I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 530: 365-366: This bastard era! (4000 words)
Soon, the news that Hillhouse was developing a new robot spread all over the world.

In addition, many companies, including Maxik and others, have begun preliminary research on robot products.

The concept of 'ALL IN AI' first proposed by Gao Huaijun was ridiculed a few years ago, but now it is very popular.

Not to mention in China, even in the United States, the concept of AI is now the number one concept in the U.S. stock market.

Gao Huaijun's slogan has supported so many hot money and institutions!

Now, as the originator of the concept of 'ALL IN AI', it is natural that a lot of people will follow it if it wants to build a dedicated robot BU.

There is no way. In the past, Hillhouse only had that small sampan, so it could do whatever it wanted and no one would know about it.

Now as the head of the Fortune Global 50, a TOP giant, and the head of the world's top technology industry group, its every move will be watched by peers around the world.

Naturally, any move made by Hillhouse will be an open one.

There is no way, this is the charm of benchmark!

There are some things that you can't hide just because you want to.

It's like stock trading. When you only have tens of thousands of dollars in capital, it doesn't matter which stock you invest in.

But suppose your capital is over one million.

Sorry about that!

Your volume has already caused great hidden dangers to the market makers who are speculating with hot money, especially those with a market value of less than 10 billion yuan.

At this time, if you are not washed out, hot money will not push up the stock price.

There is no way around it. Lifting a barbell is inherently difficult.

If there is no banker for a stock, there will basically be no big doubling of its value.

What would you do at this time?
Either you split it into ten small shares of about 100,000 each, and split them into ten stocks, so that ten market makers will ignore you, or you can only leave honestly.

And now Hillhouse is facing the same situation.

As a leading company in the Fortune 500, your every move will have a huge impact on the world. It is no exaggeration to say that some of your big moves can even affect the course of the world.

And this side.

After a day's meeting, Gao Huaijun wanted to take a break and return to his private home in Taihu Lake.

Feng Xiaochen hurried in at this time, his face a little pale, "Mr. Gao, very bad news, the United States has introduced a new bill to prohibit foreign companies from selling chips below 10 nanometers to Hillhouse!"

"What this means is that Hillhouse Group has seriously affected the security of the country!"

The weather is very good today, and Gao Huaijun was feeling very relaxed. He hoped to go back this afternoon and swim in the Taihu Lake near the villa.

The water quality in Taihu Lake is very good now, and it is very comfortable to swim in the afternoon.

But when he heard Feng Xiaochen's words, he was shocked!

In the previous life, he had received corresponding punishment, which was mostly caused by some things that happened in the East Central region.

Hillhouse will not get involved in information security business at all.

This is also to carefully avoid minefields.

But. . .

Is this how you play Hillhouse?
Gao Huaijun's face immediately became so gloomy as if water was about to drip.

He had been preparing for this day for more than ten years, and even during the years after his rebirth, he had some worries.

However, he concealed his emotions very well.

Unexpectedly, this day has finally come!
Moreover, it came more unexpectedly than he had imagined!
There were absolutely no signs of this.

You know, before Zhongwei got into trouble in the previous life, Huaxing got into trouble first, and then Zhongwei got into trouble.

Moreover, Zhongwei will not be in trouble immediately. There are buffers in between. For example, products in which Taiji Electronics' share of the United States technology is below 20% cannot be sold to Zhongwei.

This buffer also gives Zhongwei several years of hedging time.

Now, Hillhouse is directly banned from selling chips below 10 nanometers.

It’s obvious that they want Hillhouse’s high-end mobile phone products to die!

"Immediately convene a meeting of the heads of Hillhouse Technology, Hillhouse Vehicles, and Hillhouse Chips. Oh, and President Ning, no matter what they are doing now, come to my office in half an hour!" Gao Huaijun gave a direct order.

This incident has a great impact on Hillhouse.

Hillhouse is upgrading its chip products step by step, but Gao Huaijun is not familiar with the chip field and cannot accelerate the process. The most he can do is provide financial support.

