Chapter 136: The First Battle of Weisheng
After reaching a strategic intention with Lei Jun for equity replacement and leaving the follow-up specific negotiation work to General Gu Yong, on July 4, Gu Mojie flew to Taipei non-stop to meet Wang Xuehong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Because Gu Yong was about to have something, he only brought legal adviser Fei Liluo and secretary Ye Minru.
At 7 o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock woke Gu Mojie up on time.
He and Wang Xuehong made an appointment at 10 o'clock to talk about things at VIA's office in Taipei 101, and if he didn't hurry, he would be late.
Simply cleaned up, took Feliro Ye Minru on time at 7:20, got on the EC-135HD from the roof of his house, and then had breakfast on the helicopter.
Even the tie was given to him in the cabin after breakfast and tea.
Taipei is only more than 800 kilometers away from Qiantang. Gu Mojie would rather take a helicopter to Seoul to avoid the fatigue of rushing to the airport, and it is naturally not a problem to go to Taipei. His Bombardier has been eating ash there for the last few months, and only occasionally does his own woman go on vacation.
"Wake up half an hour early, nothing is going on, so I have to rush like this." Helping Gu Mojie knot his tie neatly, Feliro complained intimately.
Gu Mojie didn't have any awareness of regular life, and shrugged: "Sleep more if you can, sleep more, otherwise the plane will be boring." ”
Feliro patted him: "How can it be boring, we can go through the quotation materials for a while!" ”
Gu Mojie sat two girls on the left and right, and gave Gu Mojie a summary of the negotiation materials, and more than an hour passed unconsciously.
The East China Sea was already dark green under his feet, and within a few minutes, several planes came whizzing in the distance, circled twice, and then slowed down and circled steadily.
Fei Liluo had never seen this situation, not to mention that the girls were all military blind, so she was naturally slightly surprised: "What's wrong?" ”
Gu Mojie raised his eyelids, glanced out the window, and explained calmly: "Wanwan's F16 battle ****." ”
Ye Minru followed Gu Mojie to fly to Seoul by helicopter, and she has seen more in this regard than Fei Liluo. When she heard that it was the Air Force, she was also surprised: "What are you doing here?" The last time I went to buy the S-M, I didn't see the Air Force of the stick country send planes. ”
Gu Mojie didn't raise his head: "Do you need to explain this?" It shows that the table is more timid than the stick. The sticks are not afraid that we will swallow them, and the Taibazi will be afraid. We have used here, applied for private routes, all this treatment. ”
It is also a loss that when he bought the S-M half a year ago, Gu Mojie flew from Qiantang to Seoul, and if he flew from the airspace of the North Stick, maybe the treatment would be better - of course, the premise is that he can enter the airspace of the North Stick first.
Gu Mojie tried to refocus, but was so dizzy by the f16 that he simply stopped looking.
asked Ye Minru to pour him a glass of soothing wine and chamomile. Taking a big sip, he casually explained:
"Sister Xiaoru, remember to say a few words to Aunt Xue in a while: Well, they want to fly with a slower Osprey anti-submarine plane, and make a fart F16. I can't slow down, and I get dizzy. ”
Because it is a helicopter EC-135HD can only fly at a top speed of 400 kilometers, and for a jet, it is really not easy to fly so slow at 400 kilometers. Therefore, the F-16 could not slow down and follow the EC-135HD to accompany it, so it could only overtake and circle back, repeating itself in circles.
"I really don't take taxpayers' gas money as money. It's time to take a good picture and upload it to the first audio video, and the title will be 'Brother Pony, you're such a waste of taxpayers' money', and see how the nine sissies in the horse camp reply. ”
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VIA Electronics Headquarters is located in Xindian City, Taipei, but it also has an office in the center of Taipei for business negotiations. Wang Xuehong negotiated with a bigwig like Gu Mojie, and it was definitely impossible to go to a remote place, so it was directly placed in 101.
After careful calculation, this turned out to be Gu Mojie's first time coming to Wanwan, including his pass, which was also just done a while ago.
Seeing the cityscape of Taipei from the air really surprised Gu Mojie.
In addition to the vicinity of 101 CBD, 80% of Taipei's urban area is similar to the cityscape of second-tier cities in China in the 90s.
There are a lot of low-rise old houses, all kinds of neon signs and light boxes that are behind the times, and there is a clutter over the city. There are almost no neatly planned neighborhoods, but the sanitation situation is really good, and it feels very clean when you look down from the sky.
Perhaps this is what some prostitutes advocate: all the land belongs to the people, and it is not allowed to be planned in a unified way.
A helicopter, under the circling surveillance of 4 F16s, landed on the eighth section platform of 101. The melon-eating people of Wanwan, who have always liked to cause trouble, are all looking forward to guessing: What kind of bird exercise is this......
"Well, when you go home, send a troller sticker, how can the Air Force waste gasoline."
Gu Mojie took Fei Liluo and went down from the sightseeing elevator to the first floor of VIA Electronics.
Wang Xuehong and her husband, Chen Wenqi, were already waiting there on time.
"Aunt Xue, she looks a lot younger than last time." Gu Mojie went up to shake hands affectionately, not recognizing life at all.
"Don't be poor, put away all these words for me, let's go sit down for a while." Wang Xuehong didn't have any expression, and led Gu Mojie in with a little disgust.
