Chapter 2918: Surge

The calls received by Director Huang and Mr. Yang, who were still in the capital, were only a small part of the global semiconductor industry's reaction to Feng Yiping's big deal.

Feng Yiping's investment plan of at least 50 billion US dollars has not only stirred up a huge storm in China, not only made Samsung uneasy, not only made the other side both happy and worried, but all semiconductor companies in the world got the exact news from Bloomberg. Afterwards, everyone was shocked.

Even for the semiconductor industry, such an investment of at least US$50 billion is staggeringly large.

There are certainly companies that have been incentivized by this, but more may have felt threatened at the first opportunity.

The more people know about him, the more they know that Feng Yiping is someone who should not be underestimated.

Most people in the world only know that he is the most successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and a well-known scholar, but those who know him know very well that Feng Yiping is absolutely different from ordinary Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

He has an equally successful business empire in China, which covers a wide range of areas, from the emerging Internet industry to very traditional noodle restaurants...

To sum up, it covers everything from people's basic needs such as food, clothing, housing and transportation to higher needs such as entertainment and vacation, enrichment and improvement, starting a family and starting a business, etc.

What’s even more astonishing is that many of his companies, including those that are not well-known and that ordinary consumers are not very familiar with, such as Jiasheng Lithium Battery and Zhitong Software, are already leaders in the industry.

Even if the remaining ones are not industry leaders due to scale, they must be the most outstanding in the industry, such as his food factory and his travel company.

Therefore, for peers, the name Feng Yiping already carries a deterrent effect.

When this name is put together with an investment of at least US$50 billion, of all the well-known semiconductor companies in the world, who dares to take it lightly?

However, it is difficult for the outside world to know the thoughts of these companies, because their reactions are very consistent, silent, collective silence, and collective no comment.

But underneath, giants like Intel, including Intel, have held meetings similar to Samsung's to analyze the situation and discuss corresponding response strategies.

On the day when Feng Yiping once again went to the sea to report, many people in the United States, Switzerland, and the Netherlands were woken up from their beds and hurriedly called to the conference room for a tight meeting.

In Japan, Singapore... and even in the Middle East, similar meetings are being held at the same time.

Yes, such meetings are also held in the Middle East.

Although most people have the impression that the wealthy people in the Middle East are more worthy of leopards, tigers, and luxury cars made by wealthy people, and have nothing to do with semiconductors, in fact this is not the case.

Not all wealthy people in the Middle East are busy buying beautiful women, buying luxury cars, and buying various rare pets. Among them, there are also many elites who are prepared for danger in times of peace and have precise vision.

Relying on the petrodollars in their hands, the Middle East elite's investment tentacles cover all promising industries in the world - in this regard, they are really no worse than those on Wall Street.

The semiconductor industry, which is crucial to the development of the modern high-tech industry, has been one of the focuses of their investment from the beginning. Now, they are one of the major shareholders of many well-known semiconductor companies.

The representatives of the local tyrants had only a few courtesy contacts with Feng Yiping, but there was no in-depth contact or cooperation, and of course there was no possibility of cooperation.

They have some business dealings with Feng Yiping's company, mainly by sending money to Feng Yiping, for example, advertising on Feng Yiping's Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

However, indirect confrontation is not impossible.

Yahoo, which SoftBank took over with a high profile and launched a series of ambitious revitalization measures, now shows no signs of revitalization. On the contrary, the signs of becoming a big pit are becoming more and more obvious.

As one of the investors behind SoftBank, some of them can be said to have been cheated.

And the meeting they are actively holding now is also related to SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son.

Son Zhengyi basically established their position in just one sentence, "In similar investments, Feng Yiping will try every means to become the number one in the industry. At the same time, he has no habit of sharing his gains with others."

The argument is equally straightforward, "Look at the companies he has in Silicon Valley,"

This reason is really powerful. Feng Yiping's main body in Silicon Valley, NEXTDOOR, and Facebook, which so many people are jealous of, until now, except for the options that must be given to employees, all other shares are in his hands - although related That's not the case in legal documents, but of course those tricks cannot be hidden from professionals.

Even greedy Wall Street can't get a piece of the pie. It seems that it will be difficult to have such an opportunity in the future, let alone them.

