Chapter 63: Semiconductor Alliance
Xinghai, in front of the Chip Laboratory gate.
Jin Qiaoying, who had finally dealt with the reporters, was about to step inside when the telephone in her pocket suddenly rang.
She took out her mobile phone and saw the incoming call number on the screen, her steps involuntarily stopping.
“General Manager Jin?”
Beside her, Secretary Li Jia saw that the phone had been ringing for a while and gently spoke up to urge her.
Jin Qiaoying took a deep breath, her chest rising and falling slightly, then said, “You go in first.”
She then answered the call.
Once the call connected, there was no sound from the other end, but Jin Qiaoying was not impatient, standing in front of the laboratory gate with the phone in one hand, quietly waiting.
“It was you who pulled the strings, right?”
Finally, Jin Ze’s voice came through the phone, gritted through his teeth.
Hearing this, a cold smile appeared on Jin Qiaoying’s stunning face; she neither denied nor responded, continuing to remain silent.
Jin Ze found that there was still no sound from the other end of the phone, and a surge of anger welled up uncontrollably in his heart.
“Don’t forget! You are a woman of the Jin Family, and the blood of the Jin Family flows in your veins!”
“Oh? Is that so?”
Jin Qiaoying chuckled lightly, her tone full of disregard for it.
“Tell me what the catalyst is. The China Region Manager position is still yours if you do.”
“That matter? Still impossible, right. After all, it would disgrace the Jin Family’s reputation.”
As Jin Qiaoying spoke of these things, her soft voice lost all emotion.
“That matter isn’t so easy. The Jin Family has never married ordinary people; your mother was just an exception. Moreover, the Jin Family treated her well, so why are you so stubbornly fixated on it?”
Whenever Jin Ze brought these up, he always used a superior tone.
Whether it was him, Jin Zhiyong, or others in the Jin Family, they always had this attitude in their eyes.
A trace of desolation appeared on Jin Qiaoying’s face as she stood in place, lost in a daze.
“Tell me, what is the catalyst? I’ll immediately arrange for you to take the position of San Xin China Region Manager.”
“And then? Kick me aside when I’m no longer useful, or marry me off in the future to some marriage alliance object useful to San Xin, to gain resources for you? Or for the Jin Family?”
“As a woman of the Jin Family, in a sense, that is your mission.”
Jin Ze sat on the sofa in the office, speaking these words as if they were a matter of course, without any personal emotion.
Even for him, it was impossible to casually marry a woman from an ordinary family. For people born into such prestigious families, love was always a true luxury.
Thinking of this, Jin Ze became irritated again, raising his voice slightly; he was already getting impatient.
“Speak quickly. You’ve never been indecisive before. How is it that after less than a year at Xinghai, you’ve become like this? Small places are just small places.”
Listening to these words, Jin Qiaoying felt a chill throughout her body, her gaze blankly fixed on the glass gate of the laboratory.
Inside, there was a woman dressed in a snow-white lady’s suit, with a beautiful, tall, and elegant figure, appearing vibrant and radiant from afar.
“Xinghai Technology is about to start research and development on five-nanometer graphene chips. Let’s wait and see.”
The call ended, and Jin Qiaoying stared unblinkingly at her reflection on the other side of the glass door with her phoenix eyes, a rare genuine smile appearing on her face.
“General Manager Jin, don’t be like this. Our company hasn’t turned in profits for a while, but isn’t this actively expanding and cultivating the market? Moreover, with the advent of the five-nanometer lithography machine, I think many partners who were on the fence will no longer hesitate. Give me a little more time.”
The woman’s reflection turned into Liu Jun, who was now standing awkwardly on the other side of the glass door, looking at her without daring to approach.
Jin Qiaoying came back to her senses and, unusually playfully, blinked, then ignored Liu Jun’s stunned expression, turning and walking away with elegant steps.
‘Bang!’
A mobile phone produced by San Xin Group was smashed to pieces.
The warm expression had long vanished from Jin Ze’s face; it was as black as the bottom of a pot, his chest heaving violently as he gasped for breath.
“Damn it, just like your petty mother, selfish to the core! As a direct daughter of the Jin Family, you don’t even have this much breadth of mind!”
After cursing angrily, Jin Ze sat alone for a long time before getting up and heading out the door.
“You continue researching the catalyst issue here; it’s very important for the company!”
He instructed Cui Zhixun waiting at the door, and Jin Ze left the laboratory with an expressionless face, quickening his steps.
United States, West Coast, San Francisco, Cupertino.
After leaving the laboratory, Jin Ze didn’t wait long before arranging a route and flying straight here.
And midway, he had already used his newly assumed identity as Chairman of San Xin to urgently contact several of the world’s major chip manufacturers for a meeting here.
Upon arrival, Jin Ze hadn’t even had time to rest before he was invited into a quiet meeting room.
“Please sit, Mr. Jin.”
The speaker was Domenis, CEO of Intel and also serving in the Semiconductor Alliance, in his fifties with a typical white face.
After Jin Ze sat down, the door slowly closed.
“Mr. Jin, as Chairman of San Xin, you’ve gathered so many of us here. What exactly is the matter that a phone conference wouldn’t suffice?”
The one speaking was Chairman Huang Wei of Nvidia, whose Nvidia currently dominated the GPU domain and had even seen its market value soar to a terrifying 23 trillion due to the recent hype around AI topics.
Although judging a company’s size solely by stock market value isn’t appropriate, with the unrelenting heat around AI large models, in a sense, it is the future technology development direction most favored by investors.
Jin Ze looked at him, stunned for a moment, then reacted.
On this matter, he shouldn’t be the most anxious. The one in front of him, Huang Wei, should be the one feeling the greatest threat.
A trace of his usual warm smile reappeared on his face.
“Mr. Huang, what do you think of Xinghai Technology?”
“Xinghai Technology? That Chinese company that makes batteries? You didn’t call us here just for this, did you?”
Huang Wei looked surprised, but curled his lips in disdain.
It wasn’t unreasonable for him to have this attitude; although Xinghai wasn’t listed, no matter how large its scale, it was at most around 100 billion, and that included its High-Voltage Radio Department and Xingyun Manufacturing.
Not even a fraction of his Nvidia, it really couldn’t pique much interest from him.
A playful smile appeared on Jin Ze’s face, but he didn’t answer directly.
“I believe everyone has seen the information on Xinghai Technology in the routine report that San Xin submitted to the White Alliance a while ago.”
Hearing this, everyone nodded; it wasn’t a big deal, and the White Alliance had already added it to the no-sales list upon learning of it.
Jin Ze sighed, then leisurely tossed a bomb into the meeting.
“According to reliable intelligence from San Xin, Xinghai Technology has successfully developed mass-production carbon nanotube technology. Just a few days ago, China’s first commercial five-nanometer lithography machine was delivered to Xinghai Technology’s Chip Laboratory.”
After saying this, Jin Ze scanned the room with his eyes, very satisfied with the shocked expressions on the faces of the chairmen present.
“Moreover, as everyone here should know, China’s wafer manufacturing process has always been unrivaled globally.”
Jin Ze didn’t stop, turning to Intel’s Domenis.
“Mr. Domenis, Intel’s architecture patents probably won’t play much role on the graphene chip platform, right.”
The meeting room fell into dead silence after Jin Ze dropped the keyword ‘mass-production carbon nanotube technology’.
