Chapter 295 Combination Boxing

"This is nothing unusual. The YDYL that Dongda had previously launched was essentially also aimed at competing for sea power.

But that method has a lot of bugs that cannot be solved.

The most core issue is, what should we do if turmoil occurs in these participating countries and the replacements do not recognize the previous terms?
Dongda lacks the determination, will and ability to use violence to protect its own interests, but Xida is an expert in this regard.

It doesn't even need to do it itself, it can easily achieve its goals with the help of platforms such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft.

However, if you change your target from the earth to space, it is a virgin land that no one has developed. You can choose your partners at will, and they will never dare to disobey you because only you can do this.

If you want to come to the table and share the cake, then you have to abide by the rules of the game you set, and Xida will not be able to interfere with you.

This is a brand new solution brought about by technological change. If it can be realized in my lifetime, Dongda can truly achieve a peaceful rise without any war. "Wang Ruixin was very emotional, because the most powerful driving force behind this was actually his former roommate.

"There is also a question behind what you said, which is how can we guarantee that we can really do it?" Li Tianle felt that the other party was too optimistic.

This is the drawback of idealists, always walking the line between being too optimistic and too pessimistic.

“Because judging from the current signs, the probability of it happening is very high.

As long as we can take the first step, that is, dig up even a piece of asteroid ore from space, and complete the process from 0 to 1, the follow-up will be to expand the scale, reduce costs, iterate technology, and increase production. It will not be difficult for Dongda to achieve this in the future.

Yuan Guang is indeed an absolute genius, and I believe he can do it.

When I went to the Maple Leaf Country, I thought there was little hope, but the changes in the University of Tokyo over the past four years have made me realize that Yuanguang can really do this.

We should have much more confidence in him than ordinary people." Wang Ruixin grinned, as if he was thinking of the past.

The older you get, the easier it is to be nostalgic.

Although Yuanguang moved out since his junior year, everyone got along well and there were no major conflicts.

"Are you in touch with Yuan Guang? I remember he likes to chat with you." Li Tianle asked.

After graduation, none of these classmates had ever met Chen Yuanguang in real life. When they sent their blessings online, they received very formulaic replies.

To the extent that classmates began to suspect that the WeChat or QQ accounts of those they had added before were now operated by other people helping Chen Yuanguang.

"No, Yuan Guang is a very busy man, he doesn't have time to chat with me.

Yuanguang must be overwhelmed by the continuous offensive of Xida this time.

I just said that this is only a temporary difficulty, but at this point in time, this can directly prevent the GDP of Todai from growing this year.

If this problem cannot be solved in the long term, China’s consumer electronics and new energy vehicles will not be able to be exported, and the entire market will be handed over to Xi’an University.

If this happens, the economy will be in big trouble. I guess Yuanguang should be urgently called in to discuss countermeasures.

There is no way he can be idle.”

The two smiled at each other, because when Chen Yuanguang was in college, he often said that he wanted to lie down in the future, not work if he could, and would never study for 2 hours if he could only study for 4 hours. He was a hedonist.

They found it incredible and interesting that he has now turned into a workaholic. Fate has pushed Chen Yuanguang to a position that he himself had not expected.

“Every time I see some interviews about Yuan Guang or revelations from his staff online, I wonder, is this still the Yuan Guang I know?
If Yuan Guang had been so hardworking back then, he would definitely have been the top scorer in his class." Li Tianle said with a smile.

Wang Ruixin nodded in agreement: "In fact, you said Yuan Guang didn't study hard, and he did. If he really didn't study hard, then he could do the same as me and study hard before the final exam, and graduation would not be a problem.

You say he is competitive, but he was not competitive at all in the first two years.

I just don’t know what happened in his senior year that turned him from a person with a passable mentality to a king of papers.

So how are you doing now? Are you still working at NIO?"

"Yes, I'm still at NIO. I was recently promoted to a project manager." Li Tianle said that after graduating with a master's degree from Jiangnan University, he went to NIO to work in battery research and development.

He went on to say: “Because of Yuan Guang’s roommate status, I am also quite famous within NIO. The boss has also heard of my name and would chat with me when he met me in the company, so I became familiar with him.

