Rebirth of the Cyber ​​Hegemony

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Although Chen Yu said that he has been working on netbooks recently and has also involved some semiconductors, it is impossible for Chen Yu to have such a big face when it comes to Chen Yu.

However, what surprised Chen Yu even more was that after Chen Yu returned from Taishi, Taiji Electric actually withdrew the prosecution against Zhang Rujing.

Is Taiji Electric really going to resolve the conflict with Central International?

Or, they are more optimistic about the cooperation with themselves?

Chen Yu was a little puzzled.

But then no longer think about it.

In any case, it is very important for Taiji Electric to withdraw the prosecution against Zhang Rujing.

You must know that the establishment of Center International is largely due to Zhang Rujing's credit.

Otherwise, not to mention the establishment of the Central International, I am afraid that they would not even be able to buy a series of factory equipment.

But Chen Yu didn't care anymore. A few days later, a major event broke out in the semiconductor industry:

Taijidian announced that it will reduce the foundry cost of 0.25 micron chips by half.

As soon as this incident happened, the 0.25 micron orders previously accepted by Center International were all lost.

"what?"

"Where did Mr. Zhang go?"

"Go to Taishi?"

"What did he go to Taiwan for?"

"Zhang Zhongmou invited Mr. Zhang to his house to reminisce about the past."

"Call him back quickly."

"The phone is not connected."

"I go……"

Chen Yu knew that Zhang Rujing had been tricked by Zhang Zhongmou.

It wasn't until Zhang Ruyi came back from Taiwan a week later that he knew what had happened.

It turned out that after Chen Yu came back, Zhang Zhongmou wrote a letter to Zhang Ruyi himself, and invited Zhang Rujing to go to Taiwan.

Zhang Rujing thought about his old relationship and Zhang Zhongmou's withdrawal of the lawsuit against him, so he happily went to the appointment.

But after arriving in Taiwan City, Zhang Zhongmou took Zhang Rujing to the depths of Alishan to play for a few days.

There is no signal in the depths of Alishan, which also keeps Zhang Rujing from the outside world.

Of course, it wasn't just Zhang Rujing who played Zhang Zhongmou's tricks, but also Chen Yu.

If Chen Yu hadn't gone to Taiwan City, such an event would not have happened.

However, Chen Yu also knew the viciousness of Zhang Zhongmou's move, and he couldn't even prevent it.

You know, the chip foundry business is not just any electronic product foundry.

There are only a few foundry companies in the world, and Taijidian is the one with the most mature technology and the highest cost performance.

Before that, Center International can still take some of the remaining orders from Taiji Electric.

But this time, Taiji Electronics suddenly reduced the price to half of the original price, and Center International basically had no chance.

Of course, even if Chen Yu didn't go to Taiwan, it would basically be the same result.

At most, if Zhang Rujing had been there at that time, he could have saved a few businesses.

But this doesn't do much either.

Chip foundry prices are very sensitive.

Not to mention a half price reduction, even if it is reduced by 10%, some other companies will be doomed.

The technology accumulated by Taiji Electric over the past 30 years is not a vegetarian.

"Chen Yu, it's my fault. I shouldn't have asked you to meet Zhang Zhongmou."

When Wang Xuehong heard the news, she immediately called Chen Yu.

"Mr. Wang, it has nothing to do with you. I was tricked."

"Do you want me to ask my dad to come forward?"

"Thank you, I don't need it for now, let's find a way here."

Chen Yu rejected Wang Xuehong's invitation to his father Wang Yongqing to come forward.

Looking at the situation, Chen Yu knew that it would be useless even if Wang Yongqing, the God of Management, was invited.

Taijidian is determined to destroy Central International.

But it's normal to think about it.

As a competitor, what do you want to do if you don't want to destroy it?

Is it really possible to get along well and make money together hand in hand?

Chapter 668: My own chip business is about to start

"Ciyun, how many orders have been kept by each company?"

"There are only three."

"There are only three?"

"Well, but the three companies also said that after the end of this batch of chip foundries, they will cooperate with TSMC."

Center International Office, founder and CEO Zhang Rujing has a serious face.

Speaking of Zhang Rujing, Zhang Zhongmou must be mentioned.

Both of them worked in Texas Instruments back then, but Zhang Zhongmou's position at that time was much higher than Zhang Rujing's.

But despite this, Zhang Zhongmou still saw Zhang Rujing's extraordinaryness.

After Zhang Zhongmou left Texas Instruments and returned to Taiwan to start a chip foundry business, a few years later, Zhang Rujing also returned to Taiwan to start a chip foundry business.But it is a pity that Zhang Zhongmou's technology and capital are inferior to Zhang Zhongmou's, and Zhang Rujing's company in Taiwan was directly acquired by Zhang Zhongmou.At this point, Zhang Rujing came to the mainland and founded Center International.

