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Chapter 1163 Stabbing in the back

After being assigned to Intel Continental, Chen Junsheng began to review the company's information.

As it turns out, what worried Chen Junsheng was not that Intel chips suddenly couldn't outsell Dongxin in the computer market.

What worries Chen Junsheng most is Intel's declining position in mainland China and its relationship with municipal government departments.

Chen Junsheng is well aware of how things are done in China. Once Intel is considered irreplaceable or insignificant in mainland China, that will be the end for Intel as a major company.

Therefore, Chen Junsheng came to Yanjing not only to stabilize Intel's market share in the mainland computer chip market, but also to increase Intel's importance in the mainland!
Chen Junsheng felt that the latter was even more important than the former, since Dongxin was a mainland Chinese chip company and naturally received more attention from domestic municipal government departments than Intel.

Putting aside everything else, just in terms of chip "security," Dongxin certainly wouldn't leave any backdoors for its own people.

Since its establishment, Dongxin has been gradually receiving orders for domestic military weapons chips and satellite chips.

These orders will belong to Dongxin in the future, and Intel will never be able to take them away. However, the scale of these orders is not large at present, and no subsidies have been received.

Unlike Intel, which receives billions of dollars in weapon chip orders from America every year, not to mention substantial subsidies, not to mention tax breaks and loans.

Compared to Dongxin, Intel has stopped pretending and is practically shouting to its global chip industry who's backing it up!

"Intel plans to build a new chip packaging and testing plant in mainland China, with an initial investment of $4 million!"

"A packaging plant in Shanghai has been upgraded to a chip assembly and manufacturing base. Intel has told the media that it will introduce 250-nanometer process technology at this chip plant!"

"In addition, Intel can join forces with Huaqing and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to establish a joint laboratory for semiconductor processes in mainland China!"

"Intel can grant some of its patents to mainland Chinese chip companies, including Huahong and Shougang NEC."

By selecting mainland Chinese chip suppliers and entering Intel's supply chain, the goal is to bring more mainland Chinese chip suppliers into Intel's camp!

"Intel needs to establish a communication mechanism with departments such as the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In addition, Intel will set up special offices for Intel affairs in regions such as Sichuan!"

Sitting below, Chen Weidi looked at Chen Junsheng in surprise. Chen Junsheng's decisiveness and generosity were far superior to that of the arrogant and complacent Jim Garrett.

Chen Junsheng's methods demonstrate his deep understanding of the mainland market. He employed tactics such as localization, befriending distant states while attacking nearby ones, and winning over and dividing the enemy, with a clear objective and no hesitation.

The $400 million investment to build a chip factory and introduce 250-nanometer chip technology is enough to make Intel a highly sought-after guest of investment promotion agencies across China.

Moreover, this move changed Intel's situation in mainland China. With a factory built in mainland China, how could the domestic market not trust Intel?
In addition, by establishing communication channels with various departments and setting up offices in various locations, this combination of measures is enough to make Intel eligible for procurement lists from municipal governments and state-owned enterprises!
Intel doesn't expect to secure military weapons orders, but it has a good chance of getting chip orders from state-owned enterprises.

The next two moves, namely establishing a joint mainland semiconductor process laboratory with Huaqing and other institutions, and opening up some patents to chip companies such as Huahong, were even more ingenious to Chen Weidi.

Collaborating with chip teams from Huaqing and the Chinese Academy of Sciences can enable collaborators to achieve results, and also provide Intel with academic support, which in turn can translate into public opinion support.

In the future, we can publicize that Intel is the most friendly foreign chip company to the mainland chip industry, risking sanctions under the Wassenaar Arrangement to support and improve the domestic chip technology level.

Regardless of what technologies were actually supported or improved, let's just talk about whether Intel made its promises or not, and how it waged its propaganda war. In this regard, Hollywood's America is a pioneer.

Just like Tesla, the pioneer of open-source patents for new energy vehicles, the most well-known thing is that Tesla has opened up its patents to the world.

However, if you were to ask specifically which patents Tesla has made public, probably not many people out of a hundred could answer that.

After a thorough investigation, it becomes clear that while the patents that have been made public are not entirely useless, there are very few companies that can actually utilize all of them.

Moreover, according to the regulations, companies that use Tesla's patents will in turn have their patents used by Tesla, a tactic called equivalent exchange!

Most importantly, the media campaign was fierce. Countless people, upon seeing the media reports, formed the impression that Tesla's open patent policy had led to a rapid advancement in China's new energy vehicle technology.

They claim that copying Tesla's approach is enough, and that China's status as the world's largest exporter of new energy vehicles is all thanks to Tesla...

