Chapter Eighty-Nine: Join Them, Then Defeat Them
Carly considers herself an adventurous woman, otherwise she wouldn't have continued to expand after entering the Star Sea. At the same time, various departments were forced to jointly make a budget, and finally bought a piece of land almost stuck in the budget, and prepared to start building an office park a year ago - how could a company without its own office buildings dare to call itself a large enterprise rooted in Silicon Valley?
In the words of her peers, this woman always puts herself on the brink of financial crisis.
But when she saw the plan sent by Xi Xiaoding, she realized that her adventurous spirit was simply not worth mentioning.
Buying a company that has just been sued is not a risk, it's death!
"No, we don't have the money, and the risk is too great. Carly shook her head almost without even thinking about it. She knew that Xi Xiaoding and Su Yuanshan had a very special relationship, but since Su Yuanshan handed over Xinghai to her, she had to be responsible for Xinghai. This kind of death-defying behavior would definitely not have been thought of by her.
"Carly, let's not talk about the money, let's talk about whether Cyrix is willing to sell or not. When Xi Xiaoding saw that this woman also confessed, he couldn't help but smile and said: "And, if they are willing to sell, whether we can buy it, and the question of the income after we buy it." β
Carly looked at Xi Xiaoding suspiciously, and nodded after a moment: "You mean a simulated acquisition, right, then you can take a look." β
As she spoke, she looked down at the papers.
This document was naturally sent by Su Yuanshan, and then printed out after Xi Xiaoding made revisions.
Xi Xiaoding turned back, poured herself and Carly a cup of coffee, and then dragged the chair and sat across the desk. He saw that Carly's eyebrows were furrowed deeper and deeper, and her mouth was pursed and tightened, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly.
After two months of working together, Xi Xiaoding already knew that the more Carly frowned and pursed her lips, the deeper her thinking became.
"Convincing them to sell is not a problem. Finally, Carly raised her head and looked at Xi Xiaoding, her eyebrows already stretched: "You know Klaus, right?"
Klaus is one of the founders of Cyrix and the current CEO.
Xi Xiaoding nodded: "After all, partner, he has been here a few times." β
Carly also nodded: "Klaus's side has been in a lot of trouble lately, if there is really a strong company willing to help him tide over the difficulties, he will definitely be willing to give in." After all, their CPUs have only been launched now and they have been sued by Intel, which actually affects customer confidence and the market. β
Xi Xiaoding smiled: "Then back to us, according to the current laws here, can we Xinghai complete the acquisition?"
Carly was silent this time, and only shook her head after a long time: "It's a little difficult, Professor Su is the most charismatic Xia Kingdom scholar I have ever seen, and his son is also a wonder boy who has repeatedly created miracles." But whether it is an offshore sea of stars, or a sea of stars on our side, the nature of capital determines that if our acquisition is actually a cross-border acquisition. β
Xi Xiaoding could guess that this was the result, and he smiled bitterly: "It won't alarm the Ministry of Commerce, right?"
"Not really. Carly shook her head and smiled: "As long as Xinghai's equity structure is adjusted, enough local capital is introduced and promised to go public, you don't really want to encourage President Xiao Su to do this, right?"
Xi Xiaoding laughed: "Carly, if Mr. Su really agrees, he will even adjust the equity structure to complete the acquisition." Will you support it?"
Carly was stunned, she frowned quickly, and looked at Xi Xiaoding very sharply - this sentence means that Xi Xiaoding seems to have bypassed her and Su Yuanshan to discuss such a big plan - this is a very dangerous signal and taboo.
Xi Xiaoding said with a smile: "Carly, when I was just chatting with Su Yuanshan, I casually mentioned the news here, and joked that I should buy Cyrix." He was interested at the time, and then told me to make a plan for you to see, and if you agree, we will sort out the plan. As for the money...... If you really want to adjust the equity structure, then there will be no shortage of money, right?"
Hearing Xi Xiaoding's explanation, Carly breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that Xiao Su is really a good boss.
Then Carly carefully checked the plan again, after being in Silicon Valley for so long, she knew what kind of virtue Intel was - it was delusional to want to get X86 licenses through normal channels.
Moreover, buying Cyrix means taking sides with the X86, but now, is the X86 really a good choice?
In the 80s, Microsoft and Intel, who were still younger brothers, formed the "Wintel" alliance in order to compete with Apple. With win3.1 causing hot sales this year,Intel's status war is not to mention,At least X86's position seems to be stableγ
However, where there is a market, there is competition, or war. Seeing Wintel's menacing, he gradually revealed his domineering spirit. Apple, Motorola, and hindsight IBM - you know, IBM is the boss who single-handedly cultivated Wintel - formed a new PowerPC alliance, intending to use the combination of Apple operation + Motorola processor to curb the combination of Windows operating system + Intel processor.
Now that both sides of the alliance have their own younger brothers to follow, on the surface everyone is only fiercely competitive, but in fact it has already been red-eyed - on the contrary, it has objectively promoted the popularization of personal computers.
"Are you also optimistic about the windows + X86 combination?" Carly looked at Xi Xiaoding.
"Our company's personal computers are all Windows. β
Carly's fingertips tapped lightly on the tabletop, and her mouth pursed into a thread: "You still have to take this into account, if we buy Cyrix, it means joining the X86 camp." But you have to know that the camp is the camp, and Intel and AMD are not allies......"
"Frankly, I don't really trust Klaus's abilities. Even if Cyrix can win the lawsuit or settle and get the license, he may not be able to design a CPU that can keep up with Intel's pace - you see, the CPU they released this year can only be counted as 80386, but that was Intel's product 7 years ago. β
"You forgot there's a telecore. Xi Xiaoding looked at her quietly and reminded: "You have also seen YX01, but Yuanxin hopes that YX01 will take another path and not participate in the competitive desktop market, so it has not joined the battlefield of X86 and PowerPC." Otherwise, we are fully capable of designing a new operating system based on open source linux, coupled with the YX architecture, to form a new war machine to join the desktop PC market. β
Carly took a second breath.
She had forgotten that there were Wonder Boy and Far Core.
"You mean to say that in your plan, all the technical prospects are counted as the support of the technical force from the Yuanxin headquarters, right?"
"Yes, and I'm still being conservative. Xi Xiaoding remained silent, and said in his heart that you don't know how much Su Yuanshan's guy covets X86.
"Good. Carly smiled and narrowed her eyes, not oblivious to the crow's feet rising at the corners of her eyes. She waved her hand heroically: "Then I agree! Join them, and then defeat them!"
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