Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 293 US ban on sales: The train is about to hit the mountain
Vichi Technology held a press conference and released the first commercial X86 domestic chip in history, which caused a huge response in the country.

As soon as the press conference ended, various online media with quick response speed began intensive coverage.

The mobile browser of Yihai Technology directly put a top news on the homepage: Shocked, Xu Shenxue actually did such a thing, is this a loss of morality or a distortion of human nature.

After netizens clicked on it, they found that behind the explosive title, the main content was the serious content of Weizhi Technology releasing the first domestically produced commercial X86 chip WZ2000.

Then a group of netizens were unhappy and commented one by one:

"How dare you to make up stories about your boss like this."

"Since the editor is making fun of your boss like this, are you ready to change jobs?"

"If I go alone, what should Mr. Xu do?"

"Shocked dog, shall not die a good death!"

The news APP Kuai Tian Xia News, which is also owned by Yihai Technology's company, also generously inserted various self-media news related to the WZ2000 chip into its waterfall flow content delivery.

In order to attract attention, these self-media use very exaggerated titles.

"Xu Shenxue once again created a miracle and broke the foreign CPU monopoly!"

“Intel is terrified, AMD is in a state of panic, and Zhiyun is aggressively entering the CPU field!”

However, there are also some seemingly normal self-media content. A technology blogger published an article detailing the history of the X86 chip and the huge but uncontrollable X86 ecosystem in China.

Finally, he highly praised Zhiyun Group's entry into X86. He said that Zhiyun Group's development of X86 chips is not only for commercial returns, but also to break the monopoly of X86 chips by foreign companies and achieve independent and controllable domestic X86 ecosystem, which is of great significance.

Some reports in the mainstream media also maintain the view that WZ series X86 chips from Wichita Technology are of great significance to the country, further ensuring the normal operation of the modern social system and contributing to peaceful development.

The X86 chip developed by VisionTech is actually larger in terms of public opinion and even practical significance than the P1 chip that launched the SOP instruction set last year.

Although the P1 chip with the SOP instruction set solves critical security issues, solves data security issues for many institutions, livelihood industries, and key industries, and ensures basic security and operation, it is still too far away from the lives of ordinary people...

To put it bluntly, although it is very important, people cannot feel it and don’t care much about it!

Just like after the 1920s in the original time and space, few people know that our institutions and special industries have adopted comprehensive localization in the IT field... From chips to systems to databases, almost all are moving towards independent control.

This has led to some giants in the system and database industry, such as IBM and even Oracle, seeing their business in China shrink significantly due to de-beautification...

So when there are security update issues with Microsoft's WIN system, and the public systems of a large number of countries around the world and the computers of countless companies suffer blue screens and shut down, we are hardly affected... We even have to see this in the news.

Because our key industries all use the Linux system, and the WIN system used by enterprises and individuals generally adopts a policy of prohibiting automatic updates, so apart from foreign companies in China, very few companies are affected.

It's just that ordinary people don't care much about these things.

This indifference also extends to the field of pure independent Pangu computer system launched by Zhiyun Group, which is SOP instruction set chip + YunLPC system.

Ordinary people don’t pay much attention to it, so they don’t know that this Pangu computer system has begun to enter various institutions and key industries on a large scale.

Also replaced for security reasons are purely domestic servers that use the SOP instruction set server chip as the core and the server version of the YunLPC OS system. They are also accompanied by a series of various domestic database software and are also entering various key industries in large numbers.

Since Zhiyun Group developed the SOP instruction set chip, the replacement progress in key areas has been extremely rapid.

The field it enters is not just the Pangu computers used by institutional personnel in their work, nor is it limited to the ordinary office field, but also involves the system operation of many security and key areas.

What ordinary people can see is just the tip of the iceberg.

Otherwise, Xu Shenxue would not have been urged to do it every other day, and Xu Shenxue would not have personally taken charge and gathered a group of top talents to develop this Pangu system.

