dognovel Chapter 431 Do firefighters need to pay for their own expenses?
Chapter 431 Do firefighters need to pay for their own expenses?
"This chip was originally a Qualcomm project launched in 2012, but it was canceled at the end of the year."
The reason is that the full-load temperature exceeds 65 degrees Celsius, making mass production impossible.
How much money did Lenovo receive?
After all, announcing the success of self-developed chips at this time would definitely draw attention away from the United States, so they would certainly be able to get some compensation, since Lenovo had bled for the organization.
But upon hearing Shen Fei's words, Li Jiahui subconsciously assumed that Lenovo had spent a total of how much money.
"Boss, I've already asked a friend about this."
The technology licensing fee was approximately one hundred million US dollars, and Lenovo also paid for the tape-out and packaging out of its own pocket. Considering the total investment, they probably weren't lying.
Shen Fei immediately braced himself with both hands and looked down at Li Jiahui: "Professor Li, you're not lying to me, are you?"
Lenovo was trying to distract them, but those people betrayed him...
"Yes, boss!"
This is what makes me laugh. Our Taishan 910's total R&D cost was only 20 billion yuan, but Lenovo spent 1.5 times that amount to buy something Qualcomm had already deemed dead.
Shen Fei really couldn't hold back anymore. He thought he was already pretty awesome for replicating Lenovo's high-priced purchase of Motorola in his previous life, but he didn't expect there to be other experts out there.
However, the way Lenovo operates in America is truly... well, after all, this is America.
"No, what are they after?"
Shen Fei sat down in anger, then looked at the two of them with a puzzled expression, because he really didn't understand.
Why did Lenovo spend so much money on a scrapped design?
Is it trying to steal market share from Transsion in the low-to-mid-end market?
Or perhaps He Chuanyin was using Motorola's overseas channels to fight his way up in the business.
For example, Latin America or Europe are growth markets for the industry. Perhaps we can use their brands plus our own R&D expertise to launch a two-pronged attack.
Seeing Shen Fei like this, Li Jiahui also sighed.
"Boss, I know what you're wondering about. I even looked into it myself."
In Qualcomm's words, Lenovo doesn't have any related business in this area, so spending a little money to do them a favor is the best option, that way, if there are any problems later...
Before Li Jiahui could finish speaking, the three people present had already nodded.
Yuan Guoqing thought for a moment and said, "The scrapped design of the Fire Dragon 615, although a bit rubbish, might have been able to control power consumption a bit if we used 22nm instead..."
In short, their contract is already signed; now we should see what the consequences will be.
Shen Fei immediately nodded at Yuan Guoqing's words.
"Boss, I don't think we need to develop this further. After all, we have the initiative now. We can expose them whenever we want, and the public opinion online isn't particularly credible."
"No need to expose them." Shen Fei suddenly smiled wickedly. He was curious to see how the other party would boast about their comprador factory and self-developed technology at the press conference.
"The employee ID issue of the Lenovo K1 is something Qualcomm itself can't solve, yet Lenovo can solve it after taking over?"
Even with a 22nm process, power consumption can only be reduced to a certain extent; it's impossible to completely solve the problem.
"I'd like to see if our self-developed pork tastes any good."
Yuan Guoqing nodded, acknowledging that the 22nm process was indeed superior to the 28nm process.
However, this is only in theory. In reality, the 22nm process of Samsung is not much better than the 28nm process, and because the process has just been developed, leakage current is very serious.
Moreover, the heat generation is more severe, the power consumption drift is larger, and the feedback from mass production is that the phone will inexplicably lose power quickly and the temperature rises rapidly.
Furthermore, they claim a yield rate of over 80%, but in reality, that's just a fluctuating figure, and on average, it's at least 3 to 15% lower than the advertised yield rate...
If it's a small-scale tape-out, the scrap rate is even higher.
Therefore, Transsion doesn't need to personally compete against Lenovo; doing so would only lower its image.
Transsion Semiconductor has only one competitor: Qualcomm, but that will take time.
Yuan Guoqing nodded, and Shen Fei's attention shifted to him.
"How's the immersion lithography testing going? Are they able to achieve 10nm?"
The NSE-CX7C immersion prototype has been delivered to Transsion's wafer fab for production line debugging.
It's not just because Transsion is the largest shareholder, but mainly because of its exclusive quadruple exposure technology.
After all, it can reach 7 nanometers in one step, completely giving China absolute say in the semiconductor field. No time can be wasted in advanced technology.
"The production line is already being debugged and is expected to start initial trial production next month. However, in order to ensure the success rate, we have decided to start with the 10nm process first."
Shen Fei nodded. After all, TSMC will only start trial production of 16nm at the end of the year, which is equivalent to Transsion's 14nm process. This step is already very fast.
"clear."
After Yang Guoqing and Li Jiahui left, Shen Fei looked at Lenovo's official announcement again.
The comment section is now filled with speculation from all sides. The desired effect was achieved... but the plan doesn't seem to have been particularly successful.
Although the stock prices of Sansheng and TSMC have rebounded somewhat, they were still driven down by Huang Tianya. At the same time, Qualcomm and MediaTek were also forced to join the game.
At the same time, Shenfei also received a report from Li Qing: information about the K1 chip and Silver Lake Capital.
"Boss, Silver Lake Capital in the US is in contact with Rice Company, and they are currently acquiring shares through other channels."
"Very determined!"
However, Shen Fei just smiled. Even though Lei Jun personally managed the rice business, it didn't benefit from the investment in Chuanyin. They thought they could defeat him with this little investment. They were dreaming.
Meanwhile, at Transsion headquarters in Nigeria.
Huang Tianya is currently conducting a new round of trading here, and everyone in the trading room is busy.
They prepared for this war for two months in advance, starting with $20 billion, leveraged three times, and shorting TSMC and Samsung with $60 billion.
Now, in conjunction with Transsion Semiconductor, this battle has finally begun its final stage.
Just then, the secretary pushed open the door and walked in.
"Mr. Huang, the supermarket called and would like to invite you to dinner tonight."
"And Morgan Stanley."
Tianya shook his head. After putting in so much effort, he had only earned a little over 30 billion yuan and had just broken even. How could he possibly stop so quickly?
"Mr. Wang and his team sent word that TSMC and SanSang's stock prices have fallen by 10%, and they can't hold on any longer. They asked us when to close our positions."
They're willing to pay a certain price; as long as we agree, everything is negotiable.
Huang Tianya stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray and glanced at the big screen.
"Tell them it's too early; they haven't paid the full tuition yet. We'll stop once they have!"