did not participate in CCTV's Economic Person of the Year awards, Liu Chuanzhi still had a lot of criticism of Zhou Shi, but this time he won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Lenovo's market capitalization may not be enough to reflect his position in China's economic circles. We can't ask everyone to be Ren Zhengfei, everyone has Jack Ma's achievements. If Zheng Fei and Jackma had more options, they might not have achieved what they are now.

It's not 2012 yet, and the legendary end of the world hasn't destroyed everyone's yearning for the future. In the magazine published by Time Magazine on this day (the results seem to come out before Christmas every year), Zhou Shi's bust is clearly visible. The news soon spread throughout the world, especially Huaxia. You must know that as a magazine with great influence, especially an American magazine, the Chinese have become the person of the year only a handful of times, and there are two chief designers of reform and opening up, as well as the inventor of cocktail therapy and the freshman. Not to mention the Man of the Year, even the Chinese who appear on the cover of Time Magazine are very few, and every time they appear, they will be hyped up.

"Wow, it's finally up, although it's a year slower than last year's Xiaozha!"

"The pride of the Chinese, the strongest post-80s generation on the earth!"

"Chinese heroes who change the world!"

"He was the one who changed the entire Internet landscape"

"The Legend of an Ordinary Man"

"Eastern culture conquers the Western market"

"Dao Shang?"

Zhou Shi's name has been mentioned again and again with the reports of Time Magazine and various media, and his status has been further raised. This young rich man who is not yet 30 years old has received more attention from all walks of life at home and abroad.

At the same time, Zhou Shi's views on philanthropy, the idea of establishing a large-scale social enterprise, and the guidance of Taoist thought on him are also well known to the public. Although not everyone agrees with his philosophy, at least let everyone know that he is not a person without ideals.

Zuckerberg of social networks and Zhou Shi of artificial intelligence, after Time magazine labeled them, the two became the two most famous young rich people in the world. The world of the Internet has no borders, and the two of them are destined to fall in love with each other for a long time.

"Congratulations!" Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo also organized a team at the beginning of 2012 and sent a request to IBM to acquire it together with the people who chartered semiconductors.

"Hehe, happy and happy, this is not my success alone, it is the efforts of the Chinese generation that we have what we are now," Zhou Shi said modestly

"No matter how you say it, it's hard to hide your own light!" Yang Yuanqing is very good at talking

"I believe that more Chinese people will have this opportunity in the future, and maybe we will not pay attention to this selection activity in the future. Thank you for your help, though. "Zhou Shi, although Zhou Shi has made a lot of preparations this time, Lenovo still has a great possibility of playing soy sauce.

"Maybe it's you who help us this time" Yang Yuanqing, I don't know what IBM's attitude is, and there is still a possibility of transferring low-end servers and retaining chip manufacturing.

"Don't be polite, let's arrange things first!" Zhang Yujing

So the two sides quickly discussed the specific details, in fact, there is not much to say, the difference between chip manufacturing and low-end servers is too big, in fact, the two sides in addition to the cooperation at the capital level, there is not much room for cooperation.

The two sides soon contacted IBM executives and began a formal inquiry, and Zhou Shi continued to walk the upper route and communicate with IBM's shareholders. Zhou Shi, who became the Man of the Year, was obviously accepted by the mainstream social groups in the United States. Not only accepted his wealth, but also his status.

"I think IBM's transformation is undoubtedly very correct, jumping out of the low-margin hardware manufacturing field and into the more lucrative service field, if it weren't for its high market capitalization, I would really like to be its shareholder. Zhou Shi said in front of a major shareholder of IBM

Even a few years later, IBM still has a deep technical potential, and it has been the world's leading in the number of patent applications every year for one or two decades, which is almost the largest treasure trove in the American technology industry, with some of the world's most outstanding talents. It is not surprising that Zhou Shi wants to draw nutrients from it, I don't know how many people covet IBM, but most people don't have this ability, or have too much ambition. This time, Lenovo and Licensed Semiconductors have clear goals and little ambition, aiming at IBM's chicken-ribbed business. IBM's shareholders and executives were at least not resistant to the acquisition.

"IBM's greatness is known by everyone" The shareholder is very confident, as a representative enterprise of everlasting foundation, IBM's longevity is a legend in itself, and more importantly, although Zhou Shi has made Yahoo transform into artificial intelligence, but the most outstanding in this field is currently IBM. They have an outstanding representative in this field, Watson, and have made many useful attempts at commercialization in this field.

"This cooperation should be a win-win situation, and I don't know if it can be successful?" Zhou Shi

"It depends on how Luo Ruilan chooses, and we can't interfere in this kind of thing" the shareholder

In the face of the tsundere shareholders, Zhou Shi does not have much enthusiasm, such an acquisition involves billions of dollars, it is impossible to say that shareholders have no right to speak, but his purpose now is not to convince them, just to express the sincerity of Lenovo and Licensed Semiconductors. IBM's chip manufacturing division has many military tasks, and if there are no special measures, such as a separate spin-off of the military department business, the possibility of a successful acquisition of IBM's chip manufacturing business will be very low. As for IBM's low-end server division, either watch it decline, or sooner or later it will fall into the hands of Lenovo.

A few days later, Yang Zhiyuan and Zhang Yujing left the United States and returned to the mainland, and they did not need to be present all the time in the specific negotiation process. Zhang Yujing's departure is also to bring in capital, in addition to Huaxia, he will also go to India, as an entrepreneur who has a good impression of India (at least on the surface), Zhou Shi's relationship with Indian capital has also developed more with Tata's cooperation in Miramax. As a huge market, Zhou Shi has always attached great importance to the most potential market after Huaxia, and there are many Indian geniuses in his companies. Otherwise, do you really think that there is no substitute for Pichai in this world?

At this time, the licensed semiconductor company was the most technologically advanced semiconductor foundry except for TSMC, which was stronger than Samsung, which lacked key talents. This industry is not rich and has everything, otherwise Grofoundries in his previous life would not have worked hard and failed all the time. There is a difference between GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung Semiconductor, and there may be a lot of business sources missing. This time, the success of the husks and nuts helped Zhou Shi make up for most of the defects. It also laid the lower limit of licensed semiconductors, at least it will be a Samsung semiconductor in a previous life.

In order to scale up quickly, concessions require more capital investment. After all, Galaxy Capital is not like cows, which have endless milk. Licensed semiconductors, which have already shown their strengths, have attracted more attention. In this era when loan interest rates are ridiculously low, not only the issuance of corporate bonds has begun, but also equity financing is being prepared. Globalfoundries' group of local tyrants, do you think that without them, licensed semiconductors will always be short of money?

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