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Chapter 267 Grinding the iron pestle into a needle

Song Yang wasn't prepared to enter into chip manufacturing immediately. Even with Song Yang's current status, it was impossible for him to afford to burn money directly into the chip manufacturing industry. Now it's more about preparing for the rainy day!
PA Semiconductor is an emerging chip design team. In this era, the fight in the chip industry is not so cruel. Although the number of chip manufacturers has gradually decreased, the chip architecture is still flourishing.

Although Intel is a dominant player, it has not yet dominated the world. There are also players such as DEC, SUN, IBM, and Motorola. Chip design companies are emerging in an endless stream. Even companies such as Telephone and Telegraph and Apple are developing their own chips. .

What Song Yang has to do is to start preparing a chip design team in advance. Chip manufacturing is a matter for the future, just like Apple's chips, which took 30 years to complete!

Apple's chips did not exist at the beginning. As early as more than ten years ago, before Jobs was kicked out of Apple, he began to develop chips. At first, he jointly developed them with the Microelectronics Department of the Telephone and Telegraph Group. As a result, Burned tens of millions of dollars, didn't develop a fart, Apple didn't want to play anymore, and the electronics department of Telegraph Group, which was directly cheated, never recovered...

However, Apple did not give up. Six years ago, it formed the AIM alliance in the chip industry. Apple, IBM, and Motorola formed an alliance to develop a new chip architecture.

Although it was a bad start, Apple got nothing. Six years ago, Apple, Acorn in England, and another company jointly established a new chip design company. This company is called ARM!

Moreover, Apple is one of ARM's major shareholders with a 40% stake. Although Apple's chip business is still not very good, ARM, which was originally a water project, is living a good life now, relying on technology licensing. It is booming, and there have been repeated news that it will be listed.

So for Apple, there is no need to make a fuss about what kind of chip technology is ahead of its peers, or it can always get the chip authorization of the latest ARM architecture, etc. After all, it has been grinding for nearly 30 years. , not to mention that Apple is one of the creators of ARM, although it was never counted on...

Song Yang looked at Marcus, "As long as Dan Doblepool is willing to accept investment, the American Global Investment Foundation will invest in PA Semiconductor!"

Doble Poole is also an old gun in the semiconductor industry. He debuted for decades, much earlier than Jobs. General Electric's laboratory has done project research.

When Apple was just starting, Doble Poole was already a big name in the world of semiconductors. He led the team at DEC to develop the top chip Alpha.

Although it is now over fifty years old, no one knows how much oil is left in Doblepur's fuel tank, but Song Yang still wants to take a gamble, investing in Doblepur's PA semiconductor is to have his own chip development team.

Apple has been in the chip industry for more than ten years, but it is still half-dead. Song Yang didn't want to become a fat man in one go. As long as PA can develop some mobile phone chips for him, it will be enough without being controlled by others. .

As for the chip manufacturer, Song Yang has no plans this year. It seems that Song Yang has a lot of cash flow in his hands, but it is impossible to really throw it all out without leaving any room for it.

On the contrary, next year, maybe you can fish in troubled waters. After Soros opened fire in Southeast Asia, it doesn't matter how much you can earn by following Soros. I hate Soros, and it's okay to fish in troubled waters. It's really as big as Soros If you do it once, it is estimated that you will not be able to go to Southeast Asia in this lifetime.

After Soros left, there are many opportunities, especially on the side of the stick, panel, chip semiconductor manufacturers, as well as Japan Benzene, Singapore and other places, can take advantage of the opportunity. Song Yang is not prepared to be too greedy, as long as he takes For the next few semiconductor and panel manufacturing companies, it is enough to be able to produce chips by themselves, and they can only slow down technically.

Hearing Song Yang's insistence, Marcus didn't want to say anything, but just calculated that the few investments today alone would cost more than half of Song Yang's cash flow, and in Asia, Song Yang let Ma Kus prepared a large amount of funds, which made Marcus, who supported Song Yang's foreign investment, start to worry about whether there would be a problem with Song Yang's cash flow.

Greck and Marcus walked outside. There was a row of cars parked outside Song Yang's villa. Greck's current car had already been replaced by the latest Audi.

What is chicken and dog ascending to heaven? Even if Song Yang is not like the African-American, who once made a fortune, he will give up all his relatives and friends, but Greg, Gallo, Irene, Marcus and others who followed Song Yang first This group of people, now their value has skyrocketed, let alone squandering at will, at least compared to the average American, they have already realized the freedom of wealth.

