The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 196 Sales

"Actually, I don't want to see this scene." Zhou Xin said.

Li Jingyi looked at Zhou Xin with puzzled eyes, and she asked, "Why?
The merger of the two companies would create a de facto monopoly in the search engine field.

I remember that Xinxing Investment is also a shareholder of these two companies, especially Baidu's largest institutional shareholder.The premium they can enjoy after the merger is still considerable.Compared with the depression of everything in the Internet industry a year ago, this year's Nasdaq is much better. "

Li Jingyi stayed in San Francisco for almost a whole year, and by Zhou Xin's side, she had the opportunity to get in touch with a lot of information.

The entrepreneurial information and investment opportunities in Silicon Valley will be summarized and reported to Zhou Xin by Xin Xin Investment, and the dynamics of the capital market will be reported to Zhou Xin by Xin Xin Capital Management.She is not a novice who just arrived in American, and she already has a certain degree of market sensitivity.

Zhou Xin said: "There are several reasons, the reason why I told you earlier that I don't care about this little profit is because of the mentality of looking for fun.

I would like to see that the search engine field is not dominated by one company.Two companies competing will be better than one, and the fun is just an appearance.Internally, I think the potential of this field is huge, and I don't really want a single company to monopolize the market.Search engines are currently a field no less than operating systems.

After the birth of such an enterprise, sooner or later it will enter the field where my company is located.While I'm not afraid of competition, this kind of thing is always annoying.

Another reason is that the longer the delay, the more the value of the search engine will be seen, and if they want to merge, the more valuable the chips in my hand will be.

The benefits that can be brought to me now are far from being compared with a few years later. "

Li Jingyi is a master's degree in computer-related projects. American's master's degree is a project system. Compared with a doctorate, this project-based master's degree is more like a certification than a degree.

She knows search engine technology very well, and in daily communication with Zhou Xin, she knows the other party's views on the Internet. Search engine companies have data, computing power, and a large number of engineers who are proficient in algorithms at the same time, which can indeed burst out massive energy.

The research institutions under Zhou Xin only have the last two of them, computing power and a group of scientists in the computer field.

Li Jingyi asked: "As the major shareholder of Baidu and one of the shareholders of Google, you can prevent them from merging."

Zhou Xin said: "First of all, I can't do it. I don't have a controlling stake in either Baidu or Google. Originally, Robin and I were the only opponents of the merger between Google and Baidu. Now that Robin has accepted it, it's just me. Controlled by Baidu.

All shareholders except me want to merge, unless I go to buy shares from some investment institutions of Baidu at a premium, but the problem is that after Robin let go, everyone knows that Baidu is going to merge with Google, and no one is willing to sell the shares to me.

If I personally end up doing this, there will be many negative effects, such as Robin's distrust of me, I got the control of Baidu, the relationship between me and Robin, whether Baidu will continue to operate in the future, or directly He kills?In addition, can I really succeed in the acquisition?Among them, Goldman Sachs can also prevent me from controlling Baidu through legal means.

And it was too late, Robin told me too late, and it was too late for me to do these things.

So forget it, wait and see what happens, Robin will regret it sooner or later.

In my opinion, whether Baidu annexed Google or Google annexed Baidu, the essence behind it is that the capital invested in these two companies hopes to make a profit.

The position of chairman after the merger is just a cake for Robin. Even if he does sit in this position, he will be kicked out within two years.

I don't know how the Goldman Sachs group made a cake for him, and I don't know how they will sign the merger agreement, but I know that this matter is definitely not that simple.

The only way I can think of is to be sued by the federal court in the name of monopoly in the future. After the lawsuit, it is called to split the merged Baidu-Google, but in fact it is to drive Robin out of power.

Microsoft was the same case last year. In the end, Bill handed over control of Microsoft in exchange for Microsoft not being split by the antitrust lawsuit.

This is just a trick I can think of, so even if Robin stated in the board resolution before the merger that he would not be ousted, he may be kicked out by a higher level of power. "

Li Jingyi asked: "Have you talked to Robin? He may reconsider what you said."

