Coquettish Rebirth

Olsen, Anderson and other old men were very excited by Jia Hongjian's design and conception of ams.Although they used to look down on so-called Internet companies like Sherlock Holmes, after all, in the eyes of technical experts like them, this kind of service is pure software, without any innovation in hardware, and has no foundation.Even if the technology is good, it will not be as good as the industry or the media boast, at least not an important cornerstone of the future.

From this point of view, the views of these old men are really correct. After all, at the beginning of the new century, a so-called Internet bubble will burst in the United States. losses, and even some company stocks have fallen below the issue price.

However, the old men are not brainless. After research, they found that if Jia Hongjian's Sherlock Holmes company sells their ams products online, it can really reduce their channel costs a lot!You must know that the retail industry in the United States is similar to that in China these days. Either you have to go through the retail channel of the store, or you have to go through various agents and put the goods in the hands of various channel providers.Such channels are very stressful for small and medium-sized manufacturers to establish suitable channels.

Not only the United States, but China as well.Therefore, many small manufacturers in the United States may develop in their own cities or even in their own communities all their lives, because they have no money to develop more channels!Unless they adopt the fabless model, like nvidia, their company.It's just the same design chip as Xiaomi Technology!Lao Huang and the others knew that they were from a small company and did not have so much money for them to squander, so they chose the most economical model.This fabless mode allows Lao Huang and the others to design the chip, even the chip itself must be produced by the foundry manufacturer, and even the design of the printed circuit board of the entire graphics card, that is, the pcb, must be negotiated with the foundry manufacturer. Determine specifications and design.Finally, these foundries will launch their own brand of nvidia graphics cards, which is equivalent to being authorized by nvidia to do the same.In the end, these manufacturers give nvidia a certain amount of commission for each card...

For small manufacturers, such a fabless model is of course the best, because they don't even have to work hard on their own channels.As long as you talk to the OEMs.In order to be able to sell the graphics cards they made, the foundries themselves will advertise in various ways, and in conjunction with nvidia's advertisements, it is obviously a bit of an advertising campaign!even. nvidia doesn't even have to do channels.All OEMs will find channels to sell graphics cards by themselves.So for small manufacturers with no capital but technology, such a fabless approach is naturally quite good.

However, such a fabless model without a factory design company has no financial pressure from the factory and no channel pressure.But it will be kidnapped by the foundry and become a parasitic and also a parasitic "worm" on the foundry.To put it simply, unless this fabless design company has reached the point of Intel, otherwise even if this company is a company with a market value of 80 billion US dollars, it will never even think about building its own chip factory!Because they set up their own chip factories, that means stealing the job of the foundry. Do they expect the foundry to give them a good face?

You must know that the foundry is not a good man or a believer!They see that the design company is still building its own chip factory, knowing that this company will abandon itself in the future, so why not use the threat of abandoning the other party now to frighten the design company?And this is really not a simple scare - like the graphics card king of this era, 3dfx, the biggest reason why it has been ruined in just two or three years, besides the wrong path at the technical level, the most important thing is that they I bought a wafer chip factory by myself, and I want to make my own graphics card!

As soon as they saw 3dfx doing this, the foundries came to threaten them collectively. Of course, 3dfx was not willing to compromise. Who knew that those foundries would switch to nvidia without saying anything!As a result, 3dfx found that even if it made a graphics card, it did not have enough channels to sell it to consumers!Even if it is sold, the production capacity does not seem to be enough!So it suddenly became a dilemma that the huge investment in research and development costs could not be recovered!At this time, nvidia pushes a new product every year, how can 3dfx support it?After all, 3dfx is actually not a big company these days!

Moreover, the design company is "parasitized" by the foundry manufacturer. It can even be said that the more important thing is that the craftsmanship must follow the foundry manufacturer!To put it simply, Intel has its own chip factory, so it can control its own process progress. He said that no one can stop him from making 22nm chips!But design manufacturers are different. The future generations of Nvidia will depend on TSMC's face!When will TSMC use 20nm technology, and when will Nvidia use it!Even if Nvidia has already designed the chip architecture of 20nm technology behind it, but none of the foundries can achieve 20nm, then there will be no chips to use!Not to mention that after the company grows bigger, it will also be subject to the cost increase caused by the foundry factory - after all, the foundry factory can't just keep the capital, and they have to make money!And the chips produced by Intel's factories belong to Intel itself!

