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"I wonder how much your company plans to pay for the transfer of its stores?" Doug McMillen asked.

Doug McMillan has read the financial report sent by Sleater Christian. According to the report, the profit of Deep Blue Store is as high as 30%. Doug McMillan can resist this temptation.

"50 billion US dollars will acquire all the specialty stores and the exclusive agency rights of Deep Blue's experience stores in Europe and the United States," said Slit Christian.

Deep Blue Group's experience stores in Europe and the United States have a net profit of up to US$4 million a month. It only takes one and a half years to recover the US$50 billion. This price is no different from giving away money.

Doug McMillan was a little hesitant after hearing the offer, because he always felt that there was something fishy, ​​otherwise why would Deep Blue give up such a huge profit and hand over the business to someone else.

"I wonder what your payment method is for purchases?" Doug McMillan asked.

"70% of the payment must be made in advance when placing an order, and the remaining 30% will be settled within two weeks after the arrival of the goods," said Sleet Christian.

"Can the advance payment be reduced?" Doug McMillan asked again.

"There's nothing we can do. This is the price set by our chairman. Branch offices also have to prepay 70% of the payment when placing orders." Slit Christian shook his head.

"Let me think about it and get back to you," Doug McMillan replied.

"Mr. Doug, you only have three days to consider. This is the deadline given to me by the chairman. If you can't reply within three days, I will go to Best Buy to negotiate." said Sleater Christian.

"No problem." Doug McMillan nodded.

April 2014, 3, US time.

Walmart released an announcement.

Walmart acquired the exclusive agency rights for all Deep Blue Group's experience stores in Europe and the United States and Deep Blue electronic products for US$50 billion.

The announcement stated that according to analysis, after Walmart acquires the Deep Blue Experience Store and the agency qualification, it will bring Walmart at least 80 billion in net profit each year. Walmart's stock price therefore soared by nine percentage points.

Although this announcement caused Walmart's stock price to rise by nine percentage points, this incident did not attract the attention of ordinary people. After all, this kind of thing has no impact on ordinary people.

But one thing is for sure.

Mobile phones produced by DeepBlue have become the most popular mid-to-high-end mobile phones in the world, because the games on the Magic Eye platform are so addictive that young people can't stop playing. The only mobile phones on the market that can run mobile games smoothly are DeepBlue phones.

Other brands have had to postpone their new product launches because they don’t have good GPUs. They plan to wait for a GPU with powerful performance to be released.

China time on June 2014, 4.

The president's office of Quanzhi Technology in Baidao City.

After confirming that Beidouxing EDA was open to the public, Zhang Jianhui immediately downloaded the Beidouxing software to his local computer and quickly completed the installation of the software.

After the installation was complete, Zhang Jianhui double-clicked the icon on the desktop to start the Beidouxing EDA software.

After the software interface was opened, he was prompted that he needed to register before logging in. The registration of Beidouxing EDA is divided into personal registration and corporate registration. Zhang Jianhui planned to register a personal account first.

After clicking register, Zhang Jianhui began to fill in his personal information. However, the process did not end after submitting his personal information. The system prompted him to upload a photo of his ID card, and Zhang Jianhui obediently uploaded his ID card.

He originally thought that the task would be completed after uploading the ID card, but he did not expect that facial recognition would be required after uploading the ID card.

"Xiao Zhang, find me a camera." Zhang Jianhui picked up the phone and called his secretary.

As a semiconductor company, they had cameras. The secretary quickly found a camera for Zhang Jianhui, and under the guidance, he quickly completed the facial recognition verification.

At this time, the software prompts him to return to the home page to log in.

After returning to the homepage, Zhang Jianhui entered his account and password and pressed Enter. At this moment, the camera screen popped up. If he wanted to log in to Beidouxing EDA, he needed to perform face recognition to log in. After some trouble, Zhang Jianhui finally logged into Beidouxing EDA.

At this time, a pop-up window popped up on the system, telling him that there was a 3-day trial period, and he had to pay to use it after 3 days.

Zhang Jianhui had already checked the tutorials on how to use Beidouxing EDA on its official website.

Using Beidouxing EDA is not difficult at all for Zhang Jianhui.

As stated on the official website, Beidouxing EDA software has all the functions that other manufacturers have, and it also has functions that other manufacturers do not have.

