Chapter 1400

After a Saturday day's work on the east coast, Simon picked up Jennifer and two little guys and took off back to the west coast in the evening.

Arriving in Los Angeles, it's still the evening on the west coast.

I spent a day with the women and children in the Domaine Du Mei on Sunday. I left again on Monday. First, I went to San Francisco to visit the waist and leg essence who has been keeping the fetus at ease since I got pregnant. By the way, I met with girl C and talked about the upcoming autumn new product distribution fair of tingkobayer on another Saturday on September 26.

At the new product launch last autumn, tinco Bayer launched the first generation tablet product ipad-10. With excellent entertainment functions, tinco Bayer has become a popular new product with a sales volume of more than 10 million in the first generation of a year. According to the latest statistics, the global sales volume has reached 12.7 million units.

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

The two major updates expected by the industry recently, the shift from black-and-white LCD to color screen and the installation of camera, will not be satisfied this time.

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

The problem is also very simple. There are too many one-time upgrades. How do you play in the future?

Squeezing toothpaste is the king.

After all, at present, tingkobaier's products are not only still ahead of many other similar manufacturers, but also have formed various ecological barriers in software and content.

In this case, a fool will turn himself in.

Therefore, after the lunch at Woodside mountain villa, Simon and girl c mainly talked about the OEM of a series of product chips of tincobier.

Since last year, after months of absorption and operation, Westeros system has finally won 30% of the shares of TSMC, but it has become the largest shareholder of this wafer foundry which is far from the future.

Of course, more and more orders from Westeros electronic enterprises such as tinco Bayer and Nokia are turning to TSMC when it comes to chip OEM.

This is not what Simon wants to see.

As a latecomer, no one knows the development trend of semiconductor industry better than Simon.

Even if he becomes the largest shareholder, despite the simple consideration of commercial interests, Simon absolutely does not want to see that the wafer foundry industry, which will only become more and more huge in the future, will be controlled by a large number of market shares by a single enterprise that westrow system cannot control 100%. Even if it can control 100%, it is not suitable for a single company.

Still, eggs can't be put in one basket.

Therefore, in addition to TSMC, Simon's requirement is to support another batch of wafer foundry enterprises as soon as possible, and finally form a pattern in which three to five industry giants with equivalent volume, including TSMC, share the wafer foundry market. Moreover, North America and Europe need to ensure at least one.

Even if Simon's seemingly position seems to be sure to stand for the United States, in fact, he has been making a defensive layout.

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

I discussed with girl c here, and then went to Finland. Simon will also make some relevant arrangements for Nokia.

Backed by westero system and guided by the two super electronics giants, Simon is confident to change the future trend of wafer foundry industry.

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

In addition, just a week ago, on the Russian side, after a stalemate between Yeltsin and the Russian State Duma for a period of time, Yeltsin finally made a compromise, gave up his intention to let Chernomyrdin take the post of prime minister again, and chose Yevgeny primakov, a former Russian Foreign Minister acceptable to himself and the parliament, as the new prime minister.

In just one year, the prime minister was replaced twice, resulting in serious division and opposition among the forces of various parties in Russia. Due to the continuous prevarication and wrangling among different forces in various major domestic affairs, which in turn affected Russia's already precarious economic situation.

A mess.

As a bystander, Simon is more of a judge of the future.

With primakov's strong character and political ambition, it is doomed to be incompatible with Yeltsin for a long time. Next year, once primakov targets Yeltsin, it is inevitable to step down. At that time, Simon felt that this history should deviate from the sixth Prime Minister stepashen, who was once in Yeltsin's term of office, but someone who Simon had already arranged to take up the post in advance.

Simon had already reminded Yeltsin that he must set aside a year to accumulate prestige for someone.

Then, history should return to its former track.

Boeing 767 crossed the United States and the Atlantic Ocean. After about 11 hours of flight, it arrived in London first.

Local time is more than 1:00 p.m. on September 22.

Plan to stay in the UK for a day and a half, or full schedule.

In a word, for the UK, if considering from the commercial aspect, it is not worth Simon to spend too much time. The British economy has basically entered the old capital stage and does not have any investment value. After the millennium, Britain's economic growth, in addition to the bonus of joining the EU, is more due to its open immigration and tax policies, which has attracted a large number of rich people from Eastern Europe or the Far East to settle down.

It's actually asset transfer.

Therefore, there is a very interesting phenomenon. Most of the richest people in Britain are not native britons.

Of course, in addition to the economy, Britain plays a great role in politics, especially for the European continent.

Shit stirring stick.

At least, maintaining the division of European countries is very in the interests of the Westeros system.

For a day and a half, there were no waves.

The interesting thing worth mentioning is that Simon stayed in the mansion on Kensington Garden Street as usual for the convenience of his schedule. Then, a woman who happened to be in Kensington Palace next door learned the news, deliberately avoided it and ran away directly. It is said that she left Britain overnight without even her luggage.

Simon was helpless.

Are you so terrible?

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

Because of a small entanglement, I brought Yulia shuerxijinna and her daughter this time.

In Finland, it's mainly about Nokia.

In addition to Nokia's business situation, the topic is mainly about the foundry layout of wafers.

In addition, Simon was inspired and had an idea during his visit to Nokia's new headquarters.

About Nokia.

The original timeline entered the era of smart phones. Nokia's mobile phone business collapsed for various reasons, but it still left a deep scientific and technological foundation for Finland. Many of the few Internet enterprises in Europe came from Finland. In addition, some popular video games around the world were also produced by Finnish game studios.

