Right now, Flamingo is in full swing, and third-party game manufacturers have finally succumbed!
In fact, they have no choice at all.
In the home game console market, Flamingo-1 accounts for more than 90%, and even if they comply with the royalty system, they can make a lot of money.
However, as more and more game companies agree to the royalty system, Flamingo's profits will increase substantially.
Although there are many junk games on the market, there are also some good games. Porting from the Atari 2600 to the Flamingo-1 platform can bring 20% of the revenue to Flamingo, and some arcade games can also be ported over.
In addition, the royalty system stipulates that the game cartridges are produced by Flamingo Company, and finally handed over to Ant Factory for production.
Therefore, the ant factory must be expanded!
Ant Factory is now producing game consoles, game cassettes and other related products for Flamingo Company, and is also producing GalaxyNet 1.0 network cards for Galaxy Network Company. In addition, even Netflix's movie and video tapes are also produced by Ant Factory. Before long, Sun Computer Systems' graphics workstations will also be produced here. At the same time, Ant Factory has also begun accepting contract manufacturing for other electronic products, including personal computers, televisions, and more.
Ant Factory has gradually developed into a huge electronic foundry.
Near the Ant Factory, some accessories factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, such as plastic factories, steel factories, etc. The Flamingo-1 game console and game cassette are not cutting-edge technologies, and some simple accessories, Li Zetian is willing to buy from These factories buy some. Besides, they produce good quality and cheap stuff, which can save the company money
"a" is not a vain name~~
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The success of the Flamingo Company brought Li Zetian a huge income, allowing him to have enough financial resources to realize his plan.
The acquisition of Disney is just one of them. The most important thing is that he wants to integrate the upstream and downstream industry chains of chips!
The most important equipment for making chips is a chip lithography machine.
There are very few companies in the world that can produce chip lithography machines, and you can count them with your fingers, because the technology involved in lithography machines is too high.
So far, there are mainly three lithography machine manufacturers, one is ASML, which is now owned by Philips and has not yet become independent, and the other is Japan's Nikon and Canon.
Compared with Nikon and Canon, ASML can only be regarded as a rising star.
The reason why Japanese semiconductors in the 1970s and 1980s were so good is that some people concluded that it was because Nikon and Canon’s lithography machines were powerful, and Japanese semiconductor manufacturers were using these two lithography machines, so these semiconductor manufacturers produced products. Product is excellent.
However, with the rise of ASML, global semiconductor manufacturers have switched to this company's lithography machines, but Japanese manufacturers still use Nikon and Canon lithography machines with backward technology, resulting in the competitiveness of Japanese semiconductor products, thus The decline of the entire Japanese semiconductor industry is caused by ASML!
There is an unwritten famous saying in the semiconductor industry in the previous life: Wherever the technology of ASML (ASML) is, there is the process of the global semiconductor.
Obviously, this sentence is enough to explain all the problems.
Intel is also using lithography machines from Nikon and Canon, but the purchase price is much more expensive than that of Japanese manufacturers. Therefore, compared with Japanese semiconductor manufacturers, Intel first has a lot more in terms of factory construction costs. In addition, the best and most advanced lithography machines are usually obtained by Japanese semiconductor manufacturers as soon as possible.
Intel's loss to Japanese semiconductor manufacturers in the memory market is indeed not wrong.
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By the end of the year, the financial statements are out.
The most amazing performance is, of course, Flamingo Company, whose sales exceeded 10 billion US dollars. Since game consoles are not profitable, the profit is only about 1.54 billion US dollars. However, the game console platform is a cash cow, and it will continue to bring rich revenue. income.
Then there is Violet Records, Michael Jackson and Yu Jingqiu have both sold more than 40 million records, and there are MVs, Michael Jackson's commercial performances, endorsements, and the company has earned 3 billion US dollars, with a profit of 1.25 billion US dollars. However, this is a special case, and it will not be so profitable in the future. The MTV music television network has developed, and has successfully recorded "The Voice of America". It is currently undergoing post-processing and will be broadcast next year. In this regard, Li Zetian only knew about it, and paid less attention to it. .
Galaxy Networks also started to make a profit this year, selling 845,000 GalaxyNet 1.0 network cards, with sales reaching $210 million and a profit of $100 million.
