Chapter 101 Forcing ARM
The evening party was not held by Allen Sueger, but by Joe Lewis, right on his estate.
Joe Lewis cooperated with Soros to snipe the British pound in 1992 and made a big profit. Since then, he mainly used foreign exchange, investment and collection. The Ennik Investment Group under his name has acquired several football clubs and once wanted to acquire Tottenham, but failed to do so.
This time, Cang Yaozu's Penguin Capital started too quickly. Alan Suege wanted to cooperate with Penguin Capital for several subsequent projects, so he cooperated especially. By the time Joe Lewis reacted, the dust had already settled.
The theme of this cocktail party is the New Year's party. Cang Yaozu, Gisele Bundchen, Melissa, Beckham, Victoria and Simon Fowler came to Joe Lewis's manor. Allen Sueger and Edgar Jr. will bring Ronaldo and his female companion here. There are no paparazzi here, and of course there are no such party. They are all elite business elites and political celebrities with status. Well, Manchester United Chairman Martin Edwards is also there.
Cang Yaozu also saw the famous hippie capitalist Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group is a number of private companies in England. When someone brags, he will say that you are awesome, you are the first, you are flying a plane in the sea.
Richard Branson is such a character. He really flies in the sea. This is a person that Cang Yaozu needs to look up to. Maybe one day, Cang Yaozu will join them. When the money reaches a certain level, inexplicable emptiness will arise. Perhaps at that time, going to the world and going to the sea will become the new goal that they are pursuing.
Virgin Group has created a Virgin Marine Submarine, which can dive humans into oceans at any depth. It uses the latest synthetic technology and unique flying wing technology to "fly" in marine environments. Dolphins, whales, manta rays and other marine creatures have proved that this "flying" method is the best way to roam in the ocean.
The pressure at the bottom of the deepest Mariana Trench will exceed 1,000 atmospheres, which is a big challenge for the submarine. According to reports, the Virgin Marine Submarine is made of about 3,629 kilograms of carbon fiber and titanium.
According to the design plan, this submarine that can carry one person can run on the seabed at a depth of about 11,100 meters and can dive independently without assistance 24 hours a day. Once fully dive, the submarine's horizontal rudder and thruster will ensure that it can fly more than 10 kilometers under the seabed. During this process, the submarine can also carry out various detection tasks.
In addition, the Viking Records that Edgar Jr. wanted to acquire was founded by Richard Branson and sold to Edai for $1 billion in 1992.
Cang Yaozu also saw Kirston Laursin, the heir of Tetra Pak Packaging. Now the pure fruit juice drink under Cang Yaozu uses the square packaging box of Tetra Pak, which is also a partner. Tetra Pak Packaging is a company that makes a fortune in silence, very low-key and very profitable.
Most of the rich people at the cocktail party were from the physical industry and were all heavy assets. Cang Yaozu was not very interested. He still focused on the technology entertainment industry. Taking over the Sigram Wine Industry was just a beautiful mistake. Currently, professional managers are helping him with their care, and he didn't use much effort.
Edgar Little was in a good mood at the cocktail party. He has also been raising funds recently, preparing to learn from Cang Yaozu and acquire music companies through private equity funds to build his music kingdom. Well, this kid has learned quite quickly and will grab Melissa's business.
Melissa was also very active. She had a good chat with the big ladies and girls at the cocktail party. She actually got a few fundraising funds. Kirston Laursin, who was from Tetra Pak, invested 50 million pounds in Penguin Capital. She is such a good employee.
Gisele Bundchen and Victoria got together and whispered there, probably talking about some topics in the fashion circle. Both women are also considered strong women and have a very common language.
Beckham also chatted with Martin Edwards and clarified his determination. Martin Edwards nodded and said that he would communicate well with Ferguson when he went back to Manchester United and let him go as soon as possible. Beckham has indeed taken the initiative now, but it is not irreplaceable to say how powerful he is, and it is not irreplaceable.
