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Early the next morning, Zhou Buqi took his two secretaries, Ning Lu and Zhang Zetian, to the United States.

Others are to be divided into batches.

There is no way, who knows how many Zhou family members there are.

After arriving in the United States, I first met Senior Sister Zhen Yu in New York.

We first communicated about the sale of Panda Mobile, which went very smoothly, and even the contract was signed. Now, unless one party is willing to pay $1.25 billion in liquidated damages, the deal is considered a done deal.

Even if the regulatory authorities of the US authorities fail to approve the acquisition in the end, causing the acquisition to fail... Such a failure would also constitute a breach of contract by Cisco, and Sisi would have to pay US$1.25 billion.

Because the "regulatory authorities" here in the United States do not have legal effect.

They have no power to restrict transactions between enterprises, and the administrative department's requirements have no legal significance.

They only provide a suggestion.

Even if the relevant departments object, Cisco can still forcefully complete the acquisition of Panda Mobile.

However, the administrative department can file a lawsuit with the judicial department. If the other party really makes a forcible acquisition, the administrative department can formally file an antitrust lawsuit. Once the judicial department determines that a monopoly really exists, such a judgment will have legal effect, and the company You have to comply.

Even if the acquisition is completed, it will be forced to split.

The loss would be too great.

It can even lead to the bankruptcy of the entire company.

Therefore, as long as the relevant institutions oppose the acquisition, no company will take huge risks to force the acquisition.

This naturally becomes a breach of contract by the acquirer and requires a large amount of liquidated damages to be paid to the acquiree.

Cisco's acquisition of Panda Mobile is not suspected of being a monopoly.

That is, just going through the motions.

Zhou Buqi is already planning to discuss how to deal with the US$2 billion received after the transaction is completed.

You can't really pay off your debts like Aunt Xue said, right?

That’s too unrewarding.

The two of them were waiting for Fu Sheng's arrival in the coffee shop on the third floor of the Rockefeller Building.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu chuckled and said, "Would you like to buy some more Microsoft stocks?"

"Isn't it already online?" Zhou Buqi didn't think this was a good idea. "Ziweixing and Microsoft compete in many businesses. For such a company, it is best not to hold more than 4.9% of the shares, otherwise it will operate in the future. It’s troublesome, and I don’t want to be questioned by the outside world and shareholders.”

Zhen Yu made a new suggestion, "How about improving your life?"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Is it so much money? In what other aspects of our family's life do we need so much money?"

Zhen Yu said: "Give each person 100 million US dollars and let them spend it however they want."

"Not good." Zhou Buqi shook his head, "Not everyone can control so much money. If so much money is placed in Aunt Xue's account, her usual life routine may be disrupted. I already had irregular menstruation, but it’s getting worse now.”

Zhen Yu laughed and said, "Don't always bully Aunt Xue."

"Who bullied her?"

Zhou Buqi felt a little guilty about this. When he took the mandarin duck bath yesterday, he made Aunt Xue cry. There was really no other way, so he gave up the idea of ​​measuring the distance from her mouth to her throat.

I feel very sorry.

Aunt Xue also has a hard life, and it seems that she is no longer so lucky.

I won’t force it.

Zhen Yu thought of something and said with a smile: "By the way, there is good news. Apple has officially launched a lawsuit against Qualcomm. There is a lot of noise. It is said that they have organized a team of lawyers with more than 130 people to fight with Qualcomm. Fight to the end.”

"Good thing! Good thing!"

Zhou Buqi was really looking forward to this kind of thing.

Zhen Yu pursed her lips and said, "It's all in your plan, right?"

Zhou Buqi said: "If you plan things, people will succeed, and God will do it. Good luck."

Zhen Yu rolled her eyes at him, started flirting, and said angrily: "My man relies on strength, never luck."

Zhou Buqi smiled deeply and said: "Yes, I agree!" He also heard the deep meaning of Senior Sister Zhen Yu's words, so he leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Senior Sister, I will go to your room tonight. "

Zhen Yu glanced at him and said "hmm" softly.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Have the shares of Qualcomm held by Pluto Capital been sold out?"

Zhen Yu nodded, "Well, according to what you said, they were all exchanged for NVIDIA and AMD stocks."

