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Chapter 57 For ARM(1/2)

Old Rothschild is a family branch and has been in the United States for many years. His small bank mainly operates small unsecured credit for American university graduates, and manages total assets of less than 100 million US dollars. He is truly a conservative Jewish banker who lives a prosperous life.

I heard that Sikong Ling was interested in getting involved in microcredit and was aimed at university graduates. He had to meet this young rich man. Although Luo did not understand the Internet, he had heard of the reputation of the young leader of the impeachment faction. Cooperation does not have to be done, but it is still necessary to understand possible competitors.

Although Lao Luo’s family has roots in the United States, his daily staple food still retains the habits of southern Germany. Today, the most authentic Bavarian barbecue and Franken wines are welcomed by Sikong Ling and Nalan.

Lao Luo was arrogant when he was young, but after inheriting the family business, he was quite steady and low-key, and even his taste became calm. In order to drink the best wine, he personally went to Franken to build Rothschild winery and carefully brewed the wine that suited his taste.

Lao Luo also has a little German accent in English, and he proudly talked about his personal trip to the charming Main River to select the white grapes for brewing.

Sikong Ling was far from the age to enjoy life. He didn't have much feeling about the elegance of Boya's mansion and could not appreciate Lao Luo's pride. After listening politely, he turned the topic to the bank's business.

Old Rothschild explained the business methods to Sikongling. He was definitely a master-level figure. He was conservative and cautious, and was constantly optimizing his business and entering new market segments. Sikongling was quite satisfied with him. He had read books and talked to bankers before, but only Old Rothschild he admired the most.

Sikong Ling sincerely invited Rothschild to be the CEO of Bank of California, saying that Bank of California will have at least 5 billion in initial assets, which is only its own assets, not like the Luo family's banks, which only manage 100 million US dollars in assets.

Old Rothschild thought about this matter slowly, and finally he said: "If the bank is entirely up to me to make the business plan, I can agree that if you have a lot of your own ideas, I don't really want to participate unless you name the bank Rothschild Bank."

It seems that he is a weird banker who doesn't want to make money. Sikong Ling and Ronaldo jointly advocate that the brand image of California Bank is more modern, but it cannot impress this old stubborn.

Finally, Sikong Ling said: "I won't talk about this topic now. I want to raise 10 billion yuan to develop mobile phone hardware. Let's talk about how financing is more cost-effective. I don't really want to go public. Now is not a good time."

Luo Yiqi was shocked. What kind of hardware is needed to develop such terrifying funds?

Sikong Ling: "I am going to hold ARM, which is helped by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Apple once owned nearly half of the equity of ARM, but now there are only a dozen percentage points left. They have no intention of getting involved in CPU manufacturing. Of course, if I hold ARM, I will produce CPUs by myself in the future, rather than authorizing them to other manufacturers like now. Our opponents will be AMD and Intel in the complex command camp, so we must be well prepared. Another project is to use a 50% equity pool to join forces with many American universities and companies to create the highest-end large mobile phone display screens. The manufacturing of flash memory is also under our consideration. So in order to fight two to three tough battles, we need tens of billions of cash."

Luo Xiao was very excited and it was so interesting to follow the young king to fight Intel, the king of Silicon Valley. He said: "You can issue corporate bonds and use Twitter's stock to mortgage it. I think it's okay to have 10 billion yuan. Haha, 10 billion yuan, which shocked those guys on Wall Street."

Lao Luo: "It's a big deal, and it takes several big securities companies to afford it."

Sikong Ling: "I think the fewer publishers, the better, because I don't want too many people to know about Twitter's financial situation."

Ronaldo: "Then, you find a big insurance company to insure and issue bonds yourself. As long as the interest rate is higher than that of the government bonds, it is easier to sell."

Lao Luo shook his head: "Which insurance company can afford 10 billion yuan in corporate debts, it's difficult."

Luo Xiao said: "It depends on what kind of company it is. Yahoo's market value is still 10 billion under the current circumstances. Twitter's potential is far greater than Yahoo. If I do insurance, I will definitely dare to protect Twitter. I have not seen Twitter's financial situation yet."

Lao Luo: "The market value of Internet companies changes every year, but has changed a lot in three years. Conservative companies are unwilling to protect Internet companies."

Ronaldinho: "With three years, Twitter's market value will definitely be worth tens of billions. We will issue bonds for three years, which will reduce the concerns of insurance companies."