Zhou Xin shook his head: "At first I wanted to remind him, but I saw that he was ambitious and ready to do something big, so I decided not to pour cold water on him."

Zhou Xin's relationship with Robin is okay because he never interferes with Baidu's specific operations and will give Baidu some resources.

Robin's desire to control the enterprise can be said to be the strongest among the three BAT giants. Whether it is the earliest founder team of Tencent or the earliest founder team of Ali, they can work in the enterprise for a long time without making mistakes.

Only Xu Yong, a Yanda alumnus who started a business with Robin, left Baidu before Baidu's IPO.

And before Baidu's IPO, in order to maintain absolute control over Baidu, Robin was forced to leave Baidu, and at the same time he bought a large amount of Baidu shares in Xu Yong's hands with cash.

In Silicon Valley in 2001, the merger of Baidu and Google was the general trend, and all investment institutions were staring at this opportunity.

Before the news of the merger was fully confirmed, Wall Street's financial media had already reported the news, citing various sources from insiders.

The financial press is galvanizing investors around the world by claiming that the Baidu-Google merger will create the biggest unicorn yet to go public.

And Zhou Xinguang just watched the news pushed to him on the WeChat official account every day, and he knew that the merger of Baidu and Google and the subsequent listing were ready to go.

This set of public opinion propaganda is to build momentum and raise expectations for subsequent listings.

Zhou Xin thought to himself: "Goldman Sachs still has the ability to promote such an obvious monopolistic merger and obtain permission. If I were to promote this matter, it would have been rejected long ago.

This group of old Wall Street money is somewhat unscrupulous in order to eat the new money of Silicon Valley. "

The merger of Baidu and Google is just a microcosm of the recovery of the Internet. Although there is a long way to go back to the heyday of the late 90s, the entire Internet business startup environment is indeed facing recovery.

When Mphone was launched at the beginning of this year, most people were skeptical about this product, thinking that this product would be the new Waterloo.

The result disappointed them. At the end of the first half of the year, Matrix's official website announced the sales situation, and the sales of Mphone exceeded 100 million units.

That's a huge success for a phone that starts at $599, let alone a first for the Matrix.

Such a result was expected by other mobile phone companies, and everyone only questioned Mphone at the very beginning.

The president of Nokia's American District declared in an interview: "Who would want a $599 mobile phone? Newman's loyal fans may not be able to accept this price.

No, I seem to be wrong, even if Newman's loyal fans put the price of Mphone at $599, they will pay with a smile and tell everyone that the price is worth it.

But in fact we all know that it is not worth the price, only Newman supporters will pay.Unlike the Internet industry, the mobile phone industry cannot rely on supporters alone. "

Obviously, after the sales data of the first three weeks came out, he was slapped in the face.

When Mphone sales exceeded 100 million units, when the media went to interview him again, they completely changed their words and did not mention the thing that they were not optimistic about Mphone before.

"I am very optimistic about Newman. I have long expected that the Mphone will be successful. It is such a unique product that it is loved by almost all young people. With such a high price of Mphone, I still see it in media reports. Many young people save their usual living expenses to buy it.

Nokia is also researching similar mobile phones internally, and we will launch mobile phones with more powerful functions than Mphone. "

Not only Nokia is doing this, other mobile phone companies are also trying to replicate the success of Mphone.

Because of this, the new entrepreneurial boom in Silicon Valley is to develop Internet applications for mobile phones.

The current common cooperation model is that mobile phone companies invest in several Internet companies, and then jointly develop Internet applications on mobile phones with Internet companies, and Internet applications are owned by these Internet companies.

While this cooperation model guarantees the interests of both parties, it also ensures that Internet companies will do their best to develop Internet applications.

"Anxi, the effect of this screen still cannot meet my ideal situation.

The chip inside the first generation Mphone was actually so powerful that it could perform far more functions than it does today.

But why we didn't do this, one is because the memory and storage space are too small, we need to reserve a lot of space for applications such as WeChat and Weibo.

