Since Micron entered the fourth round of bidding, Mark Daken has been unable to sleep all night, and has no desire for tea or food.
With faint dark circles in his eyes, he waited early and late, and finally waited for the good news from his secretary——
Yangtze River Storage won the bid!
"Monkey Lesheit! What did I say? I just said that this bastard Lu is bound to win against Qimonda! Damn Fake!"
Mark Decken instantly became energetic, took out two bottles of beer from the wine cabinet, and threw one of them at the secretary.
"whispering sound!"
The two opened the tabs of the cans and clinked glasses with laughter.
The air is filled with joy.
"Yangtze Memory cannot compete with us for Elpida, and Neon will not sell Elpida to Samsung and SK. Our only competitor is BayWan."
The secretary raised his neck and took a sip.
"Opponents? They are not qualified to be Micron's opponents at all, and the same goes for Yangtze Memory. Don't think that 2.11 billion US dollars is a big bargain. There will be times when they regret it." Mark Dekan gloated, "Book a flight immediately, we will go back tomorrow. As for tonight, let’s go to the bar to have a good drink and invite all the people we poached from Qimonda. I’ll buy tonight’s order!”
"Yeah, Se!"
The secretary said happily: "There is also news that Deutsche Bank is preparing to provide a loan of US$612.5 million to Yangtze River Storage."
"It's just a loan. It's less than half of Qimonda's debt of US$1.75 billion. It's not worth mentioning at all. Unless the debt is directly forgiven, is it possible? Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Mark Durkan laughed loudly and wildly.
However, the newly established flag fell down the next day.
Not only German newspapers, but also TV stations such as Deutsche Welle reported almost at the same time:
“It was revealed that Yangtze Memory acquired Qimonda for US$2.11 billion.”
"Yangtze Memory's acquisition terms are controversial! Qimonda's two major chip manufacturing plants in Germany will be retained and the positions of the company's existing employees will be guaranteed. In order to ensure that Qimonda can start the road to reconstruction as soon as possible, Yangtze Memory only wants to repay 35% debt."
"Qimonda, a Chinese company that has been recognized by the German district court as a major Dram manufacturer, and Yangtze River Storage, which has been reorganized and assisted, intends to request creditors such as Deutsche Bank and Infineon to 'give up their claims', involving an amount of up to US$1.1375 billion. .”
"Qimonda creditors gave up 65% of their claims? According to relevant sources, of the US$2.11 billion in aid funds proposed by Yangtze River Storage, US$612.5 million will be used to repay debts."
"Lu Fei: Qimonda's savior? Or a robber?"
"…………"
"What's going on! What's going on!"
In the VIP lounge of the airport, Mark Dekan went crazy and grabbed his secretary by the collar, "Why is this happening!"
"The executive we hired from Qimonda didn't know about it at all. He said the key to the problem lies with the bankruptcy committee."
The secretary looked embarrassed, "We are already trying to find out the news. The only accurate information at the moment is that Dresden and Deutsche Industrie, banks involved in Qimonda's claims, have jointly provided a loan of US$225 million to Yangtze River Storage. The loan, plus the one from Deutsche Bank, totals 837.5 million..."
"ah!"
"Check it, check it right away, no matter what method you use, you have to find out whether the bankruptcy committee will agree to it or not!"
Mark Durkan pushed the secretary against the wall.
I knew very well that this method of covering old debts with new debts almost made it clear that the creditor banks in the bankruptcy committee had probably reached some kind of ulterior deal with Lu Fei.
If it is true, it means——
It cost less than US$1 billion to acquire the entire Qimonda.
This is simply two completely different concepts from the original bidding price of US$2.11 billion!
US$2.11 billion is a loss.
$972.5 million is a profit! And it’s earned with blood!
"I just contacted people from several banks in Deutsche Bank."
The secretary said weakly: "According to them, on the day of the bidding meeting, the senior executives all had travel plans. The reason why they came to Germany and did not attend was because they must have met with these damn bankers. Maybe they were talking about exempting themselves from oddities. Mengda’s debt…”
"Needless to say! Fake!"
Mark Deken roared again and again: "Tell me something I don't know, something I don't know!" He shouted so dry that he picked up the coffee and poured it into his mouth. The coffee entered his throat and made his heart hurt.
"According to the Qimonda employees who switched jobs..."
The secretary hesitated again and again, "Qimonda not only broke through the 46nm trench technology, but also found a new way and developed a similar buried stacking technology. It is a new development direction of DRAM memory, perhaps replacing the trench... "
"Wardfark! Stacked! New technology?"
Mark Deken's eyes widened, "Why the hell didn't you say it earlier? Why didn't you say it earlier!"
The secretary shrank his head, "I also overheard this from Qimonda employees last night. They all signed technical confidentiality agreements. If they were not drunk, they would not leak it at all."
"boom!"
Mark Durkan smashed his glass on the table in frustration.
