Chapter 1593 Yes, It's Taking Advantage of the Fire!

Looking back at history, we will find that in the 1980s, many great companies were born in the world, and Qualcomm is one of them.

Blindly confident and arrogant, Intel ignores Qualcomm and has been surpassed by Qualcomm in the mobile phone chip business, and will even miss the great opportunity of the mobile Internet.

For many years, Qualcomm has been actively engaged in the patent deployment of cdma, and promoted cdma to become the latest standard protocol of the 3g industry.

The purpose of doing this is to make almost all enterprises engaged in the manufacture and sales of 3G products in the industry have to sign patent licensing contracts with Qualcomm.

Qualcomm holds so many basic 3G patents that even its competitors have to use its patents.

At the moment when countries around the world are issuing 3G licenses, almost every technical standard of 3G cannot bypass Qualcomm, which owns the intellectual property rights of the main core technologies.

As the founder of cdma technology, Qualcomm almost monopolizes the right to use all technical patents related to cdma.

Any company that needs to use cdma technology patents will have to pay a considerable amount of patent licensing fees to Qualcomm.

Now, Andy will become a leader in the chip industry just through capital operation. This kind of experience will probably make Intel, arm, Apple, Four Star, Nvidia and other real giants and rising stars in the chip industry "grit their teeth", and at the same time raise their vigilance, the wolf of capital is coming!

Everyone knows that chips are at the top of the entire industry, and success depends on long-term continuous R&D investment and accumulation, and there are no shortcuts.

Not only does it require a lot of time and investment in the early stage, but it still needs continuous investment in the later stage, and there is no slack in the slightest. The chip industry is a rapidly upgrading and iterative industry. If there is no continuous high investment in research and development, the leading edge may not last long.

However, no one knows how big Andy Smith's appetite and ambitions are. However, when he successfully entered Qualcomm with his superb capital operation and courage, he tasted the sweetness. No one can guarantee whether he will continue to annex more Big industry peers to build his semiconductor empire.

Semiconductor Empire?

Of course, Andy will not stop at a Qualcomm company, let alone become the chairman of the board of directors supported by major shareholders of many institutions!

How could he leave his destiny to others?

For these institutional investors, Andy has never trusted them, because he knows better than anyone else that everyone is the same, and they can’t afford to be early. Today they can abandon the current Qualcomm board members for the benefit, and tomorrow for the greater benefit, They will also kick him out without hesitation!

Two years of experience made him understand an iron rule of business, to be a hunter or a prey.

Leaving the giants stadium celebration first, and returning to the Gaia Building, standing in front of the electronic screen wall of Liberty City Investment Company, watching the blood-red numbers beating, Andy only had an indifferent expression on his face.

While enjoying the eyes of his subordinates full of awe and admiration, he also sighed in his heart the words that his grandfather Old Smith said to him.

"The road to the realization of ambition must be paved with the corpses of many victims!"

The U.S. stock market plummeted for two consecutive days, causing the entire market to cry again. As the instigator, Andy found that he didn't feel any guilt at all, only the joy of achieving his goal! Seeing the enemy's helpless wailing after the dying struggle, he was only excited!

"Boss, we have already started to generate losses..."

Bardstone handed a report to Andy and reported with a serious face.

Andy took the report and glanced at the numbers on it, and said lightly: "Loss is inevitable. If you want to shuffle the cards, it is impossible not to pay any price. The key is to see if it is worth it. This loss is not the same as what I can get. In comparison, it doesn't matter."

Even though he has leveraged the overall situation, when suppressing Qualcomm's stock price, he still needs to fight with real goods at a real price, with real knives and guns. The crazy suppression for two consecutive days is to wipe out all unsteady investors.

The long-short game, the fight of smashing and protecting the market, every time is a contest of capital, and losses are inevitable!

In particular, what Andy has to do is to launder the chips while at the same time accumulating without any trace. This will naturally lead to losses under Andy's strategy of regardless of cost.

