Chapter 114 EMC, Seagate
In New York, in the villa that Wu Ming bought for five million dollars, Wu Ming was brushing his teeth and washing his face in the bathroom.
"Boss!"
Early in the morning, Lu Junxiang came to the villa to look for Wu Ming.
Hearing someone shouting, Wu Ming sped up his washing and walked out of the bathroom.
"It's you, Old Lu!" Wu Ming smiled when he saw the visitor.
After settling the affairs of Xiangjiang, Lu Junxiang came to the United States half a month ago and waited for Wu Ming's dispatch.
These days are busy with what Wu Ming ordered.
Lu Junxiang greeted Wu Ming respectfully, and then reported to Wu Ming the progress of his work.
"Boss, the companies you told me to look for have all been found, and an offer has been made to them. After negotiations, two companies were interested in selling. ”
Since he decided to enter the personal computer industry, Wu Ming naturally wants to be like IBM, integrating scientific research, production, sales, technical services and education and training.
Therefore, it is aimed at some related enterprises in the United States that will be strong in the future, but are still relatively weak now. Ready to unite these businesses and build a super league that surpasses IBM.
Hearing what Lu Junxiang said, Wu Ming smiled slightly and asked, "Oh, which two are they?"
Lu Junxiang replied: "EMC and Shugart Technologies. ”
Hearing that it was these two companies, Wu Ming laughed happily.
The future achievements of these two companies are remarkable.
EMC, whose Chinese name is EMC, is an information storage information technology company in the future, mainly engaged in information storage and management products, services and solutions. It is a leading manufacturer of high-end storage.
The name of Shugart Technologies may not be familiar to many people. But Seagate Technology Cor, or Seagate, became famous in later generations.
Shugart Technologies was the predecessor of Seagate. It will be the world's largest manufacturer of hard disks, disks and read/write heads in the future.
These two companies are the leaders in the same industry, even the first, in the original time and space.
Although the development of this life after being acquired by him will definitely become different from the previous life, Wu Ming is confident that he will develop them better than the previous life.
With EMC and Shugart Technologies, Wu Ming's strength in the IT industry can be greatly enhanced.
At this time, Shugart Technology has already manufactured the industry's first 5.25-inch hard drive, and if it continues to study in the future, it will be able to provide cheap but high-performance hard disk equipment for Star Computer.
As for EMC, it can work with Polaris Software.
In later generations, IBM was the server provider, Oracle was the database software provider, and EMC was the storage device provider, and the three constituted an enterprise database system from software to hardware.
The database system composed of these three troikas occupies almost all of the market share of commercial database systems in the world. With their monopoly position, they reaped high profits.
EMC is in his hands, and he can follow the example, so that EMC will continue to specialize in high-end storage in the future, and establish a strong alliance composed of Star Computer, Access software and EMC high-end storage.
Thinking of this, a smile bloomed on Wu Ming's face and said, "Very good, you did a good job this time." ”
"Boss, the negotiations with EMC and Seagate are going well, they have only been established for a year now, they are not very well funded, and they are more enthusiastic about our acquisition proposal. I believe that after several negotiations, they can be taken down. ”
Then Lu Junxiang said: "In fact, there is another company, which we also have great hopes for acquiring, but it was taken first. ”
"Oh!"
Listening to Lu Junxiang's words, Wu Ming showed a curious look and asked, "Which company is it?"
"It's Micron Technology. Lu Junxiang replied regretfully.
Micron Technology will be one of the world's largest manufacturers of semiconductor storage and imaging products in the future.
As for now, although Micron Technology has full potential, it has limited financial resources, so it is still a small company that only provides semiconductor design consulting.
However, there are already technological reserves in terms of memory. As long as real money is invested, memory chips can be produced immediately.
In the original time and space, after the company established its own wafer manufacturing plant next year, it began to rise, step by step to become one of the leading semiconductor storage manufacturers in the future.
Because Wu Ming urgently needed a semiconductor memory company, he paid attention to Micron Technology. Unexpectedly, he was cut off, which made Wu Ming's originally happy mood suddenly become lost.
Wu Ming's eyes closed slightly, and his face was gloomy: "What's going on?"
Then Lu Junxiang told Wu Ming the cause and effect of the incident.
It turned out that in addition to Wu Ming, there was another person who also took a fancy to Micron Technology.
And this person has been in contact with Micron Technology for a long time, and now he has obtained a small half of the shares of Micron Technology.
The billionaire who is also eyeing Micron Technology is named John Richard Simplot. This man is not only the king of the potato in the United States, but also a member of the board of directors of the McDonald's Group.
In the original time and space, this person provided Micron Technology with $1 million in funding this year (40% of the total investment).
In the years that followed, he poured another $20 million into Micron to help it build its first chip manufacturing plant while keeping its business running.
With his help, Micron was able to become one of the leading manufacturers of DRAM memory chips.
To be honest, Simplao fell in love with Micron Technology much earlier than Wu Ming.
"Simplao?" Wu Ming muttered to himself.
Thinking about it, Wu Ming's brows tightened.
Now other well-known companies in the semiconductor storage industry have either grown up, and Wu Ming has no chance to acquire them at all. Either it hasn't been established at all, and Wu Ming can't find it.
Of course, there are many smaller semiconductor storage companies in the United States. But the technology is relatively backward and does not meet Wu Ming's requirements at all.
Micron Technology, the only one with advanced technology reserves, is now about to be acquired by others. This made Wu Ming happy.
Seeing Wu Ming's anxious look, Lu Junxiang couldn't help but ask suspiciously: "Boss, why do you have to buy Micron Technology, can't you change companies?"
Hearing Lu Junxiang's question, Wu Ming couldn't help but widen his eyes, and then said loudly in distress: "How can other companies have the advanced technology I need, and I look for it and Micron Technology has these technologies." Wait......"
Immediately, Wu Ming showed a look of awakening, and said happily: "By the way, I can't buy their company, I can buy their technology! ”