Shen Chong's career development so far, is no longer a situation of fighting alone, this time to Singapore, although it seems that only Li Kaiyuan is with him, but in fact, before coming, he has assigned a team composed of experts in various fields such as law, finance, accounting, technology and management from the United States to Singapore, and Wu Chok Tong led the government officials began consultations and negotiations. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The biggest advantage of the traverser is foresight, as long as he grasps the general direction of the strategy, as for the tactical details, it is good to let those professionals born and raised in this time and space work hard, so after he arrived in Singapore, he did not look like a powerful president at all, but like a player who came to travel and vacation, except for meeting Lee Kuan Yew more formally, the rest of the time, he and Li Kaiyuan walked the streets and alleys, toured the mountains and rivers, enjoyed the world of the two, and did not even attend a business meeting.

"Is it really okay for you to do this?" Sitting under a parasol on the deck of a yacht, admiring the turquoise sea level and the lush islands in the distance, Lee asked, "If you don't even attend the meeting chaired by the Minister of Trade and Industry himself, will the Singaporeans think you are rude?" ”

"Rude is rude." Shen Chong was shirtless, wearing swimming shorts, sitting cross-legged beside her, pinching a long fishing rod, and said in a big stinging voice: "We are high rollers fishing for big fish, and small fish and shrimp don't have to pay attention." ”

"Every detail of the negotiation may involve millions of dollars, so you can trust those who can't even remember their names to negotiate?"

"If you are observant, there will be no fugitives, and if the water is clear, there will be no fish, as long as I can guarantee to make a lot of money." Shen Chong picked up the cold beer beside him, took a sip, and explained: "This investment is mainly for the future, and the various incentives at this stage - whether it is land or taxes - are not the focus, I don't care much, those people can gnaw a little more, it is good, but it is nothing if they can't gnaw down." ”

"A million-dollar offer isn't money?" Li Kaiyuan put his white jade-like feet on the coffee table, leaned back, and teased: "You, in my mother's words, your fingers are too thick and you leak money everywhere, she can't wait to recruit dozens of servants to follow you 24 hours a day to pick up money." ”

Shen Chong laughed and said: "Harmony makes money, one person earns all the money, and it must not be hated to death, everyone earns it, and it is really earned." ”

He turned his head to look at the beautiful woman in a bikini and a beautiful figure, and persuaded: "Don't work too hard, there are some things for your subordinates to do, this world lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of talents, as long as there is both grace and power, rewards and punishments are clear, most people can do things well." ”

"To put it simply, I don't have as much nerve as you, so instead of worrying, I might as well do it myself...... Give me a sip of beer. ”

"You want to drink? I'll go get you another bottle, I'm almost done with it. ”

"No, I'm just trying it." Li Kaiyuan took the wine bottle and asked, "What kind of wafer factory did you invest in this time, and what are the prospects?" ”

"The prospect is as vast as the sea of stars." A smile appeared at the corner of Shen Chong's mouth, and he explained neatly: "There is a high-tech company in the United States, called Intel, which is one of the world's leading memory manufacturers, in addition to the production of memory, their company also has a small team in the research of microprocessors, that is, CPUs, but it is not very important, and it was left in the poor mountains of Oregon to share research and production equipment with others, they developed a 16-bit processor called 8086 the year before last, I think it is very useful, so I bought a production license, By the way, some more people were poached, and they were ready to develop a new 32-bit processor on the basis of the 8086 while producing the 8086. ”

"There's a big market for processors?"

"It's not big now, but it's going to be big and big in the future, and it's going to be an industrial flower that's worth more than oil." At this time, the fishing rod moved, and Shen Chong turned the pulley to reel in the line, and said: "The sooner this thing is studied, the better, otherwise, in a few years, let alone 1 billion US dollars, it will be 10 billion US dollars, and it may not be useful to smash it in." ”

Li Kaiyuan was surprised, she put down the wine bottle and asked, "So much money?" ”

"Technology products have a high threshold and a strong first-mover advantage, as long as the leader does not make mistakes, the people behind want to catch up, they have to spend 10 times more energy and money."

"I don't think your game console uses 8086?"

"It's really not, the console uses a bargain Z80, an 8-bit processor, and the 8086 is not for consoles, it's for PCs."

"Mac?"

"No, it's another one, and it's still under development...... Depend on! It's so far from the coastline, how can there be garbage, and I fished a plastic bag. ”

"If you can't fish, don't toss, shame." Li Kaiyuan stretched, stood up and walked to the side, and said, "I'll go down to swim, don't poke me." ”

After finishing speaking, she put her hands together, jumped down, and caused a burst of white waves, Shen Chong was very interested when she saw this, threw away the fishing rod, and then plucked onions on dry land, and jumped down with a very ugly posture.