"How about... our family can buy some Nvidia and AMD stocks. This is a good investment direction." Of course Zhou Buqi knows that this is a very clear track, "The future is the era of artificial intelligence. Graphics card companies will become the mainstay in the artificial intelligence era.”

Zhen Yu chuckled and said: "Now the stock prices of NVIDIA and AMD have increased significantly!"

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Is the market following the trend? Is it related to me?"

Zhen Yu said: "Bitcoin is very popular now, and there are several popular blockchain currencies."

"Oh! Mining!"

Zhou Buqi suddenly realized.

Zhen Yu said softly: "Well, I don't quite understand the technical principle. The mining mechanism of this kind of virtual currency requires the use of graphics cards. Because of the rise of the mining industry, Nvidia and AMD graphics cards have become extremely popular. The huge demand for productivity is in short supply!”

Bitcoin has increased more than ten times this year, immediately stimulating the entire industry.

Many people have begun to buy mining machines one after another, hoping to make money through mining.

The core component of the mining machine is the graphics card.

Many graphics cards suitable for mining were sold out by miners, causing the price of graphics cards in the market to soar, and the stock prices of graphics card companies Nvidia and AMD to soar.

This is actually just the beginning.

After a few years, this industry will become bigger and more popular, and several rounds of "mining booms" will break out.

When the mining boom breaks out, it will be really scary.

A second-hand graphics card can be more expensive than a new card. In order to grab graphics cards for mining, the market is crazy.

SoftBank now holds 4.9% of Nvidia's shares. In 2019, when the mining boom was the most turbulent, they thought this was Nvidia's historical high, so they decisively shipped and sold Nvidia's shares. Sure enough, after selling Nvidia's shares, the mining boom ended and the price of Bitcoin began to plummet.

Masayoshi Son was very lucky.

Unexpectedly, the AI ​​era with generative large models came in an instant, and Nvidia took off immediately, with a market value directly reaching the level of Microsoft and Apple.

Because of the sale of Nvidia's stock, SoftBank directly lost hundreds of billions of dollars.

Zhou Buqi said: "Even if there is mining, Nvidia is still an inconspicuous small company. What is its market value? It's only about 10 billion US dollars. In order to get orders from me, their Chinese boss wants to write me an email every day."

"What order?"

"Ziwei Cloud's servers don't use a lot of graphics cards."

"Isn't Nvidia the main graphics card company?" Zhen Yu didn't quite understand. "AMD's graphics cards don't seem to be as common as Nvidia's? AMD's market value is much worse, only 5 billion US dollars."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "You don't understand this, right? AMD's server CPU is much cheaper than Intel's. And the server CPU does not have such high compatibility requirements, at least not as high as the requirements of personal PCs. Even if there are some compatibility requirements, our engineers can optimize and debug. For cost considerations, Ziwei Cloud now uses a large number of AMD CPUs. AMD has its own product synergy. Using AMD's CPU and matching AMD's graphics cards, the U-display combination is better and can show more powerful computing power."

"Do you prefer AMD?"

This is what Sister Zhen Yu is most concerned about.

Nvidia and AMD are competitors.

This means that when investing in Nvidia and AMD, you cannot "cross the line" in both companies and hold more than 5% of the shares. Otherwise, investment differences will arise and you will become an unwelcome investor.

Senior Sister Zhen Yu has already seen that since her man is so optimistic about the graphics card track, and the graphics card track does not compete with Ziweixing, then he must choose one from Nvidia and AMD and increase the shareholding to more than 5% and less than 10%.

Who to choose?

He will definitely choose the one he is more optimistic about.

Zhou Buqi said, "Not counting Pluto Capital, how much stock do we hold in these two companies?"

"About 2%, about the same." Zhen Yu is the CFO of the Zhou family, she is responsible for all financial operations, "This was bought two or three years ago."

Zhou Buqi said, "I am more optimistic about Nvidia. If the funds are sufficient, Nvidia should be the main one. It's just that Nvidia's plate is too small to absorb too much funds. Otherwise, if we sell Google's stocks, we should exchange them all for Nvidia's stocks."

At this time, Fu Sheng came.

He was exhausted.

There was no assistant around him.

But there was an unconcealable excitement between his eyebrows. The big deal was done.

He was successful!