The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 918 Forbidden

The sentence that we have a choice made the president of Trumpf turn pale. His eyes widened, he stared at the president of AMSL, and asked sharply, "You bastard, what are you talking about?"

"Sir, please don't get excited, I'm just speaking for the benefit of the company and shareholders!" The president said unhurriedly, Trumpf is not a major shareholder, even if his eyes pop out, it's nothing The need to be afraid.

On the contrary, what a president should do is to help the company save costs, earn greater profits for the company, and give shareholders more dividends. position.

As long as what you do will not offend most of the shareholders, and even bring them benefits, then you will be invincible.

Sure enough, before the president finished speaking, some shareholders took the initiative to scold the representative of Trumpf, telling him to sit down and talk properly.It is said that this is AMSL's board meeting, not their Trumpf board meeting.Don't think about your own interests all day long, but think about the interests of AMSL.

"You...you..." The representative of Trumpf was about to collapse completely.

"That's enough, let me say something fair!" Finally, a representative of Intel stood up, coughed, and began to say something fair, "Since the purchase price of 480 million US dollars has been agreed, there can be no change , we must abide by the basic spirit of the contract!"

The words of the representative of Intel made the representative of Trumpf smile on his face, and at the same time looked at the other party gratefully. When I was about to thank the other party, the representative of Intel went on to say, "But I remember that the purchase contract of AMSL only signed 20 Taiwan. Since we must abide by the spirit of the contract, after 20 units, we will naturally have to renegotiate the purchase price. At that time, Trumpf, AMSL, and any other enterprises in China can come to discuss the remaining purchases!"

"Of course, Trumpf is also a shareholder, so it should naturally have the advantage of shareholders, so when the two companies compete for quotations, I think that unless the price gap reaches more than 10%, they should give priority to purchasing Trumpf equipment! What do you all think of my plan?" After Intel's fair words, the audience burst into applause and echoes.

You see, how perfect this plan is. It not only takes care of the interests of Trumpf, but also the interests of shareholders. It is also well-founded and convincing. It is indeed a perfect plan.

Of course, the representative of Trumpf definitely disagrees. Although the purchase price of 20 units has been kept, they will have to compete with the Huaxia people in the future, and the price can only be about 10% more expensive than the Huaxia people, that is, they can only sell 110 units. million dollars each.

And this is based on the fact that the Huaxia people will not continue to lower the price. If the Huaxia people lower the price to 10 US dollars, then Trumpf can only sell a price of 11 US dollars at most. That said, it's still an unacceptable price.

The representative of Trumpf wanted to fight, but all the shareholders around showed extremely impatient expressions on their faces. When the representative of Trumpf wanted to say more, the chairman of the company knocked on the table and said "That's enough. If you have any dissatisfaction with the price, go to the company's marketing department to negotiate. Don't waste the time of so many shareholders here. Next, we have to discuss the most important issue of the first batch of product distribution!" Director Chang said domineeringly, not giving the representative of Trumpf a chance to speak at all, he could only sit down helplessly, with despair written all over his face.

"Everyone, since Mr. President is sure to produce 30 units, we will allocate them according to [-] units now. If there is a problem with the quantity, we will give priority to allocation from next year's production!" After the chairman finished speaking, the meeting It went on.

Therefore, there are only five companies eligible to participate in the first batch of product distribution, namely Intel, TSMC, Samsung, Texas Instruments, and Hynix.

Among them, Intel and Texas Instruments are companies from the United States, TSMC is from the Gulf Province, and Samsung and Hynix are both from South Korea. This shows how the current pattern of the world's chip industry is.

"As usual, Intel wants 15 units!" The representative of Intel said very simply, taking half of the share in one breath, which seemed extremely domineering.

But as the representative of Intel said, this is indeed the old rule of AMSL. As the world's number one chip manufacturer and AMSL's shareholder and chip purchaser, Intel takes half of the market, technology and background. No one disputed the equipment, and it was settled very simply. The next really intense thing was the allocation of the remaining 15 equipment.

I won’t go into details about the specific process. Anyway, after nearly two hours of debate, the remaining four companies finally reached an agreement.

That's Samsung taking the second most quota, getting 6 devices.

And TSMC was third, taking away 5 devices.

Among the remaining 4 devices, Texas Instruments and Hynix will share equally, taking two devices respectively.

This result was actually expected by everyone. After all, Samsung is now the second largest chip manufacturer in the world. At the same time, AMSL uses a lot of technology from Samsung. Samsung does have a high demand for lithography machines. In fact, six units are considered less.

