Li Yunhai spoke, and at the same time got up to greet the door.

Standing in the secretary's room stood Li Jiacheng and his assistant.

Li Yunhai took two steps forward, shook hands with Li Jiacheng, and said, "Mr. Li, please inside." ”

He instructed Su Hong again: "Make good tea." ”

At this time, Zhu Lin and Gong Jie came over together.

The two of them lived in a hotel near the company with Su Hong and others, and yesterday they also participated in the Red Pavilion Conference as executives of Sihai Group, and they were also helping to deal with work in the evening.

Li Yunhai said to them: "Today's work will be handed over to the people of the company, you can go to Xiangjiang for a visit!" ”

Zhu Lin saw that Li Yunhai was busy with work, so he didn't bother and went out with Gong Jie.

Li Yunhai turned around and returned to the office and sat on the hospitality sofa with Li Jiacheng.

"The share price of Sihai Group rose to 70 yuan at the close of trading yesterday." Li Jiacheng said, "Mr. Li, you can consider issuing additional shares to increase the company's market value." With the current strength of your company, it is not a problem for the total market value to rise to 450 billion Hong Kong dollars. ”

Li Yunhai didn't know what was the purpose of Li Jiacheng's coming here to talk about this matter with him?

"We will also consider the issue of additional shares." Li Yunhai smiled slightly, "Mr. Li, regarding the land in Causeway Bay, we developed it ourselves, and we didn't ask you for cooperation. I beg your pardon. ”

Li Jiacheng said: "There are many opportunities for this kind of cooperation. I have a plot of land in Mong Kok, and if you want to work together, we can develop it together. ”

Li Yunhai was surprised, and he didn't know what Li Jiacheng's purpose was for developing this land together?

Lack of money? Short on funds?

That's impossible.

There can be no love in the world for no reason, and it is impossible for people to be good to themselves for no reason.

Sure enough, Li Jiacheng's next words were the purpose of his visit: "Mr. Li, we can carry out more extensive cooperation between us, I can invest in your company, and as soon as the news of the cooperation between the two of us comes out, the stock prices of both will rise." ”

Li Yunhai asked, "How can we cooperate with each other?" ”

Li Jiacheng said: "To be honest, I am very optimistic about the project you developed in Beijin. ”

Li Yunhai suddenly realized and said, "You are talking about the Sihai Square project. ”

Li Jiacheng said: "Yes, that's the project, I took the land in Mong Kok and cooperated with you to develop it, and you accounted for 49%. In that project you have in Beijin, I have a 49% stake. This is a beneficial cooperation for both of us, taking advantage of this opportunity, you can issue additional shares, and the market value of your company can be directly doubled. ”

I have to say that Li Jiacheng is still very sincere, he not only exchanged projects for projects, but also helped Li Yunhai plan the development prospects of the stock market.

Li Jiacheng said: "Mr. Li, my land in Mong Kok has 50,000 square meters, you can build two buildings, you can also build a commercial plaza, and now it is still under consideration, if you are willing, this must be a good thing for win-win cooperation." ”

Li Yunhai nodded and said, "Thank you Mr. Li for your trust in me, and I also hope to work with Mr. Li on the project." I wonder if Mr. Li is interested in the office equipment business of our Sihai Group? ”

Li Jiacheng said: "I'm old and don't know about these emerging things, so I don't dare to rush into the industry. I'm interested in traditional industries. However, I am very optimistic about the telecommunications industry. ”

Li Yunhai said: "What about our cooperation in the development of telecommunications business?" ”

Li Jiacheng asked, "What kind of business?" Domestic telecommunications? It doesn't seem to be open, right? ”

Li Yunhai said: "I mean, we can invest in the future telecommunications industry, foreign mobile phones are very popular, and China's Lingnan Province has also begun to introduce mobile phones, which is commonly known as Big Brother in Xiangjiang." We are now setting up a communications company, starting from the most basic telecommunications business, and we will definitely achieve great things in the future. ”

He talked about him left and right, but he never mentioned the cooperation between the two companies in real estate.

