"Professor, the most important reason why we set such a low price for the bird is that we want to achieve national production on 130nm chips.

At least one or two nationally produced production lines should be able to run. Zhou Xin said.

By the time the Birdfinch and Bird were released, it was already 2005, and there wasn't much time left until 2008.

And from all sides, Zhou Xin can realize that the shackles are tightening.

In the past six months, Xinxin has recruited doctors who are particularly easy to recruit, and it is very difficult for them to recruit Chinese semiconductor-related doctors who want to study abroad.

Even if these doctors come to Xinxin, they are thinking about accumulating experience in major foreign chip factories before coming to Xinxin, and almost no one wants to come back as soon as they graduate.

However, in the past six months, Xinxin has recruited a lot of PhDs in related fields from universities in Europe and Ameriken, and the fundamental reason is that external semiconductor-related companies are gradually tightening the number of offers to international students.

Especially in the field of lithography machines, Xinxin recently recruited a doctor in the field of integrated circuits from ETH Zurich, and he thought that he performed very well after interviewing an upstream and downstream supply chain enterprise of lithography machines in the Netherlands.

The result was still a refusal, and he was later unconvinced, and only after a private chat with the interviewer through the mentor relationship did he know that the shareholder behind this company was TSMC, and TSMC made it clear that they could not recruit Chinese students.

This information was also revealed by the employee and Guan Jianying when Xinxin was engaged in new employee training, and then passed to Zhou Xin's ears.

There are many similar incidents.

Although with the gradual rise of the mobile Internet and the hot sale of Bluetooth chips around the world, Xinxin has become an influential enterprise in the industry.

However, Xinxin's influence and advantage are in the field of mobile chip design, and Xinxin has no advantage in lithography machines.

With that doctor's background, it would be better to stay in Europe or go to Silicon Valley than to come to Xinxin, but he finally chose to come to Xinxin.

In the past six months, there have been many doctors with similar backgrounds who have come to Xinxin.

For example, the Dutch company rejected Chinese students, saying that it was the meaning of TSMC, the shareholder behind it, but Zhou Xin didn't know whether it was the meaning of Ameriken Capital behind TSMC or the meaning of Zhang Zhongmou.

The rapid rise of Xinxin, the integration of Huaguo's chip manufacturing resources, and the large-scale production in the Lion City have made TSMC feel very pressure.

Xinxin is different from other competitors, he is more similar to Samsung, one Samsung has already made TSMC feel the pressure, and now another Samsung is coming.

Even Samsung, which has more potential in the field of consumer electronics.

If it is Zhang Zhongmou's personal idea to take this way to curb the development of Xinxin in the field of chips, then Zhou Xin thinks it's okay.

To put it bluntly, he thinks that Chinese students working overseas will return to China sooner or later, and there is a high probability that they will work for Xinxin, so he wants to reduce the talent level of Xinxin from the source.

If it is instructed by Americ Capital, Zhou Xin believes that this is a pre-signal, and the time point for Americ to take measures in the field of chips in the future may be advanced.

Therefore, even if the Yanque chip is not profitable, it must run up the volume and give the domestic production line time.

In the future, Huawei's mate60 is no problem with domestic production, but the equipment inside is still ASML, including upstream and downstream raw materials, and there are many that cannot be replaced by domestic production.

In 2005, it was different, the 130nm technical requirements were not so high, and many raw materials could be provided in China, which was nothing more than the accuracy of the poor and the low yield rate of the manufactured products, which were the costs that needed to be borne in the initial stage.

If there is no enterprise to bear this cost, the upstream and downstream enterprises of Huaguo Semiconductor will never have the opportunity to really get involved in the production process.

Zhou Xin's sources and Hu Zhengming are almost synchronous, and even because of his large network of connections in Ameriken, Hu Zhengming's news is even more well-informed than Zhou Xin.

Zhou Xin's other sources are mainly Washington and Wall Street, because he has money and resources, and these places need to agree with him, so they will provide him with all kinds of resources.

On the other hand, Bush won the 2004 election.

Zhou Xin had a long conversation with Bill Gates before leaving Ameriken, and in this long conversation, he mentioned Weibo, the election, and Microsoft's position:

"Bill, you should know why I chose to sell Microsoft."

Bill Gates laughed: "Of course, both Kerry and Bush will put pressure on you."

