Chapter 1043 The Project Was Shut Down, Is It My Fault?

Although so far, in the benchmarking war with Intel's microprocessor products, AMD has lost more and won less.

But it is not easy for it to survive in the fierce competition in the microprocessor market.

After all, Motorola Semiconductor Division, Zilog and National Semiconductor, which entered the microprocessor market at the same time, were all completely killed by Intel, leaving AMD alone, which shows that it has two skills.

Moreover, with the existence of AMD as a competitor, Intel's product upgrades are more practical.

Unlike in later generations, after AMD declined, Intel also lost the motivation to innovate, so it gained the reputation of a "toothpaste factory" in the industry.

Two days later, Wu Tao personally led the team to appear at AMD's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley.

Molly thought it was fun, so she turned into an ordinary entourage and mingled with the visiting team of Tianqi Investment.

AMD CEO Sanders paid special attention to it, leading his deputy Lu Yizhi and a group of people to specially receive interviews.

This kind of formation is very common in China, but not common among US-funded companies.

Molly was also secretly surprised when she saw it. Her beautiful eyes frequently glanced at Wu Tao beside her, wondering to herself, is this guy already so influential in the American business world?

However, in Wu Tao's eyes, this situation has another interpretation: it seems that AMD's crisis is not small this time.

Especially CEO Sanders, who turned out to be a gray-haired old man. Even though he was in good spirits, he still felt like he was in the sunset.

Seeing the deep meaning and interpretation in Wu Tao's eyes, Sanders said with great enthusiasm: "Dear Mr. Wu, don't worry about my age, I will retire in April next year."

As he spoke, he pushed out the foreigner with a round face and a slightly bald forehead next to him and said: "Lu Yizhi will take over my position and lead AMD to continue to develop."

Wu Tao nodded slightly, with some consideration in his eyes.

After half a day of contact and negotiation, the situation was basically clear, and it was generally similar to the information obtained by Wu Yingying's investigation.

The capital scale AMD hopes to introduce is not large, about US$3.5 billion. However, the share of equity swap that he was willing to pay and the scale of the technical cooperation project made Wu Tao almost feel uncomfortable.

Even so, Wu Tao didn't show it.

After all, business negotiations are a process of back and forth, discussion and discussion.

For AMD, Apocalypse Investment’s ambiguous attitude is not surprising.

At least compared to the previous situation where there was no life-saving straw, Sanders felt that this was a big improvement.

What's more, once Tianqi Investment prefers AMD, it will not be as thin as a life-saving straw, but a real life-saving asset!

Wu Tao returned to the Irvine Villa and fell into careful consideration.

In fact, his purpose of investing in AMD was not to focus on the other party's development prospects, but to open a breakthrough from the monolithic U.S. semiconductor industry and establish cooperation with China's semiconductor industry.

Although this kind of thing was unthinkable in the past.

However, since the Batumi Joint Committee opened up the situation, although the official blockade from the United States is still there, he can also feel a faint sense of loosening.

The only solution now is to take that last shudder and peel back the layer of window paper.

While he was thinking about it, Molly changed her clothes and came over from the house next door.

This beautiful woman has a lot of bad habits.

When you get home from outside, you have to change into clothes. It was just a matter of changing, but he put on this tight leather jacket that Wu Tao had no resistance to.

So when this enchanting figure like a Persian cat appeared in front of him, Wu Tao almost lost the ability to think calmly.

Molly didn't care about this, but asked in a normal tone: "Are you really optimistic about AMD's development prospects?"

Wu Tao drank up the soda water in one breath, withdrew his lingering gaze and said: "If we are done in the microprocessor market, the future is promising." After saying this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "What, are you interested? "

Molly's heart moved, and she elegantly crossed her two long legs and changed postures and said: "AMD is what you are determined to win. If you are willing to give it to me, I can do whatever I want."

This genius little elf is doing this again.

Wu Tao secretly smiled bitterly, but on the surface he waved his hand generously and said: "Anyway, you were the one who revealed this news to me. Since you want to vote, I'll give it to you."

I originally thought that grabbing the project from Wu Tao would be tantamount to grabbing food from the tiger's mouth.

For this, Molly was even prepared to pay a price. Of course, this price is not a physical price, but a real price.

But I didn't expect Wu Tao to be so generous.

She was so excited that she got up, hugged Wu Tao's forehead and gave him a big kiss. If Wu Tao hadn't pushed her away, she would have loved to have pounced on him to show her inner excitement at this moment.

Watching Molly leave gracefully, Wu Tao felt no hesitation in giving up the AMD project.

For him, Quantum Trust’s entry into AMD’s board of directors has the same strategic significance as Tianqi Investment’s entry into the board of directors.

In addition, in terms of AMD's long-term profitability alone, the investment value is actually not high. At least compared to other projects invested by Tianqi, it is not outstanding.

In this way, I didn't spend a penny and got things done again.

It's the best of both worlds.

After a day like this, at noon the next day, Molly came back looking tired.

This time, Molly didn't even change into her professional suit. When she entered the house, she grabbed a bottle of brandy and started drinking it.

Wu Tao, who was sunbathing in the backyard, heard the noise and returned to the room. When he saw the situation, he said, "Hey, dear Molly, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm still a little late!" Molly drank the brandy in her glass in one gulp, then poured herself a glass and said: "Sanders has already signed a contract with the Crown family in advance, and he said he regrets your favor. "

After saying this, Molly cursed rarely.

"The Kerang family?" Wu Tao asked with a frown.

Molly drank another glass and said, "It is one of the three major families in the Chicago Consortium. The leader is Woody Crown, who is from the same family as Howard and Figo."

Wu Tao was shocked when he heard about the Chicago consortium, "It's not a small business. Didn't no one care about AMD's previous investment? Why did it suddenly become popular?"

When this issue was mentioned, Molly stopped drinking and just looked at Wu Tao with a look of resentment.

It turned out that Wu Tao led a team to inspect AMD, and after negotiating with Sanders for a long time, interested people in the industry took notice.

Coupled with Wu Tao's previous magical investments, they were all quite successful, to the point of being jealous.

So a number of financial institutions and large consortiums took the initiative to take a bite.

Even though AMD seems to be under pressure from Intel now, it must be right as it is a promising project of China Wu.

In the end, Woody stood out with his absolute advantage and strong background in the Chicago consortium, and hit it off with Sanders.

This led to Molly’s subsequent failure...

After hearing this, Wu Tao felt a little unbelievable that every move he made had such a huge influence without even realizing it.

Is this your fault?

It's just that the project he was optimistic about was blocked, but he was not angry at all, and even felt a little proud...