajima boycott iron company products, staged a scene of people and gods angry.

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The citizens of Berlin were immediately furious.

Against, protested, ***.

The incident soon swept through the eight states of northern Germany.

Foreman sat in the parliament building, looking down at the scene taking place outside the window, and motioned to his cronies to take more pictures, videos, and publicity.

Then he picked up the protest document that had been prepared a long time ago, looked up to the sky and sighed, "The public opinion is difficult!"

Immediately, an order was issued to impose similar sanctions on Wajima.

First of all, the Japanese enterprises in the eight states of northern Germany were seized, and then a series of products in high-tech fields were included in the prohibited list.

Including linear motors, optical materials, helium, medical equipment, armament technology......

….

In the eyes of many, Germany and Ushima have carved up the global equipment supply market in the field of processing and manufacturing.

But in reality, Wajima focuses on semiconductors and microcontrol.

The processing and manufacturing equipment produced by it is mainly exported to the East, and uses the cost performance to compete with Siemens.

In this process, due to the influence of the arrangement mechanism, Wajima cannot export high-end, but can only export low-end.

Germany, on the other hand, is responsible for the supply of high-precision equipment to NATO, Europe, and even the world.

In other words, North America does not worry about Wajima and does not let the other side

Master the manufacturing foundation of high-precision processing and manufacturing equipment.

If Wajima exceeds the 'limit' in some places, it will carry out dimensionality reduction strikes, such as the semiconductor agreement signed in '86.

Therefore, if Wajima wants to manufacture semiconductor equipment or high-precision industrial equipment, it needs to import advanced motors and drill bits from Germany and North America.

In this case, Washima will lose supply from Germany in the manufacturing process, and related industries will come to a standstill.

Including high-precision equipment, semiconductors, microelectronics, biotechnology.

So, when Foreman's resolution came out, there was a global uproar.

Wall Street tycoons, faced with all this, understand that 'Renip Fly, has already done it.

Xu's stock trading method is no secret.

This time, Wajima Industrial has been hit hard, and related stocks will definitely plummet, including Wajima stocks, Wajima currency market, and Wajima foreign exchange market, which will also fall.

The high-tech industries of Wajima are restricted, and similar American companies are about to usher in a large number of orders.

However, due to the high cost of products of American companies, it will soon lead to the price of memory, graphics cards, chips, and computer electronics......

All technology products will rise in price, and the market value of companies listed on the NASDAQ will definitely rise, and the NASDAQ index will skyrocket with it.

So, Wall Street tycoons, in order to snipe 'Renip Fly, entered the market early, shorted the Wadao financial market, and went long on the Nasdaq.

The other side.

Romney was secretly relieved to see Wall Street move.

No matter how good the studio is, it is impossible to blatantly fight against Wall Street, so it can only throw three big cakes first to attract the attention of the other party, and then take advantage of it to steal the small cake.

That is, short SoftBank.

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Osawa Power.

Iron Sheet Company Workshop Office.

Xu Fei and the major shareholder of the 3DFX graphics card company sat side by side in the camellia room, enjoying the micro cartoons broadcast at 6 p.m. ~ 7 p.m. every day.

3DFX is the top graphics card manufacturer in the home planet, and it is also the only company that can threaten Nvidia's position.

As for AMD and ati, they were all small factories during this period.

3dfx's main products include Voodoo series graphics cards, 3D chips, and Glide application interfaces.

The masterpieces it supports include Tomb Raider, Need for Speed, and Mjolnir.

It's a pity that last year, due to an inexplicable lawsuit, it lost to Nvidia and was fully acquired by the other party at a price of 70 million US dollars and 1 million shares.

Of course, when the major shareholder came to the door, it was natural that the deal was not concluded.

And the reason why the other party came to the door is also very simple, TEP's United Defense needs a high-end military-grade graphics card, and thinks 3dfx is very suitable.

James personally led the TEP emergency rescue team, stormed the Nvidia headquarters, killed a dozen rioters, and found the imprisoned majority shareholder of 3dfx and numerous minority shareholders.

….

Business wars, it's that simple.

Otherwise, how could 3DFX be acquired by 70 million US dollars with a market value of four or five billion.

