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Chapter 720
If people lose their minds, it will be difficult to lead the team. Alcatel's mobile phone is Yangmou, without any skills at all, just relying on its super high revenue to distribute huge bonuses.

If other mobile phone manufacturers don't want to be poached, they will continue to increase the salary and treatment of technicians just like Alcatel mobile phones, as long as they can earn as much as Alcatel mobile phones. Tens of millions of dollars as bonuses don't feel bad.

The entire mobile phone industry has been overwhelmed by Alcatel's gold-dollar tactics.

After the Alcatel mobile phone, mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, etc. also announced to increase the salaries of technicians. They have no choice. ...

But other small and medium-sized mobile phone manufacturers fell into bad luck. Gods fought, and mortals suffered. Several major mobile phone manufacturers raised their salaries. Or being poached away, after all, water flows to low places and people go to high places, who can't be envious when they see their peers gorging on meat and drinking!
"The mobile phone industry is undergoing a reshuffle!"

This is a comment from the electronic technology media. Involvement among mobile phone manufacturers and a substantial increase in salary will definitely kill a bunch of small and medium mobile phone manufacturers.

Of course, correspondingly, the market share of several major mobile phone manufacturers may increase significantly, that is, the giant manufacturers eat more, while the small mobile phone manufacturers may just linger on their last legs and grab a living in the low-end mobile phone market. eat.

This kind of thing will happen sooner or later, even if Alcatel mobile phone is not the first one, it will be started by other mobile phone manufacturers, but this time Alcatel mobile phone fired the first shot!

The headquarters of PA Semiconductor is in the same park as Alcatel Mobile. The Alcatel Mobile Park has been expanded several times, and the scale has been enlarged several times. However, a considerable part of the office buildings and laboratories are given over to PA Semiconductor, Fortinet Antivirus, and Sega hosts. Developed and used by other companies.

When Song Yang passed, PA Semiconductor was busy for a while. PA is no longer an unknown person. After the acquisition of ARM, PA Semiconductor has now provided one-stop service from processor design, research and development to production.

Even chip giants such as Texas Semiconductor and Intel dare not say that they can surpass PA Semiconductor in chip design. Instead, they may need to rely on ARM's design capabilities.

In the mobile phone processing industry, with the help of Alcatel mobile phones, PA Semiconductor has become an instant hit. The PA200 processor developed for Alcatel mobile phones is already a high-end chip in the mobile phone industry, not much worse than the high-end chips supplied by Texas Instruments to Nokia.

For computer chips, PA Semiconductor is now the chip supplier of Apple Computer. As long as Apple Computer sells well, PA Semiconductor will naturally be able to make money.

PA semiconductors are now blooming in both mobile phones and computer chips. Relying on Alcatel mobile phones and Apple Computers, it is impossible to say that they can occupy half of the processor industry. Except for Intel and Texas Instruments, what other chip companies will use to compete with PA semiconductors? Tactics Lean back...

When Song Yang passed by, a group of executives from PA Semiconductor were in a meeting, and Marcus, the general manager who took care of Song Yang's money bag, was also among them.

Seeing Song Yang, Marcus came out of the conference room. There was no politeness between Song Yang and Marcus. If you want to talk about Song Yang's worth and the property in his hand, Marcus is probably more responsible for dealing with Song Yang. Greg, legal, knows more.

Only Marcus knows exactly where and how many industries Song Yang has invested in in the past few years. If those industries are reported, it is estimated that those financial media will be shocked.

Not to mention other things, let's just talk about Yeadex invested by Song Yang in Lao Maozi, and the Star Wish Foundation established in China. The value of those companies invested in has been soaring in recent years!
Only Marcus knows how many industries Song Yang has invested in besides the Internet. When the Internet industry is in a downturn, it will have an impact on Song Yang's worth, but in fact, the impact is not that great.

Marcus's hair was combed meticulously, and when he sat there, he looked like a top financial accountant. His hair was getting grayer, but Marcus's demeanor was even more extraordinary.

