Technological Hegemony

Two Volvo limousines stopped in the rain, four people got out of the car, held up umbrellas, and walked towards the entrance of the venue. The leader was slightly fat and wore gold-rimmed glasses. When he saw An Ran, he waved to An Ran from afar .

"Brother Ma!"

An Ran was overjoyed, he really didn't expect that Tencent's Xiao Ma would be the first to arrive.

Not long after, Brother Xiao Ma stood opposite An Ran. The middle-aged man who seemed to be a bodyguard put away his umbrella and looked around nervously.

Xingchen Technology has Shuangran, and Huaxia Internet has Shuangma, who are popular figures talked about by the people. What's more interesting, Anran's style is like Ali's old horse. Brother, they are both dull gourds who don't like to talk, and they even have similar personalities.

"Where's Mr. Luo?" Ma looked around, looking for Luo Jia.

"I'm browsing the forum in the background." An Ran muttered, "I was worried that everyone would not dare to come because they were afraid of being sanctioned, but he said that if they don't come, we will pretend to be Changshan Zhao Zilong and kill him single-handedly. past."

Hahaha~

Everyone laughed, Brother Ma said, "Sure enough, you can do whatever you want with technology. Mr. Luo has such arrogance, we can't compare."

An Ran said, "Boss Ma is too modest. Who doesn't know that you teamed up with Ali and Huawei and are quietly waging another war. Oracle, the world's largest database provider, has been beaten by you. I'm afraid that in a few years, You can put an end to the dominance of North American companies in the database field.”

Brother Xiao Ma waved his hand modestly, "Although we have achieved some results in the fight against Oracle, we can't be blindly optimistic. After all, Oracle is equivalent to Microsoft in the data field, and it is a giant that occupies an absolute dominant position. Having said that, Ali is currently the biggest player in China, and we are still at least one position behind the Ali Group. In this database war, the main force is Ali, and we are at best accomplices."

Compared with Ali Ma's quack aura, Xiao Ma is much more humble and low-key.

At a time when people all over the country were paying attention to Huawei and the trade war, several Internet giants quietly did a major event, taking over the world's largest database group.

In March and May 2019, Oracle Group carried out large-scale layoffs in succession. Overnight, the Huaxia R\u0026D Center basically became empty, and almost all employees were fired. There are even rumors that Oracle Group may withdraw soon. Huaxia Market.

This is so strange,

Huaxia is the world's largest Internet market, and Oracle is the world's largest database provider. Logically, they should have done a lot of business in the Huaxia market. Why did they suddenly stop playing?

the reason is simple.

Because of the emergence of China's local database provider, the arrogant Oracle company has no living space. In other countries, Oracle company is very profitable, but the Huaxia region has been beaten all over the place. At the end of the year, Ni Ma, I lost all my panties!

So, it's not that Oracle doesn't play anymore, but it can't afford it.

The development and progress of the Internet age have made databases more and more important. People shop online every day, use instant messaging tools to chat with girlfriends, and complete homework assigned by teachers online. These will generate astronomical data, and databases, It is a tool for scientific management of all data.

Most ordinary consumers do not know that Oracle entered China as early as 1989. In 1997, the Chinese authorities made a decision that is not wise today, and handed over Project 97 of the post and telecommunications system to Oracle. Do, at this point, Oracle's dominance in China has formally formed.

Not long after, Huaxia e-commerce rose overnight. Oracle Corporation relied on its status in the world to issue a sky-high bill to Ali Group. Boss Ma thought about it. Said, these grandsons are still fucking black money, can't bear it, fuck him!

However, getting rid of Oracle in the data field is no less difficult than getting rid of Microsoft in the operating system field. Since 2007, Ali Group has begun to replace Oracle's database on a large scale. However, the last Oracle database server was offline in 2013. On May 17, 2019, in order to get rid of Oracle Corporation, Ali Group actually spent six full years, which shows how difficult it is.

At present, there is a trend in Huaxia, but in any field, Huaxia has not realized independent intellectual property rights, and has not realized domestic substitution, everyone will be filled with righteous indignation, accuse domestic companies of incompetence, and scold relevant scientific research personnel for eating and dying.

However, everyone has not thought about such a problem carefully. If scientific research is easy to do, there will be no scientific research hegemony in the world.

That is to say, there are enough people in China, they are smart enough, they attach great importance to education, and they are hardworking and willing to work. Otherwise, changing any country in the world will never threaten the technological hegemony of North America. It takes ten years or even hundreds of years to catch up, not to mention that in the process of catching up, foreigners are also making progress.

Ali Group is already the most powerful company in the country. It will take a full six years to start a database project. It is impossible to even think about changing to other small and medium-sized enterprises.

Anyway, Ali took the lead in engaging in Oracle, and other giants followed suit as accomplices. As for killing Oracle, that is an impossible task. As long as you have enough, don’t be bullied by others.

However, no one expected that overnight, the wind direction would change suddenly, and the era of cloud services would suddenly come.

Since 2015, the database has been fully shifted to the cloud, creating an excellent opportunity for Ali and the others to turn around!

I have to say that there are always opportunities, but they are always reserved for those who are prepared. The database research and development that Ali Group has been engaged in since 2007 has finally released a huge force. project, there will be no chance of overtaking later.

Cloud data has started a new journey. Chinese companies that have been suppressed by Oracle for many years are all holding their breaths. In the field of traditional databases, we have nothing to do with you. In the era of cloud data, we will kill you!

