Chapter 698 Two Meetings, One Result

"It's because your companies can't beat Daxia Enterprises, otherwise there would be such demanding project requirements!?"

"Aren't you Amazon also laying off employees like crazy? What are you complaining about?"

These replies are so straightforward, but Chaudhry did not reply to any of these comments.

Since 1020, soft power companies such as Amazon and Microsoft have begun to lay off employees in an orderly manner. What is very dramatic is that most of the layoffs are employees in Europe and North America, and they have also expanded the recruitment of Indian programmers.

There are employee salary issues, and there are also reasons why these companies have Indian executives in the middle and senior management...

Everyone is a capitalist, of course they want to save costs. Of course, due to the existence of some catfish, they still need to recruit technical elites to seek breakthroughs, otherwise Indians may occupy these Internet-based companies at a more ferocious pace.

When Musk saw that these corporate executives also wanted to dig into his company, he sneered and did not comment on it.

When he entered the conference room floor, the conference room was already full of representatives of the military-industrial complex and the technology chaebol headed by Pingguo.

"Kuco and Dr. Su are attending a high-level meeting in Daxia, so they can't arrive at the scene." The assistant reminded on the side.

"Well, pay attention to whether the shielding device is turned on throughout the process. I suspect that some recent business leaks have leaked out from certain conference channels." Musk issued a rather vigilant secret order.

Musk waited until the assistant went to deal with these trivial matters before entering the conference room.

Here, he saw the scene that often appears in Hollywood commercial films.

The gentle and beastly elite leader was smoking a Cuban cigar, and the elite wearing glasses was flipping through the documents in his hands again and again, frowning. Others were pointing and drawing with their mobile phones and tablets.

Suddenly, a white elite in the crowd stood up and yelled at the senior management of Texas Instruments: "FK! Bitch! You are betraying us!"

Before giving people a chance to defend themselves, the elite skillfully put the information in the tablet on the big screen in the conference room.

He also explained to the other people at the meeting: "Just now, just now! Our chip giant Texas Instruments suddenly notified customers that the prices of analog chips and instrument power supply chips based on traditional silicon-based chips will continue to fall in the second half of the year.

In fact, these bitches have already plunged the chip prices by 70%! Even the prices of some analog chips have plunged by 80%!|

In addition, there are instruments produced by semiconductor foundry, which they secretly sold to India↑↓! The most important thing is that according to rumors, India↑↓ is negotiating with Russian companies to build a new semiconductor production line, and it is very likely that these instruments will be used!"

When this was said, the whole audience was shocked.

The cooperation between Russia and India↑↓ can be said to be increasingly close, and semiconductors have always been the fatal weakness of these two companies. In a sense, Texas Instruments' business is simply aiding the enemy.

"What? Is it really like this?" Someone asked in surprise.

"This is the fact, and this is still the reported news. Other unreported news may be even more unacceptable." The elite spread his hands and sneered.

When others heard this, they picked up their phones and searched for news.

However, the jammer was turned on at that moment, and everyone only saw the signal signs on their phones and tablets were crossed out with red crosses.

"FK! The network disappeared!? How could there be no network?"

"Musk, quickly restore the network, we need to check the news!"

"Damn Musk, are you in cahoots with Texas Instruments?"

Faced with these doubts, Musk smiled and spread his hands, saying innocently: "Not really, isn't it necessary to block the signal for this meeting? We are all a group of interests, even if it is a backup recording or video of the meeting, it is all right.

But in recent years, network hackers have become more rampant. They have stolen the core information of many companies through mobile phone spyware and computer virus Trojans. Even companies such as Nvidia and AMD have been hacked and blackmailed by these hackers.

So please be patient for a moment, and the senior executives of Texas Instruments are here, we don't need to search the Internet for those true and false news, just confront them directly."

There is nothing wrong with this explanation. For Musk, turning on a signal jammer is actually more of a blame-shifting component. After all, in his opinion, there must be idiots in this meeting room who will actively or passively leak confidential information after leaving the room.

But it was harmless. After all, it was just a meeting. The meeting to make a real decision would have to wait until the group of people who went to Daxia for negotiation came back.

Others were too lazy to vent their anger on Musk. They all glared at the senior executives of Texas Instruments who attended the meeting.

Facing the indignation of his peers and friends, Rich, the executive of Texas Instruments, stood up and said solemnly: "First of all, the price reduction is indeed true, but I want to state that all the instruments and equipment sold will be reviewed by the relevant departments, and sensitive equipment and special core equipment will not be sold."

Obviously, this statement did not have much effect, and the anger of others was written on their faces.

So Rich explained helplessly: "We are all corporate elites, and we should know that we can only make profits if we sell the goods.

Nowadays, due to the increase in product competitiveness of Daxia enterprises in some areas of the world, many of our customers have reduced demand for our chips and instruments. Among them, the demand for our chips and instruments has decreased even more in Daxia, Russia, Korea and other countries and regions. Sales volume is 75% compared to three years ago.

At the same time, everyone should know that in the second half of 2020, in order to compete with Daxia silicon-based semiconductors, Texas Instruments began investing in a US$30 billion investment plan and successively built four wafer fabs.

Due to technical limitations, only one of these four fabs is currently capable of production, and the other three will not be put into production until early next year. "

Speaking of this, Rich, the executive of Texas Instruments, even cried a little. ,

"Perhaps you don't know, but I want to tell you that now Texas Instruments has lost 40% of its global orders, more of which are orders from Asia. According to our expert team's estimate, when Daxia's carbon-based and silicon-based When the dual-route semiconductor expansion cycle is completed, Texas Instruments will completely lose the Asian market, and may even lose markets in Europe, Africa and other regions at the same time.

In the foreseeable future, our products will become low-quality goods that cannot be sold. If we don't sell them at a loss now, we may lose all our money.

