Chapter 316 Crazy! This group of people is in a den!
What Americans emphasize most is "democracy" and "equality."
Although democracy here actually means voting.
The Semiconductor Association accepted a proposal from Micron to permanently exclude carbon crystal memory from the PC industry chain.
This decision requires a vote.
However, in the eyes of many people, this is just a formality, because currently carbon crystal memory has been excluded from the PC industry dominated by the United States.
But this decision is very important. It shows the attitude of the Semiconductor Association and has a guiding role in the entire industry.
At the conference, Misili of course denounced carbon crystal memory. His words were nothing more than endangering user safety, threatening the U.S. semiconductor industry chain, etc.
Misiri said: “Now please vote on whether you agree with Micron’s proposal to exclude carbon crystal memory from the PC industry supply chain.”
Voting is based on differential voting based on industry weights. If more than half of the industry votes, then the agreement is passed.
For example, if the memory industry has five member units, then each vote only accounts for 20%. If three member units vote, then the memory industry resolution is passed.
The Semiconductor Association covers multiple industries such as memory and chips, and requires more than half of the votes from all industries.
It stands to reason that passing the vote is a sure thing. It is in the interest of everyone present to prevent Changtian Technology's carbon crystal memory from entering the PC semiconductor industry.
Therefore, facing this vote, companies such as Micron, Seagate and Kingston are all very optimistic.
Missili thinks so too.
The most important thing for the Semiconductor Association is not this vote, but finding a way to completely withdraw Changtian Technology from competition in the memory industry.
Missili stood on the rostrum in the conference room and said: "We will start voting now."
The conference room of the Semiconductor Association is very large, and the voting table is like a large round table at the United Nations.
The first place to vote is the memory industry.
Of course it was passed unanimously.
Micron, Kingston and other companies hope that the Semiconductor Association can take measures as soon as possible to ban the use of carbon crystal memory in the PC industry.
This kind of prohibition is a comprehensive prohibition, not just on the new generation of motherboards.
Next is the motherboard industry.
All representatives voted unanimously.
Compared with chips and memory, the technical content of motherboards is not high, so most companies are located in places such as Wanwan and South Korea, and there are not many domestic companies in the United States.
After several rounds of voting, the proposal proposed by Micron was unanimously approved.
Finally, it’s the chip industry’s turn.
There are many chip companies in the United States, but only a few companies such as Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments really have a say.
The vote by show of hands began.
Intel raised its hand in agreement.
After all, the current situation in the PC market is most beneficial to Intel.
The new generation of processors all support Pentium 4 processors, and this processing area has left AMD far behind.
Although Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and other companies produce chips, most of these chips are used in the industrial and communications fields, and their share in the PC industry is very small.
People in Missili focused their attention on AMD, and AMD representatives voted against it.
At this moment, the whole audience screamed in surprise.
No one expected that AMD would actually side with Changtian Technology.
However, everyone thought carefully for a while and felt that AMD's vote against it was understandable and had nothing to do with Changtian Technology. After all, there was a conflict of interest between AMD and Intel.
AMD's negative vote cannot change the final outcome of the resolution, it just needs to express its attitude.
But what happened next shocked everyone.
Texas Instruments, Qualcomm and many other chip companies belonging to the chip industry also voted against.
In order to help Changtian Technology and protect its own interests, AMD spent a lot of effort to lobby these companies to side with it some time ago.
Chip companies already have their own agendas.
The PC industry has developed very well in the past few years, and Intel has certainly caught up with this wave of dividends and made a lot of profits.
Intel's performance has made many chip companies jealous.
Now that we can work with AMD to delay or prevent the development of Intel as much as possible, of course everyone is happy to help.
Especially after Texas Instruments heard that Intel would enter the enterprise and communications fields, it firmly stood by AMD.
The seemingly harmonious Semiconductor Association finally exposed its internal problems.
Misili was shocked. He did not expect that so many chip companies would support Changtian Technology!
He quickly said into the microphone: "Please take a look at the voting instruments in your hands carefully. The circles represent agreement, the X represents disagreement, and the triangle in the middle represents abstention. I hope all representatives will not vote incorrectly."
A Texas Instruments representative said: "We did not make a mistake. This was our decision."
"what's going on?!"
"This means the deal has been rejected!"
"Is there any interest relationship between Changtian Technology and them?"
Representatives from companies such as Micron and Kingston were extremely puzzled and their faces turned dark, which meant that the proposal was not passed.
It also means that the Semiconductor Association will not express any conclusive opinions on carbon crystal memory.
In other words, even if the relevant departments in the United States prohibit the sale of carbon crystal memory in the United States, this will not hinder the cooperation between members of the Semiconductor Association and Changtian Technology.
It also means that PC products using carbon crystal memory can be sold to Europe, as well as to Asia, South Korea and other regions.
If carbon crystal memory is approved by the U.S. Commerce Department, the product can even be sold in the U.S. market.
While everyone was in a daze, the voting continued.
The final round is for PC companies to vote.
HP, Toshiba, Samsung and other PC companies undoubtedly voted against it.
The size of Shenzhou is still small, but Toshiba and Samsung have already seen the fighting capacity for survival. If the memory is not banned at this time and the Shenzhou is raised and developed, the Shenzhou in the future will be even more difficult to deal with than Lianxiang.
Therefore, even though they knew that the final voting results would not be passed, these PC companies still voted in favor.
The only dissenting vote came from Dell.
Dell's vote confused everyone even more.
"What exactly is going on?! Is there also cooperation between Changtian Technology and Dell?"
“Isn’t Dell afraid of offending Intel and those motherboard companies by doing this?”
"In the chip industry round, the vote has actually been rejected. Dell can abstain or vote in favor. What does he mean by voting against?"
Dell's representative also heard everyone's discussion. He said into the microphone: "We are opposed to this proposal, and we also want to ask you what is the original intention of the establishment of the Semiconductor Association?
Work together to develop the global semiconductor industry and absorb and develop advanced science and technology."
"In fact, we all know very well that Changtian Technology's carbon crystal memory technology is one of the most advanced technologies in the semiconductor industry."
"But some companies, because their own interests are involved, are strongly opposed by Team Carbon Crystal Memory!"
"As one of the PC companies, Dell is very aware of the importance of carbon crystal memory. We hope that such advanced technology products can be accepted by the association and known to more consumers. This is what our association should do.
matter."
After speaking, Dell's representative closed his microphone and left the meeting.
The entire conference room was noisy, and everyone was completely dumbfounded.
The words of the Dell representative actually clearly indicate that Dell and Changtian Technology have cooperation in carbon crystal memory.
Missili's expression was very bad. He had no idea that the final voting result would be like this!
This kind of voting result is unacceptable to Missili, and there is no way to explain it to the capital above.
Missili said into the microphone: "The voting is over, the meeting is adjourned!"
An angry Missili returned to the office, packed his things and prepared to leave work.
At this time, Misili's assistant said: "Mr. Chairman, I think we should change the voting rules. There should not be differential voting by industry. All association units should vote together. As long as more than half of the votes are passed, it will pass!"
Missili was in a very bad mood at this time. He turned around and cursed: "FXXXX, BXXX!"
The assistant quickly shut up, knowing that he had gotten into Misili's bad luck.
When Misili arrived at the door of the office building, reporters who had been waiting for a long time swarmed forward and pointed their microphones and cameras at the chairman of the Semiconductor Association.