. May 7, 11 o'clock in the morning.

The temporary headquarters of Dream Entertainment Company, on the 38th floor of the Jade Building, the negotiation between Intel and Dream Entertainment Company has entered the final stage. Based on the attempt to acquire AMD, Shi Lei and Mu Shuang agreed to the cooperation plan proposed by Intel as a cover.

Prior to signing the agreement, Intel's senior vice president, Craig Anderson. However, Beret put forward a reluctant request for the characteristics of the Xia Kingdom, which made the originally smooth negotiations fall into the shadow of an impasse.

"Ms. Mu, Mr. Shi, we at Intel, hope that the cooperation agreement signed by both of us must be properly kept confidential. In addition, when holding a press conference, the cooperation materials disclosed to the news media must be marked as 50 percent of each party's share. After all, we at Intel have many partners in the world, and I hope you can understand our difficulties when it comes to dream of being an entertainment company. Craig said slowly, carefully observing Shi Lei and Mu Shuang's facial expressions.

Mu Shuang turned his head to look at Shi Lei and asked, "Mr. Shi, what do you think should be done with Intel's request?" ”

"I understand Mr. Craig's concerns. The business cooperation agreement should also be confidential. As for the publicity side, as long as Intel has this kind of demand, we dream entertainment can cooperate. Shi Lei responded with a smile.

Craig's hanging heart has finally been put down!

More than ten minutes later, the legal staff of Dream Entertainment and Intel jointly drafted a bilingual version of the cooperation agreement for the coexistence of Xia Chinese and English.

The agreement clearly states that if the cooperation agreement between English and Xia Chinese is inconsistent, the cooperation agreement will be null and void. This is to prevent the language translation trap in the English language. A word means many different things.

Intel's legal staff, as well as five think tank members, carefully examined the cooperation agreement, including the cooperation agreement described in Xia Chinese. In Intel's negotiation team, there are many people who are proficient in Xia Chinese.

After the two parties have confirmed the cooperation agreement, only the last step is left to complete the cooperation agreement. The last step is the punishment for violating the agreement!

The reason why it is necessary to sign a cooperation agreement for business cooperation is to prevent a party from unilaterally violating the cooperation agreement. The compensation provided for in the agreement can be obtained through legal means.

Craig. Beret and members of the company's internal think tank have long negotiated the terms of compensation for violating the agreement.

"Mr. Shi, Ms. Mu, regarding the terms of compensation for breach of the agreement. This is a requirement on our part of Intel. Craig pulled out two copies of A4 printer paper from his briefcase. At the conference table. pushed it to Mu Shuang and Shi Lei.

After Shi Lei got it, he checked it out, and the compensation terms formulated by Intel were quite strict. However, the vast majority of the clauses are painless damages. Only the last one, Dream Entertainment Company can't get around.

The last indemnity agreement. It is specifically noted that if either party violates the cooperation agreement, it needs to pay $10 billion in compensation to the other party!

A whole ten billion dollars!

It's definitely sky-high!

Whether it's Dream Entertainment, or Intel. In the short term, it will not be possible to pay such liquidated damages. Even if Intel's total assets are as high as hundreds of billions of dollars, the total assets are not equal to the working capital, and most of those values are the total asset value converted into stocks and production bases, as well as related technology patents.

Mu Shuang also found the last indemnity agreement, she sneered in her heart, and then put the A4 printer paper on the table, "Mr. Craig, I don't think this liquidated damages agreement is appropriate. ”

"Oh? Which one is not suitable? Craig immediately asked.

Mu Shuang glanced at Shi Lei and said, "Mr. Shi, why don't you say it?" ”

Shi Lei nodded, took over the words, and said loudly: "Mr. Craig, our dream entertainment company and Intel company have had a good cooperation experience. In the last cooperation, we signed an indemnity agreement with each other, which stipulated that if both parties violated the agreement, they would pay the other party $100 million. Why did the liquidated damages in this compensation agreement reach 10 billion US dollars? ”

The amount of 10 billion liquidated damages is completely the result of the joint negotiation of five think tank personnel of Intel. Intel's first cooperation with Dream Entertainment, because it didn't realize it, the number of sales of personal game servers turned out to be 7.2 billion US dollars. Therefore, in terms of liquidated damages, the amount signed is not large.

In the first cooperation, Intel tasted the sweetness and knew what kind of profit income the personal game server would bring. If another $100 million in liquidated damages were signed, it would be absolutely inappropriate.

Therefore, Intel has raised the liquidated damages to the level of 10 billion US dollars, and even if Dream Entertainment is desperate to default, Intel will be able to obtain sufficient benefits.

"Mr. Shi, Ms. Mu, according to the forecast of our company's internal evaluation department, Dream Entertainment's second-generation personal game servers will sell at least three million units worldwide. In order for our cooperation to be pleasant, we need a high amount of liquidated damages to bind both of us. Craig explained in a serious tone.

