Chapter 137 Intel's new choice
As a high-end PC processor manufacturer, Intel is a big name in the industry. For mainland China, which basically has no decent chip manufacturing industry in China, when companies like Intel have the intention to invest and build factories, they are naturally very active.
Shanghai attaches great importance to Intel's idea of ​​building a packaging factory, so it hit it off. It does not need to understand what role this packaging factory plays, nor does it need to understand how much benefits it can bring to Shanghai.
Anyway, the scale of such a factory will not be too small, and at least several thousand employees are required to support it, which can be regarded as solving some jobs. The significance of establishing a chip packaging factory in the mainland is very important.
The Western world led by the United States has a long history of weapons ban on China. In the early 1980s, in order to ease Sino-US relations to attack the former Soviet Union, the ban was properly relaxed. However, after the Soviet Union collapsed and the Cold War ended, mainland China's role in this strategic system immediately declined, and became the biggest enemy of Western countries such as the United States. Therefore, five years ago, the Paris Coordination Committee decided to cancel further relaxation of export controls on China.
On the issue of controlling technology exports to China, the United States has strictly guarded against China. Its fundamental concern is that China will leap forward through technology imports and increase its military strength to gain dominance in East Asia, especially challenging the interests of the United States on the Taiwan issue.
Therefore, Intel's establishment of a chip packaging factory in mainland China is a hard-won achievement, at least in a political sense, far exceeding the actual commercial interests. Whether in Shanghai or senior management, they all responded to this matter with great enthusiasm.
However, Fan Wubing always believed that it is desirable to sacrifice some interests appropriately to obtain greater benefits, but for some unnecessary false reputations, he needed to make a lot of money. In the end, he found that he had miscalculated, which made him seem a little crazy.
Therefore, when Intel built a factory in Shanghai, he felt that it was necessary to make a fuss, at least to let the dominance be in his own hands, which would also have a positive effect on the chip factory he built.
As for Intel's factory building in Shanghai, there is indeed something tricky.
Intel has many experts in research on Chinese issues, so they are very clear about the Chinese people's ideas, especially the ideas of senior management. Intel's performance in operational strategies is indeed very different from other semiconductor companies, from market publicity strategies to public relations tendencies to be completely detached from the semiconductor industry.
Historically, every investment in the Intel packaging factory from Shanghai to Chengdu and later Dalian was to China to follow the baton of government regional development for China. Therefore, Intel was also ridiculed by the Chinese as the company that follows the most closely following government policies, and Intel's entry has also become a good selling point for the local government to attract foreign businessmen and seek credit for the local government.
"At least we need Intel to operate according to our baton. It can only build factories in Suzhou or Hangzhou, not in Shanghai." Fan Wubing said to his subordinates.
"Probably we don't have this influence, right? And the government is not happy to see us interfere in this matter. After all, this is their political achievements project." Some subordinates immediately expressed different views on Fan Wubing's opinion.
Fan Wubing shrugged and said, "Of course I won't be stupid enough to openly destroy this matter. What if they think there is something wrong with this matter and are unwilling to do it?"
"Is this a little less likely?" Everyone thought Fan Wubing was a little too self-righteous.
No one believed that Fan Wubing could ruin the matter calmly, but two days later, a news broke out that had a great blow to Intel, causing them to suffer heavy losses.
Some people pointed out that in Intel's Pentium processor, there is a problem with the design of floating-point division calculation part. The fdiv bug will cause errors in floating-point operations, which will have a serious impact on scientific calculations.
As soon as this news was released, it caused a stir in the market. Everyone immediately expressed distrust of Intel's new products. At the same time, Intel's old rivals also jumped out, sarcastically expressed great concern about the Pentium processor system, and did not miss the opportunity to say that their company's products are trustworthy and flawless.
Intel immediately fell into a passive state. The problem of floating-point division error has now been confirmed. This problem does exist, but it is puzzling that the news this time was not from competitors, but from the public. It is difficult for them to believe that there are individual users who verify floating-point calculation errors, but no matter what, they smell the scent of conspiracy.
