Chapter 514

Although ASML's idea is very beautiful, Intel's people are not fools. The purchasing Minister of Intel, who has been in this position for more than 20 years in the whole industry, how could he be cheated by ASML.

In fact, at the beginning, the minister was worried when he heard that other companies wanted to buy the machine. So the next day, he immediately sent all the members of his delegation. After making every effort to inquire, he finally found out the origin of the delegation.

"Minister, after our investigation, we found that this is a delegation from China!" the assistant reported.

"What! Chinese people!" after hearing his assistant's report, the procurement minister was surprised at first, and then his expression calmed down. He was not in a hurry. His face was not red and his heart did not jump. He even said with a smile, "I think most of these Chinese people were entrusted by ASML to deliberately act for us and want us to raise the price!"

"I went to Huaxia a few years ago. They have a company called Lenovo. They asked me to visit and talk about purchasing CPU. They invited me to live and eat. It's the most upscale place in China, but it's actually similar to our three-star hotel."

"Even their most advanced cities, such as magic capital and imperial capital, rarely see high-rise buildings. They are basically small bungalows. If they can have a building more than 50 meters, it will be regarded as a landmark for them!"

"As far as I know, China's national dollar reserves are only more than 10 billion, and they are all controlled by their countries. Those delegations want to break a dollar into two pieces. How can they spend 150 million dollars to buy a lithography machine? This is impossible!" the minister smiled.

"But minister, what if Chinese people really want to engage in chip technology? Didn't you say that this is one of the most cutting-edge technologies in the future. With chips, we have the future?" the assistant asked in confusion.

"No, but please think about it with your head. Chips can be manufactured not only by owning a lithography machine, but also by Intel. In order to manufacture a chip, we need at least other supporting equipment worth more than $200 million. If we want to manufacture a CPU, we need supporting equipment worth more than $500 million. If we expand it to the whole world If it comes to computer technology, we Intel can't do it. We need more than 100 high-tech enterprises and tens of billions of dollars of industries in the United States to assemble a complete computer! "

"What does China have now?"

"Two of the three largest computer companies in China are our American joint ventures. The remaining Lenovo has reached a strategic alliance with Intel. They originally planned to develop their own chips, but now I hear they have removed the chief engineer and completely abandoned their own research business!"

"So there is no so-called computer industry in China. Even if they really spend $150 million to buy back the lithography machine, they can only buy a decoration at most. If they put it at home, they don't think it takes up space. How can they spend such wronged money?"

"There is no enterprise in Huaxia that can pay US $150 million. It must be the official delegation of Huaxia that will pay for it."

"But China is different from our country. If our politicians waste taxpayers' money, they just have to pat their ass and leave. After all, our country is free!"

"But it's different in China. If their officials make mistakes, they should be held accountable from top to bottom. If they spend a huge amount of dollars and buy a useless machine, the official will even be locked up in prison. Maybe he will have to be shot!" the minister said.

"China is so terrible!" the assistant minister was so frightened that his face turned white. His father is a federal official. His father didn't do less to waste American funds. Would he have to be shot!

"If it's a delegation from other countries, I'll be a little worried. But since it's Chinese, there's no need to worry. It must be ASML's invitation!" finally, the minister made a decisive conclusion.

"But minister, there are still some strange things in this. That is why ASML invited the Chinese delegation to be the trust? Don't they know that it is impossible for China to pay for their machines? Isn't it more reliable for them to invite some delegations directly to nearby countries such as Germany, France and England?" The assistant asked puzzled.

"This..." the minister who just answered like a stream suddenly got stuck at this moment.

Because he can't explain this problem, but people sometimes have an ostrich mentality, so when the assistant raised this fatal logical loophole, the minister instinctively ignored it.

"There's nothing to ask. Maybe ASML doesn't know why they want to invite Chinese people to be their trust. Maybe they just passed by!" the minister licked his lips.

——————————

In fact, the ministers of Intel are right. ASML doesn't understand why Chinese people came to be entrusted. However, on the new day, ASML took a thousand delegations to visit the company in order to show the grand occasion.

Ni Guangnan simply slipped into the factory to visit, leaving only boss Jia with several secretaries and assistants to start procurement negotiations with ASML.

In fact, the vice president didn't want to talk at the beginning. It seems that today he just wanted to take thousands of people to visit the factory. After boss Jia repeatedly urged, the other party had to start procurement negotiations.

It was the vice president who was in charge of the negotiation with Jia Yapeng, but to the surprise of boss Jia, his guest brought six or seven assistants and secretaries, but there was only one attendant behind the vice president, which made Jia Yapeng look like they were at home, and the other party was the guest.

"Mr. President, let's start the negotiation!" boss Jia said with a smile.

"OK! No problem!" the president was stunned and smiled.

"OK, then ask the other party to give us a detailed quotation first, and let's study the price?" boss Jia smiled.

"It's natural!" the president smiled, then ordered the assistant behind him to get the quotation.

As a result, the assistant went for two hours. When he came back, he actually reported that the printer was broken and could not print the quotation. Therefore, the vice president expressed great regret and hoped to negotiate after their quotation was ready tomorrow.

This operation stunned boss Jia.

On the second day, the quotation came out, but the vice president was unable to accompany him temporarily because of work. Boss Jia proposed to let others negotiate, but ASML said that neither the president nor the vice president was present, and no one could negotiate, but they could take the delegation to Amsterdam.

ASML host, have a good time in the whole delegation and feel the style of the red light district in the Netherlands.

"What the hell is this?" boss Jia is really stupid. He can't understand the operation at all!