Great Power Technology

Ye Zhou's proposal is only a preliminary suggestion. The actual source of these two suggestions is actually Ye Zhou's talent as a planner. After he spent enough time to understand the current situation of the international chip industry and the basic principles of international economic and trade, he came up with the ideas in his mind. Zhongbian automatically screened out these two key factors based on intuition.

What he has to do is to deduce the execution strategy and principles based on these two key elements. This is many times simpler than forward reasoning.

His proposal aroused extensive discussion at the venue. Most people believed that this idea was unreasonable, but it could be regarded as a decisive move to get rid of the price war and completely break the situation.

After the meeting, several of the top economists in the country sat together and began to analyze the minutes of the seminar.

However, in fact, all of them only focused on Ye Zhou's two suggestions.

As for other people's suggestions, they are either mature enough and do not require further analysis; or the implementation strategy is too complex and cannot be concluded in a short time, so there is no need to discuss it at this impromptu gathering.

"To make a long story short, you have all seen Ye Zhou's suggestions. They are very clear and the execution logic is self-consistent. To a certain extent, the plan he proposed has indeed cut into the pain points of the international chip market."

"I won't say any unnecessary official words or polite words. I personally agree with his suggestion."

It was Wang Jian who spoke. His main areas of research are international trade and behavioral economics. Of all the people, he has the most thorough understanding of Ye Zhou’s establishment.

From his point of view, Ye Zhou's suggestions were like those of a talented but never-trained swordsman, whose casual sword thrust had the effect of returning to his original nature and hitting the vital point.

Although these two suggestions, patent authorization and confidentiality commitment, seem to be unrelated, they do depend on each other at the lowest level of logic, as Ye Zhou said.

In other words, these two measures serve as barriers to each other. If either one is challenged, the other can vindicate it.

"I agree with Lao Wang. The situation we are facing now is very dangerous, and we can no longer adopt the previous strategy lukewarmly, because we don't have the time to make plans."

"The change of chip technology is a transfer of strategic advantage to our enemies. They will never sit back and watch our expansion."

"According to our inference, the countermeasures that the other party may take include but are not limited to supporting opponents, price wars, trade blockades against other countries, technology replacement, third-party financing, interest-free loans, etc. This series of All methods require a huge amount of resources and international credibility.”

"Of course we can adopt the same strategy as them, but this will be detrimental to our future expansion plans."

“I personally think that these resources should be put into more useful places. For example, the funds used to provide third-party financing and interest-free loans can obviously be invested in the trial production of 3nm and sub-nanometer level lithography machines. go."

"After all, we already have technical documents, and trial production will only consume manpower and economic costs."

Cui Zhiyuan, who was sitting in front of Wang Jian, agreed.

His main field of study is political economics, and he also considers issues in this area.

"Both of you are right, but I still think that such a plan is risky. Even if it is done, it should be done with caution."

"If we don't talk about anything else, let's talk about confidentiality commitments. If we want to highlight our advantages, it means that we need to face each other head-on. We must use our country's credit as a guarantee to accuse the other party's commercial company of leaking secrets. question."

"I think this kind of action is inappropriate - I'm not referring to empty things like etiquette, magnanimity, etc., but I am saying that this is an action that reveals one's trump card prematurely."

Several people in the conference room nodded in unison. Although most people have basically agreed with Ye Zhou's suggestions, it is undeniable that the two plans he proposed are too radical. If they are not operated properly, they may cause huge consequences. Backlash.

"Is there any way to avoid the risk?"

"There must be, but to be honest, if you ask me to say it now, I can't say it so easily. This is a strategy that requires refined layout and long-term preparation. Don't look at what the boy named Ye Zhou said is simple. In fact, In fact, he just skipped the execution process and directly focused on the results. In fact, the most difficult strategic design still has to fall on us."

The speaker was Cui Zhiyuan, and the others couldn't help but feel a little amused when they heard his half-truth and half-false complaints.

"Isn't that what we do? What the hell, Lao Cui, do you still want him to give you an execution strategy report directly?"

"That's not true! The chip manufacturing documents he took out were a hard drive full of them. Why did he start perfunctory when we got here? Isn't this treating one thing favorably and favoring another!"

"I'm not a professional! It's great to be able to put forward these two pertinent suggestions. If we were to discuss it, I don't know how long it would take to decide the next direction."

Cui Zhiyuan picked up the tea cup and took a sip, smiled and said:

"I'm just joking. To be honest, this young man is very unusual, that is, he has focused his energy on engineering. If he had chosen economics, I'm afraid his future achievements will be as good as yours and mine."

"Well, I feel the same way. But engineering is better, and industry can save the country. Those of us who are theoretical and pragmatic should not be greedy for others."

"It's fine if you don't covet him. I heard that he has a sister named Ye Lan who is also quite talented?"

Wang Jian asked with interest.

"She has talent. When I was at the headquarters with Chen Hao and the others, I heard that she was tinkering with financial models all day long. And before the meeting just now, I heard Chen Hao say that in the past two days, the little girl had been running the Blackstone Fund by herself. The logic worked out, it’s pretty awesome.”

"Is it all calculated, or part of it?"

"That must be part of it!"

After Cui Zhiyuan answered with a smile, he continued:

"Although it is only a part, it is not easy to complete such an analysis independently. At least the level is comparable to several top graduate students I have come into contact with. Oh, by the way, the most important part is here. You know her Who gave me the idea?"

"Ye Zhou, your sales are really not good at this level."

"Is it that easy to guess? It doesn't matter. Anyway, you should know why I'm jealous, right? Such a person who has never systematically studied economics can accurately point out the key indicators of financial market operations, and then today he You made these two suggestions for us to stay and discuss, aren’t you jealous?”

"Well, it's just that I'm a little older and it's not suitable to change careers."

The old man on the side said seriously.

"Why do you want to change your career? Just take a look, he has to do more important things. Forget about the idle talk, then we have reached an agreement today?"

"We have reached an agreement. Let's adopt his suggestion. We will divide the work and come up with the general executive outline first, and strive to report it to the boss for approval as soon as possible!"

A few hours later, the man received the executive summary submitted by the economists. He just read it once and signed his name on it.

For the people below, they were limited by their perspective and probably thought this was a somewhat deviant suggestion. However, he himself noticed the keyword mentioned by Ye Zhou in his speech.

"Asymmetric Strategy".

Indeed, what the young man named Ye Zhou proposed was an asymmetric strategy. This had never been an unfamiliar idea during the decades he had been working quietly.

But now, the young man just wants to apply this idea to more subtle business games.

This is not deviant at all, but consistent.

It was at this moment that his interest in this young man increased a little more.

He picked up the phone on the table, dialed a number, and then said to the other side:

"As for the use of little comrade Ye Zhou, I think it can be appropriately relaxed."

"Yes, there is no need to announce it in a formal setting, but in private, you can give him more room to express himself freely."