The black technology empire started with a debt of one billion

Chapter 488 503: Their alliance is in vain in the face of interests

Shenzhen Penguin Headquarters.

Originally, there was a five-day holiday for Labor Day, but something happened that caused Zhang Jin to fly back from abroad, and the good holiday was interrupted.

Because the hot topics in the past three days have been on I am not the God of Medicine and Andromeda, few people have noticed that Huawei Cloud has made huge adjustments during the May Day period. In addition, Huawei Cloud has not done any publicity to the outside world. Most people in the industry are currently enjoying the holidays.

Therefore, only a few people paid attention to the changes in Huawei Cloud, and the Huawei Cloud incident did not make headlines.

Huawei Cloud has launched a complete set of Pegasus and Pegasus systems. The Intel system at the same price has been completely crushed. The Pegasus system is said to be a system without loopholes. The security of the Pegasus system has naturally reached level 1 protection.

MPS is generally divided into five levels.The highest level five is mainly aimed at situations where the destruction of information systems will cause serious damage to national security. Usually such systems involve state secrets. At this stage, most companies require mainly level two and level three assessments.

To put it simply, if you want to achieve level 1 protection, the testing fee alone will be 2. The testing fee for level 3 protection is generally around 4. The testing fee for level 20 protection is generally around 5. The testing fee for level 50 protection is generally around [-]. The testing fee is generally [-], and the testing fee for level [-] protection is generally around [-].

Each level has very strict requirements for the system. The first level of protection does not require the use of protective hardware, while the second level of protection requires the purchase of protective hardware. The security level of each level increases exponentially.

The first level (independent protection level): suitable for small private, individual enterprises, primary and secondary schools, township-affiliated information systems, and general information systems in county-level units.

Level [-] (Guidance Protection Level): Applicable to important information systems in some units at the county level; general information systems within agencies, enterprises and institutions above the prefecture level.

Level [-] (Security Identification Protection Level): Applicable to major information management systems within agencies, companies, agencies and institutions above the municipal level, such as collaborative office systems and intelligent management involving work secrets, business secrets, and sensitive data system.

Level [-] (mandatory protection level): Applicable to particularly important systems in important areas, important departments, and core systems.For example, the production, dispatching, and command of important departments such as electric power, telecommunications, radio and television, railways, civil aviation, banking, and taxation are core systems involving national security, national economy, and people's livelihood.

Level [-] (Core Protection Level): Applicable to extremely important information systems in the military industry, important scientific research fields, etc.

The Pegasus system has its own natural first-class protection, which can save 1 yuan per year for small private companies, individual enterprises, primary and secondary schools, and township-affiliated systems.

This alone can allow Warwick Cloud to steal a large number of Penguin Cloud's enterprise users, not to mention that the performance of the Pegasus system is three times that of Intel. Although it is the holiday period, Warwick Cloud has not yet affected Penguin Cloud's business.

If Penguin Cloud does not come up with corresponding policies, all Penguin Cloud users will be taken away by Warwick Cloud.

Zhang Jin was sitting on the main seat in the conference room.

Sitting on both sides were all the top executives of Penguin Cloud, and even the legal affairs department were called back for a meeting. This was a matter of life and death for Penguin Cloud.

"Ding Dalei, please introduce to everyone the latest server situation of Huawei Cloud." Zhang Jin looked at Ding Dalei and said.

"Warwick Cloud's servers have all been replaced with Pegasus CPUs and Pegasus systems. The performance of the Pegasus platform using Windows and Linux is 2.5 times that of ours. If the Pegasus system is used, the performance can be improved to 3 times, and the Pegasus platform The system still naturally comes with level one protection.

According to information disclosed by Deep Blue Technology in the past, the power consumption of Pegasus CPU is lower than that of Intel platform, which means that the operating cost of Huawei Cloud is lower.

Huawei Cloud completely beats us in terms of performance, security, and operating costs.

There is simply no way for us to compete with Huawei Cloud with our existing products. "Ding Dalei sighed.

Huawei Cloud is now overwhelming for them. As a technical representative, Ding Dalei cannot find any way to crack it. Unless they cut the price of their existing products in half, they will not be able to compete with Huawei Cloud.

"Can we sue Huawei Cloud for violating antitrust laws?" Zhang Jin looked at legal affairs officer Gao Hongqing and asked.

"No, Huawei Cloud does not meet the conditions for monopoly." Gao Hongqing shook his head.