Li Jiacheng said: "Domestic telecommunications? Foundation? I really don't understand, I'll have to think about it. Mr. Li, can you agree with the two projects I just mentioned? ”

Li Yunhai said: "I am very optimistic about the future real estate development of Xiangjiang and Beijin, our two families exchange like this, to be honest, no one suffers, but is this necessary?" You do yours, I do mine, isn't it right? ”

Li Jiacheng understood and said, "Okay, then there will be a chance to cooperate again in the future." ”

He got up, shook Li Yunhai's hand, and left.

Li Yunhai sent him outside the door.

When we were talking just now, Su Hong had been listening to the side, and after Li Jiacheng left, she asked, "Mr. Li, what does he mean by this?" ”

Li Yunhai smiled: "It's obvious! The income of my project in Beijin is definitely higher than that of his project in Mong Kok. That's why he's willing to trade with me. As for me, naturally I don't want to. ”

Su Hong said: "But what he said is also reasonable, if the two companies cooperate, our company's shares will definitely rise." ”

Li Yunhai said with a smile: "If I don't cooperate with him, our stock market will also rise!" ”

Su Hong smiled: "It's still Mr. Li who is wise." ”

Li Yunhai said: "Businessmen, no profit can not be early, I can understand." ”

At that moment, the phone in the office rang.

Li Yunhai answered the phone.

Lin Zhi's anxious voice came: "Yunhai, my aunt called me just now and said something big!" ”

Li Yunhai was stunned: "What's the matter?" Don't worry, speak slowly. ”

Lin Zhi said: "My aunt said that Intel wants to tighten the X86 authorization, except for their own company, all the authorizations will be cut off!" I don't know what this news means! Does it affect us? Anyway, my aunt is in a hurry, do you want to make a phone call and talk to my aunt? I'll tell you the phone number from her hotel room. ”

Li Yunhai looked at the time, it happened to be night over there, and said, "Okay, I know." ”

When he hung up, his brows furrowed.

Unexpectedly, the time to come has finally come!

And it came so quickly and violently!

If Intel cuts off all X86 licenses, it means that Li Yunhai can no longer produce chips based on Intel's X86 architecture!

The lithography machine purchased by Sihai Group has become a pile of scrap iron.

The most terrifying thing is that Sihai Group will have no cores available.

Of course, he can ask Intel to order chips.

In order to make money, people will definitely sell to him.

But he has to rely on Intel to eat.

Moreover, Sihai Group has just received so many PC production orders, if there is no independent chip production, and there is no chip from Intel in a hurry, then Li Yunhai will not be able to complete the delivery of so many orders as scheduled!

This is a contract!

During the contract period, if Li Yunhai fails to deliver on time, then he will face the most severe compensation!

Li Yunhai felt a little dizzy in his brain!

He calmed down and thought about what to do.

Sihai Group's self-developed chip must not be installed and used, because this chip is still two generations away from Intel's chip!

With domestic chips?

The performance of domestic chips is also one or two generations worse!

What to do?

Now there is only one way for Li Yunhai to negotiate with Intel and strive to win the permanent authorization.

Li Yunhai called Lin Xiaofeng.

Lin Xiaofeng seemed to have been waiting for Li Yunhai's call, and soon answered it.

"Sea of Clouds!" Lin Xiaofeng was so anxious that her words trembled!

Lin Zhi didn't know the importance of this matter, but Lin Xiaofeng knew it!

"Auntie, it's me!" Li Yunhai said calmly, "Don't worry, let's find a way to solve this matter as soon as possible." If you negotiate with Intel, you must get their X86 license. ”

"It's hard! Now Intel is bent on tightening the mandate, and we simply don't have a chance! ”

"It's man-made!"

"What if they don't give us the mandate?"

"If you can't get it, then ask them to order 386 chips, and order 300,000 pieces first!"

