Morningstar Semiconductor’s unconditional offer has entered the second half of the process, making privatization almost impossible.
Yongke Real Estate successfully completed the mandatory offer and will definitely complete the process before the Spring Festival.
Two consecutive offers from listed companies, involving tens of billions of funds, caused fluctuations in the stock prices of real estate stocks on the three exchanges... The actions of the richest man in the mainland have attracted widespread attention.
However, this is not over yet. There is less than a month left before the Spring Festival, and there are rumors that Tesco will go on the market this year. Soon there will be news that Bingxin will also launch this year.
Both Yiguo and Bingxin are not small players in their respective fields. The former is one of the two leading players in domestic e-commerce, and the latter has become synonymous with domestic wafer manufacturing.
If they were to go public together... what would this wave of wealth growth be like for the richest man in the Mainland?
Such turmoil in the stock market coupled with specious, real and fake capital moves has caused a lot of discussion in the media, and many financial reporters are already eager to predict Fang Zong's position on the world's richest list.
It is worth mentioning that Mr. Fang’s short-lived bid to become the world’s richest man twice in 2009 made it difficult for many relevant institutions and media to accurately assess Mr. Fang’s net worth.
Yikola burst the short position, retail investors ate up, Mr. Fang said he was innocent, do you believe it or not?
This once caused different institutions to give widely different assessments with upper and lower limits.
While public opinion was a bit jubilant, Fang Zhuo remained calm. He had actually kept a distance from the media over the past year. On National Day last year, he couldn't help but greet Pony from afar on Weibo.
After all, he is a hero, so he must be steady.
For the rest of January's business arrangements, Fang Zhuo left time to sort out the business and problems of each company. One of the problems that increasingly troubled him was that there were differences within the ice core on the next technical route.
Ice Core has a sufficient budget for 2009. The research and development of advanced processes is not linear. Today's 45nm is still further improving its yield. The 32nm and 28nm that continue to look forward have some intense discussions on material processes and technical solutions.
Compared with 45nm, 32nm is based on better materials and continues the old path of reducing size. On the one hand, the ice core is using the previous generation Ge strain process, and on the other hand, it is also studying the second generation high
-k insulation layer/metal gate process to achieve better results.
28nm is basically the last node of the transistor planar structure. The next three technology paths are 3D transistor Fi, compromise FD-SOI, and planar bulk silicon. Ice Core will definitely go straight to it with the two generals Hu Zhengming and Liang Mengsong.
Fi.
However, the two of them have some differences on the 28nm process plan.
To be precise, Liang Mengsong, Qiu Ciyun, and Hu Zhengming had very different opinions on the front and rear gate plans.
Liang Mengsong's team prefers the gate-last solution, while Qiu Ciyun and Hu Zhengming prefer the former gate-first solution.
The front-gate solution is a technology led by IBM, and the back-gate solution is Intel.
This kind of technical dispute leaves Fang Zhuo at his wits end. Money is easy to come by, and in the technical field... he has always respected professionals.
When professionals have different opinions... he has always respected the most professional people...
However, with Hu Zhengming and Liang Mengsong in front of us, how should we judge?
Fang Zhuo also has a rough idea for situations involving technology. Let’s see how leading companies choose.
However, this trick has failed now, because Taiwan Journal seems to be hesitant. It has always supported gate-first in the past, but last year it expressed support for gate-last technology.
However, according to some news, Taiwan Kee LP, HP, and HPL do not all use gate-first, but use a mixture of the two solutions.
When chasing to a certain distance, the following strategy is also questionable.
Fang Zhuo heard Liang Mengsong briefly talk about this difference in technical views last year. This month, he looked at the different explanations from both sides. With the progress of research and development, the advantages of each seemed reasonable.
How to settle this situation?
Fang Zhuo thought about it, first of all, he could not be the driving force behind technical decisions, and it would easily hurt internal emotions. Secondly, after many arguments, Bingxin had previously added technologies from IBM, Charter, Infineon, Samsung and Freescale.
Alliance and more exchanges may be beneficial.
If external communication and internal research can lead to a unified opinion, even if it is wrong, maintaining the original energy and atmosphere will be regarded as a lesson learned, and you can always start again.
Fang Zhuo lowered the bottom line of his expectations and tried to be optimistic. At least there would be no problem now and in the near future.
On January 27, calls came in from Xiong Xiaoge and Lei Jun, wanting to make an appointment to talk about things. Fang Zhuo had just checked the schedule when his administrative friend Luo Minghua from Luzhou called enthusiastically.
