Although Intel's actions were legal and did not alert any of the public, in the eyes of professionals, although these methods were clever, they were not difficult to discover.
Very soon, many professional organizations that were inspecting Intel's chips discovered the changes in Intel's architecture. Although the changes were specific to the operating system, it was precisely because these changes were so precise that it was quickly determined that these changes were targeted at Da Qian.
In addition, the news that Daqian would not be able to buy Intel chips for three years was announced. Daqian Group's stock price fell at a speed visible to the naked eye … Oh, no, Daqian Group was not listed, so the stock price could not fall. However, many people discovered that Daqian was facing a great disaster.
On July 5th, after selling 12 million Qiankun Changsha, Daqian Games announced to the public that the Qiankun Changsha was out of stock. The new batch would only be available in about a month. All players must wait patiently.
It was normal for new handheld consoles to be out of stock. This kind of thing was not worth making a fuss about. Therefore, many players did not take it seriously at first. That was until many magazines published an article with a very shocking title. It was called "Qiankun Changsha will never wait for the second batch." Many users who did not manage to buy the Qiankun Changsha were shocked.
Then, when they took a closer look, they were even more shocked.
It turned out that the uncle of the reporter who wrote this article was actually a staff member of Intel's contact office in TSMC. According to this uncle, Intel's losses were very serious this time. They even concealed the fact that a large number of mid-range chip production lines were also burned down. Therefore, TSMC's mid-range Intel chip production would be greatly reduced.
At the same time, this uncle also saw the production schedule for the next two years. He discovered that Daqian Games' name was not on the schedule. This meant that the Qiankun Changsha and Qianjue's game console would not be able to get professional CPU game chips for at least two years.
What was even more fatal was that Nvidia's name was also not on this batch of production schedule. This meant that the Daqian Games' GPU provider, Nvidia, would also be in a state of chip supply. The Daqian Games would face a tragic situation of CPU and GPU supply at the same time. The first batch of Qiankun Changsha that everyone bought now was very likely to be the last batch of Qiankun Changsha!
As soon as this news was announced, all the players became anxious. Originally, it was normal for the Thousand Transformations to run out of stock. However, in the eyes of the players, it seemed to be proof that Da Qian was unable to continue producing. After all, the Thousand Transformations had never run out of stock before.
Then, the price of the Qiankun Changsha skyrocketed. Many of the Qiankun Changsha that had already been sold were priced at a shocking price of more than 100 USD on second-hand trading platforms.
As for Nvidia, it was very unlucky. Its stock price began to plummet. When someone asked Old Huang how many GPUs they had in stock, Old Huang avoided answering, saying that it was a secret or something.
However, it was quite right. Nvidia's latest RTX400 system GPUs were all out of stock. Many of the GPUs were already being sold at double the price at the scalpers.
After that, the global chip market prices continued to rise rapidly. Although Intel had always claimed that the price of Intel chips would not change, according to the information from many dealers, the price of Intel chips did not change. However, the quantity of Intel chips being sold was greatly reduced. As a result, it was very important who could get the Intel chips first.
Then, there was a special fee called the VIP channel fee. Dealers had to pay 50% of the VIP channel fee to be able to get the Intel chips from the warehouse first.
These days, even dealers had a VIP channel. This was a huge business innovation!
On the other hand, all the dealers were shocked by the high 50% VIP channel fee. They didn't seem to care about the extra 50% because as long as they could get the goods, they could sell them at double the price in the market. This was definitely a good deal that would definitely make a profit and not lose money!
The amazing thing was that as long as they were willing to pay 50% of the VIP channel fee, it seemed that all the dealers could get the Intel chips. The power of the VIP channel was indeed amazing. Everyone could make money.
All in all, the entire chip industry was very happy. The only people who were not happy were probably the Daqian and the users. But what could they do? If they were so capable, they could make their own chips!
At the same time, everyone was also observing the Daqian's response strategy. They wanted to see how Boss Jia would deal with this unprecedented crisis.
However, Boss Jia did not respond for a long time. The whole Daqian was silent. It was as if they did not know about this huge crisis. However, many CPU-related products were out of stock one after another.
"He is pretending to be calm!" Tony could not help but say when he was interviewed by a reporter.
Tony was not lying. Because soon, some rumors appeared. The most frightening one was that the Daqian was negotiating with some companies about the sale of the Daqian games' handheld and console business. Anyway, it sounded very scary.
So, what was Boss Jia doing now?
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"Hey, what do you think is this thing that is tightly surrounded?" Outside a construction site that was blocked by a large wall about three meters high, many pedestrians nearby stopped to watch and asked curiously at the same time.
"It looks like a gas station. I saw that there was cement inside and large equipment installed. Look at the road that connects to the outside. It is definitely a gas station!" A person said.
"That's not right. I saw it when they moved the equipment in. It's definitely not a refueling machine. There are two types of equipment. One is a large, square metal box. Each of them is about one meter square. Is that a refueling machine?"
"There is also a cylindrical one. Although it looks similar to a refueling machine, there are two large mechanical arms on it. Is this a refueling machine?" Another person refuted.
Just as the nearby onlookers were talking about this magical thing, it soon unveiled itself.
The outer wall was quickly dismantled, revealing the building inside.
Judging from the area of the building, the architectural specifications, and the first impression, it did seem to be a gas station.
However, upon closer inspection, the refueling machines inside were completely different from normal ones. Each of them was cylindrical, and each cylinder had two large mechanical arms. It looked very sci-fi.
The most important thing was that the sign clearly said "Daqian Power Station".
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