Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 294 The flames of war burn from Silicon Valley to Hollywood
Chambers was also busy with his affairs, and he felt that the conditions offered by his side were generous enough. If the negotiation still couldn't be concluded, it could only be said that people were not satisfied enough, so he did not waste time to test and lobby. Very direct.

The 64KB DRAM technology patent is by no means as valuable as you think. It will definitely fall sharply next year. It is better to take advantage of the current good market and sell it to a Korean company to recover some of the previous costs, and the other party's quotation will be generous.

According to the current industrial situation, 256KB DRAM chips will appear next year. If Micron can successfully follow up next year or the year after, we can place long-term orders for this chip.

In addition, we are selecting an OEM manufacturer for the second-generation Fangyuan computer memory stick in the United States. If Micron is interested, it can participate.

Ward Parkinson's mood was originally very gloomy. Because the Japanese counterparts were so willing to compete locally, Micron's 64KB DRAM factory may have quickly slipped into the quagmire of dismal management after being happily established.

But Chambers's three-pointed axe, he couldn't help but cheer up.

The first condition of the other party is what the question should mean, the second condition is a bit difficult, and the third condition is the immediate benefit.

Using its own DRAM chips to manufacture memory modules and becoming the OEM supplier of the second-generation Fangyuan Computers, the added value is considerable, and it is also a big deal. It is really a bargain.

Seeing Ward Parkinson's serious thinking expression, Chambers understood what he was thinking, "For Micron, this plan should be a win-win."

Ward Parkinson acknowledged this with a nod, "That's true, but I'll have to go back to a board meeting before I can give an official answer."

Chambers nodded in agreement. He knew the details of the other party. Although there were four founders, they were basically reduced to the wage earners of the potato tycoon, so it was inevitable to ask for advice for major decisions.

After receiving Micron's affirmative stance, Li Jianxi personally led the team to negotiate and finalize the details.

What Tang Huan meant was that since the matchmaking has been completed, he will no longer participate in it. You two can discuss it alone. As for the reception of Samsung personnel, he will not show up anymore, but the other party refuses.

After meeting Li Jianxi, Tang Huan realized that Samsung had also become interested after learning about the way he built his industrial brand through Olympic promotion, so he wanted to consult in detail. This kind of thing really needed to be discussed in person.

The 1976 Montreal Games owed $9.9 million in debt, and the 1980 Moscow Games cost $90 billion and didn't make a cent back.

Therefore, most people had no idea what the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics would do in terms of business.

However, Tang Huan, after learning about the series of measures taken by the businessman Peter Uberroth, who took office in 1979 as the chairman of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, basically confirmed that the Los Angeles Olympics should be able to make an unexpected profit of 2.5 million US dollars as in the original time and space. In that way, it will become a grand event of successful commercial operation.

Therefore, Tang Huan actively joined the ranks of sponsors.

On the other hand, Samaranch also accepted Tang Huan's proposal and planned to classify existing Olympic sponsors.

However, any reform will touch vested interests, and Samaranch can only take the next best thing and try it out.

According to this trend, it will not be fully launched until after the Los Angeles Olympics.

However, Tang Huan obtained a qualification similar to a TOP sponsor. He put this aura on the head of Fangyuan Computer, because it is exclusive in the industry, and it is obviously the most cost-effective for emerging personal computers.

Li Jianxi admires Tang Huan's brand building methods very much. In addition, South Korea is bidding to host the 1988 Summer Olympics, and the results will be known in a few months. Naturally, he has to do his homework in advance.

If you want to be successful, you have to steal from everyone. After Tang Huan secretly sighed, he introduced to Li Jianxi the actions of Fangyuan Computer in terms of sponsorship. Anyway, this kind of experience cannot be kept as an exclusive secret, so let’s just be a favor.

After setting up a special dinner for the entire Samsung team, Tang Huan joked to Li Jianxi, "Let me go this time."

"It's delayed your schedule." Li Jianxi smiled apologetically, "When you have the opportunity to go to South Korea, I will treat you warmly."

