Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker

Zhao Guoqing fully expects the Longteng x109 computer to be exported. Of course, this decision will take time.

After Dragon II was put on the agenda, in June 1994, AMD K5-450, a 32-bit, 500nm process processor manufactured by SMIC, was successfully tape-out. The processor has a total of 4.3 million transistors and a SOCKET 5 interface. , adopts PCI bus and supports DDR memory.

Although the K5 processor integrates 20% fewer transistors than the Intel Pentium 300, thanks to SMIC's excellent 500nm process, the frequency directly exceeds 450Mhz, and the performance exceeds the Pentium processor. It also uses the 500nm process. The ARM v5 processor was also defeated.

However, facing the new architecture of ARM Duron processor, the performance lags behind by about 40%.

But for the x86 platform, it is undoubtedly a shot in the arm.

Silicon Valley is looking east again.

AMD CEO Rob Letterman reported to board members: "It turns out that SMIC's 500-nanometer process is superior to Intel's. This also proves that AMD is right to look for cooperation opportunities in the East."

After Rob's report, the executive director of Bellet Consortium suddenly made a suggestion.

"Mr. Rob, fellow directors, I would like to make a suggestion, whether AMD can acquire Intel!"

As soon as this sentence was said, everyone was shocked!

"Acquire Intel?"

"How can it be?"

For AMD, Intel is a big mountain. Since its establishment, AMD has been developing by reversing Intel's technology, and now...

But after thinking about it, they felt that it was very possible!

Intel is currently involved in a lawsuit. Because of the physical bug of the Pentium processor, Intel refused to implement a recall strategy in order to avoid falling into a financial pit. They presented a series of evidence to prove that their processor had no problem and that the trigger of the BUG was just It's a small probability event.

Intel's attitude directly put them into a brand crisis, and their partners HP, Compaq and other OEM manufacturers suffered heavy losses.

Their counterattack against Intel started with Compaq filing a lawsuit against Intel, and then a class action lawsuit was launched in Europe. French Member of Parliament Jair Marinho directly proposed that if Intel does not face up to their problems, France may directly punish Intel. Sex fine.

Intel finally relaxed its tone.

Financial disaster follows!

You must know that the price of a Pentium processor is between 100 and 300 US dollars, but compensating users is not just a matter of recalling the CPU.

The Pentium processor uses a new base interface, and the microcomputer without the processor is useless, which makes the cost of recalling a CPU reach about one thousand to four thousand dollars.

"The cost of recalling Pentium processors is estimated to be over five billion U.S. dollars. Intel simply cannot afford such expenditure, and Intel's current market value is less than two billion U.S. dollars!"

The data is clear, Intel is going bankrupt! In the history of capital, the best result is bankruptcy and reorganization, and finding a reliable successor. In this case, investors may be able to recover some of their costs.

In the entire world, the most suitable company to acquire Intel is AMD.

"Intel has a mature 350nm commercial process, rich x86 technology reserves, and the world's top processor technical talents. Gentlemen, if AMD merges with Intel, we have another advantage. AMD will never be affected by Intel. Patent charges!”

Both capital and American semiconductor industry personnel seem to want Intel to merge with AMD.

Silicon Valley Daily wrote: The merger of Intel and AMD will enable the American microprocessor field to be qualified to compete with the ARM architecture. Whether X86 can survive is very important.

When Zhao Guoqing received the news, he shook his head and said to his assistant Song Liansheng: "This may not be a good thing for AMD!"

In Zhao Guoqing's view, Intel has a sense of superiority over AMD from top to bottom. If Intel annexes AMD, it may be able to integrate smoothly, and let AMD annex Intel. I wonder if AMD has such a big appetite.

This process must be very difficult. Zhao Guoqing arranged for the international strategy department to keep a close eye on the two companies. By late June, SMIC announced as scheduled that SMIC had completed the research and development of the 350nm process and could carry out international foundry manufacturing of the 350nm process. Serve.

Zhongxun later released the successful tape-out of DRAM 8M memory particles based on the 350nm process. The unit price of a single memory particle is US$20 for an order of 100,000 pieces.

As soon as this price was announced, Lee Kun-hee, the head of Samsung Semiconductor, sighed.

Toshiba released its product plan almost at the same time. Toshiba plans to release its own WCDMA mobile phone within the year.

This news stunned Li Jianxi. He realized that it was Sinocom that transferred technology to Toshiba.

"Why did they do that?"

In Li Jianxi’s view, Japanese semiconductors have strong technical reserves and strength. In the world, only Japanese semiconductors have the lithography machines, etching machines, and various chemical cleaning and etching reagents needed to manufacture chips. .

Even the United States and China cannot completely produce it themselves. The high-purity hydrogen fluoride solution for etching required by SMIC's high-process technology is imported from Japan.

There is no way. Although domestic products can be used, they are not pure enough. Using domestic chemicals means that the yield rate will be reduced by 30 percentage points.

"By transferring technology to Toshiba, Sinocom International is undoubtedly trying to gain skin from the same enemy. This is abnormal!"

"Since technology can be transferred to Toshiba, of course it can also be transferred to Samsung..."