Reborn since 1993

Chapter 1225 Who in the world doesn’t recognize you?

This trip to Hong Kong was led by Yule and Gary, who brought the core members of the MIPS architecture team.

As for the president of MIPS, Bujilong, the chief financial officer, Casey, and other senior executives, they stayed in America, while the sales director, Johnny, will lead a team to Singapore in a few days to establish a sales center for the MIPS architecture.

Although the new owner, Eastchip Semiconductor, claims that in the future, Meipusi will implement a strategy of having three major offices in America, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

But Yule had a feeling that Bujilon, Casey, and the others probably wouldn't stay at Meipusi Company for long.

After acquiring Perfect Pros, Wu Xinyi has been packing up and transferring Perfect Pros's technology and personnel, showing no intention of leaving them in America...

However, none of this mattered to Yule anymore. Dongxin Semiconductor had just renewed his contract with a new, lucrative deal, meaning he wouldn't have to worry about unemployment for the next five years.

Welcome to the port city!

Li Dongling personally welcomed Yule, Gary, and others at the Dongling High-Tech Port City office building, but mainly welcomed Wu Xinyi, Li Dashanren's trusted general.

"Mr. Li, I've heard rumors about you!"

Yule quickly grasped the hand that Li Dongling extended. To Yule, Li Dongling was definitely a big shot in the technology industry, even in America.

Dongxin Semiconductor was the first company to launch a computer chip based on the MIPS architecture, and it even dared to compete with Intel!
The ability to launch computer architecture chips was almost a new era for MIPS.

In the chip industry, this would be an absolutely groundbreaking event. Yule himself works in the chip industry, and he knows all too well how difficult this is.

Not to mention, the sales of computers equipped with the MIPS architecture-based Tianji chip by Hasee and Founder have skyrocketed in mainland China this year, achieving the best sales results for non-x86 architecture chip computers.

Outsiders see the spectacle, insiders see the details; only those within the chip industry truly understand the value of these sales figures!
And all of this is related to the philanthropist Li in front of us!
In Yule's eyes, Li Dashan's status was even comparable to that of Intel's Gordon Moore and Grove, who were considered founders of their own schools of thought.

"I hope you all will enjoy Hong Kong. Once the first phase of the Cyberport Global Technology Centre is completed at the end of the year, you can move to the new building!"

"I believe that the MIPS architecture will be the best chip architecture in the world. One day, the MIPS architecture will be able to surpass Intel's x86, perhaps in the next generation of chip architecture!"
I hope that when the history of 64-bit chip architecture arrives, the MIPS architecture will lead the way, launching 64-bit chips even earlier than x86!

Li the Great Philanthropist fed Yule and his gang a dose of poisonous chicken soup.

Going forward, Dongxin Semiconductor will need Yule and others to continuously develop new chip architectures.

The current chip architecture is 32-bit processor, belonging to the x86 era. No chip manufacturer can challenge Intel's dominant position in this regard.

In the 32-bit architecture era, there was no hope of surpassing Intel. The only way to overtake them was in the next generation of chips, the 64-bit architecture processor. If we could develop it before Intel, then we would have a chance!
In the era of 64-bit processors, dual-core processors, and AI chips, taking the lead one step at a time ensures continued leadership.

As for defeating Intel, it may not be so easy, but as long as we take the lead, we will no longer be subject to Intel in chip technology and be suppressed by Intel. We will be able to attack and defend against the Alien!
This transformation not only means that Dongxin can develop chips with better performance than Intel, but also that Hasee computers can be equipped with top-tier chips, thus truly entering the high-end market for computer brands.

Shenzhou computers are now able to compete with Dell, HP, and others.

But to truly defeat Intel and crush it, it's not something that can be done by external forces. Just like the collapse of a great empire or the fall of a hegemon, it mainly depends on internal problems. Fortresses are often broken from within!
After exchanging a few pleasantries with Yule, Gary, and the others, Lin Xianhui and his men settled them in.

The headquarters building of Dongling High-Tech Port City will vacate one floor for Yuri and his team as temporary offices. Once the first phase of the Cyberport Global Center Industrial Park is completed, Yuri and his MIPS architecture team members will be allocated an office building.

"Thanks for your hard work!"

After everyone else left, Li Dongling patted Wu Xinyi on the shoulder, who had clearly lost weight, and said...

"Fortunately, I live up to my fate!"

Although he had lost weight, Wu Xinyi was in good spirits. "When I acquired MIPS, I originally planned to bring MIPS's technical data and the MIPS architecture team to the port city."

Nearly 60% of the engineers on the MIPS architecture team are willing to come to Hong Kong, but some...are unwilling to leave America!

Wu Xinyi said with regret, but Li Dongling was already quite satisfied upon hearing this.

"Everyone has their own ambitions. Being able to bring the core members of the MIPS team to the port city is already a great achievement!"

