337: Stupid Intel!

However, President Chen Wenqi also knew that after acquiring Taiwan SIS Company, their Weisheng Electronics' CPU and Graphics Card businesses would have to significantly lower their asking price if they wanted to sell them, offering a 'broken bone' price.

After all, Shuguang R&D Center already had the most crucial and important X86 Instruction Set authorization; other technical patents owned by Weisheng Electronics and patent authorizations obtained through cross-licensing, while important,

could also be acquired by Shuguang R&D Center through other means, or by directly developing their own technical patents.

Therefore, President Chen Wenqi, feeling provoked, made a fierce decision to drastically reduce the quotation for CPUs and Graphics Cards, offering a 'broken bone' price!

Meanwhile, President Berrett of Intel, far away in United States, was unaware of all this.

He didn't know that his actions had provoked President Chen Wenqi so greatly, leading President Chen Wenqi to make the drastic and crazy decision to significantly lower the quotation for the CPU and Graphics Card businesses.

Presumably, if President Berrett of Intel knew this, he would probably be green with regret.

If given a chance to reverse the future, they would certainly grit their teeth and honor their promise this time, granting Weisheng Electronics the authorization for the SSE3 instruction set and Hyper-Threading Technology as agreed, rather than betraying Weisheng Electronics.

After all, granting Weisheng Electronics authorization for these two technologies would indeed give Weisheng Electronics an opportunity to rise, but it still wouldn't threaten Intel's monopoly in X86 processors.

On the contrary, if Shuguang R&D Center acquired Weisheng Electronics, Shuguang R&D Center would directly become the world's third-largest X86 processor manufacturer.

They would directly possess the strength and qualifications to research, develop, and produce X86 processors, which would be even worse news for Intel.

After all, Shuguang R&D Center is much more formidable than Weisheng Electronics, both in terms of research funding and research capabilities.

Choose the lesser of two evils.

Presumably, if there were a chance to regret and reverse the future, Intel would absolutely provide Weisheng Electronics with the authorization for those two technologies, rather than betraying Weisheng Electronics and angering President Chen Wenqi.

But it was all too late; Intel had indeed made a mistake this time.

Intel abandoned Weisheng Electronics after seeing that Shuguang R&D Center had acquired Taiwan SIS Company and officially obtained the X86 processor patent authorization, allowing them to produce X86 processors.

This behavior itself was not problematic, as Shuguang Technology was a threat, but Weisheng Electronics, with three technical authorizations, was also a threat.

It was normal for them to abandon and betray Weisheng Electronics, which had no utility value, but they overlooked Weisheng Electronics' determination to develop domestic CPUs.

They did not consider that after several years of continuous losses, Weisheng Electronics' senior management had despaired about the future of X86 processors and lacked the conviction and determination to support X86 processor research and development.

According to history, the Weisheng C7 processor, which Weisheng Electronics would launch next year, would be its last swan song; it can be said that after the Weisheng C7 processor,

Weisheng Electronics did not continue to develop new X86 processors, and for the next ten-plus years, it only performed minor updates and maintenance on its original X86 processors.

Therefore, Intel's decision to betray Weisheng Electronics was indeed not problematic, but it overestimated Weisheng Electronics' determination to develop X86 processors, ultimately leading to this outcome.

Of course, even if Berrytt knew what President Chen Wenqi was thinking now, the outcome could no longer be reversed.

After all, they had already paid the liquidated damages and issued the contract breach notice; saying anything more at this point was useless, but it was clear that Intel did not know this.

Thus, in the time that followed, Shuguang R&D Center and Weisheng Electronics resumed negotiations.

And when this move was reported by the media, it naturally caused considerable displeasure for Intel.

President Berrett of Intel even issued various warnings and pointed out that Weisheng Electronics would need to bear 30 million US dollars in liquidated damages.

However, none of this intimidated Weisheng Electronics; after all, the wool comes from the sheep, and the 30 million US dollars in liquidated damages could simply be passed on to Shuguang R&D Center through the quotation.

Thus, with mutual interest, the negotiations between Shuguang R&D Center and Weisheng Electronics proceeded quite rapidly, with a negotiation speed comparable to that between Shuguang R&D Center and Taiwan SIS Company.

Therefore, on July 10th, Shuguang R&D Center and Weisheng Electronics officially reached a contract for the sale of the CPU and Graphics Card businesses.

Shuguang R&D Center acquired Weisheng Electronics' CPU and Graphics Card departments for 1.23 billion US dollars and also obtained patent authorization for Weisheng Electronics' Chipset technology.

And when this news was announced through a joint press conference by both parties, Global technology media naturally reported it frantically, while Chinese netizens once again became excited.

However, this time their level of excitement and enthusiasm far exceeded that of Shuguang R&D Center's previous acquisition of Taiwan SIS Company, because this Taiwan Weisheng Electronics Company was different from that Taiwan SIS Company.

Although Weisheng Electronics Company's CPU market share was quite awkward, with a long-term market share between 0.2% and 0.5%,

it was an undeniable fact that Weisheng Electronics was the world's third-largest X86 processor manufacturer!

Now, Shuguang R&D Center had acquired Weisheng Electronics' CPU and Graphics Card businesses, in addition to the previously acquired CPU, Graphics Card, and Chipset businesses from SIS Company.

With the merger of the technologies and patents from these two companies, Shuguang Technology's CPU, Shuguang Graphics Card, and Dawn Chipset would become even more powerful, also signifying that Shuguang Computer components and Shuguang Computer were truly on their way!

Thinking of this, how could Chinese netizens not be excited and eager for the birth of Shuguang Technology's Shuguang Computer, Dawn Processor, Shuguang Graphics Card, and Dawn Chipset?

Regarding this, Lin Chen also had many emotions, sighing that it was truly a case of 'unintended actions leading to unexpected success'.

Of course, after his reflections, Lin Chen was also secretly delighted.

Because Shuguang R&D Center had originally planned to spend around 1.5 billion US dollars to purchase Weisheng Electronics' CPU and Graphics Card businesses.

As a result, the price was now only 1.23 billion US dollars, far below expectations, and the purchased CPU business also included a very valuable unexpected surprise.

This unexpected surprise was the authorization for A.M.D's X86-64 bit processor architecture!

This was a technical authorization with a very profound impact on the future of Shuguang R&D Center, a very important authorization!

Because with this authorization, Shuguang R&D Center would be able to openly research, develop, produce, and sell 64-bit X86 processors, which would undoubtedly have a profound impact on Shuguang R&D Center.

After all, while 32-bit processors still had a place, the next few years and decades would be the era of 64-bit processors.

Obtaining the authorization for the X86-64 bit processor architecture unexpectedly at this time undoubtedly completely solved the major problem of having the qualification to produce 64-bit X86 processors!

How could Lin Chen not be secretly delighted after receiving this unexpected joy?

It could be said that the secretly delighted Lin Chen was almost unable to resist giving President Berrett of Intel a "Best Excellent Assist Award".