Chapter 139: Site selection also requires many reasons

The floating point of Intel's processor is an operation error, which cannot have an impact for most users. For a large company that produces high-performance processors, the slight flaws in the product can be basically negligible. If someone is not interested in provoking right and wrong, this error will not even be discovered.

But when a problem is infinitely exaggerated and rises to the point where it can affect the reputation of the company, it cannot be ignored.

So the senior executives of Intel decided to recall all the Pentium processors previously released with floating-point number operation flaws, and publicly apologized in the media, saying that users could purchase a new batch of Pentium processors from Intel at a relatively preferential price.

There is a pendulum rule within Intel. The rough content is that if the processor architecture is improved within the first year, that is, a new generation of processor architecture will inevitably be launched in the second year, but will focus on optimizing the process of the processors launched last year, and so on.

This rule is undoubtedly crucial to the development of PC processors.

For technology such as PC processors that represent the highest level of chip technology, in the process of its development, subtle errors occur at any stage will be amplified in the later development, forming irreversible fatal shortcomings.

Therefore, Intel's pendulum law can solve this problem to the greatest extent. In the year when the new processor architecture is launched, it is a year for users to feedback. The company has enough time to understand user ideas and understand whether there are flaws in the product. In the second year, it can comprehensively integrate various requirements, optimize and upgrade the product, and then launch an upgraded version of the product.

However, for a large company like Intel, it is indeed not very easy to decide to recall the processor that will be available next time.

In the early days of the launch of Pentium processors, Amd was a strong rival of Intel, especially in the low-end market. Amd often has more advantages. Although the Pentium series processors are powerful, their advantages for individual users have not been fully reflected, and not everyone agrees with the bright prospects drawn by Intel.

This floating-point number operation flaw incident is undoubtedly a major crisis for Intel. If it is not handled properly, it may lose the market share of blockbusters. Therefore, it is undoubtedly a wise move for the company to announce the recall of these flawed processors.

Once this news was announced, the stocks of the company, which had already fallen a lot, actually fought back. The media responded positively to this, believing that although Intel would pay hundreds of millions of dollars in losses for it, it gained the understanding of consumers. Overall, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

For large foreign companies that have become mature, reputation is paramount. In this period when Intel companies were far from relying on Pentium processors to dominate the world, any denied or turned a blind eye to their own mistakes is undoubtedly extremely stupid. Fortunately, Intel companies did not make such mistakes.

For Fan Wubing, he seized a good opportunity and not only established a strategic partnership with Intel, but also showed his foresight. The supply of domestic Pentium series CPUs began to recover, and the shipments of PCFans suddenly increased, which surprised everyone while being excited.

When Intel announced with Fan Investment Group a high-profile announcement that it would work with Fan Investment Group to build a chip packaging factory in mainland China, the chip industry at home and abroad was encouraged, believing that this is a good signal, representing Intel's optimism for the future development prospects of personal processors and its high attention to the Chinese mainland market.

As the protagonist of this news, Fan Investment Group once again emerged in the public's vision. Almost all media and industry critics who were concerned about this time began to dig deep into information about Fan Investment Group, and they found that this was a super giant hidden under the water. Not long ago, they built the largest and most advanced airport in the mainland and purchased more than 4 billion US dollars of aircraft. Moreover, this is a private enterprise.

However, there are also problems. The Shanghai Municipal Government is very dissatisfied with Intel abandoning itself and cooperating with Fan Investment Group. However, Intel clearly stated that Fan Investment Group helped itself in the most embarrassing time and reciprocating her. Of course, it is more in line with the company's interests than cooperating with the Shanghai Municipal Government that terminated the negotiations.

Soon afterwards, the media revealed that in order to support Intel to recall defective processors, Fan's Investment Group provided Intel with 200 million US dollars. In return, Intel stated that Fan's Investment Group's funds will be used as investment funds to build a packaging factory in mainland China.