"Mr. Fang, when will you return to Luzhou? I'll wish you a good year." Luo Minghua once had the reputation of "Secretary Chef" and was very familiar with Fang Zhuo.
"Just now I was thinking about when to go to Luzhou to pay New Year greetings to the leaders. I don't have time before this year. I have to go to the capital." Fang Zhuo said with a smile, "I will definitely go to you with wine after the New Year."
Luo Minghua smiled, talked about the competition between Yike and Penguin, which he was also concerned about, and then expressed his gratitude.
Mr. Fang is a celebrity in Luzhou and a guest of Anhui Province. His news has always attracted attention. This month, the situation about Hong Kong stocks has also been widely circulated. However, there has been a rumor that a good thing suddenly came to the door.
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On the 24th, Morningstar Semiconductor, a party to the news, suddenly called Luzhou and sought to build a mainland R&D center...
Regardless of what is said in the news, it is both a secret and a failure, but Morningstar Semiconductor’s industry leadership and market capitalization are definitely popular. In particular, it is extremely suitable for Luzhou, which is now aiming to build China’s semiconductor industry base.
match!
How did the Morning Star hit me?
Needless to say?
Luo Minghua did not call Mr. Fang immediately to thank him. Instead, he continued to work overtime to implement the situation and settle the preliminary matters of the R&D center before making this call.
Mr. Fang thinks about his hometown all the time. Even when he goes out to do evil, he doesn’t forget to pick up things from home...
This behavior is so worthy of gratitude and...encouragement!
Luo Minghua was so sincere that he wished he could appear in front of Mr. Fang immediately and toast him three times!
"The better the industrial ecology of Luzhou is, the better it will be for our ice core. This is also for ourselves." Fang Zhuo accepted his thanks and said it was true.
Luo Minghua smiled and said: "By the way, Mr. Fang, there is one more thing that happened to be discussed by others. I think you are professional in this area, and I also want to hear your opinion."
Fang Zhuo is waiting for the next step.
"We in Luzhou also have several people who are engaged in group buying projects. They approached the city and wanted to attract investment. Now that group buying is so popular, the city is wondering if they can also invest in it?" Luo Minghua said.
Since January, group buying has become more and more popular and has spread from big cities to downwards.
This has successively included Google’s intention to acquire abroad, Mr. Fang’s domestic investment in Lei Jun, Penguin’s internal and external efforts... Such giants have verified that venture capital is willing to spend money, and entrepreneurs of all sizes are actively working on it.
Seize the opportunity.
"The competition will be extremely fierce this year." Fang Zhuo mused, "There are already more than a hundred group buying products on the market, and you may not always be able to invest in the right person."
Luo Minghua continued to ask: "What if we also vote for rice balls?"
He knew that Mr. Fang had invested in Miduan.com, which was the first group buying website in China.
Fang Zhuo thought: "Well..."
Mi Tuan is not short of money now, and if he is really short of money, he can make up for it immediately. Moreover, he has to consider Lei Jun's wishes, which is a sign of respect for others.
Luo Minghua immediately said thoughtfully: "Mr. Fang, I'm just asking. You don't have to be embarrassed. Since the competition is fierce, let's take a look."
He really just asked in passing.
Fang Zhuo thought for a while and said: "This is really not an easy investment. Let's wait until next year to think about it and see if there are any other good opportunities."
Luo Minghua wanted to offer Mr. Fang three more glasses of wine.
After the call with his hometown ended, Fang Zhuo's heart turned to Mi Tuan.
Group buying and entrepreneurship has become a bit crazy, and many websites have begun to give money to attract people, but Mi Tuan has been holding back.
Fang Zhuo had some doubts about this point. He felt that it was time to burn. It was right to seek stability and accumulate operational experience, but he also had to keep up with changes in the competitive situation.
However, Yi Ke has always respected Mi Tuan's independent operations. He couldn't say anything and just kept observing.
On the other side of Miduan.com, Lei Jun also had some doubts. He had long wanted to talk to Mr. Fang, but he could only know what Mr. Fang was busy with from the media.
Just like this, his doubts were amplified. Mr. Fang went straight to Chenxing, and Mr. Liang was defeated. This seemed too easy.
A cursory glance shows that seven years have not smoothed out the general's toughness. What he really wants is to rush forward no matter who he is... he has to re-examine their relationship and future.
Lei Jun knew that Mr. Fang respected him, but seeing the unexpectedly fierce competition in the group buying market, he was worried that there would be problems with the boundaries of this respect.
