Coquettish Rebirth

Historically, Jia Hongjian was just playing with computers at this period, and he had a little understanding of the concept of "VIA China Chip". I ran to buy an amd cpu for the so-called overclocking!So in fact, although the concept of such a national chip is very attractive, before Jia Hongjian scrapped his first amd chip, the VIA had already been beaten by Intel's combination of punches. down.

Just like what Jia Hongjian said, a giant like Intel has never been soft on potential competitors!Even if there are differences in body size between everyone, Intel understands very well that if the other party is allowed to grow bigger, it may become the same as amd, which will cause Intel a headache!So in history, probably in 2001, after VIA had just launched the third CPU and gained a certain reputation in the market, Intel made a move and waved a patent iron fist at VIA.As soon as this patent iron fist is brandished, VIA will spend energy and a lot of money in a lawsuit against Intel, which will reduce the money for R&D and marketing, not to mention that Intel will interfere with VIA through legal weapons, such as application restrictions. Orders and the like, so that the products in dispute are not allowed to enter the market, so as not to cause "greater damage to Intel."In this way, the way out in front is blocked, and Intel is blocked in the corner and slammed in the back. How many companies can stop it?Not to mention the companies established by the Taiwanese, even if they were established by Americans, they would still be directly crushed!

However, fortunately, this via VIA has other main businesses.Or in fact, their cpu is not the main business, but the chipset is the main business!What is a chipset?In fact, the chipset is equivalent to the core of the motherboard, which is equivalent to the nervous system of a computer. The function of the CPU is realized through the chipset, just like the various bioelectric commands of the human brain are transmitted to the muscles through the nerves. .Just like Intel, they produce CPUs, but they also produce their own chipsets. In this way, motherboard manufacturers bought their chipsets, plus some other onboard graphics chips, network card chips, onboard sound card chips, memory interfaces, and graphics cards. interface, hard disk interface, etc., then a motherboard can be assembled!So if there is no chipset.Obviously a computer is a mess of loose sand.Didn't make it work at all!

This kind of chip set stuff is basically open, and each company can make various chipsets based on the chips made by the cpu manufacturer, but the cpu manufacturer can't deliberately block it from letting others make it.Because that would be a monopoly!Therefore, in the early days, this via relied on its own thinking and added functions that Intel and other manufacturers did not think of.To make their own special "Helios" series chipset.inside these chipsets.They can support other things earlier than Intel's chipsets-for example, they can cooperate with graphics card manufacturers to make chipsets that integrate integrated graphics chips!In this way, after motherboard manufacturers purchase their chips, they definitely don't need to get on-board chips themselves.In this way, everyone benefits!Especially in the early days when graphics cards were still in chaos during the Warring States period, even the cooperative graphics card manufacturers could increase their market share!

However, Intel must be dissatisfied with such a third party, because via not only makes chipsets, but also makes cpus!If Intel doesn't oppress such a company, will via become bigger in the future?So Intel began to compete with via. They launched a chipset that cooperates with Rumbus, a major American memory manufacturer, to support even more powerful rumbus memory. Not very fond of buying.And via seized this loophole and launched a more cost-effective chipset, so all of a sudden this via made a lot of money in the field of chipsets!It seems that in the year 2000, the chipset shipments of this via once reached 40% of the market!Although this includes different chipsets that work with the CPUs of Intel and AMD, it also makes Intel feel like an enemy!

And earlier, that is, in the early and mid-90s, the CPU pin interfaces of the a family and the i family were common.That is to say, after Via has produced such a chipset, after the manufacturer uses it to make a motherboard, consumers can actually plug in a CPU from company i, or a CPU from company A.However, in order not to be led by the nose by Intel, amd took the initiative to change the interface.And the amd company itself is not as strong as Intel, so basically the chipset part is authorized to a third party to do it. At this time, via is really flourishing in the amd camp!

But the problem is that, after all, it depends on the giant's mistakes to gain the market.Just like what Jia Hongjian said before about building an online store for in-app purchases, if the upstream manufacturers are really serious and have to learn, they can squeeze the third party to death in minutes!Similarly, in history, when Intel got serious, via's chipsets were soon out of reach, especially when Intel initiated various patent lawsuits that involved via's energy and funds. In just a few years, the top players in the via market have almost been squeezed out!On the other side, after amd has grown slowly over the past few years, of course it will also want to make its own chipset to obtain excess profits.So after being backlogged by amd, the via's own cpu is not strong enough, so it will gradually dim?