But again, although the Pangu system under the SOP instruction set is very important, ordinary people don’t have a deep understanding of it, or even don’t know about it.

After all, the computer systems used by ordinary people and regular enterprises are still built on the X86 ecosystem.

Similarly, this is also the reason why this time when Wichita Technology launched the X86 chip, the WZ2000 chip, which has strong performance and can almost compete with Intel and AMD, it caused a huge sensation.

People are more familiar with this and come into contact with it in daily life, so they feel it more deeply.

Therefore, after the release of WZ2000, it became a hot topic in the country, especially on the Internet!

The related topic directly became a hot search on Weibo.

It also topped the hot search list on some discussion websites. On a relatively niche website, the topic of WZ2000 directly became the number one on the hot list.

"How do you evaluate Zhiyun's release of the first domestically produced commercial X86 chip WZ2000/U?"

Then there were a large number of people, especially some professionals in the technology industry, who gave long speeches on it... In fact, this day and age, MoZhu is still a relatively niche platform, with high-quality questions and answers, and many people in the industry. Occasionally, you can even see top industry bosses appearing on it.

One of the top-rated answers was obviously from an industry professional, who wrote an article of several thousand words with various analyses and inferences.

Moreover, it seems that he really has some relationship with Weichi Technology and knows some inside information. He even revealed in his answer that Weichi Technology has completed the research and development of high-performance X86 chips and will adopt Zhiyun's top -nanometer process.

Although the specific model was not revealed, the news also attracted a lot of comments.

Some say that Zhiyun Microelectronics' 18-nanometer process has not yet been put into mass production. Even if it has been put into mass production, there is only one plant, Shenzhen No. 17, with limited production capacity. If Weichi Technology wants to use the 18-nanometer process for its high-performance chips, don't expect it in the short term.

The news about the 18-nanometer process is no secret. Zhiyun Microelectronics has released related news before. In particular, when the technical verification was completed, the relevant information was directly released on the official website, and the No. 17 factory was introduced in passing.

Combined with some of Zhiyun Microelectronics' previous information about Factory No. 17, we can gather that the design capacity of this factory is 50,000 12-inch wafers per month. Then, as long as industry insiders look at this monthly capacity, they basically know that this capacity is just enough to meet the chip production needs of the S series and A series phones. Even if there is excess capacity, it can't be much, just a little bit.

Industry insiders who closely follow Zhiyun Microelectronics and have good information collection and analysis capabilities can basically come to a conclusion: except for the S500 series chips used in the S series and A series mobile phones, other -nanometer chips will basically have to wait until next year to gain production capacity.

This year, Zhiyun Microelectronics' 18-nanometer process capacity, like its competitor TSMC's 20-nanometer process capacity, is basically only used for the SOCs of the world's top mobile phones today.

Zhiyun Microelectronics' 500-nanometer process production capacity is used for the S14 chip, which is installed in the S14 and A mobile phones.

TSMC's 8-nanometer process capacity is used for the A6 chip, which is installed in the Fruit mobile phone.

All other chips...must be put at the back!

A typical example is that although Qualcomm has released its first 810-bit chip, which is expected to use a -nanometer process, it is unable to obtain -nanometer process production capacity from TSMC for production, and mass production is not expected until next year.

Similarly, Zhiyun Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Group, is unable to obtain the 800-nanometer process production capacity from Zhiyun Microelectronics to produce the W800 chip. The W chip will not be put into mass production until next year.

The Snapdragon 810 chip and the Zhiyun W800 chip are the top-level chips on the market. They are expected to have huge shipments. A group of third-party mobile phone SOC chips that mobile phone manufacturers have been longing for cannot get the corresponding production capacity, let alone other chips.

However, no one knows yet. Although the desktop version of WZ4000 will not be mass-produced this year, the low-voltage version, that is, the mobile version of WZ4000U, has been successfully taped out. It is expected to be produced in the second half of the year, after the initial outbreak period of the S500 chip has passed a little, using a small part of the production capacity of Factory of the Shenzhen Base.

