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Chapter 308 Everyone gets what they need
"It seems that Nvidia has also chosen to compromise. Silicon Valley has become a joke," David Hopkins said, forcing a smile.

"There is no better way. Mr. Huang hopes that Nvidia can survive. I will probably resign voluntarily when I return."

Chris Malarkey said succinctly that there was no point in saying more at this time. As the CEO, he could no longer decide the direction of the company, and there was definitely no point in continuing to do so.

Of course, since the board of directors chose another path, he could no longer continue to work as CEO.

After all, he had already broken off negotiations with the Chinese side.

Although he was also executing the will of the board of directors at that time, now the board has changed its mind, so he naturally has to pay the price.

As I said, when the opposing force is a system, individual power is always insignificant.

Even if it was the emperor in ancient times whose words were said to be law, if he did not have enough skills and power, it was unclear whether the orders he issued could leave the palace.

Not to mention that the so-called CEO position does sound very impressive, but in essence it is just a senior employee hired by the board of directors.

He is not the first CEO to take the blame for the board's decisions, and he will not be the last.

When things happen, the ones who are truly irreplaceable are actually those senior scientific researchers who are not taken seriously in normal times.

"It's good actually. Now that President Huang is here, you can unload the burden. Unlike me, I have to wait for the board of directors to finish arguing before I can do anything." David Hopkins said self-deprecatingly.

"Before you leave, I want to advise you that there is no hope. The more you invest, the greater the disappointment you will suffer in the end. It is better to give up and let them go!" Chris Malarkey said lightly.

"Ah……"

David Hopkins just wanted to laugh when he heard this.

What else can he invest in?
He has lost all his dignity. At this time yesterday, he was still indignant and wanted to regain his dignity, but now he just wants to get back to the headquarters as soon as possible, and then he doesn't care. What does the destruction of this world have to do with him?

He even began to envy Chris Malarkey, who could finally leave this mess behind.

"By the way, entrusted by the board of directors, I have to meet with Brad before I leave. Do you want to come with me?"

David Hopkins was stunned for a moment, then he thought of what he said to Brad Smith yesterday.

He thought he would meet the Microsoft boss last night, but who knew that this guy went to a dinner party specially held for him by the Chinese. He even saw a video of this guy drinking and chatting happily with a group of Chinese people.

He still remembered how he felt when he saw those videos yesterday. Really, he wanted to just shoot Brad.

Of course he also knew why Nvidia's board of directors asked Chris to meet with Brad before leaving.

The most ironic thing about this world is that those who kneel faster have a slightly better status than those who kneel slower.

David Hopkins doesn't know whether those people in the White House have thought of this. But it is clear that this trend has begun to take shape, and these people will surely be nailed to the pillar of shame in history...

Unfortunately, historical evaluation is completely useless for the current situation.

After hesitating for a second, David Hopkins shook his head and replied, "Forget it, I won't meet him."

As long as he had a choice, he absolutely didn't want to see Brad Smith's smug face!
This damn American traitor!
……

David Hopkins was not disdainful of meeting Brad Smith, but in fact it was quite difficult to meet Brad Smith at this time.

Brad Smith is busy, after all.

I'm not being pretentious, I'm just really busy!

On the one hand, with Qiao Yu's advance notice, all negotiations with the Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance will begin to proceed in an orderly manner.

Taking the most basic game development as an example, if you want to develop a game that is adapted to the virtual screen, it is not a simple matter of saying so. There are many technical details that need to be discussed, especially some technical details may be confidential.

In addition to negotiating with the Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance, many Western technology leaders have also begun lining up to talk to Brad.

Judging from the current situation, even though pure software companies such as Google and INS surrendered earlier, they have not actually established a bridge of communication with Qiao Yu, the soul of this technological innovation.

Brad Smith is different.

At yesterday's dinner, Qiao Yu showed very ostentatiously that he had established a very close relationship with Brad Smith.

This is a signal.

To be honest, no one is sure yet. Negotiations with the Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance are not going very smoothly.

The main thing is that things have changed too quickly in the past few days!

Originally, everyone was very confident. After all, they still had the support of one of the most powerful countries in the world, which was the biggest source of confidence for businessmen.

After all, the most basic logic of business is rules.

Only when everyone abides by the rules can there be a good business development environment.

This is why everyone wants to be a rule maker. The most perfect business environment is to make a rule that is more beneficial to oneself and then let all participants act according to the logic of this rule.

But obviously, if you want to achieve this, you need a very powerful force to endorse it, and this is the role of a strong country.

It is no exaggeration to say that most of the global trading rules were previously discussed and formulated by them.

One of the reasons why everyone is willing to follow these rules is that they have a strong background.

As a result, their greatest reliance now suddenly announces cooperation with competitors at the most critical moment, which is also a huge variable for those companies that have already planned to cooperate.

This caused some panic among the bigwigs who wanted to negotiate. The current situation seemed to be that the surrender was incomplete, or it was not surrender at all.

This is very embarrassing.

To use the classic quote of that person, they really have no cards left. In fact, since the White House and Microsoft started to express their opinions in their own ways at the same time, they have completely lost their cards.

So at this time everyone wants more sense of security and to gain a relatively good position in the subsequent cooperation.

After all, many companies are never indispensable.

For example, Google search. Not to mention Google, even Chinese local search engines will definitely have a hard time in the future.

The rapid development of artificial intelligence and big data technologies, the application of deep learning models and personalized and accurate recommendations have made the previous correlation search technology lag behind by an era.

In addition, quantum simulation computing technology can better support real-time big data processing, and the advantages established are unmatched by traditional searches such as Boolean search, keyword matching, and PageRank algorithm.

