Chapter 1400: Squeezing Toothpaste Is King

After a day of work on Saturday on the east coast, Simon picked up Jennifer and the two little ones, and flew back to the west coast together in the evening.

Arrived in Los Angeles, it was still evening.

On Sunday, I spent a day with women and children at Cape Dume Manor. I left again on Monday. I went to San Francisco first to visit the fine waist and legs who have been taking care of her pregnancy after pregnancy. By the way, I met with girl c and chatted about September 26. Tinkobel's new autumn product launch conference will be held on another Saturday.

At last year's autumn new product launch conference, Tinkbel launched the first-generation tablet product ipad-10. With its excellent entertainment functions, it became Tinkbel's first-generation product that exceeded 10 million sales in one year. According to the latest statistics, global sales have reached 12.7 million units.

Compared with the first-generation ipad-10 and Apple's previous performance improvement of newtonpad, this year is a relatively conservative routine upgrade.

The two major updates expected by the industry in the near future, the black-and-white LCD to the color screen, and the addition of a camera, will not be satisfied this time.

It's not that the technology can't reach it.

The problem is also very simple, too many upgrades at one time, how can I play in the future?

Squeezing toothpaste is king.

After all, the products under Tinkber are not only still ahead of many other similar manufacturers, but also have formed various ecological barriers in terms of software and content.

In this case, the fool will roll himself inward.

Therefore, after the lunch at the Woodside mountain villa, the topic between Simon and Miss C was mainly about the foundry of a series of product chips under Tinkber.

Since last year, after several months of quiet operation, the Westeros system has finally won 30% of TSMC's shares, no more, but it has also become a wafer foundry that is far from the future. Manufacturer's largest shareholder. As a matter of course, electronics companies in the Westeros system, such as Tinkber and Nokia, are involved in chip foundry, and more and more orders have begun to turn to TSMC.

This is not the situation Simon wants to see.

As a latecomer, no one is more aware of the development trend of the semiconductor industry than Simon.

Even if he becomes the largest shareholder, Simon absolutely does not want to see the wafer foundry industry, which will only become larger and larger in the future, be controlled by a single company that cannot be 100% controlled by the Westeros system. A large market share, even if it can be controlled 100%, is not suitable for one family to dominate.

Again, you can't put all your eggs in one basket.

Therefore, in addition to TSMC, Simon’s request is to support another batch of foundry companies as soon as possible, and eventually form a pattern of three to five giants including TSMC sharing the foundry market. Moreover, North America and Europe need Make sure to have at least one of both.

Even though Simon seems to be determined to stand in the United States on the surface, he has actually been making defensive arrangements.

Just like the foundry companies this time, there must be at least one foundry in the United States, but there must not be too many. For example, if five can be retained in the end, at most two can be placed in North America.

I discussed it with Girl C here, and then went to Finland, Simon will also make some arrangements for Nokia.

With the backing of the Westeros system and the joint guidance of the two super electronics giants, Simon has full confidence in changing the future trend of the foundry industry.

After only staying in San Francisco for one day, Simon set off again in the evening, aiming for Europe.

In addition, just a week before, on the Russian side, after a period of stalemate with the Russian State Duma, Yeltsin finally made a compromise, giving up the plan to re-appoint Chernomyrdin as prime minister, and chose himself and the Russian parliament. The former Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who is acceptable to both, will serve as the new prime minister.

The prime minister was replaced twice in just one year, and the result was serious divisions and confrontations among the various parties and forces within Russia. Due to various major domestic affairs, different forces continued to shirk and argue, which in turn affected Russia's own A precarious economy.

A mess.

As a bystander, Simon is more of a judgment on the future.

With Primakov's strong personality and political ambitions, he is doomed not to be compatible with Yeltsin for a long time. Once Primakov points the finger at Yeltsin next year, he will step down. At that time, Simon felt that history should deviate this time, and there would no longer be Stepashin, the sixth prime minister during Yeltsin's tenure, but someone whom Simon had already arranged to take over.

Simon had reminded Yeltsin of this early on, and he had to set aside a year for someone to accumulate prestige.

Then, history should go back to the track it once was.

The Boeing 767 traveled across the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. After about 11 hours of flight, the first stop was London.

