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   Chapter 267 Iron Pestle Grind into Needles

  Song Yang was not ready to enter chip manufacturing and other things immediately. Even with Song Yang's current worth, it is impossible to afford to directly burn money into the chip manufacturing industry.

  PA Semiconductor is an emerging chip design team. In this era, the battle of the chip industry is not so cruel. Although chip manufacturers have begun to gradually decrease, the chip architecture is still blooming.

Although Intel is a bit dominant, it has not yet ruled the rivers and lakes. 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 Group and Apple are also developing their own chips. .

  What Song Yang has to do is to start preparing a chip design team ahead of time. Chip manufacturing is something that will come later. Just like Apple's chips, it took 30 years to complete!

Apple's chips did not exist from the beginning. As early as more than ten years ago, before Jobs was kicked out of Apple, he began to develop chips. At first, it was jointly developed with the Microelectronics Department of the Telephone and Telegraph Group. After burning tens of millions of dollars, the fart has not developed a single one. Apple is unwilling to play, and the electronics department of the telephone and telegraph group has been completely stagnant since then...

   But Apple did not give up. Six years ago, they formed the AIM alliance in the chip industry. Apple, IBM and Motorola formed an alliance to develop a new chip architecture. The result was that the price was too expensive.

  Although it is not good to be a teacher, Apple has nothing to gain. 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 the major shareholders of ARM holding 40% of the shares. Although Apple's chip business is still not very good, ARM, which was originally a paddling project, is now living a good life, relying on technology authorization. It is wind and water, and there have been repeated news that it will be listed.

So for Apple, there is no need to make a fuss about what chip technology is ahead of its peers, or it can always get the chip authorization of the latest ARM architecture. Not to mention that Apple is one of the creators of ARM, although never counted on it...

  Song Yang looked at Marcus, "As long as Dan Dobble is willing to accept investment, America Global Investment Fund will invest in PA Semiconductor!"

Dobopool is also an old gun in the semiconductor industry. He debuted for decades, much earlier than Jobs’ debut. Although he was in the same era, the gang leader Joe was still in his youthful 18 years old. General Electric's laboratory to do project research.

  When Apple was just starting, Dobble 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 already over fifty years old, no one knows how much oil is still in Dobopool's fuel tank, but Song Yang still has to take a gamble. Investing in Dobopool's PA semiconductor is to have his own chip R&D team.

Apple has been in the chip industry for more than ten years, but it is still half-dead. Song Yang has no intention of becoming a fat man in one go. As long as the PA can develop some mobile phone chips for him, and he does not need to be controlled by others, it will be enough. .

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

On the contrary, next year, I might be able to fish in troubled waters. After Soros fired at Southeast Asia, it doesn’t matter how much he can earn by following Soros. He hates Soros so much. If you do one, it is estimated that Southeast Asia will not be able to go in this life.

And after Soros left, there are a lot of opportunities, especially on the stick side, panel, chip semiconductor manufacturers, Japan Benzene, Singapore and other places can take the opportunity to make a profit, Song Yang is not prepared to be too greedy, as long as he takes It is enough for the next few semiconductor and panel manufacturing companies to be able to produce their own chips, but technically they can only take it slowly.

Hearing Song Yang's insistence, Marcus couldn't say anything else. He just calculated that these few investments today would cost more than half of Song Yang's cash flow. In Asia, Song Yang let Ma Cuth prepared a large amount of funds, which made Marcus, who supported Song Yang's foreign investment, start to worry about whether Song Yang's cash flow would be in trouble.

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

What is a chicken and a dog ascending to the sky? Even if Song Yang is not like an African-American, as soon as he makes a fortune, he will provide all his family and friends, but Gleick, Gallo, Irene, Marcus and others are the first to follow Song Yang. The value of the batch of people has skyrocketed now, not to mention profligate spending, at least compared to the average American, it has been regarded as the realization of financial freedom.

Gleek is now the legal president of Double Click, Americas, ICQ, Western Pictures, Americas Global Investment Foundation and other companies. The monthly salary received from these companies is the same as the annual salary of a small law firm in Houston in the past. dozens of times.