So overnight, domestic companies staged a crazy reversal drama, and the once mighty Oracle, because of lack of sufficient attention to the cloud era, has since plummeted and collapsed. I am afraid that in the not-too-distant future, Oracle will really become Withered bones.

Today's global cloud data hegemony is jointly controlled by three Chinese companies, Ali, Huawei, and Tencent, and three North American companies, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

From relying on others back then to the current Jedi counterattack, the six powerhouses of China and the United States have divided the world equally, and the group of Internet companies in Huaxia have fought a beautiful turnaround.

"I didn't expect you to be the first here." Luo Jia shook hands with Xiao Ma, and invited him to sit on the sofa. With Tencent's status in the world, he was naturally qualified to enter the VIP seat. Most of the remaining companies, due to their location Limited, they can only be wronged to go to the stands of the stadium.

"Who let me get on your thief ship." Little Ma complained, "I sold you both station B and B, and after listening to your tricks, I fell into the pit of semiconductors. I didn't find out until after I got in." , no wonder no company likes to engage in semiconductors, this thing is more than a pit, a pure pit!"

"Tang Boyun from SMIC is your old friend. They actually offered us a five-nanometer process tape-out at a price of 900 million US dollars. Isn't this too outrageous?"

Luo Jia was speechless. Tencent is a pure software and Internet company with no hardware genes. It doesn't understand how expensive hardware is, and it doesn't know that 900 million US dollars is really not much in the huge pit of hardware.

Luo Jia was about to explain to Ma, when a hoarse voice suddenly came, "900 million dollars is fine, and our five-nanometer tape is also 900 million."

Following the sound, I saw that it was Mr. Ren. He didn't have an umbrella, and his suit was soaked.

We are all old friends, and Mr. Ren is not polite. After sitting down, he took the towel from Luo Jia and wiped his face. He said to Brother Xiao Ma, "This is how hardware is always played. Otherwise, you think, our Huawei Where did the group's hundreds of billions of research and development funds go?"

Luo Jia shrugged, "Don't look at how SMIC charged you 900 million yuan. In fact, after a tape-out, not only will they not make any money, but they will also lose a little bit. According to our plan with SMIC, the next In one step, we should push a next-generation process below a nanometer, and by then, the tape-out cost will at least triple."

Hearing this, President Lian Ren couldn't calm down anymore, "Isn't it cruel? 400 million dollars for seven-nanometer tape-outs, and 900 million dollars for five-nanometer wafers, and your next-generation process costs 3 billion dollars? "

"And this is 3 billion at a time. An inexperienced semiconductor team rarely succeeds in tape-out once. I remember that when we were developing the seven-nanometer Kirin 980, we streamed out a total of three chips."

Luo Jia shrugged, "The cost is there, and I can't do anything about it. Let's take our fifth-generation lithography machine as an example. Thousands of the best engineers have been employed, but the monthly output is only one. Our The subsidiary Xingchen Optics has an engineering team of hundreds of people who specialize in assembling lenses, and these are all costs.”

"Semiconductors are really special. Even if there is no Star Technology in this world, the tape-out cost will climb to three billion, or even ten billion sooner or later. We are just advancing the progress."

Brother Xiao Ma was already dumbfounded at this moment, and Mr. Ren nodded slightly. Luo Jia was right. If any cat or dog could play, it would not be the semiconductor industry. The threshold for this thing is so high that it is hard for ordinary people to imagine.

After Ali's old horse came, Luo Jia congratulated the three of them and congratulated them on their achievements in the database field. Oracle's boss Eriksson has always had a strong anti-China tendency, and Luo Jia did not like him.

Of course, this is not a big deal. After all, among the white western elites, there may not be even one person who does not want to curb the development of China. It is normal to be anti-China, and it is a rare animal not to be anti-China.

Luo Jia was very happy. Despite the risk of being sanctioned, old friends still came, and this friendship should be remembered no matter what.

However, not long after, Luo Jia saw An Ran walking in from the outside with red eyes, trying to suppress her emotions.

"What's the matter?" Roja asked.

"It's raining harder and harder." An Ran asked an irrelevant answer.

"And then?" Rodya asked again.

An Ran sat down, wiped her face with her hand and said, "I really didn't expect it, you'd better go out and see for yourself."

Luo Jia was stunned, raised his legs and walked out. Mr. Ren and the others were stunned for a moment, and then followed. The press conference hadn't started yet, and they were all drinking tea in the lounge.

Shua~

After leaving the rest room, there was the podium, and the rain was much heavier. However, amidst the heavy rain, there were figures one after another in the surrounding stands. In just one hour, tens of thousands of people came, and they sat quietly. As he stood, he took off his rain-wet coat, put it in his arms, and wiped the water stains on his face with a handkerchief or paper towel.

For a moment, Luo Jia suddenly had the urge to burst into tears. You must know that everyone present today, tomorrow, the companies they belong to will be listed on the North American blacklist and become the target of sanctions and suppression. What is it like? His trust made them come from all directions regardless of wind, rain and danger.

"Oh my god..." Mr. Ren was so shocked that he couldn't believe his eyes.

After a few minutes, he came back to his senses, patted Luo Jia's shoulder heavily, and said earnestly, "Do it well, after all, they are betting all of their wealth and life on you."

Luo Jia was slightly taken aback, then nodded, with tears in his eyes, but his eyes became more determined.

In the fifth year since Star Technology was founded, on May 21st, heavy rain, 14,637 invited companies, braved the torrential rain and the risk of being sanctioned by North America, and gathered 80,000 people in Shanghai In the stadium, no one was absent.