Chapter 351 Daosui Semiconductors new goal, 100 billion investment plan!
The next day after returning to Binhai City, Zhang Shuo returned to work.
It's been really busy lately.
Gu Mingzhang, who returned from Xiangjiang one day in advance, came to report early in the morning.
"Mr. Zhang, Daosui Semiconductor Magic City has completed its name change filing, and Zhulong Technology's A-round financing is also progressing smoothly. Investment agreements have been signed with China Microelectronics and Magic City Investment."
"So, starting next month, the group will no longer need to transfer R&D funds to Zhulong Technology?"
"Is such that."
Gu Mingzhang smiled and nodded, "However, Daosui Semiconductor Headquarters still needs some operating funds."
"That's what I was going to tell you."
Zhang Shuo took the topic and said, "In addition to mobile phone chip design, taking advantage of this opportunity to divest Zhulong Technology, Daosui Semiconductor is taking the opportunity to fully intervene in the semiconductor industry and expand and strengthen the group's semiconductor business."
In the past, we were involved indirectly through investment, but in the future, we can participate directly.
"You mean, continue to acquire semiconductor-related companies?" Gu Mingzhang said.
"Yes." Zhang Shuo nodded affirmatively, "Let's put it this way, there is no upper limit on the group's investment in the semiconductor industry."
Huaxia Microelectronics mainly focuses on key technologies in key areas such as photolithography machines. It cannot cover the entire semiconductor industry, and it cannot be accomplished with tens of billions of dollars.
It requires hundreds of billions or even trillions of capital investment.
Zhang Shuo still hopes that by relying on the continuous blood transfusion of the original Blu-ray Group, Daosui Semiconductor can become a semiconductor giant in a very short period of time.
And we must spare no expense in research and development to avoid repeating the mistakes of Blu-ray Group.
He's not just for fun.
"Understood."
Gu Mingzhang also felt confident and said with a smile: "After I come down, I will contact Mr. Lu and continue to take inventory, investigate the current situation of domestic semiconductor companies, and find suitable acquisition targets."
"No."
Zhang Shuo shook his head, took a piece of note paper, and wrote down the names of three companies, "These three companies are the main acquisition targets of Daosui Semiconductor in the next one or two years."
Thanks to the semiconductor industry report submitted by the Investment and Acquisition Department and self-study in the library, Zhang Shuo no longer knows anything about the semiconductor industry.
New investment targets were quickly locked in.
Gu Mingzhang was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing, took the note, and read it subconsciously: "Yizhou Licheng Technology, Jiangxia Xinxin, Yueli Global Storage?"
"That's right."
Zhang Shuo smiled and nodded, "You must have heard of these three companies, right?"
"Know something."
As the senior vice president in charge of manufacturing at Germinal Group, and directly managing Daosui Semiconductor, it would be an understatement to say that Gu Mingzhang has never even heard of these companies.
Three companies, each with its own characteristics.
The smallest one is Yizhou Licheng Technology, whose main business is chip packaging and testing.
In 2015, when the group's expansion was at its most frantic, the original Spacetime Blu-ray Group invested US$600 million and became the company's largest shareholder, holding 25% of its equity.
The purpose of Blu-ray Group's investment is to help Licheng Technology expand its chip packaging capabilities in Yizhou Province, develop advanced production processes and recruit talents.
This makes Licheng Technology the main chip packaging and testing partner of Blu-ray Group.
It’s different from Blu-ray Group.
In this life, Zhang Shuo wants to fully acquire Licheng Technology, gradually transfer its factories, talents, and technology to the inland, and use one trick to improve the overall layout of the semiconductor industry.
In conjunction with this, it is necessary to persuade Tai Electromechanical to build a wafer foundry in Jiangxia.
Jiangxia Xinxin Integrated Circuit Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was established in 2006. It was initiated and established by official investment institutions such as Jingchu Province, Jiangxia, and Jiangxia Zhiguang, with an investment amount of up to tens of billions.
The intention is to create a semiconductor giant that focuses on the design, production and packaging of memory chips.
Because the technical difficulty and technical threshold of memory chips are lower than other high-end chips, it is indeed a very good breakthrough for the semiconductor industry.
It just hasn't been developing very smoothly.
Later, in 2015, Blu-ray Group intervened again, joining forces with Jingchu Province and other institutions to jointly invest US$24 billion to build the world-famous Changchun Storage.
Jiangxia Xinxin was incorporated into Changchang Changchun Chu, and jointly shouldered the important task of China's storage base.
