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Lin Johnson and Moore and Andy Grove reached an agreement to acquire Intel's memory division, including its R&D department and memory factory.

In the field of memory, there are those that specialize in OEM, such as the later Kingston, which does not have its own wafer factory, so it does not produce memory chips, and specializes in purchasing other people's memory particles for assembly and OEM. And like Samsung and Hyundai, they both sell memory particles and do brands.

What Lin Qiangsheng wants is to not only produce memory particles, but also make a brand.

After that, there will be more in-depth exchanges between him and Intel, and Lin Johnson hopes to buy Intel's memory business for $32 million, and the two sides will definitely have to bargain.

Moore asked Lin Qiangsheng with some doubts: "Mr. Lin, the quality and performance of our memory are not as good as those of the Japanese, do you have any specific measures to boost products after you enter this business?" ”

Grove also said to Lin Johnson: "When we sell this department, we also have to consider whether the buyer can lead the business to rise again, and the part that Intel does not want to sell will finally let irresponsible people take over!" ”

Li Jing was also a little worried when she heard this, according to her thoughts, it is difficult for the American memory industry to defeat Japanese manufacturers, in terms of performance and quality, Japanese memory has thrown American goods far away, and Japanese memory has been in a dominant position in the market, so she is not very confident in the development of the memory industry.

Lin Johnson said with confidence in Moore and Grove: "You may not know, in recent months, I have received a lot of loans from banks, and with my own funds, it is not a problem to invest in research and development of higher performance memory technology. And not only that, but I also want to expand the memory factory, and the output is not inferior to that of Japanese manufacturers, and only when the output comes up, the price can go down! ”

Moore and Grove have also heard about the rumors that Lin Johnson has strong funds, and the person in front of him is a very powerful person in the financial field. Not short of money is the label of this young Chinese American in Silicon Valley.

And a few days ago, at the Internet Development Conference, Lin Johnson threw out a $200 million start-up fund like a star, which also shocked the semiconductor industry in the United States for a while. The person who dares to claim that he is rich in such a gorgeous way is indeed more alternative, and it also makes his fame very loud in the semiconductor industry and among young Americans!

Truth be told, Moore and Grove also have some envy, and Dongxing Semiconductor has an extremely wealthy boss, and most importantly. People have abundant liquidity.

Now Intel is short of funds, the early research and development of the 80386 chip has been too much, and then the media publicity and preparation for production need funds, and also for the next research to make a plan, the real room can not stop running.

Facing Moore and Grove, Lin Johnson said: "Both, in fact, I am very optimistic about Intel, and I am currently buying Intel shares in the stock market, and I am willing to invest in this company!" ”

Gordon Moore and Grove were quite surprised, knowing that Lin Johnson was the boss of Eastern Star Semiconductor. And this company and Intel still have a competitive relationship, Moore asked in surprise: "Mr. Lin, what do you mean by being willing to invest in Intel?" ”

Lin Qiangsheng nodded to him and said, "I want to inject capital into Intel Corporation, I am very optimistic about your development in microprocessors!" To put it bluntly, I want to own 20% of Intel! ”

Moore and Grove looked at each other, and Grove said, "However, you yourself still have a chip manufacturer!" ”

"Moreover, we still have competition in some areas, even in the architecture of the processor. Your Eastern Star Semiconductor also infringes Intel's patents! ”

At this point, Grove was a little annoyed, and he remembered some unpleasantness in business. To be honest, he was tired of others copying Intel's unique 86 architecture. These shameless plagiarists often do bad things and talk nonsense with their eyes open, and would rather delay with Intel indefinitely than bow their heads and admit their mistakes!

Lin Qiangsheng spread his hands and said, "I know that our two families are still in the litigation stage, but this does not prevent us from having other cooperation!" ”

He continued: "Don't worry, I'm just bullish on Intel, this company has a lot of future." I only invest in it to grow and make a profit in the future. I am only a shareholder, I will not interfere with Intel's development, let alone steal Intel's technology, I know that your chip engineering design is currently to be shared with AMD, but I don't need to do it at all! ”

Intel handed over its chip design to AMD, which started with the grudge between IBM and AMD, Intel, and Microsoft.

At that time, IBM was the absolute monopoly of the computer industry, doing everything from software to hardware, it was very powerful, and the blue giant dominated this market for a long time, until the rise of Apple, which was able to develop the PC business without IBM paying attention to personal computers.

In 1981, IBM wanted to design a miniature computer, and they were also optimistic about the personal computer industry and decided to enter the market.

