514: Chapter 514 How Much Technology Was Hidden in the Leather-Clad Warehouse?

While they were feeling puzzled, the representative from the Department of Defense also stood up:

"To ensure the success of the project, AMD will also receive support, with funding split 50/50.

But this is only for the first 6 months. Afterward, whoever achieves higher technical results will receive increased support from us."

Qualcomm and AMD exchanged glances again; both understood that this was because they weren't fully trusted, so they needed to...

Soon, the Qualcomm representative's eyes darted around; why wouldn't this be a good thing?

After all, Qualcomm had also performed meritorious service in front of Transsion.

So, after they finished announcing the plan, the Qualcomm representative immediately stood up.

"We can take on this task."

"But it will take time, and it will require sufficient resource support."

"The R&D complexity of a desktop-grade GPU is very high. As newcomers, we will need at least two years to produce our first generation of competitive products."

"Two years is too long." The National Security Advisor directly rejected this plan.

"A year and a half, at most a year and a half.

Funding, talent, patents—all resources can be given to you."

AMD was already snickering; Qualcomm was just a newcomer who had happened to get an opportunity...

The only winner of this struggle would be AMD. After all, how could a company that only makes mobile SoCs possibly build a GPU?

...

Sure enough, after the meeting ended, the AMD representative was received by the Department of Commerce and the Department of Defense.

Although it was unknown what they discussed, it was clear that AMD had received sufficient benefits.

Almost immediately after the meeting concluded, a top-priority R&D task notification was officially issued to both companies.

The United States semiconductor industry stopped quibbling and joined the battlefield as well.

...

Meanwhile, in Yangcheng, Shen Fei soon received intelligence that Qualcomm and AMD were planning to make desktop graphics cards.

"The United States has finally reacted."

He handed the report to Leather Jacket Huang and Professor Li Jiahui, who were beside him.

"That's fine, it's only interesting if there are opponents."

Of course, Shen Fei just smiled after saying that. After all, there was a joke in the later generations that the greatest significance of AMD's existence was...

High cost-performance ratio!

Of course, this high cost-performance ratio didn't refer to their graphics cards, but rather that because of their existence, everyone could buy cheaper NVIDIA cards!

After reading this plan, Leather Jacket Huang felt a bit disdainful; after all, only AMD was worth fighting.

However, could the pie-in-the-sky promises in this report really be realized? After all, he knew the execution capabilities of the United States...

"Boss, these two are nothing to fear."

Leather Jacket Huang looked at Shen Fei's expression; it was clear he was a bit unsatisfied with this answer.

But he also knew this wasn't a questioning of his technology, but rather a reprimand of his attitude.

After all, one cannot be too arrogant, so he immediately straightened his body and said solemnly:

"Boss, our team hasn't gotten carried away."

"Because the GTX980 is just technology from our lab three years ago."

"We currently have six generations of technology in reserve, and we can complete a technological iteration almost every six months.

Currently, the chip frequency has already been pushed to 4.2G... The performance has already multiplied who knows how many times."

"Boss, if it's true what the netizens say—that you are a reincarnator—if you came back from 2018, the public technology you could bring out might not actually be as advanced as the technology in my inventory."

After making this joke, Leather Jacket Huang became solemn once again.

After all, technology was always Transsion's foundation; he would not forget that.

After getting this answer, Shen Fei nodded with satisfaction once again. It seemed the netizens of the future were right...

Leather Jacket Huang really had hidden a lot.

It's just that I don't know, if we brought out the 5090 now... it should be able to suppress them.

"In that case, release it as planned.

Announce the Maxwell architecture, and at the same time, continue developing new-generation technology. For the next generation, we can consider the 10nm process; the wafer fab is about to make a breakthrough."

"Understood."

Although he said that, Leather Jacket Huang did some quick mental math. To digest all this inventory... it would take at least another 6 years, which would be 2020.

A 10nm graphics card in 2020 shouldn't be considered excessive.

As for the users, as long as the performance is sufficient, who cares how many nanometers the chip is.

...

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, after hearing the report, Steve Mollenkopf decided without any hesitation to cooperate with Transsion.

After all, the other party had wanted to guard against him from the beginning, but due to their strength, they had no choice but to give them this face.

In that case, he would have to maneuver carefully. Money was one thing, but this sense of dignity had to be reclaimed.

So, that same evening, he chose an appropriate time and called Shen Fei.

"Mr. Shen, I wonder what wind blew you here to call me?"

"Mr. Shen, you should know Qualcomm's attitude regarding opposing Transsion.

I truly cannot accept this honorific."

Steve Mollenkopf's tone was extremely low, even lower than the representative's attitude on the international stage; it didn't sound like...

"Oh! I do know about the attitude; it's indeed not bad.

For example, giving the K1 chip to Lenovo and the Surge chip to Xiaomi.

Is the next one supposed to be for..."

Shen Fei flipped through the report and finally found that name.

"Is the next one supposed to be for Lu Mingyuan?"

On the other end of the phone, Steve Mollenkopf's heart instantly turned cold. It seemed Transsion was very clear about these little maneuvers of theirs?

Even though they had bypassed them at the board meeting, it seemed...

So he decided to stop pretending.

"Mr. Shen, some things are not for me to decide.

After all, I am just a professional manager."

"Alright, let's get to business!"

Just as he was explaining, Shen Fei interrupted him directly. After all, the previous remarks were just to teach the other party a lesson; his real purpose was to see what the other party wanted to say.

Would they make the right choice?

"Mr. Shen, you just demonstrated your side's powerful intelligence capabilities, so let me tell you something different."

"Regarding the graphics card matter, the United States has indeed launched a corresponding countermeasure plan.

But to save some face, this time they didn't directly ban your imports. I have also heard some rumors that once AMD makes a breakthrough, then... they will definitely find an excuse."

"You don't need to say these nonsense things; we already know.

And I also know they want to support Qualcomm and AMD to compete with our NVIDIA."

On the other end of the phone, Steve Mollenkopf laughed awkwardly. Many of these things were pieces of information he had struggled to dig up, yet Transsion knew everything!

What had they been infiltrated into? A sieve?

"The Gu-raising model—only with competition is there motivation."

"I think so too," Steve Mollenkopf said, following his lead. "But we don't want to be the Gu that dies; we want to be the chess players on the new chessboard."