Reborn Capital Madman

In fact, there are not many semiconductor companies of the level of Intel in Silicon Valley. Because although Intel is losing money at this stage, it is still a listed company at least, especially in terms of sales, it is on the Fortune 500 list.

To be able to touch the tail, more specifically, Intel can afford to build its own factory, from design, production, and sales, the entire chain can operate.

From this perspective, those with similar levels to Intel include Ultramicro, Mostec, Fairchild Semiconductor, etc.; upwards are giants like Texas Instruments, Motorola, and ibm; downwards are lsi, seeq, and atmel.

There are a large number of newly established semiconductor companies in recent years.

One of their main features is that they are smart enough to design excellent chips, but they don’t have the financial resources to build their own factories for production. They mainly look for semiconductor factories with surplus capacity to complete the production process.

These small and medium-sized semiconductor companies are also divided into different levels. For example, the LSI company founded by former Fairchild Semiconductor CEO Wilfred Corrigan is more popular with the capital of YiBan, which still reflects this.

"Star" effect; but more, even if the other party who provided financing, one day plundered control, it would not be comparable to the grand occasion of Intel's founding and was sought after by capital, and then it had to maintain a cautious strategy in finance, not to mention

Talk about building a factory by yourself.

You should know that with the development of the semiconductor industry, the product line has been deepened and enriched. Correspondingly, the factory building elements, including process, are increasingly consuming capital.

Now Xiangjiang Semiconductor Company has expressed its desire to create a new model of professional wafer foundry, which can be regarded as the right medicine for the pain of the vast number of "difficult households" in the US semiconductor industry.

The first benefit here is obvious. Looking for semiconductor companies that have the ability to cover all the design and production, we will find surplus production capacity and produce for ourselves. It depends on the good looks of others. Maybe there is still a competitive relationship.

The tricks of secretly stumbling, such as having agreed, but when the scheduled schedule was set, I refused on the grounds; and finding a Xiangjiang Semiconductor Company that specializes in providing a wafer foundry model is much more transparent, and it will be absolutely fair without saying that.

, it is also relatively fair.

So, after initially digesting the new professional wafer foundry model proposed by Sir Gao, small semiconductor companies such as Seeq and Atmel expressed their appreciation, support and cooperation on the spot.

Even participants like the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Alliance, whose design was not simply commercial interests at the beginning, all believed that if the wafer foundry model of Xiangjiang Semiconductor Company could really grow, it would be a good thing.

After all, compared with Yiben semiconductor industry, the Xiangjiang semiconductor industry has developed from the basics, which not only does not pose any threat to the US semiconductor industry, but also has more obvious cost advantages to protect the profits of the US semiconductor industry.

Among the positive responses, when Robert Noyce, currently the chairman of the Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Alliance, spoke, the expected results of this business activity were confirmed.

Robert Noyce praised the idea of ​​factory-free design and wafer foundry in the semiconductor industry, which can maximize the use of resources and remove the constraints that hinder the development of the semiconductor industry. If Xiangjiang Semiconductor Company can practice it successfully, it will definitely be.

A pioneering move.

Xiangjiang Semiconductor Company naturally beat snakes and rode on the stick, and invited Robert Noyce to visit Xiangjiang.

The commercial activities are here, from the perspective of the organizer, even if the goal is achieved; while the participants are enthusiastically discussing the two models of factoryless design and wafer foundry, the semiconductor industry's division of labor and assistance new ideas, which

Optimism is beyond words, because this idea is a key step to implementing the idea - building a factory is a risk-taking by Xiangjiang Semiconductor Company, which is not short of money. Silicon Valley is nothing more than technology. If the order is issued, if it fails, it will have nothing to do.

Loss of real money and silver.

According to this trend of bragging and fucking, this business event will come to an end in a happy way, but what is ridiculous is that Andy Glov and Jerry Sanders,

An Intel president and a super micro president probably drank two more glasses of red wine, and could no longer hold back the anger aroused by the grudges between them, and a fierce verbal conflict occurred.

People outside the two companies were watching playfully, while Gao Qian sensitively noticed that most people accused Intel of banning other companies from manufacturing starting from the latest generation of microprocessor Intel      80386.

Correspondingly compatible products are treasonous words, with approval and support.

This phenomenon is not difficult to understand, because according to the requirements of the US Ministry of Defense, for a long time, high-tech products have been implementing the "second supplier" rules to avoid a long maintenance cycle of national defense projects and no compatible accessories are available at that time.

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After the "second supplier" is implemented on the microprocessor, such as Intel's Intel 8086 series products, in addition to Intel's production, it ranges from the US's ultramicro, ibm, to the first-book nec, and then to the European electronics.

Giant, there are more than a dozen manufacturers producing compatible Intel 8086 series products.

Motorola's mc68000 and Mos 6502, which is famous for Apple's second-generation computers, are also in this situation. There are many companies that produce compatible products.

Especially in the early 1980s, facing fierce attacks from the YiBan semiconductor industry. Fifty American semiconductor companies, including Intel and Ultramicro, once secretly formed alliances and authorized each other to reduce repeated investment, but unfortunately they didn't have time to do it.

What's the point of being successful? The winner will be decided.

Until Intel   80286, Intel was very tolerant of authorizing other manufacturers to produce compatible products, but when Intel launched its first 32-bit x86 microprocessor - Intel    80386, it began to undergo a 180-degree change in attitude.

It is constantly reiterated that other companies are prohibited from developing and manufacturing compatible products.

Ultramicro has the greatest reaction. It has already pulled the air and turned a blind eye. It has also reverse engineered Intel     80386, developed and manufactured compatible products like before.

It is not difficult to imagine that when the business activity reaches the "garbage time" stage, Andy Glov and Jerry Sanders touch on this problem slightly and immediately fight like a needle-to-headed fight.

For this reason, Gao Xian must go to Intel to discuss this situation.

After all, Intel is at the core of its grand plan to maintain the standards of personal computers in the "small outfit" lineage.

As soon as he opened his mouth, Sir Gao first expressed his agreement with Intel's "eating alone". "Intel has given up its semiconductor memory business and transformed into a semiconductor company with microprocessors as its main product. Intel, which has worked hard to develop, does not really not.

Let others enjoy the production of compatible products.”

There is such a compassionate funder, Andy Glov and Gordon Molfe, what else do you want? The former muttered in disappointment, "There is a favor for people to swallow elephants."

Permit is the duty, and so on.

Gao Xian smiled and stepped onto the topic: "Your thinking is the general direction, but when implementing it, the strategy is lacking. At least you should realize that in the 80386 generation of Intel, we will achieve the goal of eating alone,

It's impossible."