Besides, the part of the short sale is to make money for himself. Thinking about it, it should be able to fill the gap in funds for smashing the market and attracting funds. However, it is not the time for settlement yet, and everything will have to wait until Andy Smith gets enough Let's talk about chips.

Don't worry. He chose to abandon the overall acquisition strategy at the beginning because he didn't want to be blackmailed by Qualcomm shareholders at a high price, so he chose to take a step back and look at the overall situation. This is how to swallow a whale, one bite at a time, to swallow the whole whale!

"Before the market closes today, I hit $25 to let everyone understand one thing, that is, not everyone can take my free ride with Andy Smith!"

"clear!"

Listening to the unanimous response from the subordinates in the entire hall, Andy nodded in satisfaction, and continued to watch the red numbers on the big screen beating with the corners of his mouth raised.

"Thump-thump--"

The crisp trampling sound of high-heeled shoes came from behind, and Andy glanced back, and the little assistant walked over quickly with a mobile phone.

"Boss, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt on the phone—"

"Oh?" Andy turned his head and smiled at Bardstone with an upturned mouth corner and a smirk, "We washed out a big fish, and it was a big fish that was about to be drowned." ,Ha ha."

There was also a smile on Bardstone's face. Isn't everything they did to make these institutional investors and the so-called 'white knights' surrender? Now that we have the first one, can the next one be far behind!

"Hehe, go ahead, I'll go and have a good chat with our white knight, tsk tsk, it's time to harvest!"

Although it was unexpected to receive Jeff Immelt's phone call, it is reasonable to think about it. After he questioned Qualcomm's board of directors, Qualcomm's major shareholders and investors all expressed concern for the current company. Qualcomm's board of directors has a crisis of confidence, and they have expressed their dissatisfaction with board members ignoring shareholders' opinions and making large-scale acquisitions.

This undoubtedly put the board of directors in financial shackles. Facing the constant persecution of the wolf-like Andy Smith, they can only watch and cannot use funds to start the company's stock repurchase plan to support the plummeting stock price. I can only watch Andy Smith ravage and beat Qualcomm's stock price and those white knights!

Now, finally someone can't hold it anymore. The only buyer who is willing to spend a lot of money to buy Qualcomm stock is Andy Smith. Faced with doubts from various media about the fact that General Electric, which has already lost its own security, still spends precious working capital to invest in Qualcomm, and in the face of angry inquiries from GE shareholders who have long lost patience, Jeff Immelt has to make a decision. To make a trade-off, you must know that the stock price performance of ge is already one of the worst among the constituent stocks of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Just now, under the pressure of ge activist investors, Immelt had to start a two-year cost reduction plan to improve the profits of the core business of industrial manufacturing.

Immelt, who can't protect himself, still has the pride and high spirits of the white knight at the beginning, and some of them are just regrets and doing everything possible to retire smoothly in order to keep his throne. As for contacting Andy Smith, will he be ashamed? Light, it doesn't matter if you feel ashamed or not.

"...Okay, Jeff, who made our previous cooperation very pleasant, how about it, 28 dollars per share, I want all the Qualcomm stocks in your hands!" Andy raised his mouth and put his feet on the office On the table, lying on the boss chair, raised his eyebrows and said in pain.

"you--"

Immelt's eyes were burning, his face was flushed, he was clenching the hands holding the phone receiver, his veins were bulging, and he wanted to leave and hang up the phone. He thought that this call with Andy Smith would be very embarrassing, even if the negotiation was successful, There will also be losses, but he never thought that Andy Smith would take advantage of the fire.

"Andy, you have to understand that we can wait until Qualcomm's stock price rebounds..."

"Of course, this is your right, so wait slowly. If you let me buy it, it will be at this price. By the way, it is now. I will talk about the price later. Sorry, Jeff, I still have a meeting. You want to think about it, and then contact me after you think about it." Andy sneered and hung up the phone. At this moment, he didn't care about the shares in General Electric's hands. He wanted stocks and spent money from the secondary market. Just buy it, although this is a bit slow, but since there is something to ask for yourself, why don't you take advantage of it?

Especially his own enemy!