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Chapter 480: Be famous early

For Wu Yaoguo, there are certainly risks, but if the gamble is successful, the benefits will be greater.

After all, he is not a careerist. He needs stability first and then other things. Hanxi Guotou, which Wu Yaoguo is in charge of, is full of opportunities and risks. If he seeks stability every time he invests, Hanxi Guotou will not be able to develop at all. How can Wu Yaoguo achieve anything?!

Investing in Torch Giant has brought Wu Yaoguo huge benefits, not only in terms of returns from Hanxi Guotou, but also in terms of benefits to his career.

Now with Doxin Semiconductor, Wu Yaoguo is ready to give it another try. If he wins the bet, just by investing in the first computer chip in China and achieving mass production, Wu Yaoguo's status in the Guotou system will rise to an astonishing level.

Not only Guotou, but also departments and units related to state-owned assets, commerce and other economic fields will open their doors to him in the future. After all, his resume is there, and his status and voice in the industry will also appear!
As for risks, there are definitely some, but from Wu Yaoguo's perspective, the risks of Doxin Semiconductor are actually quite "controllable".

If Doxin Semiconductor was founded by someone else, Wu Yaoguo would not dare to wade into the muddy water, as he might be cheated miserably.

But Dongxin Semiconductor was born in Dongling Hi-Tech, and Wu Yaoguo knew that if Li Dongling really wanted to cheat people, he would never use so many tricks. And based on Li Dongling's performance since his debut, Wu Yaoguo's confidence in Dongxin Semiconductor is even greater than Li Dongling's...

Li Dongling was not planning to cheat Wu Yaoguo or anything. It was just a chip production base, and the cost was too high. Li Dongling needed to find a few sponsors to share the risk. Moreover, the chip production site was highly dependent on the support of the local municipal government.

For example, Shougang NEC relied on the support of the Yanjing Municipal Government. With the support of NEC, it introduced a full set of NEC's production equipment, and it cost more than 500 million yuan to build it.

After seven or eight years, it would certainly cost more to build a chip production plant now. Moreover, Doxin Semiconductor currently has no support from other chip manufacturers and has to explore everything from scratch, which increases the cost of trial and error.

The idea of ​​building its own chip production plant was proposed by Wu Xinyi, general manager of Doxin Semiconductor, at the final meeting of senior managers of Dongling Hi-Tech last year. The purpose is to meet Doxin Semiconductor's production capacity so that it will not be controlled by others in the future.

Now, Doxin Semiconductor is mainly engaged in design and R&D, and the foundry business is mainly handed over to Shougang NEC. However, Shougang NEC also needs to give priority to satisfying orders from its Japanese shareholder NEC before it can produce foundry business for Doxin Semiconductor. This makes Doxin Semiconductor's chip production capacity always insufficient.

After the beginning of this year, Doxin Semiconductor began to give part of its orders to Huajing, but Huajing's production capacity is hard to describe. To be honest, it is not as good as that of Shougang NEC.

As a last resort, Doxin Semiconductor began looking for chip factories outside the mainland to outsource its business and gave part of the orders to TSMC.

However, there are always risks in outsourcing chip manufacturing to foundries outside the mainland. What if one day the other party is unwilling to do the manufacturing?
It may not happen now, but if Doxin Semiconductor really has a fight with Intel one day, Intel only needs one move to make Doxin Semiconductor suffer.

If Intel places an order of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars with TSMC, but requires that it no longer outsource its manufacturing to Dongxin Semiconductor, what will TSMC choose?

Although this has not happened, it is easy to tell that no chip foundry would dare to provoke a chip giant like Intel, even domestic chip manufacturers.

In order to avoid being controlled by others in chip production in the future, Li Dongling plans to build a chip production plant for Dongxin Semiconductor for its own use.

Not to mention Dongxin Semiconductor's own chip factory, no matter how large its production capacity is, at least there is a backup that can hold up at the critical moment and prevent Dongxin Semiconductor from running out of food.

Dongling Hi-Tech, Feiyan Technology, and the recently acquired Huaqi, all place orders with Doxin Semiconductor as long as their products involve components such as chips and motherboards. If it cannot produce them, the entire Dongling Hi-Tech will have to shut down!

Dongxin Semiconductor is located in the provincial capital of Hanxi. Bringing Hanxi State Investment on board is equivalent to pulling Hanxi onto the chariot. As long as Dongxin Semiconductor demonstrates its value, the provincial capital will protect Dongxin Semiconductor to the death.

Li Dongling plans to attract a few more big money sponsors for Doxin Semiconductor, and let Shanghai Urban Investment, Pengcheng Urban Investment, Suzhou Urban Investment, etc., also invest in Doxin Semiconductor. If the production capacity is increased in the future, Doxin Semiconductor chip production bases can be established in Shanghai, Pengcheng, Suzhou and other places!

In this way, Doxin Semiconductor will not only be able to obtain financial support from these places, but also be able to bring these local city governments into the fold. Companies in their locations may also be able to purchase Doxin Semiconductor's chips in the future.