Although TSMC only took five units, about 10 of Intel's fifteen units will also be lent to TSMC, so that TSMC will provide its own OEM, so TSMC will actually obtain the right to use 15 devices.

As for the last Texas Instruments and Hynix, the former generally does not involve the civilian chip market, while the latter produces memory chips. The demand for high-precision lithography machines is not so high, and two for a family are basically enough.

However, although the competition on our side is very fierce, in fact, everyone has a smile on their faces, and it can be said that everyone is happy.

Because the previously estimated output was 20 units, this company is also conducting various analyzes and planning around the data of 20 units. Now 10 more lithography machines have been produced out of thin air, and the number of lithography machines obtained has exceeded the original plan. The number of engraving machines makes the whole plan very easy to realize. No one fails to achieve the goal of their plan, and everyone is naturally happy.

Except, of course, for TRUMPF representatives.

"Okay, if there is nothing else, then this meeting is officially over!" After discussing the final allocation of equipment, the chairman directly opened his mouth and prepared to adjourn the meeting.

"Gentlemen, wait a minute, there is still a problem here, we need to discuss it!" The president of AMSL hesitated for a while and then said, "After the press conference, we have received more than one request from Jiangnan Group. Negotiations, I hope that I can buy a newest device from us no matter what!"

"Jiangnan Group?" Hearing this name, the expressions of half of the representatives present became ugly.

"What else needs to be discussed, just refuse it!" Samsung's representative said very simply.

"Yes, according to the agreement, the top-level lithography machines are not allowed to be sold to any Chinese companies. This is not an issue that we need to discuss!" Hynix's representative also added.

"Yes, it's just that Jiangnan Group's asking price is very high. They expressed their willingness to buy a piece of equipment at a price of 3 million US dollars!" AMSL's president said.

"Three hundred million dollars!" Some directors' eyes lit up. This can make the company hundreds of millions of dollars in vain, which is worth studying.

"There is no need for this. Even if they ask for 30 billion US dollars, we will never sell it!" Hynix's representative immediately said without thinking.

"That's right, Samsung also thinks so. We must not sell the latest lithography machine to Jiangnan Group, otherwise many of us will really die without a place to bury!" Samsung's representative said very insistingly. Representatives of Samsung, one of the Korean companies with the most cooperation with the group, are very aware of the consequences if they get the most advanced lithography opportunities for Jiangnan Group.

Well, for now, the Samsung Group has basically given up on the storage chip business, because Jiangnan Group’s storage chips have cut prices three times in just two years, and the current price has been equivalent to the initial price. It looks like one-third of the time.

Such a terrifying price has completely compressed the living space of other storage chip companies. Samsung has basically given up on this business, and has no strength to compete with Jiangnan Group.

The only one here who can still compete with Jiangnan Group is Hynix.As the world's No. [-] storage device manufacturer, Hynix has given up its No. [-] position early on under the pressure of Jiangnan Group, and is currently No. [-] in the world.

But this second market share is more than three times different from No.1... Now Hynix can only rely on cooperation with Intel, Samsung and other companies, as well as the advantages of mechanical hard disk technology to ensure its own market.As for the market of mobile storage devices such as solid-state drives, memory sticks, thumb drives, and T-cards, they have completely given up.

That's right, under the strong offensive of Jiangnan Optoelectronics, there is no storage chip company in the world that can compete with them, that is, traditional storage devices such as mechanical hard drives. Because Jiangnan Group does not set foot in such equipment, so Only then can companies like Hynix stay inside and linger.

However, Hynix and the others are obviously unwilling to just bow their heads and admit defeat. They believe that if they want to break the current advantage of Jiangnan Group in the storage chip market, they must rely on high-precision lithography machines.

It is because the storage chips produced by these lithography machines can beat Jiangnan Group in terms of cost performance. This is Hynix's hope to finally defeat Jiangnan Group. In any case, it is impossible for them to let Jiangnan Group get the latest lithography machine. !

"Gentlemen, I have very reliable news that Jiangnan Group is developing computing chips for their server system. If Jiangnan Group gets the most powerful lithography machine, I am afraid that even the computing server market will be difficult for us." It's going to be lost!" The Samsung representative added, and the Intel representative immediately said, "We must firmly fulfill the contract and never allow Chinese companies to obtain the equipment on the embargo list!"

This sentence can be said to be the final word, and it directly killed the possibility of Jiangnan Group obtaining the most advanced lithography machine from AMSL.

(End of this chapter)