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"Mr. Chen, do you mean you want me to take a stake in VIA?"

Lin Cheng was a little surprised, after all, VIA has not gone downhill at this time, and the development momentum is good, and now the market value of VIA is as high as $2.5 billion, how can Chen Wenqi be willing to take out the big cake of VIA and share it with himself?

Could it be that he also has the aura of the legendary protagonist and forcibly lowered Chen Wenqi's IQ?

Lin Cheng knows that VIA Electronics was established in 1987, starting as an agent, and after moving from the United States to the United States in 1992, it has developed into a high-tech enterprise with the largest market share of motherboards and chipsets second only to Intel in just a few years.

However, it is precisely because it ranks second in the chip market and has the qualifications to challenge Intel, VIA is now facing the encirclement of Intel, and will soon hit Intel's patent barriers, and start a four-year lawsuit with Intel.

It was not until April 2003 that Intel and VIA each withdrew all ongoing litigation and signed a 10-year cross-licensing agreement for their product lines as Intel's competitive strategy shifted.

At this point, VIA can be regarded as the second largest chipset giant in the world.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and after VIA survived the encirclement and suppression crisis of Intel, it diversified, whether it was rapid or slow expansion, VIA encountered many problems in the process of expansion.

As VIA invests most of its manpower and material resources in areas other than its main chipset, VIA's market share in chipsets has dropped significantly, and its gross profit has continued to be sluggish.

Over time, VIA felt more and more overwhelmed. In May 2009, VIA lost NT$6.6 billion for two consecutive years.

However, it was at that time that HTC, another company that became independent from VIA, entered a period of prosperity, which was a good cover for the fact that VIA was declining.

However, three years later, HTC also declined one after another, and Wang Xuehong's crown was suddenly lost and never picked up.

Lin Cheng is familiar with the history of the rise and fall of VIA, so is he interested in taking a stake in VIA?

Of course, VIA only began to decline in 2004, and now it is only 1998, so there are at least five or six years to go.

By next year, with the support of TSMC, the global market share of VIA chipsets even reached 70%, which overwhelmed Intel, the old overlord of the chip industry.

Even after Intel launched an encirclement and suppression of VIA, and the two sides started a four-year patent lawsuit, the market share of VIA chips still remained around 30% or 40%, which is a competition with Intel.

If in 2003, after the lawsuit with Intel, Wang Xuehong could listen to his own persuasion, don't learn from Samsung to diversify, and only focus on the chipset field, VIA may not decline.

And VIA CPU is also one of the three major CPUs under the x86 architecture, even in 2013, VIA, which is already a skinny camel, also hugged the thigh of the Modu government with X86 CPU patents and technology, and invested in Zhaoxin Group, and the state also gave 7 billion subsidies, taking advantage of the boss.

Although he is interested in taking a stake in via, Lin Cheng must ask clearly why Wang Xuehong and Chen Wenqi deliberately invite themselves to join via, otherwise such a big benefit will fall from the sky, and if the reason is not clear, Lin Cheng may not dare to follow.

So Lin Cheng asked: "As far as I know, VIA is developing very smoothly now, and Ms. Wang's father is Mr. Wang Yongqing, so there is definitely no shortage of funds, why did Mr. Chen invite me to take a stake in VIA?" ”

Chen Wenqi said in a deep voice: "I have always had a dream, that is, Chinese can also make the best chips in the world. The mainland of the motherland will be the focus of VIA's development in the next few years, VIA's staffing in the mainland of the motherland will be greatly increased, and most of them will be technical personnel, VIA will also set up a research and development center in the mainland of the motherland, for the development of some new products.

Moreover, Baodao has strong design capabilities in digital integrated circuits, and the analog circuit design capabilities are obviously weak, and there is a serious shortage of talents, while the mainland of the motherland has strong strength in analog technology, therefore, VIA hopes to combine the local analog technology resources in the mainland to strengthen VIA's R&D strength in the field of analog technology.

As we all know, Mr. Lin's Lin Group is the largest private enterprise in the mainland of the motherland, and the reason why I invited Mr. Lin to take a stake in VIA is to hope that with the help of Mr. Lin and the influence and sales channels of Mr. Lin and the Lin Group in the mainland of the motherland, we can help VIA gain a better and faster foothold in the mainland of the motherland. ”

Chen Wenqi's high-sounding words really surprised Lin Cheng.

However, Lin Cheng did not believe it all, after all, the innate skills of the businessmen of the treasure island in cross-strait relations are innate, and when they come to the mainland for development, the businessmen of the treasure island will often talk about such beautiful things as my Chinese heart, which makes the hearts of the mainland officials happy, and they really think that the businessmen of the treasure island are all devoted to the motherland.

However, after returning to the treasure island, it will be hehe.

said a thousand ways and ten thousand, Wang Xuehong and Chen Wenqi just wanted to enter the mainland market and use Lin Cheng as a bridge envoy.

Lin Cheng doesn't care about this, although in the future electronics market, the mobile terminal is the general trend, but the PC side is still indispensable, Lin Cheng also intends to enter the PC market, not to let Liu Lenovo's specialty.

Since he intends to enter the PC market, Lin Cheng, a company with brilliant achievements in the PC market, will certainly not let go, so he said happily: "Of course I am interested in buying shares in via, I don't know how many shares Ms. Wang and Mr. Chen will sell to me, what is the bid?"

Although VIA was founded by Chen Wenqi, Wang Xuehong is the one who says yes, Wang Xuehong thought for a while, and said: "VIA will take out 15% of the shares, and at the actual price of the current market value of VIA, Mr. Lin only needs to contribute $375 million to become the second largest shareholder after me." ”

Lin Cheng frowned and said, "As far as I know, VIA is a listed company in Baodao, and Ms. Wang will sell 15% of the shares to me, can the board of directors of your company approve it?"

Wang Xuehong said confidently: "Mr. Chen and I occupy most of the shareholders' exercise rights on the board of directors, and Mr. Lin also underestimates your reputation as the richest man in China. ”

At this point, Lin Cheng no longer had any doubts, and said decisively: "Okay, tomorrow the legal department and the audit team of my future investment company will go to your company to conduct an investment investigation, and then I will trouble Ms. Wang and Mr. Chen to receive them." ”

Wang Xuehong smiled: "I will sweep the couch to greet me." ”