This kind of information is still highly confidential within Zhiyun Group and ordinary people in the industry are not aware of it.

Therefore, the comments mainly focus on the WZ2000 chip, as well as various comparisons between Zhiyun Microelectronics' 28-nanometer upgraded process NLP, which was put into mass production this year, and Six-Star's -nanometer process, TSMC's -nanometer process, and other manufacturers' -nanometer processes.

However, most of these comparisons are just empty talk... because some core process technologies are the things that major chip manufacturers have kept in their bottom lines and are generally not announced. Even if they can be announced, they are only the parts where they can have a clear advantage.

For example, Zhiyun Microelectronics’ announcement of its own 28NLP process is centered around low power consumption, but it doesn’t say much about other things, such as the key indicator of transistor density. Zhiyun Microelectronics has never publicly stated this, so the outside world can only speculate.

But no matter what, Zhiyun Microelectronics' 28NLP process is at the top level among the -nanometer processes of contemporary manufacturers, and has better control over low power consumption.

Because of the success of the special process 28NLP, Zhiyun Microelectronics' mature process department is also actively developing the 28-nanometer enhanced process, namely SLP, to produce some higher performance chips.

On the same process node, if in-depth development and research are carried out, several branches can be developed. Different process technologies can be selected to meet different customer needs, thereby achieving the desired effects of the customer.

For example, if you do not require low power consumption and seek higher performance, you can use the 28SLP process under development. If you have requirements for low power consumption, you can use the 28NLP process.

At the same time, different packaging technologies are developed. For example, automotive-grade chips have very high requirements for packaging technology, and the chips need to be able to operate stably in various extreme environments.

The requirements in the fields of aviation and aerospace are even more stringent.

The research and development of chip process technology is not only about process nodes, but also includes research and development in areas such as improving output and reducing costs, as well as research and development in packaging technology.

This is a systematic project that involves many areas.

Of course, process node is always important.

Because no matter how much you praise other chip process technologies, your 28-nanometer process chip cannot compare to the 18-nanometer process in terms of performance... and the gap is exponential.

The release of the WZ2000 chip sparked various discussions on the Internet that evening.

A few days later, as the first batch of WZ2000 chips were delivered to customers via express delivery, various detailed reviews of the WZ2000 chips suddenly appeared on the Internet.

On a certain two-dimensional website, a UP host in the field of technology uploaded its evaluation video as soon as possible.

In order to make the video, this UP host not only bought the first Tianfang computer desktop equipped with the WZ2000 chip, but also bought the WZ2040 chip for other separate tests.

The comparison tests are conducted on the current mainstream Intel third-generation I3 and fourth-generation I3, as well as Pentium dual-core chips, and AMD's entry-level products of the same level.

There are a lot of test displays, and the test results are similar to what was said at the press conference. This chip is very good at multi-tasking, and is almost as good as Intel's I3 products of the same level. At the same time, its unique Shenlong architecture makes it more suitable for handling large tasks, especially image processing, video processing and other tasks. It performs well in the office field, especially in the professional office field, and its performance is not much worse than I5.

As for its support in the gaming field, it is just so-so. After actual testing by the UP master, it is found that the GPU integrated in this CPU performs so-so in terms of game support. As for when paired with an independent graphics card, it is similar to similar chips from the other two companies. After all, the core of playing these large-scale games lies in the independent graphics card, and the impact of the CPU is relatively small.

The final conclusion is that this WZ2000 chip from Wichita Technology can fully meet the office, gaming and daily entertainment needs of the mainstream group.

In addition, the price is relatively cheap. The boxed version of WZ2010 in the Zhiyun official mall is only 529 yuan, which can be said to be quite cheap.

You should know that the Pentium Dual-Core 3th Anniversary Edition, which is expected to be released this year, is expected to cost 3 yuan, and the I3 is even more expensive. Even the I2120 chip in the second-generation I costs yuan.

