Chapter 76 Killing the chicken to scare the monkey Can Sanxin come up with 1000 billion in cash to pay the fine? The answer is beyond doubt, it can definitely be achieved. "Can't hand it over!" At the company's emergency board meeting, Jin Ze's eyes were bloodshot and he stared fiercely at all the directors present. The Jin family has absolute controlling rights over Samsin Group. Although he has just taken over Samsin, as long as the decision is made as the chairman, no one else has the right to object. "Do you think that Daxia will let Sanxin go if you pay the fine? Daxia's attitude this time is very clear, it wants to swallow up all of Sanxin's assets in Daxia. What we need to do now is to stabilize people's hearts and focus all our energy on the materials laboratory project. We have dozens of world-class companies from the entire Baiyue Alliance standing behind us. As long as they continue to support our carbon nanotube project regardless of the cost of capital and technology, Sanxin will not have any major problems for the time being even if it loses the Daxia market." Jinze had thought it through before coming. He would never bow to Daxia. Sanxin could afford the 1000 billion, but after paying the fine, he would no longer have the face to serve as the chairman of Sanxin Group.
Now he has no way out. However, he had no doubt that with the current investment in research and development funds, even a small catalyst problem could not be solved. At the same time, in the American country, Turtle Valley. Several giant companies including Intel, AiMD, Yiwei Da, and Fruit gathered here urgently. It was still the meeting room in the same dark building, the only difference was that Jin Ze was not there this time. Domenice obviously hadn't had enough rest recently, and his old face was full of fatigue. After everyone was seated, he no longer had his usual politeness. "You know what's going on, right? China has responded. Tell me what you think." He even spoke less than usual. In the conference room, everyone was silent for a while and no one spoke. Fruit CEO Ku Ke looked around at everyone, thought for a long time, and then took the initiative to move the microphone closer to him. "Daxia's behavior this time was out of character. As far as I can remember, this was the first time they made such a high-profile stand for their private enterprise." Seeing that no one reacted, he sighed and said helplessly: "I'm sorry, the fruit company has huge interests in Daxia that cannot be abandoned, not only for us, but also for everyone here. Judging from the intensity and determination of their sanctions against the Sanshin Group, we may need to change our strategy this time." After he finished speaking, he pushed the microphone forward and leaned back in his chair, no longer preparing to speak. Before Ku Ke came, the company's internal executives held a collective meeting and the decision was made at that time. The fruit company is different from the Sanxin Group. 90% of their production factories are located in Daxia, and the Daxia market accounts for 30% of their company's revenue. It is impossible for them to give up this market on their own initiative. This is why, although they are the world's most profitable technology company, they have always been hiding behind the scenes when facing the Star Sea issue and have never taken the initiative to impose sanctions on Star Sea. After Ku Ke finished speaking, Susan and Domenico Ai, who loved MD, looked at each other. In just a moment, the old rivals who had fought in the chip field for decades guessed what was in each other's mind.
I don’t dare to continue gambling! Although the graphene chip was first developed by Daxia, as Xinghai has always adhered to the business philosophy of win-win cooperation, the possibility of cooperation has always existed. It was just that because Sanxin Group had semi-finished carbon nanotubes in their hands, they thought that as long as they successfully developed the catalyst and used the mature carbon nanotubes to develop chips, they would have many years of technical reserves in the chip field. Even if Xinghai had a first-mover advantage, as long as they could temporarily slow down their development, it would not have much impact on the overall high-end market. But now it seems that Daxia's attitude is extremely tough. As soon as they released the sanctions announcement, Daxia officials responded. Huang Wei's blood pressure has calmed down a lot as Yiwei's stock price has rebounded in recent days. He strongly supports Jin Ze's suggestion to impose sanctions on Xinghai Technology with all his strength. And practical actions have been taken to this end. His Yiweida provided more than 50% of the funds for the R&D investment in Sanxin Materials Laboratory. Yiwei Da is different from the companies present here. In recent years, thanks to the AI chip boom it has hyped up, its market value has doubled in a short period of time. Nowadays, in terms of market value alone, it is on par with fruits. Now that Xinghai’s Star Computing No. 1 has been released, Yiwei’s chips have been instantly reduced to dust, and its market value has plummeted. Another thing is that Yi Weida has always had a condescending attitude towards Daxia’s strategy. Relying on its absolute monopoly in the market, it not only arbitrarily makes a fuss about pricing, but also has always adopted a pricing strategy in which Daxia's pricing is 20% higher than overseas pricing. Once Xinghai gains momentum in the future, Yiwei’s inflated market value will definitely shrink significantly. He absolutely could not accept this. Huang Wei quickly took the microphone in his hand. "Everyone, don't forget that Daxia has 100% of its own intellectual property rights in its chip technology. They can start from a screw and build it all the way to a photolithography machine. They can completely break away from our technical cooperation and complete independent chip production! Do you think that Daxia, with such a technological advantage, will share the market with us?" After hearing this, Domenice and Susan looked at each other again, and then looked away in tacit understanding. Listening to him talking, Huang Wei's mind was full of stock prices. Now he was playing with fire and getting burned. History has long proved that absolute monopoly cannot last long. This can be seen from the fact that Xinghai Technology has adopted the strategy of low-price patent licensing from the very beginning. The same is true for Daxia. With their industrial capabilities, they are fully qualified to completely monopolize many international markets. However, for the sake of the health of the economic structure, Daxia generally does not do this. For example, the railway industry, nuclear power industry, electrical industry, communications, etc., these are industries where Daxia has complete technological advantages, but Daxia never uses this technological advantage to monopolize the industry at low prices. This is because of the concept of balance that they follow in their minds. That is what they have always called win-win cooperation. Huang Wei saw that everyone was still silent and indifferent to his words, and his heart sank gradually. The next day, the Baiyue Alliance issued an announcement, lifting a series of related sanctions against Xinghai Technology. Including the 14-nanometer lithography machine previously purchased from Aspen, 15 billion yuan of funds were miraculously returned to Xinghai’s account.
After this announcement was released, the financial turmoil that had lasted for a long time finally calmed down slightly. (End of this chapter)