However, these functions are not what Zhang Jianhui values ​​most. What Zhang Jianhui values ​​most is the simulation speed of Beidouxing.

Zhang Jianhui put a chip they had previously designed into EDA for simulation testing.

[The file is uploading, please wait 1%]

The official website says that all simulation verification is implemented on the cloud server, so if you want to verify the chip, you must upload the file to the server.

It took Zhang Jianhui less than 1 minutes to successfully upload the 3G file to Shenlan's server.

[After the file is uploaded, do you want to simulate it? Yes or No. ]

Zhang Jianhui clicked yes without thinking.

[Simulation starting 1%]

In less than 20 minutes, 1% became 99%.

"No wonder Deep Blue Group's chips can surpass Qualcomm and Intel. With this verification speed, they iterate 20 times for every one iteration of others." Zhang Jianhui muttered to himself.

If this chip file is placed on their server for simulation, it will take more than 7 hours to complete the simulation at the fastest. Beidouxing shortens the time from 7 hours to 20 minutes. After the simulation is completed, developers can iterate immediately.

If other EDA software is used, the R&D team will have to wait at least 7 hours before performing the second iterative update.

20 minutes is the free simulation time. If you register as a premium member, the speed can be increased by three or more times, which means that the simulation test can be completed in about 5 minutes.

If this simulation speed is calculated based on 996, it would not be a problem to iterate four or five times a day.

Although Deep Blue Group would charge 5% of the total chip sales as patent fees, Zhang Jianhui still decided to use Beidouxing EDA for research and development. As for the EDAs of the three major manufacturers, he simply gave up.

Currently, Beidouxing EDA can design chips with a maximum size of 3 nanometers, so there is no need to worry that Beidouxing EDA cannot keep up with the times.

at the same time.

After experiencing Beidouxing EDA, many semiconductor people also went to the chat group to discuss it.

"Have you tried using Beidouxing EDA?" "Yes, I have. Although Beidouxing EDA uses cloud services, it is very smooth to operate, even faster than using the company's server. I don't know how Deep Blue did it."

"Oh my god, I just tried to simulate a chip. It took 36 hours to simulate it using the company's server, but it only took 43 minutes to complete using Beidouxing. If I pay, it will probably only take 15 minutes. Beidouxing's simulation speed is invincible."

"The threshold for developing chips has been lowered. I don't plan to work for a company anymore. Is there anyone who wants to start a business together?"

"Does anyone know what the price of Deep Blue Foundry's foundry is?"

"I just checked the Deep Blue Foundry's official website. The foundry price of Deep Blue Foundry is 15% cheaper than TSMC. The most important thing is that Deep Blue Foundry does not need to make masks. That means the chips do not need to be made with masks. Even if MPW is used for wafer production, it is still not as cheap as Deep Blue."

"Deep Blue is going to destroy all other wafer fabs."

"It's not that easy to kill other manufacturers. It depends on the production capacity of Deep Blue Fab. If the production capacity of Deep Blue Fab is very high, then other wafer factories are likely to be doomed."

"Oh shit, Deep Blue Foundry's official website just released a message that Deep Blue Foundry has achieved mass production of 14 nanometers."

"Deep Blue is really far ahead of the world this time."

"The big brother just now said he wanted to start a business. Send me his contact information to talk about starting a business privately."

Jingcheng Rice Company.

Lei Jun called all the co-founders of the rice company to a meeting in the conference room.

Dami has eight co-founders, namely Lei Jun, Lin Bin, Hong Feng, Wang Chuan, Liu De, Li Wanqiang, Huang Jiangji and Zhou Guangping, who are known as the "Eight Vajras of Dami".

"I called everyone to the meeting today because there is a very important matter that requires everyone to vote. I believe everyone should know that Deep Blue Group launched the Big Dipper EDA and their wafer fab today. After Lin Bin's research, the Big Dipper EDA has lowered the threshold for chip development to the floor.

Since the threshold for chip development has been lowered to the floor, should we develop our own chips? If we use self-developed chips, our costs can be reduced by at least 30%. "Leibs asked the audience.

“Mr. Lei, I don’t think we need to develop chips. Although the threshold for developing chips has been lowered, it still requires a lot of capital investment. The lower the threshold for developing chips, the more intense the competition. The more intense the competition, the lower the price of chips.