Of course, although this i3 2120 is the second-generation I3, its performance is actually not bad. It can even be said that it is a conscientious product that Intel accidentally squeezed too much toothpaste. It uses 32nm process, dual-core four-thread, the main frequency reaches 3.3GHZ, L3 buffer 3MB, but the memory controller is a bit worse and supports dual-channel DDR3 1333.

Then comes the third generation I3, I3 3220, which uses 22nm process, dual-core four-thread, 3.3GHZ, L3 buffer 3MB, and supports dual-channel DDR3 1600.

The fourth generation I3, such as the I3 4130, is also a 22nm process, dual-core and quad-thread, 3.4GHZ, 3MB L3 cache, and supports dual-channel DDR3 1600...

The parameters of these generations of I3 can almost be copied directly... There are almost no major changes, and there are only some minor differences in memory support and power consumption. Everything else is almost exactly the same.

The reputation of squeezing toothpaste is well deserved!
Of course, since the actual performance has not changed much, the prices of the above-mentioned generations of I3 are also similar, all in the range of six or seven hundred yuan.

Weichi Technology is a newcomer and is entering the X86 chip market for the first time, so it has a big discount for everyone. The entire WZ2000 series are dual-core and quad-threaded, support Zhiyun super multi-threading technology, dynamic main frequency technology, unified OP300 graphics processing core, L2 cache 512KB, L3 cache is 3MB.

Then they are differentiated and priced according to the main frequency.

The 3.2GHZ WZ2010 boxed version is priced at 529 yuan on the official website, and its price-performance advantage directly beats Intel's competitors and AMD.

The 3.3GHZ WZ2020 is priced at 579 yuan on the official website, which is still very cost-effective.

The 3.4GHZ WZ2030 is priced at 629 yuan on the official website, and the price-performance ratio is still very good.

Finally, there is the top-end full-blooded version, the 3.5GHZ WZ2040, which is priced at 669 on the official website... Then this chip has another feature, that is, it is not locked by Weizhi Technology...

After all, WZ2040 is a specially selected full-blooded version with great potential. As long as the heat dissipation can keep up, it can be easily overclocked.

At the same time, Weichi Technology also wants to use the full-blooded version of the WZ2040 chip to build a small reputation, so it has not locked the frequency. Some enthusiasts can unlock it through professional software settings and then overclock it.

There are many people who play overclocking. Soon, a top-level player got a WZ2040, used water cooling to suppress it, and started overclocking in various ways.

As a result, many junky people who have some computer knowledge, can assemble their own computers, and like cost-effectiveness and are extreme players have discovered a small treasure.

This WZ2040 chip has great overclocking potential, and the performance after overclocking is amazing. Even with just conventional air cooling, experts can stably overclock it to above 4.2GHZ. In the Lajilao forum, some netizens even gave this CPU a nickname: Overclocking Little Cannon.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that it is just an entry-level CPU that costs only over 5 yuan, but after overclocking, its performance is directly comparable to the fourth-generation I.

This discovery made the DIY players feel like they were back to the scene when the first generation I3 was released a few years ago...

At that time, in order to expand the market of the Core series and suppress AMD, Intel did not know whether it left a loophole intentionally or because of its conscience, but did not lock the frequency of the first generation of I3. Then the first generation of I3 was overclocked in various ways. After overclocking, the performance was extremely strong, which could exceed the i3-3 in the fourth generation of I4150, and it was definitely a generation of god CPU. However, Intel decisively locked the frequency starting from the second generation of I3, and did not allow overclocking... Allowing overclocking of low-end models will affect the sales of mid-to-high-end products such as I5 and the new generation of CPUs.

Today, Weichi Technology has also followed this measure to some extent, boosting its reputation through the overclocking performance of the full-blooded version of WZ2040.

