"In the future, traditional personal computers will disappear and anything with a different form factor can be a type of computer."
"When these devices are connected to the Internet, they will be combined into a super terminal, just like the 'Internet of Things' written by Gates in "The Road to the Future". The future will be the era of 'Internet of Things+'."
"I agree with what Lu said about the Internet of Things, but I don't agree that traditional personal computers will disappear. Personal computers are still the future of computers and are developing towards mobile as never before."
"Whether it's a tablet, a laptop, the so-called big curved computer at home or whatever, this universal device will always be with us, and Logic's K1 is just one of the products, there are many different products."
"For example, Microsoft's netbook."
"It is worth mentioning that Microsoft is about to cooperate with Nokia to launch a 3G netbook, which is not inferior to K1..."
Lu Fei and Bill Gates were at loggerheads on a TV show.
One side represents the tablet and the other side represents the netbook.
One side represents logic and the other side represents Microsoft.
Those who don't know think that the two are like donkeys and elephants, with the same power as fire and water. Those who know about their relationship also mistakenly think that their friendship has broken down.
After all, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests.
In short, the good media analyzed and interpreted the remarks of the two technology tycoons from various angles, and the topic became more and more popular.
"Bill Gates and Lu: Old Enemies and Confidants".
"Bill Gates VS Tony Lu, twin stars shine".
"Netbook or Tablet PC, Which Do You Like?" 》……
In the cabin, Lu Fei flipped through the newspapers and smiled when he saw various headlines full of gunpowder:
"Haha, these titles are not bad. Have our sales increased?"
Zhang Tianmei smiled and nodded: "Mr. Lu, whether it is Microsoft's netbook or our tablet computer, sales are increasing. K1 pre-sales have almost exceeded 150,000 units."
Lu Fei smiled.
His disagreement with Bill Gates was purely tacit.
The topic and attention of the two companies have increased, and Bill Gates took the opportunity to throw out the blockbuster news that Microsoft and Nokia have joined forces to launch a netbook.
Fake business wars, planting spies, and internal strife.
Real business wars, bickering and betting on the outcome.
Even like Musk’s Octagon fight with Zuckerberg.
"Mr. Lu, when we arrive in Santa Clara, should we go to the hotel first, or go directly to NVIDIA?" Zhang Tianmei asked.
"Has Mr. Su arrived at NVIDIA already?"
Lu Fei took a sip of coffee to refresh himself.
These days, in order to save Nortel Networks, I have been running around, making phone calls one by one, and winning over allies such as Microsoft, Google, and Huawei who are deeply bound to logic. As for secondary partners such as Samsung and Blackstone, when the time comes Pick one or two more.
In case the news leaks out, the plan will be ruined.
"arrive."
Zhang Tianmei said: "Mr. Su made preliminary contact with Huang Renxun two days ahead of our schedule. It is said that he was quite sincere."
"Of course, he needs us so much now."
Lu Fei drank the coffee in one gulp.
Nvidia can be described as a leak in the house and it rains all night.
Previously, AMD acquired its old rival ATI, integrating the CPU with the GPU, combining magic and martial arts.
Later, Intel terminated its cooperation with itself and started working on GPU alone. Its long-term partners suddenly became the strongest competitors.
There is a wolf in front of it and a tiger behind it. In desperation, Nvidia had no choice but to take the road of high-performance independent graphics cards, but it fell into trouble——
Graphics cards have encountered an unprecedented quality crisis.
Along with the economic crisis, revenue plummeted, and the stock continued to fall, from $37 to below $10. It has already dropped to $8 and is heading towards $5.
NVIDIA needs good news so much!
Cooperating with Logic on mobile devices is a dream come true!
"Tianmei, go and notify Mr. Su..."
After Lu Fei explained, the Gulfstream G450 arrived at the airport at noon. The group went to the hotel to rest for a while, then headed straight for Nvidia and met up with the team led by Su Zifeng.
"President Lu, President Su, welcome, welcome!"
Huang Renxun personally greeted him at the door of the company, wearing a black leather jacket as always, a typical nuclear explosion maniac suit.
"Director Huang, I think Mr. Su has told you the purpose of my trip, right?"
Lu Fei looked at Su Zifeng on the left and Huang Renxun on the right.
"Of course, of course, I am very grateful that Logic did not go to Intel or AMD, but gave Nvidia this opportunity."
Huang Renxun's face was filled with an excited smile.
"Although Intel is preparing to launch the Larrabee architecture that integrates CPU and GPU, we are more inclined to go with NVIDIA. After all, they have 16 years of experience in making GPUs."
Lu Fei strode into the elevator.
Huang Renxun followed closely, standing on his left: "What Mr. Lu said is absolutely correct. Even if Intel can increase its graphics computing power by 10 times, it cannot surpass NVIDIA, because we have more than 6,000 employees and only do GPU only focuses on graphics and parallel computing technology. In my opinion, only by doing the minimum amount of things can we do better than our opponents."
"That's what we thought too."
Lu Fei, Su Zifeng and others looked at each other and smiled.
