Chapter 484: Semiconductor Storm

Intel CEO Pat said in front of the media, "The lack of growth in business of Tower Semiconductor in recent years is mainly due to the vicious competition of some semiconductor manufacturers, but its professional technical capabilities, broad geographical coverage, and deep customer relationships will help expand Intel's semiconductor manufacturing business and advance our goal of becoming a global semiconductor leader.

Our company will build new factories in Europe, the United States and other regions within three years to increase production capacity as quickly as possible."

Although on the surface, everyone knows that the reason why Intel made such a big move is because Pingguo abandoned it, which made it feel a sense of crisis.

But once it was put in the report, it was linked to Daxia in both open and covert ways.

In the past two years, Intel has entered a mode of aggressive expansion under the leadership of its CEO Pat.

In March 1021 of the Xia Yinxing calendar, it announced that it would invest $20 billion to build a wafer fab in North America and launch a $1 billion fund to establish a foundry innovation ecosystem.

This front foot caused the Anxi problem, and then the foot went to Europe and the United States to add factories. Not only did it do the job, but it also showed its loyalty and set up a flag.

North America and the European Union have also introduced their own chip bills, planning to invest $52 billion/43 billion euros to encourage local semiconductor production. At the same time, global semiconductor leaders such as TSMC, Texas Instruments, and Intel have raised their capital expenditure guidance, and global semiconductor production capacity is experiencing a new round of expansion cycle.

Coincidentally, AMD followed closely and officially announced on its official website that it had completed the acquisition of Xilinx in an all-share transaction.

Everyone knows the name of AMD's mother, but few people know about Xilinx, a little-known "small company".

According to official statements, it is the world's leading supplier of complete programmable logic solutions. It is also an advanced R&D company for software design tools.

Even in the 1018th year of the Xia Yinxing calendar, it acquired Deephi Technology, a star startup in the field of Daxia AI chips.

Regarding this acquisition, AMD President and CEO Su Ma said: "The acquisition of Xilinx brings together a series of highly complementary products, customers and markets, as well as differentiated IP and world-class talents, to make us the industry's leader in high-performance and adaptive computing. Xilinx's leading FPGA, adaptive SoC, artificial intelligence engine and software expertise will empower AMD, bring a super high-performance and adaptive computing solution portfolio, and help us occupy a larger share of the foreseeable cloud computing, edge computing and smart device market opportunities of approximately $135 billion."

The former Xilinx CEO chose to join AMD as president of the newly established Adaptive and Embedded Computing Division.

He said excitedly in front of the media: "The combination of AMD and Xilinx will provide a very comprehensive portfolio of adaptive computing platforms to power a wide range of intelligent applications, thereby accelerating our ability to define a new era of computing."

Su Ma is laughing, Lao Huang is crying.

Last year, SoftBank Group announced that it had agreed to sell chip design company ARM to chip giant Nvidia for up to $40 billion.

This transaction has been criticized since the moment it was exposed. After all, ARM is too big in the field of semiconductor chips. If Nvidia really swallows ARM, Nvidia will instantly become the strongest semiconductor company in Europe and the United States, and even in a sense, it can decide the life and death of many chips.

As you can imagine, such an important transaction will eventually fail. SoftBank will receive a "breakup fee" of up to 1.25 billion US dollars and plans to list ARM before the end of the year.

At the same time, Nvidia's performance in the capital market has naturally suffered a blow, and its stock price has plummeted by more than 30 US dollars.

However, Nvidia is not completely defeated. For the failure of this acquisition, it is at most a serious injury. After all, the N series graphics cards are among the best in the field of gamers and servers, and have the highest market share.

Originally, the release of the new mobile phone of the Korean star attracted a lot of attention by advertising crazily around the world. After all, even if the Korean star jumped a few times, he has cultivated some brand fans over the years.

However, with the efforts of NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel, the popularity of the Galaxy S22 series of Hanxing suddenly cooled down. When it was officially launched on the 25th, Hanxing mobile phone stores around the world, except for Goryeo, were almost deserted.

Although Hanxing stuffed money and gave a "detailed explanation" of the airline blacklist, only the phones that had accidents before were banned, and other phones can be boarded normally, but customers do not seem to be willing to buy it.

Or is it holding money and waiting?

After all, it is not necessary to use Hanxing mobile phones these days. Daxia's mobile phone manufacturers and Pingguo mobile phones have provided global users with a good experience in recent years.

Once this user calmed down, the senior management of Hanxing Group could not calm down.

Li Zairong no longer knows how many sedatives he has to take every day to keep his emotions normal, and many of the senior management of Hanxing's mobile phone department have been optimized and dismissed.

If it were not for Hanxing Semiconductor's many foreign orders, I am afraid that the senior management of Hanxing Semiconductor would not escape the fate of being optimized.

This is the saying that a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even though it suffered a setback globally, the influence of Korean mobile phone brands is still in the top ten in the world. Its semiconductors are beaten by Daxia Semiconductor and TSMC, but after all, it is still among the top three foundry companies in the world and has no shortage of orders to make money.

After this battle, Li Zairong also figured out one thing.

Fighting with Daxia and Pingguo tyrants in the mobile phone industry is not only a thankless task, but also easy to cause trouble. So after taking sedatives for a few days, he convened a high-level meeting of Hanxing and decided to put the group's research focus on semiconductor manufacturing business. Not only wafer manufacturing but also chip foundry, Hanxing will be at the forefront!

This decision was certainly not made immediately. The major shareholders in Europe and the United States received the report from the head of the group before the meeting. The content was a bit long, but his heart was very loyal.

To sum up: Daxia Semiconductor is eyeing it, TSMC's production capacity is restricted, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia's chip production capacity is insufficient. I, Hanxing, am willing to make another charge, expand production capacity and improve technology, and the adults will have more than 90% of the dividends, okay?

Among the heads of so many business giants and technology giants in the world, Li Zairong's attitude cannot be said to be low, but can only be said to be extremely humble.

But he was telling the truth. The Lee family is the apparent head of Hanxing, but Hanxing's shares have long been sold to foreign capital. The Lee family's current control of management rights is the result of compromise among all parties.

But being a dog is fine as long as the owner is strong enough.

As the situation develops, the global semiconductor industry continues to emerge with sky-high acquisitions and new product development.

The competition among semiconductor industry giants has set off an unprecedentedly fierce "technology war".

After holding back for so long, the foundation has finally been laid.

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