Chapter 697 Two meetings, one result

"Isn't it because your companies can't win Daxia Enterprise, otherwise there will be such harsh project requirements!?"

"Aren't you Amazon laying off employees like crazy, what are you forcing?"

The replies were straight-forward, but Choudhury 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 layoff targets are employees in Europe and North America, and they have also expanded the recruitment of programmers in India ↑↓.

There is the issue of employee salaries, and there are also reasons why the middle and high-level executives of these companies have entered the Indian ↑↓ executives...

We are all capitalists, and of course we all want to save costs. Of course, due to the existence of some catfish, we still need to recruit technical elites to make breakthroughs. Otherwise, Indians ↑↓ may occupy these Internet-based companies at a more aggressive pace.

When Musk saw that these corporate executives also wanted to poach the corner of his company, he sneered and did not comment on them.

When he entered the conference room floor, the conference room was already filled with representatives of the military-industrial complex and the technological chaebol headed by Ping Guo.

"Ku Ke and Dr. Su are participating in a high-level meeting in Daxia, so they can't arrive at the scene." The assistant reminded.

"Well, pay attention to check whether the shielding device is turned on all the way. I suspect that some commercial leaks have flowed out from certain meeting channels recently." Musk issued a rather vigilant secret order.

After the assistant went to deal with these trivial matters, Musk walked into the conference room.

Here, he sees a scene that often appears in Hollywood commercials.

The elite leader of the gentle beast is smoking a Cuban cigar, and the elite wearing glasses is flipping through the documents in his hand over and over again, frowning. Others hold their mobile phones and tablets and draw with their fingers.

Suddenly, a white elite in the crowd stood up and shouted at the executives of Texas Instruments: "FK! Bitchi! You are betraying us!"

Before anyone had a chance to defend himself, the elite skillfully put the information on the tablet on the big screen in the conference room.

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

In fact, this group of bitches has already dropped the price of chips by 70%! Even the price of some analog chips has dropped by 80%! |

In addition, there are also instruments produced by semiconductor OEMs, and they secretly sold them to India ↑↓! Most importantly, according to gossip, India ↑↓ is negotiating with Russian bear-related companies to establish a new semiconductor production line, and these instruments are likely to be used! "

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience was shocked.

The cooperation between Russia and India ↑↓ can be said to be getting closer day by day, and semiconductors have always been the Achilles heel of the two companies. In a sense, the business of Texas Instruments is simply an enemy.

"What? Really?" Someone asked in surprise.

"That's the truth. This is still reported news. Others that haven't been reported may be even more unacceptable." The elite spread his hands and sneered.

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

It's just that the shielding device happened to be turned on at this time, and everyone only saw the signal signs on the mobile phone and tablet being drawn with a red cross.

"FK! The network is gone!? How can there be no network?"

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

"Damn Musk, are you with Texas Instruments?"

Faced with these doubts, Musk spread his hands with a smile, and said innocently: "That's not the case. Isn't shielding the signal a must for this meeting? We are all an interest group, even if it is a backup recording or video of the meeting, It's all possible.

But in recent years, cyber hackers have become more and more rampant. They have stolen the core information of many companies through mobile phone spyware and computer virus Trojan horses. Even Nvidia, AMD and other companies have been succeeded by these hackers and blackmailed by them.

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

There is nothing wrong with this explanation. For Musk, opening a signal shielding device is actually more of a blame game. After all, in his opinion, there must be idiots in this conference room who will either actively or passively block the signal after going out. Secrets leaked out.

But it doesn't hurt too much, after all, this is just a meeting, and the real decision-making meeting can only be held after the group of people who went to Great Xia to negotiate come back.

Others were too lazy to vent their anger on Musk, and they glared at the senior executives of Texas Instruments.

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

Obviously, this statement doesn't have much effect, and the anger of others is written on their faces.

So Rich explained with a helpless face: "Everyone is a corporate elite, and they should know that only by selling products can they make money.

However, due to the increased product competitiveness of Daxia enterprises in some parts of the world, many of our customers have reduced their demand for our chips and equipment. Among them, Daxia, Russia, Korea and other countries and regions have even reduced Compared with 75% of the sales volume three years ago.

At the same time, everyone should know that in the second half of 2020, in order to compete against Daxia Silicon-based Semiconductors, we Texas Instruments began to invest in an investment plan of 30 billion U.S. dollars, and built 4 fabs one after another.

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

Having said that, Rich, the executive officer of Texas Instruments, even brought a little cry. ,

"Maybe you don't know, but I want to tell you that Texas Instruments has lost 40% of its global orders, and more of them are orders from Asia. According to the estimation of our expert team, when Daxia carbon-based and silicon-based When the dual-line 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.

Our products, in the foreseeable future, will soon become low-grade goods that cannot be sold. If we do not sell at a loss to recover our blood, we may lose our money.

