513: Chapter 513 America in Fear: The Beginning of Raising Gu

"Exclusive pricing? Global pricing? Could it be that this time..."

"What are you thinking, upstairs? I guess they're done pretending and are starting to harvest the leeks."

"I feel like with Transsion setting the price, it'll definitely be conscientious, judging by their previous graphics cards."

"But there were other competitors before; now, the other competitors have already starved to death... And Digital Chat Station has already started probing over there, so how could it possibly be that cheap?"

Gamers were immersed in the complex emotions of the joy of the new card's upcoming release and the fear of price hikes...

As for who NVIDIA belongs to?

It doesn't matter!

The most important thing is that its performance is truly very strong.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, the United States was also investigating exactly how much Transsion had taken from them.

To be precise, this was a restart!

"It's confirmed. And NVIDIA was a high-profile acquisition back then; none of us paid any attention to this small company. Who would have thought it would make such a big splash?"

The National Security Advisor also frowned, his hand tapping incessantly on the desk. After all, this was a major accountability issue.

He hadn't taken the CPU market seriously at all before. In his understanding, CPU mobile chips were the core of the semiconductor industry, while graphics cards were just for gamers and didn't need...

But in the last few months, virtual currency, which had originally been just as trashy, suddenly became popular, and the computing power value of GPUs skyrocketed.

At the same time, a terrifying thought rose in his mind: Transsion had also acquired quite a few United States companies over the past two years. Although they were all startups, but...

But their vision was not low. For them to be so concerned...

"This is going to be bad."

But the most important thing now was to distance himself from it, so he thought for a moment and quickly said:

"Why didn't you discover this before?"

The intelligence chief rolled his eyes. Why didn't they discover it?

That was naturally because the money was right. After all, with just these few subsidiaries, if there were no other sources of income, how could they be willing to do it?

Just as the National Security Advisor was glaring at him, the intelligence chief gave the same reason:

"The strategic value of the GPU business wasn't high before; our monitoring focus was entirely on CPUs and telecommunications."

"And their confidentiality work was done too well. Although the R&D team has quite a few people from the United States, they have now been assimilated by China."

This intelligence chief cleared himself of all blame. In short, all problems were someone else's problems, and they had nothing to do with him.

"Parasites, a bunch of parasites?" The National Security Advisor pointed at them and cursed.

He knew full well that they were taking money; even he had received some... It's just that... he was incorruptible and wouldn't collude with this group of people.

"You people just wait! Sooner or later, I will have the President thoroughly investigate this matter."

But this intelligence head just smiled. If he wanted to live a few more years, it was best to maintain the status quo; otherwise...

...

After a detailed investigation, the White House urgently convened a semiconductor strategy meeting on June 10th.

The Department of Commerce, the Department of Defense, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, and Samsung—everyone who could be related to GPUs was present.

The matter to be discussed this time was how to deal with NVIDIA's expansion in the graphics card field and how to develop the United States' GPU technology to ensure continuous stability for the next 10 years.

As long as someone dared to take the lead, they would be given money, personnel, and benefits.

"I think that instead of developing technology from scratch, we should restrict their technology." A representative from Samsung stood up voluntarily.

After all, they couldn't solve the frustration they suffered in the Flash Memory field alone, so they might as well pull in a few more. Now was the best opportunity.

"How about we still control the technology and patents?"

Just as these people were discussing there, the AMD representative slammed the table:

"Use your pig brains."

"NVIDIA is now a subsidiary of Transsion; they are not restricted by us in terms of equipment at all. Sanctions, embargoes, sales bans—what else do you have besides these tricks?"

"If you ask me, you still need to support AMD. We are the only company in this industry that can compete with NVIDIA. Although the gap is a bit large now, as long as you pour money, personnel, and policies into us... just like how China treats Transsion."

Under everyone's attention, he promised:

"In three years, we will be able to catch up with NVIDIA, or even surpass them. In this way, in the future era of computing power, we can guarantee that we will not fall behind China."

Once this was said, the people from the Department of Commerce and the Department of Defense nodded continuously; technological confrontation was the most important thing.

The most important thing was that someone dared to take on this task, which made them very gratified.

So, they began to discuss one by one what kind of policies should be granted.

The representative from Qualcomm couldn't sit still. Although he had a background in Huaxin and theoretically couldn't take on such a task, which technology company in the United States could say they hadn't been infiltrated by Transsion!

So he also stood up: "I think this matter is inappropriate; one company is too few. We at Qualcomm also have the confidence to compete. We also have some layout in GPUs."

"If you really give that kind of support, we at Qualcomm can also make the same guarantee."

The Qualcomm representative had more tricks up his sleeve; after all, if you can't beat them, can't you call for help?

As for whether this person is an enemy or a friend... in short, as long as they can deliver the goods, it's fine.

With two people voluntarily proposing, the next discussion was whether to support AMD or Qualcomm.

But no matter who was picked, there were objections; after all, AMD was having trouble enough taking care of itself.

Its CPU business was being crushed by Intel, and its GPU business had been losing money for years. In the short term, they couldn't produce a competitive product, and investing money might be a waste.

As for Qualcomm... although they had some technical accumulation, they mainly made mobile SoCs and had never made computer graphics cards.

Moreover, because of the relationship between Qualcomm and Transsion, they might become technical compradors.

At that time, the so-called hope of the United States might just be a shell for China. Once revealed by Transsion, it would be a slap in the face.

In the end, the head of the Department of Commerce decided to try both, as both companies had investments from Transsion...

Especially since many of the layouts targeted by Qualcomm were leaked by Qualcomm. This son must not be kept, but they were needed right now.

After discussing for a while, the head of the Department of Commerce tapped the table and finally thought of an excellent idea, so he specifically looked in the direction of Qualcomm.

The Qualcomm representative panicked instantly; this old guy wouldn't really be targeting him, right?

This role of a vanguard is not easy to play.

"Qualcomm has technical accumulation in mobile GPUs, a mature architecture, and sufficient talent reserves."

"We will integrate all of the United States' GPU resources and hand over the R&D task for high-performance desktop graphics cards to Qualcomm."

"We will coordinate special R&D funds, and relevant talent and patents can also be skewed toward you."

The Qualcomm representative and the AMD representative both looked at the Department of Commerce representative in disbelief.

Both representatives seemed to be saying, "Just one?"