Chapter 171: The Response of the WIntel Alliance

Not only PK Apple is making a choice; in fact, Dream Technology’s smart glasses have overturned the entire world’s IT industry.

In the past, the underlying support for the computer and communications industries was the chip architecture and operating systems established by American companies.

Today, based on third-generation semiconductor technology, the silicon carbide chips developed by Tang Country have replaced not only the core CPU, GPU of computers but also the chip technology used in communication.

Previously, without operating system support, Wisdom Technology faced a blockade from the two oligarchs, with no manufacturers daring to use its chips.

But now, with Dream Technology’s alliance and the support of the Tianqing system, at least the entire IT industry of Tang Country will be standing under their banner.

With this development, the IT industry of Tang Country will follow a different technical path than that led by the United States.

The problem is, Tang Country’s chips and operating systems can be compatible with American system applications, while the American operating systems cannot be compatible with Tang Country’s chips.

As a result, from a market competition perspective, IT products from Tang Country will definitely have a certain advantage.

The performance of Tang Country’s new chips is several times that of existing American chip technology, and this is not something the United States can catch up with within a year or two.

In front of other countries’ IT manufacturers, there is no doubt that they will choose to adopt the latest technology from Tang Country in order not to be eliminated from the market.

From the very beginning when Wisdom Technology was struggling alone to now when two powers have joined forces to overturn the entire industry, the changes in the world have indeed caught countless IT manufacturers off guard.

In the week that Dream Technology’s smart glasses conquered territories, Wisdom Technology successively released a series of chips, ranging from computer chips to mobile chips, to chips for various smart machines.

In other words, wherever chips are needed, there is Wisdom Technology.

This not only upends the core chips; even memory chips were beaten badly by Wisdom Technology.

At this moment, people learned that storage chips made with silicon carbide technology have a capacity 20 times that of silicon chips.

In other words, silicon carbide chips can make your electronic products smaller than the original silicon chips, but with better performance.

Along with the popularity of Dream Technology’s smart glasses and simulated robots, Wisdom Technology launched products with strong performance indicators, sweeping away previous major manufacturers.

Suddenly, the world’s media began to report widely:

“Intel and Qualcomm have become another Nokia and Kodak!” — Berlin Daily

“Samsung’s stock price plummets! Its mobile phones, computers, memory, and other products are all unsold!” — The Wall Street Journal

“IT industry changes overnight; the global IT industry faces reshuffling!” — Le Figaro

“The threat from Tang Country, Dream-Intelligence Alliance challenges WIntel Alliance!” — U.S. PC Magazine

“Oracle declares, issues arising from forcefully installing on the Tianqing system will not be given technical support!” — Deadbook

“Tang Country is shaking the foundation of the United States; it’s time to protect our computer industry!” — Washington Post

No matter how the media reports, all major IT giants must make a choice: either stick to the original silicon chip technology or cooperate with Wisdom Technology from Tang Country.

Of course, the so-called cooperation is nothing more than purchasing products from Wisdom Technology and then trying to accelerate their own development of silicon carbide chips to be able to produce them themselves sooner and break free from the dependence on Wisdom Technology.

However, the feeling of suddenly changing from being a leader to a follower is indeed very painful for these giants.

CEO of Intel, Siwan, had never thought that during his tenure, he would encounter such a difficult opponent.

From the moment it appeared, it could put Intel in a losing position.

Intel is not without a team studying silicon carbide, but it has never been able to produce such a stable silicon carbide chip.

Especially since it’s 1 nanometer—it’s simply despairing.

It is known that the manufacturer of the core production equipment for world chips, lithography machine from ASML, only has 5-nanometer equipment, and 3 nanometers is still under development.

How on earth did Tang Country manage to produce 1-nanometer chips?

Without a doubt, if Intel follows Wisdom Technology in researching silicon carbide chips, they will always be in a lagging position,

Just as Tang Country used to be behind American chip technology.

However, the quantum chip technology currently under development is far from reaching the commercial stage, and barely even the laboratory stage.

At this moment, he was somewhat annoyed; why did the company lay off the person called Tang Xin three years ago?

Three months after Wisdom Technology released its new chips, Intel investigated the past and present of Wisdom Technology.

It was discovered that the core technology came from a group of five, all American Tang descendants.

The lead guy was Tang Core—oh, it used to be called Tang Xin—supposedly changed his name after being laid off by Intel.