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

High research and development expenses, products that cannot be sold at all, if we at Texas Instruments do not make compromises, you will be able to see our bankruptcy report next year. "

Of course, Rich still has some things to say. For example, some companies on the scene are engaged in secret tricks, selling equipment and products to companies in countries such as Neon at a low price, with the intention of quickly withdrawing funds.

Hearing the crying voice of the executive officer of Texas Instruments, a director of a chaebol sneered and said: "According to the survey of our data company, in 1021, the global sales of new energy vehicles will reach about 6.5 million. About 10 million new devices have been added, and other smart homes and production equipment that require chips are as many as hundreds of millions.

The rapid growth of sales of these products will also drive the chip demand market. Among the products such as power management chips and signal chain analog chips, the gross profit margin of Daxia Enterprises has public financial reports. Compared with the public financial reports of Texas Instruments, the large Xia's corporate gross profit margin is generally 30%, but your company's is as high as 70%. "

Rich, the executive officer of Texas Instruments, turned his head, and after seeing clearly the power of the representative, he shrugged his shoulders and said contemptuously: "So what I am most annoying about is any data company outside your industry. Hype rank.

Your data is outdated and biased! The gross profit margin of Daxia Enterprises is not 30% at all! Their financial reports are lagging behind, and even when they write their financial reports, even if they buy a bottle of pure water that costs a few tenths of a dollar, the experimental water will be reported as $3 or even $4 for experimental water!

Also, you know what? ! That damned Kyushu Technology's technology authorization is unreserved! You don't even need cash, just a few shares in a junk company, and you don't even need a holding!

However, these companies will allocate the R\u0026D investment of Kyushu Technology to their companies, resulting in a further decline in gross profit margins.

And this phenomenon has 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 Xiawei and Kyushu Technology. In terms of the market influence of products such as automobiles and BYD new energy vehicles, I am afraid that many friends will not be able to sleep. "

Musk was taken aback, his brows furrowed.

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

Because as soon as he heard this, he would think of the Pudong Municipal Bureau that once responded to his needs, and now he began to put on airs and pick and choose.

And he was keenly aware that today's meeting would not yield any results. After all, if everyone really wants to talk about things, it is impossible to spoil the situation with one singing bad faces and the other singing red faces as soon as they come up.

Of course, this is just an appetizer. The real thing to talk about needs to wait until the end of the meeting to grasp part of the situation of the companies of all parties and negotiate with the Pentagon.

On April 7th, the meeting of high-tech companies in North America ended hastily amidst quarrels.

On April 8, the presidents of Western high-tech companies went to Daxia to participate in the meeting, but they also had no results.

At the press conference after the meeting, Pingguo CEO Ku Ke told the media with a tired face: "We clearly know how huge the investment in high-tech research and development is, and how difficult the carbon-based chip project is, but technology has no borders. , and so should carbon-based chips.

Pingguo needs to provide global users with the best and most innovative high-tech products. For this mission, I will conduct more close consultations with related companies in Daxia to create a solution acceptable to both parties and bring global users Better and more future products. "

Every sentence is inseparable from global users, and he bluntly said that technology has no borders. I don’t know how Ku Ke said this so brazenly. Anyway, the reporter who interviewed him almost couldn’t help laughing...

And after the release of this interview video, it did cause a lot of repercussions.

Most users of Pingguo naturally like Kuke's rhetoric.

"That's right, science and technology shouldn't be divided by national boundaries. Technology companies should work together in research and development, so that the technological level of the earth can be improved rapidly, and our consumers can have a better experience of high-tech products."

"Look, this is Pingguo's entrepreneurial spirit, innovation! Some of our domestic companies are just one step ahead, and they even threaten to buy shares, and even have to warn other companies to go public."

"I hope that Pingguo can develop better. The mobile phone manufacturers in Daxia are madly inserting advertisements into mobile phones. Only with Pingguo mobile phones can I experience the charm of technology. There are no advertisements and no harassment from junk software."

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

But no one expected that the first person to spray was Huang Chaoren, the vice president of Kyushu Science and Technology who attended the meeting together.

The young vice president, facing the reporter's microphone, was furious: "What? Mr. Kuke said that technology has no borders? Then when we Kyushu Technology first started to develop semiconductors, why couldn't we even buy a light source device? ?

There are no other Rashid wafer cutting equipment, no photoresist, and all the ones that can be bought are high-priced defective products.

There is also the mobile phone optimization software released by Kyushu Technology that year - Jiebei. It is obviously safe and non-toxic, but it is impossible to log in to the Pingguo mobile phone software store. Our staff went to inquire about the situation. Guess what Pingguo said?

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

Hehe, let a company give them the core secrets of their own research and development products in order to obtain a platform login permission. Even if they do nothing, they can directly take 30% of the income from the software. This is simply a big joke in the world, and it's science without borders, I just want to laugh. "

After finishing speaking, Huang Chaoren answered the next reporter's interview with a face of indifference.

After all, his current body is not so tough, and he is not afraid of some companies embarrassing his company at all.

This spat caused an instant uproar on the Internet, attracting applause from countless netizens.