Because there is no shortage of funds, Feng Yiping does not need external investment at all, whether in the early stages of starting a business or during its development and growth. And because of his excellent ability, the companies he founded are all very successful, so funds are becoming more and more abundant... This allows them I am extremely jealous, but I have no solution at all.

The current situation is that they have no involvement in Feng Yiping's business. On the contrary, Feng Yiping starts to touch their cake, which is of course very unpleasant.

Soon after learning the news, without much analysis, they quickly stood opposite Feng Yiping.

Masayoshi Son's efforts have not only achieved this result. Using his reputation, he also had in-depth exchanges with Elpida, which was in a difficult situation due to the acquisition of Qimonda. The call received by Mr. Huang was related to his efforts.

This was not only because of his instigation, but also because Elpida itself had such a wish and plan.

No one was more eager for Qimonda to go bankrupt than them, so it can be said that no one had more objections to Feng Yiping than them.

But Mr. Yang's call came from another force, from the other side, from their local power.

As the world's most important semiconductor center, some people there were also worried about Feng Yiping's big move, such as TSMC, the largest, most successful and most well-known semiconductor manufacturing company in their local area.

Over the years, in order to protect its own interests, it has been doing its best to suppress mainland semiconductor companies, such as SMIC, which has similar business, and the suppression has been very successful.

But facing Feng Yiping and Feng Yiping's big move, they are helpless.

Suppression?

Haha, how to avoid being suppressed in turn is the question to be considered now.

In view of this, they are also very proactive and positive. At this time, they have already placed an order with ASML for 6 units, which can consume ASML's half-year production capacity.

And this, including mobilizing General Manager Yang, is not all their response plans...

At the same time, in Malacca, a country is also getting agitated at this time.

Singapore.

Just as it is difficult to link the Middle East with semiconductors, many people also find it difficult to link this country, which is smaller than our Hong Kong area, with semiconductors, but in fact, they not only have a very close connection with semiconductors, they are also a veritable semiconductor power.

The top ten semiconductor companies in the world have large investments in Singapore - for example, as Yang Gang mentioned, the Asia-Pacific headquarters of Infineon and Qimonda are located in Singapore.

This is not an isolated case, it is a very common choice. Up to now, there are nearly 300 companies invested by global semiconductor companies in Singapore, including more than a dozen silicon wafer fabs and nearly ten special wafer fabs.

They account for more than 11% of the global semiconductor production capacity, which is also far ahead of us. They are the second largest semiconductor production center in Asia.

Correspondingly, the semiconductor industry is a very important part of their manufacturing industry.

And why are they so favored by global semiconductor companies? They know the reason very well.

It is not because of their market or their human resources, but because of the unique geographical location and political reasons, or more importantly, it is because the mainland is backward in the semiconductor industry.

If there is no huge market in the mainland, there will certainly be no booming semiconductor industry.

But now, it seems that the development of the mainland in the semiconductor industry is about to undergo major changes, and such changes will inevitably have a huge and possibly fatal impact on them.

Feng Yiping's acquisition of Qimonda means the failure of the actual technological blockade of the mainland in the semiconductor field. In this way, why don't those well-known semiconductor companies invest in them instead of in the mainland?

For a while, they couldn't sit still.

But like the other side of the strait, they are also quite helpless in the face of Feng Yiping's big move, because despite so many years of development and despite being the most important semiconductor country in the world, they also do not master core technologies.

They also hurriedly came up with some short-term and long-term measures, some that could be put on the table and some that could not be put on the table.

Some of these measures were finally concentrated on ASML, the lithography machine manufacturer...

But not all parties remained silent on this. Before Feng Yiping went to the sea, the Munich City Government where Qimonda was located, the Bavarian State Government, the Dresden City where Qimonda's factory was located, and the Saxony State all welcomed the news - they obviously also hoped to get a share of this huge investment.

And this was also the only public reaction to this news that Feng Yiping received from all walks of life at this time.

"Although it is not surprising, it is good news anyway," he said to Jin Ling.

"But why didn't Portugal make a statement? Don't they care about the future of Qimonda in their factory?"

Jin Ling did not recall, she was still taking the time to look at the information. Although this experience was not the first time for her, she was still a little nervous.

Looking at her, Feng Yiping patted her hand, "Hey, what are you nervous about,"

"Just think about it, such a thing must be a good thing!"