I'm almost a Muggle

In 2017, many departments of Cat Factory achieved a huge revenue explosion.

But it also costs a lot of money.

R&D is a bottomless pit. As long as you want to fill it in, you can fill it in as much as you want.

If you can fill it, Lin Dong can’t afford to eat buns, you can only eat steamed buns.

Steamed buns cost two yuan, but buns cost one yuan.

"In fact, the technology blockade of our outsiders has begun." Just regarding the development of technology, Pei Qianlong added another news that made Lin Dong "happy".

"Tell me specifically." Lin Dong wanted to say it, and quickly took it out and let me have fun.

"In the middle of the year, Dr. Lu and I contacted Toshiba and tried to acquire their flash memory business..." Pei Qianlong did not talk about this before, because before he could report it, the other side was rejected.

"Does Toshiba want to sell the chip application? How much do they plan to sell it?" Lin Dong asked.

Toshiba is indeed going to sell its property.

This former electronic overlord has been slowly going downhill since he was suppressed by Xiao Guozi.

The glory of the past is gone.

Due to the loss of one billion US dollars in Xiaoguozi's nuclear power business and other losses in many aspects, Toshiba even reached an embarrassing situation of insolvency.

As a last resort, he began to plan to sell its most important storage chip business.

"I made an appointment with Dr. Lu to talk to people there. At the beginning, I had a good deal, but it was a bit expensive to sell to us." Pei Qianlong said.

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

It's better to be expensive.

If you ask for a low price, you will look down on me.

"I told them that money is not a problem. Anyway, we were very rich at that time, thanks to Dr. Lu." Pei Qianlong said.

Lu Qi smiled humbly.

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

"If I guessed correctly, I'm blocked." Lin Dong was a little confused.

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

Because they are targeted, they don’t even give the opportunity to ask the cat factory to spend money.

"That's right, I sold $18.2 billion to Xiaoguozi." Pei Qianlong felt very sorry.

The chip application of Mao Factory has been developing rapidly, but unfortunately, there is no decent foundation, and there is no suitable related business in the entire country.

If you can acquire Toshiba, even if it is just a relatively basic storage business, you can work hard for several years.

If you touch the same kind, you will understand it bypass it.

Acquisition of this kind of thing not only eliminates competition, but also obtains patented technology and more professional talents.

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

In fact, in some areas, the time it takes for product development and market maturity to take even more than 10 years.

In contrast, large companies with strong assets who acquire small companies with technical strength will be more efficient than developing technology slowly from scratch, and the risks will be smaller.

In Toshiba Storage's acquisition, Xiaoguozi paid for the consortium led by private equity investment company Bain Capital. In addition to Bain Capital, it also includes Apple, Dell, Seagate, Bangbang sk Hynix and other companies.

The bottom line of their original negotiations was $17.7 billion.

When I heard that the cat factory was going to buy it, in addition to using judicial measures to stop it, the acquisition price also increased to US$18.2 billion.

"We still haven't given up on acquiring the technology industry. We have also studied many roundabout ways over the years. Next time, we won't be caught off guard like Toshiba this time."

Lu Qi is in charge of the Investment Department and the Cat Map.

Investment and mergers and acquisitions are the most important sectors of a trillion-dollar consortium and their work.

When two companies with large sizes and high business similarity want to merge, they need to consider the Antitrust Law of each market.

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

One failure was not enough to affect Pei Qianlong's optimism about him.

"If I wanted to use my own computer, how difficult would this be?" Lin Dong asked.

His question was very arrogant, of course it was impossible to say that it was as difficult as buying a computer to use it.

A high-end computer costs only ten thousand yuan.

Pei Qianlong touched 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 Institute of Technology. I can only expect them to answer this question.

"It's very difficult." Liang Renzhong cleared his throat.

Miaoxin and the Technology Research Institute are inseparable, and they are also very tacit partners. Sun Moyu manages technology, but prefers management, and Liang Renzhong also manages it, but prefers technology.

Huaxia really can't make computers.

Some computer companies are only responsible for buying foreign garbage to be assembled.

"Is there any difficulty in euv lithography machine?" Lin Dong asked in a deep voice.

The more difficult it is, the more excited he is. If he makes it casually, he will immediately become timid.

"This is not, it's just a bit thankless," Liang Renzhong quickly explained: "Take PU as an example, PU technology is very complex and involves architecture issues. The x86 architecture is monopolized by Intel and Amd. Other architectures include arm and MIPS, but these two cannot run Windows Windows systems, so they are used for mobile devices and Linux. To produce PUs, architecture issues must be considered. Huaxia's technology is not enough to develop a separate architecture, so it is known as Huaxiaxin's "Loongson" processor, when it encounters this problem, it still purchased the authorization of Xiaoguozi MiPS Company."

After all, I still don't have the autonomy.

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

After hearing this, the technical executives felt their scalp numb.

Boss, if you want to clear mines, we can still satisfy you in a short time. You actually want to play "Reversal Journey to the West".

This is something that only the best computer can do.

But who is the boss?

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

"This is the only way to acquire arm." Dr. Lu Qi pulled the corner of his mouth.

The acquisition of arm was not a temporary intention. In fact, they had been observing this company for a long time, but after Toshiba hit a wall, they dared not contact it easily.

“How much does it cost?”

Lin Dong only cares about money.

If you miss Toshiba's $18.2 billion, arm will not disappoint in theory.

"At least four or five hundred billion," Dr. Lu did not forget to add and emphasize: "It must be US dollars, what do you think."

"Four hundred billion is OK." Pei Qianlong thought of someone.

Dongfang smiles!

Manager Oriental has appeared frequently in the Cat Factory recently, and the performance assessment will be conducted at the end of the year.

The Chinese New Year is coming, it's so cold.

And he didn't even take out a loan.

Yes, he is now fighting against the cat factory, and he has handed over other businesses to others, just staring at the cat factory and making this transaction.

"The biggest difficulty in acquiring arm is not money." Dr. Lu Qi shook his head.

He didn't dare to be optimistic at all.