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Chapter 2333 This is not just an acquisition
"Ji Donglai, are you so short of money? We are a national chip manufacturer, and we must stick to the bottom line. We hope to have our own country's chips, not all foreign brands. Intel has had a monopoly for so many years, and you shouldn't help the monopolist. You made a chip printer and broke the monopoly of the lithography machine. You can't help a monopoly oligarchy anymore, Ji Donglai!"

"I am a fan of Uni-President Intelligent Manufacturing, and the products I use also use Uni-President Intelligent Manufacturing chips. I don't want to tell others that this is an Intel chip when someone asks me one day."

There were still some good things in the speeches of a group of fans, but the majority of black fans took the opportunity to stir up trouble, and many of them came up to curse their ancestors.

The basic script is that Ji Donglai only has money in his eyes and will sell anything for money.

When Ji Donglai's car was on the way back to Yakou Village, a roadblock had been set up on the road and tourism in the village was temporarily suspended.

"what happened?"

Looking at everything around him, Ji Donglai was a little surprised.

"Some haters came to your house to petition, and we were worried that it would affect your wife's rest. The village chief said that we should shut it down for a few days first, and we don't need the money for these few days."

In response to Ji Donglai's question, the villager answered politely.

Compared with those young people outside who are easily instigated, the people in Yakou Village have only one idea: Ji Donglai is a villager and cannot be influenced by outsiders.

"I understand. Tell the village chief not to worry. Just drive when necessary. At most, we can increase patrols around my house. People can express whatever they want. Go ahead!"

Ji Donglai waved his hand and asked people to remove the roadblocks, and the car slowly returned to the residence.

The family's inner residence is in three courtyards and is not affected by the outside world at all. There is only a garden and guest rooms on this side.

Qiu Haitang had just put the child to sleep. Seeing Ji Donglai come in, she helped Ji Donglai put away his coat and served him some tea.

"You're heavy, move slowly!"

After helping Qiu Haitang sit down, Ji Donglai lay directly on the other's thighs, with a rare look of relaxation on his face.

"Intel is coming?"

Qiu Haitang also read the company's news and knew that Ji Donglai was under a lot of pressure.

"It's nothing, it's just commercial hype. They know I won't sell, but they have to try. Intel has completely become second-rate now. If they don't try to change, they will be acquired soon."

"As the former overlord of the chip industry, he will not be willing to leave the stage of history, so he must try to cooperate with us. Let this matter ferment first, and someone will come out to solve it. I asked Lao Yu to go to Shanghai, and they can communicate with each other. Jieshiya knows the bottom line of these people."

When talking about Intel, Ji Donglai's words were full of sighs.

Vertically integrated management, as Intel's most important cash management model, was once the key to the company's ability to monopolize the market during the period when the management team focused on R&D and high-tech development.

However, with the continuous replacement of members in the board of directors, there is now no technically skilled CEO in the entire board, which leads to only one result: a group of shareholders only care about money.

Middle-level managers only think about taking vacations in the company, and there are many vacations every year.

As for the company's R&D and processing and manufacturing departments, they only have one thing in mind: take the money and lie down, since the top management won't understand anyway.

The lack of continuous innovation and the ability to keep up with the market has ultimately resulted in what is happening now. According to Ji Donglai's memory, Intel's market value has evaporated by at least $200 billion this year.

The most important thing is that Intel produces terrible chips. Not only do they generate a lot of heat, but their release is always delayed. More than half of the power consumption of the device processing chip is used for heat dissipation. This is increasingly lacking in the cost-conscious civilian market.

It would be better for the company to directly entrust the production of chips to TSMC or Samsung, its two huge competitors. In the field of AI chips, Intel has hardly been involved and has no idea about it at all. It is even worse than its old rival AMD.

"No way! In 2022, Intel's data center revenue was three times that of AMD. How could it fall so soon?"

Helping Ji Donglai massage his head, Qiu Haitang's eyes were full of disbelief, and Ji Donglai smiled.

"The ice is not formed in a day. The development of any chip is a long process, not to mention the manufacturing process. The chips we develop are advancing in parallel, and surpassing any track will come at a huge cost. Intel is now starting to develop AI chips, and it will take at least 10 years to see results!"

"As for chip manufacturing technology, even if they use the same process technology and equipment as TSMC, it will take five to eight years to catch up with TSMC's precision."

"If they could really catch up, the White House would not have subsidized TSMC with hundreds of billions of dollars to allow them to build factories in the United States, with even more subsidies from personnel to equipment and infrastructure. If Intel cannot acquire us, it will lose its last chance, and this company will be acquired by someone else in the future! Just like Volvo, it thinks it is high-end, but in fact it has become the most beautiful woman, the question is who to commit itself to!" Ji Donglai said, putting his arms around Qiu Haitang's waist, enjoying the tenderness of home.

