He could only temporarily put aside the vision of the angel in white.
The morning routine meeting had not yet begun, and Kong Tao urgently reported to Ye Qing an emergency.
Ten minutes ago, the US Department of Commerce issued a restriction order to Monster Industries.
In the restriction order, seven of the eleven products purchased by Monster Industries from US companies were banned. The other four products were subject to an additional 50% tariff.
"I'll go to his big..."
"What are the different products?" Ye Qing resisted the urge to burst out curses.
It seems that the US did not play enough behind the State of Rigavia last time, or it was disrupted by the thunderous counterattack of Monster Industries. There was no way to make more countries tear up the cooperation treaty with Monster Industries.
Now he was personally involved.
"Seven of the banned products are chips from Qualcomm, and the products subject to additional taxes are from Texas Instruments."
"I remember that the products we purchased from Texas Instruments were also chips." Ye Qing paused for a moment, held back his anger and asked: "Is the ban specifically targeted at Monster Industries or the entire Hua Xia enterprise?"
"Specifically targeted at us."
"Very good!" Ye Qing nodded. "Before, Botong and Qualcomm had been working hard to reach a merger agreement to merge into a larger semiconductor chip company. Hua Xia is the main product sales place of these two companies. The merger requires Hua Xia's approval, otherwise it will involve product monopoly. "
"But Hua Xia did not recognize their merger and suspended their cooperation investigation. Now, the Americans must be taking this opportunity to hammer us as well. "
Ye Qing continued to ask, "Have the specific banned chip numbers printed?"
"Not yet, I came to report to you as soon as I received the news. At present, there is an electronic version. I will send it to you."
Ye Qing looked at the electronic version of the chip number and asked Kong Tao, are there any other chip companies that can replace these chips?
There are a total of eleven chip products, seven from Qualcomm. These chips are relatively unpopular, with internal integrated processing systems, read-only ORMs, analog multiplexers, and other stand-alone chips. These chips are used in mechanical engineering chairs and Mechanical Colossus Type I engineering equipment.
Qualcomm's position in the field of chips was needless to say. Half of the world's smartphones used their processors.
In addition to mobile processors, Qualcomm also had a few tricks up its sleeve in the field of industrial chips.
Monster Industries didn't use a lot of these seven banned products, but Kong Tao said that there were no substitutes for them at the moment.
The products of Texas Instruments that had a 50% tariff were all used in the Thunderbolt car.
Texas Instruments was an oddity. This company had tens of thousands of chip products under its banner. Monster Industries imported far more than just four types of monsters from them. There were at least hundreds of them.
However, Texas Instruments' tariff increase didn't mean much.
If he only targeted Monster Industries, Ye Qing could easily register a sockpuppet company.
However, the seven banned by Qualcomm were a bit troublesome. These were relatively unpopular industrial chips. There were only a few companies that could use them. It was very easy for Qualcomm to recognize that they were fake companies.
…
At the morning meeting, several general managers were so angry that they slammed the table.
The toad went up to the instep and didn't bite people.
The U. S. Department of Commerce is now an oversized toad. Although the chips they banned can't hurt the vitality of the Monster Industry, the Monster Industry really has a headache for a while.
Industry was a global industry.
It was impossible for any technology company to make a complex technological product from beginning to end.
Was Volkswagen, which had been making cars for almost a hundred years, strong enough?
But a Volkswagen car, the only core parts that were really produced by Volkswagen were the engine, gearbox, frame, suspension, and so on.
But if the engine was disassembled, it would be found inside. The spark plug was someone else's, the oil seal was someone else's, the timing chain was someone else's, the drive belt was someone else's, the generator was someone else's, the oil pump was someone else's, the electronic controller was someone else's …
The same was true for Monster Industries. It seemed to be decades ahead of the current technology, and others couldn't copy the technology products. In fact, many parts were purchased from external sources.
So were the parts and so were the chips.
"Boss, I always feel that the world line is a bit off recently." Kong Tao said suspiciously at the meeting: "Since entering the 18-year period, many business cases can no longer be applied."
"In the past, the US would never have launched sanctions against a company without even looking for a reason."
"Now they want to sanction Monster Industries, and they want to fight a trade war with Hua Xia with great fanfare. Even Europe is fighting, Japan and South Korea won't let it go. I really don't understand today's international situation. "
"I think all this is related to the new president coming to power." Yu Huali, the Minister of Personnel, nodded deeply. "This Mr. President is a businessman. He brought the business competition to the position of president."
"No matter how the international situation changes, the corporate purpose of our Monster Industries can't change."
