When it comes to Lenovo, netizens are not hopeful.
But the "conscience of U.S. imperialism" that the people do not hope for has just established a chip company.
On January 26, Dingdao Zhixin (Shanghai) Semiconductor Co., Ltd. was established, the legal representative is Jia Zhaohui, the registered capital is 300 million yuan, and the business scope includes: integrated circuit design; integrated circuit sales; software development; software sales; hardware development. The enterprise investigation of equity penetration shows that the company is 100% controlled by Lenovo (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. It is reported that the company's main products will enter the research and development of tablets and PC processors, which is intended to benchmark the Apple M1.
Although the mouth is easy to play, but if you really want to benchmark with apples, Lenovo is not that taste.
Although, in doing trade, Lenovo is a good "first-class" hand. According to a report on PC shipments in the fourth quarter of 2021 recently released by Canalys, Lenovo ranked first, selling 21,701 units in the fourth quarter of 2021, accounting for 23.7% of the market share. However, Lenovo's growth rate this year was -6.5%, down from the fourth quarter of last year.
Immediately after Lenovo, the second to fifth places on the list are HP, Dell, Apple, and Acer, of which Apple sold 7810 units in the fourth quarter of 2021, with a market share of 8.5%. Although apple computer sales are not much, it is the brand with the highest annual growth rate in the list, reaching 9%, and the growth rate is rapid.
But when it comes to technology, even outsiders know that Lenovo will definitely not be able to get Apple.
Take Apple's self-developed M1 series of chips alone, which has subverted almost everyone's view of the appearance and function of laptop chips.
Among them, there are not only dedicated NPUs, video codec units, image processing units, encryption and decryption units, which are the culmination of various special units. It is also thanks to this that Apple's new laptop is very popular in the global market, and Apple has also earned a large wave of "self-developed chip" traffic.
On the other hand, Lenovo, under the guidance of the "trade and industry" route, no matter which PC, almost can only choose the CPU equipped with the United States Intel and AMD, which is crushed to death by two American chip manufacturers.
If it were not for the "Sima Nan's anger at Liu Chuanzhi" incident that made a lot of noise some time ago, Lenovo might still continue to continue the Buddhist lineage to this day. After all, under the guidance of the trade and industry technology route, Lenovo has eaten a lot of sweetness over the years, and it does not have to spend money on research and development, as long as it is safe and stable to do a good job in the assembly plant, it is enough to sell good goods. As for technology, no matter how much money you give, you don't bother to do it.
Today, the terminal manufacturer, which was once criticized, seems to have "woken up" and begun to invest money in chips. But is only 300 million really enough?
Of course, it is not enough, even if it is just an ordinary small chip now, from design and development to mass production of tape-out, the entire cost needs several hundred million. Not to mention doing CPU, think about how much Apple, Intel, and AMD spend on CPU research and development every year, and then look at the 3 "small goals" invested by Lenovo, this difference is not at all on an order of magnitude.
Or Lenovo's 300 million, may only be the company's establishment and operation of the required funds, if you really make up your mind to create your own CPU chip, obviously the follow-up will continue to increase investment. But according to lenovo's nature, doing CPU is estimated to be more difficult than "ascending to the sky".
What's more, there are now 6 local CPU companies in China, including Loongson, Huawei Kunpeng, Zhaoxin, Haiguang, Feiteng, and Shenwei, although the service areas are not the same, compared to Lenovo, which has no technical accumulation, it is naturally the predecessor of the predecessors.
For Lenovo, which has not wanted to work hard, perhaps cooperation is the most comfortable route to survive after "trade and industry".