Fidel spent a while in the Magic City. The more he learned, the more he found that the problem between Rabbit and Hawk Sauce was too complicated. You have me in both sides and you in me, and you are mutually reliant opponents. It is difficult to describe the relationship between the two sides in short words.

However, in the semiconductor industry, Fidel saw the current dilemma of Rabbit. The low-end market has stood firm, but it can rely heavily on foreign products in the mid-to-high-end. Many companies in the semiconductor industry need various support and cooperation from foreign companies to survive.

The Rabbit government wants to make a breakthrough, but this cannot be seen in a short period of time. As Samsung executives said before... Japan, South Korea and a certain island can unite to form an industrial alliance to suppress the development of the Rabbit semiconductor industry.

Today, Fidel is going to accompany an ibm's rabbit executive to visit customers. He just happened to see what it looks like in the semiconductor practical application market?

The client is a vice president of Citibank in the Rabbit area. It is said that they want to expand their business in the Rabbit area and buy a batch of server equipment.

Fidel sat with an ibm executive in the bank VIP area and talked about the server market casually. "I heard that the market share of Rabbit domestic servers is very large, is it true?"

The ibm executive who sat down laughed loudly and said, "Yes, Rabbit's server manufacturers do account for a large share. However, the servers they produce are all made of our chips and cannot do without our software. The more they sell, the greater our profits will be.

Moreover, most of Rabbit’s servers are in the low-end market, and we are still firmly occupying the high-end market, so they are far from brands. Especially in the bank servers, they have always wanted to come in, but they are not very successful."

Many industries that Rabbit have been doing are dominating at the low end these days, such as ibm's PC business simply throws it at Rabbit Lenovo. Why? The profit is low. How much money does one PC make? In order to pursue profit margins, people don't look down on those "mosquito legs".

The server is tens of thousands of cheaper and hundreds of thousands or millions of expensive ones. The profit of selling a server is equivalent to selling a lot of PCs. Moreover, selling servers also has the costs of software and post-maintenance, which is also a big profit. I have never heard of how to make money in the later stages after selling a PC.

"For a long time, the servers of Rabbit Bank were all from our ibm, and basically no one could compete with us for this market. Whether it is stability or response speed, we have special optimizations, so cautious customers like banks are willing to buy our products."

When talking about their company's products, ibm executives were quite proud. After all, everyone liked their products to be recognized, which was a full sense of accomplishment. But just when Fidel wanted to echo a few words, the vice president of Citibank's rabbit area walked into the VIP area and his face was gloomy.

"Hi, what happened?" ibm's executive took the initiative to reach out and patted Citi's vice president on the shoulder. "Old friend, you seem a little unhappy."

"Hmph..." Citi Vice President sneered, "I'm so unhappy. I just have bad news to tell you that I can't buy your ibm server directly."

"Ah..." ibm executive rolled his eyes immediately, "Is that bastard here to make trouble? HP or Dell? Their servers are not as good as us, and no one in the high-end server market can surpass us."

Faced with these confident words, Citi's vice president had no choice but to smile bitterly, "It's not HP or Dell, it's a newly established company called Radiation Electronics."

Hearing that there were new rivals, ibm executives were a little serious. Citi Vice President continued: "We are going to expand our business in the Rabbit Zone recently. In some exchange, the Rabbit Government hopes that we will give them the same opportunities in purchasing goods."

"So…?" ibm's executive asked in confusion.

"So we have to conduct a tender, an assessment, allowing this 'radiating electronics' to submit their bids and products." Citi's vice president spread his hands and expressed helplessness.

When Fidel heard the name "radiation electron", he cheered up, "I know that this company seems to be newly established by the Rabbit Government and strongly supported it.

According to the business information I got, it was the emergence of this company that caused the stock of Dutch Asml Company to fall because the company said they broke through the three-nano chip process and were about to be mass-produced."

"Isn't that company boycotted?" Obviously, ibm executives also knew about the industry, "Aren't they going to build a wafer factory? Why did they suddenly sell servers?"

Hearing the word 'three nanometers', Citi's vice president exclaimed: "Yes, people who 'radiated electrons' also promoted their products using the latest three nanometer processes, and they said that their products have improved performance by one generation compared to the current mainstream."

"Haha..." ibm's senior official screamed twice, obviously disbelief, "If you want to bid, you can't lose. However, not everyone can handle the three-nanometer process, and even we don't have similar products at the moment. I think this company is suspected of fraud."

ibm executives were obviously very angry, but Fidel calmed down as a bystander, and continued to ask: "This company advertises that its servers use its own three-nanometer process chip?"

"Yes." Citi Vice President nodded.

"Their chips are also designed by themselves?"

“It is said to be.”

“What architecture?”

This question is good. Chip design is not a random drawing. Large-scale integrated circuits are very complex. The so-called architecture can be understood as some rules followed when designing chips and some patents used. These are the keys to technology blockade and making money in large companies.

"Ibm's power architecture." Citi Vice President smiled bitterly again, "It is said that he spent a lot of money to purchase patent authorization from your headquarters, but I don't think I would have an extra opponent for this."

Patent authorization is an important means of technology blockade and an effective way to curb opponents. But now this sudden "radiated electron" that suddenly emerged from the company actually crossed this obstacle by spending money. Fidel couldn't help but feel shocked when he heard this.

And the bad news is not just that. Citi's vice president also said: "According to the external publicity of 'radiating electronics', they have made great improvements in the power architecture, and all of these improvements have been applied for patents.

I'm not sure if this is true. If it is true, ibm will also encounter patent issues if it wants to develop the power architecture next."

"I've heard of this, but it's too fast." The ibm executive couldn't sit still. He apologized and walked to the remote place alone and called the headquarters to ask.

After half an hour, he came back with sweat and said, "It seems that things are really troublesome. We did sell the three-year right to use the power architecture."

ibm originally thought that it would be just two years of use rights, so there shouldn't be any major problems. After all, chip design is not a simple matter. A chip may not be able to be designed for two years. To put it bluntly, this is to underestimate rabbits' ability to cause trouble.

But now it's screwed up!

At this point, Citi's vice president also sent the last blow, "It is said that the Rabbit government has issued an executive order. In the future, the bank and government systems should give priority to radiating electronic products."

My God, this is a big problem now!
Chapter completed!