Shockingly, a counterfeit factory has produced a 3-nanometer chip.

Chapter 513 America in Fear: The Beginning of Raising Gu

"Exclusive pricing? Global pricing? Could it be that this time...?"

"Hey upstairs, what are you thinking? I bet they're giving up the pretense and starting to fleece the people."

"I feel like Transsion is setting the price, and they'll definitely be reasonable, referencing their previous graphics card pricing."

"But there were other competitors before, and now they've all gone out of business... and digital chat sites are already testing the waters, so how could it possibly still be so cheap?"

Gamers are caught between the joy of the upcoming new card release and the complex emotions of price increases...

As for who owns Nvidia?

unimportant!

Most importantly, its performance is really strong.

Meanwhile, across the ocean, the United States was also investigating how much Transsion had obtained from them.

To be precise, this is a reboot!

"Confirmed."

Moreover, Nvidia was acquired by a well-known company, and none of us paid much attention to this small company. How could it have made such a big splash?

The National Security Advisor also frowned, tapping his hand incessantly on the table; after all, this was a serious matter requiring accountability.

He had previously completely disregarded the CPU market. In his mind, CPU chips were the core of semiconductors, while graphics cards were only for gamers and not necessary...

However, in recent months, cryptocurrencies, which were originally considered worthless, have suddenly become popular, and the value of GPU computing power has skyrocketed.

At the same time, a terrible thought arose in his mind: Transsion had acquired quite a few American companies in the past two years, although they were all startups, but...

But their standards are quite high; what's attracting their attention so much...

"Something bad is going to happen."

But the most important thing now is to extricate himself, so after thinking for a moment, he quickly said:

Why didn't you notice this before?

The intelligence chief's eyes darted around. Why hadn't he noticed?

Of course, the money has to be in place. After all, if the company doesn't have other sources of income, why would they be willing to do it?

Just as the National Security Advisor was staring at him, the intelligence chief gave the same reason:

"Previously, the strategic value of the GPU business was not high, and our monitoring focus was on CPU and communication."

"Moreover, they did an excellent job of keeping it secret. Although there are many Americans on the research and development team, they have now been assimilated by China."

This intelligence chief completely absolved himself of responsibility, claiming that all problems were other people's problems and had nothing to do with him.

"Morts, a bunch of parasites?" the national security assistant shouted, pointing at them.

He knew perfectly well that they were taking money, and he had even received money himself... but... he was honest and upright and would not stoop to their level.

"You people just wait! I'll make sure the president thoroughly investigates this matter sooner or later."

But the intelligence chief just smiled and said that if they wanted to live a couple more years, they'd better maintain the status quo, otherwise...

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Following a detailed investigation, the White House convened an emergency semiconductor strategy meeting on June 10.

The Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Defense, Intel, Qualcomm, Apple, AMD, Samsung—everyone that's even remotely related to GPUs was present.

The topic of discussion is how to deal with Nvidia's expansion in the graphics card field, how to develop American GPU technology, and how to ensure its continued stability in the next 10 years.

As long as someone dares to take the lead, we'll provide money, manpower, and benefits as needed.

"I think instead of developing technology from scratch, we should restrict their technology," a representative from Sansang said, standing up voluntarily.

After all, they couldn't handle the frustrations they suffered in the flash memory field on their own, so they might as well team up with a few others; now was the perfect opportunity.

"How about we focus on controlling the technology and patents?"

While these people were discussing this, an AMD representative slammed his hand on the table:

"Use your pig brains."

"Nvidia is now a subsidiary of Transsion, and they are not subject to any restrictions from us on their equipment."

Sanctions, embargoes, sales bans—what else do you have besides these?

"If you ask me, we should still support AMD. We are the only company in this industry that can compete with Nvidia."

Although the gap is quite large now, as long as we invest money, personnel, and policies in them... just like China did with Transsion.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, he promised:

"In less than three years, we will be able to catch up with Yan Weida, or even surpass him."

In this way, we can guarantee that we will not lag behind China in the future era of computing power.

Upon hearing this, officials from the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Defense nodded repeatedly, emphasizing that technological competition was the most important factor.

Most importantly, they were very pleased that someone dared to take on this task.

So they began to discuss what kind of policy should be given.

Qualcomm's representative couldn't sit still. Although he had a background with Huaxin and theoretically couldn't come up with such a task, which American technology company dared to say that it hadn't been infiltrated by Transsion?

So he stood up and said, "I think this is not appropriate. One company is too few. We at Qualcomm are confident in our ability to compete."

We also have some GPU deployments.

"If we were to provide that kind of support, Qualcomm could make the same guarantee."

Qualcomm has more representatives, after all, if you can't beat them, why don't you call for help?

As for whether this person is an enemy or a friend... well, as long as the goods can be delivered, that's all that matters.

With the two individuals taking the initiative to propose this, the next point of discussion was whether to support AMD or Qualcomm.

But no matter who gets kicked, there will be opposition, after all, AMD is currently in dire straits itself.

The CPU business is being crushed by Intel, and the GPU business has been losing money for years. They simply can't produce any competitive products in the short term, and investing money in them might be a waste.

As for Qualcomm... although it has some technological expertise, it mainly focuses on mobile SoCs and has never worked on computer graphics cards.

Moreover, due to the relationship between Qualcomm and Transsion, they may become technology brokers.

The so-called hope of the United States may just be a front for China. Once this is exposed through a secret communication, it will be a real slap in the face.

In the end, the Ministry of Commerce official decided to try both, since both companies had investments in Transsion...

In particular, Qualcomm has repeatedly leaked the plans that Qualcomm has targeted, so these guys must not be allowed to live, but we need them now.

After discussing for a while, the head of the Ministry of Commerce tapped on the table, finally coming up with an excellent idea. He then specifically looked in Qualcomm's direction.

The Qualcomm representative immediately panicked. Was this old guy really going to target him?

Being a foot soldier is no easy task.

Qualcomm has accumulated expertise in mobile GPU technology, has a mature architecture, and a sufficient talent pool.

We will integrate all of America's GPU resources and entrust the development of high-performance desktop graphics cards to Qualcomm.

We can coordinate relevant talent and patents to allocate special R&D funds to you.

The Qualcomm representative and the M representative both looked at the Ministry of Commerce representative in disbelief.

Representatives from both companies seemed to be saying, "Just one?"