Chapter 464: 458: The Battle of Chips

Chapter 464: 458: The Battle of Chips

But Finn Lewis didn’t have the time to focus on this news because at 8 p.m. the night T Corporation and Punch Fist Corporation announced their decisions, which was 8 a.m. for the North Federation, the Federation made a decision.

“We have decided to ban the sale of Xeon chips (server microprocessors made by WT) to the four national supercomputer centers of Flame Nation.” stated the announcement.

Finn was genuinely surprised when he saw this announcement, not anticipating the North Federation would make such a sudden decision. However, considering Flame Nation had recently decided to upgrade the Tinny-2 supercomputer but hadn’t begun the upgrade, the embargo started directly.

Finn immediately picked up his phone and dialed Jay Sommer. When Finn called, Jay was already on another call. Finn didn’t wait and hung up. About a minute later, Jay called back, “Master.”

“Hmm, did you see the announcement?” Finn asked as soon as he picked up.

“I’ve seen it, and I’ve just called WT in the North Federation,” Jay replied.

Finn nodded. He believed in companies like WT where profits came first. Also, foreign companies had different ideas from domestic ones and were not afraid of the Federation. They would surely appeal against this kind of embargo as it would affect their sales and profits. Flame Nation was one of their largest markets, and they couldn’t ignore such a market.

Though only the high-end server CPUs of the Xeon series were embargoed, what if Flame Nation retaliated with a counter-embargo?

“Alright, I understand. Let’s see how the authorities react first,” Finn decided after contemplating.

“Master,” Olivia Thatcher’s voice could be heard just after Jay hung up.

“I’ve heard of it. Are you saying graphene meets the condition of not having a kilovariation level less than 3?” Finn asked, intrigued.

“Yes, Master. There is a visitor,” Olivia was just about to respond, but spoke again.

“Who is it?” Finn paused. Not many people came to visit him, and most would call ahead. It was very unusual for someone to just show up without notice.

“The disturber from yesterday who intruded on you and Miss Kay Lee,” Olivia replied.

“Damn it! What’s he doing here again?” Finn rolled his eyes and grumbled, this guy, the chief of Flame Nation’s intelligence, is he seriously that idle?

“Let him come in,” Finn sighed and instructed, sounding rather frustrated.

“There’s probably an eighty percent chance he’s here because of the embargo announcement,” Olivia speculated.

In this part of the story, civilian development of chip technology is liberalized, and Finn registers a company, producing globally leading chips!

Such registered capital is considered meager for a chip research and development company. However, the media was astonished to find that the company was not a state-owned enterprise! Initially, they assumed the company to be state-owned. But upon investigation, they discovered it wasn’t, and not just that, the state didn’t own any shares either—it was entirely a private enterprise.

Most importantly, this private enterprise was somehow related to Finn! It was a fully owned subsidiary of Finn’s Virtual World Ltd. This news caused quite a sensation as the media was familiar with Finn and his status as the world’s wealthiest man. The media speculated he had ties to a mysterious foundation with a century-old legacy.