"Their selling price is very high, you know, the price is more than ten times that of our own chips, and if we import them, we have to pay very heavy tariffs! So where is the cost performance of our computers? We have received so many orders, the price is so low, if there is no profit in the chip side, our computers, not at a loss, it is good! ”

"Auntie, we don't have time to think about making money right now! It's about how to keep these orders and keep these customers! If we can't deliver the order on time, we won't make money, and we can lose money and lose our money! As long as customers still trust us, as long as customers are still there, our generation of computers does not make money, and can earn back from the next generation of computers. The 486 and 586 computers are about to be launched, and the money we lose on the 386 computers will be earned later! ”

"Okay, Yunhai, then I'll go to Intel headquarters tomorrow to negotiate. I don't know what kind of conditions they have now! ”

"That's good, after you arrive, negotiate with them first, if they offer conditions that we can't accept, don't refuse on the spot, you must contact me later, and then you reply to them! Don't forget that no matter what conditions they offer, don't say no to them first! This is the only way out of this, no matter how difficult it is, we can only go on. ”

"How long will it take for our self-developed chips to be used?"

"I don't know, it's possible to be two years fast, 20 years to be slow!"

"Huh? In this way, our self-developed chips are still unreliable? ”

"Unreliable!" Li Yunhai said decisively, "I will give you three directions for negotiation, one is to strive for permanent authorization, the second is to strive for a short-term authorization of several years, and the third is that there is no choice, order 300,000 chips from them, and they must be delivered within two months!" ”

"Okay, I see. How much is the right amount of this authorization? I don't know. You give me a bottom. ”

Li Yunhai thought for a while and said, "I don't have a bottom in my heart. Intel is tightening authorization, and we are going to authorize it at this time, just afraid that they will be able to offer a sky-high price! Anyway, you go ask first! ”

Li Yunhai put down the phone, took out a cigarette and smoked.

Now the international chip war has reached the decisive moment.

Since the 80s, under the aggressive offensive of Toyo chip companies, the chip companies in the United States have been powerless to parry. Even with the help of the "Semiconductor Agreement" and the "Plaza Agreement", the United States did not save the rout of the chip industry in the end. Under the crazy attack of the Oriental "pricing will always be 10% lower", Intel was unable to fight back, and its memory market share plummeted, reaching 10% at the lowest, and the market share of the latest new memory was even less than 1%.

The process of strategic turning is quite brutal!

In 1986, Intel closed seven of its eight factories, laid off 7,200 employees, and lost more than $170 million. It was also the only loss Intel has experienced since going public.

While exiting the memory business, Intel invested $300 million in research and development to build the 80386 microprocessor. The 386 was Intel's first 32-bit processor, which was 3 times faster than the 16-bit processor 286 and compatible with the latter, and it also had the ability to multitask, that is, it could run several programs at the same time.

Intel, who learned from the pain, decided to shrink the authorization of X86 chips, in order to exterminate all external chip manufacturers, one dominant!

They did this for a better survival, otherwise, Intel would probably die under the chip war of the Orientals.

It's just that the lithography machines and technologies that Li Yunhai purchased at the beginning came from Nikon.

Now Intel wants to strangle Toyo's company, which will hurt the pond fish and hurt Li Yunhai.

Li Yunhai had also approached Intel for a permanent license before, but the other party did not agree.

Because when Li Yunhai entered the chip market, it was just when Intel made a strategic change!

Li Yunhai thought that Intel would not have time to take care of a small business like himself, but he didn't expect the other party to start cutting across the board so quickly and no longer give anyone a chance!

A vote of compatible processor manufacturers, including AMD, made Intel very angry, because the deal with IBM back then made a lot of legal gaps in the patent of the x86 architecture to be exploited.

In the past, the authorization of other manufacturers was through AMD.

But now even AMD has been sued by Intel and cannot properly own the license of the x86 architecture!

As for the authorization of other manufacturers, they will be deprived!