Not to mention that there is actually no problem with usage habits when it comes to search engines.

The significance of Google's existence is actually no longer a search engine, but more about its efforts in promoting the Google architecture, the construction of the technical architecture and ecosystem behind it, and especially its seamless user experience.

This includes a unified account system, mobile ecology and cloud platform.

In other words, when products equipped with quantum simulation computing are promoted worldwide in the future, they can directly use Google's architecture to quickly get consumers started.

This is also Google’s biggest role in the Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance, and other software companies are actually similar.

It’s not that the software cannot be developed, but it’s more cost-effective to use it directly.

And there are deeper considerations above.

There has been a widespread saying in the outside world that China has no room for cooperation with any country and is not capable of taking on the responsibility of being a leader in the new era. The reason lies in China's huge size and overdeveloped industrial system.

The entire industrial chain means that once China takes over an industry, it will not spit out even the scraps for others to share, but will digest it all by itself.

This also means that if you want to do business with the Chinese, you can only accept the export of agricultural products and basic resources with lower added value, such as soybeans, various meats, oil, coal, iron ore, etc.

These things are certainly valuable, but after all, resources will eventually run out. As for agricultural products, the added value is too low. Once a country really relies on exporting these products, it will be very difficult to transform!
Modern civilized industry is the highlight!
Not to mention anything else, all kinds of fertilizers needed for agriculture need to be prepared industrially, not to mention that heavy industry is closely related to national defense.

Once other countries are unable to compete with China in terms of technology and industry, after dozens or hundreds of years, China may become the de facto technological and industrial monopoly.

This is what many countries and regions fear. The low-cost advantage of the entire industry chain, coupled with unrivaled scientific research capabilities, is enough to create a three-dimensional technological and industrial Krussoo monster, which will cause a dimensionality reduction attack on all countries and regions.

This is actually similar to the stress response of animals. Many times, dogs start to bare their teeth unconsciously because they are afraid.

The same is true between countries.

It was simply because Xida was supporting it from behind, which was like a chain around a dog's neck, so it dared to bark.

But now Xida has a tendency to let go. Although they certainly won't dare to bark at this time, it will be very troublesome to use all kinds of small tricks.

Especially in China, when doing things, people pay attention to the principle of justice. Generally speaking, they will try to win over the enemy first. They will only take action when the enemy is really disobedient, and usually the action is quite ruthless.

When the other party surrenders and shows goodwill, the Chinese will generally choose to give some benefits first. There are many such examples in history. For example, Guan Zhong surrendered to Duke Huan of Qi and was directly appointed as prime minister; Cao Cao accepted Zhang Liao and entrusted him with an important task, which was nothing more than raising a banner that would favor surrenderers and offset some people's confrontational psychology.

Giving up some interests slightly and raising the banner that cooperation is better than confrontation is undoubtedly in the best interests of China at the current stage of the earth.

It's not that we don't have the strength, but we have to consider whether the cost of governance is worthwhile. It is well known that Florida does not support idle people, and China does not support lazy people.

In the West, the capital obtained through plundering has spawned a bunch of capitalist giant babies who have not had time to suffer much hardship in life, especially the taste of hunger.

It is naturally difficult to manage this kind of people. They are prone to be ungrateful and no one wants to support a bunch of bosses.

So this is the time to give everyone some hope and tell the world that China has never thought of taking over all industries.

As long as people are willing to join in, it is very important for China to be open-minded and tolerant.

In fact, in Qiao Yu's opinion, there is no need to show this kind of attitude.

What China should do most now is to show that its vision is no longer limited to the Earth, but its determination to develop the entire solar system and even advance into the depths of the universe.

Tell everyone in the world that the space-based defense system is not only for internal use, but also for external use.

Earth civilization is a whole, and in the future it will only be the rear base of the entire civilization. It is enough for the tentacles of civilization to be able to reach into the solar system.

By joining in, we can also get a share of the future interstellar development. In any case, when humans can really migrate to the stars in the future, human resources will become the most important resource.

This can be seen from the history of colonization when the North American continent was discovered. Every time humans discover a large amount of unknown land and need to cultivate it, manpower itself is the most important.

As long as the population continues to grow, it will bring about rapid growth in GDP and economy.

As for those places that are unwilling to cooperate, I'm sorry. They will be directly excluded from the newly established trade circle, and when the interstellar development really begins in the future, they will naturally have no share.

But obviously, Qiao Yu's idea was too radical and was not adopted. Fortunately, Qiao Yu didn't care too much about it.

Anyway, people often think that his ideas are too advanced. Although he has been proven right time and again, if a person does not make several mistakes in the same place, is he still a person? So he has become accustomed to it.

He just needs to focus on doing his own thing. Anyway, he already has his own platform now and can realize his ideas without too much external help.

He is still young, and now the second phase of space-based defense and the moon landing program have been merged. In a few years at most, everyone will see the hope of humans setting foot on the stars.

Then everyone will believe it.

There's no harm in giving these people a few years to think about how to surrender in a more handsome way.

That's why he talked so much to Brad Smith at the dinner yesterday. He was also happy to see Brad Smith busy.

It would be a good idea to spread the advanced ideas of the Microsoft CEO as soon as possible, so that he won't have to do anything when the time comes.

Brad Smith was enjoying it at the moment. Compared with the trepidation he felt when he first arrived, he seemed to have found the meaning of life at the moment.

Those who once treated him as an equal or even looked down upon him now had to be very careful when speaking to him.

Even those on the board of directors did not dare to mention the previous agreement and only asked him to do the negotiations in China.

This means that he can completely ignore the advice of Bill Gates and those so-called senior bosses and plan the future development of Microsoft according to his own ideas!

This is what life is all about!

(End of this chapter)