Obviously, the iPhone 14 launch conference did not achieve the expected purpose. After Pingguo was a step behind in switching from 4G to 5G, it was once again labeled as lagging behind.
But when the fruit fans still wanted to give Pingguo a chance, the late-night horror plot appeared.
Pingguo's stock price started an epic plunge and led other US stocks to plummet by 1,000 points!
Cuco was still giving a thank-you speech on stage, but the actual performance of iPhone 14 directly extinguished the optimism that the U.S. stock market had finally cultivated.
Pingguo's stock plunged, and its market value evaporated by about US$100 billion!
Qualcomm's stock plunged, and the two giants led other U.S. technology concept stocks to plunge collectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted by thousands of points, and both the S&P and Nasdaq Composite Index suffered their largest daily declines in half a year.
The market sentiment is not only panic, but also anger.
Investors in U.S. stocks even formed an alliance overnight to prosecute Pingguo for as many as 15 crimes, including embezzling R&D funds and manipulating stock prices.
A senior investment strategy analyst at Bank of New York Mellon even despairedly declared: "Cuco spent just half an hour today to close the door to the United States becoming great again. I think Pingguo's current situation may continue." The plight of companies such as Guo, Nvidia, and Qualcomm is no coincidence—they may have fallen behind Daxia companies substantially."
Morgan Stanley investment strategists also expressed despair to his company’s clients: “The most surprising thing is that Pingguo’s investors seem to naively hope that Pingguo iPhone 14 will lead Pingguo out of trouble, but now iPhone 14 The release has only increased Pingguo’s predicament.”
In addition to the losses suffered by ordinary investors, the wealthiest people in the United States have also suffered unprecedented losses.
Musk’s wealth evaporated by US$6 billion, Bezos lost US$6.9 billion, Bill Gates lost US$2.8 billion, and Buffett lost US$3.2 billion. The founder of Google, Sergey, was born in a Jewish family in Moscow, the Soviet Union, and is a Russian-American Jewish entrepreneur. His wealth has dropped to less than 100 billion US dollars.
Investors, large and small, all shed their blood. In mid-October, all major sectors of the U.S. stock market experienced a rare "annihilation" scene.
As of the close on October 16, Eastern Time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2,010.38 points, or 5.03%; the Nasdaq fell 592.47 points, or 5.86%; the S&P 500 Index fell 241.46 points, or 6.37%.
The information technology/technology sector led the decline with a total decline of 6.98% for two consecutive days - chip component NVIDIA fell more than 9.2% and was the worst performer. The telecommunications, industrial, raw materials, and financial sectors fell at most 3.98%, and the energy sector closed down 1.07%. Minimum.
Among the Nasdaq index constituent stocks, none of the companies such as Nvidia, Marvell Technology, Microchip Technology, AMD, NXP fell, Applied Materials fell, and Micron Technology fell by more than 5%.
With leading technology stocks plummeting across the board, Tesla closed down 4.7%, falling for two consecutive days. Among the six major technology stocks of FAANMG, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, closed down 5.7%, leading the decline, Amazon fell nearly 5.16%, Netflix fell nearly 5.5%, and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, fell nearly 5.5%, all of which gave up the gains made some time ago.
October 17th.
According to foreign media reports, a person familiar with the matter revealed that Uncle Sam's judicial department will launch an antitrust lawsuit against Pingguo. Lawyers are in the early stages of drafting a lawsuit, indicating that a protracted investigation has reached a critical point and the lawsuit may It will be coming soon, the exact time has not yet been determined.
"The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Pingguo since 2019, accusing it of abusing its market power to strangle smaller technology companies, including app developers and hardware manufacturers. According to the person, the Justice Department is now considering filing a lawsuit The lawsuit not only targets the payment system controlled by Pingguo and the high commissions that make software developers angry."
Although it is said to be an antitrust investigation, who doesn't know that it is a drunkard's intention?
Pingguo performed a bad show and dragged the entire US stock market, which had finally climbed out of the abyss, once again into the abyss of plummeting.
This kind of behavior of pig teammates will naturally be criticized by Uncle Sam and the capital behind it.