First, it affects the computer enthusiasts in the DIY market. These people are interested in overclocking and pay more attention to it. In their eyes, a CPU that can be overclocked is even a good CPU...and many of these computer enthusiasts in the DIY (assembled computer) market are merchants in computer stores, who install various computers for people. These people can influence the buyers of ordinary DIY computers to a certain extent.

When some ordinary consumers buy spare parts to assemble their own computers, they will also look for a large number of test articles, read the reviews of some so-called bigwigs, and then look for various spare parts with better cost performance.

By influencing technology enthusiasts, and then influencing users in the ordinary DIY market, they can gain CPU market share in assembled computers.

Of course, this alone is not enough. Weichi Technology is making efforts in this regard in order to further influence consumers' choice of CPU in the branded machine market.

Technology enthusiasts influence ordinary computer assembly users, and ordinary computer assembly users are generally young male users. They will directly influence the choices of their elders, women and people in their circle of friends who do not understand computers.

The opinions of a DIY computer user can often determine the computer purchasing opinions of multiple or even more than ten people around him.

When people around him ask him how to choose a computer, such as a laptop, he will say that the workmanship of a certain brand of computer is terrible, or that the CPU of a certain brand is not very good. This can basically dissuade people from buying the computer and instead choose other brands.

In the market of ordinary brand notebooks, desktops, and assembled computers, this is a market that focuses more on cost-effectiveness and reputation than the mobile phone field. Relatively speaking, the so-called high-end brands are not very reliable here.

This is fundamentally different from the ultra-thin business notebook market.

Why did Zhiyun only enter the ultra-thin business notebook market, but not the ordinary notebook market and the desktop market? It is because in the latter two markets, it is difficult to be high-end and gain recognition simply by relying on the brand, and the premium is too low.

To put it bluntly: less money but more trouble!
Zhiyun Group has never made terminal products that cost little money but are troublesome. What they want to make are products that can make users see the word "Zhiyun", ignore the so-called performance configuration, and buy them directly with their eyes closed, and then have extremely high gross profit margins.

Ultra-thin business notebooks, mobile phones, tablets, smart watches, and Bluetooth headsets are all typical examples.

However, ordinary desktop computers and laptops cannot do this, so Zhiyun Group simply does not do it. Even though Zhiyun Group now has its own X86 chips, it has no plans to make desktop computers and ordinary laptops by itself, but only plans to be a spare parts supplier.

Therefore, Tongfang Technology and Zhiyun Group cooperated to launch the joint-branded Tianfang series of computers.

After the press conference, Tianfang Computer was officially launched on the market, but the offline response was mediocre. It still needs to accumulate word-of-mouth and slowly convert the product.

However, the response in the online shopping market was quick, especially for Tianfang brand laptops. The price of the entry-level version was directly lowered to 3999 yuan, and there are also versions with high-end memory and solid-state drives priced at 4999 yuan.

At this price point and with this kind of performance, the price/performance ratio is very good.

Of course, what is more important is that Tianfang brand computers are allowed to borrow the Zhiyun brand, that is, to use words such as "Zhiyun customized version" for promotion.

This is a co-branded computer. In addition, Zhiyun Group and many of its related subsidiaries have indeed purchased this laptop for use as a low-end ordinary office laptop, so it has a great advantage in publicity.

In China, the two words "Zhiyun" represent the largest traffic and have extremely high brand value. Any product with the two words "Zhiyun" is almost synonymous with high-end products.

To some extent, this time it was Zhiyun Group that used its own brand value to support Tianfang Computer.

Of course, because it is a co-branded product, in order to avoid quality problems that may affect the Zhiyun brand value, Zhiyun Group has very high quality requirements for Tianfang Computer.

You can have low performance, but you cannot have poor quality... In order to control the quality of Tianfang brand computers, this series of computers is also outsourced to Weiku Industrial, and is directly incorporated into Zhiyun's quality management system from the production process.

