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The latest website: After the establishment of the smart tablet project, Luo Sheng took the lead in upgrading Xiaona again, this time for supercomputing hardware.

Unconsciously, a year has passed, and Dawning Technology is also very powerful. The last time "Nuff" surpassed "Puma" to become the fastest computer in the world, Luo Sheng completed it through system architecture and algorithms.

But this is far from enough. Now that a year has passed, the hardware research and development of Dawning Technology is also progressing. Once the hardware performance advances by a gear, with Luo Sheng's algorithm and system architecture, the performance of supercomputing will increase by an entire order of magnitude. , which is exponentially soaring one level, quite scary.

Luo Sheng's private supercomputing strives to increase the computing speed per second from the current petaflop to a petaflop in 2010. The current computing performance of "Nuff" on the bright side is 230 teraflops. However, the actual data has not been disclosed. Since last year, the supercomputing performance has won the world's first throne.

It's just that Luo Sheng likes to work in a low-key manner, and he didn't make a big announcement. Dawning Technology wanted to do this to increase its brand awareness, but then Luo Sheng would not give the other party the exclusive authorization of the system architecture and algorithms he developed.

Therefore, Dawning Technology is also holding back.

This time Xiaona's big upgrade, Luo Sheng doesn't need to spend a penny, because the "support fee" is fully covered by the strategic partner Dawning Technology, and all future hardware upgrades will be borne by Dawning Technology, not only that Every year, Luo Sheng has to pay several hundred million extra for obtaining system architecture and algorithm authorization.

It is really the rhythm of lying down and earning a profit in the supercomputing industry.

The big data and cloud computing sectors are handled by Bluestar Technology Group, but they need the support of artificial intelligence technology to use them effectively. The direct point is Xiaona's growth efficiency.

The rapid upgrade of Xiaona means that many innovative application scenarios can be realized faster. The core technology of this smart tablet is the combination of AI + big data + cloud computing services, which are indispensable.

Therefore, even if an outsider knows this business model, but does not master the core technology, there is no competitiveness at all.

Luo Sheng is leading the rise of core technology, while Li Chunsheng, the project leader, is the senior product manager of the smart tablet, and Yao Jianhong is also actively integrating the supply chain.

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On December 22, Yao Jianhong came to TSMC headquarters for a business negotiation.

"What? Your company has an additional order of 35 million tablets?" The head of TSMC said in surprise.

Yao Jianhong looked at the head of Tieji Electric who had come out of the mountain again, nodded and smiled: "Yes, Mr. Zhang, we even want to add 50 million pieces."

For a moment, Mr. Zhang shook his head: "At most 30 million pieces, 50 million pieces is too much, so the Riviera will occupy more than 70% of the production capacity of my TSMC 45nm process, and other customers and partners are already very dissatisfied. , your order is very large and very attractive, but we have to take into account the attitude of the Americans, in fact, as you know, our cooperation has made SIA quite dissatisfied."

Yao Jianhong nodded again: "Okay, then 30 million pieces, and the remaining 20 million pieces, we will go to Samsung's foundry to provide solutions, and their foundry should be no problem. However, Mr. Zhang, LSMC's 45nm chip manufacturer The production capacity cannot be less than 50%.”

As soon as Mr. Zhang heard the Samsung OEM, he seemed to be stimulated by something, and his words suddenly changed: "Wait a minute, 50 million pieces, we have taken all of them!"

Yao Jianhong smiled knowingly, but he didn't show it, and immediately said: "We need to supply the first batch of 15 million pieces for this batch of new orders from the second quarter of next year, and the production capacity of TSMC will be even better?"

Mr. Zhang responded decisively: "The production capacity is not enough to expand the production capacity. The big deal is to delay the delivery time of other customers."

This money is too good, although SIA is very dissatisfied, but there is no way, the Cote d'Azur has given too much money.

Just some time ago, Cote d’Azur invested in TSMC, which accounted for 7.2% of the shares, which brought tens of billions of dollars in cash. TSMC now has ample funds, and a new batch of lithography machines will be in place soon, at most 15. Monthly production capacity can be doubled.

You know, the reason why TSMC can't let go of the Côte d'Azur customer can be seen by looking at its market value. Now it has rushed to 150 billion US dollars, surpassing IBM.

Many of TSMC’s equity deconstruction is composed of American shareholders. Azure Coast invested more than 10 billion US dollars into the TSMC board of directors. Although Azure Coast is not listed, it still has a relationship with Wall Street. You must know that Wall Street has issued bonds before. There are also several large creditors.

The current profits of Côte d'Azur are so terrifying, Wall Street has been doing "ideological work" for Luo Sheng, trying to realize various ways to force him to list Côte d'Azur.

Because of this, Luo Sheng shared part of the profits, so the pressure on Wall Street to force the Cote d'Azur to go public has also been reduced a lot.

Let's stabilize Wall Street first.

The international market can try not to lose it as much as possible. Of course, sharing a part of the profit is to obtain a greater profit.

The interests of multinational companies, especially multinational giants, are complex, and it is not easy to sort out the intertwined interests.

Some people want to block Cote d'Azur on the surface, but this is just to buy themselves a "zhengzhi insurance", and the cooperation behind the scenes is still correct.

Who is a capitalist who can't live with profits?

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After Yao Jianhong left TSMC, he met with Lao Guo, the head of Foxconn, in the afternoon. Naturally, he did not go to greet him.

The business cooperation negotiated this time is the OEM issue of the smart tablet business. Cote d'Azur decided to hand over all the OEM orders for this product to Foxconn, and Lao Guo was very happy.

This order has greatly eased the competitive pressure from Biyadi for Foxconn. It has previously received an order for 10 million units of Azure mobile phones. , which can be described as a super large order, which is definitely a super growth point for Foxconn's foundry business.

The specific OEM products are naturally kept secret, and Lao Guo will not be so stupid as to disclose this information to the outside world and offend the big customers and lose the big order, but Yao Jianhong, as the second person of the Côte d’Azur, also allows Foxconn to announce and undertake the contract. This list is made, but it cannot be disclosed what specific products are OEMs.

Shortly after Yao Jianhong returned to the mainland, Foxconn announced the news, and its stock price rose sharply, while the market value of Biyadi sprinted in the opposite direction and fell by about 3% that day.

Wang Zong, the head of Bia Di, was very helpless. It was obviously impossible not to get angry, but there was nothing to do about the behavior of "footing on two boats" in the Cote d'Azur.

The current Bia Di OEM and Foxconn can be described as incompatible, and it is impossible to join forces to fight against the "big radish" of the Côte d'Azur. Otherwise, if he finds a fourth party, Biyadi and Foxconn will I can't find a place to cry.

Another thing is that now everyone has meat to eat is the most important thing. The big thick legs on the Cote d'Azur can be eaten as a big fat man. He is a little bit rational, and he will never do anything to offend people until he has no bargaining power.

The supply chain on the Côte d'Azur can make a lot of money. This is the consensus of the industry. If you lick it, you will be done. You will have everything in the end, but you will have nothing in the end.

During the end of the year, Cote d'Azur accelerated the integration of the supply chain of smart tablets. Luo Sheng is a person who pursues "fast action and breaking the rules". For supply chain partners, the time must be very rushed, and the yield rate must be ensured. Next year product launch.

In other words, only about half a year.

Fortunately, all technical problems have been resolved, supply chain integration has been completed, and new products can be launched as scheduled.

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