But this is almost impossible, because it will also cost those game software vendors to port their games and software to the new system.
And how can consumers cause trouble for themselves? After all, changing the system is very troublesome, okay?
At this time, Bill Gates looked at his old friend opposite and said with a smile.
"I think you Intel don't have to worry too much, because we, Weiruan, are behind your Intel."
Although he, Bill Gates, and Intel President Barrett have also fought overt and covert conflicts over their interests over the years.
But the tacit understanding between them, the Weiruan-Intel alliance, has never been broken.
Therefore, although the two sides also fought openly and secretly, in the end they still fought without breaking up and jointly maintained the interests of the Weiruan-Intel alliance.
In this case, facing the anxious Intel President Barrett, Bill Gates also gave him a little confidence.
"Then thank you Mr. Bill Gates."
Although this time it failed to encourage Weisoft to personally suppress Sugon Technology, it was considered a worthwhile trip after the interests of both parties were once again consistent.
However, Intel President Barrett will not give up on suppressing Sugon Technology. After all, Sugon Technology has created too many miracles since its establishment, so many that Intel feels like a thorn in its back.
So although Intel cannot borrow the terrifying power of Weisoft this time, Intel will use its own power to contain and suppress Sugon Technology.
Prevent this company from entering the computer industry and prevent them from developing domestic computer CPUs, so that Sugon Technology cannot reproduce the miracle of the rise of the mobile phone industry in the computer industry.
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On the other side, Lin Chen didn't know what was happening in Silicon Valley in the United States.
At this time, Lin Chen was looking at a large number of reports submitted by Ni Guangnan, the head of Sugon R&D Center.
These reports are very important and can be said to determine the development path of Sugon R&D Center in the next few years or even decades.
Among these reports are progress reports on the acquisition of semiconductor production equipment manufacturers, and progress reports on the acquisition negotiations of Jingfang Huachuang Company.
There are also progress reports on the purchase of corresponding R&D equipment and instruments by Sugon R&D Center and the progress of the establishment of the R&D team.
There are many, many reports, each of which can be said to affect the development of the next few years or even ten years. Of course, among these reports, there are two reports that Lin Chen pays special attention to.
One is the acquisition progress report of CPU manufacturers, and the second is the acquisition progress report of graphics card manufacturers.
As for other acquisitions of semiconductor equipment manufacturers, just leave these to Ni Guangnan and the corresponding professional team.
Given the current international environment and capital reserves, Sugon R&D Center will definitely not be able to acquire funds from world-class semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
And the United States will definitely not allow them to acquire the world's first, second, and third largest semiconductor equipment manufacturers.
However, Sugon R&D Center does not have so many scruples in acquiring semiconductor equipment manufacturers ranked fourth, fifth, and sixth in the world.
After all, the strength of semiconductor equipment manufacturers such as fourth, fifth and sixth is not enough to shake the monopoly status of foreign technology, and they should not prevent acquisition plans.
As for whether it is enough to acquire the fourth, fifth, and sixth semiconductor equipment manufacturer in the world? This is actually enough.
Because what Sugon R&D Center values most is the technology patents owned by the company itself and the technology patent authorizations they obtain through cross-licensing.
Therefore, after Sugon R&D Center acquires them, it means that Sugon R&D Center will have the qualifications to develop, produce and sell this equipment.
"What's Wandao VIA's attitude toward our acquisition of their computer division?"
When Lin Chen looked at the document report, he also asked about Ni Guangnan.
Facing Lin Chen's question, Ni Guangnan paused for a moment, then slowly answered:
"Wandao VIA Weisheng Electronics is indeed interested in selling because they can no longer support it.
After all, they acquired Cyrix Processor Company in 1999 for $160 million.
Then in the same year, it spent US$51 million to acquire IDT's Centaur processor company, and in 2000, it spent US$322 million to acquire S3, the world's third-ranked graphics card manufacturer.
Three big acquisitions that can be said to be nerve-wracking, coupled with the money burned in the past few years of research and development of CPU and graphics card chips.
Then coupled with the several sums of money lost by Intel suing for patent infringement, they are almost unable to support themselves.
Although they have released a number of C3 desktop processors, Hanteng Antaur mobile processors, SavageXP graphics cards, etc., they have received acclaim both in the Bay Island and in China.
But it was well-received but not popular, and sales never increased.
Under such circumstances, Wei Sheng Electronics would not be able to make money, not to mention the R&D costs of developing CPU processors and SavageXP graphics cards in recent years.
It can be said that they have lost at least US$2 billion in the CPU and graphics card business in the past few years.
This is a huge burden for a company whose profits mainly rely on chipsets, sound cards, and complete computers, and it is also a burden that it cannot support. "
Hearing Ni Guangnan's words, Lin Chen also nodded slightly to express his approval, which was also consistent with what he knew in his previous life.
If the previous generation of Weisheng Electronics had a final swan song in the CPU business, which was the Wesheng C7 processor released next year, then the graphics card would be gone.
Since VIA released the SavageXP graphics chip in 2002, it was such a flop that they have never developed or released a new graphics chip since.
"Do they have the intention to package and sell it?"
Lin Chen asked about Ni Guangnan.
The reason why we ask this is because Weisheng Electronics operates three major money-burning businesses: CPU, graphics card and chipset, and the other party may not be willing to sell the chipset business.
"They are only willing to sell the CPU and graphics card business, but they are not willing to sell the chipset and other businesses. After all, their chipset and other businesses are also profitable."
Hearing Ni Guangnan's words, Lin Chen nodded slightly, and then slowly said:
"It doesn't matter, the most important thing is the CPU and graphics card.
The chipset is ultimately developed around these two things, but it would be best if they were willing to sell us the basic patent license of the chipset. "
"That should be something to talk about."
Ni Guangnan gave his answer.
Hearing this, Lin Chen looked at the document reports, and then when he saw the quotation of Wandao Weisheng Electronics for the packaged sale of the CPU and graphics card business, Lin Chen frowned.
Because the price quoted by Wandao VIA Weisheng Electronics is too high!
"With US$4 billion, are we being slaughtered like pigs?!"
Nawandao Weisheng Electronics itself has been overwhelmed by self-care. Ever since they entered the processor industry, they have been mired in lawsuits.
Since 1999, patent lawsuits have been fought almost every year, and it was not until March 2003 that a compromise was reached with Intel.
In this case, it was involved in a lawsuit, and the CPU processor that it spent a lot of money to develop was not in sales, and it lost nearly 2 billion US dollars in a few years.
At this time, Weisheng Electronics dared to ask for a price of US$4 billion. This simply wanted to kill the Sugon R&D Center as a pig.
"They are confident. After all, there are not many processor manufacturers left in the world that still hold X86 instruction set licenses."
Speaking of this, Ni Guangnan also felt quite a headache. After all, the computer industry is different from the mobile phone industry.
After decades of fighting in the computer industry, there are only a few CPU manufacturers left that can still survive.
(End of chapter)
