Chapter 774: Its not easy to take advantage of Loongson Company
Many companies like to distribute New Year's goods during the Chinese New Year, which can give employees a sense of happiness, and also allow the company's purchasers to benefit from it, so everyone is happy.
No one dares to take advantage of Mingzhou Group. Once found out, Qin Tao will send such people to prison without mercy. High wages, high benefits, and strict measures can effectively put an end to this phenomenon.
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Moreover, in many cases, money is given out but not in kind, leaving the workers to buy whatever they want.
Now, Qin Tao was surprised to have to give out physical items, or give each person a computer.
In the late 1990s, computers were still a very high-end thing. Only families that became rich first would buy computers. For ordinary people, this thing was still out of reach.
The workers of Mingzhou Group are rich and can buy a computer with one month's salary. However, this does not mean that everyone will buy it. After all, not everyone values education and high technology, so now, Qin
Tao simply gave them computers and asked them to use them. At least their next generation would be able to use computers.
There is a saying that education should start from childhood. As for whether you can use a computer to play games or even become addicted to games? Qin Tao said that this issue is not a problem here because the games are all developed by Goose Factory.
Monitor the IP address. If it is a computer belonging to a family member of the Mingzhou Group and the game is played for more than half an hour, then the account will be locked and cannot be unlocked until the next day, so that the source can be controlled.
"So everyone's computer configuration is the same, or are there differences?"
"Of course there must be distinctions." Qin Tao said: "We have stopped practicing egalitarianism a long time ago. Different levels have different contributions, and of course the year-end bonuses received are also different. If everyone is the same, it will become a big pot. Who can eat from the same pot?
I still want to work hard. You make a plan here, and I will go to Huating to discuss it with Loongson Company. We want a lot of quantity this time, and I don’t know if there is enough inventory there."
As SMIC's wafer fab continues to expand in scale, Loongson's output is also constantly increasing. Now it can not only meet domestic use, but also export in large quantities internationally. According to this order from Minzhou Group, they should be able to
Eatable.
With this thought in mind, Qin Tao headed to Huating on his own extended red flag.
Loongson Company.
"Old Ni, I haven't seen you for a long time. Your complexion is getting better and better!" A hearty laughter came from Mr. Ni's office.
Seeing Liu Zhonglie and Yang Qingfeng coming in, a trace of disgust flashed across Mr. Ni's face. However, he still concealed his dissatisfaction and did not slap the smiling man. The past was in the past.
"I know you don't like drinking, so we didn't bring any wine. We just brought you two boxes of snacks from Daoxiang Village. Given our relationship, does it not violate your principles to accept these snacks?" Liu Zhonglie asked.
Yang Qingfeng had already placed the snacks on the table in a familiar manner. Mr. Ni looked at the two boxes of snacks and said, "I will only accept the same gifts and wishes. You can keep whichever you think is valuable."
When did this old man start talking nonsense? Liu Zhonglie and Yang Qingfeng looked embarrassed. However, Yang Qingfeng thought for a moment and picked up the two boxes of snacks.
Thoughts must be more valuable than gifts, so I can only leave my thoughts behind.
"The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and your Loongson Company is blooming steadily. It would be miserable for us to think about it." Liu Zhonglie sat on the sofa nearby and said to Mr. Ni: "In the past few years, I have been
Reflecting on it, it was all my fault that we had a bad time at the beginning! It would be great if you still stayed with us."
"It's useless for me to stay in my thoughts." Mr. Ni said: "We have different paths and we don't want to work together. You are only thinking about how to do business, and I am thinking about how to do technology. We are not in the same realm, and we are destined to not be able to do it.
Together."
Liu Zhonglie was a little embarrassed. He took a deep breath and then said: "Lao Ni, you also know how expensive it is to develop chips. If your Loongson company does not have the strong support behind Mingzhou Group, can you succeed?
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Mr. Ni sighed: "Yes, if it were not for Mingzhou Group, we would not be where we are today at Loongson."
Loongson needs design, production, and advanced technology. At that time, L thought, we really didn’t have it. If we were to build it, we didn’t know how much it would cost.
However, if he does not develop chips, he will always be a low-end assembly plant. If he does not develop upwards, others will choke him and make high profits. Even if he is given another chance, he must still be firm.
Unswervingly develop the chip industry.
"Now, we L want to encounter a crisis, and we need your help." Liu Zhonglie said: "Now, Loongson 4 is about to be taped out. We L want not to get involved in the domestic market. We want to get overseas assembly machines.
How about the authorization? I know that you can only do technology, but you don’t understand sales. I happen to understand this."