None of the hardware systems are produced by Warwick. They can't sue Warwick Cloud for monopoly. Warwick Cloud's behavior is normal behavior.

The only way to solve the gap between Warwick Cloud and Penguin Cloud is to mount the Pegasus platform on Penguin Cloud. This is the only way to solve it at present.

"Then can we sue Deep Blue Technology for its technological monopoly?" Zhang Jin asked.

"No." Gao Hongqing shook his head.

Before the zen architecture came out, Intel's products had always crushed AMD.

Then why didn't AMD sue Intel for its technology monopoly? Why didn't anyone sue Intel for its technology monopoly?
It’s not that there are no similar products on the market, it’s just that the performance of similar products is not good. If this violates a technological monopoly, who will bring out the latest technology? How can technology develop in this way?

In the same way, Deep Blue Technology is not the only one producing CPUs on the market, but the CPUs produced by other manufacturers are not good enough. You cannot sue Deep Blue Technology for monopolizing the market because of this.

If this is considered a technology monopoly, then Qualcomm can sue Fruit for technology monopoly, because the CPU independently developed by Fruit surpasses Qualcomm by a lot in performance.

"Mr. Zhang, the only way now is to buy a server from Deep Blue Technology." Chief Operating Officer Guo Chaowu said.

"What if Deep Blue Technology is unwilling to sell servers to us?" Zhang Jin asked.

No one present could answer Zhang Jin's question. Only then did Zhang Jin understand what it means to suffer a loss from technology. High-tech companies without their own core technology are simply not qualified to survive in this industry.

"Today's meeting ends here." After Zhang Jin finished speaking, he stood up and left the meeting room.

After Zhang Jin returned to his office, he called Brother Ma. He briefly told Brother Ma about Huawei Cloud. When Brother Ma learned about it, he felt as if he had eaten Xiang. Just as uncomfortable.

This Pegasus system directly forced Penguin Cloud into a dead end.

You should know that they also acquired half of Ali Cloud’s shares from Ali last year.

"Okay, I understand." Xiao Ma said and hung up the phone.

In a villa in Shenzhen City.

After Xiao Ma hung up Zhang Jin's call, he lit a cigarette and walked to the balcony. He took out his mobile phone and called Lao Ma.

"Xiao Ma, are you calling to talk about Huawei Cloud?" Lao Ma said first after answering the phone.

"What do you think about this matter?" Xiao Ma asked.

"This is the only way to enter the semiconductor industry. Foreign objects are always foreign objects. You can't do it without core technology." Lao Ma replied.

"How about joint investment?" Xiao Ma said as he flicked the cigarette ashes outside the balcony.

"Okay." Lao Ma replied.

"Then let's meet after the holiday. I'll fly to Hangzhou to find you." Xiao Ma said.

"Okay." Lao Ma replied.

United States May 2016, 5.Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Brian Krzanich twitched his mouth when he saw the report Yang Xu sent back from China. At this time, he felt as if he had been betrayed. He never expected that Deep Blue Technology would reach out to the server.

Now Deep Blue Technology can reach out to servers, and in the future Deep Blue Technology can reach out to desktop PCs.

Brian Krzanich picked up his cell phone and planned to call Cao Mang to inquire about the situation.

However, after hesitation, he gave up the idea of ​​calling. TSMC had already compromised with the Semiconductor Association. These servers should be Deep Blue's last song. Besides, Deep Blue Technology is a shareholder of Warwick Cloud, and Deep Blue does not sell servers externally.

These servers should be for personal use to compete with Penguin Cloud.

"Ring~Ring~Ring"

[Caller: Brad Smith]

"Why did Smith have time to call me?" Brian Krzanich asked with a smile.

"Krzanich, what do you think about Warwick Cloud?" Brad Smith asked.

"Deep Blue Technology is the major shareholder of Warwick Cloud. These products should be for their own use. They are not selling them to outsiders. These servers are Deep Blue's last song. TSMC has agreed to stop foundry manufacturing." Brian Krzanich said.

Brian Krzanich knew that the other party was worried about Deep Blue Technology promoting the Pegasus platform to the market.

"I think this is him testing us," Brad Smith said.

"Regardless of whether this is Deep Blue Technology's test against us, if the Semiconductor Association succeeds in lobbying Congress, then we will not be faced with a test. In the past few days, I have been wondering whether to have a frank talk with the other party.