Then Cang Yaozu saw Dr. Herman Hauser, the founder of ARM, who is a big shot in the English technology industry.
"Hello, Dr. Hauser."
"Call me Herman, young man, I heard that you took down 42% of the ARM shares in Apple?"
"Mr. Herman, you can call me Ayao. It's not me. Penguin Capital is a private equity fund, mainly an investor in Citigroup and England. I hold some shares in it. Penguin Capital acquired Newton and also acquired those ARM shares. I cooperated with Professor John Henness of the Computer Department of Stanford University and Professor David Patterson of the Computer Department of the University of California, Berkeley to create the fifth-generation streamlined instruction set RISC-V. It is currently developing the development kit and streaming experiment of RISC-V. ARM has more experience in this area. I want to incorporate ARM into Penguin Capital to jointly develop this streamlined instruction set, and continue the current IP authorization model of ARM. I wonder what you think about Mr. Herman?"
"You really made RISC-V, what are you going to do later? If ARM doesn't agree to be acquired."
"If you ARM does not agree to be acquired, we do not want to continue this parallel competitive situation. RISC cannot defeat CISC, and if we divide our troops and fight, we will only be defeated by each one. In order to speed up the development progress, we will open source RISC-V. Every company and organization can freely use our architecture, but cannot sub-authorize it. In order to stop your ARM's life, the IP-authorized business will be taken back from MIPS. MIPS who stands up again will attach great importance to commercial operations and will not only do some academic research."
"Are you going to force ARM to death? We are planning to go public. If you do this, will the valuation collapse?"
"Your ARM is developing just like that. We catch up with it very quickly. If you agree to be acquired, we will make progress together. If you don't agree, you can only block all your ways out. MIPS has been independent from SGI and is currently developing the MIPS64 architecture standard. We will not authorize ARM in commercial MIPS64 architecture. On the contrary, we will initiate patent lawsuits against you."
"Aren't everyone developing well now? Why are they so nervous?"
"It's your ARM who uses the authorization given to you by others to collect authorization fees everywhere. OK, now we have to recover the profits, otherwise we will lose the blame and no one will eat."
"Well, how many shares do you want to collect?"
"We want to collect about 30% of the shares, and then, the two companies jointly develop and authorize them separately. I need your chip designs, real-life tools and environments. This technology cannot be authorized without authorization. It involves monopoly, but we can control the amount of authorization. As the fifth generation researchers of the RISC instruction set, they must have such a status, otherwise I am sorry for the efforts we have spent."
"Ayao, your behavior of lifting the table is really annoying."
"If you don't return the R&D, no one will do R&D in the future. Then you have no other authorization. Mr. Hermann, you can handle the government. I will use Panda Capital to earn this 30% stake. I will acquire the 42% stake in Apple with Penguin Capital. The two private equity funds are not one party. It is considered to reduce some resistance for you, at least it is better to look at it."
"Okay, I regret coming to this cocktail party."
"Haha, Hermann, I will go to you if you don't come. If the cooperation fails, I believe you will be even more sad. Professor David Patterson of the University of California, Berkeley asked me to say hello to you on his behalf. He thanked you for your promotion of RISC over the years and hoped to continue to cooperate in the next days, defeating Intel in the fields of embedded chips and server chips. In addition, what I want to tell you is that RISC-V is very powerful, adopts new design concepts, and its performance on the server side has been significantly improved. In addition, ARM will obtain the authorization and patent of 64-bit RISC, which will greatly enhance the technical reserves of ARM 64-bit chips."
"Well, thanks to Professor David Patterson for his support and trust in our ARM over the years. The RISC-V you said sounds wonderful, and I hope we will work together to seize more of the CISC market."
"This is a must, so that's it, Mr. Herman. Your technicians need to work in the Silicon Valley of the United States for about half a year. We must get all the RISC-V development kits and so on as soon as possible."
"I'm determined, and I'll arrange for people to go back. No matter what, after today, it will be a new beginning."
Chapter completed!