My Age of Investment

On the vast Pacific Ocean, a large snow-white ship cut through the waves and sailed steadily.

Viewed from a distance, this large ship with six decks looks like a modern warship with clear outlines, huge size, and excellent ocean seaworthiness.

Suddenly, accompanied by a huge roar of propellers in the sky, the ship's forward speed gradually slowed down until it stopped.

When the big ship stopped, the helicopter hovering at low altitude also landed steadily on the first deck of the bow.

Xia Jingxing took off his earphones and followed Liu Hai and Liu Xiaoduo off the plane. He cursed and said, "I bought this helicopter at a loss. Looking down at the ocean from the sky, everything looks the same on the left and right, and my eyes are tired of looking at it."

Liu Hai smiled and said: "I also think it is just a decoration and has little practical value."

Liu Xiaoduo didn't see it that way. He pointed to the other five high decks behind him and said: "I bought a yacht worth 500 million US dollars. How can it be worthy of a helicopter?"

Having said this, she stepped on her feet and said, "Besides, the parking deck has been built, how can we leave it empty? We can't put up a few tables of mahjong, right?"

Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "Dahua is right, it's just paper. You have to spend it."

Overall, Xia Jingxing was very satisfied with the luxury yacht he just got.

It not only has a length of 460 feet (140 meters), but also has 20 luxurious cabins. It is equipped with a large swimming pool, spa, diving center, medical center, movie room, barbecue area, restaurant, boathouse and other rich indoor facilities. facility.

While enjoying it, it also consumes a lot of money.

In addition to the high cost of the yacht itself, it is also necessary to pay the salaries of dozens of staff on board. In addition to the crew, pilots, divers, personal doctors and security personnel are also recruited on board.

Even if the yacht does not go to sea, the wages of these people need to be paid as usual.

Xia Jingxing couldn't bear to waste resources, so when the superyacht, which had been built for more than two years, was delivered to him a few days ago, he couldn't wait to take his entourage aboard the boat named after him. The beautiful yacht "Penguin" began its maiden voyage from San Francisco across the Pacific to Singapore.

As for its private jet, it is still parked in Europe at the moment and is used by the chip team in Silicon Valley as a special reward from the chairman.

The A380 he customized from Airbus has not been delivered yet and is still under construction.

After leaving the deck and returning to his room, Xia Jingxing first took a shower, then changed into a pair of shorts, and went to the top deck with his upper body naked. He lay on a deck chair, enjoying the sea breeze and drinking red wine. .

After a while, Liu Hai also came over, holding a document bag in his hand.

Xia Jingxing glanced at him sideways and asked, "What is it? I don't want to worry about work these days."

Liu Hai smiled. He knew that Xia Jingxing had been a little tired in recent months, so after just finishing the listing work of the two companies and holding the mobile phone launch conference, he immediately left the United States on a yacht and rushed to Singapore. Enjoy this rare leisure time at sea.

"I didn't want to disturb you, but this matter is important and cannot be delayed."

Xia Jingxing looked at the document bag handed to him by Liu Hai. He hesitated for a second or two, then took the document bag and opened it to find several photos.

"Li Zairong?"

Xia Jingxing looked at the Samsung Young Master in the photo and frowned, "Why are you taking pictures of him?"

"Just keep looking down."

Xia Jingxing continued to look through the photos, and soon he found more people, including Larry Ellison, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page... all familiar faces.

Looking at the pile of photos, Xia Jingxing murmured to himself: "What are they getting together for? Are they talking about cooperation? What can Samsung and Google do to cooperate?"

Liu Hai said: "The business intelligence team has analyzed it and may be talking about cooperation between Samsung and Google e-system."

Xia Jingxing raised his head and looked at Liu Hai, who said with a very firm tone: "After the release of Fuxing FX3 and iPhone 4, the sales of Samsung Galaxy mobile phones that were originally rampant in the market were greatly affected.

Judging from online public opinion feedback, many users have chosen to wait and see and are not in a hurry to change their phones. They want to see the first round of PK among the three mobile phone companies before making a decision. "

Xia Jingxing didn't say anything, and looked down at the photo in his hand again, his head racing rapidly.

Could it be that Samsung sensed a sense of crisis and wanted to change sides?