Now he needs to gather together with other responsible persons to know how to deal with this matter.

After several people arrived one after another, Gao Huaijun said in a deep voice, "I believe you have heard what Secretary Feng said. What do you think about this?"

Although he also knew that this major incident moved from 2019 to 2018.

But things have happened, and we have to face what we have to face!

At this time, Min Weiguo, Wang Fengying and others all looked slightly pale.

They didn't expect that things would suddenly turn out like this!
In this era of globalization, almost no company has ever suffered such a blow.

You know, they are one of the top companies in the Fortune 500. It seems that they have high profits and good returns now, but if they lose a large part of their business all of a sudden, it will be really fatal.

"Let me tell you about the actual situation on my side."

"If the production of chips below 10 nanometers is stopped directly, our Mate series and P series will be greatly affected!"

“This aspect is basically impossible to correct at present.”

"After all, the Mate series and P series have already tried to use 7-nanometer chips for mass production. Now that production has stopped, we really have no way to continue production, and we don't even have a backup plan."

"But thanks to Mr. Gao's chip storage plan, we usually only stock three months of chips, but we now have six months of inventory for the Mate series and P series."

"This new law will not take effect until the first of next month. We can reach an agreement with Taiwan Electric Power Company and they can supply us with some new goods."

"Then our inventory can conservatively last up to eight months."

“But eight months later, there is still a risk of supply disruption!”

Min Weiguo smiled bitterly.

While he was smiling bitterly, he was secretly feeling relieved in his heart.

Fortunately, Gao Huaijun overcame all objections and established the Hillhouse chip factory.

Otherwise, Hillhouse Technology would most likely have died.

In extreme cases, if both Hillhouse's Mate series and P series cannot be used, there will still be some low-end chips available for later sale.

It is estimated that the profitability is not good enough, but it is estimated that it can barely maintain a small profit. After all, you can't just fire the R&D staff of the Mate and P series, right?
This part used to be a golden doll, but now it is becoming a burden.

This is a sea change.

There will also be big problems in channel stores.

Today's channel dealers are making a lot of money.

But there is a big problem, that is, this is based on the sales of the Mate series and the P series.

After removing the Mate series and the P series, and adding some fixed expenses of the store, will there be a loss? This is really a huge question.

In other words, whether Hillhouse's channel system can withstand the test is a very big question.

Hillhouse Capital is a large company with a huge business, so it can hold on, but the situation with Hillhouse’s distributors may not be the same!
"Li Zongli, Mr. Li, what do you think?" Gao Huaijun did not comment and turned to ask Li Zongli who was standing beside him.

"Here at Hillhouse Chip..."

"We have now reached the 7-nanometer level in chip pre-development, which means our chips can fully reach the world's leading level!"

"But if we really play like this now..."

Li Zongli seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Developing a chip is not just a child's play.

This will consume a lot of manpower and material resources.

The research and development of a seven-nanometer chip costs approximately 2.49 million to 3 million US dollars.

In addition to R&D costs, it is also necessary to consider costs such as wafer production, mask making, packaging and testing, which will significantly increase the overall cost.

It can be said that the research and development of 7nm chips is a huge project.

However, playing it this way now means that the 7-nanometer chips currently under development cannot be taped out at all, let alone pre-production!
If this continues, should Advanced Process Technology lay off its team?

Li Zongli didn't dare to say this, nor could he say it.

The current team is an old team that has been working together for more than ten years, and the first batch of people have become top players.

It can even be said that they are not inferior to chip developers in other developed countries in the world.

Now he is asked to lay off these people directly. Isn't this more painful than cutting off his flesh?
People are all made of flesh and blood.

"I know, where is the Hillhouse Chip Factory, Director Wang Ming!" Gao Huaijun looked to the other side, where Wang Ming was sitting alone.

Hillhouse Chip Factory is a younger brother of Hillhouse Chip and has always been relatively low-key.

After all, this factory has always been making losses.

