Chapter 61 Investment
Shen Chong's career has been developing so far, and it has been no longer a situation of fighting alone. Although it seems that only Lee Kai-won is with him when he came to Singapore this time, in fact, before coming, he had assigned a team of experts in various fields such as law, finance, finance, technology and management to travel from the United States to Singapore, and began consultations and negotiations with government officials led by Oh Chok-dong.
The biggest advantage of time travelers is to be foresight. As long as you grasp the general direction of the strategy, it is enough. As for the tactical details, it will make those professionals born and raised in this time and space work hard. So after he arrived in Singapore, he did not look like a powerful president at all, but like a player who came to travel and vacation. Except for the formal meeting with Lee Kuan Yew, he walked around the streets with Lee Kai-yuan for the rest of the time, enjoying the world of two people, and did not even attend a business meeting.
"Is it really okay for you to do this?" Li Kaiyuan sat under the parasol on the yacht deck, admiring the blue sea level and the lush island in the distance, and asked: "Does Singaporeans think you are rude even if they don't attend the meeting personally chaired by the Minister of Trade and Industry?
"It's rude." Chen Chong was shirtless, wearing swimming shorts, sitting cross-legged on her side, pinching a long fishing rod, and said with a big thorn: "We are the big guys who catch big fish, and we don't have to pay attention to the little fish and shrimp."
"Every detail of the negotiation may involve millions of dollars in interest, so you can feel at ease to let those who can't even remember their names talk?"
"If you are aware of it, there will be no disciples; if you are a clearer person, there will be no fish. As long as I can guarantee that I can make a big profit," Chen Chong picked up the cold beer beer beer beer around him, took a sip, and explained: "This investment is mainly for the future. The various discounts at this stage - whether it is land or tax - are not the focus. I don't care much. It is good that those people can chew more, but it doesn't matter if they can't."
"Isn't a million dollar discount money?" Li Kaiyuan put his white jade-like feet on the coffee table, leaned back, and joked: "You, in my mother's words, your fingers are too thick and you miss money everywhere. She wishes to recruit dozens of servants and follow you to pick up money when she is young."
Chen Chong laughed and said, "Music makes money. If you make all the money by one person, you can't hate it. If everyone makes money, you really make money."
He turned his head and looked at the beautiful woman in a bikini and was beautiful, and advised: "Don't work too hard. Just let your subordinates do some things. There is nothing in this world, but there is no shortage of talents. As long as you give both kindness and power, and rewards and punishments, most people can do things well."
"It's simple to say, I'm not as thick as yours. Instead of being worried, it's better to do it yourself... Give me a sip of the beer."
"Do you want to drink it? I'll get you another bottle, and this one is almost finished."
"No, I just try it." Li Kaiyuan took the wine bottle and asked, "What kind of wafer fab you invested in this time? What's the prospect?"
"The prospect is as vast as the sea of stars." Chen Chong smiled and explained leisurely: "There is a high-tech company in the United States called Intel, one of the world's leading memory manufacturers. In addition to producing memory, their company also has a small team studying microprocessors, that is, CPHL, but they are not very valued. They are thrown into the remote mountains and regions of Oregon to share research and production equipment with others. They developed a 16-bit processor called RURU the year before. I thought it was very useful, so I bought a production license and dug some people to develop a new bit processor on the basis of RURU."
“The market for processors is huge?”
"It's not big now, but it will be a big and big future. It will be an industrial flower that is more valuable than oil." At this time, the fishing rod moved. Shen Chong said while turning the pulley to close the line: "The sooner this thing is, the better. Otherwise, in a few years, let alone $1 billion, even $10 billion will not be of use to smash it in."
Li Kaiyuan was surprised. She put down the bottle and asked, "So much money?"
"Technology products have a high threshold and have a strong first-mover advantage. As long as the leader does not make any mistakes, the people behind them will have to spend 10 times more energy and money if they want to catch up with them.
"I remember your gaming console doesn't seem to be using RURU?"
"It's true that the game console uses a bargain 08-bit processor. RURU is not prepared for the game console, it is prepared for personal computers."
"Apple computer?"
"No, it's another one, and it's still under development... It's so far from the coastline, why is there still garbage? I caught another plastic bag."
"If you can't fish, don't mess around, it's embarrassing." Li Kaiyuan stretched, stood up and walked to the side of the side, and said, "I'll go down and swim, don't poke me."