Shi Lei sneered, "Mr. Craig, can I understand that this is your Intel company suspecting our dream entertainment company and preparing to break the contract?" ”

"Of course we didn't mean that!" Craig first corrected his attitude, in fact, Intel is really worried that Dream Entertainment will break the contract, but on the surface it can't say it. "Mr. Shi, the high amount of liquidated damages just makes the cooperation between our two sides stronger."

Mu Shuang's face was calm and let Shi Lei negotiate, so that people couldn't see what she meant.

"Mr. Craig, we dream that entertainment companies will only accept the same amount of default as last time. Otherwise, we will not be able to continue to talk about cooperation. Shi Lei said with a tough attitude.

Craig looked at Shi Lei with a wry smile on his face, in the middle of business negotiations. Generally, after entering into substantive negotiations, under normal circumstances, the two parties will not mention the topic of terminating cooperation, but will only choose to negotiate non-stop on the terms of the problem. How can there be such a thing as Shi Lei, who directly opens his mouth and the negotiations break down?

Fortunately, after several negotiations, Craig also knew that Shi Lei was a rookie in negotiations and did not understand the rules of negotiation at all. Craig could only look at Mu Shuang helplessly, hoping that Mu Shuang would show his attitude.

Mu Shuang coughed lightly. Shi Lei immediately stopped talking.

"Mr. Craig, what Mr. Shi said just now, I also support it. Tens of billions of dollars in liquidated damages, we dream entertainment and Mirui Technology, no matter what, will not accept. Of course. We also understand your Intel difficulties. So, liquidated damages. From the first cooperation of 100 million dollars. Raising to $200 million is the bottom line of our dream entertainment company. Mu Shuang's tone was full of sincerity.

It's just that the meaning of the words is not sincere at all.

The liquidated damages have been increased from US$100 million to US$200 million. Compared with the tens of billions of dollars in cooperation agreements, there is really no sincerity.

A worry arose in Craig's heart, and Dream Entertainment's refusal to increase the liquidated damages for breach of contract showed that Dream Entertainment was interested in tearing up the agreement. Or have a tendency to do so.

Once AMD, IBM, or SUN, etc., companies that have made achievements in the field of chips and commercial servers give Dream Entertainment better conditions, then Dream Entertainment's unilateral breach of the contract will become a reality.

"Ms. Mu, the liquidated damages of 200 million US dollars cannot be accepted by our Intel company!" Craig's rare tough answer is that he must get a reasonable benefit plan for the company. Otherwise, he will become a sinner in the company!

Mu Shuang sighed lightly, "It seems that the negotiations between our two sides will continue to be deadlocked, and maybe AMD will be a better choice." They don't even need a limit on liquidated damages, right? ”

Mu Shuang deliberately mentioned AMD to provoke Intel. In the world of chip manufacturing, Intel and AMD are natural rivals.

Although the two companies have some cooperation, and even Intel, they also control some AMD shares behind the scenes, but the two companies are mortal enemies!

Craig's face sank, he knew that what Mu Shuang said was the truth, and AMD wanted to win over Dream Entertainment, even if the limit of liquidated damages was very low, they could accept it. As long as AMD cooperates with Dream Entertainment, even if it is only for a little time, it can be accepted by AMD.

What AMD needs most is to use Dream Entertainment to gain product recognition from users around the world!

"Wait! Ms. Mu, the liquidated damages will be lowered, 5 billion US dollars! Craig cut half of the liquidated damages and made a big concession.

Unfortunately, the amount of liquidated damages is also not considered by Dream Entertainment.

After a short but intense tug-of-war negotiation, Intel finally set the liquidated damages at $1 billion and refused to lower them in any way.

Intel's idea is simple, if Dream Entertainment unilaterally tears up the agreement, they will also make at least a billion dollars. Anyway, Dream Entertainment's personal game servers don't need a separate product line, just their company's current products.

Mu Shuang also took out the ultimate limit of Dream Entertainment's price, "Mr. Craig, we Dream Entertainment can accept up to $500 million in liquidated damages. ”

In order to show that the amount of liquidated damages of 500 million US dollars is the real bottom line price of Dream Entertainment, Mu Shuang said in a serious tone: "If you can't accept it, today's negotiations will end here!" ”

Shi Lei had already stood up, looking like he was about to leave.

However, when Craig of Intel was still hesitating, Shi Lei's phone rang, he took out the phone and saw that the caller ID was displayed as Jingcheng.

Shi Lei originally thought that Ling Yumo had changed his mobile phone number, but he pressed the answer button and put the earpiece to his ear.

"Boss, Miss Ling Yumo is missing!" On the phone, the voice of Chen Zhiyong, a member of the ruling security company and the personnel dispatched to protect Ling Yumo in Beijing, came.

"What?" Shi Lei's face changed, and he asked loudly: "What's going on?" ”.

(To be continued......)

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