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Early morning on December 27.

"The largest acquisition in the history of the global semiconductor industry!"

"In order to get the support of the major shareholders, Andy Smith promised to return overseas funds and immediately pay cash to shareholders ..."

"A number of Qualcomm customers have expressed optimism and welcome to Andy Smith's acquisition of Qualcomm ..."

"Affected by the acquisition, Qualcomm's stock price continues to rise ..."

"Acquisition of the madman!"

"According to reliable information, yesterday afternoon, Paul Jacob called Andy Smith to defend the value of Qualcomm's shareholders, arguing that compared with the prospects of Qualcomm's operations, Andy Smith's offer was too low, and hoped to promise to provide a 'breakup fee' 'Make a guarantee.

However, Andy Smith does not seem to agree with Paul Jacob's proposal. Although he agrees that the purchase price can be appropriately increased, he directly rejects the proposal for a breakup fee guarantee and has a tough attitude ... "

In the eo office of Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California, his brain is getting brighter and brighter, and he is infinitely close to the bald man. Steve Jobs, who is more and more thin, looks at a newspaper report with a deep frown. gloomy.

"咚咚"

Steve Jobs looked up and saw Cook coming in. He raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is there any news?"

"Well, in the early morning, Qualcomm formally sent a letter to all shareholders, hoping that when the company's shareholders hold the Qualcomm annual meeting on January 6, 2009, Andy Smith will reject the acquisition request, or Andy Smith will completely replace Qualcomm's board of directors ..."

Cook said, handing a document in his hand to Jobs, and then sitting in the chair opposite him was equally anxious.

Jobs took the file and frowned quickly. In the letter to all shareholders, Qualcomm criticized Andy Smith's acquisition, saying that its acquisition was seriously malicious.

The letter also stated that Andy Smith's "immediate payment of cash to shareholders" was "completely unrealistic." Andy Smith lacks the necessary technology company management experience ...

In the letter, Qualcomm also refuted Andy Smith's remarks. Andy claims that Qualcomm's customers want to acquire Qualcomm themselves. Qualcomm said: "No Qualcomm customers have publicly expressed support for Andy Smith's offer."

Qualcomm concludes: "We believe that supporting Andy Smith's hostile takeover is meaningless to Qualcomm shareholders. And in the event that the transaction is not approved, Qualcomm may face the risk of incalculable loss of value. "

"Hey, Qualcomm's board made a stupid decision! Paul Jacob ... is about to be sacrificed!"

After reading the letter, his brows were frowned, and with a helpless expression, Jobs put the documents in his hand aside, took off his glasses, gently pinched the bridge of his nose, and sighed.

"This ... isn't it?" Cook asked a bit aggressively, inexplicably, when he heard the conclusion of the boss Joe.

Jobs took a sharp look at Cook, and again he felt helpless. It seems that the successor he has chosen is still a little naive. For those investors who will go crazy when they see blood, if they are too naive, There will be no dregs to be eaten. If he had not been the founder of these **** investors, he would not have had such a deep understanding.

"You have to remember that investors are never willing to see the board of directors artificially set up an obstacle to the free flow of capital!

Keep in mind that the board needs to uphold the principles of positive corporate governance, and every decision it makes must be in the best interest of the company's shareholders.

You know, whether it's Apple or Qualcomm, shareholders are really at the helm.

Usually these people are harmless, but when the decisions and decisions made harm the interests of the vast majority of shareholders, then they will show their true colors and pounce on the person who has caused them losses.

Not to mention that the descendants of Qualcomm's founder can no longer control the company's future destiny.

It seems that Paul Jacob's conversation with Andy Smith yesterday was not harmonious, or that I guessed right, Andy Smith must have done something to irritate the other side and said some arrogant words, you must know It ’s hard to understand the shamelessness and embarrassment of this little guy who has not dealt with him ... "

Cook's complexion changed slightly, thinking of Andy Smith's young handsome, always with a smile of innocuous appearance, could not help but frown, knowing that I pitted the apple several times in a row, and has been dug The deep pits of the game have been constrained, and the app store has been suppressed by it. Cook fully believes that the **** of Andy Smith will definitely dig a hole for Paul Jacob.