Liu Zhonglie came here this time with confidence. Although he had a lot of unpleasantness with Mr. Ni before, business is business and unpleasantness is unpleasant. These are two different things. For the sake of business, enemies can sit down and talk. Now, there are more
What's more, they are old friends who used to work together?
Moreover, Liu Zhonglie also understands Mr. Ni's personality. Mr. Ni is a person with feelings. As long as he feels pitiful, he will definitely help.
"Do you want the overseas sales rights of Loongson No. 4?" Mr. Ni asked curiously. He would go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. This old friend must have some agenda when he comes here. Now, he has revealed his purpose.
So next, should you agree or not?
"Yes, that's it." Liu Zhonglie said: "We are sure that Loongson 4 will quickly occupy the overseas market, and the sales will be higher than domestic sales. As long as the production capacity is sufficient, we can squeeze out Intel. This is also your wish.
Bar?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Liu Zhonglie looked at Mr. Ni's face, trying to see any clues on Mr. Ni's face.
Mr. Ni sighed: "From a personal perspective, I am willing to help you, but from a company perspective, it is impossible for me to cooperate with a company with a criminal record."
"Have a criminal record? What do you mean?" Liu Zhonglie was stunned.
"In recent years, our Loongson 3 has surpassed Intel and AMD when it was launched on the market. We originally planned to only supply the domestic market, but there have been many private smuggling activities, smuggling our Loongson 3 abroad for sale." Ni
The old man said: "In order to improve the domestic technological level, we sold computers at low prices domestically. As a result, a large number of computers were sold abroad by some profit-seeking businessmen. Do you know about this?"
Liu Zhonglie shook his head: "I don't know how such a thing could happen. Isn't this taking advantage of your Loongson Company?"
"We have investigated the flow of these computers. There are more than a dozen computer companies involved. The largest smuggling volume is the sum of the other companies. I don't need to name this company's name, right?"
Liu Zhonglie's expression changed: "Old Ni, don't listen to those people's nonsense. We will never do such a thing. This must be a misunderstanding!"
"Lao Liu, I didn't talk about you." Lao Ni gave him a blank look: "Do you admit it yourself?"
Liu Zhonglie blushed: "Old Ni, of course it's not like this, please listen to my explanation!"
"Lao Liu, our Loongson Company will never cooperate with profit-seeking companies. I'm very happy that you can come to see me. However, I hope that we will just have a pure friendship in the future without mixing other things. Otherwise, we will not even be friends.
If you can't do it, go away and I'll give it to you."
Is this the time to see guests off?
Liu Zhonglie stood up with a red face, his eyes were a little gloomy, his throat was crawling, and he didn't know if he should say harsh words.
"Recently, we, SMIC, are manufacturing processors for AMD. The performance of the batch of K-7 processors is pretty good. It would be wasteful to ship them directly from our SMIC assembly line to overseas. You can contact AMD.
The company will discuss and purchase part of that batch of processors, assemble them into complete machines at your place, and then sell them," Mr. Ni said.
This is a reminder to old friends. Our Loongson company will not cooperate with you again, but you still have a way to survive. Cooperation with AMD is a good choice.
Liu Zhonglie frowned, then put on a smile: "Thank you, Lao Ni, for your advice."
After getting in the car, Liu Zhonglie spoke angrily: "Huh, I don't know what's good or bad. I am cooperating with them now because I respect them. Now, he won't accept gifts and won't give authorization. Huh, he wants to toast him instead of eating.
Fine drinking!"
"He actually dared to slander us for reselling Loongson-3 processors." Yang Qingfeng was also very angry: "I think, since he is unkind, then we are also unjust!"
"What can you do?"
"Their processors are manufactured by SMIC. After they are manufactured, they will be transported to several computer companies for assembly. We might as well be on the road..."
As the two people's car left the Loongson Company, a Hongqi car drove towards them and entered the Loongson Company.
"There is no need to report it. Is this a car for internal use?"
"No, this car was taken by Mr. Qin. It should be Mr. Qin who is here." Yang Qingfeng said: "Otherwise, we will continue to do this and get Mr. Qin too..."
Liu Zhonglie rolled his eyes at him: "If you dare to do that, we will have no other choice but to flee overseas immediately. We may even be hunted down to the ends of the earth."
Are you kidding me? Don't you know Mr. Qin's identity and background? Even if you try to hide it, traffic accidents and the like will be discovered, and then it will lead to terrible consequences.
Everything they do now is still under the rules of business. If they dare to break out of the rules, the other party will abandon the rules in retaliation.
At this time, Qin Tao also looked at the leaving Hutouben: "That car is very impressive, whose is it?"
