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Chapter 497 A 7000 Billion Yuan Mega Project! Yu Chendong and Lei Yijun Turn Against Each Other: If You're Not Convinced, Build Your Own CPU!

After a week-long business trip, Chen Yansen finally returned to Xucheng.

But as soon as he entered the Delta Villa, before he even sat down on the sofa, Hu Ruihui from the Chinese Academy of Sciences called:
"The government plans to establish an integrated circuit industry investment fund. The purpose is simple: to reduce dependence on overseas chips and enhance the competitiveness of the domestic chip industry through targeted subsidies."

Next Wednesday, an industry exchange meeting will be held at the Yanjing Conference Center. In addition to Tiangong Technology, Spreadtrum and HiSilicon will also be present.

In addition, companies involved in chip manufacturing, equipment and materials, packaging and testing will also participate.

The National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund)?
These three words involuntarily flashed through Chen Yansen's mind.

The National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund) is a shorthand for the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund.

It earned this nickname because of its large amount of funding, significant influence, and strategic value.

The three phases of investment totaled 7000 billion yuan, which stimulated a semiconductor market worth trillions of yuan.

In his memory, the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund (Big Fund) would not be established until September 2014.

However, it is not hard to tell from Hu Ruihui's tone that the first phase of funding seems to have been secured.

The purpose of inviting them to a meeting in Yanjing was twofold: first, to promote cooperation, and second, to hear about policies and prepare for the "distribution of money and resources."

Thinking of this, Chen Yansen's face showed excitement.

Why wouldn't I take money that's free?
This money should go to Tiangong Technology!

In the past, there were benefits such as tax and fee reductions, science and technology bonuses, and local subsidies, but at most they were only one or five million, which was like a mosquito's leg and not satisfying at all.

Now, the higher authorities are directly allocating funds, sometimes as much as one billion or two billion at a time.

Chen Yansen is not short of money, but he lacks technology and resources in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.

Although Qualcomm has not yet broken ties with him, as Tiangong Chip's market share continues to expand, who can guarantee that the other party will not use its industry advantages to coerce foundries to stop production for him?

Huaxin International, which boasts the most advanced domestic technology, simply cannot meet the production requirements of Tiangong A100.

Low output, high cost, and poor yield!
We must plan ahead!

Chen Yansen doesn't want to be choked by someone one day.

You don't even need to think about it to know how unpleasant it must be!
"Thank you for informing me, Mr. Hu. I will definitely be there on time."

Chen Yansen lay down on the sofa and readily agreed.

Only by following the general trend can we achieve rapid and stable development.

Hu Ruihui joked with a smile, "Without you, this exchange meeting would lose half its meaning."

"Mr. Hu, you flatter me. Tiangong Technology is just starting out in the industry and doesn't deserve such praise," Chen Yansen replied modestly.

"But Tiangong Technology has already surpassed Spreadtrum and HiSilicon in CPU and GPU architecture technology. Even Apple and Shanxing have paid to buy the instruction set patent of Orange Z1."

Frankly speaking, it was the advent of the Orange Z1 and Tiangong T100 chips that accelerated the implementation of the integrated circuit industry investment fund, and the launch of Tiangong A100 added the final spark.

You deserve all the credit!

Hu Ruihui praised without reservation.

His words were absolutely true.

Tiangong Technology's continuous breakthroughs in European and American patent barriers have given the higher-ups great confidence.

Since they have taken the lead in chip design, they may be able to further enhance the hard power of the integrated circuit industry by increasing industry investment and mobilizing more funds and technology.

If China can overcome a few key technologies, it may give its semiconductor industry enough say, thus enabling it to transform from a buyer to a seller and truly integrate into the global semiconductor industry system.

As for surpassing it, no one dared to even think about it.

Only those inside the industry truly understand just how complex the equipment and technology required for chip manufacturing are.

Even ASML wouldn't dare to boast that it could independently manufacture lithography machines.

Because it relies on light sources, electronic special gases, and photoresist technologies from countries such as Germany, the United States, Japan, and Korea.

The same applies to the United States; it also lacks the capability to master the technology of the entire industry chain.

Therefore, the top management's idea at this time was to reach the world's top level in a certain field, such as the manufacturing of front-end process equipment, or CMP polishing materials, optical lenses, etc., and become an indispensable part of the industry.

Chen Yansen was already used to all kinds of compliments. Although Hu Ruihui was of extraordinary status and spoke very sincerely, he did not take these words to heart.

The two chatted for a few more minutes before hanging up.

Chen Yansen tossed his phone aside and leaned back on the sofa, pondering.

How should we enter the chip manufacturing field?
After all, the higher the sales volume of the Yao Cheng X2, the more Tiangong A100 chips will be shipped, and the stronger the threat to Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Nvidia will be.

Despite Huang Renxun's current efforts to cross-license patent technologies and invest in Nvidia, the latter will still resort to underhanded tactics if Nvidia's core interests are threatened.

"Let's go up there and grab some free money to spend."

A minute later, Chen Yansen, having sorted out his thoughts, muttered to himself.

The following day, Liu Qiangdong announced the strategic plan for JD.com's home appliance business over the next three years on Weibo, and proclaimed the slogan of "Completely surpassing the US and China and becoming number one in the industry".

Huang Zheng wanted to reply: "Does my brother not exist?"
But then he thought again, since Liu Qiangdong hadn't explicitly mentioned Pinduoduo, it would seem like he lacked vision to jump in on the bandwagon. However, the phrase "number one in the industry" still made Mr. Huang very unhappy.

