The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Chapter 182 Should I Fight Back?

"Are you kidding, it's impossible!"

"I admit that Phoenix Auto's intelligent technology is very strong, but intelligent technology and chips are not the same thing. I don't believe that Phoenix Auto can produce a car-grade SOC chip in such a short period of time."

"Fake news! This is absolutely fake news."

When seeing the news circulating on the Internet for the first time, car companies such as Weilai, Ideal, Geely and other auto companies categorically denied the news.

As a first-line car manufacturer, they are too aware of how difficult it is to make domestic chips.

In many cases, it is not that car companies are unwilling to invest, but that chip research and development is not only very expensive and risky, but also has patent restrictions everywhere.

For example, Geely is designing the SOC car-grade chip SE1000. First, it needs to pay a license fee to use the ARM architecture, and then it needs to pay related patent fees when various chip patent technologies are used in the design.

Even if the chip is successfully mass-produced in the end, when each chip is produced, the corresponding patent fee for each chip will still be paid.

No matter how aggrieved and reluctant, the money must be paid, because the technology patent is in the hands of others.

Just go down layer by layer, and you will find out magically in the end.

The cost of TM's self-developed and designed chips is much more expensive than buying Qualcomm's.

This Nima!
For example, Huawei Group, a mobile phone manufacturer, designs its own chips, and can share the cost of chips evenly through the annual shipment of more than [-] million mobile phones. What about auto companies?

Car companies such as BYD and Geely only sell one million vehicles a year, while more car companies sell 10,000+ vehicles a year.

???

10,000+ cars only have hundreds of thousands of main control chips a year, so I will take the lead in research and development!
Self-developed chips are more expensive than buying finished products. How can this be done?
But now, it is said that Phoenix Motors has developed Phoenix's own chip without saying a word.

Don't you need ARM licensed patents?Don't you need Qualcomm to authorize chip patents?

Will Qualcomm be willing to license chip patents?
impossible.

but.

When the car companies unbelievingly entered the Phoenix official website and saw the relevant data of the "Tiger Leap" chip, they immediately opened their mouths.

Good guy!
This is not an ARM architecture, nor is it an X86 architecture, this is a brand new chip architecture!
And after seeing the performance parameters, people are stupid!

The so-called smart cockpit of mainstream car companies is actually a large mobile phone.

What are you!
The performance of your chip is turning into a supercomputer!

But soon.

Many car companies familiar with chip technology immediately realized another terrifying problem.

Phoenix Motors is based on the Android system under the ARM architecture, the WIN system under the X86 architecture, and a brand new "future operating system" under the NB-Y architecture?
that……

"Hurry up and contact Phoenix Motors and ask if this chip and his operating system are sold?"

……

the other side.

Recently, Zesla (Yanguo) CEO Fang Chaoyang, who finally had a comfortable few days, fell into a deep shock.

He held the phone tightly with both hands, fixed his eyes on the phone screen, and couldn't believe it!
A few days ago, he received a notice from the headquarters, asking him to take advantage of Phoenix's lack of chips to secretly plan for a third-party company to contact Phoenix Motors to see if he could take the opportunity to acquire related technologies of Phoenix Motors.

but!

In the blink of an eye, all the chips were produced, so why buy them!
Fang Chaoyang looked at the third-party company information prepared on the table, and his eyes fell on the hot video comments on his phone, and he couldn't help but shudder!

Phoenix's popularity has risen again.

I'm afraid it's no longer a question of whether to buy or not. Phoenix Motors may be reborn from the ashes this time!

"Secretary! Secretary!"

"Hurry up and contact the CEO of Mask, immediately!"

……

Soon, the loud ringing of the phone woke up Mask in his sleep.

"What Fukk!"

At this time, it was 5:[-] p.m. in Yan Country, and it was [-]:[-] a.m. in America!

The dazed Mask answered the phone angrily, and before he could vent his dissatisfaction, Fang Chaoyang's hasty voice came from the other end of the phone.

"President, something is wrong. Phoenix Motors has independently mass-produced a 14nm SOC in-vehicle chip!"

"Huh? Phoenix Motors has mass-produced chips..."

what!
Mask's bewildered brain instantly woke up, and he sat up from the bed suddenly.

Phoenix Auto, 14nm?Self-produced chips?

how can that be!

Upon hearing the news, Mask couldn't believe his ears.

He hurriedly got up from the bed, and while answering Fang Chaoyang's report on the phone, he hurriedly turned on the computer. He had to check what was going on right away!
When Fang Chaoyang finished his report and hung up the phone, Mask was already shocked beyond words.

