"Can the other party guarantee that this deal will definitely pass the review of the National Assembly and the Foreign Investment Commission?" asked Yu Wenfei with a frown.

Zhou Mengyi smiled and replied softly: "No one can guarantee this question, but Peng Mingsheng said that with IBM's influence here, the problem should not be big, it is nothing more than a delay of some time." ”

IBM's personal computer business, although it has been losing money every year in recent years, is still very famous, and it has many patented technologies.

Coupled with the fact that Star Technology is still a company from Chinese mainland, then this acquisition must be reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and even go to Congress for consultation.

The so-called market freedom in Europe and the United States is only relative, and in many respects, in fact, their protectionism is more powerful than that at home.

But fortunately, the controlling major shareholder of Star Technology is Xiangjiang Jiale Company, and Star Technology does not have any state-owned background, so it should not be too much of a problem to pass the review. Yu Wenfei is worried that this deal will be delayed for a year and a half or even longer, which will delay his own business.

Because in his memory, Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's personal computer business, after the two sides reached a transaction agreement, it took more than a year just for the foreign investment committee to review it.

In the process, IBM has indeed put a lot of effort into lobbying with many political allies.

Moreover, Lenovo is also very cooperative, actively or forced to agree to many conditions, such as promising to abandon all of IBM's original European and American government customer business......

For the sake of insurance, Yu Wenfei has also made preparations for a long time, and the "friendship" of the Walton family should also come in handy at this time!

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The next day, at IBM's New York headquarters, Yu Wenfei met Peng Mingsheng, who was said to have saved IBM.

This is a tall, white and fat old American man in his early fifties, with a pair of dark red horn-framed eyes on the bridge of his nose, and he is accustomed to looking down when looking at people, looking through the upper slit of the frame of his glasses.

It looked like he was smiling all over his face and looking very kind.

Of course, those who know him know that at work, Peng Mingsheng is not an "easy-going" person, he does things vigorously and resolutely, and he does not hesitate to decide things.

It can be seen from the sale of the personal computer business department that this matter is carried out by Peng Mingsheng.

If you change to another company, which CEO has the courage to sell the company's pillar business, not to mention that although IBM's computer business has incurred losses, the overall sales volume is still the first in the world!

In 2001, IBM's computer business sold $91 billion!

The second-ranked HP is only 47 billion, and the third-ranked Compaq is only 40 billion, which means that the second and third together are not as much as IBM.

Of course, of IBM's more than 90 billion yuan, mainframes and servers also account for a large proportion, not just personal computers.

However, Peng Mingsheng made a judgment in 2001 that the total share of the personal computer market will continue to decline in the future, and the life of the whole computer manufacturers will become more and more difficult, and the profits will be greatly reduced. So from then on, he made up his mind to sell IBM's personal computer business.

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There are also a lot of people who came over from Yuwenfei's side today, in addition to the people in the company, there are also a lot of specially hired legal advisers, financial consultants, acquisition consultants, etc.

The amount of this acquisition is not very large, but there are many things involved, and the acquisition procedure will be more troublesome, so Yu Wenfei is also very cautious.

Without wasting much time, everyone arrived in the large conference room, sat down on both sides of the long conference table, and officially began the final negotiations.

The conditions on IBM's side have been offered, and Peng Mingsheng has emphasized, that is the minimum condition that the company's board of directors can accept, and there is no need to talk about the amount.

1250 million US dollars, which is not expensive, Yu Wenfei does not care too much about the amount, what he focuses on is how many key technologies can be obtained from IBM in this acquisition!

An IT giant company like IBM, which was established in the "ancient period", is really a treasure, and the company has a lot of core patented technologies. It can be said that if you can take away a few more useful patents from IBM, Yuwenfei will be able to save a lot of time when he enters the PC hardware industry and the mobile phone industry in the future.

The specific conditions, Zhou Mengyi has already talked to Peng Mingsheng about the same, Yu Wenfei is concerned about how many technology patents IBM will transfer to the new Lenovo Group this time.

Without talking about the price, Yu Wenfei directly picked up the patent technology transfer manual, which was quite a thick booklet.

TAKE A LOOK, THERE ARE MORE THAN 1,000 PATENTED TECHNOLOGIES DENSELY PACKED IN THE CATALOG INDEX, AND THE MORE CORE TECHNOLOGIES ON THE THINKPAD ARE BASICALLY IN IT.

For example, hard disk protection technology is APS automatic protection of hard disks. THIS TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS THINKPAD LAPTOPS TO MAINTAIN SYSTEM STABILITY IN THEIR OWN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS, WITHOUT SYSTEM CRASHES, CRASHES, ETC. THIS IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT FACTOR WHY CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS AND FIELD WORKERS LOVE TO USE THINKPADS.

CPU Eagle Wing Fan technology can help the computer dissipate heat better and greatly reduce the temperature of the processor.

The automatic update software can automatically connect to the manufacturer's server to automatically update the software, which is very convenient and user-friendly, and improves the user's experience.

Magnesium roll resistant frame, which is a process know-how.

There's also the LCD Dispy used on the ThinkPad!

Compared to conventional LCDs, it has the following features: Wider viewing angle: up to 170 degrees up, down, left and right. Sharper high-definition graphics: 1.5 times higher contrast ratio, 1.3 times brighter than previous products, and 1600X1200 (UXGA) ultra-high resolution and 15-inch large screen.

It can be said that these technologies were ahead of all laptop manufacturers on the market in 2003!

Of course, there are many technologies that don't seem so conspicuous and important, but in Yu Wenfei's heart, they are also extremely important.

FOR EXAMPLE, FINGERPRINT VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGY, ON LAPTOPS, THINKPAD IS ALSO THE FIRST BRAND TO APPLY FINGERPRINT VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGY TO COMPUTERS!

This thing may not be very practical on a laptop, but in the era of smart phones, for a long time, anyone who does not have a fingerprint recognition function on their mobile phone will be embarrassed to develop a new product.

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After reading the technology transfer manual, Yu Wenfei nodded with satisfaction, put down the booklet, and looked at Peng Mingsheng.

He said: "There is no problem with the price, I have one last condition." ”

Peng Mingsheng looked at the young man opposite, full of emotion, heroes have been teenagers since ancient times!

Especially in the Internet industry, this industry has really created too many miracles, and the teenager in front of him is the most dazzling genius that has emerged in the Internet industry in the past two years.

It only took more than a year to achieve a career that most people can't do in a lifetime.