……

A convoy of several vehicles left Pingyang and headed towards the Hanxi provincial capital airport.

In one of the cars, Yang Zhigao was driving, while Li Dongling and Yao Luoying were sitting in the back. In the other cars, there were senior executives from Dongling Hi-Tech and Feiyan Technology in terms of technology, finance, legal affairs, and public relations. Together with the accompanying security personnel, the team formed by Dongling Hi-Tech headquarters and Feiyan Technology on this trip to America was quite large.

The sunlight shone through the car window onto Yao Luoying's cheek. Even though the car was a little bumpy, Yao Luoying was still looking at the documents in her hand.

Li Dongling looked at Yao Luoying and felt that in the past two or three months since the Chinese New Year, Yao Luoying had become noticeably thinner than before the New Year. It was obvious that she had spent a lot of time and energy on the listing of Feiyan Technology.

Li Dongling smoothed away a strand of Yao Luoying's hair and stroked her cheek, "Don't worry too much. As long as we can make Himalaya Radio make a splash on the American website during our trip to America, there is a great chance that Feiyan Technology will go public!
Even if it doesn’t work this time, after a year or two, when the Internet boom has fully taken off, there will still be a chance!”

Now the Internet is still just emerging and has not yet reached the frenzy period. Once the frenzy period really comes, as long as a company has a website and its name has an e or i in front and a com at the end, it can wait in line to go public and raise money!
If you can make some big splash, advertise loudly, and come up with a new Internet concept, the stock price will soar!
As the saying goes, it is better to become famous early. Although it is easy for Internet companies to go public in the later stage, the competition is also fierce. They are far less popular than Netscape, Yahoo, Cisco, Amazon, America Online, eBay and other companies that went public earlier.

To put it bluntly, there are too many Internet companies, and the investors are overwhelmed and don’t know which Internet company to give money to. After Netscape was killed by Microsoft, everyone’s attention is still on the earliest listed companies such as Yahoo and America Online.

Li Dongling certainly hopes that Feiyan Technology can become one of the earliest Internet companies to go public along with Netscape, Yahoo, America Online, etc. In this way, when the wind blows, Feiyan Technology will be able to soar into the sky and get the fattest piece of meat!
Yao Luoying put down the documents in her hand and leaned her head on Li Dongling's shoulder. She felt her slightly anxious heart calm down a little.

"Too many people have too high expectations of Feiyan Technology now!"

Yao Luoying frowned slightly, "If we fail to go public this time, I'm afraid the morale within Feiyan Technology will be dispersed, and it won't be so easy to go public next time!"

Yao Luoying knew that there were too many people looking forward to Feiyan Technology's listing this time, including those who had been allocated shares of Feiyan Technology at the Dongling Hi-Tech headquarters, as well as employees within Feiyan Technology who had received equity rewards, including those from the Pingyang Municipal Government and the Hanxi Provincial Government.

Morale is invisible and intangible, but it is real. In order to go public, all the internal employees of Feiyan Technology are working hard, especially the employees of the Himalaya Radio website, who really sleep on the floor in the office just to get the website online on time!

If the IPO fails this time, not to say that there will be no chance at all, but the momentum will be dissipated, and the morale will probably decline again and again, and finally be exhausted. By then, the entire Feiyan Technology will probably suffer some turmoil.

Li Dongling rubbed Yao Luoying's hair and said, "Believe me, nothing will go wrong on this trip. Feiyan Technology has a chance to be listed on NASDAQ this year!"

……

Outside the New York airport, Zhou Hualiang, general manager of Dongling Hi-Tech America, was waiting here early. Behind him was a convoy of high-end vehicles and hired security personnel.

Zhou Hualiang looked towards the airport exit from time to time, then looked down at his watch. Although he was anxious, he could only wait here.

Zhou Hualiang felt both familiar and unfamiliar with his boss who came today. He felt familiar because, even though he was in America, he had heard too many rumors about Li Dongling, and he had communicated with Li Dongling via telephone conference calls many times.

Among Chinese students and Chinese communities in America, there have been constant rumors about Li Dongling in recent years. Not to mention in China, even in America, Li Dongling's experience over the years is that of a typical achiever of the American dream.

If Li Dongling was born in America, he would be praised to the sky by American local TV stations such as ABC and Fox!

But Zhou Hualiang had never actually met Li Dongling after all. Rumors were just rumors, and Zhou Hualiang had no idea what Li Dongling's temper was like.

Just when Zhou Hualiang was having all kinds of thoughts in his mind, the assistant beside him pulled Zhou Hualiang.

Zhou Hualiang looked up and saw a group of people coming out of the airport. Among them was a person who was protected by several bodyguards. He was the person he had seen countless times in magazines. Zhou Hualiang hurried to greet him.

"Mr. Li, I'm glad you came to America!"

Zhou Hualiang walked up to Li Dongling and shouted at him in the Chinese language that he had practiced for a long time.

(End of this chapter)