"I don't know. Let me check it for you now," said Xu Zhengyang, who was driving.
After the air show, Xu Zhengyang originally planned to continue following Qin Tao, but Qin Tao drove him to continue working on the islands and reefs in the southern seas, and did not return until the end of the year.
During this period, Xu Zhengyang was tanned, but even sunnier. A phone call every night showed that he was in a beautiful love.
However, he still did not forget his work, and he continued to work very well.
"L wants to work in the company." Xu Zhengyang received the answer later.
"Send someone to keep an eye on them. I suspect they are going to do something bad," Qin Tao said.
"Yes, I will arrange it immediately."
Xu Zhengyang did all these things smoothly while driving.
Although Zhao Ling is also by Qin Tao's side, Qin Tao still doesn't let Zhao Ling do these dirty things. It's better for her to stay as she is now.
When the car stopped at the door of the office building, Qin Tao saw Mr. Ni standing at the door.
"Mr. Ni, you are a prophet. You knew we were coming and were waiting here in advance?"
Mr. Ni smiled bitterly: "No, I'm just sending a friend off. After sending it off, I always feel that something is wrong with this matter. I am just here blowing the wind and thinking about it. You know, I am engaged in technology, and these things are really not right.
You understand so well, it’s great that you are here now.”
"The person L wanted is here?"
"Mr. Qin, you are so capable, I can't hide anything from you." Mr. Ni said: "They wanted the overseas agency rights of our Loongson 4, but I refused. I don't want to cooperate with them, otherwise
I didn’t even know I was being sold.”
Qin Tao nodded: "We definitely can't cooperate with them. Companies that shout about technology without borders should disappear."
Zhao Ling followed Qin Tao and sighed in her heart, Brother Tao is really interesting. Zhang Rujin shouted that technology has no borders, and Brother Tao praised him. L wanted to call technology without borders, but Brother Tao despised it. This is not a double standard, but a different standard.
, one is that he has no skills, and the other is that he has skills.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Let's go in and talk." Qin Tao said, "I'm here for another thing."
"good."
Entering the office, Mr. Ni was very moved when he heard what Qin Tao said about the new year's goods: "Mr. Qin, it's an unprecedented first time to send out the new year's goods of computers to the workers. This is a big deal on your part!"
Qin Tao smiled: "The workers have been busy for a whole year, and it is not easy. We have to give them something good, mainly to train the next generation, so that the factory children will not only think about how to hold the welding gun all day long, but do not want to learn cultural knowledge.
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There are quite a lot of people like this. They have been exposed to it since childhood. It is really like that for teenage children to pick up a welding gun. However, is it that easy for them to succeed in their father's business?
Times are changing, technology is advancing, and the need for people will become less and less. Now automated welding can only weld flat places, but in the future it will be able to weld even all kinds of complex places, and fewer and fewer welders will be needed.
If every descendant of a welder becomes a welder, they will be unemployed. The future is an era of intelligence, and it is not enough to not understand computers.
"Mr. Qin, if each person has one, the quantity is indeed not small. However, as long as we work harder, we can still complete it." Mr. Ni said: "After all, the current production capacity is also large."
In the past few years, Loongson Computer has developed rapidly, not only improving performance, but also continuously expanding production capacity. Although Qin Tao's requirements are huge, they are not impossible to complete.
"Okay, from Loongson 1 to Loongson 4, we need computers with various configurations, so as not to affect our normal delivery." Qin Tao said, "Especially for Loongson 4, we only need the first batch of tape-outs.
That’s fine.”
The first batch of tape-outs can be said to be experimental products. Generally, such experimental products will not flow to the market. They must be tested by themselves or given to friends for testing. If there are any extra, they can be given away as gifts. Qin Tao needs it now, and it is just right.
Self-produced and sold.
Hearing what Qin Tao said, Mr. Ni nodded: "Okay, of course there is no problem with this. If there are any problems when using the computer, please give us feedback in time and we will make improvements as soon as possible."
After talking about these things, it was already evening.
"Let's go have a meal." Qin Tao said, "I haven't eaten in the canteen of your Loongson Company for a long time. I don't know how your food is."
"Our canteen? It's already open at this time, but there shouldn't be anyone in the canteen."
"Why?"
"Our technical staff are all workaholics." Mr. Ni said: "Although they have dinner at six o'clock, many of them will work until eight or nine o'clock."
This is how IT people, let alone hardware people, wish they were just a machine that would never stop spinning.
"Then we can't let them go hungry." Qin Tao said: "These technicians have the smartest minds among us."