After saying that, she clasped her hands together, and a fish jumped down, causing a wave of white waves. Chen Chong was very excited when he saw this, threw the fishing rod, and then pulled the onions on the dry land, and jumped down in a very ugly posture.
That's right, the first $500,000 investment in Singapore was not about building a gaming machine assembly factory or a digital video laboratory, but about building a wafer factory - used to produce memory and processors.
In later generations, when it comes to Intel, everyone knows that it is the world's number one processor company. However, in the 1970s, Intel was a company that mainly produces memory, and the profits of 90 came from memory. Before IHp appeared, the market size and growth rate of memory were far superior to microprocessors, so the microprocessor department was not valued. Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel and the inventor of "Moore's Law", even bluntly stated that "Iu1 is a memory company, and we will never sell microprocessors." Because it was not valued, rt*81u, a genius chip designer who participated in the design and production of Intel's first microprocessor 4004, left the company, founded it on its own and developed the classic 8-bit microprocessor that was still widely used until the 1st century.
In order to cope with the competition, Intel developed the 16-bit microprocessor RURU in 1978, and then released the castrated version of dUdR. The performance of these two CPHRs is not very good, and it is not as good as Motorola's URUU0, and it has two benefits. One is that it is cheaper, and the other is that Intel is willing to authorize other companies to produce.
Everyone knows the benefits of cheapness, and authorized to other companies to produce, by chance, became the key factor for IHpC for the "chess team" of IHNR. In the early RU era, IHN was undergoing antitrust review. In order to avoid being partially cut by judicial division, the company's senior management completely opened up the specifications and standards of IHpC. An open platform is the most taboo thing that is that core components are exclusively monopolized, so it has put a famous requirement for CPHl suppliers in the history of IT: "I open, you open"
In the history of his previous life, Intel licensed RURU technology to ANDAND to give up researching and developing its own products. Then the two sides joined forces to defeat Motorola, National Semiconductor, and Fairchild, and won the order for IHpC, thus laying the foundation for the market structure of desktop processors in the next few decades.
Before IHpC was officially released, no one knew how much impact it would have on the world. Chen Chong seized the blind spot of Intel's lack of attention to CPH, and together with AND, he bought RURU and RURR technical licenses, thus gaining the opportunity to intervene in the computer chip design industry. He was going to develop for a few years first and see the situation. If PRU can be successfully developed based on RURU, then he would get rid of Intel's own efforts. If the R&D is not smooth, he would wait until 1985 when Japanese Memory beat Intel to search for teeth and counterattacked it.
In 19RU, the performance of 8-bit or 16-bit microprocessors was not strong enough, and the manufacturing process was in microns. The US government did not care much. Building wafer factories overseas was not hindered, but in a few years, it would not be so easy. So Shen Chong just said that the main purpose of this investment was to look at the future. As long as the factory could be opened, it would make a lot of money.
He built the wafer factory in Singapore. First, it is an ally of the United States, and there will be no obstacles to introducing more advanced production lines in the future. Second, it is built here. Some mainland high-tech talents can be arranged to enter the laboratory to observe or do research and development. If it is built in Taiwan, the mainland will only be glaring at it...
Anyway, if you have too much money in your hand, there is no place to spend it. CPH is one of the strategic locations of the high-tech industry in the future and one of the core components of high-definition digital video. It must be taken seriously.
Chen Chong and Lee Kai-yuan rafted on the sea until they received the call to the successful end of the negotiation meeting, and then drove back to Singapore to sign and exchange investment agreements with Lee Kuan Yew. Then they declined the invitation to the banquet. After a short rest, they took a team of more than a dozen experts and several uninvited unexpected guests to board a charter flight to Taipei.
"I asked Sister Qing to book a flight ticket and transfer from Taipei to Hong Kong and I won't be with you anymore."
"Didn't you say you're going to take a hot spring together?"
"What kind of hot springs are there in hot weather? I'll go there again in winter." Li Kaiyuan smiled slightly and said, "Because I'm still very dedicated to accompanying me these two days, I won't go to Taipei to make you feel uncomfortable."
"I'm uncomfortable?"
"You, you're so loud that you're actually a ghastly man. If I stand with her, let alone hugging her left and right, your tongue will probably be tied up."
Chen Chong smiled bitterly.
Chapter completed!