The patent right is in the hands of others, they say whatever they say, they say that if you violate the law, you will violate the law.

Even if Li Yunhai can be as dead as AMD, it is useless, because Sihai Group is not an American company, and people will not protect you like AMD.

If Western countries unite to boycott Sihai Group's products, then what's the point of Li Yunhai's death?

Even Toyo's enterprises can't survive, let alone the Sihai Group?

Li Yunhai can only hope that Intel can open up the net now.

But that hope is slim.

Li Yunhai called Professor Ni and talked to him about the matter.

After Professor Ni learned about this, he sighed: "This is difficult!" Mr. Li, our self-developed chips are still far from being comparable to Intel! ”

Li Yunhai smiled bitterly and said, "Professor Ni, I know. Not to mention now, even if we are given 5 years, we may not be able to catch up. ”

Professor Ni mused: "Today's solution, we can only buy chips from Intel. Their chips are expensive! In particular, the new chips that have just been developed are sold at very high prices. 386 chips, it costs $950 a piece! ”

Li Yunhai said: "Yes, they sell for 950 dollars!" We can't add our own chip technology yet! ”

Professor Ni said: "The price of chips is so expensive, then our computers must also be sold at a higher price, which is no way to do it." ”

Li Yunhai said: "Our advantage is that the price is cheap!" ”

Professor Ni said: "No way, Mr. Li, we can only compress profits." If we rely on others for food, we can only eat leftovers! ”

Li Yunhai said: "The most regrettable thing is that the lithography machine we just bought!" An investment of hundreds of millions is so wasted? ”

Professor Ni said: "My fault, I wanted to develop domestic chip technology, but I didn't expect it to be too aggressive!" I'm the one who hurt you and the company! ”

Li Yunhai said: "Professor Ni, don't say that, if we never take this step, then my country's chip industry will always follow in the footsteps of others." Loss-making business always needs someone to do it, and if we don't do it, others will do it. At the end of the day, we are at the mercy of others. ”

Professor Ni said: "Around 1978, China also attached great importance to the development of the domestic chip industry, at that time, more than 600 factories in China used 12 months to produce integrated circuit products, and a large factory in Toyo was able to produce them in less than 3 days. Such a huge gap deeply stung the leaders, who were determined to develop semiconductor technology. It's a pity that subsequently foreign chips entered our country, especially a large number of smuggled chips into our country, which seriously impacted the development of my country's chip industry! The previous few chip factories did not have extra funds to develop new technologies, and they were already dying! ”

Li Yunhai said: "We don't care about others!" Professor Ni, we have no choice, I am willing to invest all the money in the development of self-developed chips, even if there is nothing in the end! I have no regrets! ”

Professor Ni was taken aback and said: "With Mr. Li's words, I Ni will not hesitate to do so!" ”

Li Yunhai is facing an unprecedented crisis since he went to the sea to do business!

And this crisis, in his personal ability, simply cannot be solved.

At this time, Su Hong shouted outside: "Mr. Guo is here!" Mr. Li is inside! ”

Immediately, Guo Wanhua walked in.

"Yunhai, why do you smoke so many cigarettes?" Guo Wanhua was still immersed in the great joy of receiving an order of $1.5 billion yesterday, and she had no idea that a catastrophe was coming.

Li Yunhai smiled bitterly and said that Intel was about to tighten the X86 authorization.