At the same time, in the cpu field, it seems that Via acquired a cpu department of the National Semiconductor Corporation in the United States in 99, and then slowly entered the cpu field. It is obviously necessary to compete with Intel and amd in such a field It's not realistic, otherwise, if such a cpu department is so good, why would National Semiconductor sell this department?And now via is estimated to have begun to be threatened by Intel's various patents, and may have begun to feel the pressure from amd to grab the chipset business, so they must find another way out in a hurry!That's why they set their sights on the mainland. Although they are an American company established by the people of Dawan, and although they later transferred their headquarters to Dawan, they have the same language and the same species as the mainland. If they rely on the patriotism of "Chinese chips" Subject matter, if you operate in the booming Chinese mainland market, can you quickly grow bigger?Or at least avoid being squeezed to death by Intel and amd?Jia Hongjian reckoned that this was why Wang Xuehong wanted to find their Jia family, so he was going to meet Wang Xuehong instead of his father!

The place where I met Wang Xuehong was the coffee shop of the five-star hotel in Jinmao.This is also the closest cafe to Huaxia Hi-Tech Building, if you don't choose this place, you can't choose to meet at the KFC downstairs?At that time, two people will order a cup of Coke each, and sit in the crowded KFC to chat about billions or even more big business?This picture is too joyful!Seeing that the appointed time was almost approaching, Jia Hongjian tidied up a bit, changed the T-shirt and jeans in the office, put on a suit shirt and tie, and was ready to go out.He specially prepared a wardrobe in the office, which contained coats, shirts and even some underwear and socks, just in case he needed to change clothes temporarily or stay overnight in the company.After changing his clothes, he took a look for himself and found that he was quite businesslike, and then he went out and took the elevator downstairs.

When he arrived at Jinmao's coffee shop next door, he first called Wang Xuehong to inform him that he had arrived, and then when Sister Wang didn't show up, he went in and took a table and sat down, waiting for her arrival .After he ordered a cup of coffee, he sat and waited for Wang Xuehong to arrive.Soon the waiter led a woman towards Jia Hongjian.Jia Hongjian glanced at her. This woman looked about 40 years old.He looks like an average person, wearing a pair of glasses, his hair is a little messy, and a red lady's shirt is exposed under the black lady's suit.In general, looking at this woman, Jia Hongjian should be the person in charge of some small domestic agency—too distasteful, and even to put it bluntly, she is a bit rustic!Anyway, I've come to Jinmao's coffee shop, sister, please tidy yourself up a little bit, okay?At least comb your hair well, how about a little makeup on your face?At this time, Jia Hongjian was actually quite curious about who this woman was meeting with, and which table the waiter would bring her to, but who knew that he just watched the waiter bring the woman to him. at the desk...

"Mr. Jia? Hello, I'm Wang Xuehong. I'm sorry to keep you waiting..." The woman reached out to shake hands with Jia Hongjian. When Jia Hongjian stretched out his hand and was stunned, The woman smiled, and then she actually sat opposite Jia Hongjian!I wipe!Miss, did you make a mistake?Are you Wang Xuehong?Sister, your father is the richest man in Dawan!A total of 60 billion U.S. dollars in net worth, okay?Eldest sister, you are also considered a famous family, and you can also be regarded as a lady of everyone!Is it really okay to not talk about the appearance?Your family is so rich, so there is no need to dress so down-to-earth?No need to be so rustic?

Sincerely, Jia Hongjian was really shocked.Until now, he still couldn't believe that the woman in front of him was Wang Xuehong!One must know that even if Jia Hongjian’s family is the richest Chinese in the world, even Jia Hongjian is very low-key, but when he comes out to meet other company bosses, he should be more polite, dress better and tidy up a little Make it smell better, right?After all, we came out to represent the image of our company. Let's not talk about how to pretend or show off our wealth, but at least we should make it feel more upscale?But why does this sister act like an ordinary person?That is to say, if you look carefully, the clothes are made of good material, and may be quite expensive, but the temperament of this suit... really doesn't look like a successful person! (To be continued..)