Chapter 270 Chip Factory Joins Forces
The negotiations between the Norwegian shipping magnate and Umbrella went quite smoothly.
Umbrella even temporarily gave the rights to represent the port shares that it purchased in a package to John Fredrickson.
That is, the shares themselves are still in Umbrella, but John Fredrickson is given the power to exercise and participate in the decision-making of the port.
This will temporarily prevent John Fredrickson's influence from being reduced.
Once the modification is completed, it will be officially delivered.
Of course, Umbrella also has conditions, that is, the modification must meet their requirements, cannot be fooled, and must accept their inspection.
This is, of course, a normal requirement. As for inspecting the goods, Party A is certainly qualified to do so!
John Fredrickson even made a calculation. If he could modify the ship according to Umbrella's requirements, he would not only be able to redeem the assets, but also make up for the loss from the price difference from the low sale, and even make a small profit.
This made him sigh that Umbrella was really rich and powerful, and even this shipping tycoon who was ranked among the top 100 richest people felt like he had been slapped in the face by money.
"But we need to hurry up. We can't wait until Daewoo and Daehan's plans run into problems."
John Fredricksen assigned tasks to his subordinates and mobilized the old European shipyards to work overtime to carry out the modifications!
Money is not a problem!
"It's all in place, but DSIC asked if there could be some modifications to our contract."
John Fredricksen also frowned after hearing his subordinates' reports.
Did you notice something?
"They said they were having financial difficulties recently and originally wanted to apply for a loan, but it was stuck and not approved. They were afraid of delaying the construction period, so they wanted to increase the deposit by another 10%."
John Fredrickson's eyes lit up at these words, and then he said
"Okay, but you must write down the contents of this negotiation. Umbrella has given us some money, so we'll just give it to them for now."
Everyone is short of cash flow. In the end, even if the other party had given him something to talk about, John Fredrickson would not have paid so readily.
However, it just so happened that he accidentally sold one of his high-quality assets at a low price, leaving him with extra cash, and then Umbrella paid him a deposit for the modification.
In this case, it’s okay to give CSSC another 10%!
Because this order is still enough to drag them down!
Moreover, once this negotiation forms a written agreement that is recognized and reserved by both parties, I can then sue them back, saying that CSSC has delayed the delivery due to financial pressure and that they should compensate me!
As long as we delay until they go bankrupt and liquidate, the debt can exchanged for their assets!
"Double happiness!"
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On the other side, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corporation.
After seeing the response from the Norwegian shipping king, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Then someone smiled and said to Gu Nan at the meeting:
"Director Gu, it's a good thing to be safety-conscious, but you can't judge others by your own standards. The Norwegian shipping magnate is generous enough. Look, isn't he willing to pay an extra 10% deposit?"
At this time, the elder in the main meeting also smiled and said
"Director Gu's original intention was good. He reduced the troubles of the group and saved us financial pressure. This is a credit. Everyone should learn more from him in the future."
Gu Nan was also slightly relieved at this time. He was really scared when he heard Wang Yi’s words before. If something went wrong, it might directly lead to bankruptcy!
But it’s much better now.
Of course, he couldn't blame Wang Yi for talking nonsense. It was definitely a favor for him to mention his information. Moreover, looking back, the behavior over there was very strange .
Being able to get an additional 10% deposit now is already a victory!
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When Wang Yi was on vacation at the beach, due to the reduction in production of Snapdragon 810, a lot of production capacity freed up by the wafer factory was directly taken up by Umbrella's "White Queen"!
The performance of Baihou has been directly confirmed by the product and has been tested.
Although both are ARM 64-bit public version architecture quad-core chips with 20nm process, they are not in the same league as Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810.
It can almost be seen as the gap between the upper and lower limits!
Both power consumption and performance have almost reached the extreme of the same level.
Even Bai Hou's design has now been brought to engineers from major chip factories and used as a textbook case.
"There is definitely something wrong with their design software. No EDA software available today can achieve this result."
"Although they use the public version of AMR's architecture, they also have a lot of their own things in it. I checked before and they have applied for a lot of patents."
"Patents are fine. They also use ours, so we can cross-exchange them. But what about software design? If they can keep up this efficiency, no one will be able to compete with them in the field of mobile phone chips."
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There are 2 billion transistors on a 20nm chip, and the design must rely on software assistance.
This is also why chips need to be tested during tape-out, because it is normal for problems to occur!
Umbrella is a special case.
Although EDA software is powerful enough, connecting upstream and downstream and having first-hand information, software is still software and there will always be areas where it cannot reach.
Anyway, I kept testing and researching Bai Hou's chip. The more I researched, the more speechless I found out about how terrifying this chip was. It can almost be said that I have maximized all aspects of the chip's performance and selected the optimal solution!
In fact, the total number of transistors does not exceed that of other products with the same 20nm process, but it has reached a limit effect.
In comparison, the Snapdragon 810, which is also a 64-bit ARM public version architecture quad-core chip, was directly crushed.
Even if there is a breakthrough in technology, the 14nm process that several wafer fabs have announced will probably not be able to surpass this effect.
Relying on the advantages of chip design, it has surpassed all technological advances!
"In fact, the EDA manufacturer is also anxious, but there is nothing they can do. Umbrella purchased and did not sell engineering software to other companies. Given Umbrella's strength, do you want them to go and 'check'?"
An engineer also expressed his frustration.
In fact, the three major EDA manufacturers are in a strong position. The results and the market are there, and they can make many demands for basic industrial software.
But some requirements also require points!
Umbrella has purchased your software services and paid for them, but you are still complaining to them and even using some crooked means.
To be honest, I dare not!
Or it's not worth it for them to take the risk!
As the software developer, they themselves can actually see that Bai Hou's thing is not something that can be designed with their tools.
But as long as Umbrella does not sell their own EDA software to others and pays for theirs, the loss to their interests will be limited.
In fact, most people can see that the reason why Umbrella does not sell its own software is probably because it uses a lot of things from other people's software.
At the same time, because of the "perfection" of this design, it also reminded them of Red Queen.
If artificial intelligence is involved, it seems a little more understandable!
"We still need to call the people from those three companies and discuss it. Can't we just pay for it? Finding other chip manufacturers to pay together is equivalent to helping the three companies purchase Umbrella's upgrade services and Red Queen's auxiliary functions. They are willing to sell to other mobile phone manufacturers as long as the price is right. In fact, they are also easy to deal with..."
In fact, this is based on the method used for fruits.
Fruit reacts quickly, just spend money to avoid disaster! Most mobile phone manufacturers have chosen to follow suit, so they are back on the same track as Umbrella.
At present, Umbrella's behavior is like a donkey that goes with the flow. If you pay them money and talk to them in a friendly manner, they can really negotiate anything. They are willing to share their core competitive capabilities.
Chip, can we do this too?
Isn't your current problem due to the three major EDA manufacturers' concealment of patent and data issues?
Come on, stop hiding it, let’s just pay for the service!
In addition to money, we can also cross-exchange patents here, so Umbrella will make a lot of money in the end!
This time, our chip factories are forced to join forces!
This can be regarded as an unprecedented alliance!
Well, they teamed up to give away patents...