Even because the Jiuzhou entertainment platform is promoted overseas more than in the previous two years, the number of user registrations and activity has improved qualitatively. Many of these overseas consumers have seen Xiawei MATE70J, which has led to the imagination of companies such as Pingguo. It has become very difficult to rely on the media and self-media to control public opinion and trap users in the Pingguo ecosystem as before.
After all, if it doesn't work, you can still brush the Gonggong system to make the transition...
At this time when Western technology stocks and manufacturing industries are being made extremely uncomfortable by large-scale enterprises, Ford Motor Co., which was once "cost-conscious", cannot withstand the financial pressure and begins to continue to intensify its efforts to economize on food and clothing.
Ford Motor Company executives confirmed that they will cut about 5,000 jobs in the United States, Canada and India, of which 3,500 are full-time employees with fixed salaries and the remaining 1,500 are contract workers.
Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Farley wrote in a letter to employees: "Faced with the new crisis, we need to realign resources, and our cost structure is not as good as that of traditional and new competitors." Competitiveness."
In short, Ford's top management has reached a consensus that it needs to continue to save costs and lay off employees.
Especially since the beginning of this year, Western semiconductor companies such as Korean Star Electronics have encountered various situations that have led to chip shortages. In addition, Daxia Automobile Enterprises has developed rapidly. As a result, raw materials that were once cheaply exported by Daxia Automobile Enterprises have also been absorbed internally by Daxia Automobile Enterprises, and external sales prices have increased. , Uncle Sam's global inflation, etc., have put the global auto industry, including Ford, under continued pressure.
Of course, there is also the reason why Ford failed to invest and lost $8 billion in just one year.
Therefore, cutting costs and making financial reports look good again has become a top priority.
And this is not the first time Ford has done something like this.
In May 2019, Ford announced it would lay off 7,000 employees worldwide.
In June 2019, Ford once again announced that it would lay off 12,000 people across Europe and close or sell 6 European factories.
In September 2020, Ford announced it would lay off 1,400 employees in North America.
In January 2021, Ford announced that it would close three Brazilian factories one after another, affecting 5,000 workers.
In September 2021, Ford announced that it would stop producing cars in India and close two Indian factories, laying off about 4,000 people.
In March 2022, Ford officially announced that its automotive business will be split, and fuel-engine vehicles will be separated from electric new energy vehicles, and they will be responsible for their own profits and losses.
For the entire year of 2022, Ford lost more than 10 billion in the four quarters combined. Not only did it cut back on the research and development of many new car series, it also broke out many scandals.
It's not just the Ford family that will be so "tragic" from 2022 to 2023.
Stellantis Group, an automaker and mobility solution provider formed from the 50:50 merger of PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Group, not only announced that it would lay off employees at its Sterling Heights stamping plant in North America, but also reached an agreement with Italian unions. 2,530 jobs were laid off in Italy.
The dilemma of companies in the European and American markets is getting worse, and car companies have begun a new round of layoffs.
Seeking financing and loans, cutting salaries for all employees, looking for a niche, talking about environmental protection, seeking high-quality spokespersons at high prices, corporate scandals... After all these tricks have been used, the market feedback has still not improved, and in the end, they can only come up with Capital is ruthless in making financial statements - layoffs.
Western car companies are in such embarrassment, and companies such as Nihon Nissan, Honda, and Toyota are even more miserable.
As early as 2022, these neon car companies have announced that they will lay off employees in branches around the world, with the total number of layoffs exceeding 41,000.
As one of Germany's largest parts manufacturers, ZF plans to lay off 15,000 employees in the next five years.
That is to say, when so many news of layoffs broke out in October, ordinary people surfing the Internet around the world discovered that unknowingly, several major car brands and retail companies such as the United States, Germany, France, Britain, Korea, and Neon, the old car powerhouses, Parts manufacturing companies have actually had large-scale layoff plans in the past two years.
Brands such as Germany's BMW Group, Britain's Bentley, McLaren, and Aston Martin, and Sweden's Volvo and Scania are all "not spared."
It's simply a spectacle.
After persisting for so many years, Western technology companies and manufacturing industries were not crushed by the 2008 global financial crisis or by the carbon-based chips developed by Kyushu Semiconductor.
However, after Pingguo’s iPhone 14 suffered a disaster, the media successively reported its tragic experiences over the years.
For a time, everyone in the Western public opinion was in danger. In order to protect their property, the rich either frantically purchased gold, a rare metal that maintains value and has industrial value, or they were thinking about where to put their funds for refuge.