From this point of view, with an online shopping platform, the dependence of design manufacturers on OEM manufacturers can be reduced to a certain extent-at least as long as the production can be achieved, the products do not need to do too many channels, relying solely on e-commerce It's not impossible to do it!At least nationwide coverage!

Such an e-commerce platform, no matter what, is good for ams!Of course Olson and the others could see this!After the general strategy was finalized, within two days, Jia Hongjian signed a contract to become a shareholder of ams company.To be honest, although I have never heard of the name of this company in my previous life, I feel like I don't know what the future of this company will be like.On the contrary, it made Jia Hongjian more interested-this is equivalent to witnessing the growth of an unknown company, and may encounter many things that he does not know in the future, how interesting it is!And he, Jia Hongjian, is not an ordinary person now, with so many resources and so much money, what kind of accidents are he afraid of?

After Jia Hongjian and the others signed the contract, soon after Bill Gates learned of the situation, he also sent a contract to his former idol as congratulations—a contract for OEM pre-installation of win95!Originally, after the machine was sold, if win95 was not installed, then other companies would have to spend a lot of money to buy genuine software, from this aspect.It's also a big investment.

And Bill Gates gave Olson and Jia Hongjian a friendly offer.It is simply impossible for their diskless workstations to pre-install the cheaper win95. From this perspective, it can be regarded as enhancing the installation qualifications to a certain extent!

After Microsoft offered a contract.Olson was at his house.Anderson, Jia Hongjian and Bill Gates were called together, and a small party was held to congratulate Jia Hongjian on his admission.There was nothing special about this party, it was very cozy.Moreover, Olsen, Bill Gates and Jia Hongjian stand together, which really means the inheritance of three generations of old, middle and young.

On the third day after the party, Dec received a message.Jia Hongjian bid farewell to Olsen and came to Dec Company with Ye Jing. "Welcome, Mr. Jia!" The fat middle-aged man Nelson came up to welcome Jia Hongjian and the others with a smile. "You're welcome. It's my honor to come to Dec." The other party was already so polite, and it was impossible for Jia Hongjian to be rude.

After the politeness here, it's time to bargain.Nelson’s offer on behalf of dec is as follows, “Mr. Jia, after the discussion at our dec company’s board meeting, we approved in principle your purchase of our chip factory, but there are still some discrepancies in the price. Our company hopes to Selling the chip factory at a price of 3.5 million U.S. dollars, by the way, we can transfer the corresponding workers of our chip factory together, and introduce a cpu architecture design team of the company to you. However, the contract between the workers and this team needs to be negotiated by you, we only Responsible for giving such an opportunity within one month after the contract is signed, as for whether the negotiation can be completed, it depends on your level..."

Nelson's proposal can be regarded as a relatively compromise proposal, but it is not friendly.Because a Chinese company wants to cheat an American cpu team to work for them, it obviously needs a lot of support in terms of treatment.Even the workers are like this. You must know that the American labor unions are very powerful. Basically, they can be regarded as equivalent to the black society. Seeing that the old employer has sold the factory, the American labor unions will definitely organize it. Negotiate and ask for a round of wage increases. If the wages are not raised, they may not only prevent other workers who want to work, but may even seal the factory and prevent new workers from entering!

For this, it can be considered that dec company took the packaged and sold money, but it was not responsible for appeasement and handover, and only let Jia Hongjian and the others talk about it. Bring people's price!When an ordinary company encounters such a situation, it has to think about it!

But now Jia Hongjian is seriously considering this matter, because the price of 3.5 million US dollars is not bad!Although it is more than 20 billion yuan in total, he has done investigations and found that there are many production lines in this factory!Comparable to any of the several chip factories opened by Intel in China in later generations, none of them are outdated!

While Jia Hongjian was thinking about this matter, the stubborn and awkward old man Olsen, who was hundreds of kilometers away, was in his office, looking at the super small diskless disk that had been abolished before. workstation.Looking at this thing that is only the size of a palm, this awkward and stubborn old man refuses to admit that there is no market for this thing!He felt that even if both Jia Hongjian and the client said the product was not good, it was not because the technology of the product was really bad, nor was it because he wanted to make the product smaller!It's just that there is a little deviation in some corners and corners! (To be continued..)