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Rebirth capital madman - Chapter 950

Published at 17th of March 2022 07:11:38 PM


Chapter 950

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In fact, there are not many semiconductor companies like Intel in Silicon Valley. Although Intel is losing money at this stage, it is also a listed company. Especially in terms of sales, it can touch a tail on the Fortune 500 list. More specifically, Intel can build its own factory, and the whole chain can operate from design, production to sales.

From this point of view, those at the same level as Intel include ultramicro, MOSTEC, Fairchild Semiconductor, etc; Up there are giants like Texas Instruments, Motorola and IBM; Next, there are a large number of semiconductor companies newly established in recent years, including LSI, seeq and ATMEL.

One of their main characteristics is that they have the brains to design excellent chips, but they don't have the financial resources to build their own factories for production. They mainly look for semiconductor factories with surplus capacity to complete the production process.

These small and medium-sized semiconductor companies are also divided into 369, such as the LSI company founded by Wilfred Corrigan, the former CEO of Fairchild Semiconductor, which is more favored by the capital there, which still reflects the "Star" effect; But what's more, even if you don't care about the other party providing financing and plunder control one day, it can't compare with the grand occasion of being sought after by capital when Intel was founded, so you have to maintain a cautious strategy in terms of finance, let alone build your own factory.

You know, with the development of the semiconductor industry, the product line continues to deepen and enrich. Accordingly, the factors of plant construction, including process, consume more and more funds.

Now Xiangjiang semiconductor company has indicated that it wants to create a new model of professional wafer foundry, which can be called the remedy to the pain of the majority of "difficult households" in the semiconductor industry in the United States.

It is obvious that the first benefit is to seek surplus production capacity from semiconductor companies that can cover all aspects of design and production, and produce for themselves. It looks good to see other people's faces. Maybe there is something fishy about secretly tripping because of the existence of competition. For example, when it is agreed, but when it comes to the scheduled schedule, it is rejected for an excuse; Looking for Xiangjiang semiconductor company, which specializes in providing wafer OEM mode, is much more transparent. It is not only absolutely fair, but also relatively fair.

Therefore, after initially digesting the new model of professional wafer foundry proposed by Sir Gao, small semiconductor companies such as seeq and ATMEL expressed their appreciation, support and cooperation on the spot.

Even participants like the semiconductor manufacturing technology alliance, who did not focus on pure commercial interests at the beginning of its establishment, believed that the wafer foundry model of Xiangjiang semiconductor company would be a good thing if it could really grow up.

After all, compared with a semiconductor industry, Xiangjiang semiconductor industry has developed from the foundation, which not only poses no threat to the American semiconductor industry, but also has a more obvious cost advantage to ensure the profits of the American semiconductor industry.

Among the positive responses one after another, when Robert Noyce, currently chairman of the semiconductor manufacturing technology alliance, spoke, the expected effect of the business activity was determined.

Robert Noyce praised the concept of two modes of fabless design and wafer foundry in the semiconductor industry, which can make maximum use of resources and remove the constraints hindering the development of the semiconductor industry. If Xiangjiang semiconductor company can practice successfully, it will definitely be an innovation.

Xiangjiang semiconductor company naturally beat the snake with the stick and invited Robert Noyce to Xiangjiang for investigation.

From the perspective of the sponsor, even if the business activity has reached its goal; On the other hand, the participants talked with great interest about the two modes of factory free design and wafer foundry, and the division of labor in the semiconductor industry to assist new ideas. That optimism was evident, because the key step in the implementation of this idea - the establishment of a factory, is that Xiangjiang semiconductor company, which is not short of money, bears the risk. Silicon Valley is nothing more than technology, and orders will be issued at that time. In case of failure, I have no loss of real gold and silver.

According to this trend of boasting and farting, the business activity will end in a way that everyone is happy, but what makes people laugh and laugh is that Andy Grove and Jerry Sanders, a president of Intel and a president of ultramicro, probably drank two more glasses of red wine and could no longer resist the anger aroused by their gratitude and resentment, There was a fierce verbal conflict.

People outside the two companies were admiring it with a playful look, while Gao Xian was sensitive to the fact that most people agreed and supported Jerry Sanders' accusation that Intel banned other companies from manufacturing corresponding compatible products from the latest generation microprocessor Intel 80386.

This phenomenon is not difficult to understand, because according to the requirements of the U.S. Ministry of defense, high-tech products have been implementing the "second supplier" rule for a long time, so as to avoid the long maintenance cycle of national defense projects, and there will be no compatible accessories available at that time.

After the implementation of the "second supplier" on microprocessors, for example, Intel's Intel 8086 series products, in addition to Intel's production, a total of more than a dozen manufacturers are producing Intel 8086 series compatible products, from American ultramicro and IBM to a new NEC, and then to European electronics giants.

Motorola's MC68000 and the mos6502, which is famous for Apple's second-generation computer, are the same. There are many companies producing compatible products.

Especially in the early 1980s, faced with a fierce attack from the semiconductor industry, 50 American semiconductor companies, including Intel and ultramicro, once secretly formed an alliance and authorized each other to reduce repeated investment. Unfortunately, before they had time to make any achievements, they divided the victory and defeat.

Until intel80286, intel was very tolerant of authorizing other manufacturers to produce compatible products. However, when Intel launched the first 32-bit x86 architecture microprocessor, intel80386, it began to change its attitude and reiterated that other companies were prohibited from developing and manufacturing compatible products.

Ultramicro has the greatest response. It has pulled enough shelves and turned a deaf ear. As before, it has reverse engineered intel80386 to develop and manufacture compatible products.

It is not hard to imagine that when business activities reach the "garbage time" stage, Andy Grove and Jerry Sanders immediately fight like the tip of a needle against maimang as soon as they touch this problem.

Therefore, Gao Xian must go to Intel to discuss this situation.

After all, Intel is at the core of the grand plan to maintain the personal computer standard of "small clothes".

As soon as he opened his mouth, sir Gao first expressed his support for Intel's "eating alone" position. "Intel has given up its semiconductor memory business and transformed into a semiconductor company with microprocessors as its main products. The hard-working Intel 80386 really can't let others enjoy the success of producing compatible products."

There are so compassionate gold owners, Andy Grove and Gordon Murph, what can they ask for? The former grumbled bitterly that the ultra-fine stream, the people's hearts are not enough for snakes to swallow elephants. It's human nature to give them permission, and it's duty not to give them permission, so and so on.

Gao Xian smiled and walked into the topic and said, "your idea and general direction are right, but your strategy is lacking in the specific implementation. At least you should realize that it is impossible to achieve the goal of eating alone in the intel80386 generation of products."




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