At that time, Intel, which was still a start-up company, took its own chips to IBM to sell, and IBM hoped that two companies would jointly bid to lower the purchase price.

Intel was naturally annoyed that there was an extra competitor for no reason, but they also cleverly delayed the delivery date, so that AMD got the design about half a year late, and every time AMD launched a product, it was a cycle slower than Intel.

But later, IBM pulled Microsoft in, hoping to form a benign competitive industrial chain, Intel was very ambitious, and privately wooed Microsoft to set up the Wintel Alliance, specializing in cracking down on opponents and monopolies, and the specifications formulated by this alliance are also the most beneficial to Intel.

Moreover, in 1987, Intel stopped allowing AMD to use patents for five years, and AMD was greatly affected during the five years.

IBM is very angry and has been silently supporting the competition between AMD and Intel behind the scenes, not letting Intel dominate, which brings benefits like using AMD to suppress Intel and prevent Intel from getting carried away and raising prices.

The Wintel alliance is also the strongest combination in the technology market, with PC manufacturers earning 100 yuan for each PC sold, of which Intel took 70 yuan and Microsoft took 40 yuan. Don't dwell on the numbers, these two companies are greedy, even the money in the pockets of the manufacturers they want to take away!

Lin Qiangsheng wants 20%, compared with Intel, he feels that he is not greedy at all, these Westerners are his teachers and role models for growing up, and he must be ruthless.

He knows that as long as the Wintel alliance exists, other microprocessor manufacturers can't compete with Intel, and now Intel is only a small giant, and has not yet dominated the industry, and there will not be too many choices for Moore and Grove!

Gordon Moore thought about it for a moment and said to Lin Johnson: "We will discuss this matter with the board of directors, if you really want to buy shares in Intel Corporation, then you need to recalculate the market value of the shares in our hands, but the purchase price will definitely be higher than the existing price, and the shareholders' offer will also be very high!" ”

Gordon Moore also knows that if Johnson Lin really intends to buy Intel's shares, there will definitely be shareholders who will be tempted, especially when the company is now unstable, there will definitely be shareholders who want to sell the company's shares.

Lin Qiangsheng nodded and said: "I know this, although most of my funds are in the Japanese market, but I can still take out this money!" ”

Moore nodded, helplessly thinking that the young man in front of him really didn't look like the boss of a high-tech enterprise, but more like a speculator.

The two personally sent Lin Qiangsheng and Li Jing out of the door, and just as they waved goodbye, Lin Qiangsheng suddenly said to Grove and Moore: "I heard that IBM is developing its own 80286 chip, and they plan to use their own processors on their PCs!" I don't know about this, have you heard about it? Intel's 80386 processor, will IBM not be interested? ”

It seems that an unintentional sentence immediately made Grove and Moore's faces change greatly, this is also the last thing Intel wants to be known by the outside world at present, IBM intends to abandon Intel to do it himself!

At the beginning, the 80286 chip design technology was handed over to IBM, and they had OEM production. If IBM really makes an improved chip for 80286, then Intel's 80386 will be useless, and IBM can't see that there is an order to be ordered, which is also the thing that worries Grove and Moore the most!

"Mr. Lin, this is a rumor! IBM and Intel have a strong partnership and they are about to adopt our latest 80386 chip! Grove was anxious, and immediately corrected him with righteous words.

Lin Qiangsheng smiled, waved to Moore and Grove and said, "Goodbye two, I hope we can reach an agreement soon!" Also, I'm very optimistic about Intel, the 80386 chip has a very good performance! ”

Seeing each other get into the car and leave, Gordon Moore and Grove were both a little worried, Gordon Moore said worriedly: "This young man is also the owner of two computer companies, Compaq and Dell, these two brands have a market share of more than 40% in the personal computer market!" If he asks the two companies to suppress us and not purchase 80386, then Intel will have the worst moment! ”

Grove also nodded heavily, but he still said: "Rod Kenyon, the general manager of Compaq, is a very honest entrepreneur, and he is very business-minded, I believe that if IBM really does not cooperate with us, he will see this opportunity!" ”

Then, he immediately turned around and ran into the door, shouting, "I will call Rod personally, I must not let Lin Qiangsheng do this!" ”

"I hope so!" Moore looked back at Grove's running back and said silently.

Now is an eventful season, the RAM memory business has exhausted a lot of Intel's manpower and material resources, and the 80386 chip is being intensively prepared for production, and the sales department is still making the last effort for IBM's order, Intel really has no energy to deal with more enemies! (To be continued.) )