In short, such a small Nordic country with a population of only 5 million shows quite strong scientific and technological potential.

Simon therefore thinks not of Finland, but of Australia.

Compared with 5 million in Finland and more than 20 million in Australia, it obviously has greater potential to tap.

Moreover, like the United States, Australia is also an immigrant country. Even if it is not as good as the United States, 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 in the Internet industry after the millennium.

Simon even thinks about the direction.

game.

After all, the volume is there. It is unrealistic for Australia to be a world-class Internet giant. However, it should have great potential to specialize in one direction, such as games.

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

First, money is not a problem.

Second, the platform is not a problem.

Then there is talent.

This is a problem.

Therefore, Simon plans to provide targeted funding to some universities in Australia to cultivate special game development talents. At the same time, Simon plans to set up a targeted angel investment fund to fund various game development teams in Australia and take care of them in future sales channels.

In any case, since we intend to build Australia into a private territory of Westeros system, of course, we should keep pace with the times and open up more industries in addition to mines and pastures.

He only stayed one night in the seaside Manor on the outskirts of St. Petersburg and set off again the next morning.

Target Moscow.

This is Friday, September 25.

After breakfast, when she boarded the plane, girl a sent some documents as usual. Simon was more concerned about the recent publicity of DHO cable station by danilis entertainment in North America.

Warner or Ge responded quickly.

be on one's guard for.

Both Jack Welch and the direct person in charge of HBO clearly understand the threat that danilis Entertainment's DHO project will bring to Warner's toll 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 later.

Obviously, since it has launched its own toll cable station, which mainly plays movies, danilis entertainment will no longer easily sell the TV broadcasting right of its films to HBO.

If it was ten years ago, the volume gap between Hollywood's major studios was not large, and losing the content of a major studio alone was nothing to HBO. The problem now is that danilis entertainment has produced more than half of the best quality content in Hollywood in recent years.

In short, HBO does not have the Jurassic Park series, but DHO does; HBO has no evocative film universe series, but DHO has; HBO has no Pixar Animation Series, but DHO has; HBO doesn't have independence day, Titanic, rush hour, game of the brave, etc., but DHO has

Well, how else does HBO play?

As a result, when danilis entertainment was about to launch DHO TV station, Warner soon contacted here and couldn't wait to clarify the TV broadcasting of DC film universe series.

Daenerys entertainment will certainly not be humble about this.

The relevant contract will certainly not miss this matter. Therefore, under normal circumstances, it can be handled according to the contract.

In this regard, Warner Bros. owns the distribution rights of most series of films. Danilis entertainment has only a few films such as wonder woman, which seems inferior. However, as the related equity party of a series of films of DC film universe, it can't watch the party with the distribution rights "sell off" the TV broadcasting rights of relevant films. Therefore, in the future, of course, whoever makes a high bid will give it to whoever.

Or I'll see you in court.

In fact, Simon is not so determined to win the DC movie universe series. After all, there is no lack of content here. Compared with HBO, the superhero series may become the backbone and the key to attracting users in the future.

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 fades and the other grows.

In the front cabin study of Boeing 767, the flight from St. Petersburg to Moscow is expected to be only 40 minutes. Simon is sitting behind his desk reading documents. When the door knocks, it is shuerxijinna.

Seeing that the woman wanted to talk and stop after entering the door, Simon beckoned, "come here."

Shuerxijinna obediently came forward, turned the desk, obediently let the man hold herself and sit down on his lap. After a while, she finally said, "Sir, I, I have saved some money in recent years. This time, I want to provide some help to people in need."

"Yes," Simon nodded with a smile and said, "well, don't you take care of a fund? You can take another sum out of it, just $10 million, and spend it where you think it should be."

Shuerxijinna subconsciously shook her head: "no, 10 million, too much."

Shuerxijinna only plans to take out $200000 this time, and men speak for $10 million. In shuerxijinna's view, there are indeed too many. She is a very rational woman, hoping to do her part for her troubled motherland, but she will only do what she can.

Simon didn't care: "you can do it yourself."

With that, seeing that the woman didn't mean to leave, Simon continued to look through the information in front of him with Ruoyu Wenxiang.

A moment later, shuerxijinna finally whispered with a sigh: "I don't understand, sir, how can this happen?"

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

"Why do you say that?"

"The root cause of the disintegration of the Soviet Union is serious economic problems. However, this is not fatal. Even European and American countries will have an economic crisis every few years, the most typical is the great depression in the United States," Simon said. "The key is that the Soviet Union has made serious mistakes in dealing with economic problems."

"Huh?"

"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 have completely attributed the cause of the problem to the state system, which is the most serious mistake. I also discussed this problem with people some time ago. The collapse of the Soviet Union is mainly due to problems in the production system and distribution system, which is very complex. However, for example, the distribution system, one A country can achieve long-term stability only if its social resources are relatively evenly distributed to more people. However, the top leaders of the former Soviet Union and Russia in recent years blindly learn from the West for privatization and change the distribution system in a short time, which not only fails to solve the serious distribution imbalance accumulated in the former Soviet Union, because Russia is lack of the west, which has been gradually improved for decades The result of the sudden privatization of the mandatory tax and welfare system is that a few oligarchs use their contacts and power to occupy more social resources, resulting in a more unbalanced distribution system and even the current collapse. "