Guo Wanhua understood the power and said: "As long as Intel is willing to sell us chips, we don't have to worry." It's just that the price of our computers must be raised by more than $500 to have enough profits, right? ”

Li Yunhai said: "A $500 increase? It's a viable option, but can the dealer say yes? ”

Guo Wanhua said: "If you don't agree, you can't do it!" Our company can't trade at a loss, right? ”

Li Yunhai said: "It's not a loss, it's just a waste of work!" ”

Guo Wanhua said: "Yes, isn't working in vain equal to losing money? Intel's processors are also a little more expensive! The cost doesn't have to be so much at all! ”

Li Yunhai said: "Otherwise, as soon as the 386 chip came out, it immediately changed from a loss of 170 million US dollars to a revenue of more than 3 billion US dollars?" ”

Guo Wanhua said: "They are really making money like this!" What we earn is a small profit, and they have to crack down and take back the authorization! ”

Li Yunhai said: "Who let the family master the patent!" ”

Guo Wanhua said: "Yunhai, we have no other way to think of it?" ”

Li Yunhai said: "There is no way! There is no way at all! Just like in the field of CCA, there is no way for others to take us. Isn't it true that we make money every year from CCA patents? It's just that we don't make as much money as Intel. ”

Guo Wanhua said: "What if we give up the PC business? ”

Li Yunhai shook and said: "Give up the PC business? ”

Guo Wanhua said: "Yes, just like before, we don't have a PC business. Didn't you sell second-hand computers before? Just as to make money. ”

Li Yunhai said: "Where can I make so much money? Of our $1.5 billion, $1.2 billion comes from the PC business. ”

Guo Wanhua didn't have a rut anymore, and said: "Yunhai, don't worry about it, it's a big deal, let's not do PC business, let's make less money!" ”

Li Yunhai said: "You're right, it's a big deal just don't do it!" ”

Guo Wanhua said: "Then the lithography machine we bought, is it still useful?" ”

Li Yunhai said: "Keep it!" Maybe it will be useful again in the future! ”

Guo Wanhua said: "Then how much money do we lose?" ”

Li Yunhai said: "If we can't get the authorization, we will lose $1.5 billion!" Don't count the profits in the future! ”

Guo Wanhua gasped: "Lose so much? ”

Li Yunhai said: "We spent a total of 700 million US dollars on the complete set of equipment for the lithography machine and memory production line, of which the memory production line is 200 million US dollars, and the lithography machine and its configuration production line equipment cost 500 million US dollars, which is a loss. ”

Guo Wanhua heard this, and said bitterly: "It's a pity! ”

Li Yunhai said: "The orders we received recently at CES and two dealer conferences, if they can't be delivered on time, it is not a matter of making money or not, and we have to pay other people's liquidated damages, one billion dollars, right?" ”

Guo Wanhua sighed: "That's not good!" I can't afford to lose a billion dollars! ”

Li Yunhai waved his hand weakly and said, "Forget it, let's listen to the news from the United States first!" Hopefully there is good news. ”

Guo Wanhua said: "What if you buy chips from Intel? ”

Li Yunhai said: "Of course we can, but we have to order so many chips, if they are scheduled for production, it will be difficult to deliver them within two months." Intel has shut down seven factories and now only one is in production. ”

Guo Wanhua said: "What do you say they are doing this? Just so that the whole world can buy the chips they produce? ”

Li Yunhai said: "Not bad! That's what they're trying to do! ”

Guo Wanhua's good mood disappeared in an instant.

Who would have thought that they were still happy to receive a $1.5 billion order yesterday, but today they would be worried that the $1.5 billion order could not be delivered on time!

Guo Wanhua thought of a more serious matter: "Yunhai, this news must not be known by the outside world!" If the reporters write nonsense, our stock price is afraid to collapse! ”

Li Yunhai said: "I don't care about the stock price, it collapsed today, and it can always get up another day." ”

Guo Wanhua suddenly said: "Yunhai, have you thought about it, if our stock price is bound to fall, you sell half of the shares now, and then buy it back when it falls, then you can make billions!" You can make up for the loss of the chip! ”

Li Yunhai looked at her in disbelief, and said in shock: "Sister Guo, how can you have such an idea!" ”

Guo Wanhua said: "Can't you? And no one knows! ”

Li Yunhai said resolutely: "Absolutely not! Who says no one knows? You know what I know, God knows! Even if I, Li Yunhai, have no pants to wear, I won't do such a conscientious thing! (End of chapter)