Reborn as a Hong Kong Tycoon

Chapter 355 Semiconductor Company

the next day.

Lin Baicheng took the team to Texas to complete the negotiated deal with Texas Instruments.

This time, the transaction totaled 1.73 million US dollars, which can be said to be a very high figure in this era.

The acquisition of Intel's memory chip technology cost $8100 million and Texas Instruments' integrated circuit technology cost $1.73 million, for a total of $2.54 million.

This is not counting the fee that Lin Baicheng has to pay Goldman Sachs, a total of 1500 million US dollars, which is equivalent to a total of 2.69 million US dollars Lin Baicheng spent.

Lin Baicheng originally put US$3.92 million in the Goldman Sachs account, of which US$1 million was given to the Golden Fleece Company to trade Hutchison Whampoa's stock price. The acquisition cost US$2.69 million, and now only US$2300 million is left in the account.

Of course, the 2300 million US dollars is not enough for the acquisition cost of the home appliance company and the General Electric TV department. When the acquisition of the two parties is negotiated, if the funds returned by the Golden Fleece Company are not enough, they can only transfer some from other companies.

Unlike Intel, Intel only sells technology and production lines, while Texas Instruments also has four factories, all of which are located in Dallas, Texas.These four factories are wafer manufacturing factory, packaging and testing factory, memory chip factory and integrated integrated circuit factory.

On the way back to the airport.

Isabella asked Lin Baicheng: "BOSS, what should we do with the four factories attached to Texas Instruments?"

There are more than 1 workers in the four factories. At the time of acquisition, the contract stipulated that Lin Baicheng should not dismiss the employees without reason, unless he was willing to compensate the employees for one year's salary. If the factory was shut down and all employees were dismissed, Lin Baicheng would have to pay at least a few dollars. Tens of millions of dollars.

Instead of paying such a high price to dismiss employees, it is better to keep the factory running. Skilled workers and technical personnel in the factory are also quite rare.

However, the factory now belongs to Lin Baicheng, and the products produced must be sold by Lin Baicheng himself, otherwise the accumulation of products will only cause a lot of losses.But it's not enough to stop the factory from running. It's impossible to let the employees do nothing and get paid for nothing, right?
Therefore, unlike the acquisition of Intel's technology and production line, the technology is stored directly, the production line is shipped to Xiangjiang by sea, and it is enough for Intel to send technical personnel to help when it is installed.

For Texas Instruments, Lin Baicheng had to make specific arrangements for the four factories.

Lin Baicheng said: "I have already established Xinghe Semiconductor Company in Xiangjiang, and the United States also allows you to set up a subsidiary company, and the factory will let the subsidiary company take over. The current task of the company is not only to find talents in various semiconductor companies, but also to solve the problems of corresponding products. Selling is also the most important task.”

"The memory chip factory will hand over the technology acquired from Intel to the factory for technological upgrades to produce more advanced memory chips."

"Currently Galaxy Games' arcade machines can use memory chips. After Galaxy Games' mainframe is developed, more memory chips will be used. At that time, memory chips mainly provide their own products, and they can be exported best. They can't compete with Intel. It doesn't matter."

"The console of Xinghe game can be developed in about half a year. As long as it lasts for about half a year, all the chips needed for the game console will be provided by our own factory, so we don't have to worry about it anymore."

"Actually, you can also sell your products to Apple, but it's a pity that Apple's market is not big."

Isabella thought about it for a while and said, Apple's personal computer may not be considered a success, but compared with the entire computer market, it is far worse.

"If you don't tell me, I forgot."

Lin Baicheng only thought of the industry under his name, but forgot the Apple company he invested in: "Remember, when you return to Los Angeles, contact Jobs and the others. It would be best if Apple could sign a long-term contract with the semiconductor company. You can give a price that is more favorable than the market price, and win-win cooperation."

It's true that Apple's current sales are not too many, but if you wait a few years, it will be different.

Isabella nodded: "Boss, you are the major shareholder of Apple. If the product quality is not bad, sign a preferential long-term contract with Apple. I believe they will not refuse."

"Having said that, how much revenue can Apple make in a few years?"

Since Apple was mentioned, Lin Baicheng simply asked.

"As of the end of last week, Apple's revenue was around $3000 million, with a profit of nearly $1000 million."

Isabella first talked about Apple's approximate revenue and profit as of last weekend, and then said: "As for this year, it is still uncertain. Because Christmas will be a few days away, and around Christmas is the peak sales season. Apple's Not surprisingly, computers will also have a large sales volume around Christmas, so it is impossible to predict how much sales will be this year."

"The sales around Christmas will indeed surge, and the specific revenue and profit of this year will not be calculated until after the year."

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but nodded in agreement when he heard the words. The arcade machines, Rubik's Cube and other products of his company will also sell well during Christmas.

"Boss, Apple expects that this year's revenue will not be less than 4000 million U.S. dollars, and may even reach 5000 million U.S. dollars. This is only this year. I believe that the company's revenue and profits will increase significantly next year. This company must It can make you a lot of money."

Isabella said aloud that when Lin Baicheng paid a premium to buy shares in Apple, she was actually not optimistic about it. She felt that her boss was completely reckless, wasting money, and didn't understand investment at all.Unexpectedly, this year is not over yet, this investment has already returned not only the cost, but also a huge return.

More importantly, it can be seen that Apple is a company on the rise, and the company's future market value will be at least in the unit of million US dollars. Lin Baicheng's investment will get a return of ten times or even higher.

"If Apple's growth rate next year is fast enough, it should go public next year."

Lin Baicheng clearly remembered that Apple was originally listed at the end of the 80s. Now that Apple has received his support and has developed faster, the time to go public will only be earlier.

The listing of Apple is still beneficial to Lin Baicheng. First, his shares can be reduced at any time through the stock market to withdraw funds. Second, if necessary, he can secretly buy Apple shares through offshore companies or funds to increase his holdings.

Isabella shook her head: "Compared to Apple, Microsoft is far behind."

"Bella, don't jump to conclusions now, Microsoft's future achievements may surprise you or not."

Lin Baicheng couldn't help laughing when he heard that, Microsoft, which has not yet developed an operating system, is indeed far behind Apple, but after Microsoft's outbreak, its development will only be faster and stronger than Apple's.

(End of this chapter)