Zhang Shuo obviously hopes that through the intervention of the Sprout Group, this process can be advanced and accelerated, and it will not cause the trouble of the original space-time capital chain being broken and the need for debt restructuring.
This is why.
Zhang Shuo moved the headquarters of Daosui Semiconductor to Jiangxia early because he took a fancy to Jiangxia's complete layout and talent cluster advantages in the electronic information industry.
Can form a very good complementary effect.
The last Nikkei Global Storage is a subsidiary of Japan Nikkei Group. It is mainly responsible for the group's hard drive business and ranks third in the world in terms of market share.
It is also the most powerful among the three.
In 2002, Nippon Storage acquired IBM's hard drive business for US$2 billion and continued to grow.
ironnically.
Around 2013, the original Spacetime Global Storage was acquired by Akane Data, the leader in the global storage business, for US$4.3 billion, thereby establishing Akane Data's dominance in the field of storage equipment.
Zhang Shuo obviously hoped that he could snatch food from Qian Shu's tiger's mouth.
If we can win the Yueli Storage and cooperate with the Changchun Storage in the future, it will be a great achievement.
Don't say anything else.
Just the price increase of graphics cards and hard disks in a few years will bring huge profits.
Just to achieve Zhang Shuo's goal, it is conservatively estimated that he will need to prepare nearly 40 billion in funds. Even if he can find a bank loan for part of it, Suya itself will have to prepare 10 to 20 billion in funds no matter what.
It can't be done in a short while.
"My opinion is that priority should be given to the acquisition of Licheng Technology and Japan Storage. Jiangxia Xinxin can postpone it a little, and it will not be too late to acquire Japan Storage."
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"If you want to acquire these two companies, in addition to raising funds, you will probably encounter interference from other off-site factors, and you may not be able to pass the local acquisition review." Gu Mingzhang expressed his concerns.
This world does not mean that you can buy everything if you have money, especially for high-tech companies.
Guarding against them is like guarding against wolves.
Warwick once encountered similar obstacles and wanted to acquire partners, but was rejected.
A few years later, he turned around and sold it to Huipu.
Later, in order to expand the Chinese market, Huipu introduced Blu-ray Group as a partner. The purpose was to have Blu-ray Group endorse the safety of its products.
Go around in a big circle.
In this business chess game, Warwick is probably the most injured.
"I have also considered this." How could Zhang Shuo not know this? He said with a smile: "I have contacted the Dream Fund. The Dream Fund will act together with the Sprout Group and participate in these two acquisitions."
--slightly--
[Overseas Support Fund]: US$200 million/month
[Valuation of overseas assets]: approximately US$3.1 billion
At the end of March, after the system was upgraded to level 10 and the overseas investment column was opened, under Zhang Shuo's guidance, except for lending 500 million to the Germinal Group, the rest of the funds in the Dream Fund's overseas account were basically invested in the U.S. stock market.
In just six months, more than 200 million U.S. dollars have been made.
Moreover, these funds can be withdrawn from the stock market at any time when needed, just waiting for Zhang Shuo to lock in specific overseas investment projects.
Now.
It was finally time to unleash this killer weapon for the first time.
"Then the chance of success will be much greater."
Gu Mingzhang's eyes also lit up. He did not know the true relationship between the Dream Fund and Zhang Shuo. He only knew that the Dream Fund was an overseas fund headquartered in Prussia.
With this status alone, the obstacles to the acquisition of Licheng Technology and Japan Storage will be much smaller.
"Then start due diligence as soon as possible." Zhang Shuo also acted resolutely, "First win the small target of Licheng Technology, and then attack the hard nut of Sunrise Storage."
Although there is not much money in the bank account of Sprout, Zhang Shuo's tone is quite serious.
It's not that he is arrogant.
However, it is normal for large overseas mergers and acquisitions such as Japan Storage to take a year and a half.
There is no need to say that the funds will be raised immediately.
On the contrary, for the investment in Licheng Technology, you can try to cut through the mess quickly and try to get this deal done before New Year's Day, which can be regarded as a test of the waters.
Let the Dream Fund officially surface in the global investment circle.
"Okay, I will contact the investment and M&A department, Jiaoyang Holdings." Gu Mingzhang also understood. "There is one thing. Mr. Zhang and Roger told me that they hope to continue to preside over the research and development of Zhulong chips. What do you think?"
Roger's current position is executive vice general manager and technical director of Daosui Semiconductor.
After Modu Company changed its name to Zhulong Technology and conducted a round of financing, although Daosui Semiconductor is still the largest shareholder of Zhulong Technology, it is subject to the supervision of the board of directors after all.
There is only one layer between Roger and Zhulong Technology.