This guy swore to develop technology that would surpass Intel’s chips; for this purpose, he established a private lab, brought several Tang scholars together, and closed the door to research and development.

They didn’t have smooth sailing; just as the laboratory was about to close, and there were even rumors that Tang Core committed suicide by jumping off a building.

Yet at this moment, they were acquired by Yu Donghua, the president of Wisdom Technology, and then it took them just over a year to develop the silicon carbide chip successfully.

Siwan sighed and said to the CEO of Verisoft, Narade, who was sitting across from him, “We must find a way to fight back, otherwise Tang Country people will monopolize the entire IT industry.”

Narade nodded: “Exactly, we need to make our voice heard, otherwise many companies might tilt towards the Dream-Intelligence Alliance camp.”

Narade is of Indian descent; he didn’t want to elevate the issue to the height of US-Tang relations, so he used the term Dream-Intelligence Alliance.

At some point, many technical high positions in American high-tech companies have been increasingly occupied by Indian descendants.

The United States has a very different attitude towards India compared to Tang Country, perhaps because India was ruled for many years by America’s former colonial master, Britain.

After all, the dominant members of American society are basically immigrants from Britain, although other countries’ immigrants joined later, the core has always been the original thirteen colonies.

As India was able to follow British forces in battles around the world, this bond has continued to the present.

Or perhaps another factor is that most Indians and Westerners both belong to the Caucasian race, which also forms a natural affinity.

However, it’s different for Tang Country; after being weak and poor for a hundred years, they’ve been despised by Americans to their bones, it’s hard for them to be treated equally, let alone for Tang people to be in executive positions.

Although in recent years, Tang Country’s economy has risen to become the second-largest economy on Blue Star after the United States, the US public opinion still thinks they have helped Tang Country.

Therefore, Americans psychologically feel that Tang people should be grateful to the United States and should listen to the United States in international affairs.

It makes the United States very uncomfortable when Tang Country voices its own opinions.

If Tang Country criticizes the US approach, the United States feels it cannot tolerate it.

As a country with thousands of years of civilization history, once standing tall again among the world’s powers, how can they not have their own insights on global governance?

Thus, although the economies of US and Tang Country depend on each other, it still causes vigilance in the United States and an urgent desire to contain it, leading to some conflicts.

Under such a situation, as the helmsman of Verisoft, Narade did not want to turn the company’s business warfare into a standoff between US and Tang.

After all, Verisoft has huge interests in Tang Country, and moreover, he does not believe that Tianqing system could allow any application software to be installed without any issues.

Many important application softwares have been developed by US companies over the years, and many textbooks in Tang Country universities are manuals from US software companies.

It’s not easy to replace the habits developed over so many years with new software.

Those important application softwares are all developed based on the Verisoft operating system; Verisoft even opened up some special bottom modules specifically for them.

Narade doesn’t believe that when these softwares are installed on Tianqing system, they could enjoy the same convenience.

If they don’t, these applications forced onto the Tianqing system will have problems.

Oracle, like other database companies, has already made statements that they will not provide technical support for such problems.

This alone means that many people would still have to use Verisoft operating system, because they dare not let their important applications go wrong.

Furthermore, Verisoft has the most important Office software; Verisoft will definitely not provide a Tianqing system version of Office, and if forced installation causes document problems, Verisoft won’t be responsible.

Therefore, Narade was a bit more composed than Siwan.

Siwan, hearing the meaning in Narade’s words, sneered inwardly; in fact, the alliance between the two companies had been breaking down over the past few years.

Because at that time, Verisoft abandoned Intel on the infrastructure of its data center, turning to cooperate with Qualcomm.

Verisoft can abandon Intel once, and naturally, they can do it a second time.

Siwan believes that this matter must be escalated to the confrontation between US and Tang; otherwise, Intel would struggle to withstand the strategy of Wisdom Technology.

Only if the United States implements policies like those against Huawei’s 5G products, at least the US market can be preserved.

If successful, it might even retain some allied markets.

Siwan said: “Alright, first let’s issue a joint statement declaring that Wisdom Technology and Dream Technology have stolen our technology.

Next, we lobby both houses of Congress: for the interests of the United States, it’s necessary to ban the products of companies that steal intellectual property from US high-tech companies from entering the US market!”

Intel and Verisoft quickly reached an agreement, and with the joint declaration published, they stunned the world.