Reinventing the Millennium

Saturday, April 18th.

It started to rain lightly in Lin'an.

Fang Zhuo strolled around the hazy West Lake and left his second hometown in a bad mood.

The construction of the factory in Lin'an went smoothly. Qimonda's team that flew from Germany was also satisfied with the performance of the ice core and officially started cooperation negotiations.

If nothing unexpected happens, Qimonda will sign an agreement with Bingxin by the end of this month. After all, Fangzhuo has been in contact since last year before Qimonda was separated from the parent company, and the attitudes of both parties are quite consistent.

The content of the cooperation is that Qimonda will transfer and license 110nm, 90nm, and 80nm DRAM trench technologies to Ice Core for the development and sales of various niche memories.

Storage DRAM is divided into mainstream and niche types. The former is oriented to needs such as PCs and servers, while the latter is used in televisions, surveillance, network communications, in-vehicle entertainment and other needs.

Niche storage is relatively low-end, mainly customized, and only accounts for about 10% of the total memory market share.

Because considering the technical strength of Ice Core, the demand of related industrial chains, and the fierce price competition among the big players in the memory market today, Qiu Ciyun, Hu Zhengming, and Qimonda head Luo Jianhua all believe that Ice Core uses niche storage as the mainstay of DRAM. A good starting point.

As the first independent partner of Qimonda, Luo Jian and Huawei show their sincerity and will add expansion clauses. If necessary in the future, the two parties will expand their cooperative relationship in the production of standard memory chips.

Fang Zhuo quite approves of this cooperative attitude, and also agrees that ice cores should start from niche storage.

According to the schedule, the ice core storage factory in Lin'an can complete construction and technology digestion within this year, and it will not be put into production until next year at the earliest.

In other words, it will be put into production next year in 2007, which is not far away from the major reshuffle caused by the financial crisis in 2008. It is just right for those who are picky and take advantage of the trend to enter the mainstream storage field.

Lin'an's storage future is worth thinking about.

However, the realistic news before him still made Fang Zhuo frown.

As soon as the news came that the reporter had changed the head, he immediately asked people to inquire about the situation from different channels.

Sure enough, Taiwanese journalists do seem to be interested in making further moves in the United States.

When Fang Zhuo heard the vague news, he notified Zhang Rujing, but fearing that the other party would not take it seriously, he also called Secretary-General Jiang Shangzhou.

As a result, the two people's attitudes were quite consistent. The soldiers came to cover up the water and the earth.

Zhang Rujing said this: "We have complied with all the terms of the settlement agreement. There is no fault in this. The technology for the new process was imported from Belgium. Mr. Fang, you also know this. How can Taiwanese journalists sue?"

Fang Zhuo sighed and said, "I believe what you said, Mr. Zhang, but I'm just afraid that the referee will bias me."

Zhang Rujing was silent for a long time when he heard Mr. Fang say this.

In the end, he could only say: "It hasn't happened yet, let's do our best."

That's all.

In addition to the communication with SMIC, Fang Zhuo noticed the appearance of Liang Mengsong in the management change of Taiji. Dr. Liang was not affected by the butterfly effect and was elected as the Vice President of R\u0026D of Taiji as he wished.

After hearing the news, Fang Zhuo called Dr. Liang with a heavy heart and planned to comfort him.

However, before he said a few words or even started to express his intention, the other party flatly refused and claimed, "Even if I sit on the bench in Taiji, I will not go to Bingxin."

Such words are somewhat hurtful.

Even though Mr. Fang's heart was as strong as a rock, it was somewhat scratched with a white mark.

Immediately, he picked up the phone and noticed another factor. After he got through, he didn't even mention whether he was sitting on the bench or not. Dr. Liang was stunned to express what he felt in his heart.

It seems that deep down, this guy still cares about the unexpected loss.

There is a problem now. Fang Zhuo was afraid that Dr. Liang would not come to Bingxin even if he left Taiji, so he turned around and followed his Korean wife to Samsung. If that really happened...

Fang Zhuo felt that he had to quietly destroy flowers and resolutely help put an end to irregularities in the industry.

Taiwanese reporters are rivals, and Samsung Finance is so powerful that they are also rivals.

Liang Mengsong's news was mixed, and the new head of Taiwan Journal brought a completely bad news as soon as he took office. He announced his customer attitude to the media.

Because of Taiji's advanced technology, the cost of 65nm is expected to be lower than that of 90nm, so many customers will consider skipping 90nm directly and looking for 65nm OEM products.

Ice Core here is still busy with 90nm risk mass production. Others are considering skipping this generation. They were just drinking soup. This time, even the soup has become less. It’s really one step faster, step by step, step by step. Slowly, step by step.

Fortunately, Taiji will probably start large-scale mass production in the third or fourth quarter, which still leaves some time to get orders.

According to Qiu Ciyun, the small profits but quick turnover of ice cores must be made thinner to increase competitiveness.

On the way back to Shanghai from Lin'an, Fang Zhuo had been thinking about the changes represented by various news. When he arrived in Shanghai, his secretary mentioned the latest news. Penguin officially entered the campus social network and launched "QQ Alumni".

QQ alumni...

This name is really straightforward.

Fang Zhuo had no mood swings about the penguin's attack, but he was just curious about whether it would have a different situation this time as it quickly entered the campus social circuit.

"Mr. Fang, this matter is being discussed on Zhihu." The secretary continued to report, "Everyone is taking stock of the various fields that Penguin has entered. There used to be three major portals. Penguin has become the portal. Now there are emerging e-commerce companies. Penguin has done photography. Shooting, including game platforms, Xiaonei network and other unexpected successes, Penguin also used traffic to follow up, they said, Penguin did not do anything."

Fang Zhuo asked curiously: "What didn't you do?"

"Penguin has no involvement in Baidu's search track," the secretary replied.

Fang Zhuo laughed and waved his hands: "It'll be a matter of time."

As Penguin launched its alumni online, directly pointing to the school network, not only Zhihu, but also online media such as Sohu, Sina, and NetEase sparked a heated discussion.

Since its launch, Penguin has become more and more adept at using its traffic advantage, but it seems to have gone too far.

However, this discussion did not sway Penguin, and two days later, Penguin made up for the discussion - Penguin entered the search track and launched "SouSou", completing another use of traffic.

It was also because of the launch of Sosou that a vice president-level executive from Penguin asked rhetorically and expressed his position in an interview with the media.

“Aren’t our traffic and our users what we have earned through hard work?”

"If it were you, wouldn't you use this advantage?"

“When doing business and doing projects, of course you have to bring out your own strengths.”

"Not to mention the alumni network, we are also considering creating a Zhihu. I believe that even Mr. Fang can understand the logic of our product development."

"The market is like this, survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest."

After the school and Sosou, Vice President Penguin used the power of traffic to call President Fang and named Zhihu.