"Tsk, you're just saying it, Oiran, haha! After all, I'm in a high-tech company. You call me a socialite. Isn't that embarrassing? You're the leader of a big company after all!"

Pinching Ji Donglai's ears, Qiu Haitang did all kinds of weird things, and the two of them were just like that.

In the country's capital, an important meeting was also being held at this time, and several executives in jackets looked nervous.

"Yiyuan Zhizao is negotiating with Intel. Should we stop them? Although they are not mainstream, their technology is still very novel. Should we do something about it? It would be a pity if such a company is really sold."

The old man on the left looked at the people in front of him with a serious look in his eyes.

Compared with domestic super companies, the chip division of Yiyuan Zhizao has not received much national support, and its current market size is not very large. Yiyuan Zhizao is the only one that is promoted worldwide, and it was the only one that supported itself when it was sanctioned.

Originally, many people thought that this situation was acceptable as an aid to the domestic manufacturing industry, but Intel's disruption made these people realize that the child they did not cherish was treated as a treasure by others.

"Why don't you take another look..."

"Immediately arrange for someone to meet Ji Donglai. The chip department of Yiyuan Zhizao will never allow anyone to run away. Any difficulties they have must be solved now! Do you have to wait until your own child runs away before you react? You are talking nonsense, do it now!"

The old man on the right wanted to say something but was interrupted by the old man in the main seat. The old man on the right pursed his lips, knowing that his thoughts had been seen through.

After so many years of research and development of lithography machines, the results are not impressive. Ji Donglai took the lead in building a light source factory, and the two aspects progressed at the same pace. The price he paid was much lower than that of his group of people. It was so embarrassing.

Subsidies for the domestic chip field are almost all targeted at the field of lithography machines. Now that the leaders have made the final decision themselves, the other party knows that times have changed.

Just like that, Zhao Shuying personally received a call from his leader. Within ten minutes, a large pile of documents were sent to him. Zhao Shuying immediately organized people to fill them out, all of which were about various subsidies.

Ji Donglai also saw the copy of the document, but he just glanced at it and it didn't cause any waves in his heart.

When a person has endured difficult times alone, any show of kindness will not cause any ripples in his heart. Except for life and death, which are trivial matters to Ji Donglai now.

The news about Intel's acquisition of Yiyuan Intelligent Semiconductor is still fermenting on the Internet, and the entire market sentiment is fluctuating. Many domestic semiconductor manufacturers are more panicked than foreign manufacturers at this time.

Intel has been unable to compete with foreign chip manufacturers. Once it acquires Yiyuan Zhizao's semiconductor division and uses Yiyuan Zhizao's core capabilities to manufacture chips in China, it will be able to completely cover the entire market for high-end chips.

In order to kill their group's dream of high-end chips in the cradle, the leaders of all chip manufacturers began to gather secretly and then went to the top in groups to find the leaders. Their purpose was simple: to absolutely not allow this acquisition.

Ji Donglai received a notice from his leader on the third day, and then took H7 to the conference hall for a meeting. Unlike his previous visits, this time Ji Donglai was given a badge and a tie. The conference table was next to the leader's seat, and the next seat was SMIC.

All the entrepreneurs attending the meeting were people that Ji Donglai had seen frequently on TV in his previous life, but had never seen them in this life. Unlike his previous life, this time these people looked up when they saw Shen Hao coming in. Many of them took the initiative to say hello, and Ji Donglai responded to each of them.

"Boss Ji, I heard that you are going to get rich. Once the acquisition of Intel is completed, your personal wealth will reach the level of the richest man. Congratulations in advance!"

A person in charge of the semiconductor industry looked at Ji Donglai with a sarcastic smile in his eyes. The service staff helped Ji Donglai pull out the chair. Ji Donglai sat down steadily, picked up the teacup, opened it, and took a sip leisurely.

"Why should I care about empty reputation? You guys have been making money for so many years, it's time for me to make money, isn't it?"

For a long time, domestic chip manufacturing bosses have all been entrenched in the mid- and low-end chip manufacturing fields without exception. Their positions and strengths are very stable, as if they have reached some kind of agreement with foreign manufacturers. If it were not for the strong guidance of the state, these people would even be able to go abroad to produce OEM products.

Now that I see that Ji Donglai’s company is about to be acquired by Intel, I feel the crisis.

"Mr. Ji seems to like this kind of treatment very much. It's really cause for celebration!"

Another big shot in the chip industry looked at Ji Donglai coldly. As an old senior, Ji Donglai once respected him very much, but now it seems that he is not worthy of the reputation.

"I also hope that everyone here can have the ability to be selected by Intel, and I am qualified to congratulate you, but I can see that none of you are qualified to be selected, so it is not my turn to congratulate you!"

Ji Donglai looked at the group of people in front of him with a sneer, and they all looked cold in an instant.

(End of this chapter)