The other is the screen, which limits the performance.Only a whole screen that can be touched can allow software developers to give full play to their creativity.

Mphone's ecology will also have more companies to help us improve together, rather than relying solely on its own strength to develop applications.

There are several problems with the current screen. One is to take a picture. It takes a long time for the black shadow to disappear after touching it.

In addition, the feedback speed is too slow, and the switching from click to page is not smooth enough.Furthermore, the screen cannot add touch feedback.

Clarity is also an issue. "

Anxi is the person in charge of the mobile phone business, who was also recruited from Nokia. After listening to it, he said: "Boss, this is just the effect of the first version.

Compared with the previous generation, it has been greatly improved. This is not the final sample, and we will continue to optimize it.

In fact, the effect you want is the effect we want to achieve, and everyone's goal is the same.

It’s just that the multi-point touch screen itself is not that simple. We are now trying to solve this problem by using a diamond-shaped capacitive sensor, and then adding transparent rectangular electrodes on the display. We expect to iterate a relatively satisfactory one in a month and a half. The touch screen comes out. "

Zhou Xin can fully understand that this work is not that simple. Land reclamation is inherently a difficult task. Unlike future mobile phone manufacturers who only need to integrate suppliers’ solutions, many key components need to be Co-develop with suppliers.

Things like touch screens even need to be developed completely by themselves.

"This year is the year when Mphone is on the market, and it is also a year of great success for Mphone. I am very happy to celebrate with you that the sales volume of Mphone has exceeded 100 million units. This is just the beginning of Mphone's glorious future!
Let us look forward to the early arrival of that day together. "

The reason why Zhou Xin came to Matrix today is also because Matrix company booked a hotel for a celebration dinner to celebrate the sales of Mphone exceeding 100 million units.

100 million units in half a year means that Mphone is on the right track, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes profitable.

So Zhou Xin came to Matrix half a day early to learn about the development progress of the touch screen.

Goldman Sachs regretted the success of the Mphone. Goldman regretted why they charged such a high price to Quora back then. If they hadn’t charged such a high price to Quora, they would have been able to get involved in Zhou Xin’s subsequent ventures.

Xinxin Technology seems to have no prospects, and Goldman Sachs will not invest. They look down on semiconductor companies headquartered in Huaguo.

But Matrix is ​​very promising, especially after the launch of Mphone.Goldman Sachs executives were thinking that if Zhou Xin had not been given so much cash back then, with the amount of funds for mobile phone research and development and production, Zhou Xin would definitely need to introduce external investment.

As a result, now they can only look at a company with great potential, and there is no way to make profits from it.

After Zhou Xin finished speaking, the employees below burst into warm applause. Only after staying in Matrix did they know how much effort they put into Mphone.

It is not too much to describe Zhou Xin's requirements for the Mphone as strict. Just about the size of the 26 keys, he had to adjust the size of the keys for no less than ten rounds before finalizing the plan.

"Hopefully next year when we launch the second-generation Mphone, we can achieve even better results and we will still be here to celebrate."

It is definitely too late to launch the Mphone this year. If the problem of the touch screen is not resolved, the launch of the second-generation Mphone will not change fundamentally.

Therefore, this year, Zhouxin only plans to upgrade the version and launch an application store at the same time, allowing users to download applications through their computers and install them on Mphones.

At present, only Apple's music store has been discussed. After Apple releases the iPod in autumn, it will launch a music store.

Zhou Xin actually hopes to have some games to enrich the ecology of Mphone.

The current mobile games can completely take up less memory and storage space, and can greatly improve the playability of mobile phones.

Moreover, the Mphone mobile phone store supports the form of charging, which also gives game developers the motivation to port games to the Mphone platform.

At this time, we should feel how convenient it is to have built-in electronic payment in mobile phones.

One of the most important reasons why Apple can rely on the closed IOS system to compete with Android in the mobile Internet era is that Apple can bring benefits to developers, so that countless developers participate in the improvement of Apple's application ecology.

And Mphone will take such a way to unite developers at the moment.

(End of this chapter)