And in addition to Texas Instruments, chip companies such as Analog Devices, Infineon, Skyworks, STMicroelectronics, and NXP have shrunk from accounting for more than 60% of the global analog chip market five years ago to only Occupies 30%.

High R&D expenses and products that cannot be sold at all. If Texas Instruments does not make compromises, you will see our bankruptcy report next year. "

Of course, Richie still had some things he didn't say. For example, some companies on the scene were engaging in secret tactics, selling equipment and products to companies in countries like Neon at low prices, with the intention of quickly withdrawing funds.

Hearing the crying voice of the Texas Instruments executive, a director of a certain chaebol sneered: "According to a survey by our data company, global sales of new energy vehicles will reach about 6.5 million in 2021, and high-performance computers will There are about 10 million new devices, and hundreds of millions of other smart home and production equipment that require chips.

The rapid growth in sales of these products will also drive the demand market for chips. Power management chips are the main products, and signal chain analog chips are among these products. The gross profit margin of Daxia Enterprises has public financial reports. Compared with the public financial reports of Texas Instruments, Daxia Xia's company's gross profit margin is generally 30%, but your company's is as high as over 70%. "

Rich, the executive of Texas Instruments, turned his head and saw clearly the power of the speaking representative. He shrugged his shoulders and said with disdain: "So what bothers me most is that some data companies outside of your industry only know how to do it." Hype Ranking.

Your data are out of date and biased! The gross profit margin of Daxia Enterprises is not 30% at all! Their financial reports are lagging behind. Even when they write their financial reports, even if they buy a bottle of pure water for a few tenths of a dollar, they will report it as three dollars or even four dollars for experimental water!

Also, do you know? ! That damn Jiuzhou Technology licenses technology without reservation! It doesn’t even require cash, just a few shares of a junk company, or even a controlling stake!

However, these companies will allocate Jiuzhou Technology's R&D investment to their companies, resulting in a further decline in gross profit margins.

And this phenomenon has begun to spread from the semiconductor industry to other industries. For example, I heard that Daxia’s car companies have reached some kind of secret cooperation with companies such as Xia Wei and Jiuzhou Technology. Regarding the previous Xia Wei Wenjie Automobile and Wuling In terms of the market influence of products such as automobiles and BYD new energy vehicles, I am afraid that many friends will have trouble sleeping. "

Musk looked stunned and frowned.

Although what the Texas Instruments executive said was true, he really didn't want to hear this kind of uncomfortable news.

Because when he hears this, he will think of the Pudong Municipal Bureau, which once responded to his every request, but now it has begun to be picky and picky.

And he was also keenly aware that there would be no results from today's meeting. After all, if everyone really wanted to talk about the matter, they wouldn't be able to mess up the situation by playing bad guys and then bad guys.

Of course, this is just an appetizer. The real things to be discussed need to be negotiated with the Pentagon after the meeting is over and some information about the companies of each party is known.

On April 7, a meeting of North American high-tech companies ended in a quarrel.

On April 8, the CEOs of Western high-tech companies went to Daxia to participate in a meeting, but achieved nothing.

At the press conference after the meeting, Pingguo CEO Ku Ke told the media with a tired look: "We clearly know how huge the investment in high-tech R&D is and how difficult the carbon-based chip project is, but technology has no borders. , the same should be true for carbon-based chips.

Pingguo needs to provide the best and most innovative high-tech products to global users. For this mission, I will have closer negotiations with relevant companies in Daxia to create a solution that is acceptable to both parties and bring global users Better and more future products. "

Every sentence is true to global users, and he even bluntly stated that technology has no national boundaries. I don’t know how Ku Ke said this so shamelessly. Anyway, the reporter who interviewed him almost couldn’t help laughing...

After the interview video was released, it indeed caused quite a stir.

Most Pingguo users naturally liked Kuko's remarks.

"Well said, technology should not have national boundaries. Technology companies should work together to carry out research and development, so that the world's technology level can be rapidly improved and our consumers can have a better experience of high-tech products."

"Look, this is Pingguo's corporate spirit, innovation! Some of our domestic companies are so proud of being one step ahead, and they also threaten to buy shares in various ways, and even give other companies a lecture before they go public."

"I hope Pingguo can develop better. Daxia mobile phone manufacturers are crazy about inserting advertisements into mobile phones. Only with Pingguo mobile phones can I experience the charm of technology, without advertisements and harassment from junk software."

Of course, in addition to these likes and comments, there are more netizens with clear minds.

But no one expected that the first person to criticize was Huang Chaoren, vice president of Jiuzhou Technology, who attended the meeting together.

The young vice president spoke fiercely into the reporter's microphone: "What? Mr. Kuco said that technology has no borders? Then when Jiuzhou Technology first started to develop semiconductors, how come we couldn't even buy a light source device?

There was no wafer cutting equipment or photoresist, and all we could buy were high-priced inferior products.

There was also the mobile phone optimization software released by Jiuzhou Technology that year - Jiebei. It was obviously safe and non-toxic, but it just couldn't log in to the Pingguo mobile phone software mall. Our staff went to inquire about the situation, guess what Pingguo said?

They They actually asked us to open the software protection lock and give them the core code of the software for review. After careful review, each version needs to be filed in this way before our software can be put on the shelves.

Haha, a company has to give them the core secrets of its R&D products in order to obtain a platform login license. Even if they do nothing, they can directly take 30% of the revenue from the software. This is simply ridiculous. Science has no borders. I just want to laugh. "

After speaking, Huang Chaoren answered the next reporter's interview with a nonchalant look.

After all, his current body is not ordinary strong, and he is not afraid of some companies embarrassing his company.

This attack instantly set off an uproar on the Internet, attracting countless netizens to cheer.