Ciyun, how many orders did the companies manage to keep? "
"Only three."
"Only three?"
"Yes, but the three companies also said that they will cooperate with TSMC after this batch of chips is completed."
In the Central International office, the founder and CEO Zhang Rujing had a serious expression.
Speaking of Zhang Rujing, Zhang Zhongmou had to be mentioned.
Both of them worked at Texas Instrument. However, Zhang Zhongmou's position was much higher than Zhang Rujing's.
Even so, Zhang Zhongmou could tell that Zhang Rujing was extraordinary.
A few years after Zhang Zhongmou left Texas Instrument and returned to Taishan to start the chip OEM business, Zhang Rujing also returned to Taishan to start the chip OEM business. Unfortunately, Zhang Rujing's technology and funds could not compare to Zhang Zhongmou. Zhang Rujing's company in Taishan was acquired by Zhang Zhongmou. Thus, Zhang Rujing came to China and established Central International.
Relying on the support of China and the huge market, although Central International's technology was not as good as TSMC, it had been developing well since its establishment. According to Zhang Rujing's plan, as long as there were no accidents, it was not impossible for Central International to catch up with TSMC in the next ten years.
But Zhang Rujing had never thought that Zhang Zhongmou would actually use a trump card on the way.
He used the method of cutting the price of 0.25 micron chips by half to take away all of Central International's business.
"Boss Zhang, I think TSMC will suffer losses if they start a price war."
Deputy Qiu Ciyun thought for a while and said.
"Not necessarily."
Zhang Rujing shook his head and said, "Zhang Zhongmou will definitely not let himself suffer losses. I'm guessing that their 0.25 micron chip OEM technology was already mature a year ago. This time, they want to defeat us in one fell swoop. "
It was extremely difficult to develop the chip OEM business.
To set up a chip OEM production line, the minimum investment was one billion yuan.
And this was only one of the production lines.
Not to mention the more advanced 0.18 micron chip OEM technology.
"What do the higher-ups mean?"
"The higher-ups are asking if we can persist."
"…"
Zhang Rujing smiled bitterly.
Zhang Zhongmou had worked so hard to set up this trap. If he could persevere, then Zhang Zhongmou's trap would be meaningless.
Now that he thought about it, Zhang Rujing knew that regardless of whether he had agreed to Zhang Zhongmou's appointment at that time, danger was bound to befall him this time. As for why Zhang Zhongmou still invited Zhang Rujing over, it was just to add a layer of insurance.
…
"Mr. Zhang, you've put on a good show."
After being tricked by Zhang Zhongmou, Chen Yu was still a little confused at first.
But when he thought of his other business, Chen Yu wasn't in a hurry.
Instead, he was in the mood to give Zhang Zhongmou a call.
"Boss Chen, I'm sorry. It's just a business competition. I think if you were me, you would do the same, right?"
Zhang Zhongmou said with a smile on the phone.
This plan could be said to be perfect.
He believed that with this operation, Centre International wouldn't be able to make a comeback in the next five years.
This was not an exaggeration.
In the chip manufacturing industry, TSMC was the real overlord.
Once Centre International was suppressed this time, even if they could make a comeback next time, the gap between them and TSMC would be half a century.
Can you imagine what a gap of half a century meant?
This meant that no one wanted to do this business anymore.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhang, for giving me such a vivid lesson."
Chen Yu was not angry. "Okay, let's talk next time."
After hanging up the phone, Chen Yu carefully recalled the development of TSMC.
When Zhang Zhongmou was at Texas Instruments, there was no chip manufacturing business in the world.
At that time, chip design and chip production were done by one person.
For example, Intel.
Intel was responsible for chip design and chip production.
At this time, Zhang Zhongmou keenly discovered the chip manufacturing business.
He thought that in the future, all chip companies only needed to be responsible for chip design, and he could take over all chip manufacturing businesses.
With this philosophy, Zhang Zhongmou was the first to establish chip manufacturing business in the world.
Furthermore, after decades of technological development, TSMC had become the world's largest chip foundry.
Their scale of business was larger than all chip companies in the world, and their chip manufacturing technology was also more advanced than any chip company in the world. Comparing AMD and Intel, AMD could not be compared to Intel. But why could AMD survive against Intel? The answer was because AMD hired TSMC to be their OEM.
Although Intel's chip design is impressive, their chip manufacturing technology is average.
TSMC's chip manufacturing efficiency, price-performance ratio, and quality ratio are much better than Intel.
Therefore, we can see that AMD can sell chips with the same performance or even surpass Intel's performance at a lower price than Intel.
TSMC had played a huge role in this.
Because of this, TSMC alone took over 61% of the world's chip manufacturing business.
Of course, because of this, TSMC had the ability to greatly reduce their prices and kill Centre International.
In Feng Yu's previous life, TSMC had also competed with Centre International.
During that competition, Centre International was able to close the gap with TSMC, but TSMC overtook them.
In Feng Yu's previous life, Centre International and TSMC's technologies were still several generations apart.
Even though TSMC has chip manufacturing companies, TSMC does not have many ways to deal with America's ban.
It's not that TSMC does not want to deal with America, but their technologies are several generations apart.
It had to be said that this was a tragedy.
But this time, it might not be the case.
Since Chen Yu is involved in this, Chen Yu must not let TSMC look down on him.
Furthermore, if they attack Centre International, they will be attacking Chen Yu.
Moreover, Chen Yu also hated being cheated by others.
Chen Yu knows it's useless to guard against this scam.
However, it was not Chen Yu's style to not fight back after being tricked.
After thinking about this, Chen Yu went to Huanyu Technologies's chip R&D department.
Feng Yu had spent a lot of money on this chip business, and it's time to start.
… …
"This kid is quite arrogant."
Zhang Zhongmou laughed when he saw Chen Yu hanging up the phone.
Zhang Zhongmou is quite impressed with Chen Yu.
At such a young age, Feng Yu had created such a big business. Zhang Zhongmou was not as good as Feng Yu when he was younger.
However, appreciation was one thing, and competition in the business world was another.
Zhang Zhongmou had been in the industry for so many years, and he had thought deeply before he took every step.
As for Chen Yu's arrogant phone call, he didn't mind at all.
But Zhang Zhongmou still has a trick up his sleeve.
If TSMC cooperates with Intel and helps Intel to manufacture chips, it will be a threat to VIA chips. VIA is now tied to Huanyu Technologies, and it will also threaten Chen Yu.
Of course, this depends on whether Intel is willing to cooperate with TSMC.
But Zhang Zhongmou is not in a hurry.
TSMC's technologies are much better than their peers in the world. This is why Zhang Zhongmou is confident.
(End of chapter)
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