"Yes. So if it's too late, our cafeteria staff will reheat the meals, put lunch boxes in them, and deliver them to our office next to the office," Mr. Ni said.
Qin Tao nodded: "People are like iron, and food is like steel. You can't do it without eating. You guys should also pay attention to rest. If an unexpected incident occurs, it can easily be taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives."
It is common for large factories to die suddenly due to overtime work. Once this happens, people will scold them. Even if the money is sufficient, the R&D personnel can still find the mental motivation to prevent such accidents.
When Qin Tao and Mr. Ni came to the restaurant, sure enough, it was empty and no one was eating. Qin Tao looked at the dishes inside and found that they were all very good. The aroma was fragrant. This canteen was contracted by a large hotel in Huating.
, it is simply a five-star standard. Unfortunately, for scientific researchers, eating is just to fill their stomachs.
Qin Tao was hungry now, so he ordered some dishes and sat down to eat.
"Mr. Qin, I just received the news." At this moment, Xu Zhengyang came to him: "The person L wants is in contact with people from the logistics company."
"Logistics company?" Qin Tao was curious: "Why are they looking for people from the logistics company? Don't they know that the logistics company is also run by us?"
Now, the largest logistics company in the country was developed by Mingzhou Transportation Company. They not only transport on land, but also in the sky and on the sea. Qin Tao has hardly managed this company and has always been a hands-off shopkeeper.
, you just need to get a share every year.
Since they have their own logistics company, all kinds of transportation business are also handled by their own logistics company. Iron ore at sea, crude oil, large items in the sky, etc. are their main business, L thinks.
He actually went to find people from the logistics company to plot a conspiracy. Isn't this a bit of a fool's errand?
"They didn't find anyone from above, they just found a few drivers, and their tactics were very clever." Xu Zhengyang said: "These drivers are responsible for transporting chips."
Shipping chips?
Mr. Ni's expression suddenly changed: "They don't want to rob us on the way, right? If they really dare to do this, they will break up with us! Huh, now they don't even have to do any superficial work.
Got it!"
Mr. Ni's face darkened.
Loongson 4 is about to start tape-out, and everyone is watching. Whoever gets Loongson 4 first will make a lot of money! So, Liu Zhonglie came and used his past friendship to fool Mr. Ni, hoping to make Mr. Ni
They handed over the chip agency rights to them, but Mr. Ni obviously would not do this. After the negotiation was not settled, they actually wanted to use this method.
"Aren't they afraid of the law?" Zhao Ling was also curious.
"If something goes wrong, they can just throw them out and push them out." Qin Tao said, "If you want them to suffer a loss, you have to find another way."
"What can we do?" Mr. Ni asked.
"Is there a CPU that will burn the motherboard when plugged into it?" Qin Tao asked.
"Burn the motherboard?" Mr. Ni shook his head: "Our CPU does not burn the motherboard."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "What if you specialize in making a batch of this kind of CPU? There are no chips inside, just design a few circuits to burn the motherboard."
"This is simple, just do something in the packaging department." Mr. Ni said: "Just short-circuit a few pins that are dedicated to powering the CPU."
"Can you burn all the memory and other things along the way?"
Mr. Ni nodded: "Of course. Some pins of the CPU are connected to the memory and are used to transmit data. The circuits are designed internally. These data channels are directly connected to the 12-volt power supply circuit, and the memory can be burned. Since you want to
To do this, we might as well connect the graphics card together, but unfortunately the hard drive cannot be burned. The hard drive needs to transmit data through the south bridge, and the south bridge chip is burned directly, and the hard drive will not be affected."
"Well, then just make this batch. It doesn't need to be too much, just one container."
Zhao Ling on the side opened her eyes wide.
If the motherboard, memory, graphics card, etc. are burned due to a counterfeit and shoddy processor, it will be a huge loss! Added together, these are definitely more expensive than the processor.
All kinds of things can be faked, but chips are very difficult. There is no other reason. Chips cannot be faked at all. Its technical content determines that it is impossible to have fakes. However, in the hands of smart Orientals, it can still be faked.
Counterfeiting, for example, hiring a few migrant workers to polish off the serial numbers of the chips, and then replace them with their own serial numbers, pretending to be self-developed processors, for example, when there is a chip shortage, directly selling some disassembled second-hand chips, etc.
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However, large-scale fraud like Qin Tao's is really rare.
"Then let's make samples of Loongson-4?"
Qin Tao shook his head: "No, we have announced to the outside world that in order to ensure safety, Loongson 4 will be transported directly by air. We are making samples of Loongson 3. By the way, we have to add a special mark. We will announce it later and we can send it at any time.