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Chapter 418: Toothpaste Squeeze Strategy

This is a cross-age product. When biochips were truly developed, everyone was a little confused and felt a little dreamy.

To be precise, mastering advanced chip technology is just because you have just obtained the key to entering the Internet and smart world.

Origin Group is still in the same position and has a long way to go.

The first task is to determine the stability of biochips and ensure that biochips can be used in all fields.

The second task is to find ways to generate biochips at a lower cost, because only at the right price and the right cost can the road of biochips go further and allow more markets to accept biochips.

If the chip is not stable and can only be used in high-demand environments, or if the cost of biochips is too high and far away from ordinary consumers, then the vitality of biochips is destined to be insufficient.

After all, Origin Group is a private technology company, and the products it develops are mainly targeted at the group, that is, ordinary users.

Therefore, whether it is Zhou Xiao or Mo Li, they put the applicability and price of the product first.

The laboratory is still very busy in the next month.

Mo Lili's team needs to fully test all the functions of the chip, and only prepare to bring it to the market after ensuring its stability and reducing production costs.

During this period, Zhou Xiao and the senior executives were talking about a topic.

What kind of performance biochips does Origin Group bring to the market?

Currently, the floating-point operation of laboratory biochips is 2 billion times per second, but if the laboratory wants to go further, this data can be expanded hundreds of times, that is, the floating-point operation speed reaches more than 200 billion times.

The laboratory team was even able to assure Zhou Xiao that the experimental team had just opened the door to biochips, and biochips based on DNA storage technology still had great development potential. In the future, complex biochips had trillions of billions of times will be a normal manifestation.

But for Zhou Xiao, it is enough for the biochip with 2 billion floating-point operations developed by the laboratory.

"I don't recommend pushing chips of 2 billion times to the market in one go, for two reasons." Ma Xin said from his own perspective: "First of all, in addition to being a rich gamer and server user, high-end Intel commercial chips such as 10900K also have very few audiences. Most users use only about 3 billion chips of floating-point computing. We launch chips of 2 billion times at once. At present, the hardware and software on the market cannot keep up, and overperformance will not bring us greater profits."

What Ma Xin said makes sense.

Because that's how Intel does it.

Why is Intel talking about toothpaste factory? The main reason is that Intel has long had chips with more advanced technology and faster computing speeds. But Intel will never take out its most advanced things, but the chips it launches every year are only a little higher than last year's performance.

Intel does this not only to continue to lead competitors but also to control the speed of chip progress.

In this way, Intel can make the most profits and continue to hold the right to speak in the chip industry.

This situation continued until AMD developed a chip that was more advanced than Intel, and the toothpaste squeezing model was temporarily over.

In fact, in addition to the chip industry, many industries also use toothpaste to launch new products.

One of the industries that Xia Guo suffered deeply is the panel industry.

Even South Korea is now in the LCD panel industry and has absolute advantages.

So how did those LCD panel technology companies in South Korea harm Xia Guo companies and Xia Guo consumers?

If you are a little older, you can recall that the world's LCD TV and plasma TVs were developing the fastest around 2007 to 2009.

At the same time, South Korea and the East are also those who have absolute voice in liquid crystal and plasma technology.

At that time, an LCD TV or plasma TV could be sold for 7,000+ in the domestic market. It is normal to sell for more than 10,000 yuan, and the supply is in short supply.

For many families, having an ultra-thin LCD TV or plasma TV means that the family is relatively wealthy and their lives are more quality-oriented.

Seeing brands from South Korea and Dongyang eroding Xia Guo’s TV market, domestic brands are similar to Changhong and other brands, I am very anxious.

At that time, domestic TV production companies were able to produce LCD TVs or plasma TVs, but all screens had to be purchased from South Korea or Dongyang, and they had no production capacity at all.

However, the cost of assembling the screen you buy from others into a TV will definitely be much greater than that of the other party, and you cannot compete with South Korea and Dongyang companies in terms of reputation, quality and brand.

Seeing that his business is getting smaller and smaller, Xia Guo’s TV manufacturers are very anxious, and the one they are most anxious about is Changhong.

Then, under the trick of the South Korean company, of course, Changhong's own decision-making mistakes were also made. They spent a huge amount of money to acquire South Korean Olien Company, which is known for its plasma panel technology.

After acquiring Orian Company, Changhong invested huge amounts of money to leap into the plasma production line on a large scale.

After Changhong spent a lot of time and money, she suddenly turned around and found that the South Korean giants who had advised him to enter the plasma industry had long stopped using plasma technology and turned to LCD panel technology.

Changhong has been in a slump since then until today.

The road of Xiaguo technology enterprises in the LCD industry is also very rough.

First of all, the technology is in the hands of others. You can buy our goods, but you can't.

Taking the IPS screen as an example, when the LCD TV of this screen came out, the price was as high as 10,000 yuan.

When Xia Guo's company (BOE) spent huge amounts of investment in scientific research time to develop IPS, South Korea instantly reduced the price of IPS LCD, which is as high as 10,000 yuan, to three to four thousand, which caught Xia Guo's company off guard.

Then, a new generation of LCD panel technology OLED was launched instantly. The screen is also very expensive and is widely used in smartphones.

When BOE company spent a lot of effort to finally develop its own OLED technology, China Southern Airlines' technology giant instantly reduced the price of OLED and then launched a new generation of flexible screen technology.

This is the benefit of squeezing toothpaste. Always keep your own technology ahead of the curve and always let your opponents spend a lot of energy and time catching up, but never catch up.