That's right, the first phase of Shen Chong's investment in Singapore, $50 million, was not to build a game console assembly plant or a digital video laboratory, but to build a wafer factory to produce memory and processors.

In later generations, when it comes to Intel, everyone knows that it is the world's No. 1 processor company, but in the 70s, Intel was a company that mainly produced memory, and 90% of its profits came from memory, and before IBM-PC appeared, the market size and growth rate of memory were far greater than that of microprocessors, so the microprocessor sector was not taken seriously, one of the founders of Intel, Gordon Moore, the inventor of "Moore's Law", even bluntly said that "Intel is a memory company, We will never sell microprocessors", because of the lack of attention, the genius chip designer Federico-***Gin, who had participated in the design and production of Intel's first microprocessor 4004, left the company and started Zilog, and then developed the Z80, a classic 8-bit microprocessor that is still widely used in the 21st century.

In order to cope with the competition of Zilog, Intel developed a 16-bit microprocessor 8086 in 1978, and then released a castrated version of 8088, the performance of these two CPUs is not very good, not as good as Motorola's 68000, and even worse than IBM's 801, but there are two benefits, one is cheap, and the other is that Intel is willing to license the production to other companies.

Everyone knows the benefits of cheapness, and licensing to other companies to produce, by chance, has become IBM's "chess team" selected it as a key factor in IBM-PC - in the early 80s, IBM is undergoing anti-monopoly review, the company's senior management in order to avoid being divided by the Ministry of Justice, the specifications and standards of IBM-PC are completely open, and an open platform, the most taboo is that the core components are monopolized by others, so the CPU supplier put forward a famous requirement in the history of IT: "I am open." You're open! ”

In the history of the previous life, Intel licensed the 8086 technology to AMD, AMD gave up developing its own products, and then the two sides joined forces to defeat Motorola, National Semiconductor, Zilog and Fairchild, and won the order of IBM-PC, thus laying the market pattern of desktop processors in the next few decades.

Before the official sale of IBM-PC, no one knows how much impact it will have on the world, Shen Chong seized the blind spot that Intel does not pay attention to the CPU, and together with AMD, bought the 8086 and 8088 technology license, so as to get the opportunity to get involved in the computer chip design industry, he is ready to develop for a few years, see the situation, if you can successfully develop 286 and 386 on the basis of 8086, then get rid of Intel and do it yourself, if the research and development is not smooth, just wait until 1985, When Japanese memory knocked Intel all over the place, it counterattacked and acquired it.

In 1980, the performance of 8-bit or 16-bit microprocessors was not strong enough, and the manufacturing process was still measured in microns, and the U.S. government did not care very much, and there was no obstacle to building wafer factories overseas, but in a few years, it would not be so easy, so Shen Chong just said that the main purpose of this investment is to focus on the future, as long as the factory can be opened, it will make a lot of money.

He built the wafer factory in Singapore, first, because it is an ally of the United States, and the introduction of more advanced production lines in the future will not encounter obstacles, and second, it can be built here, and some high-tech talents from the mainland can be arranged to enter the laboratory to observe or do research and development......

Anyway, there is no place to spend a lot of money in hand, CPU is one of the strategic places in the future high-tech industry, and it is also one of the core components of high-definition digital video, which cannot be ignored.

Shen Chong and Li Kaiyuan sailed on the sea, and only after receiving a call that the negotiation meeting was successfully concluded did they sail back to Singapore to sign and exchange an investment agreement with Lee Kuan Yew, and then declined the invitation to the banquet, and after a short rest, they took a team of more than a dozen experts and a few uninvited unexpected guests to take a charter flight to Taipei.

"I asked Sister Qing to book a plane ticket, and I will transfer from Taipei to Hong Kong directly, so I won't accompany you."

"Didn't you say we were going to the hot springs together?"

"What kind of hot spring to soak in on a hot day, it's better to go back in winter." Li Kaiyuan smiled slightly and said, "For the sake of being careful with me in the past two days, I won't go to Taipei to make you uncomfortable." ”

"Have I ever felt uncomfortable?"

"You, the earth-shattering sound you said is actually a cowardless ghost, if I stand with her, let alone hug left and right, I'm afraid your tongue will be knotted."

Shen Chong smiled bitterly.

Sister Yuan Yuan, how about giving some face......