Ye Qing took a sip of the tea in the cup. "They banned our chips because they wanted to use this method to make us realize that instead of struggling with them, it is better to turn to happy cooperation."
"But they must have forgotten the example of Amano Heavy Industries and Fresenius."
At the mention of this, several managers suddenly smiled happily.
Two years ago, Amano Heavy Industries wanted to stop the production of the DM 15550 chip urgently needed by Monster Industries by acquiring Fresenius to combat Monster Industries' products.
Monster Industries' response was very simple.
Set up the Doom Team, crack their chips in seven days, launch the better Vibrating Crystal 4, and rob Fresenius's core business in one fell swoop.
"They banned our chips, so we'll make it ourselves." Ye Qing snorted and squeezed his fist. "I want them to understand that what they can make, Monster Industries can also make."
"But what Monster Industries made, they can't!"
"Boss, do you want to contact other domestic factories?" Ji Ke, the network manager, felt a hot flame slowly burning in his chest. It was the flame of fighting spirit. He looked forward to it: "When we make replacement chips, we can refer to the plan for Fresenius and sell these replacement chips to domestic factories."
"I think with the reputation of our Monster Industries, it's no problem to squeeze Qualcomm's chips out of China."
Ye Qing shook his head.
"I don't think we can treat Qualcomm the way we treat Fresenius." Kong Tao explained to Ji Ke, "Fresenius is just a small professional company. Their main chips are only two or three. But Qualcomm is different. Their products are all over the industry. "
"We'll target a few unpopular chips that don't sell well. Qualcomm can recover the lost profits by slightly adjusting the price of other chips."
Ji Ke nodded, feeling a little pity in his heart.
It's a pity that Monster Industries has no products sold to the United States, otherwise, it can be countered.
"Don't worry, they won't laugh for too long." Ye Qing patted Ji Ke, who looked a little lost, and chuckled: "When our bionic electric muscle products are launched, the United States will beg Grandpa and Grandma to let us sell them."
… …
At the behest of the United States Department of Commerce, the news that Qualcomm banned several chips from Monster Industries caused a lot of waves among the people.
Today's Monster Industries has become the pride of the people of Hua Xia.
Every product launched by Monster Industries is so unique.
But there are always some companies and some countries that are so red-eyed that they can't see Monster Industries doing well.
There is the State of Rigavia in the front and the United States in the back.
Never mind the big and small countries like Rigavia. Why does the United States, the world's most powerful country, always have trouble with Monster Industries?
Perhaps from the standpoint of the American people, this kind of trouble is natural and must be contained.
But from the standpoint of the people of Hua Xia, this kind of past is not the logic of robbers.
They expect Hua Xia to quickly come up with a counterattack plan.
Hua Xia's Department of Commerce seems very silent.
It's not that they don't want to help, but Monster Industries is very assertive. Monster Industries has already communicated with the Department of Commerce, saying that this is just a trivial business dispute, not a big deal. Even if Qualcomm banned all chips in one go, Monster Industries has countless ways to find replacement products.
In addition, Monster Industries is about to launch an innovative product, and they will soon be able to see their tears of regret.
The Department of Commerce has long been used to Monster Industries' behavior of solving problems by themselves. Then, at the press conference, they emphasized again the ambition of rejecting Qualcomm and Broadcom and merging into a larger semiconductor company.
The next morning, Monster Industries' official Weibo posted a status.
The title of this status was [We still have 233 types of chips waiting to be banned].
The content was very simple. It was just a picture and a few words of description.
The picture was of a table with 22 different chips on it. These chips are on the table, divided into two groups.
There are 11 chips in one group. The chips on the left are arranged neatly. Seven of the chips have the Qualcomm logo on the back, and the other four have the Texas Instruments logo.
The chips on the right of the table are also 11 chips.
Compared to the black, ordinary goods with gray English letters on them. The appearance of the group on the right is simply a VIP version.
The back of its chip has a gem-like smooth texture, and the logo on it is a lifelike and majestic monster pattern.
MDM5615。
MDM600M。
AGX618。
ZER1520 …
This is the chip product number of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments.
Vibrating crystal 5615.
Vibrating crystal 600m.
Vibrating crystal 618.
Vibrating crystal 1520 …
These are the numbers of Monster Industries, one by one, neatly arranged.
"Everyone, look, isn't the chip engineer in our company awesome?"
This is the text below the picture. It's very simple, but it's also very tempting.
Of course, Monster Industries can't make 11 types of chips so quickly. The ones in the picture are all semi-finished products, but it won't take long to make them.
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