I’m Almost Losing to a Muggle

In the year of 2017, many departments of the cat factory achieved a big explosion in revenue.

But it also costs a lot.

Research and development is a bottomless pit, as long as you want to fill it, you can fill it in as much as you want.

Lin Dong couldn't afford steamed buns, so he could only eat steamed buns.

Two steamed buns cost one yuan, but buns cost one yuan and five.

Actually, the technical blockade against us has already begun. In terms of technological development alone, Pei Qianlong added another piece of news that made Lin Dong rejoiced.

Tell me in detail. Lin Dong wanted to say, and quickly brought it out to make me happy.

In the middle of the year, Dr. Lu and I contacted Toshiba to try to acquire their flash memory business... Pei Qianlong didn't mention this before, because he was rejected there before he had time to report.

Is Toshiba going to sell the chip application? How much are they going to sell? Lin Dong asked.

Toshiba is indeed going to be a seller.

This former electronic overlord, since being suppressed by Xiaoguozi, has been slowly going downhill.

The former glory is gone.

Due to the loss of one billion US dollars in the nuclear power business of Xiaoguozi, as well as other losses, Toshiba even reached the embarrassing situation of insolvency.

As a last resort, it began to plan to sell its most important memory chip business.

From 15 billion to 20 billion U.S. dollars, Dr. Lu and I made an appointment with the people over there to talk, and we talked well at the beginning, but it would be more expensive to sell it to us. Pei Qianlong said.

It doesn't matter if it's more expensive. Lin Dong sucked his saliva.

It's better if it's expensive.

If the asking price is low, they look down on me.

That's what I told them at the time. Money is not a problem. Anyway, we were very rich at that time, thanks to Dr. Lu. Pei Qianlong said.

Lu Qi smiled modestly.

It's only 70 billion US dollars, not worth mentioning.

If I'm not wrong, I must have been obstructed. Lin Dong was a little confused.

He hopes that the cat factory can be targeted by everyone so that it has a chance to go bankrupt, but he also wants to spend the money.

Because of targeting them, they didn't even give the cat factory a chance to spend money.

That's right, $18.2 billion was sold to Xiaoguozi. Pei Qianlong felt regretful.

The chip application of the cat factory has been developing rapidly, but unfortunately there is no decent foundation, and even the entire country cannot acquire any suitable related businesses.

If Toshiba can be acquired, even if it is only a relatively basic storage business, it can save several years of struggle.

If you touch the analogy, you will bypass it.

Acquiring this kind of thing can not only eliminate competition, but also obtain patented technology and more professional talents.

Suppose it takes 3-4 years to develop a product, and another 3-4 years to mature the entire market.

In fact, in some areas, product development and market maturity can take more than 10 years.

In contrast, it is more efficient and less risky for a large company with strong assets to acquire a small company with technical strength than to slowly develop technology from scratch.

In the acquisition of Toshiba Storage, the consortium led by the private equity investment company Bain Capital invested in Xiaoguozi. In addition to Bain Capital, it also includes companies such as Apple, Dell, Seagate, and Bangbang SK Hynix. .

The bottom line they originally negotiated was $17.7 billion.

When they heard that the cat factory was going to buy, they used legal means to stop it, and raised the purchase price to US$18.2 billion.

We still haven't given up our intention to acquire the technology industry. Over the years, we have studied many roundabout ways outside the pot. Next time, we won't be caught off guard like Toshiba this time.

Lu Qi is in charge of the investment department and Maomao Map.

Investing in mergers and acquisitions is the most important part of a trillion-dollar consortium, and it is also his job.

When two companies with large volumes and high similarities in business want to merge, they must consider the Anti-Monopoly Law of each pot market.

Dr. Lu Qi is obviously an expert in this field.

One failure is not enough to affect Pei Qianlong's optimism towards him.

If I want to use my own computer, how difficult is it? Lin Dong asked.

He asked this very arrogantly - of course it is impossible to say that he bought a computer and used it - that would be without difficulty.

A high-end computer costs only tens of thousands of dollars.

Pei Qianlong rubbed his nose and looked at Sun Moyu and Liang Renzhong.

Sun Moyu is the person in charge of Miaoxin, and Liang Renzhong is in charge of the technology research institute. We can only count on them to answer this question.

Very difficult. Liang Renzhong cleared his throat.

Miaoxin and the Technology Research Institute are inseparable, and the two of them are also very tacit partners. Sun Moyu is in charge of technology, but he is more inclined to management, and Liang Renzhong is also in management, but he is more inclined to technology.

Huaxia really can't make computers.

Some computer companies are only responsible for buying foreign garbage and assembling it.

Is it difficult to have an EUV lithography machine? Lin Dong asked in a deep voice.

The more difficult it is, the more excited he is. If it is done casually, he will be discouraged immediately.

That's not true, it's just a bit thankless, Liang Renzhong quickly explained: Take the CPU as an example, the CPU technology is very complicated and involves architecture issues, and the X86 architecture is monopolized by INTEL and AMD. There are also ARM and MIPS, but these two cannot run the windows window system, so they are used for mobile devices and Linux. To produce CPUs, architecture issues must be considered. Huaxia’s technology is not enough to develop a separate architecture, so it is called Huaxia Core's Godson processor, when encountering this problem, I still purchased the authorization from Xiaoguozi MIPS company.

In the final analysis, still not independent.

It sounds so complicated, okay, you don't have to explain it to me, Lin Dong stopped Liang Renzhong from continuing to explain. He didn't like to hear this, so he interrupted rudely: I hope I can use my computer to play Reversal The game Journey to the West, this is the direction of your efforts.

After hearing this, the technical executives only felt their scalps go numb.

Boss, if you want to clear mines, we can satisfy you for a short time, but you actually want to use it to play Journey to the West.

This is something that only the best computers can do.

But who let others be the boss?

Everyone looked at each other and could only bite the bullet and think of a way.

The acquisition of Arm is the only way to do it. Dr. Lu Qi twitched his lips.

The acquisition of Arm was not Lu Qi's temporary idea. In fact, they had been observing this company for a long time, but after Toshiba hit a wall, they dared not approach it lightly.

How much will it cost?

Lin Dong only cares about money.

Missing Toshiba's $18.2 billion, Arm theoretically won't disappoint.

Four to five billion at least, Dr. Lu did not forget to add emphasis: It must be US dollars, what do you think?

Four billion is okay. Pei Qianlong thought of someone.

Dongfang smiled!

Manager Dongfang has frequently appeared in the cat factory recently, and the performance appraisal will probably be conducted at the end of the year.

It's almost Chinese New Year, and it's so cold.

And he didn't even take out a loan.

Yes, he is dead on the cat factory now, and the rest of the business has been handed over to others, and he is only watching the cat factory to complete the business.

If you want to acquire Arm, the biggest difficulty is not money. Dr. Lu Qi shook his head.

He was not at all optimistic.