We don’t need to invest in R&D at all. We might as well continue the current operation model and acquire those powerful semiconductor companies after we have enough funds. ” Li Wanqiang said.

Even though the cost of chip research and development has been reduced several times or even dozens of times, the initial capital investment in independent research and development is still very scary.

In this case, why not wait until you have sufficient funds before acquiring an existing semiconductor research and development company.

Even though the cost of purchasing chips from others will certainly be high, this cost is controllable for them. The cost of developing chips is uncontrollable, and Rice is likely to be dragged down by the chip R&D department, so Li Wanqiang does not agree with independently developing chips.

"Mr. Lei, I think Wan Qiang is right. R&D costs are uncontrollable. Da Mi will most likely be dragged down by it. Once any problems arise, Da Mi Company will most likely be ruined." Hong Feng said.

"I also agree with Wan Qiang's opinion. We don't have that much money for research and development," said Liu De.

The remaining co-founders also agreed with Li Wanqiang's statement. One reason was that there was not much money left in the Dami company's account, and the other was that the sales of Dami mobile phones had been getting worse and worse recently. If this continued, it was unknown how long the remaining funds could last.

At the suggestion of the seven co-founders, Lei Jun finally gave up on developing chips independently.

Deep Blue has lowered the threshold for chip research and development. At the same time, competition in the chip industry will become very fierce, and the price of chips will inevitably drop as a result.

In their opinion, it is unwise to develop chips at this time. It is better to make enough money first and then acquire chip companies. In this way, they will avoid many detours.

You must know that no matter how low the threshold is, the risk of engaging in an industry across industries is very high.

If the company accidentally takes a detour, it is very likely to go bankrupt. The seven joint venture members do not want to take a detour and do not want to take this risk.

Stick country.

Mountain Star Headquarters.

Lee Kun-hee looked worried after receiving the news from Shenlan.

The semiconductor business is Shanxing's core business, but the chip business is very bad now. Deep Blue Memory has caused them to lose tens of billions. Now Deep Blue has built a wafer factory, and its foundry price is cheaper than theirs. Not only is the price cheaper, but the technology is also more advanced than theirs.

If this continues, Sanxing's semiconductor business will collapse sooner or later.

In the tea room, Lee Kun-hee knelt in front of the tea table with his eyes closed, thinking about how to deal with this matter.

"Jae-yong." Lee Kun-hee slowly opened his eyes and said.

"Chairman." Lee Jae-yong responded with a bow.

"You should go to China in person in the next few days and see if you can buy lithography machines from Deep Blue," said Lee Kun-hee.

"Chairman, what if the other party is unwilling to sell the lithography machine?" Lee Jae-yong asked.

"Then ask them to join our player team and let them manage the memory market with us. I believe they will not refuse this request." Lee Kun-hee said as he picked up the teacup and took a sip.

"Chairman, what I'm worried about now is that the other party doesn't want to see me," Lee Jae-yong replied.

"There are no eternal enemies in the business world, only eternal interests," Lee Kun-hee said after putting down his teacup.

"Hey, I'll arrange it right away." Lee Jae-yong said, then stood up and left the tea room.

TSMC headquarters in Hsinchu.

At this time, Zhang Mouzhong, who was sitting on a chair in the office, had a worried look on his face.

Everyone already knows the foundry price of Deep Blue Foundry. As the chairman, how could Zhang Mouzhong not know it? He just didn't expect Deep Blue's price to be so cheap. Deep Blue's foundry chip price is 15% cheaper than theirs.

The most terrifying thing is that Deep Blue Foundry can achieve mass production without a mask.

This means that asking Deep Blue Group to do the tape-out can save tens to millions of US dollars.

This is going to force TSMC into a dead end.

"If I had known this, I would not have agreed to those foreigners back then." Zhang Mouzhong murmured to himself.

At this moment, Zhang Mouxin regretted very much that he had agreed to let BlackRock Group invest in them and become a major shareholder of TSMC.

If he had refused Black Rock Group and continued to befriend Deep Blue, they would definitely be able to buy the latest lithography machines from Deep Blue. At that time, TSMC would definitely surpass Intel to become the largest wafer factory of the time.

But it is no use regretting now. TSMC's future has been doomed. TSMC has fallen because of his wrong decision. (End of this chapter)