After Microsoft acquired Weibo, they also put pressure on Microsoft. ”

Zhou Xin asked: "So Microsoft intends to favor Kerry?" ”

Bill Gates shook his head repeatedly: "It seems that you believe the rumors that the media said that I am a consistent supporter of the candidate of the Donkey Party."

However, this rumor is true, and I do personally prefer the political views of the Donkey Party.

But Microsoft is not.

If you've stayed at Microsoft back then, and you've been around for a long time when you've become a Microsoft executive, roughly at the level of a vice president, you'll know that Microsoft has had a political action committee for many years to donate to candidates, political parties, and local bodies.

The action committee is made by a board of directors, and in the 1998, 2000 and 2002 elections, we donated more to the Elephant Party candidates than the Donkey Party.

In 2000, donations to the Elephant Party were even 1.5 times that of the Donkey Party.

Personally, I'm biased towards the Donkey Party, but Microsoft is biased towards the Elephant Party.

In return for the success of the investment, after the Elephant Party entered the White House, Bush helped Microsoft drop the antitrust complaint and agreed to settle with Microsoft, and Microsoft also avoided the fate of being cut. ”

To be honest, not an industry insider, I don't know about this stubble at all.

The media always plays up that Microsoft supports the Donkey Party, Bill Gates supports the Donkey Party, and Bill Gates thinks that the Golden Retriever is a saboteur.

But 20 years ago, Microsoft was a supporter of the Elephant Party, and the speculative success of 2000 was inextricably linked to Microsoft's avoidance of being broken up.

"So Microsoft will also support the Elephant Party this time?"

"I don't know, I'm no longer on Microsoft's board of directors, but from what I know about them, it's impossible for Microsoft to lean toward one side in terms of media traffic, at most it's leaning toward the party in terms of donations."

After Microsoft's acquisition of Weibo, it did open up more advertising features, and both Bush and Kerry advertised on Weibo.

This has also made all traditional media realize the power of microblogging.

Everyone has an advantage, which means that everyone has no advantage.

Coupled with the fact that Kerry's speech on Weibo is too flat and lacks explosive points, it gives people a sense of tedium, so the new voters he has attracted through Weibo are far less than the sincere Bush.

In 2004, Bush won even more clearly than the original plane.

Of course, not long after Bush was elected, there was news in Washington that he was going to split Weibo, because no reason has been found, so it is just a rumor.

Back in Zhangjiang in 2005, Hu Zhengming got the news from his Silicon Valley counterparts that almost all semiconductor-related companies had tightened their authority to issue offers to Chinese students.

Unless the international student is very good and has a reason to do so, it will be a hassle to apply for a work visa after being hired.

"I will arrange that in the past three years, we have invested in many upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain through the joint venture fund established with Shenhai Science and Technology Investment.

What we need to do now is to sort out, screen out the domestic suppliers at key nodes in the production process, and then schedule them with them.

When to intervene in the production process.

Regarding the construction of two 130nm production lines in Shudu, construction began last year and is expected to be officially put into operation next month.

Those two production lines are specially prepared for domestic substitution. ”

Even if it is 130nm produced in the country, Zhou Xin wants to keep it as secret as possible, it is too easy to leak secrets in Shenhai, and they chose Shudu when they chose the site last year.

The semiconductor industry in Shudu is developing rapidly, and Unison, a Malaysian chip packaging and testing factory, only invested $210 million to build a factory in Shudu last year.

SMIC, PSI in the Philippines, and Xinyuan of Ameriken invested 210 million, 175 million and 20 million US dollars respectively to build factories in Shudu.

Recently, I talked about Intel, and Intel wants to invest 3.7 billion RMB to build a factory in Shudu.

Therefore, it is not particularly abrupt for Xinxin to build a factory in Shudu, and it is also to build two 130nm production lines.

For Shudu, they also wish that Xinxin could come, and they want to develop the semiconductor industry.

The factory invested by Xinxin in Shudu is 70% owned by Shudu state-owned capital, and 30% is invested by Xinxin. In addition, the lithography machine used in it will also adopt the new core lithography machine, which is the benefit of multi-field operation.

When Zhou Xin was arranging the 130nm national production line, Xiaomi released its first generation of smartphones, and Xiaomi's pricing from 1,1799 yuan instantly detonated the entire consumer market.

"Damn, Xiaomi is indeed the king of cost performance, who can do it with a smart phone under 2,000 yuan?"

"Originally, I wanted to wait for Nokia's N97, and the domestic media has been touting that Nokia's N97 to be launched in the middle of this year will help Nokia return as the king in the field of smartphones.