In an instant, coffee splashed and debris flew everywhere.
The next second, he felt dizzy and his heart was twitching.
If I had known that Qimonda was hiding so many tricks, if I had known that Qimonda was so cheap, Micron would have grabbed it no matter what!
In the end, Lu Fei, a bastard, had his chicken stolen?
And under their noses?
Ever since, I couldn't sleep the whole night again.
…………
Along with the news of the acquisition of Qimonda, it spread from Germany to Europe, causing an earthquake of some magnitude.
In the global memory market, Samsung ranks first with 36%, followed by Micron with 19%, Elpida with 15%, and Hynix with 13.4%.
Qimonda has been reducing production in the past two years due to debt and finance, falling to fifth place, with only 12.2% left.
As for Yangtze Memory, it only reached ninth place this year by virtue of its OEM work for Elpida and Qimonda, as well as 2D and 3D flash memory.
When it is integrated into one company and becomes Changxin Storage, it will not only surpass Hynix in terms of technology, production capacity, profitability, and market share, but will also surpass Elpida and rank third in the world.
The old pattern has been broken, and a new pattern is emerging.
China, the United States, Japan and South Korea, the top four in memory are finalized!
Moreover, YMTC unites Nanya and other Gulf forces with one hand, and Elpida, Toshiba and other neon forces with the other, to hit Micron with one punch, a stick with the other, and people with two fists!
Especially breaking the dominance of the Korean family!
In just two or three years, Yangtze River Storage has become like a dark horse!
"Okay! Okay! Okay!"
The old man with glasses heard the news and patted the chair handle twice.
Secretary Huang was secretly surprised. This was one of the few times he had seen a leader who was calm and unfazed by things being so gloomy and excited.
"Xiao Huang, pour me a glass of wine."
The bespectacled old man flipped through the newspaper, which showed a photo of Lu Fei and Luo Jianhua shaking hands and exchanging an agreement, the corners of his mouth raised.
"You set your own rules, no more than half a cup."
Secretary Huang poured a glass of wine, half-joking.
"Fill it up, fill it up, haha, Xiao Lu did a great job! It's worth making an exception, let's have a drink with him!"
The bespectacled old man drank it all in one gulp and said in a happy mood: "By the way, is Xiao Lu still in Germany?"
"Still in Germany."
Secretary Hui reported: "Mr. Lu said that he is discussing investment cooperation with Leica. Leica's optical technology patents are very important for the breakthrough of domestic DUV and EUV lithography machines."
When the bespectacled old man heard "lithography machine", he couldn't help but sigh: "It would be great if there were more Xiao Lus." He put down the wine glass and said, "You have to continue to keep in touch with Xiao Lu..."
Secretary Huang nodded and promised firmly.
"The Davos Forum is about to start."
The old man with glasses smiled and said: "Tell him not to forget that he is a business card of Chinese entrepreneurs in the world!"
………………
Leica's headquarters is located in Hesse, Germany.
The bus returned to Munich from Wetzlar on its original route. The journey was bumpy. Lu Fei leaned on the back of his chair and fell into a deep sleep.
The talks with Laika's directors and management went quite smoothly.
The first collaboration with lphone4 was a great success, and unsurprisingly it became a hot seller all over the world. It was like a man and a woman saw each other, fell in love at first sight, and got married in a flash.
The Kaufmann family, which holds 95% of Lycra's shares, not only agreed to transfer 5%, or all shares, to Logic from Hermès and other shareholders, but even agreed to give up 40% of its own shares.
A total of 45% of the equity is quoted at US$171 million.
The price is quite reasonable. The key is that any shareholder holding more than 5% of the shares is actually one of the major shareholders and has a strong influence on the company, such as Nvidia, which has a stake in Logic.
The strategic shareholding ratio is set at 5.5%.
Whether it is Nvidia or Leica, they are deeply cooperating with Logic and highly tied. It is purely Qin Shihuang looking in the mirror——
A win-win situation!
In particular, although Leica is also in the photolithography machine supply chain, its main product line is still traditional cameras, and its business is extremely niche.
That is, some photography enthusiasts, sales are limited.
In the era of smart phones, once the competitive advantages of Lycra, which represents a large number of international brands that have once been glorious, fail to keep up with the trend of the times, keep pace with the times, and fail to break through themselves, they will be in the awkward position of withdrawing from the stage of history.
For example, Toyota and Honda are resting on their laurels from fuel vehicles.
"Boss, we're here."
Wang Ben gently patted Lu Fei awake and then picked up his luggage.
"Brother Ben, today is our last night in Germany. It's time to leave for Davos tomorrow." Lu Fei stretched and walked to the hotel while flipping through his phone.
There are so many unreceived text messages.
The text messages sent by Liang Mengsong are densely packed, all in traditional Chinese. If you look carefully, you will see that it will jump directly from 55nm to 40/45nm process technology, and it will enter risky trial production in February.