The local time is just over one o'clock in the afternoon on September 22.

Planning to stay in the UK for a day and a half is still a full schedule.

Speaking of the UK, if it is considered from a commercial perspective, it is not worth Simon's spending too much thought. The British economy has basically entered the stage of earning money and has no investment value. After the millennium, the UK's economic growth, in addition to the bonus of joining the EU Mostly because of its open immigration and tax policies, it has attracted a large number of wealthy people from Eastern Europe or the Far East to immigrate and settle.

In fact, it is the transfer of assets.

Therefore, a very interesting phenomenon has emerged. Most of the top rich list in the UK are not native British.

Of course, in addition to economics, the role of the United Kingdom is still very large at the political level

.

Especially for continental Europe.

What a shit stick.

At the very least, it is very much in the interest of the Westeros system to keep the European countries divided.

For a day and a half of continuous rotation, there was no disturbance.

The interesting thing worth mentioning is probably that, for the convenience of his schedule, Simon stepped down as usual in the mansion on Kensington Garden Street. Then, a certain woman who happened to be in London next door to Kensington Palace heard the news, deliberately avoided it, and ran away in a hurry. It is said that she did not even bring her luggage and left the UK overnight.

Simon was helpless.

Are you that scary?

The next day also left London in the evening and flew to Helsinki.

For some petty entanglement, this time I took Yulia Shursikina, mother and daughter, with me.

In Finland, it is mainly about Nokia.

When I met with the head of Nokia, Jorma Ollila, in addition to Nokia's operating conditions, the topic was mainly about the layout of the foundry.

In addition, during the visit to Nokia's new headquarters, Simon was inspired by an idea.

About the old Nokia thing.

In the original timeline, when entering the era of smart phones, Nokia’s mobile phone business collapsed due to various reasons, but it still left Finland with a solid technological foundation. Many of the few Internet companies in Europe are from Finland, and there are also some The phenomenon-level game that is popular all over the world is also produced by a Finnish game studio.

In short, such a small Nordic country with a population of only 5 million has shown quite strong technological potential.

Therefore, it is not Finland that Simon thinks of, but Australia.

Compared with Finland's 5 million people, Australia's population of more than 20 million obviously has greater mining potential.

What's more, in fact, like the United States, Australia is also an immigrant country. Even if it is not as good as the United States, it can be pinched around the world, but it is easy to attract high-quality talents.

Therefore, it is also very suitable for large-scale support in the field of new technology, especially the Internet industry after the millennium.

Simon even considered the direction.

game.

After all, the size is there. It is unrealistic for Australia to become an Internet giant, but it should be possible to specialize in one direction, such as games.

In the evening, he left Finland again and flew to St. Petersburg on the Baltic Sea coast in Russia. After dinner, Simon personally drew up a plan and sent it to North America and Australia.

First of all, money is not an issue.

Second, the platform is not an issue either.

Then, there is talent.

This is a problem.

Therefore, Simon plans to provide targeted funding to some universities in Australia to train specialized game development talents. At the same time, set up a targeted angel investment fund to support various game development teams in Australia, and to observe it in future sales channels.

In any case, since Australia is going to be a private territory of the Westeros system, of course it cannot be just a ranch in addition to mines. It is still necessary to keep pace with the times and develop more industries.

I only stayed one night at the Linhai Castle Manor on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, and set off again the next morning.

Target Moscow.

It's Friday, September 25th.

After breakfast, boarding the plane, girl A sent some documents as usual. Simon was more concerned about the recent promotion of Daenerys Entertainment in North America on the dho cable channel.

It was Warner or Ge who responded first.

It's like facing a big enemy.

Whether it is Jack Welch or the direct person in charge of HBO, they clearly understand the threat that Daenerys Entertainment's launch of the DHO project will bring to Warner's paid cable business.

Not only will hbo's market share be impacted, but more importantly, hbo will inevitably lose a large source of high-quality content in the future.

It is obvious that Daenerys Entertainment will not easily sell the TV broadcast rights of its movies to hbo since it has launched its own paid cable station that mainly broadcasts movies. If it was ten years ago, the major Hollywood studios basically stood side by side, and it would not be a big deal for hbo to lose the content of one major studio alone. The problem now is that Daenerys Entertainment has produced more than half of Hollywood's movies in recent years. Top quality content.

