The conversation between Stewart and Chen Bo lasted more than two hours, and the two sides finally reached an agreement after some confrontation and concessions.

ARM's board of directors agreed to Ant Search's acquisition of a total of 34% of the shares of VLSI and Lehman Brothers for the purpose of controlling the company, and added two new seats on the board of directors, with Konstantin and Hoffman joining as independent directors, but only with the authority to supervise and advise, and still maintain the original operating mechanism of ARM, and cannot interfere in internal affairs.

The headquarters is still located in Cambridge, England, and the branch in Silicon Valley will be relocated to Ant City, which can also indirectly save a lot of costs.

Since it has become an investment behavior from an acquisition, it is impossible to simply pay money and do nothing.

Ant Search and ARM have jointly formed a new project team to develop a new architecture for the future mobile electronics market, named ARM X. The first task is to develop a new generation of chip instruction sets for the Maidong Walkman, which is more efficient and energy-saving.

This is a test of the water directly involved in the product design, unlike the previous instruction set, which is only responsible for designing the product architecture, which is semi-processed. After the authorization is released, the major semiconductor manufacturers will re-add their own technologies on this platform to finally form a complete chip.

ARM is an upstream manufacturer of semiconductor manufacturing, and it has not been in contact with downstream design links for a long time, and the changes in electronic equipment are changing with each passing day.

According to Moore's Law, when the price is constant, the number of components that can fit on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every 18-24 months, and the performance will also double. In other words, every dollar that can be bought for a computer will more than double every 18-24 months. This law reveals the speed at which information technology is advancing.

Looking back at the updates and iterations of almost all electronic products, we can't find this phenomenon, especially the manufacturing of mobile phones related to life. Every year, there will be new phones, and after the iPhone came out, new products will be released every year, and each one will turn over to improve performance.

This also poses a higher challenge to ARM, and the future should not only belong to the Internet but also to the Internet of Things.

Chen Bo's plan for Ant Search not only to achieve a global strategic layout in cloud services, but also to extend its tentacles to the mobile Internet format, so a core component to adapt to the future mobile market is also an indispensable part.

Before the board of directors agreed, Ant Search had reached an agreement with two other major shareholders, and the previous day's closing price overflowed by 47% to finalize a 34% stake, also spending a total of $1 billion.

Although this cost is not small, it is enough to meet the huge sum of $1.6 billion paid by Microsoft in a settlement. Although the final formalities for the acquisition of Sun have not yet been completed, there is no need to worry about Oracle there, and a deposit of 500 million US dollars has been submitted, and it will not be difficult to pay another 500 million at that time.

Now there is no need for an intermediary financial advisor to provide financing services, is cash a matter for Ant Search? At least the acquisition of such small and medium-sized companies is effortless.

Of course, these things are operated in secret, and it was not until ARM was suspended on the two stock exchanges for half a month that it was discovered, but the capital hot money can only hold its head and sigh, and it is too tightly hidden, and it has not caught up with this wave of good opportunities to make quick money.

When all of them speculated about which tech giant made the move, the official announcement posted when they reviewed it was that Ant Search controlled ARM and became the largest shareholder.

Depend on! It's ant search again, it's really beep dog!

Just bought and sold in the United States, earned enough eyeballs in minutes, and then went around to the back of the IT circle and stabbed into the upstream core area of semiconductor manufacturers. Although it is not so terrifying as choking their throats, these bigwigs will always have to look at ARM's face in the future, after all, when it comes to intellectual property rights and patents, it is difficult for anyone to escape the authorization of this inconspicuous company.

Hoffman twisted his fat body and borrowed the multimedia conference hall of Cambridge University to officially announce his entry into ARM to all IT people, and talked about the concept of the cloud and the future of the Internet of Things.

The first to release a positive signal is naturally the global technology stocks that are on the rise. Among them, the rise of Internet concept stocks is even greater, compared with the blindness before the Internet bubble was burst, the current road of Internet development is clearer.

Although Ant Search's share of the global market has slowly narrowed the distance with Yahoo, it is basically on par, but it has received a lot of attention, and the call for listing is wave after wave.

There are even people who curse Microsoft, Ant didn't plan to go public, you threw over 10 billion dollars, and Ant, who was not short of money, was even less anxious now, which made the big axe of capital hungry and thirsty.

Although Chen Bo did not appear on the scene, he was still captured by reporters, but this time he was replaced by a sports reporter.