Lao Luo said: "You are sure that investment in hardware will have a considerable return in three years? As far as I know, the investment return cycle of mobile phone hardware can be far more than three years."

Ronaldo: "…this…”

Sikong Ling: "The Internet stocks will definitely reach a big step in three years, and this three-year period is also feasible. Before the Internet bubble, Yahoo's stock price was twenty times that of now. You can imagine how undervalued the Internet stocks are now. Don't worry about repaying the principal and profits. The important thing is to do a good job in bond issuance."

Luo Xiao is most enthusiastic about this matter. He formulated the entire financing plan under the guidance of his father. Although Luo Lao was worried that Sikong Ling's financing plan was too aggressive, it did not prevent him from supporting his son to join the plan. Even if it failed, it was an excellent training opportunity. It would be a good thing for Luo Lao to rekindle his son's enthusiasm for the financial industry.

Under the introduction of Old Rothschild, Sikong Ling obtained ownership of the California Bank's trademark from United Bank of California, and the price was quite reasonable, one million, the trademark of the once most important bank on the West Coast.

Among the candidate guaranteed banks, Sikong Ling chose Wells Fargo, the West Coast boss recommended by Lao Luo. In addition to Twitter's stock mortgage, Wells Fargo asked Sikong Ling's related companies to provide mutual guarantees. Seeing that Wells Fargo's quotation was more sincere, Sikong Ling agreed.

After months of preparation, Twitter started to issue huge corporate bonds of 10 billion US dollars on its own platform, with interest rates comparable to US Treasury bonds, but the cycle is much shorter. Because with Wells Fargo full guarantee, these bonds are not difficult to sell if they are targeted at institutional investors, but Sikong Ling wants to try whether Twitter can be used as a retail financing platform.

At present, Twitter and Bing are the most controversial websites in the United States. Through keywords, membership status, and Twitter users' attention information, this Twitter financing project covers the widest investor group in history at an extremely low cost. Even ordinary Twitter Payment users have joined in subscribing to Twitter bonds. Because the process is too simple, it can be completed with a few clicks of mice, and it is a convertible bond. If you really need to wait for less than three years, you can sell it at the market price by clicking the mouse. WellsFargo, the most famous West Coast No. 1 bank, guaranteed by the top-notch West Coast No. 1, what are you worried about?

In just one month, all 10 billion bonds were sold out, with the voluntary subscription share reaching 30%. The bonds issued by a company can be issued at a yield of nearly US Treasury bonds, which is a historical precedent.

Wall Street enthusiastically called Twitter's bonds a major event in the history of American securities, and TwitterPayment had unknowingly turned into an electronic stock exchange. Of course, there is only one kind of securities, which is the Twitter corporate bond issued for Sikong Zero's investment in hardware financing.

Ronaldo performed well in this financing and was awarded the title of Co-founder of Bank of California. He owned a very valuable 2% option for Bank of California. Even Rothschild, a junior, could not sit still. He finally agreed to manage funds for Bank of California, mainly responsible for the expansion of microcredit business for college graduates, and his position is the general manager of the credit department. Sikong Zero's industry has a habit. He always serves as CEO. Even if he is not involved in the business, he must prove that he is a decision maker of his business ideas with this title. (Except for PRC companies)

The young king was indeed unwilling to be idle. When he was still studying for a doctorate, he made such a big deal and raised tens of billions of dollars. This scared many people.

If such a huge amount of money is used for commercial operations, huge income tax will be levied. After discussing with tax experts, Sikong Ling invested all 10 billion yuan in the non-profit organization "Land Fund". The first stage of the Ladder Fund is doing things like setting up biological science scholarships, and intends to donate some money every year to conceal people's attention. His mentor is naturally the first beneficiary of this fund. The old man smiled happily. Damn it, he really confiscated the wrong apprentice!

Ladder Fund has frequently contacted securities companies with a huge amount of money of 10 billion yuan and is preparing to enter the stock market. Although this incident surprised Wells Fargo, as long as the mutual guarantees of Twitter and affiliated companies have not changed, even if Ladder Fund loses all its capital, they don’t have to worry. Twitter’s stocks are valuable.

In the end, Sikong Ling chose Merrill Lynch as his only partner from several major brokerages. The cooperation plan they provided was more suitable for his taste, timely, stable, and reasonable.

