The world's richest man started by developing gutter oil

Chapter 279 Chapter 269: iPhone 4s is gone?

After Han Chen read the document of Alpha 32 virus removal agent, he immediately sent a message to Tong Jingjing on WeChat, asking her to hire several medical doctors and graduate students immediately.

Deep Blue Medical Medical Equipment Company already has medical research and development qualifications, so Deep Blue does not need to register a medical company. The laboratory standards at the condom factory are very high. These medical doctors and graduate students will be allowed to use the laboratory there. Just fine.

In fact, the method of refining the Alpha 32 virus-clearing agent is very simple. The real difficulty is how to prove that there is no problem with this agent. If Deep Blue cannot prove that the side effects of this agent are very serious, then this agent will not be able to enter the clinical trial stage.

Drugs that have not gone through clinical trials cannot be put on the market, not to mention that the use of this drug is intravenous registration.

Once the Alpha 32 virus-clearing agent passes clinical trials, it will surely shock the world.

Who would have thought that the company that treats Alzheimer's disease is actually produced by a human cub exterminator company.

After handing over the work, Han Chen had nothing to do and started writing the outline of the TV series.

If Deep Blue Film and Television is to become China's largest film and television platform in a short period of time, it can only rely on him as a reborn person.

April 2010, 9, US time.

Fruit company headquarters.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye.

After a month, Cook finally stabilized the fruit company. At this time, he finally remembered about cooperating with TSMC.

Cook picked up the iPhone 4 on the table and called Zhang Mouzhong. Fortunately, it was still only 9:9 in the morning. When converted to time, it was also : in the evening here.

"Mr. Cook, good morning." Zhang Mouzhong greeted after answering the phone.

"Zhang, I think we can reopen negotiations. I wonder if you have time in the near future and can you fly to Cupertino? I am busy here so I can't fly to Wanwan," Cook said.

"Mr. Cook, TSMC may no longer be able to cooperate with your company." Zhang Mouzhong apologized.

"Zhang, what happened?" Cook asked curiously.

"TSMC has reached a cooperation with another company. Due to confidentiality reasons, I cannot tell you. I can only say sorry to you here." Zhang Mouzhong said.

"Zhang, it's not difficult for Fruit to find out which company your company is cooperating with. Which company are you cooperating with?" Cook said.

"We have reached a cooperation agreement with Deep Blue Group." Zhang Mouzhong said after hearing Cook's words and being silent for a while.

Zhang Mouzhong has reached his limit in telling Cook the name of his partner. He can no longer tell Cook the details of the cooperation between the two parties. If Han Chen knows about his leaked information, then TSMC will face an astronomical situation. Numerical level of compensation.

"I understand, thank you, I won't disturb your rest." Cook said and hung up the phone.

Cook never thought that he would be robbed when he was cleaning up Fruit. Now that TSMC, the partner, has been pried away by Deep Blue Group, the only choice for Fruit now is Intel.

Even if the price offered to them by Intel is much higher than that of Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., they have to accept it.

The reason why TSMC did not choose to cooperate with Intel in the previous life was precisely because Intel's foundry prices were too high. The prices offered by Intel were nearly 20% higher than those offered by TSMC.

So what benefits will Deep Blue Group bring to Deep Blue Group after reaching a cooperation with TSMC?
The first is that the manufacturing costs of all chips of Deep Blue Group have dropped by 27%. The second is that TSMC gives priority to tape-out for Deep Blue. In other words, if Deep Blue wants to produce any new products, Deep Blue does not need to queue up for tape-out as before before it can be produced. Finally, there is Ensure that Deep Blue can obtain sufficient production capacity.

In the future, Deep Blue Group will not suspend chip production due to production capacity issues.

Finally, TSMC will send engineers to Shenzhen to cooperate with Shenlan Group to jointly research chip packaging technology.

Chip packaging technology also has an extremely important impact on chips. Advanced packaging technology can not only greatly improve chip integration, but also greatly improve chip performance and reduce chip power consumption.

For example, NVIDIA's H200 chip uses CoWoS packaging technology. CoWoS is a "2.5D" packaging technology of TSMC, in which multiple active silicon chips (usually configured as logic and HBM stacks) are integrated on a passive silicon interposer. . The interposer acts as the communication layer for the active chip on top.

The interposer and active silicon are then connected to the substrate containing the I/O to be placed on the system PCB.