In the simplest terms, hbo does not have the "Jurassic Park" series, but dho does; hbo does not have the conjuring movie universe series, but dho does; hbo does not have the Pixar animation series, but dho does; hbo does not have "Independence Day" , titanic , rush hour , jumanji blah blah blah blah blah, but dho has...

Well, how does hbo still play?

As a result, when the news that Daenerys Entertainment was about to start DHO TV was officially announced, Warner quickly contacted here, eager to clarify the TV broadcasting of the DC movie universe.

Of course, Daenerys Entertainment will not be modest about this.

The relevant contract will definitely not miss this matter, so under normal circumstances, it can be done according to the contract.

In this regard, Warner Bros. has the distribution rights for most series of films, and Daenerys Entertainment only has a few such as "Wonder Woman", which seems to be at a disadvantage. It cannot be seen that the party that owns the distribution rights sells the TV broadcasting rights of related films at a low price.

Otherwise, I will definitely see you in court.

Actually, for dc

Simon is not so determined to win the movie universe series. After all, there is no shortage of content here. In comparison, for hbo, the superhero series may become the mainstay in the future and the key to attracting users.

What Simon has to do is to push up the cost of hbo as much as possible even if he can't get the copyright.

One goes down and the other goes up.

In the study room at the front of the Boeing 767, the estimated flight time from St. Petersburg to Moscow is only 40 minutes. Simon was sitting behind his desk looking through documents when the door knocked and it was Shurshikina.

Seeing the woman's hesitant appearance after entering the door, Simon beckoned: "Come here."

Shurshikina obediently stepped forward, turned around the desk, obediently let the man sit down on his lap with her arms around her, waited for a while, and finally spoke: "Sir, it's like this, I, I have been I saved some money, and this time I come back, I want to provide it to some people in need.”

"Okay," Simon nodded with a smile, and said again: "Well, aren't you managing a fund? You can take another sum out of it, just 10 million US dollars, and spend it where you think it should be spent."

Shurshikina shook her head subconsciously: "No need, 10 million is too much."

Shurshikina only planned to spend 200,000 dollars this time, and the man asked for 10 million. In Shurshikina's view, it was indeed too much. She is a very rational woman, and she hopes to save herself The motherland does its best, but it will only do what it can.

Simon didn't care: "Then you can figure it out."

After saying this, seeing that the woman had no intention of leaving, Simon and He continued to read the information in front of him holding Nephrite Jade and Wenxiang.

After a while, Shulshikina finally heard Shulshikina's sighing whisper again: "I don't understand, sir, how did all this happen?"

Simon felt the sudden sadness of the woman in his arms, and of course understood what she was feeling. After thinking for a while, he said, "As for the disintegration of the Soviet Union, I can only say that this is a historical tragedy that is both accidental and inevitable."

"Why do you say that?"

"The disintegration of the Soviet Union was rooted in serious economic problems. However, this is not fatal. Even in Europe and the United States, there will be an economic crisis every few years. The most typical is the Great Depression in the United States," Simon said. : "The point is that the Soviet Union made serious mistakes in dealing with economic problems."

"Um?"

"To put it simply, in the process of solving economic problems, the top leaders of the former Soviet Union, and even Russia in recent years, completely blamed the cause of the problem on the state system. This is the most serious mistake. I discussed this with people some time ago. The problem, the collapse of the Soviet Union, was mainly due to problems in the production system and distribution system. The specifics are very complicated, but, for example, in the distribution system, a country can only achieve long-term stability if social resources are distributed relatively evenly to more people. However, the former The top leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia in recent years have blindly learned from the West for privatization and changed the distribution system in a short period of time. Not only did they fail to solve the serious distribution imbalance problem accumulated in the former Soviet Union, because Russia lacks the West’s gradual improvement after decades or hundreds of years. The sudden privatization of the mandatory taxation and welfare system has resulted in a small number of oligarchs taking advantage of their connections and power to occupy more social resources, leading to an even more unbalanced distribution system and even its current collapse."