Since serving as Song Yangde's financial consultant, Marcus's private accounting firm has been on the rise, and there are many powerful people who come to find Marcus in charge of finance. After all, Marcus's financial accounting firm is not The second richest person in America came out!
Even those who want Marcus's accounting firm to deal with finances have to reach a certain level of wealth to qualify.

Of course, for Marcus, the most important thing is still to help Song Yang manage those finances. The salary that Song Yang pays him every year alone earns more than his accounting firm, not to mention Bring fame and fortune to Marcus.

"The acquisition of DEC's semiconductor division did not go well?"

Song Yang asked Marcus, just now he heard that the president of PA Semiconductor in the conference room, Dobper Poole, was getting angry at a group of executives.

Long before Song Yang's trip to Italy, he had already asked PA Semiconductor to start acquiring DEC's semiconductor department, but it was delayed until now, and the acquisition has not been completed, which is obviously not smooth.

"DEC's asking price is too high. It's just a semiconductor department plus a brand, and now the asking price has reached 15 billion dollars!"

Marcus frowned and said, DEC is selling itself now, and only wants to sell it for a good price, and doesn't care about the rest at all, as long as it can be sold, it will be sold.

In order to sell at a high price, DEC also played a lot of tricks, recruiting Compaq, Intel, HP, IBM and even overseas manufacturers to let these manufacturers bid for DEC.

But there are no idiots. Today’s DEC Group has more reputation than strength. It still has a lot of good things, and it also has a lot of money. It’s okay to let these manufacturers miss DEC, and let them use their brains for DEC. up.

To put it bluntly, DEC is still outdated. The workstation computers and minicomputers that once made it flourish, the former was replaced by SUN, and the latter was defeated by IBM, HP, and Compaq.

Let DEC be proud. The chip department that used to be able to compete with Intel is now celebrating the New Year with Wang Xiaoer. Every year is not as good as the previous year. This year’s profit is not as much as that of PA semiconductors. Quotation, naturally hesitant.

Speaking of which, DEC, which is regarded as a veteran technology giant, has not yet had a popular Internet company. It is not difficult at all for a random Internet company to sell for billions of dollars!
Hearing that DEC dared to quote such an outrageous price, Song Yang couldn't help but rubbed his brows. last sum.

"Which one is mainly competing with PA Semiconductor for DEC's semiconductor division?" Song Yang asked.

Marcus said, "DEC invited many semiconductor companies, but those semiconductor companies did not bid too much for DEC's semiconductors. Now, Intel is most likely to compete with PA Semiconductor!"

After going around and around, it still came to Intel. This shit-stirring stick in the semiconductor industry is best at playing tricks. Even if it gets the semiconductor department of DEC, it will not be of much use to Intel, but Intel still has a horizontal bar. , to prevent other semiconductor manufacturers from getting it so easily.

"That old guy Palmer, he's a DEC traitor!"

When seeing Song Yang, Dobpoor still scolded Palmer, the president of DEC.

Song Yang glanced at Doble Poole. If Song Yang remembered correctly, Doble Poole's age was much older than Palmer's.

Facing Song Yang, Dobpoor was a little embarrassed. He originally thought that he could cut through the mess quickly and immediately get DEC's semiconductor and that brand into his pocket, but who would have imagined that it would have been delayed for so long? .

"That fellow Palmer may not be able to deal with the fellows on the DEC board of directors. They are a bunch of vampires who want more bargaining chips!"

When it comes to DEC, Dobpoor always hates iron and steel. When he was in DEC, although it was a bit sluggish at that time, DEC was still one of the leaders in the technology industry, and there were some cards.

But now, the gang of DEC's board of directors have brought DEC into such a situation, and they still want to rely on the seller's bottom to make a fortune.

"Let's make a joint acquisition. Find a company that is most interested in DEC. PA Semiconductor will join forces with it to initiate an acquisition of DEC, which can bring Intel into the acquisition group!" Song Yang said, looking at Doble Poole.

Hearing that he was going to join forces with his deadly rival Intel, Doblepoor felt awkward for a while.