In fact, it cannot be said that it has changed camps, because Samsung is now betting on several parties. It is building WM system phones and Android phones at the same time. It also released Samsung's self-developed mobile operating system Bada (meaning ocean in stick language) at the same time.

"Why is Larry Ellison there? What does Samsung have to do with him when discussing cooperation with Google?"

Xia Jingxing put aside his questions for the time being and focused his attention on Larry Ellison, the troublemaker.

"I don't know! Because we bought the photos, we can't find out more information.

However, according to analysis by the Business Intelligence Group, Larry Ellison may have played the role of a middleman. "

"Did he have nothing to do?"

Xia Jingxing reacted as soon as he finished speaking. Could it be that Larry Ellison, a troublemaker, was deliberately trying to revive mobile phones and Android?

This possibility is not small!

Because of the sniping at Facebook and Tesla’s IPO, Larry Ellison was involved.

As a counterattack, he arranged for Fuxing Cloud and China Digital to publicize the importance of information security in the country, and won many orders from Oracle.

It can be said that he has a deep relationship with Oracle and Larry Ellison, almost to the point of incessant struggle.

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why Larry Ellison used his connections and influence to arrange for Samsung and Google to sit down and talk.

Thinking of this, Xia Jingxing immediately became wary. The other party's move could be described as vicious.

Android's current market position is not stable, and it is still several years away from condensing its divine personality and improving its ecosystem.

Google is now also interested in the mobile operating system market and is recruiting a large number of application developers while recruiting major mobile phone manufacturers as allies.

If Samsung, a major manufacturer, joins Google, it will be equivalent to helping Google's mobile operating system complete a closed loop. If Samsung launches several best-selling e-mobile phones in the future, then this mobile operating system will have a firm foothold in the industry.

The Android system also relied on the revival of mobile phones to build its reputation back then. Samsung and e can definitely copy this path.

One of the two companies is a major mobile phone manufacturer, and the other is a global Internet giant. Together, they may not be able to change the industry situation.

Fortunately, Samsung is more thoughtful. It can be seen from their current development strategy that this is also an ambitious person and may not be easily bought by Google.

Even if the negotiations between the two parties go smoothly, they will most likely launch an e-mobile phone to test the waters first and see sales and market feedback before deciding whether to engage in more in-depth cooperation.

In just a few seconds, Xia Jingxing analyzed the current development situation thoroughly.

The fact that Li Zairong came to the United States to secretly meet with Google executives can be taken seriously, but there is no need to be too worried.

There are still a lot of supporters of the Android system in China, and at worst it will be divided into three parts of the world.

With a countermeasure in mind, Xia Jingxing immediately stood up and prepared to go back to the house to make a call to Lu Qi and Lin Bing.

"Jing Xing, don't leave in a hurry. I have one more thing to ask your opinion on."

Hearing this, Xia Jingxing sat back and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Vision Capital recruitment matter."

Liu Hai sighed, "Someone found Deng Fenghua in the Shanghai office, hoping to use him to send some young masters and ladies to the New York office of Vision Capital."

Xia Jingxing understood. In the past two years, as Vision Capital became famous on Wall Street, a large number of so-called friends in China wanted their help.

In the past, the young men and women of these people entered Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Morgan Stanley. The institutions were large and the brands were strong. After being gilded, they could enter some good financial institutions after returning to China.

Now with the rise of Vision Capital, they have another choice.

Moreover, compared with investment banks founded by non-Chinese people, Vision Capital has stronger Chinese genes, is more approachable, and can speak eloquently.

"Let them interview themselves. Inbreeding is not popular here."

Xia Jingxing was a little unhappy. Although no one personally communicated to him, they often expressed their goodwill to him through senior executives of companies such as Overseas Holdings and Fuxing Industry.

Especially for the Fuxing Industry, the industry covers basically all economically developed provinces and cities, so I naturally have a lot of "friends on the road" I know.

The more friends you have, the more requests for help you will get.

Liu Hai also had a headache about this kind of thing, but he didn't agree with Xia Jingxing's way of handling it. Even if he refused, he should be tactful.

"Envision Capital has a lot to do with it. If you don't support idle people, why don't you let Vision Financial Holdings help solve some positions?"

Xia Jingxing sneered, "You are looking down on others. They don't like positions in commercial banks and insurance. Their favorites are investment banks and hedge funds. If you join these two institutions, you will have a good resume and high recognition."

