Chapter 92: The Race Against Time (I)

In July 2004, Lu Qiu flew back to China.

The days spent with Scarlett were like a dream, and the spring was gone without a trace, but Luqiu was unwilling to wake up from the dream like this.

He felt that Scarlett shouldn't leave him like this, obviously they were so compatible, obviously so infatuated with him, and he was so doted on Nizi, so after the cocktail party that night, he had been paying attention to Scarlett's movements, and there was also a small desire hidden in his heart, longing for Scarlett to change her mind and return to his arms.

However, this small hope was eventually dashed.

Scarlett became the widowed sister in her previous life and began her chaotic life, after leaving Luqiu, she quickly got a new boyfriend, first the handsome guy Jared Leto, then the singer Justin, followed by the old man Sean Penn, well, in another time and space, she still had ten boyfriends in ten years, but this life has intensified, and she started and ended three relationships in just a few months.

The hope in Lu Qiu's heart also came to an end with Scarlett's three relationships.

He knew that Nizi had made a complete choice, and they no longer had each other!

When a relationship comes to an end, the pain in my heart always needs to be sorted out and vented, and Lu Qiu has transformed this motivation into other aspects.

The previous plan to take down the apple was completely ruined, and he had a mortal enmity with Jobs, Lu Qiu knew very well that he couldn't let Jobs' Apple become bigger, once that giant grew up like in his previous life, even if his Pangu also grew into the world's top investment company, it would be difficult to confront it, you must know that at the peak of Apple, there were more than 200 billion US dollars in cash alone, and Lu Qiu didn't want to let an enemy grow to that extent.

If you don't want the enemy to grow, you have to launch a sniper at all costs, Lu Qiu changed his strategy and decided to grow vivo and OPPO to replace Apple's top ten position!

This seems to be an impossible task for anyone, but for the ruthless Lu Qiu, there is nothing in this world that he can't do, it just depends on whether he is willing to do it!

The first thing Lu Qiu did was to acquire Android, which was a decision that seemed superfluous to even think about it for a second.

To compete with Apple, the Android system is a necessary weapon, in the previous life, Google spent 50 million US dollars to buy Android in 05 years, this money is simply insignificant to Lu Qiu, you must know that he plans to take out the funds to buy Apple shares has exceeded 200 million US dollars, and because a year earlier, under Jeffwhite's superb negotiation skills, the acquisition of Android only took 35 million US dollars, and the cost performance is not too high.

Solving the Android software system, Lu Qiu's goal is to focus on the hardware, which is the foundation of the smartphone, and his primary goal is the British Arm company, which controls the source of the chip.

Arm does not produce mobile phone chips itself, but with its strong processor design and integration capabilities, as well as numerous patents, almost all chip manufacturers must be authorized by Arm to produce low-power and high-efficiency processors.

Of course, ARM itself is not very profitable, and its annual revenue is not even as good as the revenue of Qualcomm, the real predator of mobile phones, in a month, but Luqiu can't help but pay attention to ARM, because the earliest establishment of this company is inseparable from Apple, Luqiu is worried that Jobs will use this to jam his throat, so all hidden dangers must be eliminated in the bud, for which Luqiu paid nearly 100 million US dollars to acquire five percent of the shares from some small shareholders of ARM, and this is enough.

But because of this, Lu Qiu asked him: "Brother, just because of a Scarlett, is it worth it?"

Lu Qiu was serious: "It's worth it." When he said this, his heart throbbed slightly, but no matter how worthwhile it was, the lost person couldn't get back.

Of course, the pace of acquisitions will not stop there, and Luqiu's subsequent target is MediaTek. Taiwan's MediaTek company ranks fourth in the mobile phone chip market in another time and space, and now this company should have just transformed into a mobile phone chip not long ago, and it is a listed company in Taiwan, whether it is from the secondary market or from individual shareholders to acquire shares is relatively simple, and more importantly, MediaTek was originally the favorite chip manufacturer of mobile phone manufacturers in mainland China, before MediaTek, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm These predators only provide chips to manufacturers, and the rest of the integration, integration, Debugging and so on, manufacturers have to develop their own, MediaTek broke the convention, with its rich technology accumulation in the field of multimedia, to provide mobile phone manufacturers with a complete set of multimedia solutions, and the price is affordable, greatly shortening the process of mobile phone research and development to the factory.