"Next, we just need to recruit new people to join us. The chip industry is the future of Chinese people!"
With the foundation of the MIPS team, it's possible to build a new architecture team in the future.

Li Dongling said that the future of chip manufacturing will be a contest between the American and mainland Chinese camps. Losing a few American engineers will not have a significant impact on the MIPS architecture.

As long as you have a solid foundation and are willing to spend the funds, you can recruit and train a group of top Chinese engineers to build up the team.

"I plan to pay a severance package to the remaining MSP executives and employees in America early next year, and then completely shut down the MSP America company!"

Wu Xinyi said that Dongxin Semiconductor never intended to keep those MIPS executives on staff for long, nor did it want them to continue interfering with the MIPS architecture, so they were definitely going to be kicked out.

Li Dongling nodded. "In the future, MIPS will be merged into Dongxin Semiconductor and directly managed by Dongxin Semiconductor!" Li Dongling's meaning was clear: the MIPS brand would be discarded, and the MIPS architecture would officially enter the era of Dongxin Semiconductor.

“But this time…” Wu Xinyi hesitated, looking at Li Dongling.

Seeing Wu Xinyi's expression, Li Dongling frowned slightly. "What is it? Speak freely!"

"The acquisition of ARM shares did not go very smoothly."

Wu Xinyi said helplessly that in addition to acquiring the MIPS architecture, he had another purpose for going overseas this time, which was to acquire the equity of another major chip architecture company, ARM.

"ARM went public in April this year with a valuation of $7.7 million."

Benefiting from the boom in the internet, semiconductor, and electronics industries, ARM's market value doubled in less than six months, reaching $1.4 billion.

ARM's major shareholders, including British companies like Acorn, Apple, General Electric, Canon, and Samsung, are all waiting for a higher price to sell.

On my end, through third-party agencies, I contacted companies like Acorn, but they weren't very keen on selling ARM, or even if they were willing to sell, they were asking for a very high price!

On the Dongxin side, they could only acquire about 2% of ARM's shares on the market through some institutions!

Wu Xinyi looked rather helpless. "Right now, in America and Europe, almost every company even remotely related to the internet, whether it's an internet company, a semiconductor company, or a computer company, has seen its stock price skyrocket!"

Li Dongling chuckled. It wasn't just America; the internet in Asia was also being hyped up by Cyberport. Didn't China.com get a valuation of $28 billion as soon as it launched?

"There's no rush to acquire ARM's shares; there will always be opportunities in the future!"

Li Dongling's decision to have Dongxin acquire ARM's shares was partly to take away some of ARM's patents and technologies, and to poach some of its talent.

On the other hand, it's about making a profit from the price difference. They can sell ARM to someone who's interested, like SoftBank, and Dongxin can make a small profit of a few hundred million from that.

ARM's stock price hasn't actually skyrocketed yet. By next year, at the peak of the dot-com bubble, ARM's market value could soar to around 10 billion US dollars.

And then, that was it. Like all tech companies that rose in the internet age, ARM's market value evaporated completely.

Dongxin is just missing out on the current ARM wave, but it will catch up in the future.

"You rest here in Gangcheng for a while, and then we'll head back to Hanxi together!"

Li Dongling said to Wu Xinyi that the matter in Hong Kong had been basically resolved and that they would soon be returning to the mainland.

In his final days, Li Dongling attended several banquets and events with the Hong Kong government leaders and inspected the Cyberport Global Technology Centre once again.

In the following days, Li Dashan basically shut himself away from visitors and disappeared from the Hong Kong media, mainly spending time with Ning Wenke and his daughter.

Compared to social engagements, Mr. Li felt it was more important to spend his time with his daughter, since he couldn't see her every day.

Meanwhile, in Zhongguancun, Beijing, while rumors were still circulating that Jiangmin Technology had completed its financing and Wang Jiangmin had become rich overnight, several shocking news items came back from the port city to Zhongguancun.

"Tianya Sports has successfully spun off from Tianya Forum and completed its first round of financing of $3.3 million, making it the highest-valued company in the global internet sports market!"

Kingsoft Corporation announced its intention to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a valuation of US$1.55 million!

From China.com to 3721, and then to Jiangmin Technology, Tianya Sports, and Kingsoft, the constant stream of news coming back from the port city stimulated Zhongguancun to the extreme.

The sudden completion of valuations by a large number of companies and their rush to go public also means that a large number of billionaires will emerge in Zhongguancun.

In particular, Qiu Bojun, Wang Jiangmin, Guo Jingyun, and others are familiar faces to many people in Zhongguancun.

These people went to the port city as a technology delegation and became billionaires. How can this not be shocking?

Amidst the various rumors circulating in Zhongguancun, a private plane took off from the port city and soared into the sky towards Pingyang Airport.

But just as the plane took off, a piece of news went viral in the tech world and among the wealthy in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and even America.

Benetti Yachts announced that it has received a $2.3 million yacht order.

The "Cyberport" yacht has become the most expensive yacht in history!

(End of this chapter)