After the Tianfang laptop computer was launched on the market, it quickly gained sales on several major e-commerce platforms, and at one point topped the sales rankings of computers priced below 5,000 yuan. Various reviews also appeared on the pages of various specialized media.

Seeing that Tianfang notebooks are popular on the market and the WZ2000U chip performs well in notebook products with a high cost-performance ratio, many PC manufacturers can't sit still. In particular, domestic PC manufacturers have approached Wichi Technology, a subsidiary of Zhiyun Group, to discuss the purchase of WZ2000 series chips and corresponding chipsets to build their own computer products under the WZ system.

At the same time, more spare parts manufacturers, mainly motherboard manufacturers, have also begun to join this camp.

Prior to this, the only motherboard that hosted the WZ2000 chip in the DIY market was a motherboard specially launched by Tongfang Technology for the DIY market, which was part of the cooperation with Wichi Technology.

The sales of this motherboard are also quite good, which has also allowed other motherboard manufacturers to see the market and start to follow suit.

In fact, these are not very difficult to develop. In order to promote the ecosystem, WZ Technology has directly disclosed various technical standards. Any PC manufacturer and motherboard manufacturer can use the various technologies of the WZ system for free.

At the same time, Wichita Technology not only launched the WZ2000 chip, but also a series of chipsets, and even provided public version motherboard designs.

Whether it is a PC manufacturer or a motherboard manufacturer, they only need to purchase a chipset based on the public version motherboard provided by Wichi Technology to make a motherboard.

It can be said that Weichi Technology has done everything for you. You just need to make the finished product yourself, then make some fine-tuning, add some unique things of each manufacturer, do some marketing, and then you can put it on the market for sale.

It can be called a nanny-level service!
Of course, there is no other way. You can't just make a CPU and leave it there. What do you expect other PC manufacturers or motherboard manufacturers to do? They can't even find a way to pair it with the north and south bridge chipsets? This is impossible. It's not that they don't want to, but that they don't have the ability to do so.

But if PC had this capability, people would not have played the game of assembling computers and would have switched to semiconductors long ago.

Chipsets, like CPUs, are top-level industries in the semiconductor design field. They are technically very difficult and are subject to various messy patent restrictions. You can't do it just because you want to.

Even Vision Technologies and AMD, strictly speaking, are using Intel's patent licenses, and have to pay Intel a lot of patent fees every year... Intel doesn't want patent fees. It would rather take back the technology licenses and monopolize the market, but the law and related patent licensing agreements do not allow it.

In order to successfully promote its own CPU, Vichi Technology used the chipset technology and patents of VIA that it had previously acquired to launch chipsets such as the north and south bridges for use with the WZ series chips.

Therefore, what outsiders see is just a WZ2000 chip, but in fact, Wichita Technology also launched the HZ series chipset for its partner companies at the same time. It’s just that ordinary people don’t pay attention to it. Only PC companies, motherboard manufacturers and some related companies will pay attention to it.

In order to develop its own X86 under the Shenlong architecture, Wichi Technology provides nanny-level services to its partners. This greatly reduces the difficulty for PC manufacturers and independent motherboard manufacturers to launch corresponding products. They only need to take the public version design, purchase the CPU, chipset, and make simple modifications.

This is somewhat similar to the package solution launched by Zhiyun Semiconductor for the low-end smartphone market: providing all core components such as SOC and providing public version design. Mobile phone manufacturers only need to make some simple adjustments on this, and then create an appearance, put your own brand logo on it and sell it.

It is very similar to the copycat phones of the feature phone era.

Therefore, in the domestic low-end smartphone market, we can see a large number of low-end smartphones using Zhiyun Semiconductor's low-end chips.

A large number of low-end smartphone manufacturers with little technical R&D capabilities can use the chips provided by Zhiyun Semiconductor and the corresponding public version design solutions to make a smartphone. It is very simple.

Of course, whether you can sell it or not depends on your own ability.