For Luqiu, time is the lifeline, Apple will launch the first generation of iPhone in 07, the second generation in 08, the third generation in 09, and the fourth generation in 10 years, the smartphone market is finally blowout, Apple sits firmly in the position of the boss of smart phones, 10 years is the lifeline delineated by Luqiu, only before the fourth generation of iPhone comes out, occupy the market with more advanced mobile phones, so as to shake Apple and establish their leading position.

Lu Qiu is self-aware of this, with the level of domestic technology, even if he spends a lot of gold yuan to buy everywhere, if he wants to develop in three to five years, he will have to face many challenges.

So time is pressing, and MediaTek is a target that must be won.

Of course, MediaTek can't just control 5% of the shares like ARM, Lu Qiu instructed Xu Xin to buy nearly 20% of the shares at a premium from the secondary market and individual shareholders, and then took these shares, Lu Qiu personally met with Cai Mingjie, chairman of MediaTek.

Cai Mingjie is an entrepreneur that Lu Qiu admires very much, his vision is outstanding, and he has superb business skills, the key style is low-key, and he is elegant, even if Pangu has shown the fangs of acquisition, Cai Mingjie is also a group of harmony when facing Lu Qiu, without the slightest fireworks.

Lu Qiu also gave him enough respect for this, didn't talk nonsense, and went straight to the point.

"Mr. Cai, I want to give MediaTek a chance to become the world's No. 1 chip manufacturer, and I think Mr. Cai will definitely agree after listening to me. ”

Cai Mingjie said with a smile: "Cai listens. ”

Lu Qiu appreciates Cai Mingjie's calm and calm attitude the most, and he does not hide it, and tells him the blueprint of the smart machine empire he outlined.

After a private conversation, Cai Mingjie's face was flushed with excitement and he couldn't wait to leave.

Lu Qiu did not stop because of this, he began to move towards the next goal, the status of this goal is far from being comparable to the current MediaTek, that is, the old enemy --- Sony!

The reason why it is aimed at Sony,There are several major considerations,One is that Sony's display technology has always been good,From the high-end to the bottom,Basically,There is basically no need to find another company to cooperate with it。

Again, Lu Qiu knows very well that Sony has been going downhill since then, after Nobuyuki Izui stepped down, Stringer can't save Sony, another time and space Sony is declining, reduced to a second-rate enterprise in the electronics industry, and Sony, the right time can swallow up Sony's mobile phone division, that is simply the best opportunity to grow their own company.

Of course, the most important reason is that Lu Qiu knows that Nobuyuki Idei is now eager to need the help of external forces, and his position is already in jeopardy, and Lu Qiu has acquired a large number of Sony shares in order to give Han Xue a gas, and Lu Qiu can continue to acquire until he reaches the standard of entering the Sony board of directors, Lu Qiu intends to use this as a bargaining chip to support Nobuyuki Idei, on the condition that he cooperate with Sony and get their display technology!

Things also went as smoothly as Lu Qiu expected, when he met with Nobuyuki Idei and explained everything clearly, Nobuyuki Izui replied after careful consideration: "Lu San, there is no problem with cooperation, but in terms of smartphones, Sony hopes to cooperate with Lu San in an all-round way, you must know that we also have love!"

Lu Qiu was very refreshing, "No problem, the Android system is shared, and everyone earns money together!" Lu Qiu drew a big pie for Nobuyuki I, in fact, he has decided to open source the Android system like Google, and set up a software and hardware alliance, only in this way can we win over more allies and completely get Apple!

In the previous life, Google only established this alliance in 07, and in this life, Luqiu decided to move early, and the work of lobbying a number of software and hardware manufacturers was naturally handed over to Jeffwhite, for which Jeff complained a lot.

"Boss, this kind of workload, my wife and I have been squeezed out of the time!"

Lu Qiu was in the state of a tyrant in his previous life, and replied to him directly: "Then find Miss to solve it, and the company will reimburse you!"

Well, Jeff's drive is so high.