Can't wait for the computer at home to turn on, Mask can't wait to walk out of the house and go straight to Zesla's headquarters!

After a while, Mask came to the headquarters. After reading the data of the "Tiger Leap" chip published on the Phoenix official website, he looked gloomy and remained silent!

NB-Y architecture, a brand new architecture designed by Phoenix Motors?
Are you... are you kidding me? !

Are new chip architectures so easy to develop?
but.

Regardless of the architecture, the performance of this "Tiger Leap" chip is really beyond recognition!

Mask is a technology madman and has a good understanding of technology. He has never seen a chip that has both the advanced processing power of the CPU and the computing power of the GPU!
This is incredible!
As we all know, the car-machine systems of Zesla model 3 and model Y do not use ARM chips, but adopt the same construction method as PC computers.

Use Intel car-grade CPU + Nvidia GPU to build a car host, and then match it with the car system developed by Zesla itself.

And what about the Phoenix "Tiger Leap" chip?

The performance of a "Tiger Leap" chip is equal to CPU+GPU!
Mask is completely confused!

After much deliberation, there is only one reason for this to happen, and that is that Phoenix's NB-Y architecture is far more advanced than the current X86 architecture and ARM architecture!

Only by improving the operating mode and operating efficiency of the instruction set in the architecture can such performance be improved!

Thinking of this, he was even more stupid!

But soon, Mask recovered from the disbelief and shock.

After he regained his composure, a cold sweat rushed straight to his forehead, and anger and panic quickly rushed to his heart.

This is broken!

Phoenix Motors can produce 14nm chips by itself, which means that the joint Qualcomm out-of-stock Phoenix Auto chips has been declared aborted.

It is no longer possible to be limited to Phoenix cars!

And the Phoenix car without the constraints of the chip will undoubtedly have a huge impact on Zesla!
But, this is not the most ruthless!

Based on the relationship between Phoenix Auto and Rice Auto, if the chip is supplied to Rice Auto, Rice Auto's strong brand awareness and far higher cost performance than Model 3 will definitely have a huge impact on Zesla!

The irritability mixed with panic rippling in Mask's heart, he paced and walked in the spacious office, thinking about various solutions!

The time soon came to [-] o'clock in the morning. Before he could think of a solution, employees from the Zesla headquarters building gradually arrived at the office to work. Before he could think about it, a person suddenly broke into the closed office.

"Enmon?!"

Looking at the mask, it turned out to be Qualcomm CEO En Meng!

The two looked at each other, and instantly understood everything!
En Meng couldn't help complaining:
"Mr. Mask, you have seen the news, right?"

"What fukk, what the hell!"

After cursing a few words angrily, he continued:

"Mr. Mask, what can you do?"

"If there is no solution, then I have to increase the supply to the Yan Country market, we can't run out of stock anymore!"

Enmeng's tone was very urgent, he came so early in the morning just to get a definite reply from Mask!
You know, Qualcomm as a whole makes a lot of money in the Yanguo market every year, and most of the mobile phone manufacturers and car companies in Yanguo are Qualcomm's customers!

During this period of time, he cut off the supply of Phoenix Motors and already felt the huge pressure from the Yanguo market.

But now, the chip independently developed by Phoenix made Qualcomm panic instantly!
He knew very well in his heart that the core competitiveness of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip comes from the Android system and Android application software under the ARM chip architecture.

That is, under the ARM architecture, the Snapdragon 8155 chip is unstoppable and has become the best chip under the Android system!

but!

Once Phoenix Motors sells the "Tiger Leap" chip to other car companies, and also provides the "future operating system" package, the ecology of the smart car's car-machine chip will be completely overturned by Phoenix Motors!
It also means that Phoenix Motors can also propose a solution based on NB-Y chips!
At that time, Qualcomm's monopoly in the field of 7nm ARM chips will completely end and become a joke!
Just like countless commodities whose monopoly has been broken, Qualcomm has only one choice at that time, to cut prices and compete with Phoenix.

wrong!

Not when the time comes, but now Qualcomm must cut prices!

Before the Phoenix chip is sold, quickly lower the price to grab customers!
Enmeng was panicked and anxious. Although he wasn't sure if Phoenix would provide the "Tiger Leap" chip to other Yanguo car companies, he didn't dare to wait any longer, and he didn't dare to gamble!