"Pay attention to the occasion! Don't you see that everyone wears black and white! Feliro was on the side and twisted a handful of the soft meat on Gu Mojie's waist, almost pinching Gu Mojie to grin, but he finally stopped.
"I reminded you on the plane that Wang Yongqing only died in October last year, and Aunt Xue hasn't passed the filial piety period yet."
Gu Mojie begged for mercy with his eyes again and again, and changed it to a just right, slightly sad expression.
Fortunately, Feliro's voice was kept so low that no one in front of her could hear her.
Wang Xuehong's father, Wang Yongqing, the "god of management" in the history of Wanwan and the boss of Formosa Plastics, passed away at home in New Jersey, USA, in October 2008. Counting the days, it was eight or nine months ago. Wanwan people respect traditional culture and filial piety, and they are very particular about this.
Therefore, Wang Xuehong and Chen Wenqi are dressed in black and white suits/shirts or suit skirts.
Everyone entered the conference room, sat down with the guests, and after a few polite words, Gu Mojie went straight to the topic.
"Aunt Xue, you are also clear about the purpose of this visit. I know that VIA has no intention of continuing to work with Qualcomm in the mobile device CPU field in the past two years. But I'm interested, and if you're going to adjust the layout, I think we'll have a good time working together. ”
Wang Xuehong also said with a kind smile like a friend's chat: "We, VIA, are still the second in the world in this field." Are you so confident that I'll sell? ”
The expression is really harmless to humans and animals, and it is completely a family chat with the descendants of his children and nephews.
"It's not interesting, everyone knows that Qualcomm is pressing you very badly."
"No matter how heavy the vertical field is, the second in the world can still live quite nourishingly - Intel eats meat in large chunks, and is forced to die without seeing AMD. Does the second child have the second child's way of life, what Peter Thiel said you admire the most. ”
"It seems that Aunt Xue really knows me very well and has done her homework." Gu Mojie couldn't help but smile, and turned to Feliro beside him with a smile, "Am I very fond of quoting Peter Til's words when negotiating?" ”
Fei Liluo tilted her head, and struggled to put on a pose that she thought was more cooperative and cute: "It seems to be really, several times." ”
"Okay, let's stop tempting, let's get into the show."
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When Gu Mojie was reborn, he was brainwashed. However, even if he is not brainwashed, he will not know the fate of the mobile phone chip division of VIA Electronics in the future.
Because until the end of 2012, the moment when Gu Mojie was reborn in his previous life, VIA's mobile phone chip division was still alive, but its business volume and revenue declined every year.
Historically, the final collapse of VIA's mobile phone chip division dragged on until October 2015, when Intel took it away at a cabbage price of $300 million.
The reason why Intel crossed the circle to acquire VIA's mobile phone chips at that time was because Intel realized that there was a possibility of new epoch-making changes in the form of personal electronic devices in the future. A new device that breaks through the threshold of the major platforms of mobile phones, pads, tablets, and PCs has the potential to rule the world.
Intel had not accumulated in the field of mobile phone CPUs before, so at that point in time, VIA's mobile phone chip technology was seconded.
And this price is only 2% of the market value of VIA's mobile phone chip business at its peak.
During the 04~06 years, when VIA's most glorious stock price peaked, the market value of the entire company once reached more than $15 billion.
The reason why it is so optimistic about the capital market is entirely because VIA was once considered the only existence on the planet that could threaten Qualcomm.
Although the gap between VIA and Qualcomm is a bit bigger than the gap between AMD and Intel.
And since '07, VIA has actually gone downhill. The biggest problem is the lack of follow-up investment in R&D.
The technology that burned money in the 3G era did not carve up enough of the market, and was continuously pressed by Qualcomm.
Of course, I want to do the follow-up 4G research and development, but I have no money and can only do it in vain.
Including the layout of HTC mobile phones, in fact, Wang Xuehong was forced to expand the layout after recognizing the facts - it is not easy to sell VIA's chips alone, so she can only make her own mobile phones, use her own chips to supply her own mobile phones, and rely on the high profits of the whole machine to feed the follow-up research and development of the chip industry.
The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is a bit skinny.
HTC in history cannot be said to have completed this task perfectly, and the money earned by mobile phones cannot fill the bottomless pit of 4G chip research and development.
There is a data, you can compare it horizontally - in the five years of 2009~2013, Qualcomm invested 70~8 billion US dollars in research and development funds every year for 4G chips and even the cutting-edge layout in the future, with a total of 40 billion US dollars in five years.
Qualcomm's annual global chip and licensing sales revenue is $45 billion.
Qualcomm invested a quarter of its sales revenue in R&D funds to maintain its position as the world's hegemon.
This money, VIA simply can't afford to burn.
So after the 3G fight broke the vitality, the historical VIA finally gave up 4G.
Gu Mojie couldn't know these details.
However, VIA Electronics is unsustainable and unable to compete with the general trend of the 4G era, and Gu Mojie can see it.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that VIA's stock price valuation is falling every year.
The key now is how to convince Wang Xuehong that "VIA's chip technology will only become less and less valuable if it is in its own hands".
And this speed will be fast.
Being able to refute Wang Xuehong's psychological price at this point can make Gu Mojie have the possibility of success. (To be continued.) )