Things in the mall did not come first and then arrive, only black and white. Therefore, although the municipal government was a little annoyed, there was nowhere to vent. After all, it was because of its own mistakes in judgment. After being misled by the media, it was because of the great opportunity and he lost the good opportunity. He really couldn't blame others. But after giving up, he seemed too cowardly, so they felt that they should talk to Fan Investment Group.

However, Fan's Investment Group has a foreign investment background and has limited influence on the municipal government, so it can only protest.

Boss Zhu found out about this, so he called to inquire about the situation.

In the current domestic situation, important leaders are all from Shanghai. Shanghai gangs have the power to the world, so the proposal to focus on developing Pudong and revitalize Shanghai Financial Center is also from this. The senior management hopes that just like Deng Gong’s development of Shenzhen, the whole country will build a window city facing the world in Shanghai to show the firm confidence and achievements of mainland China’s reform and opening up.

Under this premise, Shanghai has some priority options, especially in attracting investment, where many promises can be made. Therefore, they feel that even if Intel cooperates with Fan's Investment Group, the site selection issue of this factory should still fall in Shanghai.

But after understanding, they found that Fan's Investment Group intends to set up its factory in Suzhou or Hangzhou, so that nothing will happen in Shanghai.

Although the benefits of this project are still unclear, Intel, a leading company in the industry, did not choose Shanghai to settle in mainland China. Such news is obviously a bit slap in the face.

"Why don't you build the factory in Shanghai? There are more preferential conditions there, which is more beneficial to the development of the company?" Boss Zhu did not go around the circle and asked Fan Wubing straightforwardly.

Fan Wubing replied, "In the short term, this should be the case. However, chip packaging factories are actually labor-intensive industries. Although they also have high-tech content, these are not the main reasons that affect costs. The company's biggest expenses are still the problem of labor costs. So we cannot choose a popular city like Shanghai, because the consumption here will become very high, and the labor costs will be far higher than other cities. We have to settle for the second best, so we have to choose to build a factory in Suzhou or Hangzhou."

"The chip industry cannot be regarded as a high-tech industry, so what else is high-tech?" Boss Zhu was a little confused about Fan Wubing's statement.

Fan Wubing smiled and said, "I just visited someone's packaging factory, where there are basically automated production lines. The workers just look at these production lines and deal with emergency events. As for the others, there is really nothing else. So, there is a high-tech content, but for workers, there is not much high-tech involved, and it is even lower than that of many state-owned enterprises."

"Since your opinions are like this, I won't say anything." Boss Zhu hesitated after hearing this, and then said to Fan Wubing, "But you should also support the construction issues in Shanghai."

"This is OK, there are many opportunities." Fan Wubing agreed.

After passing the phone, Fan Wubing hesitated for a moment. Since Boss Zhu said that he should support Shanghai's construction, he should also make some statements.

What is suitable for Shanghai? Fan Wubing thought about it and felt that as a city positioned as a financial center, of course, there must be a financial service industry. As an external port city with a large number of migrant population, there are many foreigners in Shanghai. In such places, the most suitable place for development is naturally the hotel service industry, and the urban logistics industry that will soon expand rapidly due to the arrival of the Internet era. As for the luxury goods market, it must also be available.

In the city with the highest consumption, of course, only the luxury goods market is the most popular. Fan Wubing is considering whether he will go abroad to buy a group of luxury goods manufacturers, and then go back to Shanghai to build a large number of specialty stores? Of course, this kind of thing is already a small business for Fan Wubing now, but it accumulates a lot, and the meat on the ant's legs is also meat!

Fan Wubing looked forward to the beautiful blueprint for the future, feeling that his future is bright, his future is bright, and his career will grow bigger and bigger. However, when he was fully yy, news came from the school that the students who were studying martial arts held an exchange competition on Friday night, so that he must participate.

"Is this kind of thing actually happening?" Fan Wubing was stunned for a moment. Who would you go to the martial arts exchange competition? Friendship competition or challenge competition? Are there any rules? All these things are not clear.
Chapter completed!