Vol 6 Chapter 698: Difficult opponent

On the evening of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Seoul, a metropolis with nearly half of the population of South Korea, was as deserted as all major cities in China.

Like us, Koreans also pay attention to returning home to visit relatives before the New Year’s Eve. At this time, the busy streets on the first day are sparsely populated and very clean, and many shops have been closed down.

And because of some traditions that even we don't care much about, they have been sticking to it. At this time, Seoul is even more deserted than our big city.

For example, because of the accelerated pace of life and the improvement of economic conditions, many people in China are now accustomed to going to restaurants for New Year’s Eve dinners, but South Korea still pays attention to the New Year’s Eve dinners by themselves, so their restaurants have always had the habit of not opening their doors for 30 years. .

The industry generally believes that since the bosses go home for the New Year’s Eve dinner, the waiters and chefs must of course also go home for the New Year’s Eve dinner. In any case, this is a rare human touch.

Samsung Semiconductor’s president Kwon Wu-hyun is a bit busy at this time, because he still insists that the family must spend the New Year together. This is the most lively time in the family.

He is the senior of Samsung and the most promising person among the brothers and sisters. Therefore, as the most respected elder of the younger generation in the family, he has received the most greetings.

At this moment, he suddenly received a call, asking him to return to the headquarters immediately.

I'm wearing hanbok, you tell me this, can you make me spend a happy new year?

But he couldn't neglect this call. It was the group secretary's office who called.

When President Quan rushed to the headquarters, he found that other executives he knew well, such as Cui Zhicheng, who was in charge of the mobile phone department, were already waiting outside the meeting room. He suddenly remembered that, by the way, it seemed that he had not heard Qimonda’s bankruptcy announcement. ?

This is not right, he quickly started calling.

At this time, a group of people walked over with the short and down-to-earth president. President Quan, who was still at home just accepting the young people’s bow, also hurriedly bowed with the others around him. The posture was even more standard than the younger generation in the family. , But also respectful.

At the beginning of the meeting, the whole was cut, and the person in charge of the supervision team in the secretary room stood up.

The secretarial office supervision team, the team in charge of collecting intelligence, researching, analyzing, and planning, has always been the most eye-catching team in the secretarial office.

Because the founder's purpose in establishing the secretarial office was for the collection and analysis of intelligence, and some people even commented that the secretarial office’s intelligence collection capabilities are even stronger than the Korean National Intelligence Organization.

Because Samsung has various branches all over the world, whether it is private gatherings or business meetings, Samsung employees scattered all over the world collect intelligence all the time. These intelligences are released through the group's intranet and finally integrated into the secretary room.

The secretarial supervision team has been tracking the business strategies of competitors. Information such as the outbreak of the Gulf War, the death of the military, and the Russian import of cash registers were all obtained by the supervision team in the first place.

On the whole, their intelligence-gathering capabilities resemble those of the Rothschild family during the prosperous 19th century.

Although they cannot control the bond market with intelligence like the Rothschilds, they are accustomed to using branches all over the world to obtain political and economic intelligence to quickly make decisions and actions.

Quan Wu-hyun instinctively felt that what the monitoring team was going to say this time must have something to do with him. Sure enough, "We have determined that Feng Yiping arrived in Munich one and a half hours ago and stayed at the Hilton Munich Park Hotel."

Kwon Wu-hyun's heart suddenly tightened, bad!

"Shortly after Feng Yiping checked into the hotel, less than ten minutes, Infineon CEO Peter Bauer hurried to the hotel. According to observations, he stayed for less than 20 minutes."

"Shortly after he left, Qimonda CEO Luo Jianhua also hurried into the hotel and has not left yet."

Right now, Kwon Wu-hyun knew why Qimonda had not officially declared bankruptcy.

“Because the relevant hotels have adopted a high-standard security model, we have not directly grasped what happened inside the hotel, so it is not clear whether they met with Feng Yiping,” the person in charge of the supervision team still said, “because, Goldman Sachs, who accepted Qimonda’s entrustment to find international investors, and their coo Gary Cohn, stayed at the hotel earlier than Feng Yiping."