As soon as the elevator door opened, a group of people from Wuyangyang came to the conference room, and both parties signed a confidentiality agreement tacitly.
Immediately afterwards, a picture of a chip was displayed on the TV.
Huang Renxun got straight to the point and said: "Mr. Lu, to tell you the truth, we at NVIDIA have long wanted to enter the smartphone processor market. To this end, we have been secretly developing a chip called 'Tegra'. These are the parameters above."
Su Zifeng and others all looked at him with scrutiny. Lu Fei smacked his lips, his eyes filled with disgust and disgust.
Doesn’t this make Lei Jun’s Tegra processor miserable?
I think the original Xiaomi Mi 3 was truly "born for fever" for the first time because of this NVIDIA chip.
The fever is severe, comparable to that of Snapdragon 888.
Noticing the look he sent, Su Zifeng nodded and said bluntly that the Tegra project could continue, but the logic must be fully participated in and jointly developed from design to packaging and testing.
"What??"
Nvidia executives including Huang Renxun looked stunned.
"Don't get me wrong."
Su Zifeng waved her hand: "It's not that we don't believe in Nvidia's achievements in GPU, but we do GPU, not just for GPU. Our ultimate goal is to make mobile phone SoC. GPU must adapt to the logical CPU and baseband chip."
"Soc? Logic needs to be developed on its own Soc?!"
Huang Renxun was shocked when he heard this.
"Yes, you should also be well aware that due to physical limitations, the annual improvement rate of CPU performance predicted by Moore's Law to double every 18 months has slowed down. However, adding GPU can change the rules of the game for high-performance computing."
"But if I remember correctly, Logic's iPhone 4 this year has the baseband from Qualcomm and the processor from Texas Instruments. Why do you suddenly want to make your own SoC?"
"The reason is actually very simple."
Su Zifeng said the excuse she had thought of.
The most important signal and performance of smartphones, but Qualcomm is currently only a manufacturer that provides Snapdragon baseband, while Texas Instruments and baseband chips are simply a "knowledge blind spot" for it.
Even if it is as strong as Intel, its research and development has failed.
This faces a problem. Texas Instruments cannot make a chip with its own baseband, so the logic must be found by Qualcomm. Instead of forcibly piecing it together and integrating it, it is better to develop the SoC yourself.
"This is the premise for Logic to cooperate with Nvidia."
Lu Fei smiled and said, "Otherwise there is no need to continue talking."
Huang Renxunsi quickly took a sip of water to resolve the awkward atmosphere, "Mr. Lu, this is too sudden. Can you give us some time to think about it?"
"Yes, but let me state in advance that with this foundation of cooperation, we and NVIDIA can have more and deeper cooperation in the future." Lu Fei raised the corner of his mouth, "For example, you have recently invested heavily in the CUDA computing that you have been developing. platform."
No wonder Mr. Lu can make logic so great!
He is indeed a knowledgeable person!
When Jen-Hsun Huang heard that he was willing to let all large companies under his name, such as Penguin, Feigou, Line, and Logic, participate in the development of the CUDA platform, he could not hide the surprise on his face.
"With our participation, NVIDIA has established a complete ecosystem. Perhaps when AI chips mature and artificial intelligence technology breaks through, we can completely overturn the limitation that GPUs can only be used as graphics cards and overtake CPUs in corners!"
Lu Fei stared straight at Huang Renxun.
"Gulu, Guru."
Huang Renxun swallowed his saliva and kept looking at his watch.
"What, Mr. Huang, are you in a hurry?" Lu Fei joked.
"No, I just want to see if today is April Fool's Day?" Huang Renxun said what he was thinking inadvertently, "Oh no, Sao Rui, I just can't believe it."
"Don't worry, there is more."
"besides?!"
"In order to ensure smooth and stable cooperation, I hope Nvidia can accept our strategic investment."
Lu Fei stretched out his hands and spread his fingers.
That is 5.5% of the shares, approximately 33 million shares.
The acquisition at US$14 per share requires US$462 million, which is a bit expensive, but once successful, Logic will immediately become the fourth largest shareholder after Vanguard, BlackRock, and Fidelity.
"This, this..."
Huang Renxun was shocked by one "surprise" after another, and adjusted his glasses awkwardly, "President Lu and Logic's strategic investment need to be reviewed by the board of directors as a separate proposal, and then forwarded to the shareholders' meeting for voting. This time is still difficult... "
"As long as Mr. Huang agrees, I believe we can convince other directors and shareholders." Lu Fei seemed to be whispering like a devil, "Nvidia must not miss the mobile Internet era."
When Huang Renxun thought about Nvidia riding on Logic's smartphones and tablets, and when he thought about CUDA being fully supported by Lu Fei, the picture was so beautiful that he immediately felt dry.
Subconsciously I picked up the cup, only to find it was empty.
"Mr. Huang, think, think more."
Lu Fei took the initiative to pick up the kettle and pour it for him.
………………
The cooperation negotiations between Logic and NVIDIA unexpectedly went wrong. No matter how well it was kept secret, the news leaked out like a ghost, but only one thing came out——
NVIDIA is suspected of introducing logical strategic investment.