Net income for Star Wars Films was $850 million.
As for other companies, the performance has improved significantly compared with previous years.
Finally, the statistics showed that the revenue exceeded 50 billion US dollars, and the profit was around 10.5 billion US dollars.
Every year, donate money to the LY Foundation to reduce taxes, and then take out a part of the funds for dividends.
In order not to pay the 20% dividend tax, Li Zetian and Yu Jingqiu transferred their shares to the Umbrella Company, and the Umbrella Company had US$2.48 billion on its books!
At this time, Li Zetian has enough confidence to integrate the upper and lower industrial chains of chips, and achieve a high degree of vertical integration! ! !
It's just that ASML is now a division of Philips. I don't know if it is possible to buy it.
In fact, Li Zetian's worry is superfluous.
The reason why ASML was independent from Philips was that at this time, Philips was in a very bad economic situation and was implementing a large-scale layoff plan, so there was no way to fund ASML.
Li Zetian sent someone to investigate, and soon learned of these circumstances.
"The time is right and the place is right! It seems that the success rate of buying ASML is very high! Haha..." Li Zetian couldn't help laughing happily.
"The soldiers are expensive", Li Zetian immediately sent someone to communicate with Philips in the name of Times Technology Company, and spent 500 million US dollars to acquire ASML.
Philips was a little reluctant at first, but soon knelt down in a powerful money offensive and accepted a $550 million acquisition price.
Philips obviously did not realize the importance of the lithography machine, otherwise it would never be sold.
The Netherlands has also not come forward to block Time Technology's acquisitions.
This made the acquisition very smooth.
Li Zetian couldn't help but secretly complacent, as if he had gotten a huge bargain, but it was true.
With the acquisition of ASML, the task of integrating the chip industry chain has been half completed.
However, the acquisition of ASML alone is not enough, and it has to invest heavily in research and development. As we all know, high technology is very expensive, especially the lithography machine. It is normal for a product not to be produced after several years of research.
Dongfang Yuqin smiled bitterly and said to Li Zetian: "Mr. Li, is this investment too risky? Brinker, president and chief technology officer of Esmore, said that for research and development, we need to invest at least 200 million US dollars, and because They have extremely strict quality requirements, so they can't guarantee that new products can be released within three years... ”
Li Zetian didn't even think about it, he smiled and said, "You tell them that Times Technology is willing to invest 400 million US dollars for research and development!"
"Uh, okay!" Dongfang Yuqin nodded helplessly. She was not very optimistic about such companies that cost a lot of research and development, but did not have products for a long time, because there were too many variables in the middle...
But Li Zetian thought that the only lithography machine company that can compete with Japan's Nikon and Canon is ASML, so what he needs to do now is to fully support ASML, and then defeat Nikon and Canon, let Japanese semiconductors The industry has never recovered since then! ! !
Of course, at the same time, let your own chip industry lead the way, and then rely on powerful chip technology to produce semiconductor products!
ASML is headquartered in the Netherlands, and Li Zetian did not move it to the United States because it has many R&D partners in Europe, including Dutch universities and European research institutions.
However, Li Zetian set up an Esmol American Research Center in the United States and an Asmol Asian Research Center in Hong Kong. As a result, there are research centers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas to speed up the development of new products.
The news of Esmore's acquisition is not noticeable except that competitors and semiconductor manufacturers have paid attention. In fact, even if Esmore became a lithography giant, not many people around the world knew about the company. However, Esmore is the truly awesome company. Almost all semiconductor companies in the world have left Esmore. Before Li Zetian passed through, the EUV lithography machine, known as "the ultimate weapon in the semiconductor industry", was Esmore. Invented and sold for over $100 million per machine!
Japan's Nikon and Canon together are not enough for Esmol!
At this moment, Li Zetian's self-confidence has greatly increased, and he is full of ambition. Little Japan, my brother will personally destroy your semiconductor industry! ! !
Subsequently, Li Zetian began to look for other semiconductor equipment manufacturers without stopping.
At this time, he thought of a person, a Chinese.
"Genius has been Chinese since ancient times!!!"
"Chinese are really one of the smartest people in the world!!!"
Li Zetian said with a deep sense.
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