He thought for a moment, then called Zhang Yifeng over and instructed him to allocate some traffic resources to the home appliance category during the upcoming Double Eleven promotion.

At that time, he will release another sales report on the home appliance business, and he will make Liu Qiangdong understand a principle: it is better to do well than to talk well!

Suning's Zhang Jindong, however, showed no mercy to the "handsome young man" and publicly challenged him online: "I have more than 1000 offline stores, what do you have to compete with me? Rely on fake price discounts?"

"Users who have placed orders on JD.com know that JD.com delivers quickly, has good after-sales service, and offers low prices. Even if the price of a product is set incorrectly, as long as the user has placed an order, it will be shipped normally."

Liu Qiangdong subtly mocked Zhang Jindong.

This response evoked long-forgotten memories for users. Those who bought a refrigerator for 10 yuan at Suning last year were immediately enraged and left messages on Suning's official Weibo account and Zhang Jindong's social media accounts:

"Mr. Zhang, I don't know if Dongxing is any good, but Suning is definitely not!"

"Ghostwriting! You bring me the refrigerator, and I'll help you curse Liu Qiangdong."

"Last time JD.com had a bug, everyone else shipped their orders. What did you do? Just play dead, huh?"

The online abuse forced Zhang Jindong to disable the comment function.

Following this, JD.com's legal department filed a lawsuit with Jinling, alleging that Suning engaged in price fraud and malicious competition.

Even a fool knows that suing Suning in Nanjing is a losing proposition.

But Liu Qiangdong didn't care; he just wanted to give Zhang Jindong a hard time before the Double Eleven shopping festival.

the other side.

Ma Liyun quietly expanded Tao Diandian's business scope, moving from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and planned to enter Shanghai.

Clearly, on the eve of Ali's IPO, Ma Huateng wanted to expand the business scope to boost the confidence of North American investment institutions.

Taodian's steady expansion from regional markets to core cities not only demonstrates Ali's penetration in the local life services sector, but also sends a positive signal to investors that its business model is continuously breaking through.

This is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for their upcoming IPO and financing.

Old Ma knew that although Ali's e-commerce foundation was stable, in order to obtain a higher valuation at the time of listing, it was necessary to show investors more possibilities.

In layman's terms, you need to have a story, you need to have a life.

The offline consumption scenarios covered by Taodiandian can complement its e-commerce business, thus building a prototype of an "online-offline linkage" ecosystem.

Of course, a potential problem is that if it provokes dissatisfaction from Kuaipao or Senlian Capital, it could drag Ali into a price war.

Therefore, Taodiandian was very cautious when expanding into surrounding markets, and its marketing strategy for users was also very conservative, offering only a discount coupon for new customers, for fear of triggering a third major battle in the food delivery and group buying industries.

Ahri isn't afraid of war, it's just that the timing and circumstances aren't right.

at the same time.

Yu Chendong posted a message on Weibo, angrily complaining: "The benchmark score of Huawei A199 is not high either. Is it necessary to deliberately change the rules and weights? If you are not satisfied, develop your own CPU!"

The Huawei A199, also known as the Ascend G710, is Huawei's latest mid-range flagship phone. It uses a Hisilicon K3V2 quad-core processor, with configurations comparable to the Xiaomi Mi 3, and is priced at 1999 yuan.

The benchmark score during the previous closed beta was 23000, but now it's only 19000.

Yu Dazui's implication was that Lei Yijun lacked sportsmanship and, relying on his position as chairman of Kingsoft, attempted to showcase the performance advantages of his own products through high benchmark scores while secretly downgrading the benchmark scores of competitors' products.

So shameless!
AnTuTu has long been controlled by Kingsoft Software, and in Yu Chendong's view, it is most likely that Xiaomi is behind this.

It's either Lei Yijun or Li Wanqiang!
Yu Chendong's questioning immediately drew criticism from AnTuTu, Kingsoft, and Xiaomi.

Li Wanqiang immediately wanted to retort, but Lei Yijun stopped him.

Ten minutes later, AnTuTu's official Weibo account replied: "Version 5.0 has modified the rationality of GPU weights. The reason why the Huawei A199's benchmark score is lower is unrelated to AnTuTu software, but is due to the performance issues of the HiSilicon K3V2 itself."

AnTuTu's stance is clear: if it can't do something, don't blame third-party software.

This angered Yu Chendong, who then launched into a tirade and announced that Huawei would create a fair and impartial performance testing software.

"This guy went through all that trouble just to promote his own testing tools? He's even more shameless than Zhou Hongyi."

Lei Yijun laughed in exasperation.

This incident created a rift between the two, and their usual mutual flattery disappeared.

Then, Li Wanqiang said sarcastically, "If it's a self-developed chip like the HiSilicon K3V2, then Xiaomi can do it too."

It has to be said that after Xiaomi's valuation exceeded 100 billion US dollars, the confidence of everyone in the company has swelled up.

Chen Yansen sat in the cabin of the Gulfstream 550, watching the verbal battle between the two companies on his phone.

It's understandable that Yu Chendong and Lei Yijun had a falling out.

Everyone's selling phones, how can things possibly be harmonious?
At 2 p.m., the plane landed at Yanjing Airport.

He intended to return to the hotel first, but halfway there, his phone rang—it was a call from the Central Command!

　Dear godfathers, I'm still writing Chapter 3. At my writing speed, I estimate it won't be finished until 2 AM. Please get some rest.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)