Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2942 NVIDIA

Early the next morning, Zhou Buqi took his two secretaries, Ning Lu and Zhang Zetian, and went to the United States first.

Others will have to go in batches.

There's nothing we can do about it, since the Zhou family is so large.

When I arrived in the United States, I first met Senior Sister Zhen Yu in New York.

First, we discussed the sale of Panda Mobile, which went very smoothly and the contract has been signed. Now, unless one party is willing to pay a penalty of $12.5 billion, the deal is finalized.

Even if the U.S. regulatory authorities ultimately do not approve the acquisition, resulting in the failure of the acquisition... such a failure would constitute a breach of contract by Cisco, and Cisco would have to pay $12.5 billion.

Because the "regulatory authorities" in the United States do not have legal effect.

They have no power to restrict transactions between businesses, and the administrative department's requirements have no legal significance.

They just provide a suggestion.

Even if the relevant departments oppose it, Cisco can still forcibly complete the acquisition of Panda Mobile.

However, the administrative department can file a lawsuit with the judicial department. If the other party really forcibly acquires the company, the administrative department can formally file an antitrust lawsuit. Once the judicial department determines that a monopoly does exist, such a judgment will be legally effective and the company will have to comply.

  Even if the acquisition is completed, it will be forced to split.

That would be too great a loss.

It may even lead to the bankruptcy of the entire company.

Therefore, as long as the relevant institutions oppose the acquisition, no company will take the huge risk of forced acquisition.

This naturally constitutes a breach of contract by the acquirer, and the acquirer must pay a large amount of liquidated damages to the acquired party.

There is no suspicion of monopoly in Cisco's acquisition of Panda Mobile.

It's just a formality.

Zhou Buqi is already planning and discussing how to deal with the 20 billion US dollars after the transaction is completed.

You can't really go and pay off your debts like Aunt Xue said, right?

That's too unambitious.

The two were waiting for Fu Sheng's arrival in the cafe on the 3rd floor of the Rockefeller Building.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu chuckled and said, "How about buying some more Microsoft stock?"

"Hasn't it reached the limit?" Zhou Buqi didn't think this was a good idea. "Ziweixing and Microsoft have many businesses that compete with each other. For a company like this, it's best not to hold more than 4.9% of the shares. Otherwise, it will be troublesome to operate in the future. I don't want to be questioned by the outside world and shareholders."

Zhen Yu made a new suggestion, "How about improving your life?"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised. "So much money? Is there anything else in our family's life that requires so much money?"

Zhen Yu said, “Give each of them $1 million and let them spend it however they want.”

"Not good." Zhou Buqi shook his head. "Not everyone can manage so much money. If so much money is put into Aunt Xue's account, her daily routine may be disrupted. Her menstrual irregularities are already aggravated, and this is even worse."

Zhen Yu laughed and said, "Don't always bully Aunt Xue."

"Who bullied her?"

Zhou Buqi felt a little guilty about this. He had made Aunt Xue cry when they were taking a bath together yesterday. He had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​measuring the distance between her mouth and throat.

I feel very sorry.

Aunt Xue has a miserable life and it seems that she doesn't have this blessing.

I won't force it.

Zhen Yu remembered something and smiled, "Oh, there is good news. Apple has officially filed a lawsuit against Qualcomm. It has caused a lot of noise. It is said that they have organized a team of more than 130 lawyers to fight Qualcomm to the end."

"Good thing! Good thing!"

Zhou Buqi was really looking forward to this kind of thing.

Zhen Yu pursed her lips and said, "Is this all in your plan?"

Zhou Buqi said: "Man proposes, God disposes, luck is good."

Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at him and started flirting with him, saying angrily, "My man relies on strength, not luck."

Zhou Buqi smiled in agreement and said, "Yes, I agree!" He also understood the deep meaning behind what Senior Sister Zhen Yu said, so he leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Senior Sister, I'll go to your room tonight."

Zhen Yu glanced at him and said "hmm" softly.

Zhou Buqi asked, "Have you sold all the Qualcomm shares held by Pluto Capital?" Zhen Yu nodded, "Yes, as you said, I have exchanged them for Nvidia and AMD shares."

