Chapter 178: Ma Wei is going to attack the smartphone (first update!)
Look at his thriving career, and the deposit in his bank card that is approaching $1 billion. Ma Wei suddenly set a small goal for himself, that is, to keep spending money and investing. Strive to keep your money within 10 figures...... Unless he made too much money in the end, then he gave up resistance......
Considering that the parallel world is in 2001, there are no smartphones yet. This makes Salted Fish at home Ma Wei, always feel that something is missing in life. So, he is ready to start the buy-buy-buy mode and put all the links needed to produce smartphones. All of them were acquired under Google.
Including the research and development of the Android system, too, you can buy what you need. Anyway, the future mobile phone market will be hugely profitable, and it is waiting to be subverted by smart phones......
Each smartphone requires components from more than 200 suppliers, such as CPUs, camera modules, LCD displays, and more.
"Hey, Segail? I have a thing that I need Google to look into for me. Ma Wei called the president of Google.
"Hello, Chairman Ma Wei, if there is anything you can do, please do not hesitate to tell me!" said Segail, with a respectful attitude.
"I'm probably going to acquire a couple of companies in the near future, coming under the umbrella of Google. You send someone to find out which CPU manufacturers and system developers are currently suitable to be acquired. Ma Wei said on the phone in a faint voice.
As for the manufacturers of mobile phone batteries, mobile phone screens, mobile phone cases, etc., he does not plan to do it himself. This kind of outsourcing is fine, otherwise it will definitely not be busy.
"CPU manufacturer, system developer, Chairman Ma Wei, are you going to enter the computer field?" asked Segail curiously. Their current computer industry in the United States is almost monolithic. The profits are all divided among companies such as Intel, AMD, HP, Compaq, IBM, and Apple.
Other companies want to enter this industry, but they are generally killed by these bigwigs before they have developed......
Ma Wei also understands this situation, so it is impossible to make such a low-level mistake, "not in the field of computers, but in the field of smartphones." ”
"Smartphone?" said Segail, startled by Mavi's words. The mobile phone in the parallel world is still based on Nokia and Motorola, and the clamshell machine, few companies have thought of making the mobile phone smart.
"That's right, a smart phone can be like a personal computer, with an independent operating system and an independent running space. Users can install software, games, navigation and other service programs by themselves, and connect to the Internet. ”
"Smartphones are the future of the world, and we must seize them. As a person who came over, Ma Wei witnessed the collapse of Nokia and Motorola.
Although Motorola produced a smartphone called Tiantuo A6188 in 2000. But its operating system, the screen displays, sets the wrong direction.
As a result, in 2007, Apple's first-generation mobile phone was launched, which directly subverted the traditional mobile phone industry. Forcing Nokia to hastily acquire Symbian Systems and develop its own smartphones. But it's too late, Apple is already too far ahead of the industry, leaving other companies far behind......
Now give Mavi time, there are still six years. Whether he can beat the apple of this life depends on his leadership.
"Okay, Chairman Ma Wei, I'll help you deal with it!" Since Ma Wei said that Google is going to enter the field of smart phones, Xie Gaier, as the president, naturally did his best to do what he asked.
After all, in the past year with Ma Wei, Segail has witnessed too many successes as the chairman.
Three weeks later, after completing the investigation, Sergeil sent Mavi a detailed list. It lists the CPU manufacturers and system developers he investigated.
After receiving the email, Ma Wei officially started his crazy buy-buy-buy mode!
First of all, the "Qualcomm Corporation of the United States," which has just been established 15 years ago and is still slowly developing! This company had a lot of history in its previous life. It is the processor supplier of Apple's 1st and 2nd generation machines.
In China, most of the smartphones of Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo, Xiaomi, Hisense, Haier and other manufacturers also use Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors.
In 2001, the market value of Qualcomm in the United States was less than 150 million US dollars. Ma Wei directly smashed 190 million and bought it into his own hands. And Qualcomm is required to let its ARM semiconductor company develop the ARM11 series of microprocessors as soon as possible. That is, the CPU chip of a smartphone......
Mobile phone CPU manufacturers, after you get it. The next step is system development.
The Android system, using Java, is a programming language, which is far less efficient and fast than Apple's objective-c. This directly leads to the Android system, which will become slower and slower the more you use it. THE EXPERIENCE IS NOT AS GOOD AS APPLE'S IOS SYSTEM.
And the original Android program developer actually jumped from Apple to Google. As for Apple's IOS system, it is derived from its Mac system.
Therefore, the system development elite that Ma Wei is looking for is naturally poached from Apple at a high price. Anyway, he offered a reward of $10 million, and whoever can develop a "smartphone system" that satisfies him will be the one who will pay the money.
As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. Soon, Ma Wei's Google company recruited many senior elites from Apple. Apple had to raise programmers' salaries and bonuses in an attempt to keep it. But with little effect.
After all, Ma Wei threw too much money! The annual salary of a senior system developer is only $15 to $200,000. A $10 million bounty, which can drive them crazy to the point of desperate ......
In addition to these key acquisitions, investments. Mavi is also preparing to establish a joint venture in Russia and China to build mobile phone production and assembly plants, similar to the well-known enterprise Futukang.
This will not only boost the Russian and domestic economies, but also provide a lot of jobs.
After laying out these matters, it cost Ma Wei a total of nearly 300 million US dollars. As a result, his bank deposits plummeted to $510 million.
Just when Ma Wei was busy for his smartphone industry. A message from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reached him.
That's ......
"Master, the call is from Miss Yuna, the secretary of the Minister of Defense, and she said that the Minister of Defense wants to see you. Ivan, the butler, whispered to Ma Wei while holding the microphone.
"Minister of Defense, looking for me?" At this time, Ma Wei was still petting the bear at home and teasing the tiger. I don't know, what is the matter with this Russian defense minister looking for him.
"Hey, I'm Mavi, please. He casually picked up the phone and asked the other end.
"Hello, Mr. Mavi, I am the Minister of Defense, Secretary to General Grilov, Yuna. That's right, our minister would like to invite you to meet you at the Federal Ministry of Defense tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.