Dataquest from the American GartnerGroup announced the final survey results of the world semiconductor market on April 6, local time.

Total sales of the semiconductor market in 1999 increased by 22% compared with 1998, reaching US$168.6 billion.

The survey believes that with the expansion of communication networks including the Internet, DSP and optical semiconductors can develop significantly.

——Engadget (Quick News) in New York on March 28, 2000.

The Semiconductor Industry Association recently pointed out that after years of downturn, the global semiconductor industry is expected to experience a growth rate of 26% this year, with sales reaching 212.4 billion US dollars. The association said that the growth of the semiconductor market is due to the sales of PCs and Intel access equipment

rise, and the development of electronic commerce.

——Computer World, March 2000.

A recent survey showed that as of April this year, global semiconductor sales were US$61 billion, an increase of 19.3% over the same period last year. The fastest growing region is still the Asia-Pacific region, with sales in the Asia-Pacific region

An increase of 29%.

——European Times, March 2000.

At 9 o'clock local time, Infinite Company released their first product "Dimensity 1". This processor uses Intel's 32-bit instruction set and is perfectly compatible with all software on the market.

The most noteworthy thing is that their manufacturing process has reached 150 nanometers, which is ahead of established semiconductor manufacturing companies such as Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD.

Relevant sources said: The emergence of this chip is very likely to have a huge impact on the world semiconductor market.

As of press time, Infinity Company's share price has risen by 82.6%, and the Hang Seng Index has surged by more than 7%.

———The Wall Street Journal, April 6.

According to news on April 7, Intel CEO Craig Barrett arrived in California on a special plane and will discuss with senior executives from Qualcomm and AMD about the increasingly complex industry situation in the world's semiconductor industry.

It is reported that Intel is expected to launch the most powerful processor Pentium 4 in September this year, and plans to hand over the processor's graphics chip to TSMC's 158n process for OEM manufacturing.

It is worth mentioning that.

Since Infinity Company's "Dimensity 1" processor is a huge improvement compared to PC chips on the market, Intel is feeling pressure.

Therefore, many people predict that they will most likely release the Pentium 4 processor ahead of schedule.

——France Reuters.

New York, Wall Street.

Rockefeller - Capital Management Division.

Jack sat in his private office, took a sip of coffee, and then frowned at the stock chart on the computer, lost in thought.

Since Infinity Company released their self-developed "Dimensity" processor, their stock price soared 82.6% overnight, from 126 Hong Kong dollars per share to 230.07 yuan.

Based on the closing price, their market value has also reached a terrifying HK$560 billion.

As early as a few years ago, they were targeting the Hong Kong stock market and bought a large number of shares of Infinite Company at an average price of HK$85, even holding a shareholding ratio of 4.76%.

Their original intention was to use these chips to sell aggressively at the right opportunity to suppress the Hang Seng Index in order to obtain huge profits.

Because Infinity Company is also one of the constituent stocks of Hang Seng.

However, due to various reasons and the increasingly improved financial system in Xiangjiang, they simply could not find a suitable opportunity to realize this plan.

Now two years have passed, and the floating profit of the stocks they hold is close to 300%. It must be said that this is a very shocking rate of return!

Far surpassing Buffett, the 29% annualized return on investment in Coca-Cola Company.

The 4.76% of the stocks they hold are now worth approximately US$3.5 billion, which is a huge amount of money that cannot be underestimated on Wall Street!

Jack thought for a moment and finally decided to report this matter to John Rockefeller Jr., the head of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Because as a Wall Street investment manager, he instinctively believes that Infinite Company is now

The stock price is already very high.

They have great uncertainty about the future development of this company.

Because the three American semiconductor giants will never let them dominate the chip market, and will even use all their resources to suppress this company.

And whether they can withstand this pressure, or in other words, whether their chips are short-lived...

It's all hard to say.

Whether to sell the stocks in their hands has become a difficult decision for them now.

However, Jack is not the only one who is also troubled by this problem.

Morgan, First Citigroup, Boston Consortium...the eight major Wall Street investment institutions that participated in short selling at that time all held more or less shares of Infinite Company.

I originally wanted to buy some stocks and short them, but two years later, the company's stock has nearly tripled, which has become a considerable additional income.

Anyone who encounters this kind of thing would be extremely depressed.

Even Soros himself remained silent for a long time after learning the news, because they also held 1.7% of the stock.

The stock price of Infinity Company has skyrocketed, causing Quantum Fund's yield to rise sharply this year.

I really don't know whether I should thank them or continue to scold them...

The other side of the Pacific.

Chen Weidong did not know that there was a group of people on Wall Street who were "concerned" about them and were even more concerned about the company's development than themselves.

At this time, they are busy setting up a complete set of automated production lines and striving to achieve mass production of chips as soon as possible.

This difficulty is very high.

Because there are many chip manufacturing processes, including design, research and development, production, packaging and testing, chip manufacturing alone requires 5,000 processes and involves more than 50 industries.

This is very difficult for China, which has weak basic industry, to mass produce.

This is completely different from making a sample in the laboratory.

For others, it may be helpless, but the industrial level of Infinite Company is said to be the first in the country, but absolutely no one dares to say that it is second.

A large number of factories in their park, and even some surrounding factories, belong to the manufacturing sector.

This is also the largest department of the company.

It was established in cooperation with the Precision Research Institute and the Academy of Engineering. It is a productivity in the true sense!

The entire department has four levels: rough machining, finishing machining, fine machining, and special machining. Each level has a different level of confidentiality.

The simplest rough processing has the largest number of technicians, more than 300 people.

Their movements are generally unrestricted. They usually work in factories outside the park and can go home after get off work.

There are more than 100 people working in finishing, and they can only live in the factory area. Generally, they cannot leave at will. They need to submit an application report and only after approval can they go home.

As for fine processing and special processing, high confidentiality measures are implemented. There are a total of fifty-two people, all of whom are senior technicians.

It is very difficult for such a small number of people to complete the various ultra-high-precision samples sent by the R&D department. It depends on the precision machine tools they brought back from the island country to make samples that satisfy the R&D department.

Automated production lines emphasize not mass production capabilities, but ensuring the highest quality possible.

The rest is a matter of production line planning and design.

But with dozens of engineers participating, there is no need to worry too much.

Because of the release of "Tianji-1", Infinite Company has well deserved to become the number one high-tech company in China.

Director Zhang also gave strong support and used all his personal resources to help them solve various problems. If there was a shortage of talents, he would directly second them from other research institutes.

Any documents that need approval will be processed immediately and expedited.

All of this is regarded as an important task to complete, just to achieve mass production and commercialization of chips before Intel releases Pentium 4!

However, just when they were busy in full swing, one person panicked.
Chapter completed!