There are so many companies around the world that are not doing well, so where do consumers spend their money?
Daxia Enterprise!
However, under the propaganda of the Western media, which was vague and even called him by his first name, the people unknowingly accepted such a concept.
In recent years, living standards have deteriorated and the economy has expanded, all because of poor profits from one's own businesses. The reason for the poor profits of these companies is that Daxia companies have taken away the share of their own companies.
Some people began to boycott Daxia products under the guidance of certain forces.
Some of the rich, middle-class and social elites followed the trend, while others began to frequently inquire about information about Daxia companies.
The popular Mandarin teaching classes in Daxia, which started two years ago, have become even more popular abroad.
Even in countries such as the United States, Germany, and Mao Xiong, there are already large-scale foreign language education chains that teach full-time Mandarin listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Due to the explosive increase in customers in a short period of time, many foreign language majors in Daxia "had to" earn high salaries and work as Mandarin lecturers in Daxia abroad.
As for Daxia's Mandarin exam, due to the surge in the number of applicants, the difficulty of the exam "had to" be increased. As a result, many foreigners wanted to obtain a better Mandarin level, and the time and energy required increased a lot.
But even so, these foreigners who had never passed the exam still chose to fight in World War II, World War III, and even World War IV.
Daxia Xishu, Rongcheng Xinke District, Jiuzhou Science and Technology.
"Mr. Zhang, I'm sorry, but our company cannot agree to your request. If your company insists on going its own way and wants to be Pingguo's exclusive supplier, then our Jiuzhou Technology Company will choose to withdraw its shares and capital and get back the technology authorization."
"Mr. Luo, the Jiuzhou Alliance is a cooperative organization. We will not force or control your company's commercial projects. If your company wants to provide Pingguo with sealant, we can provide products developed by your company with independent intellectual property rights. .
Our company will not pursue your company's legal issues, but if we want to provide products authorized by our company's technology to companies on the list such as Pingguo, Nvidia, Intel, etc., then our company will withdraw the technology authorization and take legal measures based on the contract. legal measures. "
“Director Jim?
Yes, this is the CEO Office of Jiuzhou Technology.
Your request for cooperation on behalf of Pingguo has been passed on to the company's senior management, and the high-level meeting has produced results.
Since our company is currently gradually divesting and integrating some of its manufacturing and service businesses, we can only supply orders that have been signed by previous partners and cannot supply your company in a short time.
Moreover, your company is not in our first-level cooperation list, so your company cannot obtain products with more than 30% of our technical authorization. I hope you know this. "
Every department of Jiuzhou Technology has been very busy recently, but if you want to choose a department with the largest increase in business, it must be the President Office of Jiuzhou Technology.
People seeking cooperation come from all over the world, speaking different languages and with all identities.
Later, the staff at the Jiuzhou Technology President's Office were too lazy to give any friendly explanations, and would only use their native language during the call.
If the other party has a translator, then we can continue the conversation.
If the other party does not have a translator or even translation software, then you can only accept the service of intelligent customer service after a "beep" sound.
There are tens of thousands of things that need to be dealt with every day, and Yuan Sheng, who has become the president's assistant, also needs to help the president's office handle some affairs from time to time.
There is no other way. As soon as his big boss enters the R&D base, he completely lets himself go and cannot communicate at any time.
What is Gu Qing busy with at this time?
After holding a meeting in the Titan Star department, following a few projects, and making a few "trivial" suggestions, Boss Gu settled in the semiconductor department of Jiuzhou Technology.
"Silicon-based and carbon-based are both material bases. With the help of graphene materials, we can achieve a two-step strategy of silicon-based semiconductors and carbon-based semiconductors.
But in the end we still have to focus on quantum chips and quantum communications. "
Gu Qing's fingers were flying as he wrote and drew on the blackboard, and he kept talking.
“In the last century, physicists have discovered the magical and counterintuitive rules that govern the subatomic world, and the quantum world has fascinated countless people.
At the same time, our biomedical scientists’ understanding of how the brain works is also evolving with the times.
But today in the 21st century, even though we scientists have been able to edit genes, the issue between quantum physics and cognitive science is still like a castle in the air. There are only a few rules that we can recognize, or in other words, Phenomenon. "