Chen Yuanguang's roommate is much more famous than my own name or my job position in the company.

Although I don't want to admit it, I still feel that this identity has brought benefits to my promotion. As long as there is a suitable position, the higher-ups will not ignore me for promotion.

If I could get in touch with Yuan Guang and post group photos on WeChat Moments more often, I think I could be promoted faster." Li Tianle joked.

In fact, no one is jealous of Chen Yuanguang because the gap is too big. With such a gap, you will only feel admiration for him.

Wang Ruixin also smiled and said, "This is what I told you when you graduated. You must add a sentence on your resume saying that you were roommates with Chen Yuanguang for four years in college.

I later posted this in the class group, and everyone could write in their resume that they were classmates with Yuanguang.

Anyway, when the company is doing a background check, it is impossible for them to go to Yuanguang himself to verify it, so just stick to your guns.

Of course, this effect would be better if used today.

If it were today, the employment prospects of Jiangnan University’s School of Chemistry would probably be raised to a higher level.”

This is the effect of people.

“When we were graduate students, the dean kept saying that he would call Yuanguang back to teach after he graduated.

Then he often criticized the dean of the School of Life Sciences for trying to snatch people from him. At that time, we all thought it was not impossible. If Yuan Guang could really return to Jiangnan University to teach, he might be able to bring the Department of Chemistry of Jiangnan University to the same level as Yanjing University, or even a higher level.

Gauss helped the University of Göttingen become the birthplace of modern mathematics, and Euler's legacy to Da Mao continues to this day. If Yuan Guang had come back to teach at that time, it would have been unthinkable. "

Chen Yuanguang is a top figure in Southeast University, especially among the male group. He is an unavoidable topic, not to mention those who were classmates with Chen Yuanguang.

Among the female community, the level of discussion about Chen Yuanguang has plummeted since he got married, making him a bit like a “bad” internet celebrity.

"It seems that Yuanguang is not interested in this. If Yuanguang really returns to Jiangnan University to teach, I estimate that the admission score of the School of Chemistry will skyrocket." Although Wang Ruixin is abroad, he is still well aware of some things in Jiangnan University. After all, there are many classmates in the group, and everyone will send some messages.

For example, the admission score line of the Chemistry Department of Jiangnan University has been very high in the country in recent years, and it is the second most important major in Jiangnan University after computer science.

When we were discussing in the group, everyone joked that it was a great feeling that the college would improve on its own after graduation, and they had definitely made a profit back then.

"Come to think of it, NIO should have exported a lot to Europe in the past two years, and your investment in research and development is not low. It seems that you have also developed your own topological semimetal chips. What are your internal plans now?" Wang Ruixin asked.

Li Tianle complained: "What else can we do? We can only put it on hold and continue negotiating with Qualcomm to use Qualcomm's automotive chips.

We should be one of the earliest car companies to develop self-developed automotive chips. At the beginning, we developed our own 5nm automotive chips. Later, when topological semimetals came out, we started research and development as soon as possible.

The recent successful tape-out brought bad news.

Moreover, TSMC also refused to provide foundry services for NIO’s previous 5nm chips. Now we can only buy it.”

Wang Ruixin was surprised and said: "TSMC refused to do the foundry business?

I've never heard of this before, and it seems that the White House regulations do not include this item."

Li Tianle said: "It does not contain this clause. You can say that TSMC's decision not to manufacture products is a commercial act, or a chain reaction.

Ever since TSMC moved many of its advanced processes to North America and Japan, their production capacity has been declining.

All production capacity of 7nm and below has been moved away from 4v."

This is also the consequence of Tokyo University's increased control over 4V.

Originally, Western University only asked TSMC to move its advanced processes to American, 5nm and below.

The 5nm standard has been raised to 7nm and below.

Currently, the most advanced manufacturing process on 4V Island is 14nm.

"NIO's two self-developed chips have a process of 3nm and 5nm respectively, which are all produced by TSMC's factory in Arizona, while TSMC's factory in Neon has a process of 7nm.

TSMC’s production capacity is insufficient, so we have to increase the price if we want to produce. Fortunately, NIO’s demand is not high, so it was met before.