"Roger wants to be the general manager of Zhulong Technology?" Zhang Shuo guessed something.
"Yes."
"Then agree to his application, step down from the position of executive general manager and technical director of Daosui Semiconductor, and focus on the affairs of Zhulong Technology. At the same time, nominate him as a director of Zhulong Technology."
Because he is the controlling shareholder, Moya naturally has the greatest say in the personnel arrangements of Zhulong Technology.
Moreover, when Roger was hired from Pingguo, the reason why he was originally looking for it was that Roger's design capabilities in mobile phone chips were the best match for Zhulong Technology.
On the contrary.
The newly born Inaho Semiconductor is not suitable for Roger to be in charge.
"In order to facilitate subsequent acquisitions, I have decided to upgrade Daosui Semiconductor to Daosui Group. Until a new suitable candidate for group president is found, you must continue to serve as president of Daosui Group."
Zhang Shuo established the new pattern of Daosui Semiconductor in just a few words.
"good."
Gu Mingzhang also obliged.
"As for the candidate for the new president of Daosui Group, you and Director Wu should work hard and search among the global semiconductor giants to see if you can find someone who is capable and has the same goals." Zhang Shuo said.
In a sense, the semiconductor business will be the core business of Sprout Group. The person Zhang Shuo wants to be at the helm must not only be capable, but also have the same belief.
Otherwise, it will be difficult to come together after all.
If you want to find such a master, you can only look for it from giants such as Intel and ARM.
The reporting continues.
"Mr. Zhang, as you mentioned at the Maili x2 technical seminar before, there has been progress in finding a camera manufacturer to cooperate on the imaging system," Gu Mingzhang said.
"Oh? Tell me about it."
Zhang Shuo admired Gu Mingzhang's efficiency.
"After the initial contact with Laika, the other party was also very interested in this cooperation. However, what Laika meant was that a Laika label needs to be put on the camera of the Maili phone."
"I can't agree to this."
Zhang Shuo shook his head resolutely, and Warwick agreed, but the Maili mobile phone had to be benchmarked and could not bear the reputation of being an "OEM".
Even if it is just a camera, it is not allowed.
"My opinion is that Maili Group can jointly set up an imaging laboratory with Laika in China to engage in joint technology research and development, and then Maili Mobile will pay the corresponding technology transfer fee to this laboratory."
Zhang Shuo would rather spend more money than be blackmailed by Laika.
"Okay, then I'll have a good talk with Laika." Gu Mingzhang was also very confident.
To be honest, because mobile phones use digital photography, traditional camera manufacturers such as Leica can only provide limited help to Maili mobile phones in terms of imaging technology.
It also requires Maili Group to provide full cooperation in terms of software. This does not mean that Maili Group will not be able to do without the cooperation of Leica. Leica will not be able to do it. There are other camera manufacturers that can cooperate, so there is no need to worry.
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For Laika, this is a rare opportunity to "turn around". Once missed, it is likely to be swept into the dust of history.
therefore.
In this round of cooperation, Maili Group takes the initiative.
………
After seeing Gu Mingzhang off, Zhang Shuo started a video call with Du Qingqing again.
Before leaving for Xiangjiang, Zhang Shuo had already informed Du Qingqing of his decision to relocate Pinxixi's headquarters and asked Du Qingqing to continue to communicate with Jiangcheng.
As soon as it came up, Du Qingqing apologized for the previous leak.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang. I have investigated the previous leak. It was a local employee of the marketing department who leaked the information to the outside world. He has been fired."
Recruiting a large number of local employees locally has both advantages and disadvantages.
The biggest disadvantage is that local people's interpersonal relationships in the local area are often complicated, and it is easy for the company's business intelligence to be leaked.
"Um."
Zhang Shuo didn't say anything at all, "Let's take it as a warning and think of it as a lesson learned. In the future, we need to use our brains in system design to prevent similar situations from happening again."
"clear."
Du Qingqing is already thinking about this matter.
"In addition to relocating the headquarters, you should also pay more attention to the preparation of modern logistics parks in multiple places and come up with a project feasibility analysis report as soon as possible to give an explanation to surrounding cities." Zhang Shuo said.
"To prepare to build so many modern logistics parks in one go, in terms of funds..."
Du Qingqing was a little worried. She had someone calculate it, and it would cost at least 20 to 30 billion if the investment was really needed.
"I just came up with a project feasibility analysis report, but I didn't say we would launch it now." Zhang Shuo shook his head in amusement, "Let's draw a big picture first, and then actually implement it. It will take three to five years no matter what."
Zhang Shuo is not in a hurry.
