The relationship between Intel and AMD is very interesting. In Feng Yu's previous life, there are rumors that AMD is controlled by Intel.
This is not only because AMD's directors are former directors and former shareholders of AMD. Both parties also have a cooperation agreement to exchange patents.
Intel and AMD's research direction has always been different. Although they are both in the processor field, their research direction is also different.
For example, AMD's dual-core processor is slightly better than Intel's, but AMD's single-core processor cannot be compared to Intel.
But if both parties exchanged patents, they will be able to master new technologies, and their processor technologies will be far ahead of other semiconductor companies. They will share the processor market.
Intel's annual sales last year is almost 10 times more than AMD. AMD's sales last year was less than 4 billion USD, but Intel's sales are close to 40 billion USD.
Although the PC market is increasing rapidly, the processor and workstation market is also expanding rapidly. But Intel's market share in the processor market has always been higher than AMD's.
However, Intel didn't dare to kill Chao Wei, as that would be monopolizing the market, and Intel would be forced to split up. Even if Intel does not want to, other semiconductor companies will sue them for monopolizing the market.
That's why Intel and AMD have been competing and collaborating.
Competition is market competition. Intel had been suppressing AMD, but they will not use their influence to stop AMD from getting any orders.
Collaborating is to exchange patents and authorizations to ensure both parties are ahead of each other. Of course, there are restrictions to exchanging patents and authorizations. Both parties will not authorize their core technologies to the other party. That means they can only authorize substandard technologies.
In Feng Yu's previous life, AMD and Intel had been suing each other for patent infringement and monopolizing certain areas.
Most of the time, AMD won as the underdog, and the most they received was 1.5 billion USD. That was much more than AMD's annual profit.
Intel and AMD will sue each other every time they introduce a new processor. It was either Chao Wei suing Intel or Intel suing Chao Wei.
Last time, it was AMD that sued Intel for unfair competition in the sales of processors. This time, it was Intel's turn to sue AMD for using pictures from the competition to promote their products. This was obviously unfair competition.
However, CHAO Wei did not care at all. Both parties had been fighting lawsuits for so many years. Even if they did not win 100 cases, they would at least win 80 cases. So be it if they wanted to sue. They would just have to snatch the market first.
Anyway, a lawsuit could not be settled in a short time, especially between big companies. All kinds of evidence, all kinds of delays, without a year and a half, there would not be a verdict. The lawsuit between Microsoft and the European Union had dragged on for 6 to 7 years.
If he saw that the other party was going to win, he could ask his lawyer to make an appointment with the other party to settle out of court. Then, the reconciliation talks collapsed, and they went to court again.
Of course, there were also successful settlements out of court. It depended on how the two parties exchanged their interests.
It's not just AMD and Intel. This kind of competition and cooperation exists between many companies in the same industry.
For example, Sony and AIWA. Both parties had authorized each other's patents and used each other's distribution channels to squeeze out their competitors and share the Walkman market.
But after AIWA was acquired by Feng Yu, this cooperation was stopped. After years of development, AIWA had overtaken Sony in portable music players, and this was something Sony had never expected.
In his previous life, Feng Yu had seen many such competitive tactics. For example, there were two dairy companies in China. One of the companies' employees created fake news that the other company's milk had problems. This caused the other company's milk products to be unsold and increased their sales.
There were also two beer companies competing with each other. One company asked its terminal to buy the other company's beer bottles to monopolize the market. Beer bottles are recyclable bottles, and when one company wanted to produce more beer bottles, they realized they did not have enough beer bottles. The rate of wastage was more than 100 times higher than normal, and they could not produce more beer bottles.
The other beer company took the opportunity to mass produce beer bottles and monopolize the market. Although they had spent a lot to buy the other company's beer bottles, they managed to get the market share, and they could earn back the money within a year.
There were also two home appliance promoters who were promoting at the same place. Then, in order to compete for customers, both parties fought each other. Both sides suffered losses, and there was even a murder case.
Also, both software companies had used their technologies against each other for the same software market. Users could use their software, but they could not use their software. These two software were incompatible.
There were many pop-up windows telling users that their software was a virus and needs to be uninstalled and deleted. This was a huge inconvenience to the users, and some users chose to delete one of the two software. Some users even deleted both software.
But in the end, one of the two software won because it had more loyal users. Under the mediation of the higher-ups, both sides patched up each other and reached a compromise. One of the companies was Tencent.
The competition between enterprises was originally a healthy competition, which was a normal business competition under certain rules. It is to see whose product is better, whose price is cheaper, whose service is better, etc.
However, some companies advocated the so-called wolf culture. In business competition, it was either you eat me or I eat you. In fact, this was something that only small companies would do. Which real big company would dare to swallow all of their competitors?
It's like Pepsi will appear in places where Coca-Cola is sold, and KFC will appear in places where McDonald's is sold. Although these companies are competing, they are also helping each other and pushing out other competitors.
Feng Yu had asked AMD's CEO, and he was told not to worry. It is normal for AMD and Intel to sue each other for this, and they will settle out of court soon.
As for how long it will take, it will depend on which company comes up with a new technology first.
But no matter what, AMD's market share will increase to more than 20% next year. Intel's market share, which is 10 times AMD's, will shrink to four times.
As long as AMD could develop a more advanced processor, the gap would rapidly shrink. Five years later, AMD's market share will increase to more than 40%.
At that time, Intel would no longer be able to underestimate Chao Wei. Or rather, Chao Wei would truly possess the ability to wrestle with Intel.
At this time, Feng Yu, Liu Chuanzhi, and the rest gathered to discuss a new product.
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