Not to mention that Microsoft can't do it with Applied Materials, it can't be done with Bush.

Of course, for Zhou Xin, it is useless if there is only an empty shell, and it is an impossible task to move some production lines and R&D laboratories back to China.

But it doesn't mean that Zhou Xinna has no way to take Applied Materials, and the financial crisis that will come five years later is the best opportunity.

The crisis seems to be enormous, but it is not enough for Washington to sell applied materials to Zhou Xin, let alone for Zhou Xin to move applied materials back to China, even if only partially.

Not to mention moving key parts back to China, the Chinese are only executives at Applied Materials, and they will face lengthy investigations. Taking Liu Yangsheng, the global director of Applied Materials, as an example, it took him half a year from receiving the offer to joining the company.

In the past six months, I have mainly faced investigations from various federal agencies.

The financial crisis means large layoffs, even for companies that occupy a monopoly position in the semiconductor industry chain like Applied Materials, will also begin to lay off employees significantly.

Zhou Xin's impression is that Applied Materials has laid off more than a quarter of its employees during the financial crisis, because the salaries of senior engineers are generally higher, so almost all of Applied Materials' layoffs start from these senior engineers.

It is just the right time to cultivate fresh blood to make the company re-energized, which is the external saying.

Later, Huaguo's photovoltaic industry was so strong that it was inseparable from applied materials, which at its peak occupied more than 50% of the market share in the field of thin-film solar production equipment.

They set up the world's largest thin-film solar R&D center in Xi'an, with more than 3,000 R&D engineers, many of whom have since become the backbone of China's photovoltaic industry.

During the financial crisis five years later, layoffs were not limited to Applied Materials, but also to TSMC, which had less than 40 percent capacity utilization during the '08 financial crisis and laid off more than 1,000 employees.

Zhou Xin wants to add fuel to the financial crisis and make its impact worse, so that the layoffs of these semiconductor companies will be more exaggerated.

As for how to fuel the financial crisis, the early arrival of the mobile Internet will naturally delay the outbreak of the financial crisis, and the superposition of virtual currency and online finance will make the financial crisis come later and more violently.

Zhou Xin has a hunch that the clearing of this crisis will be a long, long time, and it will also have some consequences that he can't predict.

As for what he has to do, all he has to do is to cultivate his internal strength, and when he can get the capital to expand against the trend.

Even if he can't do it, he must let Huaguo believe in his judgment and use four trillion real money to support Huaguo's semiconductor industry.

Infrastructure, including real estate, is very important, it drives more upstream and downstream industrial chains than semiconductors, and can benefit far more people than semiconductors, but this industry does not need to rely on policy support, so that it can develop in accordance with the laws of nature in order to benefit in the long run.

The consequences of ripening are often difficult to accept.

After the merger between Matrix and Apple was officially launched, the Nasdaq exchange quickly approved the deal, and Apple's stock went into an indefinite freeze, but Apple's stock price had more than doubled before the freeze.

There are very few ordinary shareholders who catch up with this rocket, and the vast majority of the profits are still the institutions behind it.

The investment institutions that hold Apple have made a lot of money in this round of wealth game, and of course, the most profitable is Zhou Xin.

Because only Zhou Xin knows what the merger of Apple and Matrix means, it means that MOS will firmly occupy at least half of the market share in the field of mobile operating systems.

Apple, which has both high-end and mid-range product lines, can make Samsung miserable.

"It's great to meet Newman again, it's been four years since you were interviewed for the first time, how does it feel to be in this familiar studio again?" Charlie Rose is very excited to interview Zhou Xin again.

You must know that Zhou Xin has hardly been interviewed in the outside world, and the interviews he received in China will be subtitled and moved back to Ameriken, and even many audiences even watch this kind of subtitle version of the interview.

Not to mention the live broadcast, Newman's name is a natural gimmick, a guarantee of ratings.

Zhou Xin's rare appearance in public can be regarded as a kind of hunger marketing, which has whetted the appetite of the audience.

Charlie Rose's face was full of red light, and after a cordial hug with Zhou Xin, he looked directly at each other with his eyes, as if waiting for Zhou Xin's answer.