"How about... we buy some more Nvidia and AMD stocks. This is a good investment direction." Zhou Buqi certainly knew that this was a very clear track. "The future is the era of artificial intelligence, and graphics card companies will become the mainstay of the artificial intelligence era."

Zhen Yu chuckled and said, "The stock prices of Nvidia and AMD have risen a lot now!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised. "Is the market following the trend? Is it related to me?"

Zhen Yu said: "Bitcoin is very popular now, and there are several popular blockchain currencies."

"Oh! Mining!"

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

Zhen Yu said softly, "Well, I don't quite understand the technical principle. This kind of virtual currency mining mechanism requires a graphics card. Because of the rise of the mining industry, Nvidia and AMD graphics cards have great productivity demands, and they are in short supply!"

Bitcoin has increased more than ten times this year, instantly boosting the entire industry.

Many people have started buying mining machines, hoping to make money from mining.

The most core component of a mining machine is the graphics card.

Many graphics cards suitable for mining were immediately bought out by miners, causing a sharp rise in graphics card prices in the market. As a result, the stock prices of graphics card companies Nvidia and AMD also soared.

This is actually just the beginning.

After a few years, as this industry grew bigger and more popular, several rounds of "mining booms" broke out.

It was really scary when the mining boom broke out.

A second-hand graphics card can be more expensive than a new one. The market is going crazy in the rush to grab graphics cards for mining.

SoftBank now holds 4.9% of Nvidia's shares. In 2019, when the mining boom was at its peak, they thought that this was Nvidia's historical peak, so they decisively sold their shares. Sure enough, after selling Nvidia's shares, the mining boom ended and the price of Bitcoin began to plummet.

Masayoshi Son was very relieved.

However, we did not expect that the AI ​​era based on generative big models would come in a flash, and Nvidia took off immediately, with its market value reaching the level of Microsoft and Apple.

Because of the sale of Nvidia's stock, SoftBank directly lost hundreds of billions of dollars.

Zhou Buqi said: "Even if there is mining, Nvidia is still an inconspicuous small company. What is its market value? About 100 billion US dollars? In order to get orders from me, their Chinese boss wants to write me an email every day."

"What order?"

"Ziwei Cloud's servers don't use a lot of graphics cards."

"Isn't Nvidia the dominant company in the graphics card field?" Zhen Yu didn't quite understand. "AMD's graphics cards don't seem to be as universal as Nvidia's? AMD's market value is much lower, only $50 billion."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "You don't understand this, do you? AMD's server CPUs are much cheaper than Intel's. Server CPUs do not have such high compatibility requirements, at least not as high as those on personal PCs. Even if there are some compatibility requirements, our engineers can just optimize and debug them. For cost considerations, Ziwei Cloud now uses a large number of AMD CPUs. AMD has its own product synergy. Using AMD CPUs with AMD graphics cards, the U-display combination will have a better effect and can show more powerful computing power."

“Are you more optimistic about AMD?”

This is what Senior Sister Zhen Yu is most concerned about.

Nvidia and AMD are competitors.

This means that when investing in Nvidia and AMD, you cannot "cross the line" in both companies and hold more than 5% of the shares. Otherwise, investment disagreements will arise and you will become an unpopular investor.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu has already figured out that since her man is so optimistic about the graphics card track, and there is no competitive relationship between the graphics card track and Ziweixing, then he must pick one from NVIDIA and AMD and increase his shareholding to more than 5% and less than 10%.

Who is it?

He will definitely choose whoever he likes more.

Zhou Buqi asked, "Not counting Pluto Capital, how many shares do we own in these two companies?"

"About 2%, that's about the same." Zhen Yu is the CFO of the Zhou family. She is responsible for all financial operations. "This was bought two or three years ago."

Zhou Buqi said: "I am more optimistic about Nvidia. If the funds are sufficient, Nvidia will be the main investment. It's just that Nvidia's plate is too small to absorb too much funds. Otherwise, if you sell Google's stocks, you should exchange them all for Nvidia's stocks."

At this time, Fu Sheng came.

Dusty.

There is no assistant around.

There was an excitement that could not be concealed between his brows, the big deal was done.

Success has been achieved!