Gleick is now serving as the legal president of Double-click, America, ICQ, Western Films, America Global Investment Foundation and other companies. The salary he gets from these companies every month is the annual salary of the small law firm in Houston in the past. Dozens of times.

Coupled with the equity he holds in Double-Click, Greck's net worth has already reached more than tens of millions of dollars!

Although not all the other members of the Bruno family can get so much like Greke and Gallo, the Bruno Family Foundation established by Song Yang still allows a group of people, each family surnamed Bruno, to get nearly [-] The share of the dollar is enough for them to survive in America, not to mention the Bruno Family Foundation, which also bears the education, insurance and other expenses of all members.

"Marcus, I want to know that there will be no problems with these investments. You know Song, he is not only Italian, but also Chinese..." Greg turned to Marcus when he opened the car door.

Marcus was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and waved his arms a few times with a smile, "Of course, as Song said just now, these are normal investments and do not involve sensitive technologies. Other companies do the same. Take it easy, Greg, Song is just a... young man with great investment vision!"

After getting in the car, Marcus withdrew his smile, frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head. Marcus hadn’t finished what he said just now. It’s normal for young people to make mistakes, even if they do something out of line Come, you can also shirk it.

But Marcus also had some doubts about Song Yang. Song Yang suddenly crossed the field of electronic products from the Internet, and also invested in so many industries. It cannot be said that Song Yang was wrong, but it also made Marcus doubtful.

But after thinking for a while, Marcus shook his head. Since becoming Song Yang's chief financial officer, although Song Yang is young, he has never done anything out of the ordinary. Song Yang has never done any of the messy methods and bad things that the rich in Liga are used to. Marcus really can't figure out that Song Yang would do those unimaginable and bad things.

Double-click, which has already been listed, announced the acquisition of two major Internet research companies, MediaMetrix and NetRating, declaring that Double-click has quietly entered the market research industry, making the Internet industry shift its focus from Yahoo to Double-click.
But it’s just a glance. Since its listing, it has been in negative news and lawsuit-ridden double-click, which is quite popular with Wall Street short-selling companies. They short-sell once every three days, except on the day of listing. On the day of the establishment of the project, the double-click stock price rose a wave, and the rest of the time it was half dead.

The acquisition of two companies, MediaMetrix and NetRating, did not have much impact on Double-click, and the stock price would not fall below the issue price of US$[-], but it would definitely not rise.

Lao Yang's Yahoo next door is different. Just like Yahoo's name, its performance since its listing has been as fierce as a tiger.

From the 20 million US dollars on the day of listing, to now two or three months, Yahoo's market value has exceeded [-] billion US dollars, and it is still soaring.

After the listing of Yahoo, the limelight has completely replaced Netscape. Recently, Yahoo has finally launched Yahoo Mail, and it has shown an unstoppable trend as soon as it goes online. In the case of Hitmail mailboxes, Yahoo Mail has the slogan of large memory mailboxes and permanent free , quickly conquered the city, and taught Microsoft another lesson.

After purchasing the Hotmail mailbox from Song Yang, Microsoft did not make any changes, and the mailbox memory did not upgrade. Within a few days, nearly one million users were swept away.

The e-mail industry has finally begun to involve, but this has nothing to do with Song Yang. After Yahoo, there are many rivals such as AOL and Netscape, and e-mail is bound to become a sea of ​​blood.

In addition to launching e-mail, Yahoo also officially announced that it will launch the first instant messaging software, Yahoo Messenger, before the end of the year. This almost marks that Yahoo is officially going to compete with Song Yang, but regarding these rumors, Song Yang didn't respond, but Irene, the co-president of ICQ, announced a piece of news in her ICQ community space. The ICQ portal will be launched in the near future.

Seeing this news, people from all walks of life on the Internet felt that the wind and rain are about to come. After the battle between Microsoft and Netscape, the Internet seems to have a new excitement.

Yahoo didn’t just launch a few new features, otherwise how could it be so popular? After listing, Yahoo started buying and selling. In just two or three months, it has acquired four or five small Internet companies, including American Four11, the largest people tracing website, can be understood as the American version of the 114 inquiry desk, that is, if you want to find a person's phone number, Huangye search, etc., you can inquire on Four11 and was bought by Yahoo.

In addition to Four11, there are several companies such as software development company Viaweb and online sales company Yoyodyne, which made Yahoo's stock price soar all the way, and the limelight was the same for a while.

And at this moment, news suddenly spread that the American Global Investment Foundation invested 3000 million US dollars to acquire eBay!

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