It has been more than half a year since Han Chudong came to Silicon Valley for the first time.

Occasionally, I hear about innovation and development in the technology industry, but in general, the Silicon Valley area has not changed much.

Rather than investing a large amount of money in independent research and development, he hopes to directly participate in picking peaches at the right time, at least in the IC industry, otherwise the uncertainty factor is too high, and there will be certain risks in investment.

Anyway, there are no projects to invest in, and there are very few investors competing with him.

There are so many opportunities to choose from, so there's no need to think about it.

However, in terms of R&D investment, Han Chudong spent the most money on Aurora Game Company, having spent more than $4 million, and it is expected to cost some money to build and put into production in the future.

Then we have to talk about investing in Intel and Texas Instruments.

These two companies have technology patents, R&D teams, and market foundations, and the latter currently has a higher market value.

After all, Han Chudong is a shareholder, and he is also ready to get involved in the field of personal computer research and manufacturing, regardless of whether IBM will purchase Intel's products or not, he will definitely support his company anyway, bring the market and capital to Intel, and use it as a bargaining chip during the market competition.

To be honest, at this stage, more R&D funds are invested in Mason Labs than in Silicon Valley.

This is mainly determined by the market, the mature IC market Han Chudong can not enter, even if it is involved in the profit is low, and the IT market has just started, the level of science and technology can not meet the requirements, it is better to temporarily develop home appliances, beauty, toys and other products.

At the beginning of September, Mason Labs resumed its research and development program for portable players.

After the research, the supervisor told Han Chudong that if it went well, it should be able to be developed, so he got a huge amount of research and development funds to set up a portable tape player research and development team, as well as a digital music player research and development team, and the initial investment is expected to be as high as 3.5 million US dollars.

The tape player is the focus, and the latter is to accumulate some technology in advance, preemptively win patents, and establish patent barriers.

Before making a decision, Han Chudong investigated Sony Co., Ltd.

I learned that in the mid-sixties, because of the huge losses caused by the color TV business, Sony was almost pushed to the brink of bankruptcy.

It wasn't until 1967, when Sony unveiled a new type of image tube technology that made Sony TVs sell well around the world, that Akio Morita was able to quickly pay off the huge R&D debt he borrowed from the Development Bank of Japan, and there were no plans to develop a portable cassette player.

At the end of this 1974 year.

Sony is still only one of the many home appliance manufacturers, and its strength is not top-notch, and its main business is radio, TV, etc.

Han Chudong has the ability to invest in it, with a market value of more than 400 million US dollars, even if he buys it in its entirety, it is no problem, but this company does not have the technology he wants, so there is no need to spend money.

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Coming from San Francisco to the Silicon Valley area again.

The main purpose is twofold, one is to meet with the major shareholders of Aurora Games, and the other is to visit the prototype of the personal computer produced by Xerox.

As for Intel Corporation, there is not much market for its products at the moment.

I communicated with CEO Moore in advance, and Han Chudong, as a major shareholder, only asked the other party to concentrate on the research and development of new products, and bluntly said that he didn't care about the current revenue situation at all.

It's right to think about it, if you care about revenue, then the current Intel company can indeed be called a junk stock.

I have been throwing money at the laboratory, but I can't see much money back, and there are some technical products that no one wants to buy, which is tantamount to "suicide" from the perspective of traditional investment.

Some shareholders have often criticized Intel's current development strategy, and the original failed personal computer business is a deformed product of the board's intervention, and even the research and development of microprocessors has been slashed, believing that it will be the next Fairchild semiconductor company in the twilight of life.

Few people can see the future of microprocessors, and Han Chudong has been promoted as a major shareholder, cutting off part of the personal computer R&D team, and further increasing the R&D investment of new processors.

As a person who has been in the past, of course, he has maintained his technological superiority until now, established a solid patent barrier, and how much wealth he can exchange for in the future.

Combined with these, it is no wonder that Han Chudong can grow up rapidly in just over a year, and even have the absurd idea of "money is easy to make", if the current scale of Mason United Group is already very scary, then the most terrifying is the development potential.

A hammer in the east and a stick in the west, just like this, are tinkering around, and the prototype of a huge business empire has been revealed.

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Without making an appointment in advance, Han Chudong came to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and after identifying himself to the front desk, he said that he wanted to meet the person in charge of the research center.

Gradually there is no longer a need for business cards, and the name "Mason Han" is equivalent to a master pass, especially in California, where the media often compare him to Paul Getty Sr., and say that Paul Getty achieved nothing when he was twenty years old, as if he was more affirming Han's achievements in the early winter.

The little girl at the front desk stared at him again and again, and flipped out a magazine for comparison, and then with a smile on her face, she personally led them in to find the supervisor.

As far as the eye can see.

You can see a number of personal computers called Otto, placed on people's desks.

The screen is very small, with a mouse and keyboard, Han Chudong hasn't seen anything like it for a long time, so much so that he is a little excited, as if he has returned to the IT era again.

Judging from what we have learned, this product is obviously not valued by Xerox, it is just like being produced and played, not for sale, given to various universities and research institutions, and similar to Intel's microprocessors, it has been labeled as "chicken ribs".

They are placed on the desks, others only think they are useless, and they are too lazy to turn on the computer as decorations, but in Han Chudong's eyes, they seem to see the future.

In particular, the mouse, which I didn't see when I visited IBM's 360 computer at Intel, is an original product of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center.

The little white girl at the front desk, who was a little short, saw that Han Chudong's eyes were always on the microcomputer, and told intimately: "Our research center is more ...... Strangely, the company uses money for research, attracting many experts to come and help, and is still working with teams from several universities, but there are not many regular employees, a total of more than 30 people. Last time, I was also going to give me an Otto computer, but I won't use it, do you want to put it in your storm appliance and sell it?"

Han Chudong was stunned when he heard this, and said happily: "Almost, I want to study game consoles......"