Chapter 153: Many Friends, Many Paths
Old man Warren's approach Si Mingyu has no opinion, after all, the other party is to reduce investment costs, and for himself, as long as there is equipment to produce qualified chips.
Si Mingyu's approach, Old Man Warren, also thought of it, and the profit of five pieces of equipment for two billion US dollars a year was already satisfied, and he didn't think about taking too much.
But through this incident, Old Man Warren recognized Si Mingyu's ability. Although Si Mingyu is only an elite level in business, he is better than a tough heart and careful work, and his evaluation is that it is not enough to fight the country and defend the country.
So what's in store for Gates with this deal?
Microsoft is in the software business, and part of its revenue comes from games, which can be seen from Microsoft's acquisition of Blizzard.
Games are becoming more and more demanding on computer hardware, and some people say that this is to allow players to change computers to drive hardware consumption. And the other way around? If the price of hardware drops to a certain extent, players who didn't plan to change computers will change it, and with a new computer, the game will be able to sell more.
Of course, this is just a guess, and there are so many game manufacturers on the market, which is not necessarily Microsoft's turn, but at least cheaper chips can reduce the cost of their own consoles to make more profits. Si Mingyu promised to supply Microsoft with the chips needed for the host at a nine-percent discount from the market price.
Don't look at the large number of chips imported by Huaxia every year, the amount is huge, but a considerable part of them are sold abroad after becoming industrial manufactured products, such as mobile phones, automobiles, computers, high-end electronic equipment, etc. That is, the domestic chip production is not even a fraction of its own, otherwise it will be the same as the price of cabbage.
As for the impact of chip price reduction on other chip manufacturers in the world, it is not about Mr. Warren and Mr. Gates, they are all diversifying their investments, and they have losses and gains, but they will not lose money as a whole. For example, this investment in Si Mingyu's chip manufacturing company is a rainy day.
Now that the agreement has been signed, it is time to start executing.
TSMC has built a factory in Arizona, a state of 50 states, and plans to build a second one. So in order to support the factory there, TSMC contacted Asmail, and the two sides prepared to jointly disassemble five EUV lithography machines and package them to the 50 states.
The dismantled lithography machine will be loaded and shipped away, and it is difficult to say whether it will open to the east or west after the ship reaches the sea, in short, there will be a formal sale and purchase agreement when the thing arrives at Si Mingyu's territory, and it will be too late for others to say anything at that time.
After bidding farewell to Mr. Warren and Mr. Munger, Si Mingyu was invited to Seattle's Lake Washington to attend a banquet held by Mr. Gates.
Compared with the mansion of Mr. Warren, Mr. Gates's residence can be called luxurious, and the facilities in it do not reveal the taste of luxury. It's not the nouveau riche way of piling up money.
"Mr. Gates, it's a great pleasure to join you at the banquet you've organized." Si Mingyu gave a gift.
"Thank you, I like this gift very much. I'll introduce you to the others. Mr. Gates said happily.
There weren't many people at the meeting, or was it more of a small meeting? In short, it won't be full of music and noise like young people.
"Hey, everyone, please stop what you're doing for a while, and let me introduce you to a friend from Huaxia, Si Mingyu of East Asia Mingyu Group." Old man Gates said as he stood at the door of the living room.
Seeing that everyone else had looked over, he continued: "This child is the grandson of Ms. Li Yinghua, and his maternal great-grandfather is Mr. Li Hongming. ”
"Oh!" After listening to Mr. Gates's introduction, a few people have already reacted first.
It has only been a few years since the establishment of East Asia Mingyu Group, and it is normal for those present to not know. But most people have heard of Ms. Li Yinghua's name, a very capable and successful strong woman. However, if Mr. Li Hongming is mentioned, almost everyone present knows about it.
Not to mention that the Guoxing Company he founded had business dealings with many merchants and enterprises in the Fifty States at that time, and its personal relations with Roosevelt and Truman were very close. is Mr. Li Hongming's legendary business life, which is still read by these bigwigs.
How did Guoxing come up with such huge assets? It's not enough to just do entrepot business in Hong Kong. The main source is that Mr. Li Hongming, with his superhuman vision, copied the bottom of the Great Depression in the Fifty States Union.
It is no exaggeration to say that the famous 50 state federal businessmen and tycoons of his time, as long as they were competitors with him, were severely beaten by him in business. Of course, at that time, Huaxia could be said to be poor and weak, so Mr. Li Hongming used agents or vests, so the outside world knew little about him.
But it doesn't include the people present, who know the inside story at this level. At the same time, they also knew that Guoxing Company took a huge asset and was inherited by the young man in front of him. This is a huge amount of wealth that exceeds the net worth of the old man Gates, even if it is out of respect for money, these people have to look up to Si Mingyu.
"Hello Mr. Si, I'm Dean Garcia, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fifty State Federal Bank. This is my daughter, Lilia Garcia. ”
"Hello Mr. Dean, and hello beautiful Miss Lilia."
If you look at it purely from the outside, it is difficult to believe that the beautiful Lilia is the daughter of Dean who looks like an orangutan, but this is not what Si Mingyu should care about.
The rest of the dozen or so either brought their wives or sons and daughters to greet Si Mingyu and introduce themselves, and Si Mingyu also introduced Zhang Ningxi and Lin Shirui to everyone.
It's not surprising that he has two girlfriends, and it's not uncommon for him to have more than a dozen wives. However, Dean had another thought in his heart, since the other party already had two girlfriends, he shouldn't mind having another one, after all, his daughter's age is very suitable.
It's not surprising that he has this thought, and Lilia will thank himself for finding a rich boyfriend for his daughter, even if he is from Huaxia, even if he already has a girlfriend.
This is an informal private banquet, so everyone is very casual, after all, at their level, there is no need to use rigid etiquette to show their identity, as long as they are not rude.
Si Mingyu chatted with everyone very happily, after the introduction of Mr. Gates, he knew that the chip manufacturing company in his hand, to be able to form a company of such a scale must have a deep connection with the Huaxia official, in the eyes of everyone, this is a good thing, representing its huge influence in China.
Everyone understands the truth that multiple friends have multiple roads, and no one can say when they need Si Mingyu to "do a small favor", and it is always not a loss to build a good relationship in advance.
Just like Congressman Krosie Moseley, when Si Mingyu arrived, he called the airport and asked them to pay attention, and he came to the banquet today, doesn't this have a lot of connection.