   In addition to his equity in Double-click Company, Greck's worth has already reached more than ten million dollars!

Although the other members of the Bruno family are not all like Greck and Gallo, they can get so much, but the Bruno Family Foundation established by Song Yang still allows a group of people, each family surnamed Bruno, to get nearly 10,000 yuan. The share of the US knife 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..." When he opened the car door, Greck turned his head and said to Marcus.

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, not involving sensitive technology, other companies do the same, let go Relax Greg, Song is just a very investment-minded... young man!"

After getting in the car, Marcus restrained his smile, frowned for a moment, and shook his head. Marcus hasn't finished what he said just now. It's normal for young people to make mistakes, even if they do something out of the ordinary. Come, you can also push it away.

   But Marcus couldn't guess Song Yang. Song Yang suddenly crossed the field of electronic products from the Internet, and he also invested in so many industries. It can't be said that Song Yang was wrong, but it also made Marcus a little puzzled.

But after thinking for a while, Marcus shook his head. Since he became Song Yang's CFO, although Song Yang was young, he had never done anything out of the ordinary, not less than a dollar in taxes. Song Yang has never done any of the rotten methods and things that Liga rich people used to do. Marcus really couldn't figure it out, Song Yang would do those unthinkable things.

  Double-click, which has already been listed, announced the acquisition of two Internet research companies, MediaMetrix and NetRating, and announced that Double-click has quietly entered the market research industry.

But it was just a glance. Since its listing, it has been in negative news and double-clicked with lawsuits. It is quite popular with short-selling companies on Wall Street. It is shorted once every three days. In addition to the day of listing, there are also rumors of "The Matrix" On the day of the project's establishment, the stock price of Double-click rose once, and the rest of the time was half-dead.

  The acquisition of two companies, MediaMetrix and NetRating, has little effect on Double-click. The stock price cannot fall below the issue price of four dollars, but it will definitely not rise.

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

  From $800 million on the day of its listing, Yahoo’s market value has exceeded $2 billion in two or three months now, and it is still soaring.

After the listing of Yahoo, the limelight has completely replaced Netscape. Recently, Yahoo finally launched Yahoo Mail. Once it went online, it showed an unstoppable trend. In the case of Hitmail mailboxes, Yahoo Mail used the slogan of large-memory mailboxes and free forever. , quickly attacked the city and conquered the land, and taught Microsoft a lesson.

After acquiring the Hotmail mailbox from Song Yang, Microsoft did not make any further changes, nor did it upgrade the mailbox memory, but Yahoo seized on this and directly created a large-memory Yahoo mailbox, which caught Microsoft by surprise. Within a few days, it had nearly a million users.

  The e-mail industry has finally begun to involute, but this has nothing to do with Song Yang. After Yahoo, there are still many opponents such as AOL and Netscape, and e-mail is bound to be killed.

In addition to launching e-mail, Yahoo also officially announced that it will launch its first instant messaging software, Yahoo Messenger, before the end of the year, which almost marks that Yahoo is officially going to compete with Song Yang. Song Yang did not respond, but Irene, the co-president of ICQ, announced a piece of news that was not considered 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 have felt the feeling that the wind and rain are coming. After the battle between Microsoft and Netscape, the Internet seems to have a new excitement.

Yahoo is not only launching a few new features, otherwise, why would it be so popular? After listing, Yahoo has started to sell and sell. In just two or three months, it has acquired four or five small Internet companies, including America. The largest tracing website, Four11, can be understood as the American version of the 114 inquiry desk, that is, to find a person's phone number, yellow leaf search, etc., which can be searched on Four11 and bought by Yahoo.

  In addition to Four11, there are several companies such as software development company Viaweb, online sales company Yoyodyne, etc., which have made Yahoo's share price soar all the way, and the limelight has never been two.

   And right here, news suddenly came out that the Americas Global Investment Fund invested 30 million US dollars to acquire eBay!

   (end of this chapter)