CoWoS is the most popular packaging technology for GPU and AI accelerators as it is the primary method to co-encapsulate HBM and logic for optimal performance for training and inference workloads.

The cost for TSMC to package an H200 for Nvidia is US$800. You heard me right, the cost of packaging a chip is US$800. The packaging cost is several times more expensive than the cost of the chip itself.

Even if TSMC charges so much, Nvidia has no choice, because CoWoS packaging technology is too important, and only this packaging technology can allow their chips to achieve higher performance.

After Cook hung up the phone, he found a name named Paul Otellini in his address book.

"Hey, Cook, why do you call me when you have time?" Paul Otellini asked with a smile after answering the phone.

"Paul, are you free tomorrow afternoon?" Cook asked.

"Man, I'm always available as long as you come." Paul Otellini said happily.

"Okay, let's meet at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon." Cook said.

"OK, I'll ask the secretary to adjust my schedule." Paul Otellini replied.

After hanging up the phone with Paul Otellini, Cook picked up the landline and pressed the speed dial button.

"Hello, this is Bernie Albers, what can I do?" Bernie Albers said after answering the phone.

"It's me, come to my office right away." Cook said.

"Okay, boss," Bernie Albers replied.

Ten minutes later Bernie Albers arrived in Cook's office.

"Boss." Bernie Albers greeted after sitting down.

"When will the 32nm A6 chip be developed?" Cook asked.

If Cook had not been under such great pressure in the past, now Deep Blue Group has reached a cooperation agreement with TSMC, which means that Deep Blue has no production capacity restrictions, and Deep Blue's threat level to fruits exceeds Shanxing.

If Fruit wants to win this war, then Fruit must use the latest technology. Only in this way can Fruit defeat Deep Blue and Mountain Star.

According to the original plan, Fruit will launch the iPhone 4s next year, but judging from the current situation, there is no need for the iPhone 4s to exist. Cook plans to abandon the iPhone 4s and directly launch the iPhone 5.

"The A6 chip will not be available until 3 months at the earliest, and we are not yet sure about the performance of the first version." Bernie Albers said.

Normally, after a chip is developed, only after many iterations, the manufacturer will determine which version to use. The performance of the first version is definitely the worst, but now Cook has been forced to go to the wall, even if the performance of the first version is no better. Oops, the performance is definitely better than the 45nm chip.

In order to take the lead in future competition, Cook has to use 32-nanometer chips. Besides that he had another reason for doing it.

The reason is that he doesn't know whether Deep Blue's next-generation mobile phones will use 32-nanometer chips. If Deep Blue uses 32-nanometer chips in its next-generation products, what will it do to compete with Deep Blue.

As long as consumers are not stupid, they will buy products using 32nm chips.

"I have to see the A3 chip in 6 months. I want to use the A6 chip in the next generation of products. The current situation is worse than you think. Deep Blue has reached a cooperation agreement with TSMC. We don't know what their next generation products will be." What process is used.

If they use the 32nm process for their next-generation products, and we continue to use 45nm process chips, I don’t need to tell you the consequences. Since Deep Blue Group chooses to cooperate with TSMC, their next-generation products will definitely use 32nm. . " Cook said.

"Boss, I get it," said Bernie Albers.

Cook left the fruit company after Bernie Albers left.

Although he has now become the CEO of the fruit company, he still has to discuss some important decisions of the company with Mr. Qiao.

After Cook left the fruit company, he came to Master Qiao's house.

At this moment, Mr. Qiao is in a daze in the garden. Although Mr. Qiao has undergone many treatments, he still cannot stand up. The corners of Mr. Qiao's mouth are still tilted upward.

If Mr. Qiao hadn't still been thinking about the fruit company, he would probably have committed suicide long ago.

As a proud man, how could he bear to become a useless person who couldn't even move or speak clearly.

When Cook saw Master Qiao, he went directly to the chair next to him and sat down.

"Steve," Cook greeted.

"Cook, why are you here?" Master Qiao glanced at Cook and asked.

Although Mr. Qiao's speech was still somewhat unclear, he was able to speak coherently.

"I came here today to discuss something with you," Cook said.

"Did something happen to the company?" Master Qiao asked.

"It's not that anything happened on the company's side, but something happened on Deep Blue's side," Cook said.

"What's going on?" Master Qiao asked.

