After a day of rest in downtown Los Angeles, on the third day after returning from Disneyland, Xu Zhi and others embarked on a new journey.

Robson assigned Xu Zhi and the others a car and a driver, and at this moment, they were on the highway to San Francisco.

The strength of developed countries lies in the fact that they have many powerful companies, in later generations, the United States has Microsoft, Google, Apple, General Electric, etc., RB has two fields, Sony, Germany has Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen and so on.

These are very well-known companies.

But the reason why these countries are strong is not only by these famous companies, behind the hidden, there are countless low-key technology giants, these giants research and development of industrial products, chemical materials have an absolute monopoly position in their industry, to a certain extent, these research and development of basic materials companies may be more important than the real finished product company.

The simplest example: the reason why China's automobile industry is not good in later generations is not that the automobile companies are not strong, but that the ability of its supporting auto parts companies is insufficient, and further, these parts companies actually refer to some more basic industries: materials, processing and heat treatment.

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The same is true in the electronics industry, many domestic mobile phone companies in later generations are actually subject to Samsung, TSMC and other manufacturers, such as Huawei, which can only design the most advanced chips by itself, but can not do it themselves.

Including the giant Apple, it's the same, to a certain extent, Apple and Samsung really love each other, Apple is counting on Samsung to provide a large number of hardware materials, Samsung is in the monopoly market considerations, and must also accept Apple's orders, otherwise Apple will turn to support TSMC and even other companies, maybe it will be able to cultivate a new competitor.

But Samsung's strength also lies in the fact that all or most of Apple's orders must be handed over to him, otherwise don't ask me to do it. Although Apple is not reconciled, but in the short term, once the production capacity is insufficient, it will lose a large number of markets, so Apple is forced to cultivate new suppliers, so a balance is achieved.

Of course, Xu Zhi also wants to invest in his own hardware company, but at present, he does not have the strength at all, so he can only take the simplest Xiaomi model first, and all the outsourcing that can be outsourced, this trip is for this.

Even if you are a traverser, if you don't have enough money, or the company has reached a certain scale, you have to invest in a large number of industries for the sake of industrial layout, then the easiest way to succeed is to be a charter company, collect rent once a day, and reincarnate once a month, how easy it is!

It is impossible to do business, and it is impossible in this life.

Of course, this is if there is no money......

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There are now many companies specializing in materials in the United States, and many people who are not in the industry don't know about it at all, such as 3M of tape, Corning, the way of silicon materials, and the company that Xu Zhi and others are going to is one of them - Texas Instruments.

Sitting in the car, Xu Zhi looked at all the information about Texas Instruments in his hand.

Texas Instruments is headquartered in Texas, the southernmost state of the United States, also known as the Cowboy State, and if you retire one day, it's a good idea to raise cattle there.

In the field of industrial semiconductors, Texas Instruments' chips and memory are in a dominant position in this era, and the competitors that can be counted are giants such as Siemens and General Electric.

About 8 kilometers south of downtown San Francisco, Deyi has invested more than $100 million to build a large chip production base and motherboard manufacturing plant.

However, now in the 70s, it is also the time of the outbreak of RB semiconductors, RB's low labor and high efficiency, in the semiconductor industry launched a fire and generally price war, Deyi's two factories soon fell into trouble, the employment of more than 1,000 employees, wages alone have to consume more than two million US dollars per month, not to mention that the factory can not stop work at all, and cut a big profit on the headquarters company every month.

Xu Zhi's arrival was not too low-key, tens of millions of dollars from Xiangjiang to the United States had already entered the account of Citibank, Citi contacted Xu Zhi as soon as he received the money, and visited Xu Zhi after Xu Zhi came to the United States, according to Xu Zhi's request, Citibank provided a deposit certificate of 10 million US dollars, and Citi and Goldman Sachs made a letter of introduction for Xu Zhi's financial strength, which was sent directly to Deyi, and informed the guest from Xiangjiang that he intended to purchase a huge amount of electronic products.

Without the recommendation of the two major banks, a giant company like Deyi would not have been able to do an investigation by an unknown person like Xu Zhi from Asia.

This is also a big problem of international trade or non-local trade, without enough introduction, the world's top 500 companies are too lazy to pay attention to you.