The monitoring team has always been so strict.

"We also noticed that the Goldman Sachs team led by Gary Cohen arrived in Munich at the same time and stayed at the hotel together, as well as the team led by Feng Yiping, the top head of the US company, Cummins,"

"Before that, they have had contact with the relevant institutions in Germany and the EU, Infineon and Qimonda executives respectively..."

"We will inform you of the follow-up situation in time," he nodded to the main seat and everyone, and then sat down.

Everyone is waiting for the speaker to speak, but the speaker remains silent for the time being.

Although there is no direct evidence from inside the hotel for the time being, the fact is already very clear, that is, Feng Yiping is eyeing Qimonda.

This is something that even he can't keep calm.

In retrospect, in December 1974, he decided to use his own funds to acquire South Korea's first fab that was facing bankruptcy just three months after it was put into production. This was the most important decision to change him and Samsung.

Over the past 30 years, Samsung Electronics, which relies on semiconductors, has become the most important business unit in the Samsung Group, and semiconductors are also the direction he believes to continue to work hard in the future.

In this field, the demand of the Chinese market is very critical.

China imported more than US$30 billion in chips last year, and with the outbreak of smart phones, this proportion will also show growth.

If Feng Yiping intervenes...

According to Feng Yiping's working style, the trouble is really not small.

Seeing that the boss did not speak, everyone did not speak. Cui Zhicheng, the head of the mobile phone department, took the lead. At Samsung, he was the one who had the most contact with Feng Yiping. "Feng Yiping will definitely be very interested in Qimonda. Judging from his layout, in addition to building an ecological chain around Android, he obviously hopes to build a complete industrial chain around smartphones and smart mobile devices."

"Or at least, being able to grasp the key link, from their advantages in mobile phone panels, and his purchase of arm, can illustrate this point."

He saw that the big boss nodded to himself, which made him very happy. The big boss obviously agreed with him.

Mr. Li does agree with Cui Zhicheng's view, because he also wants to build a complete industrial chain around smart phones, so as to ensure Samsung's future leadership in the smart phone field, a huge market field, and relatively higher profits.

Looking at Feng Yiping's style, I really want to have the same idea.

Arm, originally they also hoped to be able to intervene. Unfortunately, from the perspective of arm’s operating mechanism, the market does not allow it to be acquired by companies like Samsung.

In other words, after Samsung acquired arm, in addition to no longer need to spend money to buy arm chip design authorization, don't expect to rely on arm's ip to make a profit from the market.

Other mobile phone and mobile device manufacturers will definitely switch to other chip design companies by then, or simply research on their own.

But Qimonda does not have this problem.

The problem is that he thought of Qimonda's information again. Qimonda has close to 5,000 employees in Germany, which is really a huge burden.

Kwon Wu-hyun knew he had to speak, "From my understanding of Feng, he has always been very planned. This can be seen from his acquisition of the relevant panel's intellectual property rights from Corning in the United States so early."

"It can also be seen from his acquisition of arm~www.wuxiaspot.com~ that he must have been very concerned about the chip industry, but for some reasons, he has not found a suitable opportunity. I am sure that he will not miss this opportunity. ,"

"Combining the various circumstances, I think we can probably draw such a conclusion, because Qimonda is on the verge of bankruptcy. It was an emergency. His hope to acquire Qimonda was also a temporary decision."

"That is, the acquisition of Qimonda is not like other projects that he runs in person. It has a careful arrangement in advance, so I think this is our opportunity."

As the head of the semiconductor department, he certainly hopes that Samsung can acquire Qimonda. After accepting Qimonda's market share of more than ten percent, Samsung has established its absolute advantage.

He looked at the president on the main seat.

Others in the meeting also looked at the president on the main seat.

At Samsung, what they say is useless, and what the person says is the key.

The president is still thinking...