area51novel Chapter 450
Chapter 450
The new situation is getting worse.
Just when the five major industrial chain parks in Longguo were racing against time to complete the project.
The economic war led by Longguo and Yingguo has gradually reached a white-hot stage!
As the various departments of Longguo vigorously promote water-fueled vehicles.
The price of international oil has also ushered in rounds of plunges!
A month ago, the price of crude oil in the international market was: US$72/barrel.
Today it has fallen to US$18/barrel, a drop of more than four times!
The domestic Long Petroleum and Long Petrochemical, today the price of 92 gasoline has fallen to: 2.18 yuan/liter.
From the original 7.76/liter, it fell to the 2 yuan era in less than a month.
If this trend continues, it will fall below the 1 yuan era in a few days.
Before the advent of water-fueled engines, this was a price that no one dared to dream of!
With the plunge in oil prices, oil-related industries have also been collectively impacted.
Such as: chemicals, plastic fibers, synthetic materials, fertilizers and pesticides, lubricants, medicinal oils, vitamins… and so on.
With the plunge in oil raw materials, the market for these industries has also been completely messed up!
The dollar economic system linked to oil has collapsed even more!
The end of this oil era has caused an extremely fierce impact on the countries of Blue Star!
The most injured is the United States, followed by the desert oil countries.
The United States, which has been forced to red-eyed during this period, has also launched a crazy suppression and sanctions against Dragon Country!
At this time…
Across the ocean, the headquarters of the Chip Alliance.
In a spacious, bright, and luxuriously decorated conference room.
At this time, a group of foreigners dressed in suits and ties, dressed as business elites, are sitting.
Qualcomm’s general manager clenched his fists and gritted his teeth:
“Walter Fack!”
“When will this damn economic war end?”
“During the period of restricting the export of chips to Longguo, our Qualcomm’s backlog of inventory has piled up in the warehouse!”
Hearing this, the president of Intel also angrily scolded:
“Have those bastard congressmen on Capitol Hill ever considered us taxpayers?”
“After losing the Longguo market, will we sell all the chips we produce to those bastards?”
“Why should our technology companies charge forward when the oil economy collapses?”
Faced with this group of indignant executives, Wilson, president of the Chip Alliance, had a headache.
Although the chip restriction order launched by the United States has caused a sharp shortage of Longguo chips and the domestic semiconductor industry is on the verge of collapse.
But blockade sanctions are a double-edged sword!
While hurting the enemy, you will also be hurt!
Longguo, with a huge population base, consumes more than 50% of the world’s chips.
The annual cost of importing chips is as high as 1.6 trillion Longyuan!
What does this mean?
It costs more than importing oil!
The huge Longguo market also provides 75% of the sales of the Chip Alliance!
The CEO of Intel once said at a public meeting: “Without the Longguo market, what’s the point of building a large chip manufacturing base?”
The CEOs of Nvidia and Qualcomm have also said similar things in public.
Qualcomm, Intel, and Nvidia are the three giants in the United States.
One controls the global mobile phone chip market, one occupies the world’s PC chips, and one is the king in the graphics card field.
The chip restriction order not only blocked Longguo’s technology companies, but also broke the rice bowls of these three giants!
Without the huge consumer market of Longguo, the Chip Alliance is now facing serious unsalability.
The produced chips are piled up like mountains, and the warehouses are even too full to hold them.
But even so, they dare not reduce production capacity.
Because a complete lithography machine and chip industry chain involves more than 5,000 companies!
Whether it is raw materials or spare parts, there are purchase agreements signed.
If the contract is breached, there will be a sky-high compensation!
Dare to lay off a large number of company employees?
Is the American labor union easy to mess with?
That is an existence that can scare countless bosses!
Even the congressmen on Capitol Hill can’t do anything about the union.
It can be said that…
The current members of the chip alliance are in dire straits.
They can neither reduce production capacity nor dare to lay off employees.
But there is no market to digest the large number of chips produced every day.
The chips are piled up in the warehouse and cannot be converted into cash, so the money is collected.
If they don’t come back, the funds will become increasingly scarce.
In this vicious cycle, the members of the Chip Alliance are anxious and exhausted!
One by one, they are clamoring to go to Capitol Hill to protest and lift the chip restriction order on Longguo.
At the same time…
In Longguo, Henan Province, and Zhongzhan Family Compound.
Su Mo, who had been busy all day, was lying comfortably on the sofa.
Song Yi, dressed like an urban beauty in a white shirt and blue jeans.
She was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, holding Su Mo’s arm with a smile on her face.
Reba, who was wearing a purple suspender dress, was lying on the sofa and browsing her phone.
Her white and smooth little feet kept curling up in front of Su Mo.
The charming Yang Mi stood behind the sofa, gently and virtuously massaging Su Mo’s shoulders.
As for Wang Xiaoyan, she pouted with a face full of resentment, busying herself with dinner in the kitchen alone.
From time to time, pots and pans were clanged.
Sitting in the living room, it seemed as if I could feel Wang Xiaoyan’s resentment.
“How about…give Sister Wang a chance?”
Su Mo stroked his chin, thinking.
During this period, facing all kinds of hints from Wang Xiaoyan.
Su Mo is not a fool, so he can see it naturally.
Although in terms of figure and appearance, Wang Xiaoyan and Sister Mi do have a little gap.
But Wang Xiaoyan is the standard that Su Mo uses to measure beauty.
If she were put among ordinary people, her appearance would definitely crush countless people.
Even compared with many first-line actresses, Wang Xiaoyan would not give in.
“Forget it…”
“If she is pushed to the limit, she will come to the door herself.”
After thinking for a while in his mind.
Su Mo, who had made up his mind, continued to focus on the lithography machine project.
At this time, Reba, who was browsing her phone, widened her eyes:
“Momo, look!”
“The price of fruit phones has increased again!”
“The 256G fruit 16 is priced at 20,000 Dragon Yuan!”
“The price of the 512G version is even 25,000!”
“This is too ugly to take advantage of the situation, isn’t it?!”
Su Mo frowned slightly, but didn’t say anything.
He had expected this result a long time ago.
With the opening of the chip restriction order, domestic mobile phone manufacturers in Longguo are currently in serious shortage.
Even if Huawei extended a helping hand and squeezed out chips from its teeth to help its friends stay afloat.
But in front of the huge consumer market in Longguo, it can only be said to be a drop in the bucket!
At present, domestic mobile phones are hard to find because of the lack of chips!
The chip restriction order only blocks chips, and does not restrict the practice of finished mobile phones, which gives fruit factories the opportunity to take advantage of loopholes and sell at high prices.