In Shanghai, under the clamor of Fan Wubing, local media began to focus on Intel. Every day, everyone can see a lot of negative information about Intel from the media, and brought out competitors such as Amd to fully promote it.
When amd suddenly discovered such an opportunity, he immediately expressed his yearning for mainland China very enthusiastically, and accepted interviews from several newspapers in Shanghai, revealing his intention to build a factory in the mainland.
At this moment, Shanghai was a little blind. They never thought that when the contract was about to be signed, Intel made such a big mistake. Isn’t this a shame on itself? Not to mention how Intel company deals with the current unfavorable situation, it is to report the factory construction matters. I am afraid that the senior management will think that the local government has a problem with its vision?
So, the matter about building a factory was delayed indefinitely.
Intel also feels very popular. As the saying goes, the road is a long way to know the horsepower and the people's hearts will be seen over time. The company has had such a small problem. The cooperation intention party began to clear the relationship. Can this business be completed? Just bend it, and it will turn yellow if it is yellow. If you don't leave me here, you will have a place to leave me.
At this time, Fan Wubing once again expressed his desire to cooperate, and expressed concern about what is happening now, and believed that this was just a small flaw and would not affect Intel's global strategic layout. Fan's Investment Group is still willing to cooperate with Intel on the construction of chip packaging factories.
Intel's headquarters finally sent an invitation letter to Fan's Investment Group headquarters, asking their executives to visit Intel's headquarters and important processing factories for further understanding.
"Mr. Fan, I didn't expect that this matter was done by you. This is a great luck, right?" Everyone was amazed by Fan Wubing's good luck. God knew that there were flaws in Intel's Pentium processor? If it weren't for the influence of this incident, their cooperation with Shanghai would be a foregone conclusion.
Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "You can't just attribute the cause of the problem to good luck. In fact, I discovered the floating point number error of Intel's company, otherwise how could I be sure that they would not be able to escape from my palm?"
"Ah?!" The company's executives were all stunned and thought to themselves that Mr. Fan was indeed a genius, and such problems could be discovered.
"Mr. Fan, do you have any objections to the Shanghai government? Why do you have to mess up this matter?" An executive asked curiously.
"Because this is not suitable!" Fan Wubing said, "If you choose a paradise for semiconductor industry in China, it must be Shanghai. If you choose a city with the highest enthusiasm for semiconductors, it must be Shanghai. If you choose a local leader with the most affection for semiconductors, it can only be Shanghai. In terms of semiconductor industry layout, Shanghai has almost concentrated half of the country's semiconductor production capacity and nearly half of the design capacity. Shanghai almost plays the only pure land of bliss, and Shanghai almost carries the last hope of China's semiconductors."
"Since that's the case-" someone said.
"Since that's the case, why should I mess up this matter?" Fan Wubing shook his head, "because we cannot put all good things in one place and create a false prosperity. Shanghai is a city positioned at the financial center. The nature of the industry determines the location. The significance of the financial center means that various costs must be based on the capital operation industry at the highest end of the entire wealth pyramid. For Shanghai, investment promotion should bid farewell to the era where manufacturing is the main focus. After all, with the continuous development of the economy, it is impossible to always rely on cheap labor to become a factory in the world. If there is ambition to challenge Tokyo, London and even New York, we should not be frustrated by losing one or two manufacturing factories. Some opportunities should be left to others."
"It sounds like it makes sense, too." Someone said.
"What Mr. Fan has always said makes sense." A man curled his lips.
Regarding Intel's invitation, Fan Wubing decided to go to the United States in person and implemented this matter. It has been more than three years since he returned from the United States.
This time, we still need to solve the problem quickly, otherwise it will be difficult to deal with after others react. If the municipal government or Boss Zhu greets him personally, I am really embarrassed to say no to them.
So Fan Wubing took two executives and more than a dozen staff members to reach a passenger plane of China Eastern Airlines and flew directly to Intel's headquarters, Santa Clara, California, USA.
Chapter completed!