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On the other side, Intel headquarters in California, United States.
Because of the time difference due to the earth's rotation, 8pm in Daxia happens to be 8am in the United States, which is the official start of the day.
At this time, Intel President Barrett came to his office with the joy of a new day coming.
"Mr. President, here is a piece of news information that you specifically asked to focus on."
Barrett was slightly startled when he heard the secretary's words as soon as he entered the office, and then his expression became solemn.
Because the news information he told his secretary to focus on was the news information about Sugon R&D Center and Sugon Technology trends.
When his secretary mentioned this matter at this time, something big must have happened.
Then Barrett, with a solemn expression, spoke:
"Bring it to me and see."
Seeing this, the female secretary handed the newspaper to Barrett. This newspaper was the Silicon Valley Daily.
Although the Silicon Valley Daily is not as famous and influential as other newspapers such as the Environmental Daily, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
But in the technology circle, Silicon Valley Daily is an important channel for many practitioners to understand news about the global technology circle.
At this time, Barrett, who took the newspaper, was attracted by the picture in a secondary title, because this picture was the picture of Lin Chen meeting with the president of Weisheng Electronics.
"It's damn good."
Intel CEO Barrett cursed when he saw the picture, and then quickly watched the relevant news content.
When Intel President Barrett saw that the two parties had just begun negotiations, the specific results had not been announced.
Intel President Barrett also breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, there was no result, otherwise it would have been terrible.
After all, although Weisheng Electronics' CPU market share is quite embarrassing, with the full support of the Wandao official server, the actual market share is only about 0.2% to 0.5%.
But it is an indisputable fact that they are the third largest X86 processor manufacturer in the world!
Once Sugon R&D Center acquires Weisheng Electronics, Sugon R&D Center will become the world's third largest X86 processor manufacturer, which is quite bad news for Intel.
Although Intel has a monopoly position in the X86 processor industry and has maintained more than 80% of the market share for a long time, in theory they should not be afraid of Sugon Technology.
But the problem is that boxing is afraid of Shao Zhuang, and he is still a super fierce Shao Zhuang!
After all, the growth process of Shuguang Technology is so unscientific that I dare not write about it like this.
If the facts hadn't appeared before their eyes, Intel CEO Barrett wouldn't have believed it was true.
But the reality is this. Sugon Technology has indeed become a big player in the global mobile phone industry from nothing in just two years. This is an indisputable fact!
Therefore, Intel President Barrett, who has a careful understanding of Sugon Technology, is really wary of Sugon Technology.
This level of vigilance even exceeds that of .D Company, the second oldest company in the world. After all, although .D Company has risen in recent years, its quarterly sales volume could even reach 25% at its peak.
But after some hard work, he successfully suppressed the rising trend of .D again, and made it impossible for them to make a comeback.
Because if nothing else, they are currently developing a processor called Core that can defeat .D Company.
But it is a pity that the Core processor is a completely new architecture processor, and the specific launch time may be later.
According to the current development progress, the research and development will probably be completed in the second half of 2005. After the process of tape-out trial and error and mass production, the official launch time may not be until the beginning of 2006.
"We turned to Weisheng Electronics. This is really troublesome. We absolutely cannot put Weisheng CPU into the arms of Sugon Technology!"
After reading the news, Intel President Barrett made a decision.
Sugon can acquire other companies, but it can never acquire the CPU business of Weisheng Electronics, because Weisheng Electronics is the third company in the world that can produce X86 processors.
If the development progress of Sugon R&D Center's acquisition of other X86 instruction sets is 30%, other problems must be solved after acquiring the X86 instruction set.
After acquiring the CPU business of Weisheng Electronics, Sugon's progress will jump directly to 100%, and it will directly have the qualifications to produce X86 processors.
Therefore, at this time, Intel President Barrett really realized the importance of Weisheng Electronics as a company that cannot be ignored.
"Notify me of a high-level meeting of the company. I will do my best to prevent Sugon Technology from acquiring Weisheng Electronics."
"yes."
The secretary of Intel President Barrett agreed and then started to make arrangements.
In this regard, Lin Chen didn't know that his meeting with Chen Wenqi, the head of Weisheng Electronics, would cause Intel to pay such attention to it.
For this reason, Intel President Barrett will also try his best to prevent them from acquiring the CPU business of Weisheng Electronics.
However, this matter itself cannot be hidden. Sooner or later, Intel will understand the importance of Weisheng Electronics. It is only a matter of time.
In this way, as the notice of the company's high-level meeting was issued, the results of Intel's high-level meeting came out about three hours later.
The result of this meeting was naturally the resolution to prevent Sugon R&D Center from acquiring the CPU business of Weisheng Electronics.
So at 11 o'clock in the evening in Daxia and 11 o'clock in the morning in the United States, Chen Wenqi, the head of Weisheng Electronics, who was getting ready to sleep in the hotel, received an unexpected call.
"It turned out to be Mr. President Barrett. This is really beyond my expectation."
Chen Wenqi, who answered the phone, said with emotion.
Of course, at the same time, his heart also moved slightly.
Because no matter what, Intel's call this time will definitely provide some intangible help to Weisheng Electronics' negotiations.
“There is no way, we at Intel cannot tolerate Sugon R&D Center’s acquisition of Weisheng Electronics’ CPU business.”
Intel President Barrett is indeed a Westerner, and he directly pointed to the theme of this phone call.
"Oh, there's nothing we can do if we don't get acquired. We, Weisheng Electronics, can't sustain it anymore."
Chen Wenqi is crying to Intel CEO Barrett.
Although she didn't know the real purpose of Barrett's call this time, Chen Wenqi, who seemed to have guessed something, decided that it would be better to cry for poverty. Maybe this would gain intangible benefits.
In this regard, Intel President Barrett on the other side of the phone also knew what the other person was thinking.
After secretly cursing "Damn Intel traitor" in his heart, he continued:
"As long as your company stops negotiations with Sugon and agrees not to consider selling the CPU business.
Then Intel is willing to authorize Weisheng Electronics to use the SSE3 instruction set. "
(End of chapter)