It's just that my status is not suitable to talk about this matter. ” said Brian Krzanich.

"You want me to talk about this?" Brad Smith asked.

"Yeah," Brian Krzanich said.

"Okay, I'll call him later to communicate with him." Brad Smith said.

"Then this will trouble you." Brian Krzanich said.

Inside Liu Qianqian’s villa in Beijing.

Liu Qianqian just walked out of the bathroom. She wiped her hair with a towel. Cao Mang was lying on the bed and browsing short videos. Cao Yiyi would follow Liu's mother in the evening.

"Xiaoyuan and the others have been in the capital for three days. Aren't you going to accompany them?" Liu Qianqian asked while sitting by the bed.

"I came here specifically to accompany you during this period." Cao Mang said with a smile.

At this time, Cao Mang's cell phone on the bedside table rang. Cao Mang put down his tablet and picked up the cell phone on the bedside table.

[Caller: Brad Smith]

"Why did Mr. Smith have time to call me?" Cao Mang asked with a smile after answering the phone.

"Cao, is Deep Blue Technology going to enter the server market?" Brad Smith asked bluntly.

"Deep Blue Technology has no plans to enter the server market for the time being. The servers used by Huawei Cloud are all its own products. If Hexagon takes action against Deep Blue again, it will be an all-out war." Cao Mang replied.

Brad Smith could ask Cao Mang this way and he would naturally understand what he meant.

Brad Smith understands what Cao Mang means. If Deep Blue cannot do business in the United States, then Deep Blue can only go to war with the entire industry.

"Krzanich and I will try our best to lobby Congress. Microsoft hopes to deepen its cooperation with Deep Blue. Only in this way can Microsoft better convince Congress." Brad Smith said after thinking about it.

"I wonder how Mr. Smith wants to cooperate?" Cao Mang asked.

"Krzanich and I hope that Deep Blue Technology can launch Wintel products." Brad Smith said.

"Mr. Smith, you should know the market positioning of Deep Blue Technology. What is the difference between Deep Blue Technology's Wintel products and other brands? Deep Blue Technology will not sell undifferentiated products." Cao Mang refused.

Launching Wintel products is equivalent to turning Deep Blue Technology into an OEM. OEM products that Deep Blue can produce can also be produced by other manufacturers. Why does Deep Blue Technology sell its products so expensively? This is equivalent to indirectly lowering the quality of Deep Blue Technology. .

"Cao, Microsoft must obtain certain benefits, otherwise I will not be able to explain to the board of directors." Brad Smith said.

"I have an ARM64 compiler that can compile X86 language into ARM64 language. As far as I know, Microsoft is developing an ARM version. With this software, the composition of the ecosystem can be reduced, so that Microsoft can directly enter the ARM circle. .

Deep Blue Technology can take the lead in launching ARM version of windos products. "Cao Mang said.

The power consumption problem of the X86 platform can be said to be a bottleneck of windos. At the same time, Microsoft also wants to break through the limitations of the X86 platform, so Microsoft began to develop the ARM version of windos three years ago. The ARM version of windos was finally developed in March this year. success.

Just because of software ecological issues, Microsoft has not launched the ARM version of Windows.

With this compiler windos will no longer be limited by X86, and they can gain more markets through ARM.

The compiler Cao Mang had was like an artifact to them.

The relationship between Microsoft and Intel seems unbreakable, but their alliance is in name only in the face of interests.

"How long will it take for Deep Blue Technology to launch the ARM version of windos products? Will the source code of this compiler be permanently licensed to Microsoft?" Brad Smith asked after thinking about it.

"In three months, Deep Blue Technology will be able to launch the ARM version of the windos product. The compiler can be permanently licensed to Microsoft for free, but the source code cannot be licensed to Microsoft. If one day the Hexagon takes action against Deep Blue Technology, we will become Enemy." Cao Mang said.

"No, Deep Blue Technology must license the source code to Microsoft. It is not difficult for Microsoft to develop a compiler." Brad Smith said.

"It is indeed not difficult for Microsoft to develop a compiler, but it will take several years for Microsoft to develop such a compiler. Deep Blue Technology also needs certain security guarantees." Cao Mang said.

"Deal." Brad Smith gritted his teeth.

For Brad Smith, the most important thing is to capture the market first. The compilers can take their time, but the market cannot. If they can capture a certain market first, even if the two sides start a full-scale war in the future, they will not be too Too bad.

(End of this chapter)