Then Cook briefly talked about the cooperation between Deep Blue Group and TSMC. Then Cook told Mr. Qiao his predictions for the future. After listening to Cook's description, Mr. Qiao realized the seriousness of the matter.

"Just follow your current thinking. Although Deep Blue poses a greater threat to the fruit, don't underestimate Shanxing." Master Qiao explained.

"Right now, Shanxing has more headaches than we do. Deep Blue has just launched two smartphones, and they have raised the price to $146. Now the entire low-end market has been dominated by Deep Blue," Cook said with a smile.

Mr. Qiao should have shown an expression of disbelief after hearing the news.

It's just that he couldn't control his expression after the stroke, but he could still show a look of surprise.

He didn't expect that Deep Blue Technology would be so ruthless as to launch such a cheap smartphone. This price could be said to offend all mobile phone manufacturers.

Deep Blue suddenly launches such a low-priced smartphone. How can other mobile phone manufacturers sell their feature phones?
Failure to sell feature phones will definitely cause mobile phone manufacturers to accumulate a large amount of inventory, which means that all mobile phone manufacturers will suffer huge losses because of Deep Blue. I believe all mobile phone manufacturers will hate Deep Blue to death.

In addition to mobile phone manufacturers, there are also upstream and downstream supply chains of mobile phone manufacturers. Some supply chains may have gone bankrupt because of what Deep Blue did.

"Your judgment is correct. Cook, you are a qualified CEO." Mr. Qiao said.

"Qiao, why don't you go to China and have a look?" Cook said.

"I won't go." Master Qiao said stubbornly.

Seeing that Mr. Qiao was unwilling, Cook didn't say anything more, because he knew Mr. Qiao's character too well, and saying too much would arouse Mr. Qiao's dislike.

September 2010, 10, China time.

The National Day holiday passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past period of time, DeepBlue mobile phones have been sold like crazy. Because the production capacity of the foundries cannot keep up, DeepBlue mobile phones have been out of stock several times, especially during the National Day holiday, DeepBlue mobile phones have been out of stock twice. Out of stock, the entire smartphone market has been dominated by Deep Blue.

All mobile phone manufacturers are jealous, and they can't help but make the Deep Blue 1SE so cheap.

In addition, Deep Blue Payment has taken the top spot in mobile payment with its convenient and convenient payment method.

Since Zhalang Weibo has given up the Weibo business, there is no product on the market that can compete with Weibo. Hallo still ranks first in mobile instant messaging, and WeChat still cannot beat Hallo in instant messaging.

In terms of online film and television, Deep Blue Films is still the dominant one. Descendants of the Dragon Kingdom crushed [Eternal Airwaves] with 5 million views. [Eternal Airwaves] has only had 3000 million views since its launch.

Deep Blue TV has also sold 100 million units in the past period, and Deep Blue TV has become the first choice TV set for young people.

Friendly home appliance manufacturers have also had to lower the prices of LCD TVs because of the emergence of Deep Blue TV. Now, in addition to mobile phone manufacturers, TV manufacturers also hate the Deep Blue Group.

Ali headquarters in Hangzhou.

At this time, Lao Ma was meeting with the person in charge of one of his companies in the office.

This company was acquired by Ali during the National Day holiday.

"Chengxin, I need you to develop an NFC chip for mobile phones. How long do you expect to develop the chip?" Lao Ma asked after pouring tea for the other party.

"Mr. Ma, it is not difficult for Mr. Ma to develop an NFC chip that can be used by mobile phones. We can come up with the solution in a week at most." Ruan Chengxin replied.

"How much does a chip cost?" Lao Ma asked.

"If it is made with a 65-nanometer process, the cost of a chip is about 18 yuan. If it is made with a 45-nanometer process, the cost is about 25 yuan. I calculated this cost based on the price of 10 pieces. Calculated, if the quantity is large, the cost can be reduced a lot." Ruan Chengxin said.

"If calculated based on 1 million pills, how much does it cost?" Lao Ma asked after picking up the tea cup and taking a sip.

"Calculated based on 20 million pieces, the price is about 28 yuan. However, if you want to use NFC on a mobile phone, just having a chip is not enough. You must be equipped with a corresponding induction coil to use it. If calculated based on one piece, the cost is about It’s around yuan,” Ruan Chengxin said.

"In addition, I still need to develop a few more models."

(End of this chapter)