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The release of the WZ2000 chip by Wichita Technology has become a hot news in recent days, sparking discussions among many technology enthusiasts.

However, although it looks lively, for the huge Zhiyun Group, the conventional X86 chip business is just a small business, and success or failure does not actually have much impact.

If there is any impact, it is the WZ4000U CPU specially prepared for its own ultra-thin business notebooks that has a significant impact and is directly related to the future of its own YunBook.

After entering May, Xu Shenxue spent a considerable amount of time adjusting the internal structure of Zhiyun Group.

Since discovering in April that Zhiyun Group was suffering from big enterprise disease, Xu Shenxue did not hesitate too much, but decisively and resolutely wielded the machete, continuing to cut down some parasitic and blood-sucking businesses that were parasitic on core businesses such as smart terminals and semiconductors.

The first to be weakened was Zhiyun Property, which integrated a large number of miscellaneous industries. Zhiyun Property was originally just a regular subsidiary that managed the group's own properties, but now it has rapidly expanded to involve more than a dozen industries and has dozens of subsidiaries of various types.

At first glance, it seems that these messy subsidiaries are quite profitable, and their financial reports are better than each other. However, if you look closely, you will find that many of the so-called businesses rely on orders from within the group and from partner companies... This is not a matter of keeping the money within the group, but rather directly sucking blood from the group.

If Zhiyun Property did not have these messy subsidiaries, the group could have looked for external partners and ultimately obtained better products or services at a lower cost.

In response to this situation, Xu Shenxue directly cut off Zhiyun Property with a machete, retaining only the most basic property management and operation business. Other business subsidiaries were either closed or sold off.

Then it turned its machete towards a large number of supply chain companies operated by the group. In the early years, in order to gain independent control over its supply chain, Zhiyun Group invested in almost the entire consumer electronics industry chain through acquisitions and strategic holdings.

But the original intention was only to ensure independent control of the supply chain, especially the core and key components.

However, as the company developed, more and more supply chains were involved, and finally even industries such as paper and printing, which have nothing to do with high-tech, were involved. Because the group's various products required packaging boxes, instruction manuals, and various packaging boxes, it made a strategic investment and simply acquired a paper company and set up a small printing factory to specialize in providing various paper products to its own company.

When Xu Shenxue found out that his company also had a paper company and a printing factory, he was speechless... Damn it, his Zhiyun Group is a serious high-tech enterprise that deals in smart terminals and semiconductors.

As a result, the entire papermaking and printing subsidiary came out. Isn't this crazy!

Even if we want to diversify, this is not the way to do it.

Are there no paper mills or printing factories out there? What kind of high-tech technology can this crappy packaging box have that would require the world's top enterprise Zhiyun Group to set up a special business line to do it?

What? Do you want to use some high-tech materials to make packaging boxes?
So, with Xu Shenxue's order, the paper company and printing factory were directly split up and sold, and the supply of paper products was re-tendered.

After the bidding results came out, two paper companies won the bid, and the overall cost was reduced by 27% compared to their previous paper and printing businesses!

In this way, the paper company that won the bid can make a lot of money and can't stop smiling.

This means that when the group previously used its own papermaking and printing, it incurred too many unnecessary costs.

Paper imprints and printing being left behind is only a small part of this big move. There are many other areas as well, and even some mobile phone parts have been eliminated.

Xu Shenxue’s principle is that if something can be done well in China and can meet the demand for various products under Zhiyun, then Zhiyun will not do it. Instead, Zhiyun will support its partner enterprises through order support and technical support, and grow together with the partner enterprises.

At most, we can make a strategic investment to strengthen control or provide financial support.

But you can't do it yourself. Once you do it yourself, it will be easy to lose the competition.

Anyway, we have high-profit orders from within the group, so why should we conduct research and development and cut costs?
It could even easily develop into a situation where 'millions of canal workers depend on their livelihood', with a host of non-core businesses sucking blood from the entire group, making the core business suffer terribly and eventually being dragged to death.