Zhou Xin was wearing white short sleeves with the Matrix logo printed on the front, and replied with the same smile: "When I come back here, I feel like I have returned to my own home."

It's very intimate, even the camera and lighting effects are so intimate. ”

Charlie Rose laughed: "It seems that Newman also likes it here, if Newman wants to be the host, I will consider giving you the host position of the Charlie Rose show."

From now on, this show will be called the Newman Show, and I will go behind the scenes as a producer. ”

Zhou Xin waved his hand: "Compared with the host of the reality show, it is still a billionaire who is more suitable for me." ”

Not only was Charlie Rose amused by Zhou Xin's humor, but the audience also let out a hearty laugh and a burst of applause.

Charlie Ross held his forehead: "I forgot that we can swap roles, which means that I still don't have the mentality of a rich man, and I invited you to be the host, and I actually wanted to be a producer behind the scenes, instead of playing the role of your billionaire."

Okay, let's get back to business, it's no secret that Newman sold Quora to Time Warner for a sky-high price shortly after his last Charlie Ross show, a deal that has been talked about by Wall Street and Silicon Valley to this day.

Later, some entrepreneurs thought that it was the Charlie Rose Show that brought Newman good luck, which also made it easier for the Charlie Rose Show to invite guests.

This is Newman's legacy to the Charlie Rose Show.

So from then to now, you've changed so much, when you were just a Silicon Valley startup star with a brilliant track record, and now you don't need to prove yourself what you've done, just the six letters Newman speak for itself.

How do you see your growth over the past few years? ”

This is the rhythm of Charlie Rose, and this interview show is officially on track, before it was a warm-up.

Almost all of the audience in the audience are from the Bay Area, and everyone relied on the official account to grab tickets to get this opportunity to get close to Zhou Xin, and the audience was quiet waiting for Zhou Xin's answer.

Zhou Xin said: "There may be some falsehood in saying this, but this is my true thought in my heart, and I don't have to worry about money when I was interviewed here last time."

Therefore, from the last time to now, my biggest feeling is that I have provided emotional value to more people, and I have taken another small step on the road to changing the world.

This is my biggest takeaway in the last few years. ”

Why do the big guys say they are unhappy when they are interviewed, because it is really difficult to provide happy feelings when wealth accumulates to a certain extent and then increases, and the upper limit of the emotional value that money can provide has been touched.

Zhou Xin thought that in addition to Internet entrepreneurship, he had done a lot of work in the field of semiconductors, and Huaguo's chip industry was far healthier than the original time and space.

Originally, he could only do some foundry business, and Huahong, whose perennial utilization rate of the chip production line was less than 50%, was revitalized in his hands.

The integrated chips that originally led to MediaTek occupying the lead in mobile chips were developed by Xinxin first, and the curved semiconductor industry is far less developed than in later generations.

Intercepting MediaTek and poaching TSMC, these two tricks have made TSMC struggle to catch up in the advanced process, and it has not formed an absolute advantage at all.

Xinxin's advanced process in the Lion City has already started construction, and in Zhouxin's plan, the Lion City can eat at least one-third of TSMC's advanced process, and if the relationship with Intel is good, it is not impossible to swallow two-thirds.

The only problem is that Huaguo has too many lessons to make up in the semiconductor industry, and it is still catching up, and there is no other field of research and development that can be said to be in the leading position in the world except for mobile chip design.

Charlie Ross asks: "It's not an easy small step, more and more friends around me are starting to use smartphones, and smartphones are no less than great inventions of personal computers.

I used to have to turn on my computer five days a week, but now I only need to turn on my computer for one day a week, and other times I just need to look at my phone to bring me services that I would otherwise have to provide with a computer.

This would have been unimaginable two years ago. ”

Zhou Xin looked at the audience, many of whom raised Mphone to him, as if they were recording: "It seems that the audience is full of loyal fans of Mphone."

The logo on the back of so many mobile phones is M, the audience sitting on the side, why is your mobile phone logo Sony Ericsson? Zhou Xin asked.