But the most interesting thing is that Tesla's patents seem to be open to the world, and not just released in Chinese.

But ironically, only China has managed to make this industry work. It seems that major automotive countries like Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, and Italy have failed to understand Tesla's publicly available patents, as if they were completely blind.

These regional automotive giants could easily take off just by glancing at the manual and copying Tesla's approach, yet they choose not to cherish this opportunity to make money!

This is the beauty of public opinion. Intel basically plays the same trick in China. In the future, when China's chip technology develops, Intel can claim that it is thanks to Intel's hard work and humanitarian spirit in improving the mainland's chip technology.

Public opinion can create momentum. Who in China opposes Intel? Do they have any conscience? Do they have any humanity? Do they even know what gratitude means?
This move of disclosing some of its patents to chip companies like Huahong, in order to win over mainland chip suppliers, also has another layer of meaning: to win over domestic chip manufacturers, sow discord between them and Dongxin, and ultimately isolate Dongxin.

These methods are all incredibly sophisticated, and only someone as familiar with Chinese culture and customs as Chen Junsheng could pull them off. Chen Weidi doesn't know the full extent of this combination of moves, but one thing is certain: it will definitely change Intel's situation in mainland China and make Dongxin suffer greatly.

"Chairman Chen!"

Inside the meeting room, an executive from Intel Continental spoke up and asked Chen Junsheng a question.

"Intel Continental, would you like to develop application chips for other fields? Dongxin has chips in other fields besides computer chips. Perhaps Intel Continental could develop chips for other fields..."

"No need!"

This executive actually wanted Intel Continental to develop its own chip project, but Chen Junsheng directly interrupted him.

"Intel Continental only needs to use the technology from Intel headquarters; there's no need to waste time and money on research and development!"

Chen Junsheng's tone was very firm. In his view, Intel Continental did not need to establish any research and development team.

Collaborate with mainland research institutions to establish a joint laboratory for semiconductor processes in mainland China.

It's just for show; at most, they'll invest some funds in the partners. You can't fool yourself just to deceive others.

Chen Junsheng looked down on Intel's R&D team in mainland China, which was basically the attitude of Intel headquarters as well. What they needed was the mainland chip market, not mainland chip talent.

Here, Intel's goal is simply to produce chips for Intel at low cost and then buy large quantities of Intel's chips.

"Guys, get moving! Let me and headquarters see your actions, and let them see your contribution to Intel. I believe in your abilities!"

Chen Junsheng clapped his hands and said that his management style was based solely on data, using data as the evaluation standard. If you didn't meet his requirements, you had to pack your bags and leave. Intel doesn't keep idle people!

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Intel will invest $400 million to build a new factory in mainland China!

"Many places, including Shanghai, Suzhou, and Sichuan, are interested in introducing Intel's new projects!"

"Intel will increase its chip production capacity in mainland China to 30% of the Asia-Pacific region!"

"Intel introduced 250-nanometer chip packaging and testing technology to mainland China, breaking the limitation of the mainland's domestic chip industry, which could only package low-end chips!"

"Intel will collaborate with universities and research institutions such as Tsinghua University to establish a joint semiconductor process laboratory to improve the level of semiconductor technology in mainland China!"

Suddenly, news about Intel began to circulate widely in China, and the focus of this public opinion was basically that Intel attaches great importance to the mainland market and will build a new factory in the mainland.

Intel has also established laboratories in mainland China to improve domestic chip technology.

The specifics of how this will be improved are unknown, but various media outlets have begun to confidently declare that Intel will usher in a new era for the mainland Chinese chip industry!

"The person who came here is evil!"

In Pingyang, at the headquarters of Dongling High-Tech, Ren Yuefeng, Hu Zixian, Zhang Ao, and others arrived at Li Dongling's office. Ren Yuefeng slammed the newspapers on the table and addressed Li Dongling.

"This newly appointed head of Intel Continental is really shrewd!"

Although they were rivals, Hu Zixian had to admit that the newly appointed Chen Junsheng was indeed ruthless, and this series of moves had really made things difficult for Dongling High-Tech.

The phone on the table rang. Li Dongling glanced at Ren Yuefeng and the others in front of him and couldn't help but smile helplessly. "I'm afraid there's more bad news coming!"

"I see!"

"Ignore the other party. Founder Computer will continue as planned. If necessary, we can offer an additional discount!"

After the call connected, Li Dongling heard the message from Zhu Jianqiu, the president of Founder Computer, on the other end of the line, and spoke to him.

"Intel has launched customized chips for companies like Lenovo, with the supply price of each chip reduced to $320!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Dongling had just said one sentence to Ren Yuefeng when the phone rang again.

(End of this chapter)