Relying on the support of the mainland and the huge market, although Center International is still inferior to Taiji Electric in terms of technology, since the establishment of Center International, it has been developing well.According to Zhang Rujing's plan, as long as there are no accidents at Center International, it is not impossible to catch up with TSMC within the next 10 years.

But Zhang Rujing never expected that Zhang Zhongmou would use a killer trick on the way.

The method of reducing the foundry price of 0.25-micron chips by half is to pull away all the business of Center International.

"Mr. Zhang, I think TSMC will fight a price war, and they will also suffer losses."

After thinking about it, the deputy Qiu Ciyun said.

"not necessarily."

Zhang Rujing shook his head: "It is absolutely impossible for Zhang Zhongmou to make such a game that he will suffer losses. I guess their 0.25-micron chip foundry technology has matured a year ago. This time they are doing this game, they just want to kill us all at once. Center International was defeated."

It is extremely difficult for the chip foundry business to develop.

To build a chip foundry production line, the bottom line is an investment of 10 billion.

And this is one of the production lines.

Not to mention the more advanced 0.18-micron chip foundry technology.

"What do you mean by top?"

"The higher ups asked if we could persevere."

"..."

Zhang Rujing smiled wryly.

Zhang Zhongmou worked so hard to set up this game, if he can persevere, then Zhang Zhongmou's game will be meaningless.

Looking back now, Zhang Rujing knew that no matter whether he had accepted Zhang Zhongmou's contract or not, the danger would inevitably come this time.As for why Zhang Zhongmou invited Zhang Rujing over, it was just an insurance policy.

……

"Mr. Zhang, you did a good job."

Being tricked by Zhang Zhongmou, Chen Yu was a little confused at first.

It's just that when thinking of his other business, Chen Yu is not so anxious.

Instead, he was in a good mood to call Zhang Zhongmou.

"Mr. Chen, I'm sorry, it's just a business competition. I think, if you were me, you would do the same, right?"

Zhang Zhongmou said with a smile on the phone.

This layout can be said to be perfect.

He believes that with this operation, Center International will not be able to turn around in five years.

This is not a joke.

You know, in the field of chip foundry, TSMC is the real overlord.

Once Central International is suppressed this time, even if it can make a comeback next time, the gap with TSMC is estimated to be half a century.

Can you imagine what a gap of half a century means?

This means that no one wants to do this business anymore.

"Thank you Mr. Zhang for giving me a lively lesson."

Chen Yu was not angry: "That's fine, let's talk next time."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Yu carefully recalled the development process of TSMC.

When Zhang Zhongmou was at Texas Instruments, there was no chip foundry business in the world.

Usually at that time, chip design and chip production were done by myself.

Such as Intel.

Intel itself is responsible for both chip design and chip production.

At this time, Zhang Zhongmou keenly discovered the way of chip foundry.

He believes that in the future, all chip companies only need to be responsible for chip design, and he can take over all chip foundry business.

Relying on such a concept, Zhang Zhongmou was the first to create a chip foundry business in the world.

Moreover, after decades of technology and development, TSMC has become the world's largest chip foundry giant.

Not only does his business scale exceed all chip companies in the world, but their chip foundry technology completely surpasses any chip company in the world.Comparing AMD and Intel, AMD is far inferior to Intel, but why AMD can survive the competition from Intel, the answer is that AMD hired TSMC as a foundry.

Although Intel's chip design is very good, its chip production technology is very general.

TSMC's foundry chips have completely outperformed Intel in terms of efficiency, cost performance, and yield rate.

Therefore, we can see that AMD can sell chips with the same performance or even better than Intel's performance at a cheaper price than Intel.

In this, TSMC plays a huge role.

It is precisely because of this that TSMC has absorbed 61% of the world's chip foundry business by itself.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that TSMC has the strength to kill Center International by drastically reducing prices.

I remember that in the previous life, TSMC also competed with CIC in this way.

That contest made Central International could have narrowed the distance with TSMC, but was thrown out by TSMC.

Until 2020 in the previous life, the technology of Center International and TSMC was still several generations behind.

This also makes it obvious that we have a chip foundry company, but in the face of the ban by the United States, we have not many ways to deal with it.

It's not that I don't want to deal with it, but that the technology is several generations apart, so how should I deal with it?

It has to be said that this is a tragedy.

But this time, that may not be the case.

Since Chen Yu was involved in the game this time, Chen Yu couldn't be underestimated by TSMC.

Besides, moving Center International means moving Chen Yu.

Furthermore, Chen Yu also hated being tricked by others.