1991 Starting from the core

Since the route from Shanghai to San Francisco is still under planning, Gao Xiaodi's team can only transfer from HK first, and they will meet Su Yuanshan, who has just returned, in the Special Administrative Region.

This time, Gao Xiaodi led a team to Silicon Valley to negotiate with Intel. In addition to his CPU team, there was also Yu Yuru, Yuanxin's vice president of legal affairs.

When Yu Yuru was introduced to Yuanxin by Yang Yiwen, she thought about it for a long time. After all, it was Yuanxin a few years ago... and she had already planned to enter the municipal court through connections. Over the years since she joined Yuanxin, she has been keeping a low profile, but relying on her own connections and the network of her alma mater, not to mention other fields, Yuanxin is considered to be as stable as a rock in the domestic political and legal system.

Of course, according to Yuanxin's current size, even if there is no legal department, Yuanxin can basically run sideways in provincial cities and even in the country as long as it is not too excessive. Therefore, the biggest role of Yuanxin’s legal department is to handle various business contracts, especially cooperation contracts with foreign companies, as well as various patent management, etc.

Now Gao Xiaodi and Yu Yuru are heading to Silicon Valley hand in hand, which means that they are determined to get the contract back.

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"I heard that the secretary turned our press conference into a Shanghai investment fair?"

In the office of the Internet Center, Su Yuanshan, Gao Xiaodi and Yu Yuru were chatting.

"Haha, if you say that, it really means something." Gao Xiaodi thought of the scene two days ago and couldn't help but laugh: "It is said that the people in Wuxi were so angry that they even ran up to complain. It’s coming.”

Su Yuanshan laughed.

Wuxi is the "Chip City" appointed by the above. With the funds of the 909 project in place, Huajing has officially reached a contract with NEC to introduce the 0.5 micron product line, and the first phase of the project has been officially launched. It is expected to be in 1997 It will be officially put into production in the first half of the year.

With Yuanxin as a "pioneer" and a lot of money in hand, Huajing put aside the humility and caution when introducing product lines in the past, and put forward many conditions to NEC that were almost impossible to achieve in the past, including Process transfer, process improvement, engineer training, etc. NEC may have had a bright idea and saw the prospects of the domestic semiconductor market. He agreed to these requests without saying a word, and also said that we will underwrite the purchase!

And underwriting it...that's a bit of a "poverty alleviation" thing.

But NEC also has the only requirement, which is to establish an independent joint venture - it hopes to enter the mainland market in this way, rather than just being a simple equipment provider.

After multiple rounds of consultations between the two parties, the country officially approved the cooperation.

——When the news reached Su Yuanshan's ears, Su Yuanshan just muttered with emotion, Hua Hong was gone.

Yes, in the previous life, NEC also adopted the same strategy and established Huahong NEC in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. But in this life, due to the influence of many factors, "Huajing NEC" was established two years earlier than "Huahong NEC" in the previous life.

This means that even without Far Core, China is only one and a half generations behind foreign countries in terms of process introduction.

And this was a generation and a half before the process leap, which is a blessing anyway.

Nowadays, Huajing, Huajing NEC, plus Zhongxin and a group of semiconductor departments guided by the state, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Electronics Industry and other relevant departments have landed in Wuxi, making this "Chip City" a little bit more interesting. Unexpectedly, the Shanghai stock market actually took advantage of the launch of Yuanxin's CPU to stage a "drama against Taiwan" with great fanfare. It is no wonder that the Wuxi side was so angry that it wanted to "file a lawsuit."

However, Su Yuanshan knew that the so-called complaint in Wuxi was false, and the request for more policies and resources was real - the country has always supported fair competition in various places under a controllable condition.

The country is eager to support one place and then start another place on its own.

"What about the channels?" After laughing, Su Yuanshan asked again.

Because it involves long-term plans for the future, Su Yuanshan asked the CPU department to set up its own sales channels as early as the beginning of the year.

When it comes to channel issues, Gao Xiaodi's expression became a little more solemn: "From a publicity and political perspective, our press conference was very successful. But in terms of channels, everyone is still in a wait-and-see attitude. In addition to success, In addition to E-Tech's support for us, other domestic manufacturers are currently negotiating. You have to know... the domestic customs entry team has just reached a bilateral agreement in the semiconductor field with Laos and the United States not long ago."

"This thing has a big impact on us." Gao Xiaodi said, taking a sip from the tea cup, and cursed softly: "What a fool, Xinghai's office in China eats and drinks with clients every day, it's quite noisy. The posture of calming down the inside first.”

Su Yuanshan immediately coughed a few times.

He knew there were moves on Xinghai's side. After all, Cyrix had successfully opened up the market in China with its low-end series. It launched high-end Thunder series CPUs at the beginning of the year, and it was logical to inherit the market.

And with the completion of the second round of agreement negotiations by the customs entry team, which is the negotiation that has the greatest impact on the semiconductor industry, this also means that some semiconductor products from lighthouse countries will enter the country at lower tariffs than currently. In addition, various policies are also conducive to technology companies from lighthouse countries investing in the mainland.

The central processing unit is among this list.

This is the result of a comprehensive measurement by the country, and it is also the result of deliberate promotion by the lighthouse country.

Frankly speaking, in this part of the agreement, Yuan Xin, or to put it more bluntly, Su Yuanshan's opinions played a big role in this agreement.

Su Yuanshan's original opinion was very direct. Certain industries must be protected to avoid being impacted. Some industries, however, must be exposed to real enemies early in order to truly develop.

(After looking through it, it seems that when we joined the WTO, there seemed to be little protection for the semiconductor industry. Many restrictions were lifted, and tariffs were relatively low.)

"There is an impact, but our advantage is that no other company has." Su Yuanshan coughed and smiled: "All technical costs can be overcome and eventually converge, but the human cost is different. Unless they come to the mainland Build a factory, otherwise we will be deprived of benefits just from labor costs for a long time.”

"You mean our wages are low..."

"Ahem... there is no need to say this." Su Yuanshan smiled awkwardly: "In fact, after reform and opening up for so long, the biggest dividend we can rely on now is the demographic dividend, or labor dividend. Then it will be transferred to consumption. ability……"

"...Understand, in short, it is right for us to focus on the domestic market, right?"

"No, it's right to focus on the country for the time being." Su Yuanshan squinted and said softly: "The countryside surrounds the city. Sooner or later we will pull down Intel, Xinghai and AMD."