Now, due to the suppression from Western University, manufacturers such as Qualcomm, Nvidia, Intel, and Apple have all raised their shipment expectations. Their new orders to TSMC are already oversaturated, so TSMC has cut all chip foundry orders from unimportant manufacturers.

This naturally includes Weilai.”

This is easy to understand. Self-developed chips cannot be produced due to the lack of new photoresist. If you buy chips from Xida, you cannot sell them overseas. This means that all mobile phone manufacturers from Dongda have lost their overseas markets.

Apple and Samsung will monopolize the entire overseas consumer electronics market and will not have to face competition from Chinese manufacturers such as Xiaomi, VIVO, and OPPO. This is such a big cake that it is enough for them to eat their fill.

Therefore, these manufacturers have raised their expectations and increased the number of chip orders from TSMC.

Besides, if TSMC doesn't do foundry for NIO, can NIO just stop doing it? Obviously not, NIO still has to buy chips from Qualcomm and Nvidia, and after buying them, the foundry orders will eventually fall into TSMC's hands.

TSMC did not suffer any loss and even gained extra points from Washington, which showed how sensible we were in consciously not accepting orders from major Japanese companies.

As a 4V enterprise, they hate Todai very much.

"Well, it seems the impact is still significant."

The impact is certainly huge. First, Xiaomi announced through its own media that the production capacity of Surge is limited this year, which is not surprising.

Then other manufacturers made similar statements.

In short, the production capacity is limited, and the annual flagships sold are still a mixture of Qualcomm chips and self-developed chips.

In order to stop the stock price from plummeting, Lei Jun personally started a live broadcast to answer netizens' questions.

"It is very difficult. We have invested billions in developing our own chips. Now that our production has been interrupted, the loss cannot even be measured in monetary terms."

"Will you continue to develop your own chips in the future? Of course, Xiaomi will never give up developing its own chips.

I believe everyone should have seen that if we don’t develop our own chips, we will still cooperate with Qualcomm.”

"Will we hold chip foundries accountable? We don't have such an idea at the moment, because this is force majeure. Everyone who has signed a contract should know that there is a clause in the contract that states that if the contract cannot be performed due to force majeure, the contract does not require any liability."

"This year's flagship phones will be released as usual, and self-developed chips will still be released, but the quantity will be very limited."

“The specifics are limited. All I can say is that if we let it go on sale, it will be sold out in ten minutes at most.”

Lei Jun’s live broadcast was still very reserved, and he didn’t say a lot of things.

For flagship phones like Xiaomi, the annual stocking starts at tens of millions.

Even if the self-developed chips have not been tested in the market, there will be at least millions of them in stock, which is enough to meet domestic demand.

The reason why Lei Jun said this during the live broadcast, saying that the phones would be sold out in ten minutes, was because Xiaomi phones equipped with Qualcomm chips were subject to contract and Western long-arm jurisdiction, and therefore could not be sold overseas.

If Xiaomi wants to sell its new models overseas this year, it can only sell phones equipped with domestic chips in places like Europe and Southeast Asia.

It is equivalent to selling domestic chips overseas and keeping Qualcomm chips in the country.

It's like changing homes.

The only question is whether foreign consumers will pay for it. The Chinese are also influenced by patriotic marketing. Stimulated by current events and with patriotic sentiment running high, it is not a problem for them to sell out millions of self-developed chip mobile phones, and it is also not a problem for them to enjoy a certain premium.

It is still unknown whether there will be enough audiences when selling overseas.

But they have no choice but to do so, because they stock their inventory according to the global market, and this is the case for all mobile phone manufacturers.

If they are only sold in the domestic market, there will be a serious oversupply, and it may even turn into a price war, and all manufacturers will face even more serious losses.

The situation is serious, and Xiaomi’s stock price has returned to its issue price that year.

"We will sue the federal government in a Colombian court. Their actions are a gross violation of the rules of commerce. I have never heard of such a treaty before.

It’s disillusioning to me, they’re not playing by the rules anymore.”

Even someone like Lei Jun can say something like not following the rules of the game, so it goes without saying what other mobile phone manufacturers will think.

(End of this chapter)