Yixi is still in its infancy, so there is no need to take too big steps.
Secondly, changing the cage and changing the bird does not happen overnight. It also requires a long period of docking and coordination.
Pinxixi launched the modern logistics park plan at this time, to put it bluntly, it was just to build momentum.
"Then I understand."
Du Qingqing is also smart and can tell everything at once.
"At the same time, in order to cooperate with the planning of the modern logistics park, the group will prepare to establish a first-level subsidiary Qingfeng Logistics, and Baishi Express will be placed under the name of Qingfeng Logistics and renamed Qingfeng Baishi."
As I said before, logistics and speed are not the same concept.
According to Zhang Shuo's plan, it is obvious that logistics is a big concept that includes express delivery, otherwise there would be no talk of building a new first-tier subsidiary.
As for the name change of Baishi Express, it is actually a "delay strategy."
If Baishi Express were renamed Qingfeng Express right from the start, users might be confused and ask: "What kind of express is Qingfeng Express? Why have I never heard of it before?"
Thought it was a new express delivery company.
It was renamed Qingfeng Baishi, and with the name "Baishi", it is easy to think of Baishi Express.
In other words, through the joint name of both parties, the intangible assets such as user reputation, brand value and brand awareness of "Baishi" are gradually transferred to the name of "Qingfeng".
After "Qingfeng" squeezes out the brand value of "Baishi", it can change its name to Qingfeng Express.
Baishi has actually done this kind of operation before. When it acquired Huitong, it changed its name to Baishi Huitong, and then changed it back to Baishi Express. The strategy used was the same.
Similarly, there is the original review of the mold group in time and space, which was later renamed mold group.
"Due to business related issues, you will also serve as the general manager of Qingfeng Logistics. Is that okay?" Zhang Shuo was obviously not interested in appointing a new general manager of the first-level subsidiary.
In itself, the main asset of Qingfeng Logistics is Qingfeng Baishi. As for the modern logistics park, it is more like a castle in the air, which has not yet been implemented.
Therefore, there is really no need to appoint a new general manager.
"Can I say there's a problem?"
Du Qingqing was not happy about being reused.
Pin Xixi, the company she was in charge of, had just started, and everything was "untapped". Now that she was also the general manager of Qingfeng Logistics, she was really overwhelmed.
And at the level of Sprout Group, if this appointment is implemented, Du Qingqing will become the second executive after Gu Mingzhang to concurrently serve as the general manager of two subsidiaries of the group.
But the problem is.
Gu Mingzhang is also the senior vice president of Germination Group, a title that Du Qingqing does not have.
It is impossible to give her this title.
After all, Du Qingqing's appointment as general manager of Pinxixi is already a promotion.
rise again.
Then there will be more rumors about her in the company, which Du Qingqing would rather not do.
"cannot."
Zhang Shuo was also straightforward.
"Don't think this job is too scary. He Yizhou, the general manager of Baishi Express, will be transferred to the deputy general manager of Qingfeng Logistics and the general manager of Qingfeng Baishi. He will be responsible for the daily work of Qingfeng Logistics. You
It just plays a coordinating role, but the actual work has not increased much."
"That's okay!"
Seeing that Zhang Shuo had considered every aspect for her, Du Qingqing felt warm in her heart.
………
That afternoon, another piece of good news came from the Germination Department.
On this day, Weixin reached a milestone achievement - the number of users officially exceeded 300 million, becoming one of the communication software with the most downloads and users in the world.
This is another major victory after Weixin broke through the circle.
After the number of users exceeded 300 million, it can basically be concluded that Weixin's position in the mobile social field, especially in the Chinese market, is unshakable.
Netizens were also very considerate and sent congratulations one after another.
"Weixin is awesome, Germination is awesome!!!"
"Unconsciously, I use Weixin more than icq."
"If it weren't for work, I wouldn't use ICQ very much."
"Tengda: Are you so polite?"
"It's not our fault. The icq function is so complicated. If there weren't some friends on it, I wouldn't want to use it."
"Tengda is shivering..."
It is true that compared to the bloated icq, everyone still prefers Weixin, especially after the launch of official accounts, Weixin payment and other functions, they can’t live without it and it has become one of the must-have apps for installation.
Especially with the huge sales of Mai Li x1, Weixin, who is bound to Mai Li x1, becomes even more unshakable.
As Weixin continues to grow, some companies are naturally happy and some are sad.
Those like Ahri, Jingdong, and Qingcheng who are bound to Weixin and grab traffic from Weixin are naturally extremely happy. They hope that Weixin will surpass icq and take the top spot in social software.