Chapter 313: Bottleneck Project and Night Return

Before Li Xiaofan checked in and left San Francisco, he went to Tangyuan Chinese Restaurant to thank the proprietress Tang Zixin for her hospitality to him and the Yahoo partners.

"Afan, why are you being so polite? You brought so much business to our restaurant, I should thank you!" Tang Zixin said with a smile.

Li Xiaofan smiled and teased: "Sister Zixin, you are a top student at the University of California, are you going to be a Chinese restaurant proprietress for the rest of your life?"

After hearing this, Tang Zixin laughed: "Haha, that diploma is just a useless piece of paper in my eyes. I am very satisfied now. I have a husband who loves me and a lovely child, and a restaurant that belongs to my husband and me. Although it is a bit busy, I feel that my life is very happy and comfortable..."

Yes, everyone has a different definition of happiness, and Tang Zixin's state is also good.

Tang Zixin continued: "Afan, a few days ago I saw you entertaining guests in our restaurant. You Yahoo partners talked about topics that seemed to show that your investment business was getting bigger and bigger. Congratulations!"

Li Xiaofan smiled and said: "Thank you, Sister Zixin. So far, this Yahoo project is still in the investment stage. It may not be profitable until the company goes public next year. It's all paper wealth at the moment..."

"Afan, it seems that your recent investment in Yahoo has a very good return. In the future, if you need any help from me, just let me know."

"Okay, Sister Zixin, after coming to San Francisco this time, I am indeed considering setting up a point here at the right time. There are too many good projects with potential in the Bay Area!"

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On the way back to the hotel, Li Xiaofan bought a copy of the Wall Street Journal and saw an article in an inconspicuous corner introducing the Dutch Advanced Semiconductor Material Lithography Holding N.V., which was listed on March 14 this year.

Seeing the name of this company, Li Xiaofan was shocked. Isn't this the famous lithography machine giant ASML of the Netherlands?

Then, Li Xiaofan called his stockbroker Abao and asked about the stock situation.

Abao replied to Li Xiaofan that ASML of the Netherlands had been listed on the Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ on March 14, 1995. The current stock price is around $12, with a market value of more than $500 million.

Li Xiaofan remembered that before his rebirth, the market value of ASML reached an astonishing $300 billion, which increased by 600 times!

This price is really cheap now, and I can buy some with spare money in the future.

On the plane back to Singapore, Li Xiaofan sorted out the results of this trip to San Francisco:

The most gratifying thing is that compared with the previous life, Yahoo received the $100 million investment from SoftBank Group more than four months ahead of schedule. This investment is of great significance and will greatly accelerate the development of Yahoo in the United States. Li Xiaofan estimated that when Yahoo goes public on NASDAQ early next year, Yahoo's stock price performance may be even crazier than in the past life...

In addition, this time he successfully visited the future unicorn teams such as Nvidia founder Huang Renxun and OmniVision Technology co-founder Chen Datong, and achieved relatively ideal results. Now he will wait for them to give him a quotation after returning to Singapore, and strive to invest in these two unicorn chip projects as soon as possible.

As for Seagate's Dr. Mao Siming's GMR giant magnetoresistance technology head, Li Xiaofan thought that he was not too anxious, and waited for Dr. Mao to make an investment estimate first. He estimated that this investment was not a small amount. Li Xiaofan's heart would be better to wait for Yahoo to go public and cash out part of the funds. At that time, he might be able to dig out Dr. Mao's team and set up a world-class magnetic media and head R&D center project with independent intellectual property rights in Singapore Science Park. The first stage goal is to produce GMR giant magnetoresistance technology heads and sell them to global hard disk manufacturers to accumulate funds first.

Once you have your own hard disk head R&D center in Singapore that you can control, it will be much more convenient to set up a factory in China. Moreover, the advantage of doing such high-tech projects in Singapore first is that it will not cause too much sensitivity in Western countries...

Li Xiaofan remembered that before he was reborn, the leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology once stated in the public media that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, my country will focus on "stuck neck" projects. China will redouble its efforts in the development of applied research in the next five years, and focus on integrated circuits, software, high-end chips, and new generation semiconductor technologies.

Before he was reborn, Uncle Sam and other Western countries completely banned the export of chips and high-tech products to Huawei and other companies in my country, ASML lithography machines were "embargoed", and a large number of mainland high-tech companies were "cut off from chips", which made our country very passive for a time...

Now that I have been reborn, if I can plan some "stuck neck engineering" technologies and projects that my country urgently needs in the future in advance, I can not only build my own business kingdom and increase my wealth, but also it is very meaningful!

Li Xiaofan was also thinking that if there was a suitable opportunity in the future and his wealth accumulated to a certain level, he might learn from the Singapore Ascendas Group or the Tsinghua TusPark model in China and return to China to cooperate with well-known universities to develop a high-tech industrial park for "bottleneck projects"...

Also, Li Xiaofan always felt that he should set up a base in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States to keep an eye on those good projects...

Li Xiaofan thought a lot on the plane.

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Li Xiaofan's flight landed at Singapore Changi Airport at around 10pm. It was already 11pm when he got a taxi from the airport and returned to the townhouse dormitory.

When he entered the townhouse, Guo Hanyue was hanging clothes. When she saw Li Xiaofan, she came over happily and took the suitcase from him and said angrily: "Why didn't you call in advance when you came back? Have you had dinner?"

"I ate a lot on the plane. Where's Mengchen?"

"The girl is feeling a little uncomfortable. She took medicine and went upstairs to sleep early..."

"Oh, then let's keep our voices down so as not to disturb her."

After Guo Hanyue helped Li Xiaofan move his luggage into the living room, she poured him a glass of warm water: "Are you hungry? Do you want me to make you a bowl of noodles?"

Li Xiaofan He hugged her and said with a smile: "I'm hungry, very hungry! But not the hunger in my stomach..."

"Hate it!" Guo Hanyue struggled slightly in his arms symbolically, and said angrily: "You stink, go take a shower!"

"Can I ask you to help me wash?"

After hearing this, Guo Hanyue's face flushed, and she said softly: "It's not safe here. It's not good if Mengchen comes down to drink water and sees us. Otherwise, you can go to my room..."

"Yes!"

After saying that, Guo Hanyue took Li Xiaofan to her room on the second floor quietly.

After entering the room, locking the door, without turning on the lights, the two hugged and kissed each other tightly in the faint moonlight.

Then, the clothes on their bodies flew up...