However, in order to save money, United Defense did not acquire 3DFX, but issued a license to the other party as a downstream partner of a defense supplier, and held a 30% stake.

In this way, it is equivalent to United Defense to help 3DFX watch the market, and the latter pays 30% of the income.

Xu Fei picked up the teacup, took a sip of Qinghuo tea, and said leisurely.

"You may not know that the relationship between the Iron Sheet Company and TEP is very complicated, at least the chairman of my family, Forman, is so bitter about Strauss that he almost killed the other party."

"But I've worked with James and we've always had a good relationship, and I recommended him to Foreman, and he helped me a lot."

"Now that James has asked you to come to talk about OEM, especially the world's most advanced 3DFX-Voodoo 5 series, it's hard for me to do it."

3DFX's major shareholders spread out the papers

"Director Xu can rest assured that 3dfx is a mature graphics card manufacturer, we can provide a full set of technical support, and we can also arrange personnel to be stationed in TEP Vocational and Technical College to train a group of supporting talents for the development of follow-up series. We now just need production, enough production, including Voodoo 2 generation, 3 generation."

"Win by quantity?"

"It's a no-brainer, we have to take advantage of enough market stock to retain Glide's API partners, otherwise they turn to NVIDIA and we will soon lose the market completely."

Xu Fei doesn't understand graphics cards, and the hardware devices and drivers of his own display devices are all designed by scientific researchers in Kodak's LED department, at least running the reloading mechanic is no problem.

According to his vision, the graphics card is nothing more than a 'cache graph,' a dense array of lamp beads, fast reading, and a buffer.

The larger the cache, the faster the buffering, the faster the read speed, and the smoother the frame by frame picture, the better the performance of the graphics card.

This is directly related to cache granularity.

In other words, Xu Fei believes that the more advanced the memory particles, the better the graphics card.

However, the scientific researchers of Keda LED told him that there are other technologies such as API, SLI, and dual-card firefight for graphics cards.

As well as 3D effects such as hardware fogging, specular highlights, chroma key transparency, A-transparency blending, jitter processing, perspective correction, anti-aliasing, etc.

For example, the industrial microcomputer being designed, which only presents 10% of the effect of XLED, will exert 200% of the effect of XLED if the 3dfx solution is adopted.

Like the power bank launched before, if you use a Voodoo mobile graphics card, the picture quality will be improved by 300%.

So, United Defense grabbed 3DFX.

Well, from now on, we will never use money to solve things that can be solved with money.

But its own actions seem to be a step slower, because Nvidia has just launched DirtX 5.0, and 3dfx is no longer the dominant level.

Xu Fei hesitated for a long time again, and finally agreed to the OEM of 3DFX.

This is directly related to shorting SoftBank.

Shorting SoftBank, for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is Director Xu to help take revenge.

For Romney, it's Rainey that makes money again.

For the iron company, it is to first anti-monopoly on Wajima, and then boycott its own products, and make a counterattack.

However, for their own camp, the high-tech field of Wajima has been impacted, the rapid rise of American companies, and the overall appreciation of the North American semiconductor industry have generated greater market competition.

Just as General Motors went to the East to find foundry, General Electric went to the East to find OEM, and even Wajima enterprises have increased the construction of Foxconn......

….

It means that many semiconductor companies have become a trend to build factories in the East or look for foundry companies.

3DFX was the first to eat crabs.

'For the rise of the flower planter, I racked my brains and died with all my might. ，

Xu Fei called the big secretary and found the professionals of Kodak LED controllers to sign the OEM business of many graphics cards with 3dfx.

Including the most advanced Voodoo5 series, the Voodoo2 series, which once established the supremacy of 3dfx, and the Voodoo3 series, which represents the rise of 3dfx.

Then I went to the underground branch of TEP Computer Services to exchange the relevant production lines.

And by exchanging different electronic components, Xu Fei finally figured out the principle of 'advanced graphics cards'.

It is nothing more than a built-in processor that prioritizes the stored graphs in advance and then passes them to the display.

The process is as follows: hard disk→ CPU→ graphics processor, GPU→ framebuffer memory→ controller→ display.

In other words, it has played such a big role with just one more GPU than its own original production line.

And GPUs, similar to CPUs, can't be built in-house.

Because it is based on ARM embedded technology, it is manufactured

PLC Collaborative Controller.