Many large companies in history have died in this way, such as Noya. It also took on too much, and abandoned a large number of companies in the industrial chain that it could not give up...which ultimately led to its difficulty in turning around after the advent of the smartphone era, and it ultimately slid into the abyss.

Now, Nooya has even sold its mobile phone business to Microsoft!
The mobile phone giant of the past is gone forever and has even disappeared from people’s sight.

It is even about to disappear as a mobile phone brand, because after Microsoft acquired this mobile phone business, it chose to use its own brand Lumia and abandon the Nokia brand.

The collapse of Nouya is extremely rare in business history, and it is also a negative example with many educational significance... In recent years, a large number of companies have been using Nouya as a model to compare themselves... to see what parts are similar, and then change those similar parts.

For example, the tail is too big to be cut off, which may force the core business to make changes, or the supply chain cannot be changed.

Xu Shenxue would not allow this to happen, so when he discovered that Zhiyun Group had been expanding disorderly in the past few years and had dragged down the group's core business, he decisively carried out a cleanup.

From April to May, Zhiyun Group pushed more than 50 subsidiaries to the market, either selling them directly or merging them with peer companies. Some of them that could not be sold and were unwanted were directly liquidated.

And this kind of action will continue. The previous ones were all small-scale, and later on some larger subsidiaries with non-core businesses will be cleaned up.

Everyone, even ordinary people outside, can see Xu Shenxue's determination to trim the branches of Zhiyun Group this time.

Naturally, there are some who are happy and some who are sad in this process. After all, in this round of layoffs, Zhiyun Group laid off at least tens of thousands of employees, not including the reduction in the number of employees brought about by the sale of these non-core business industries.

Similarly, some companies have acquired non-core supply chain companies originally under Zhiyun through mergers and acquisitions, and thus gained the opportunity to enter the Zhiyun supply chain. As long as they make good products, control costs well, and innovate well in the future, they will be able to continue to stay in the Zhiyun supply chain, which will be of great benefit to the company's development.

This cleanup is expected to last at least one year. Later, Xu Shenxue will also clean up some subsidiaries or businesses that appear to be more important and larger in scale. Of course, the adjustments to these larger businesses will take some time to implement.

Some businesses valued at hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars cannot be sold in a short period of time. It takes time to operate slowly.

However, even if the sale cannot be made in the end, Xu Shenxue will separate the subsidiaries of these businesses and let them operate independently with their own profits and losses. These non-core businesses must not be allowed to suck blood from the group.

Xu Shenxue must ensure the health of the group's core business and prevent it from being dragged down by non-core businesses.

Zhiyun Group's smart terminal and semiconductor businesses are extremely important in Xu Shenxue's career planning. They are the leaders of a series of industrial chains. Whether the entire industrial chain can develop and how well it can develop depends on whether these two leading industries can continue to provide strong support.

This year, the two leading industries under Xu Shenxue are as strong as ever, and continue to drive the rapid development of a series of industries.

At present, the high-tech industry train composed of electronic consumer goods, semiconductors, the Internet, smart manufacturing and other industries is moving forward at an astonishing speed on the tracks forged by the industrial system accumulated over decades, driven by the locomotive Zhiyun Group, and the speed is getting faster and faster.

People on the train are earning higher wages than ever before, enjoying a better life than ever before, and dreaming of a better future!

Until... a big mountain appeared in front!
In mid-June, Zhiyun Microelectronics was conducting final adjustments and tests on the 503-nanometer process and was expected to start trial production of the S chip in a few days.

News suddenly came from the other side of the Pacific Ocean that a large number of US congressmen jointly submitted a bill, demanding a complete ban on the sale of Zhiyun products in the United States due to a series of reasons such as huge security risks posed by Zhiyun products, leading to national defense security risks and the leakage of public information.

When the news reached China, it caused a stir. A pessimistic blogger commented: Our train is about to crash into a mountain...

(End of this chapter)