In the midst of Chen Xian'er's chatter, Ding Yi spent two hours to reach Mingzhu, and then boarded the plane, which took fourteen hours, and set foot in the United States again, setting foot in San Francisco.

This time, Jobs came directly to pick up the airport......

If this is put in the future and Jobs is to pick up the plane, I am afraid that it will immediately be explosive news in the technology world.

However, Ding Yi can understand this, he has become a major shareholder of Apple, and a lot of cooperation has been carried out.

Not to mention anything else, it is the advice about Apple's iPod, and related music stores, as well as relying on the Mac system in the future, porting it to various hardware, combined with software, and establishing Apple's own ecology, which made Jobs shocked.

He Jobs did have a lot of ideas, but now, he was just thinking about how to make Apple better alive.

Unexpectedly, Ding Yi walked directly in front of him and directly considered how to break through the predicament and form his own ecology.

For Ding Yi's strategic idea, Jobs strongly agreed. I even feel that it coincides with my own faint thoughts.

Ding went from a bloodsucking shareholder to a like-minded collaborator in an instant.

After a warm greeting, when introducing the entourage, Ding Yi pulled Zeng Yuqun and said straight to the point, "This is the battery manufacturer I invested in, and the pouch polymer battery produced by me, I think it is very suitable for iPod ......"

We are now like-minded comrades, so there is naturally no need to hide anything about this kind of thing.

After glancing at Zeng Yuqun, Jobs shook hands with him and said a few words, then nodded and said, "I will ask the technical department to verify it when I go back, and if it meets our Apple's requirements, we will give priority to cooperation." ”

The battery supply is not a big deal, and the two only talked a few words before they finalized the approximate.

Of course, this premise is that Xuanyuan New Energy's battery is qualified.

Because of the discussion, Ding Yi and Jobs got into a car, and Chen Xian'er and the others got into another car, and the car went all the way south to Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, a small city in Silicon Valley.

There was no one else in the car, and Jobs didn't have time to look at the scenery on the side of the road, so he couldn't help but ask, "I heard that you came here this time mainly to build a state-of-the-art chip manufacturing plant in Huaxia?"

Ding nodded, "Yes, Huaxia's chip market is getting bigger and bigger, build a chip manufacturing plant in advance to seize the market ......"

Hearing Ding Yi's thoughts, Jobs shook his head, "Chip manufacturing, huge investment, and high threshold, few people can do it, especially in Huaxia." ”

Of course, Jobs understands how difficult it is to enter chip manufacturing now, especially in terms of logic chips, Intel is the dominant one. The investment of tens and tens of billions of dollars at every turn has made the entry threshold of this industry extremely high, and the monopoly degree is also very high......

And Samsung's large amount of money is now on chip manufacturing, so they almost died in the previous financial crisis.

If it weren't for the support of South Korea and the entry of Wall Street capital, Samsung would have almost been finished.

In this way, Samsung's chip manufacturing business is now almost at a standstill.

Comparatively, Ding Yi is weaker in this regard. Without any foundation, experience, but also to be established in the most sensitive place, Huaxia......

Seriously, Jobs is really not optimistic about Ding Yi's investment in this area at all.

Ding Yi didn't say much about Jobs's worries, and asked directly, "What, is Apple interested in this?"

“……”

Jobs looked at Ding Yi helplessly.

Dude, what's wrong with Apple?

The market value is less than three billion, the liquidity is very limited, and I want to conduct research on iPod, Mac system, etc.

Otherwise, why did they sign a settlement agreement with Microsoft in '98?

It's not that the funds are extremely scarce, and the lawsuit can't drag on at all. Without a settlement agreement and a sum of compensation money from Microsoft, they went bankrupt......

At this time, you proposed to me to invest in chip manufacturing?

Are you kidding!

Take your life?

Of course, Ding Yi understood this situation, and without waiting for Jobs to speak, he continued, "Apple can help me hold a part of the equity, I can lend some funds to Apple interest-free, and then you invest in it, and use this investment as collateral, if you don't want to hold it, directly pay back the equity, if you want to continue to hold, return the funds, but in this case, Apple will give me a financial cost." ”

"Huh?"

Jobs looked at Ding Yi in surprise and held the ...... on his behalf

This man is crazy!

With this sentence, Jobs understood Ding's determination to make chips and borrowed Apple money to invest.

On behalf of the holder, Jobs did not refuse, anyway, Apple has no risk of loss. Moreover, Ding Yi's purpose is also very clear, that is, he wants to bypass the investigation of business through this means, and it is really easy to talk about having American funds.

In this way, Ding Yihui will suffer a lot.

He took the risk himself, and in case there was a profit, Apple could completely return the funds.

Jobs looked at Ding Yi, "Then what's in it for me?"

Ding Yi looked at Jobs and said, "I can also lend you 20 million US dollars, which you can manipulate at will, for example, you can take the opportunity to expand your equity in Apple......

Regarding Ding Yi's conditions, Jobs was silent.

He now has a very low stake in Apple, but he is extremely optimistic about Apple's prospects......

That's right, now Apple's share price is definitely at its lowest point.

Jobs believed that in a year or two at most, Apple's stock price would climb significantly.

To make this judgment, one is that Jobs believes in his own strength, Apple will definitely get better and better, especially the launch of the iPod, he believes that this is definitely a new profit point, and the general environment will not always be so bad.

If you can borrow $20 million from Ding Yi now and exchange it for Apple stock, it will definitely appreciate in value soon.

Regardless of whether the environment will get better, as long as the iPod is launched, it will be enough to support Apple's stock price to rise.

Seeing that Jobs fell silent, Ding Yi didn't say much, let him think about it more, after all, this is not a trivial matter, after all, Ding Yi began to think about how to bring Google in, for Google, Ding Yi can use a similar way to Jobs.

But these are far from enough, Ding Yi still has to pull some funds from some venture capital or funds......

This part can no longer learn from Apple and Google, but must invest real money!

Otherwise, he Ding Yi's funds would not be enough......

If nothing else, the introduction of a 12-inch wafer production line, coupled with a 0.18-micron manufacturing process, will require an investment of more than $2 billion.

For a part of the loan, Ding Yi cannot prepare less than one billion dollars. Otherwise, if you rely on loans, you won't be able to support much at all, and when the time comes, a financial cost and a depreciation of equipment can kill a chip manufacturing plant.