……

Because of Guan Zhilin's girly nature and yearning for the magic of Hollywood, Tang Huan simply placed her in Los Angeles. While experiencing the colorful world of the United States, she was studying for preparatory courses and preparing to enter the University of California, Los Angeles.

Of course, Guan Zhilin's mother and younger brother were also taken care of, and the family of three lived together.

After staying in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry for so many years, Zhang Bingqian's vision can be imagined. As for her daughter's current quality of life that exceeds her own financial strength, she can guess with her eyes closed and know the reason.

But her own marriage has a problem. There is no persuasive choice to discipline her daughter's relationship. Moreover, Guan Zhilin doesn't listen at all.

As a result, Zhang Bingqian resigned to her fate with a sigh, and gradually got used to being in the light of her daughter, living a very wealthy and comfortable life by American standards.

More importantly, Guan Zhilin arranged her younger brother into a Chinese school with better conditions.

Today is Sunday, while Zhang Bingqian is sorting out the housework, she is planning in her heart that she will take her children and go out for a walk.

"Mommy, my sister's boyfriend came to see her again." The son came to report mysteriously.

Zhang Bingqian walked to the window and took a look outside. Sure enough, it was the Cadillac. Her daughter was lying on the car window, chatting intimately with the young man inside, smiling brightly from time to time.

After a while, the man patted his daughter's forehead, laughed and drove away.

When Guan Zhilin walked into the living room, Zhang Bingqian didn't bother to mention what she saw just now, and said lightly, "Let's go to the playground together later, your brother has been looking forward to it for weeks."

Guan Zhilin rubbed her forehead, then pouted her lips and replied, "Go on your own, I have to review my homework, if I can't go to university smoothly, I will be scolded."

Zhang Bingqian shook her head speechlessly, this is really a girl who doesn't want to stay, she would be furious when she kindly preached a few words, but what the man said became the golden rule.

……

After Tang Huan arrived in Los Angeles, he first took a look at Guan Zhilin and urged her not to miss her homework, lest she really become a veritable idiot, and then went directly to the headquarters of United Artists.

Because of the fierce competition between Xiaobawang game console and Atari 2600, Tang Huan and Warner, the backers behind each, have also become conflicted.

Especially after Tang Huan extended his tentacles into Hollywood through the acquisition of United Artists, Warner's hostility became more and more obvious.

In addition to Warner, because of a lawsuit, Tang Huan and Universal are also in a state of incompatibility.

At the same time, Paramount, which owns Sega America, also has a conflict of interest with Tang Huan similar to that of Warner, but the other party's performance is not obvious.

It can be said that it is very different from the situation where the two tigers competed with IBM in the field of personal computers. Tang Huan just stepped into the Hollywood circle, and he was at risk of being beaten by gangs.

Although Tang Huan currently controls two Hollywood companies, United Artists and MGM, their combined market share is not as large as that of any one of Warner, Universal, and Paramount.

For this kind of situation, Tang Huan couldn't directly come to one-on-three to find death, so he could only adopt a strategy of divide and conquer.

In fact, regardless of the fact that Warner and Paramount hold Atari and Sega America respectively, neither of them has played their cards well. The two businesses of movies and video games have always been fighting each other.

In particular, Warner, its high-level executives in New York, dictated to Atari in Silicon Valley, which instead caused confusion for laymen commanding experts.

Therefore, Tang Huan's strategy for these two opponents is "delay". As long as he does not make mistakes, they will have to withdraw from the video game field in disgrace in two years.

In addition, I have to say that the current executives of Warner and Paramount are almost all the princes of Hollywood a few years later. They are too powerful to be head-to-head.

Ever since, Tang Huan set the direction of breakthrough on Universal, aiming at this goal, and clung to it, such as robbing the box office blockbuster that should belong to it.

Of course, the premise is still that sentence, I don't make mistakes.

In other words, as United Artists' most well-known commercial blockbuster brand, Tang Huan had to keep an eye on the upcoming "007" so as not to stumble.