Xu Fei thought of General Electric, which had just swapped markets with his family and was in charge of high-end manufacturing.

"Crooked? Brother Welch, business is coming to the door."

"Please."

"The German Iron Sheet Company has commissioned your company to produce a 128n range lithography machine."

「……」

"What, no?"

"We are an electrical industry, not a semiconductor company."

"Isn't it, you General Electric are so good that you can't build a lithography machine?"

"You can ask us to OEM 'peace-class missiles, but we really can't build lithography machines."

"Okay, you help me OEM 10 little boy-equivalent peace-class missiles, money is not a problem."

"All ......

Xu Fei looked at the phone that was hung up, very unhappy, "Wait, the Large Particle Collider project, you chose the first set of self-developed solutions, and when I turn around, I will continue to make a large number of new materials, so that you cry and shout and beg me to change the second set of plans, and then I will hang up the phone!"

"But the question is, where to get a lithography machine."

Xu Fei pondered for a long time and found the old senior of the Academy of Social Sciences.

The other party told that the most advanced lithography machine in their camp is 300N, which does not meet the 128N range of 3DFX.

In addition, there are many kinds of lithography machines, and the i-line photoresist used by the company is 300N365nm, which is used for 6-inch ~ 8-inch wafers.

At present, the world's cutting-edge CPU manufacturing process uses deep ultraviolet DUV photoresist, and the process is 100~193n for 12-inch wafers.

There is a difference of three generations between the two sides, about 15 years.

Fortunately, the old seniors kindly reminded that although the lithography machine business of Zeiss in Germany was robbed by Nikon, ASML, etc., Zeiss Optics can also manufacture lithography machines.

Xu Fei immediately contacted Foreman.

I never thought that Zeiss belonged to the eight states of Germany, headquartered in Munich, and like Siemens, it was the backbone of the opposition to Foreman.

Then Foreman asked rhetorically.

"Why don't you use Kodak for lithography machines?"

"Kodak will build lithography machines?"

"You don't know about lithography machines?"

"I don't understand."

"Lithography machine, to put it bluntly, in terms of global technology, who has Kodak Niubi?"

「？？？」

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"It's like you cut a piece of paper, and then use light to imprint its shadow onto another piece of paper, and then keep branding, these mass-produced things, which are wafers, and then cut and package, and make pieces of CPU.

In order to improve and process the printing technology, Kodak even used the reactor, and the technology it holds is unique.

And we are good at finishing, with nano-level carving knives, cutting a 'mask', naturally no problem, plus many electronic components, to form a lithography machine...... No, we don't have an optical lab, so we can't make optical components."

Xu Fei was originally enthusiastic when he heard it, and it was like pouring cold water on it when he heard it.

Foreman continues: "However, I was approached by ZEISS Optics to purchase a polishing robot to achieve atomic precision for the lens components, which we can do."

"What do you mean?"

"While putting pressure on Zeiss, I talked to the other party about cooperation, and then supported Zeiss to build a lithography machine, let's OEM some of the components in the lithography machine, and when the other party builds a lithography machine, let's just take one?"

"It makes sense, in the way of OEM, the friends who can manufacture lithography machine parts, one by one, and so on, we can manufacture all the parts of the lithography machine, if our camp is sanctioned by others, we will make the world unable to build lithography machines."

After Xu Fei finished speaking, "But we still don't have a lithography machine now."

"You arranged for Kodak's personnel to come to Germany, and I am now planning to cooperate with Zeiss Optics, with Kodak's technology and our precision manufacturing, Zeiss's lithography machine can leap to the forefront of the world, and I will definitely agree to move the headquarters to Berlin."

Wait for that

As long as we build the lithography machine design plan quickly, it is estimated that the first prototype can be made before May, and then transferred to Daze to manufacture 3DFX graphics cards."

Xu Fei thought about it, and felt that it could only be like this, "Medium!"

"However, foundry semiconductors can't be mixed with Daze Power, right?"

"Don't worry, I've been ready to rebuild the factory on the west side of the highway, called the West Factory, and in the future, Daze Power will call the East Factory."

"So, I'm Jinyiwei?"

「？？？」

Xu Fei was slightly stunned, and suddenly reacted, only to find that the phone was hung up again.

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