Daguo Technology started from the Shanzhai system

Chapter 328 VIA Weisheng Electronics
But this is almost impossible, because those game software manufacturers also need costs to port their games and software to the new system.

And consumers, how could they cause trouble for themselves, after all, changing the system is very troublesome, okay?

At this time, Bill Gage looked at his old friend opposite and said with a smile.

"I don't think you need to worry too much about Intel, because we, Weiruan, are behind your Intel."

Although he, Bill Cover, and Intel President Barrett have fought openly and secretly because of interests over the years.

But the tacit understanding between them, the Weiruan-Intel alliance, has never been broken.

Therefore, although the two sides fought openly and secretly, they still fought together to maintain the interests of the Weiruan-Intel alliance.

Under such circumstances, facing the anxious Intel president Barrett, Bill Coverci also gave him a little confidence.

"Then thanks to Mr. Bill Gage."

Although this time it failed to encourage Weiruan to personally suppress Suguang Technology, but it was worthwhile to get the attitude of both parties to agree with each other again.

However, Barrett, the president of Intel, will not give up on containing and suppressing Sugon Technology. After all, Sugon Technology has created too many miracles since its establishment, so many that Intel feels like it's on its back.

Therefore, although Intel cannot borrow Weisoft's terrorist power this time, Intel will also rely on its own strength to contain and suppress Sugon Technology.

Prevent this company from entering the computer industry and prevent them from developing domestic computer CPUs, so that Sugon Technology cannot reproduce the miracle of the rise of the mobile phone industry in the computer industry.

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On the other hand, Lin Chen didn't know what happened in the Silicon Valley of Medigo.

At this time, Lin Chen was checking a lot of reports submitted by Ni Guangnan, the head of Suguang R&D Center.

These reports are very important, and they can be said to determine the development line of Sugon R&D Center in the next few years or even decades.

These reports include a progress report on the acquisition of semiconductor production equipment manufacturers, and a progress report on the acquisition negotiations of Jingfang Huachuang Company.

There is also a progress report on the procurement of corresponding R&D equipment and instruments by the Sugon R&D Center, and then the progress of the R&D team establishment.

There are many, many of these reports, each of which can be said to affect the development of the next few years or even ten years. Of course, among these reports, there are two reports that Lin Chen focuses on.

One is the acquisition progress report of the CPU manufacturer, and the other is the acquisition progress report of the graphics card manufacturer.

As for other acquisitions of semiconductor equipment manufacturers, these can be handled by Ni Guangnan and the corresponding professional team.

With the current international environment and capital reserves, Sugon R&D Center will definitely not be able to acquire funds from world-class semiconductor equipment manufacturers.

Moreover, Medigo will definitely not allow them to acquire the world's No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] semiconductor equipment manufacturers.

However, Sugon R&D Center does not have so many scruples in acquiring semiconductor equipment manufacturers ranked fourth, fifth and sixth in the world.

After all, the strength of the fourth, fifth and sixth semiconductor equipment manufacturers is not enough to shake the monopoly position of foreign technology, and they should not stop the acquisition plan.

As for the acquisition of the world's fourth, fifth and sixth semiconductor equipment manufacturers, is it enough?This is actually enough.

Because what Sugon R&D Center values ​​most is the technical patents owned by the company itself and the technical patent authorizations they obtained through cross-licensing.

So after the Sugon R&D Center acquired them, it means that the Sugon R&D Center will have the qualifications to develop, produce and sell the equipment.

"What is the attitude of VIA Weisheng Electronics on the Bay Island towards our acquisition of their computer division?"

When Lin Chen looked at the document report, he also asked about Ni Guangnan.

Facing Lin Chen's question, Ni Guangnan paused for a moment, then slowly replied:

"VIA Weisheng Electronics of Wandao really has the intention to sell, because they can't support it.

After all, since 1999 they acquired Cyrix processor company for $1.6 million.

Then in the same year, it spent US$5100 million to acquire IDT's Centaur processor company, and in 2000, it spent US$3.22 million to acquire S3, the world's third-ranked graphics card manufacturer.

Three major acquisitions that can be said to be traumatic, plus the money spent on research and development of CPU and graphics chips for several years.

Then, coupled with the few sums of money lost by Intel's patent infringement lawsuit, they are almost unable to support it now.

Although they released a variety of C3 desktop processors, Hanteng Antaur mobile processors, SavageXP graphics cards, etc., they were well received both in the Bay Island and in China.

But whether it was popular or not, the sales volume has never been able to rise.

In this case, Weisheng Electronics can't even get back the research and development costs of developing CPU processors and SavageXP graphics cards in the past few years, let alone making money.

It can be said that they have lost at least 20 billion US dollars in the CPU and graphics card business in the past few years.

This is a huge burden for a company whose profits mainly depend on chipsets, sound cards, and complete computers, and it is also a burden that cannot be supported. "

Hearing Ni Guangnan's words, Lin Chen also nodded slightly to express his approval, which was also consistent with what he knew in his previous life.

If it is said that Weisheng Electronics has the last swan song in the CPU business, which is the Weisheng C7 processor released next year, then the graphics card will be gone.

Since VIA released the SavageXP graphics chip in 2002, they have not developed and released a new graphics chip since they were too miserable.

"Do they have any intention of selling it as a package?"

Lin Chen asked about Ni Guangnan.

The reason for asking this question is because Weisheng Electronics operates the three major cash-burning businesses of CPU, graphics card, and chipset, and the other party may not be willing to sell the chipset business.

"They are only willing to sell the CPU and graphics card business, but the chipset and other businesses are not willing to sell. After all, their chipset and other businesses are also in a profitable state."

Hearing Ni Guangnan's words, Lin Chen nodded slightly, and then said slowly:
"Well, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is the CPU and the graphics card.

The chipset thing is developed around these two things after all, but it would be great if they are willing to sell us the basic patent license of the chipset. "

"That should be talkable."

Ni Guangnan gave his answer.

Hearing this, Lin Chen looked at the document report, and then frowned when he saw the quotation of Wandao Weisheng Electronics for the packaged sale of CPU and graphics card business.

Because the quotation of VIA Weisheng Electronics in Wandao is too high!
"$40 billion, is this killing us like pigs?!"

Nawandao Weisheng Electronics has been overwhelmed by itself, and has been deeply involved in lawsuits since they entered the processor industry.

Since 1999, it has been fighting patent lawsuits almost every year, and it was not until March 2003 that it reached a compromise with Intel.

In this case, I was caught in a lawsuit, and the CPU processor that I spent a lot of money to develop was unfavorable in sales, and I lost nearly 20 billion US dollars in a few years.

At this time, Weisheng Electronics dared to ask for a price of 40 billion U.S. dollars, which was simply trying to kill Sugon R&D Center like a pig.

"They are also confident. After all, there are not many processor manufacturers in the world that still hold the X86 instruction set authorization."

Speaking of this, Ni Guangnan also feels quite a headache, after all, the computer industry is different from the mobile phone industry.

After decades of fighting in the computer industry, there are only a few CPU manufacturers that can still survive.

(End of this chapter)