When Andy Albert reported, his face was very dignified, "Judging from the feedback of the test screening, in addition to Paramount's "Raiders of the Lost Ark", Warner's "Superman II" -- "Superman 2", also It has great box office appeal. There are even rumors that people from Paramount and Warner put down their harsh words and want to make "For Your Eyes Only" the lowest-grossing movie in the history of the "007" series."

"Whether a movie is good or not, the audience will vote with their feet. It cannot be decided by just talking." Tang Huan sneered, "What are your countermeasures?"

"We're going to do a post about the premiere of 'For Your Eyes Only' in the UK." Andy Albert explained the plan.

"I think this idea is very good. After all, "007" is a representative symbol of Britain." Tang Huan nodded with a smile, "It really is a professional thing, and it should be done by professional people."

Tang Huan made a powerful gesture to comfort his subordinates. "Everyone, don't be too anxious. This little pressure is nothing. In addition to the summer vacation, there is also the Christmas file. I am confident that our performance throughout the year will definitely be very eye-catching."

Tang Huan did not reveal any information about the "ET" project early. Even next year, it will definitely shake up Hollywood.

……

While paying attention to the operation of the company in Hollywood, Tang Huan naturally wanted to take time to visit his twin sons, but Deng Lijun was also there.

"When did you arrive in Los Angeles? Why didn't you tell me when I called?" Tang Huan complained in surprise.

Although the turmoil of the forced labor performance has been resolved, Tang Huan has been thinking about Deng Lijun in his heart, and the two have not seen each other for a while except for the occasional phone call.

"I also want to clear up the relationship with you, so as not to affect your business." Deng Lijun smiled gently, her eyes were full of tenderness.

"You don't need to be clear. Two years ago, I was really afraid of them, but now, the relationship is going to be reversed." Tang Huan held Deng Lijun's hand and kissed it lightly, "With me as the backer, no one should I want to bully others in your place."

"Sounds so nice, you are the best at bullying people." Deng Lijun gave Tang Huan an annoyed look.

"That's true, I'm the only exception." Tang Huan smiled smugly, bent over and hugged Deng Lijun, "I'm going to be bullied right now."

"Don't mess around, mom and baby are watching us in the yard." Deng Lijun thumped Tang Huan's back a few times, and reprimanded angrily, "Besides, it's still broad daylight."

"What are you afraid of? Old people will understand the mood of young people, but babies don't need to understand." Tang Huan smiled and walked quickly into the bedroom, "Now it's daytime on the Los Angeles side, and night on the Xiangjiang side. It is a natural phenomenon, so clearly distinguish what it is for.”

"You can always talk nonsense like that." Deng Lijun laughed coquettishly after being teased.

……

"The concert shouldn't be arranged so intensively, it's too hard." Tang Huan pulled Deng Lijun to prevent her from getting up to clean up.

"There are no concert arrangements for the second half of this year, and I have to calm down and prepare for "A Touch of Love". According to the company's analysis, it may not sell well, but I really want to create an album completely according to my heart. Make it difficult for them, pay for it yourself."
Deng Lijun squinted his eyes and replied softly, "What do you think of my plan?"

"Of course there is no problem." Tang Huan encouraged: "Now we have the capital not to succumb to commercial factors, and to pursue art entirely."

"But sometimes I can't imagine the artistic conception described in Tang poetry and Song poetry. When singing, the emotional expression seems to be a bit inadequate." Deng Lijun's face showed distress.

"Sometimes, reading thousands of books may not be as good as traveling thousands of miles. If you can experience the charm of a thousand-year-old culture in person, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."

Tang Huan casually analyzed, but suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, "It's not impossible to find inspiration. Do you dare to take a private plane with me to the mainland and travel around Suzhou and Hangzhou quietly?"

"With you by my side, there's nothing I dare not do." Deng Lijun rolled his eyes at Tang Huan, "But you have to hide it from the old lady, otherwise, she will have to worry again."

(End of this chapter)