Good news also came to Guo Xing.
Blackstone, Microsoft, Google, and Motorola have all agreed to form a consortium with Logic and Huawei to bid for the assets of Nortel Networks.
In addition, Liu Edong mentioned that Feigou.com and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange have reached a tacit agreement to officially launch the listing plan, while Lu Huateng mentioned that WeChat has released a 1.0 beta version for logic phone users.
The current version only supports importing existing contact information through Fetion and QQ. It only has simple functions such as instant messaging and photo sharing, which is far from being as powerful as later generations.
After all, 3G is just getting started.
Lu Fei was sitting on the bed in the suite, typing away.
The text messages were scrolled down one by one until it was Xu Xin's turn.
The rewards of being long gold are finally here!
Since the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis, it has risen by 5.6% last year alone. It has risen even more sharply at the beginning of this year, from US$880 per ounce, an increase of 8 points in just over a month.
In the critical two years, Mr. Lu has been buying gold at the bottom.
The average price is US$611.52, and a single ounce alone earns US$275.52. This is only the gold spot contract.
"a cup of coffee!"
Lu Fei breathed out and ordered room service.
Just when I had a moment to breathe, my phone received another text message. Unexpectedly, it was Li Fuzhen.
Not only did he not leave Germany, he even asked him to drink!
Hofbräuhaus, Marienplatz, east of the old town.
Renaissance architectural style, with thick snow on the roof in the freezing late night.
Pushing the door open, you will see a large bar on the left side of the main entrance, a spectacular wall with a mountain of beer glasses, and a public hall that can accommodate thousands of people. There are seas of people watching football games on TV.
On the right, there is a unique small box.
Li Fuzhen booked the whole place by herself and was drinking wine. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes were narrowed into slits.
Watching Wang Ben and her confidants exit the box, Lu Fei sat next to her, "I thought you had returned to China, why did you stay here to drink? It's not Oktoberfest in Munich yet, right?"
"I’m waiting for you."
Li Fuzhen poured him wine and couldn't help but sigh: "I really didn't expect you to get Qimonda like this."
Lu Fei laughed loudly: "Thanks to Samsung! If you hadn't started a price war, Qimonda would not have gone bankrupt and reorganized, and I would not have won Qimonda so smoothly."
"Don't be too happy too soon. If you win Qimonda, you will replace Qimonda as a competitor of Micron, Hynix, and especially Samsung. Samsung will never give up its dominance in the memory market." Li Fuzhen said. He said softly, "But fortunately, the competition between Samsung and Yangtze Memory may soon have nothing to do with me, and it will not hurt the relationship between us."
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows, "What does this mean?"
Li Fuzhen sighed, "My subordinates told me that my eldest brother came back from the United States and resumed his original position as soon as he came back. Haha, just in the past few days since I came to Germany."
"It seems like there will be a fight between dragons and tigers when you return."
Lu Fei smacked his lips and said, "Me too."
"Is it still useful to fight?"
Li Fuzhen smiled bitterly and said: "It was dad who asked him to come back. It was dad who asked him to resume his position. It was dad who sent me to Germany. Isn't dad's meaning obvious enough? The position of vice president can only belong to the eldest brother." As he said, He stretched out his hand and asked, "Do you have any cigarettes?"
"Stop smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol."
Lu Fei comforted: "Maybe you still have a chance. It is still possible to announce the candidate for vice president before the last minute."
"Small, very small, only a slim chance."
Li Fuzhen leaned helplessly on Lu Fei's shoulder.
"But it's better than nothing." Lu Fei said.
"Do you know the result of fighting? In my father's generation, he fought openly and secretly with his eldest uncle and his second uncle." Li Fuzhen said helplessly that one was thrown into the cold palace and the other was expelled from the country. The ending was miserable.
"We have a saying, 'If you continue to break up, you will suffer chaos.' Whether to fight or not to fight, I can't make the decision for you."
Lu Fei smiled and said: "But no matter whether we fight or not, Line will always be your retreat. Even if you don't have the aura of Samsung, I believe that with your ability, Line can do great things."
"Why?"
"Because you are Li Fuzhen."
"Yes, I am Li Fuzhen. I am Li Fuzhen." Li Fuzhen received his support and immediately regained his fighting spirit.
"Be brave and make your choice. Didn't I say that I will be your strong support?" Lu Fei whispered in her ear.
"You~"
Li Fuzhen stared at him straightly, with affection in his drunken eyes. He picked up the wine glass and clinked glasses with him wildly to drink.
With a bang, the frothy beer splashed out.
His ears were full of wine and his eyes were full of fighting spirit.
A fierce battle was going on in the box, but even if the wine glass fell to the ground and broke, no one could hear it in the hall. Everyone was immersed in the joy of scoring, and they heard the host on the TV holding a long voice:
“Goal—al—al—al!”
"Oh! Oh! Oh!"
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