We must immediately establish a good relationship with Yanguo car companies to stabilize the supply chain!
Mask also realized that Enmeng was a little anxious. He comforted Enmeng to sit down. Before he could say a few words, another person broke in from the door.

Mask's secretary said in a panic:

"President! Our Zesla's stock price has fallen by more than 10% before the market. Just now, several Wall Street capitals have called to ask about the Phoenix chip. How do we reply?"

Enmeng was shocked. For a trillion-dollar market capitalization company like Zesla, it was a terrible thing to drop 10% before the market, which meant that hundreds of billions of dollars were gone.

It seems that the capital also noticed that something was wrong!
The capital also felt the oppression brought by Phoenix Motors!
call--!
Enmeng was still waiting for Mask to reply, but when he looked at Mask, he suddenly pursed his lips:

"Enmeng, if I remember correctly, Phoenix Motor's 'Tiger Leap' chip is 14 nanometers, right? You are very familiar with Yanguo, do you know who produced it for them?"

Enmeng's expression froze.

Ok?
After a little thought: "In addition to Taiji Electronics, the only chip foundry in Yanguo that can make 14nm is SMIC!"

"As for Taiji Electric, if Phoenix Motors asked them to produce chips, it would have informed me long ago."

"Not surprisingly, it is SMIC!"

When Enmeng said this, he seemed to have guessed what Mask was thinking.

He looked surprised and said:

"Mask, you don't want to use the trick you used against Huawei Group to include Phoenix on the entity list and prohibit SMIC from producing 14nm chips for them, right?"

He shook his head:

"Mask, I have to remind you that the situation is different now, and there are too many things involved!"

The mask is unmoved:
"Enmeng, I don't know if it will succeed, but I think the Wall Street consortia are more anxious than I am, and they will help me find a way!"

"And, Enmeng, you forgot one thing. If I remember correctly, car-grade chips need to be certified for use in cars. Without certification, they cannot be sold and used, right?"

Ok?
Enmeng looked up at Mask, and Mask continued:

"I've been thinking about it just now, and I always feel that something is wrong. I think you are more familiar with car-level certification than I am!"

Enmeng looked stunned. According to the normal process, a car-grade chip needs to obtain three certifications before it goes on sale.

Quality management system certification, component reliability certification, functional safety certification.

Because Europe and the United States have always dominated the automotive industry, reliability certification is a set of common standards established by GM, Ford and Chrysler.

And these three companies happen to be American companies.

Most importantly, this certification process takes half a year!
The mask seems to be right!

Without car-level chip certification, how could Phoenix Motors use the chip? No way!

Enmeng was overjoyed, but soon!

But he was not so sure in his heart, unconsciously, he suddenly had a trace of unknown and inexplicable fear of the Phoenix car!

Can vehicle-level certification and entity list limit Phoenix Motors?

Faintly, Enmeng had a bad premonition in his heart.

……

the other side.

Although not many people knew of Hu Lai's personal phone number, after the news of the "Tiger Leap" chip was sent out, his phone was still blown up.

The bosses of motorcycle brother companies in Shancheng City called to congratulate each other, and the top leaders of Shancheng City Wang and Gao Ming also called to congratulate.

Because of the need to cooperate with the actions of several major capital groups, the news of the "Tiger Leap" chip is not even known to Rice Group and BYD.

Just after hanging up with President Wang of BYD, the phone of Rice Group Rebs rang.

"Mr. Hu! You really made me worry for nothing. I really didn't expect Phoenix Motors to mass-produce chips without making a sound."

"Mr. Hu, you really have a long-term plan!"

Hu Lai smiled politely.

Rebs was very moved by his willingness to provide Phoenix with the only remaining Snapdragon 8155 chip when it needed it most.

After the two exchanged a few words, Rebus changed the topic.

"Mr. Hu, I originally planned to return the rice car to the previous configuration after the batch of Snapdragon 8155 chips were sold out, but now we have a chip...this chip?"

Of course Hu Lai could hear what Rebus meant.

All rice cars use the technology of Phoenix Motors, and naturally need chips. Qualcomm still blocks the Snapdragon 8155 chip. Of course, rice cars also hope to get the "Tiger Leap" chip and continue to sell rice cars.

"Mr. Lei, don't worry, the 'Tiger Leap' chip will be provided to you."

"That's good, that's good!"

After hanging up the phone, Hu Lai couldn't help but relax looking at the computer screen.

Zesla and Qualcomm have been blocked for so long, should I fight back? !

……

Thank you Qiufeng for the 5000 coins!
(End of this chapter)