It took a lot of effort to mass-produce some low-end chips, but they were basically purchased individually by the company, and the surface prices barely broke even on the cost.

People from Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicle have many complaints about this.

After all, if your costs are high, the price of your product will naturally be high.

This will affect profits!
If this affects profits, won’t it also affect bonuses and performance?
Therefore, the people from Hillhouse Chip Factory have always been unable to hold their heads up in front of other sister companies.

"Now we are still far away from even the 10-nanometer chip and cannot mass produce it, let alone the 7-nanometer chip. The difficulty of the manufacturing industry is more difficult than we imagined!" Wang Ming said with a wry smile.

In this place full of bigwigs, he felt quite cautious.

Gao Huaijun took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

Then let out the breath!

This fucking era!

Now that they can't even make 10-nanometer chips, it's basically unrealistic to ask Hillhouse's chip factory to quickly make 7-nanometer chips.

Is this going to cause Hillhouse Technologies to completely stop operations?
Even some of Hillhouse's high-end graphics chip manufacturing has been affected to a certain extent.

Now Hillhouse vehicles can only be down-clocked and some castrated graphics chips can be used to increase the performance.

Anyway, compared to a mobile phone, the space in a car is large enough, so there is enough room in the car to perform this practical operation.

At this moment, the scene was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop!
no way.

This situation was so sudden that everyone was stunned.

In this sudden situation, no one dared to move and could only rely on Gao Huaijun to make decisions!

"Mr. Li, I know that among your people, there is a guy who is very good at making chips, his name is Liang Mengsong. Do you think it is possible to find someone to recruit him to our company?" Suddenly he opened his eyes and looked at Li Zonglin who was standing beside him.

I don’t know if it was the influence of Hillhouse’s intervention in this time and space, but Liang Mengsong stayed in Sansang until 2018 and did not leave!

However, some time ago, when Gao Huaijun was inspecting the Hillhouse chip factory, Wang Ming joked with him that he lacked a figure of Liang Mengsong's level.

However, Gao Huaijun didn't care too much at the time.

Now the research and development of Hillhouse Chip Factory is proceeding step by step, and the progress is not slow, and it is slowly catching up with the advanced pace of the world.

Rashly sending in paratroopers may not necessarily achieve the effect of 1+1>2.

He also had doubts about whether Liang Mengsong's personality would conflict with Li Zonglin.

The company is like a chess game, you don’t need to make a trump card at any time!

However, at this moment, Liang Mengsong is needed to carry out professional breakthroughs!
All the executives present were shocked at first, and then delighted when they heard Gao Huaijun say this!
Liang Mengsong is a research and development fanatic. With him around, it is possible to catch up with the progress in a year.

Putting aside other things, if we don’t have 7 nanometers, it would be good to catch up with nanometers!
"Okay, I'll talk to Mr. Liang Mengsong right away." Li Zongli nodded and agreed.

In fact, he was not sure he could convince Liang Mengsong. After all, Liang was doing well at Sansang Electronics and might not come.

"I'll let Miss Li Yinxin accompany you to Seoul, as a bargaining chip..."

"The annual salary is equal to that of the P12 level, and at the same time, Hillhouse chip factory will be given a 5% dividend!"

Gao Huaijun said after hesitating for a moment.

After hearing this, everyone present was shocked.

They knew about the ambiguous relationship between Li Yinxin and Sansang.

Even Li Yinxin was sent to take action. Gao Huaijun's determination is really great!
They also did not expect to be given the position of Hillhouse Chief Scientist at the P12 level.

You should know that P12, as the highest level, is usually a senior expert or leader in a certain technical field. These experts not only have profound technical skills, but also have extensive influence and resources in the industry.

But at Hillhouse, there are currently no P12-level personnel!
The chief R&D expert of Hillhouse Technology and Hillhouse Vehicle is only at the P11 level.

Not to mention the 5% dry stock dividend.

Gao Huaijun is so generous to resolve this crisis!
(End of this chapter)