To sum up, Mr. Ma’s opinion is to launch a biochip with 10 billion floating point computing capabilities. The chip’s capabilities are far greater than server-level chips on the market. They can quickly occupy the market and make chip companies around the world very uncomfortable.

"If the commercial semiconductor chips of commercial chips can reach 10 billion floating point operations per second, the price cannot be particularly high. This requires Western semiconductor companies to greatly improve their R&D design capabilities and production capabilities. The most important thing is to provide yield rates. This alone will make Western chip companies very uncomfortable. Our launch of biochips with 10 billion floating point operations can ensure that we occupy a favorable position in the chip market in the next two to three years or even longer."

"If Intel Qualcomm or Samsung develops a relatively affordable chip with 10 billion floating point operations, then we will launch a biochip with 15 billion floating point operations. Anyway, we must be one level ahead of them and make them feel uncomfortable."

Ma Xin has been struggling in the technology industry for so many years, and has indeed been fed up with the situation where chips are bored.

Ma Xin continued: "When I was working at Huawei, Huawei realized that in the chip market, it will definitely be subject to the West in the future. Therefore, he has tried to do the entire industrial chain such as chip design, production, and packaging."

"In the field of chip design, Huawei can be said to be the world's leading company. In the field of chip packaging, many companies in Xiaguo have done a good job, but in the field of chip production, we have no say at all."

"How did Huawei do it in the first place? The negotiation and public relations team went to the Netherlands, hoping to negotiate with the Dutch ASML company to purchase lithography machines. In order to get the lithography machines, Huawei gave very preferential conditions. These conditions belong to Huawei's business secrets have never known about them. But as far as I know, Huawei has made concessions on some bottom-line issues."

Recalling the past few years, Ma Xin is still very angry.

He said: "The negotiations between Huawei and ASML went very smoothly. Huawei also gave most of the deposit to the company, but ASML and the West were like playing with monkeys. They wanted to sell them at some time, not at some time, and we had less deposits, and then increased prices, which made Huawei play around with them."

"I still haven't bought it after a year or two!"

Xue Ninglu added: "The core technology must be in your own hands before it can be insured. Relying on others' alms or sales, this is a way to take the initiative."

Zhou Xiao said incisively: "Westerns have fundamental differences from our ideology. The things that are truly willing to sell to you are never the best, so don't ever put your hope on Westerners. They wish that the Xia people will never be able to make chips and will always buy them in their hands."

After detailed negotiations, the meeting decided that the first generation of biologics launched by Origin Group was named Kunlun.

Codename is Kunlun D1100.

D means DNA, and 1100 is the first generation of chips with 10 billion floating-point operations per second.

Zhou Xiao wanted to smile and said to Mo Li: "Control the computing power of biochips, is there no problem with this?"

Mo Li said: "Then let's see if you are going to let the user overclock?"

Zhou Xiao said: "For computer enthusiasts and otaku, overclocking their chips is the most wonderful thing. This feeling is more enjoyable than meeting a few long-legged beauties. Overclocking is definitely overclocking, but it cannot be overclocked too much. If overclocking is overclocking, it will be enough to increase the performance of the chip by about 5%.

Mo Li made an OK gesture for Zhou Xiao: "No problem! Isn't this a trivial matter to lock the computing power of biochips?"

Mo Li also asked the second question: "Does the graphics card and the chip need to be combined into one?"

Zhou Xiao also refused to address this issue: "At present, don't combine two into one. The most important thing is to mass-produce chips. Say important things three times, mass production and production."

Of course Mo Li understands this, but mass production of biochips is not an easy task.

Origin Group must build a complete biochip production factory from zero to one, and even cultivate a large number of biochip and production process talents.

Talents with biochip need not only understand biology but also mathematics and logic. Such talents are actually the most difficult.

Even if there are currently talents from Jiangcheng University and Jiangcheng University of Technology, China Origin Group is facing serious talent gaps.

Because in major universities in Xia Kingdom, the most despised major is biology.

Just like in need of humans and learning medicine, we will know that the sky is struck by lightning.

The fundamental reason for this problem is that students studying biology are difficult to find jobs, or students studying biology have a much lower income than those who study engineering, computer science and finance.

For example, students who are also famous schools, graduated from Jiangcheng University and majoring in biology may work in some pharmaceutical factories or biological factories, and their monthly salary is only 7,000 or 8,000 yuan.

But the salary that students studying finance may get is 10,000 or 20,000 yuan.

If students who are studying computers or software engineering become young coders, their salary can easily reach 30,000 to 40,000 per month.

Thinking of this question, Zhou Xiao said to Mo Li: "If you want to discuss it with Sister Lan, you may have to find time to contact major universities across the country to set up a special major in life sciences and medicine in the Origin Group. The students trained in this major will first supply our group."

Zhou Xiao said: "Biochips are just starting out, and our talent gap will be far greater than the talent gap for semiconductor chips. We must attract the best people in the world."

At the end of the meeting, Zhou Xiao said: "Of course, I also know that this time period is quite boring. There is still a while since chip research and development to leaving the laboratory and commercial use. So what do we need to do during this period?"

Zhou Xiao's smile made everyone feel that someone would definitely be in trouble.

Zhou Xiao said: "Of course we have to test the performance of our chips crazy during this period. This kind of test can happen in any field, any scenario and any environment."

"I don't rule out allowing our lab staff to use our biochips as graphics cards - mining!"

"Damn!" Mo Li couldn't help but curse and swear words when she heard Zhou Xiao say this.

"Aren't you going to use technological means to slaughter the financial world?"
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