Seeing Doberpur's expression, Song Yang couldn't help but shook his head. Let Doberpur, the technical masters, do research and development. He is a good hand, but let them play these tricks, it's not enough, it's too cherished face off.

If it were Bill Gates, he would have hooked up with Intel and started to score DEC.

In order to deal with Netscape before, what did Bill Gates and Microsoft do? They took the man's ability to bend and stretch to the extreme, and even the deadly rivals SUN, AOL, etc., were able to bow their heads, just to disintegrate their alliance with Netscape.

"Intel can't be defeated in a day. Even if you get the Alpha processor and PA semiconductor that DEC is developing, at most it will cause some trouble for Intel. If you want to replace Intel, it is definitely not possible now!"

Although later generations may criticize Intel and call it a toothpaste factory, Intel is not a vegetarian if it can become the overlord of the chip processor industry. Even AMD and others have caused some troubles for Intel, but they have not been able to make Intel Get off your horse.

Now Intel has pulled many computer manufacturers into its chariot, and has formed an alliance with Microsoft. With PA's current body, it wants to challenge Intel in a fair and honest manner, even if it is optimistic about PA Semiconductor. People dare not say that PA Semiconductor can win this game.

"Dr. Dopperpool, this time, PA Semiconductor, as long as it gets DEC's semiconductor department R&D personnel, as well as the Alpha processor and DEC's brand name, it is enough to fight against Intel, that is in the future!"

"As long as Apple Computer can return to the first-tier brand, PA Semiconductor and Apple form an alliance, coupled with the support of Alcatel mobile phones, Fortinet TV boxes, hardware firewalls and other brands, PA Semiconductor can challenge Intel in the future."

Doberpool understood what Song Yang meant. Instead of fighting with Intel and finally making DEC cheaper, it would be better for PA Semiconductor and Intel to join forces and score points for DEC.

Acquisition of DEC's semiconductor division, sharing DEC's technology with Intel's. Intel actually values ​​DEC's technology. Whether it is suitable for Intel or not, it is always safe to get it.

Although he felt uncomfortable, Doble Poole nodded and prepared to join forces with several other manufacturers to dismantle DEC and take down DEC's label!
After coming out of the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park, Song Yang went to the ICQ headquarters non-stop and attended several meetings. After returning to San Jose, a lot of things were waiting for Song Yang to sign.

After ICQ merged with Perfect Continental Telecom, the integration began in a hurry. In fact, there was not much change. In name, ICQ became the parent company of American Telecom, but in fact, American Telecom was still operating independently, and all debts were transferred. Given to ICQ, American Telecom is now debt-free and has issued several bonds with the help of ICQ for the erection of lines and base stations.

ICQ is not going to stop, and is going to make the accounts more beautiful, so that the performance looks glamorous, and then start a new round of big moves.

In addition to ICQ, other companies that Song Yang invested in are also a little ready to move, double-clicking the company, ready to take advantage of the turmoil of the Internet, and swallow Nielsen Data Research Company.

The same Whitman, as the president of eBay, looked at Amazon, whose share price began to double after its listing, and couldn't help it. After Amazon's listing, it was known as the first e-commerce stock, and it began to be sought after by the market. In less than half a year, the stock price has tripled, and the market value has exceeded $20 billion!

Seeing Amazon's performance, Song Yang's eBay side is also a little ready to make a big deal. When Whitman held a conference call with Song Yang, he mentioned eBay and wanted to cooperate with PayPal to complete the listing.

At that time, e-commerce plus the concept of electronic payment, the listing of eBay will definitely detonate the market, surpass Amazon, and become the first e-commerce stock!
People's hearts are floating, not only other Internet companies, Song Yang is no exception, eBay, PayPal, Fortinet, and Sohu, which has invested in China, are all ready to move.

At this time, big news suddenly came out of the technology industry. PA Semiconductor, Intel, and Compaq formed a joint acquisition group to offer $80 billion to the veteran technology giant DEC, officially launching the acquisition!
(End of this chapter)