The factory manager ran to the man's side in time and handed him the microphone: "Because the Mphone2 is so easy to use, my girlfriend changed mobile phones with me after the experience, and I am now using the Sony Ericsson she bought before."

Newman, you have to believe me, I'm a big fan of yours. ”

Zhou Xin asked: "Then why didn't she come today?" ”

Charlie Rose replied helpfully: "It should be that you didn't grab the ticket, the ticket for this talk show you participated in is quite difficult to win, and the probability of winning seems to be only 3 in 1,000." ”

The man nodded hurriedly: "That's right, I want to bring her with me, but unfortunately I only grabbed one ticket." ”

Zhou Xin asked: "Then why didn't your girlfriend come, but you?" ”

The man smiled with a hint of obscenity: "Because she didn't know that I had won the lottery, I told her that I went to work overtime." ”

Zhou Xin thought it was good, he was still a licking dog who could think, and he was not hopeless.

Charlie Rose said: "Sir, we will put this article on Friday's live TV broadcast without cutting any of it, and I believe your girlfriend will surprise you when she sees it." ”

Before the man's No was finished, the factory staff had already taken the microphone away, and the laughter of the other audience members quickly drowned out the man's wail.

Zhou Xin continued: "It seems that the sales of Mphone are really good, and the vast majority of the audience here are using Mphone.

I've said many times about the difference between Mphone and other mobile phones, and I've told you back and forth in various media, including your own personal experience, that Mphone is so different.

The experience is so good compared to other phones that it can sell more than $700 to more than 15 million. ”

Yes, in four months, the sales of Mphone2 have exceeded 15 million.

With Mphone's rapid growth in the sales market, the market value of traditional mobile phone manufacturers has fallen all the way, with Nokia and Motorola both falling by a third from their highs.

Zhou Xin said: "I had a similar idea when I was doing Quora, why do you have to sit at your desk and turn on the computer whether you are asking or answering questions, or just looking at a question.

Is there any way I can enjoy the Internet service without the hassle? If you have a handheld computer, both the battery life and the operating experience are too poor.

And the function of the mobile phone is too simple, which gave me the idea of combining the handheld computer and the mobile phone.

The advancement of technology made my idea a reality, and I was rich enough to start this project, and it was the combination of so many factors that allowed me to bring you such an epoch-making product as the Mphone2.

Have an idea first, then consider the feasibility, and then start acting. ”

Charlie Ross applauded: "Beautiful Newman methodology, let's discuss another question, why Nokia and Motorola can't work?"

Even if they were wondering what kind of form the smartphone would be popular with consumers, Mphone had inspired them why they couldn't do it.

I believe that Mphone2 they can't do it because of the limitations of touch screen technology, but why don't their smartphones even catch up with the Mphone1 experience? Charlie Rose asked.

Zhou Xin smiled awkwardly, and his inner answer was that these two companies had obvious big business diseases, and they were extremely slow in making decisions.

But he didn't want to say it so bluntly.

"I think it's because they've accumulated so many successes in the past that they want to replicate them on their smartphones.

However, in fact, the key points pursued by traditional mobile phones are completely different from those pursued by smartphones.

If you want to dismantle the problem, it will be too complicated, and I believe that after the show is broadcast, the media will analyze what I said. ”

The media don't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, Charlie Rose said that it's okay, and Zhou Xin's answer is to make it clear that he doesn't think Nokia and Motorola can threaten him in the field of smart phones.

The media will make a big deal about this, and Tencent, a subsidiary of Zhou Xin, had a very unpleasant quarrel with these two companies because of software licensing.

Zhou Xin continued: "Mphone is a pioneer, we can give full play to our ideas, compared to us, Nokia and Motorola face too many shackles. ”

After listening to this, Charlie Rose asked, "Newman, I'm curious about how Mphone3 will be different compared to Mphone2?"

In our opinion, Mphone2 is so perfect, it is hard to imagine that Mphone3 can continue to optimize and improve on the above places.

Will smartphones fall into the same dilemma as computers, that is, the chip is becoming more and more powerful, but the function is not substantially improved? ”

(End of chapter)