Now there is 1799 yuan of millet, what more bicycles. ”

"I estimate that the price of Xiaomi's anniversary celebration can be reduced, and they will also issue coupons at that time, and the price will most likely be reduced to below 1500 yuan.

Do you wait until the rice noodle festival or buy it now? ”

"What more bicycle do you need in 1799? Is this something you should be thinking about? At this price, you can grab and add 200 yuan to change hands and go out casually.

Oh no, you'd better wait for the rice noodle festival, don't grab it from me. ”

"Every time I see Xiaomi release a new product, I remember that I spent 6000 yuan to buy a Lenovo notebook in the computer city when I first entered college, and I spent 6000 yuan to enjoy a 3000 yuan product.

Later, when Xiaomi released the Xiaomi computer, I went to the store, and they also said that 6,000 yuan can buy a product worth 3,000 yuan, which is already very worthwhile, and I can get a product worth 2,000 yuan at most when I change stores.

I am really grateful to Xiaomi for being able to bring down these profiteers. ”

"This is the Internet economy, which eliminates the information asymmetry in the consumption link as much as possible."

"Mr. Xin is still kind, you don't think I don't have money, I don't think you have many faults, it's a two-way rush."

"Although Xiaomi computer accessories are produced in China, the early failure rate is indeed a little higher, but Xiaomi after-sales is OK, if you have a fault, they will replace it for you, change to other brands, and you have to pay hundreds of dollars to repair it."

After the launch of Xiaomi's 1799 yuan smartphone, domestic mobile phones at the price of 1500 yuan to 2500 yuan were instantly gone.

The sales volume can be described as halved.

Foreign brands at this price may still have sporadic room to survive, after all, some consumers want to buy foreign brands, but domestic machines are bound to die.

TCL and Bird took the lead in starting large-scale promotional activities, almost the next day, Bird began to reduce the price of all products at this price, directly to about 1000 yuan, in order to ship as soon as possible, and all the functional machines on the handle were cleared.

Technology media like Zhongguancun Online seem to have smelled a breaking point and began to hype up the news of Xiaomi mobile phones.

"Originally, everyone thought that the biggest attraction of this year's mobile phone industry would be Nokia's so-called new phone king N97, challenging the hegemony of Mphone2 at a price of more than 5,000 yuan.

According to the renderings released by Nokia's official Weibo, Nokia N97 is full of futurism, adopting a completely different design language from Nokia's past, and also using the latest technology of Texas Instruments at the chip level.

But before Nokia launched the N97 to challenge the Mphone, Xiaomi took the lead in setting off a fierce battle in the mobile phone market in 2005.

A 3.5-inch screen with a 16:9 aspect ratio, 16 million colors, 640×360 pixels.

Xiaomi Mi 1 and Mi 1 Pro are equipped with the latest Yanque chip and Honghu chip of Xinxin Technology respectively, which can support almost all current mainstream applications, and can also perfectly support the current mainstream mobile games.

What's more important is the price, the price of Xiaomi Mi 1 starts at 1799 yuan, the price of Xiaomi Mi 1 pro starts at 2399 yuan, and the same price as the feature phone, but you can enjoy a smartphone equipped with the latest 3G technology, the latest Bluetooth chip and a series of advanced technologies.

As a user of Mphone's in-depth experience, it is no exaggeration to say that Xiaomi Mi 1 at least simulates more than 7 percent of the experience of Mphone2, and the price is less than one-third of that of Mphone2.

It is no wonder that the new person in charge of Xiaomi mobile phones will say at the Xiaomi mobile phone press conference that Xiaomi 1 is far ahead of its friends.

This is probably not good news for Lenovo, which wants to use its rich experience in the field of personal PCs to make a big impact on smartphones.

For friends, it is necessary to consider the pricing of new products launched this year, once the pricing strategy is wrong, it will usher in a devastating blow.

At the same time, the emergence of Xiaomi Mi 1 and Xiaomi Mi 1 Pro is definitely a good thing for consumers, and the wave of the so-called mobile Internet has been seen in the media and seen various mobile Internet applications emerging in Silicon Valley.

However, there were very few smartphones on the market before, and only a few large manufacturers such as Matrix, Motorola, and Nokia sold smartphones, and the prices were extremely high.

Now the release of Xiaomi mobile phones gives consumers a good reason to change their mobile phones and experience the mystery of mobile Internet. ”

Almost immediately after the release of the Xiaomi phone, Lenovo adjusted their strategic plan.

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