Yes, Merrill Lynch just cooperated with the investment of the ladder fund. Sikong Ling found a five-person think tank, including Kesten Rothschild, to prepare to invest in online stocks that are already showing signs of recovery this year.

Large websites like Yahoo and Amazon are of course the key point. Chinese concept stocks that have dropped dozens of times in the bubble are the top priority. Unfortunately, such small websites have a small market capacity, and they will almost control the stock if they miss a little 10 billion.

I have been busy for almost half a month before I decided to hold online stocks for a long time within one or two years. It is really not easy to spend 10 billion yuan. If I accidentally push up the stock price directly, I will stunned other investors.

It is time to go to Jobs to discuss the acquisition of ARM. I believe Jobs has also seen that this amazing large financing is mainly aimed at ARM.

Now it seems that Jobs is still normal, not as if he is sick, and he is in a bad mood. He smiled and said, "I wonder why you haven't come to me yet. Your financing has been over for half a month."

Sikong Ling: "I'm afraid that I can't reach an agreement for a while, and it's too hot to leave it with 10 billion yuan. I'll make some investment arrangements first. Now I can slowly waste time with these old foxes."

Currently, ARM is controlled by AcornComputer, and the latter is mainly in the hands of investors led by Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley knew that Sikong Ling had too much money, and this time they had made up their minds to slaughter the young king.

Jobs: "I asked them last time, they would give up their investment shares in ARM at a premium of 20%, and now it may be up again."

His estimate is correct. Morgan Stanley has now raised the premium to 50%, and has sent small people to discuss, so he obviously wants to drag it down because ARM's stock price is also rising with the general trend.

Sikong Ling asked them to send more advanced negotiating opponents over, Gangmaster Qiao, Young Lord Wang is here, are you still pretending to be arrogant?

Morgan Stanley was delayed for a week before sending a senior representative. Sikong Ling said that he was willing to accept a 40% premium. No matter how high he was, he would go to Intel to discuss cooperation, because ARM's CPU is not strong at present and it is completely impossible to meet the standards for making smartphones. However, after sighing about the RISC architecture, the senior representative said that the "latest offer" given by the superior was a 60% premium.

Sikong Ling sneered, ended the negotiations and really went to find Intel.

The insidious Morgans later sent a higher representative to California after half a month of Sikong Zero's tactics, and offered a 50% premium.

After inspecting his companies in California, Sikong Ling also slowly conducted what he called the "final negotiation" with Morgan representative.

In the "final negotiation", he emphasized that he personally yearned for more advanced technology in theory, and that ARM was the technology he tended to choose, so after the negotiations today, please send ARM people directly to negotiate patent authorization. He wanted to start a second plan, not seeking to hold ARM, but patent authorization.

In this way, Morgan believed that 50% could not be higher, so he signed a letter of intent, and the next time the CEO of AcornComputer will attend the signing ceremony.

At the official signing ceremony, Sikong Ling said that the funds are still in the stock market and it takes some time to prepare them. He is willing to acquire ARM in cash at the interest rate of commercial loans after half a year to a year.

After Acorn's CEO asked the big boss, he officially signed the contract with a transaction volume of about US$7 billion. ARM entered the era of the young king, and Sikong Ling officially entered the field of CPU design and manufacturing without any suspense.

Sikong Ling thanked the gang leader Qiao who was mediating it and flew to the UK to inspect his new territory.

The current CEO of ARM warmly welcomed the new boss. During the exchange, he said that the threshold for direct manufacturing of CPUs was too high. Even if it could be made, the market prospects were not clear. It would be safer to authorize Qualcomm, Deyi, and Samsung.

Sikong Ling currently has no energy to manage European affairs and does not want to move the CEO position for the time being. He responds that he probably maintains the status quo, but the authorization of the latest CPU architecture must be approved by Sikong Ling, and those who have been authorized will maintain the status quo.

That night, he tweeted on Twitter: "Soof 100 solutions that make RISC architecture CPUs comparable to Intel CPUs, each of which will reward $1 million." The following is still linked to the Bounty Hunter website.