Liu Hai frowned and said, "But if I refuse bluntly, will it cause trouble for you?"

"That's not the case! And I'm not afraid of trouble."

Xia Jingxing shook his head, some phenomena are inevitable, isn't the old saying right? So don't use it, it's expired.

In his previous life, he also thought about entering Wall Street, but his father was not qualified!

Liu Hai stopped talking. He also knew how high Xia Jingxing's status was now. Compared with ordinary businessmen, he was still qualified to say no.

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After the Penguin yacht docked at the port of Singapore, its huge size like a hill attracted many people to watch, which was no different from the scene when the yacht was parked in the port of San Francisco.

Fortunately, Xia Jingxing and his party had disembarked early, thus avoiding being watched.

They arrived at the Xinxin Group Industrial Park in the car that came to greet them. As soon as they sat down in the office, Fu Jixun couldn't wait to report the industrial development to Xia Jingxing.

“The merger between the Group and GlobalFoundries, as well as the acquisitions of Elpida and Qimonda, have all been completed.

However, the cash consumption in the accounts of these acquisitions is relatively large, especially Qimonda, which is simply a huge pit. In order to restore its fab production and recall retired employees, we have invested heavily. "

Xia Jingxing waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about money, I'm here to solve this matter.

Since I said I would invest heavily in Xinxin Group, I will naturally not break my promise.

I am only concerned about one question now: when will our memory chip market share return to its original position? "

Fu Jixun knew that the original status mentioned by Xia Jingxing was referring to the peak period of Qimonda and Elpida in the past few years.

Now both chip manufacturers are almost ruined. Even if they invest heavily, it will be difficult to return to their previous peaks for a while.

"Mr. Xia, this matter still depends on how determined we are willing to be."

Hearing Fu Jixun's words, Xia Jingxing hesitated for a moment. If there was a bloody storm in the memory chip market, it would undoubtedly be seen as a provocation to Samsung.

Although many price wars are initiated by Samsung, now that Xinxin Group has come to act as the price butcher, Samsung may be in trouble.

Now that Samsung helps Fuxing Semiconductor manufacture chips, cooperates with Android, and flirts with Google, it is really not a good time to unveil its brand.

Seeing that Xia Jingxing remained silent, Fu Jixun basically guessed the boss's thoughts and said, "Mr. Xia, the urgent task now is to completely restore the production order of Qimonda and Elpida.

One of the two companies is in Japan and the other is in Germany. We still have some troubles in management.

I plan to build all subsequent new factories in Singapore or mainland China.

In fact, it would be best to build in mainland China, where labor costs are relatively low and there are industry support policies, but Temasek's attitude must be taken into consideration. "

Xia Jingxing nodded lightly. The reason why Temasek invested in New Core Group was entirely because New Core Group is a Singaporean company and all its industries have gone to the mainland. Temasek will definitely not be able to sit still.

"I understand, I will communicate this matter with Ms. Huo."

Xia Jingxing thought for a while and asked about the photolithography machine.

"What is the attitude of the authorities towards the relocation of Nikon and Canon's photolithography machine businesses to Singapore?"

Fu Jixun smiled and said: "Of course I welcome you! This is a well-deserved high-tech business and is in line with Singapore's industrial introduction policy."

Xia Jingxing smiled, "Of course I know they welcome it. What I'm asking about is... the new lithography machine company's cooperation with mainland China."

Hearing this, Fu Jixun fell silent for a moment and thought for a moment before saying: "I have inquired and the authorities are divided on this matter. One group believes that there is no need to take risks to purchase spare parts from mainland China and continue to use Canon and Nikon." The product is pretty good and won’t cause them any trouble.

The other group believes that this is a free choice for companies and they should not interfere, but they do not support it either. "

Xia Jingxing smiled and said: "Their calculations were quite accurate. They told me before the acquisition that they fully support the lithography machine business in Singapore.

After the acquisition was completed and we planned to change the company's operating strategy, they began to find faults or ride on the wall. "

Fu Jixun spread his hands and said, "There is no other way. A small country can only survive by riding on the wall."

"No, I have to meet with Ms. Huo right away. If we can't come to an agreement, we don't want to do this business."

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