Following the launch of the new phone, another blockbuster was dropped in the North American technology circle. For a time, there were different opinions.
Some say that NVIDIA wants to join Logic's lead to enter the mobile market, some say that NVIDIA wants to join forces with Logic to counterattack AMD and Intel, and some say that Logic is targeting the CUDA platform.
In short, there is no guarantee.
But two pieces of news are absolutely true. Goldman Sachs issued an open letter welcoming Buffett and Lu Fei to join the company as shareholders.
The other is that Trisolaris Fund and Berkshire Hathaway announced that they have reached an acquisition agreement with MoneyGram. The final transaction must be reported to the Overseas Investment Committee for testing and approval.
It's Mr. Lu again!
It’s Buffett again!
News comes one after another. The latest issue of "Forbes" magazine simply put Lu Fei and Buffett as the cover characters. One old and one young, the two of them are holding a financial tsunami on the earth.
Buffett holds the Western Hemisphere, and Lu Fei holds the Eastern Hemisphere.
The title clearly reads: Who rules the ups and downs? God of East and West stocks!
The magazine spread across the country, causing an uproar.
These days, Guanglianxiang's acquisition of IBM's PC department was enough to cause a sensation across the country. Everything Mr. Lu did, one after another, directly shocked netizens for a whole year.
On a certain workplace social platform, enthusiastic netizens had nothing to do, cooked wine with green plums and discussed heroes. They ranked domestic entrepreneurs and famous companies, which instantly attracted heated discussions.
At present, famous Internet companies are divided into three echelons:
First level: Penguin, Logic, Huawei, Feigou;
Second tier: Ahri, New Wolf, NetEase, Baidu, Sogou...
Third level: Meituan, Sohu, Shanda, 360...
The discussion area below Weibo has more than a thousand comments.
"Good guy, three of the four FTLH companies belong to Mr. Lu."
"In fact, Mr. Lu is also a shareholder of Huawei."
"Are you mistaken? Huawei and Logic are not Internet companies at all. They should be high-tech companies. The comparison should also be compared with companies such as Lianxiang and Shenzhou."
"I can't agree with you anymore. Internet companies are everywhere. There are only a few domestic technology companies that can truly be called technology companies. This does not include Lianxiang. There is no technical content at all."
"Isn't this too absolute? Lianxiang also has technology, right? He also acquired IBM's PC department."
“Lianxiang and Logic are our twin prides in technology.”
"Damn it! Can Lianxiang not force the 'double pride'? If you want to say 'double pride', it should be Huawei and Logic. One trade, industry and technology, don't touch porcelain, two technology, industry and trade are the only ones."
"Logic and Huawei are always so good. They always invest money in key areas instead of distributing large amounts to senior executives."
"..."
Just when the two sides were arguing, the news that Logic had fully acquired Transmeta, the fifth largest CPU manufacturer in the United States, spread back to China, immediately turning the situation one-sided. Even the last voice to defend Lianxiang was gone, and they were all bragging. ——
Mr. Lu is awesome!
The logic is awesome!
Anyway, that’s it for being awesome!
This made Liu Chuanzhi extremely depressed. He was sitting in the villa of Wanliu Academy, watching CCTV on TV spare no effort in reporting on Mr. Lu, almost blowing him into the atmosphere.
"Dad, let's not read his news."
Liu Qing brought the fruit plate and sighed.
The family has tried their best to prevent Liu Chuanzhi from being exposed to any news about Lu Fei, but it is impossible to guard against it day and night.
After all, there is too much news about Lu Fei.
Seeing his daughter's silence, Liu Chuanzhi covered his aching chest, "You are the executive director of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific, but he has become the major shareholder of Goldman Sachs. What is this?"
"Okay, Dad, stop talking."
Liu Qing patted his back gently and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
If his father knew that Mr. Lu or the senior executives of Goldman Sachs were begging him to invest, he would most likely be furious.
I have already tried my best to support my father, so why can't I catch up with his full strength? Is the gap between the first rich generation and the second rich generation so big?
"I won't watch it anymore, I won't watch it anymore, it's boring."
Liu Chuanzhi changed channels angrily, his eyes suddenly widened, his heart hurt, and he screamed, sweating profusely.
"Dad, Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Liu Qing rummaged through the cabinets, found the medicine and hurriedly fed it to him. Following his line of sight, Liu Qing saw the TV broadcast:
"Central Huijin Investment Co., Ltd., the major shareholder of CICC, has entered into an equity transfer agreement with Trisolaris Fund, holding shares accounting for 4.84% of the total share capital, marking the formal investment of Trisolaris Fund into CICC..."
"It can be saved, haha, Mengniu can be saved now!"
Niu Gensheng ran back to the computer, wrote a ten thousand words letter in front of the screen, and checked it up and down several times.
In the midst of confusion, I pressed the mouse button.
The document was immediately sent to Lu Fei's personal email.
Thanks to Princess Sissi for the 1,400 starting coins.
(End of chapter)