So far, he has issued three such rewards, one for the purpose of building display screens, one for the purpose of building nuclear-powered aircraft, and the other for the purpose of CPU manufacturing. Tweeters have called this type of reward genre 100×100. The reward for building display screens is quite successful, and a lot of talents and patents are gathered, but the specific factory is not limited to building a specific factory. The construction of nuclear-powered aircraft has caused great controversy, mainly due to safety concerns. Many environmentalists have also come to Twitter headquarters to protest. On the same day, Sikong Ling simply posted a brief push: "We will only adopt technology that does not have the risk of nuclear leakage." Then he ignored these environmentalists again. Although there are too few talents in nuclear-powered engines, nuclear technology enthusiasts from Europe, America, Japan and South Korea gathered here. They found that the bounty was only issued a few million, and only four people entered the technical committee.

Shortly after his tweet was released, Ista, a beauty from the Middle East who had disappeared for a long time, actually sent him a private message: "Are you in the UK?"

Sikong Ling: "!How do you know?"

Ista: "It seems that you said you want to acquire ARM and build a CPU. Since you have taken action now, have you successfully acquired ARM? Such an important thing, you should host a British government, right?"

Sikong Ling: "Okay, you're so smart."

Ista: "Long time no see, can you meet? If you are not afraid of me as a terrorist."

Sikong Ling: "Then I have to find a quiet place. If you carry a bomb, you can hurt fewer people."

So, after more than a year, they finally met again and met on a small island called Ham in the Thames. This treasure land that can overlook Windsor Castle has dozens of luxurious villas, and Ista's seclusion is one of them.

Sikong Ling drove an ARM company official car, BMW 5 Series, to this island, and was attracted by the beautiful scenery. It seems that Xiao Yi's retirement life is not bad.

He thought there would be some erotic good thing, but Ista's father was also here.

Seeing Sikong Ling's face, Ista quickly sent a text message: "I'm sorry, my father suddenly came to see me."

OK, since you are here, please be safe.

Ista's father, Amus, saluted Sikongling and said, "Mr. S.K., I am very sorry, I accidentally funded criminals against humanity, which has brought tragic misfortune to your country."

Sikong Ling said calmly: "I hope their relatives will get out of the shadow of pain as soon as possible." He didn't want to pay much attention to this person. He was wary of Ista, let alone this old man who was banned from entering the country for life by the United States.

Amus was obviously intimidated by the young king's aura. According to his daughter, the young man in front of him had a political influence in the United States among the top five, and his wealth was also among the top five. Amus continued to respectfully say: "In order to atone for my sins, I have decided to devote my life to the cause of helping the poor in Afghanistan dominated by Americans."

Sikong Ling was a little surprised and said, "Oh, this is a good thing, it's not bad."

After 9/11, the United States strongly invaded Afghanistan to attack the Taliban and is currently the actual controller of Afghanistan.

"I agree with your charitable proposition - using the perfect market to ensure the lives of the poor. I wonder what your opinions are on rebuilding Afghanistan?"

Ista handed Sikongling a cup of black tea.

Sikong Ling thanked the tea but didn't drink it, saying: "Improving the market requires a stable political environment. The situation in Afghanistan cannot stabilize for a while, and there is no way to do this."

Amus: "Yes, I should focus on helping the US military stabilize the situation, but unfortunately the US military does not trust me."

Sikong Lingyi Dai: "This is a bit difficult. Who asked you to fund al-Qaeda? I can't help you with this. I'm not a politician. If you intervene randomly, you will be criticized and it's boring."

Amus: "Of course I won't force others. I will choose a capable leader in Afghanistan to fund him. I hope he can make achievements in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan. Today I happened to meet Mr. SK. I just wanted to express my intention. I have no complaints about the United States freezing my assets in the United States, and I would rather cooperate with the United States to control the situation. Although Mr. SK does not work in politics, he has an influence on the political arena of the United States. If I can convey my intention a little, it may be considered a partner to the US military. Then, I will not disturb your date with Ista. Goodbye!"

The old man actually left tactfully.

Ista sent his father to the gate and chatted for a long time before coming back.

What a character the Young King is? It is impossible for her to fall in love with her just because she is beautiful, so Ista saw him with a nervous and humble attitude.

Seeing that Sikong Ling didn't drink tea in one sip, a trace of resentment flashed across Ista's eyes and said, "I can't poison it, what's the benefit to me?" She picked up the teacup and drank one-third of it in one breath.

Sikong Ling didn't explain anything. He took the tea cup and the black tea with the sweet smell of the beautiful girl seemed to taste good. He took a big sip.

"Do you know why I came to see you?" Sikong Ling.

Ista: "Why?"
To be continued...
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