Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

The next day.

Lin Baicheng led his team to Texas to complete the negotiated deal with Texas Instruments.

This transaction totaled US$173 million, which can be said to be a quite high figure in this era.

The acquisition of Intel's memory chip technology cost US$81 million, and Texas Instruments' integrated circuit technology cost US$173 million, adding up to a total of US$254 million.

This does not include the fees Lin Baicheng paid to Goldman Sachs, which totaled US$15 million, which equals a total of US$269 million spent by Lin Baicheng.

Lin Baicheng's original funds in the Goldman Sachs account were US$392 million, of which US$100 million was given to Golden Fleece Company to support Hutchison Whampoa's stock price. The acquisition cost US$269 million, and now only US$23 million is left in the account.

Of course, this US$23 million is not enough to purchase the home appliance company and GE's TV division. When the acquisitions between the two parties are finalized, if the funds returned by Golden Fleece Company are not enough, they will have to transfer some from other companies.

Unlike Intel, which only sells technology and production lines, Texas Instruments also has four factories, all of which are in Dallas, Texas. These four factories are wafer manufacturing factories, packaging and testing factories, memory chip factories and integrated circuit factories.

On the way back to the airport.

Isabella asked Lin Baicheng: "BOSS, what should we do with the four factories attached to Texas Instruments?"

There are more than 10,000 workers in the four factories. At the time of the acquisition, the contract required Lin Baicheng not to fire employees for no reason unless they were willing to compensate the employees for one year's salary. If the factory was shut down and all employees were fired, Lin Baicheng would have to pay at least a few dollars. The price is tens of millions of dollars.

Rather than paying such a high price to fire employees, it is better to keep the factory running. Skilled workers and technical talents in the factory are also quite rare.

However, the factory now belongs to Lin Baicheng, and Lin Baicheng must sell the products he produces, otherwise the accumulation of products will only cause a lot of losses. But it won’t work if the factory is not running. It’s impossible to let the employees do nothing and receive their salary in vain, right?

Therefore, unlike the acquisition of Intel's technology and production lines, the technology is collected directly, the production lines are shipped to Xiangjiang by sea, and Intel only needs to send technical personnel to help when it is installed.

At Texas Instruments, Lin Baicheng needs to make detailed arrangements for the four factories.

Lin Baicheng said: "I have established Galaxy Semiconductor Company in Xiangjiang. The United States also allows you to set up a subsidiary, and the factory will be taken over by the subsidiary. The company's current tasks are not only to find talents in various semiconductor companies, but also to solve the problems of corresponding products. Sales are still the most important task.”

"The memory chip factory will hand over the technology acquired from Intel to the factory to upgrade the technology and produce more advanced memory chips."

"Currently Galaxy Games' arcade machines can use memory chips. After the Galaxy Games console is developed, more will be used. At that time, memory chips were mainly provided by our own products, which were best for export and could not compete with Intel. It doesn't matter."

"Galaxy Games' console will be developed in about half a year. As long as it takes about half a year, all the chips needed for the game console will be provided by our own factory, and then we won't have to worry about it anymore."

"In fact, you can also sell your products to Apple, but it's a pity that Apple's market is not big."

Isabella thought for a while and said, Apple's personal computers may be considered successful, but compared with the entire computer market, they are far behind.

"If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten."

Lin Baicheng only thought about the industry under his own name, but forgot about the Apple company he had invested in: "Remember, when you return to Los Angeles, contact Steve Jobs and the others. It is best to get Apple to sign a long-term contract with a semiconductor company, and the price will increase. We can give you a better price than the market price and achieve win-win cooperation.”

It is true that Apple's current sales are not too many, but if you wait until a few years later, it will be different.

Isabella nodded: "Boss, you are Apple's major shareholder. As long as the product quality is not bad, I believe they will not refuse to sign a preferential long-term contract with Apple."

"Having said that, how much revenue can Apple have in a few years?"

Since Apple was mentioned, Lin Baicheng simply asked.

"As of the end of last week, Apple's revenue was about US$30 million, with a profit of nearly US$10 million."

Isabella first talked about Apple's approximate revenue and profit as of last weekend, and then said: "As for this year, it is still uncertain. Because Christmas will be in a few days, and around Christmas is the peak sales season. Apple's Unsurprisingly, computers will also have larger sales around Christmas, so it is impossible to predict what sales this year will be."

“Sales will indeed surge around Christmas, and we won’t be able to calculate this year’s specific revenue and profits until after the year.”

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but nodded in agreement upon hearing this. The arcade machines, Rubik's cubes and other products of his company will also be sold out during the Christmas period.

"BOSS, Apple's revenue this year is expected to be no less than 40 million US dollars, and may even reach 50 million US dollars. This is only this year. I believe that the company's revenue and profits will increase significantly next year. This company will inevitably It can make you a fortune.”

Isabella said aloud that when Lin Baicheng bought shares in Apple at a premium, she was actually not optimistic about it. She felt that her boss was completely messing around, wasting money, and didn't know how to invest at all. Who would have thought that before this year is over, this investment has already paid back, and there has been a huge return.

More importantly, it can be seen that Apple is a company on the rise. The company's future market value will be at least US$100 million. Lin Baicheng's investment will receive a return of ten times or even higher.

"If Apple's growth rate next year is fast enough, it should go public the year after that."

Lin Baicheng clearly remembers that Apple was originally listed in the late 1980s. Now that Apple has his support and is developing faster, it will only go public earlier.

The listing of Apple is still beneficial to Lin Baicheng. First, his shares can be reduced at any time through the stock market to withdraw funds. Second, if necessary, he can secretly buy Apple shares through offshore companies or funds to increase his holdings.

Isabella shook her head: "Compared to Apple, Microsoft is far behind."

"Bella, don't jump to conclusions now. Microsoft's future achievements may surprise you."

Lin Baicheng couldn't help but smile when he heard this. Microsoft, which has not yet developed an operating system, is indeed far behind Apple. However, after Microsoft breaks out, its development will only be faster and stronger than Apple.