"I even believe that he persuaded some of Qualcomm's major shareholders long ago and waited for Qualcomm's board of directors to make a mistake. Look at it. This is the list of some guests at his Christmas party in Houston on Christmas Eve, Blackstone, It's no coincidence that the leaders of the Pioneer Group are present, and they are also Qualcomm's major shareholders. "

With a somber face, Cook took over the list handed by Boss Joe, roughly browsed it, and said rather helplessly: "It seems that we will have a lot of trouble in the future cooperation with Qualcomm ..."

"To be honest, I always thought he would choose to enter the smart phone market. Whether it is a cooperation with Google or a stake in ht, I think he is setting up his own mobile phone brand layout for the future.

It seems that my guess is completely wrong. He didn't intend to make a mobile phone at all, but he had bigger ambitions. He wanted to set his own mobile phone manufacturing industry standard and draw blood directly from the mobile phone industry.

Since 2007, the Snapdragon processor has become a direct guarantee of the performance of many mobile phones.

The most terrifying aspect of Qualcomm is its achievements in mobile network technology: it pioneered the earliest commercial 2G technology. In the current 3G era, they are about to develop successful technologies such as d2000, ev-do and so on.

In other words, Qualcomm has always played a very important role in the evolution of 2 generations of mobile communication technology in the nearly 20 years from the 1990s to now.

More importantly, there are many inherited contents in these mobile communication technologies, and Qualcomm holds these key patents in hand, and continuously researches new technologies based on these existing patents to form new patents.

These piles of constantly updated patents have actually become one "dam" after another, bringing huge income to Qualcomm.

The impact of ht's Android phone on our iphones is obvious, and our phones come to Qualcomm both in chips and baseband ... "

After listening to the words of Boss Joe, it wasn't just Boss Joe who had a headache. Cook was also grinning. This was like a couple who was divorced. One day suddenly, the ex-wife became the boss of the ex-husband. It ’s my life!

They can choose chips from other manufacturers, whether Intel or four-star, but as the leader in the industry, Qualcomm's products do have a huge leading advantage, unless Apple wants to smash the brand of iphone. Occupy the market by other brands of mobile phones, otherwise, Apple will not bypass Qualcomm anyway.

Especially the patented dams of wireless communication set up by Qualcomm, no one can avoid being held down and **** to support its development and growth.

It is conceivable that when Andy Smith, the 'business genius', really took over Qualcomm, the entire semiconductor technology industry and the smartphone market will be shrouded in his shadow of terror.

Whether it is an opponent, a friend, or an ordinary person, one has to admit the fact that the ability and commercial talent of this person, Andy Smith, including people in the technology industry, including Jobs and Cook, seem to see Andy With Qualcomm as the main body, Smith, like a greedy monster, expands and annexes the global semiconductor industry and expands its influence, thereby becoming the prospect of a world hegemon.

"Perhaps we should do something to stop him!" Cook said with a grim look, thinking of the terrible future in the future.

"Is the knight in white?" Jobs muttered thoughtfully, and then said with a stun in his eyes: "We can give Qualcomm some support in public opinion and funds, but have you ever thought that we can How much support for Qualcomm? And what if our joining still can't stop him from joining Qualcomm?

Do you think he will avenge us? "

Cook looked ugly, opened his mouth, and finally shook his head with a grin. According to the understanding of Andy Smith, this greedy and cunning **** will definitely settle accounts after the fall. Even in normal business cooperation, he must deal with him carefully and avoid Being pitted again, it has become a cooperation after the opponent has long been.

If this time stood up to block his acquisition of Qualcomm, everything succeeded, but in case of failure, it would be endless. Cook did not think how generous Andy Smith would be.

"Hey, it's a big trouble!" Jobs was also a little helpless, but he wouldn't really do nothing. If he could stop it, he would stop it. After all, he was very concerned about Andy Smith becoming a long-term partner. There is a lot of defense, even if the other party also holds a lot of Apple stock, but this **** has pitted Apple several times, and Jobs has long wanted to get revenge.