Deyi branch attaches great importance to Xu Zhi's visit, no matter what, the other party is definitely worth more than 10 million US dollars, in this era, 10 million US dollars is not a small amount, Deyi as one of the top 50 giant companies in the United States, a year turnover is only more than one billion US dollars. If long-term cooperation can be reached, it may not be anything to the head office, but it will definitely greatly improve the performance of the branch.

After a detailed inspection by the doorman, two managers of the marketing department of Deyi Branch came to welcome them in person and took Xu Zhi to the conference room in the building in front of the factory.

The manager of the branch is named Matthew, a native Texas cowboy, after being transferred from the headquarters to San Francisco, he has not changed his habit of wearing denim, at this time he wears a white shirt on the upper body, jeans and sneakers on the bottom, which is a little out of place with the style of the office.

"Mr. Xu, I hope you don't care about what I wear, I hope we will be friends, not just business partners, treat friends, I prefer to wear my own clothes rather than the company. Matthew said with a smile and shaking hands.

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "I hope it is as you wish!"

Matthew laughed, "Actually, I would have preferred to meet you at home, but I knew that you were interested in visiting the factory, so I had to meet at the company." ”

Xu Zhi could only reply politely: "Mr. Matthew is polite." ”

Matthew asked: "After getting the recommendation letters from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, I arranged for someone to investigate Mr. Xu's information, and found that there was no super-rich person with the same surname as you in Xiangjiang, and then I contacted my friends at Goldman Sachs, only to know that Mr. Xu was self-made within a year and earned more than 10 million US dollars, which is an entrepreneurial hero even in the United States, not to mention that you are still so young." I'm really curious, what kind of business can be so profitable, just with your company's crane machine, it is impossible to have such a high profit?"

Xu Zhi frowned and said, "Goldman Sachs told you?"

Matthew coughed dryly and said: "Mr. Xu, rest assured, Goldman Sachs' secrecy is very strict, I only know that you are self-made through a lot of relationships, and I don't know any more information, your information can definitely be kept confidential." ”

Xu Zhi sneered: "But now you still know!"

Matthew said, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. ”

Xu Zhi didn't pursue this matter more, it didn't make much sense, it was impossible for him to give up his cooperation with Deyi because of this matter, let alone fall out with Goldman Sachs because of this matter.

His main funds come from speculation Wharf, whether legally or morally there is no problem, but if it is exposed, it will be the absolute first to offend Jardine Matheson, and now Xiangjiang, Jardine has found that someone intends to merge Wharf, and Xu Zhi has leveraged long before, who can believe that he is not involved? The so-called right and wrong, just depends on whether you have the strength, and the explanation is useless.

What's even more troublesome is the hundreds of millions of income, he will completely enter the eyes of the political and business circles in Xiangjiang, and all kinds of actions in the future will be greatly concerned, not to mention, for his family, the security aspect will also be a big problem.

However, Goldman Sachs also has to remind that many people's self-perceived secrecy is actually vulnerable, tell a friend, and then ask him to promise not to tell anyone, and this friend will tell other people, and have the same commitment, and then continue...... So everyone in a village knew about it, and the protagonist of the matter was stupid and no one else knew.

Since you don't care, you have to show that you don't care, Xu Zhi nodded and said, "If we talk about cooperation and become friends, I will naturally tell you." ”

Matthew didn't ask any more questions, and said, "Okay, I don't know if Xu Sheng came to our company, is there anything we might be able to help with?"

Xu Zhidao: "I hope to reach a cooperation with Deyi Electronics Factory, and Deyi will OEM game motherboards for our company." ”

"What kind of motherboard, are there any samples?" asked Matthew.

Xu Zhi took out two motherboards from his briefcase and said, "This is the motherboard that our Xiangjiang branch has manually welded, and I hope that Deyi can design a new motherboard according to this template and deploy the production line." ”

Matthew took it over, looked at it for a while, and said: "The motherboard is not very complicated, but in order to ensure the success rate, I also need the finished equipment of this set of games, and I can understand the functions of the motherboard thoroughly before designing an industrial motherboard, otherwise even if we make it, it will be difficult to ensure the success rate." ”

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Of course there is no problem, the several arcade machines I airlifted from Xiangjiang have already arrived in the United States, as long as we reach an agreement, I will immediately send two to come." ”