He hid at Chelsea's Cobham training base, Abu is an amateur fan, and it is impossible to play with him with an old bone, which would undermine the authority of his boss, but the players here are among the best in the world.

Monster Drogba, muscular iron Makelele, Peter Pan Robben, as well as midfield brain Frank Lampard, defensive stalwart Terry. Coupled with the manager madman Jose Mourinho, this squad already has everything to win.

Although he is not arrogant enough to beat a first-class star, he can't help but change into his sneakers and take advantage of the training to kick two feet.

As a sponsor, the players naturally don't dare to play with you to shovel, but a man who came over flew out, and he was extremely good in front of ordinary people, and he couldn't withstand the ravages of these players, so he ran down in disgrace.

Then he shamelessly challenged the coaching staff and played together after training.

The madman coach level is top-notch, but the kicking is ...... I can't really compliment it, compared to the solid foot skills of other coaches, the madman can't even be called an amateur.

Chen Bo's resentment from the players was completely released by the coach, and Mourinho could only be helplessly overrun by him, accelerating, splitting the ball, pedaling the bicycle, and picking the ball through the rainbow......

Eventually, Mourinho couldn't stand the humiliation and lifted his foot to a dashing tackle and dropped him on the turf.

"Joao, you're a scoundrel, you're going to get a red card!" Chen Bo was also too tired to do anything, and shook his hand and shouted to Mourinho.

"Who cares? It's the best defense on the pitch. Mourinho looked indifferent and pouted, this expression is really tactful.

The coaching staff and players watching the game all laughed, and the loudest was undoubtedly Abu, the leading owner, who was caught by onlookers and made headlines in football the next day.

"Microsoft didn't let him succumb, but fell at the feet of the madman!"

"Playboy doesn't pick up girls, and he was humiliated by the whole Chelsea team!"

"The mall is proud, the stadium is frustrated, and the young rich are ......"

It's really a misstep and a thousand years of hatred, but this fall has become a black spot in Chen Bo's life, and it will always be used as entertainment gossip to stir up in the future, and even after many years, it has been made into emojis such as "There is no love in life, and I am confused", which is popular in the Internet fighting map war.

Chen Bo is having a good time here, Google on the other side of the ocean has not sat still, since the last Gmail marketing made a big oolong, it has been more low-key and silently making products. Google Earth and Google Maps were jointly launched, and Google Chinese input method was developed for Greater China, and Picasa image viewer also began to emerge in the midst of thousands of calls.

Although it is a few months later than Ant Search, under the premise of a large overall user base, it has also set off a small-scale climax among countless Google fans, which in turn has promoted a Google product craze.

Thunderbird Browser is now expanding its market share, and it is catching up with IE browser under the stimulation of countless D.I.Y prodigy stories. I don't know if Microsoft is nervous or unresponsive, but still has strong confidence in IE, and has not yet reorganized the disbanded browser project department.

Although Firefox is a rising star, under the leadership of Pichai it is not unhurried to make steady progress, at present, the market evaluation is better than Thunderbird and IE, excellent kernel coupled with a simple system interface, and the extremely fast response time has won the favor of users in the ant camp.

It's just that the market share is definitely a little worse, temporarily succumbing to the Opera browser, ranking fourth in the world.

Of course, Chen Bo will not be happy to play the role of a foil, and has announced that more data centers will be built, but the level will definitely be lower than the previous level, which is to serve more European customers and strengthen the layout of cloud computing.

Glasgow in Scotland, Munich in Germany, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Valencia in Spain, Bucharest in Romania, Lugano in Switzerland. There is also a data center in Moscow, Russia, which is jointly established with Yandex.

These investment grades are basically below 50 million US dollars, which is much smaller than the intercontinental level investment of 2 or 300 million US dollars, of course, this is not a small investment for the host country, and it is naturally welcomed by the local government.

Countries such as Russia, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom are not allowed to do so because they require Internet companies to set up servers in their own countries. Together with the two old data centers in Tallinn and Iceland in Estonia, Europe has been used from south to north and from west to east.

In the United States, there are also four regional data centers in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia and Sunnyvale.

After this package, nearly $1 billion was thrown out, and before cloud computing was opened, billions of net investments alone had been spent, which was more than a piggy bank and could absorb gold.

The happiest thing is the major server manufacturers, no matter how strong Ant's search ability is, it can't produce it by itself, and it doesn't have to place orders in their hands, as well as Oracle, they will cooperate with the deployment of enterprise-level oracle databases, which are also real money.