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The latest website: On the eighth day that Luo Sheng came to Japan, the two sides finally reached a very important consensus. Sony's board of directors held frequent meetings and discussions in the past few days, and finally decided to sell the Cell business to the Côte d'Azur.

Price concessions have also been made, with Sony offering $2.188 billion.

This price was actually acceptable to Luo Sheng, but he still negotiated with the other party. During the last negotiation, the two sides negotiated for about three and a half hours, and finally reached a company on the merger price.

$1.685 billion!

At the same time, the precondition for Sony to accept this price needs to put forward an additional condition, that is, the PS3 game console currently supported by the Cell chip, the Côte d’Azur does not share the profit of Cell, otherwise Sony will lose $350 for each PS3 game console sold. rhythm, because the R\u0026D costs are evenly amortized and become higher.

Luo Sheng agreed "very reluctantly". In fact, the Cell processor was not worth much in his eyes. After buying it, he had to completely re-architect it from the bottom up.

After the two sides completed the initial signing, Luo Sheng also set off to return to China.

It will take about a month to complete this M\u0026A transaction at the fastest, or even two or three months, but it is basically a done deal.

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On the third day, the office of the CEO of the Côte d'Azur.

"Mr. Luo, our company will spend a huge sum of US$1.685 billion to acquire the complete Cell business of Sony, Toshiba and IBM. I am afraid that the funds may not be enough. We need to find a bank loan." Yao Jianhong said as he entered the office.

This time is different from the past. It is to start from the underlying architecture to make its own chips. It is a very ambitious plan to subvert the domination of Intel x86 and end the dark age of the "toothpaste factory".

And it is also completely different from the Azure-X mobile phone. Although its AP processor is designed by Bluestar Technology, it still uses Qualcomm's authorized technology, and the baseband is still used by Qualcomm. However, in terms of Qualcomm baseband substitutes, Hua Wei is also in Mao. With a strong commitment to the communication baseband, the R\u0026D funds invested in it are increasing year by year.

And this time the Cote d'Azur opened up a new business, the investment is undoubtedly an astronomical figure, and the more than one billion US dollars invested is just a starting point. It is only for the company's highly confidential [] plan, and the follow-up investment is the bulk, and the scale of burning money is calculated by billions of dollars.

The business of the Côte d'Azur company is now relatively single,

The main source of income is the Azure series of smartphones and the two major revenue segments of the AOS app store.

Since the first generation of Azure mobile phones was released, the total sales volume so far is 26.89 million units, the total sales are 18.7 billion US dollars, and the revenue of the AOS application store has exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars.

This report card is not the results of Côte d'Azur Company in 2008, but the total results created by the company from its inception to today. The results of this year have not been counted, and 2008 has not been completed for more than a month.

No doubt, this is a very impressive result, but the company's profit is only about 8%.

Because the money earned has been invested in R\u0026D investment by Luo Sheng, the Cote d'Azur has no background. To have sufficient technological precipitation, a large amount of R\u0026D investment is necessary. The company has now launched two new hardware projects.

One is the research and development of the next-generation Azure mobile phone, and the other is the [] plan that intends to penetrate into the hinterland of Intel's kingdom.

The huge R\u0026D investment is evenly distributed, and the profit is of course low.

The Côte d'Azur is now in great need of a primitive accumulation of technology.

"Don't worry about the issue of funds. If the bank does not lend to the company, I will personally lend money to the company."

Hearing Luo Sheng's words, Yao Jianhong has no doubts. If you follow some of his news reports, you will know that he has sold his Bluestar Technology shares many times in the past few years, cashing out more than five billion US dollars.

This money is on the bright side, and Luo Sheng can use it in a high-profile manner.

But in fact, in less than a year, the five billion US dollars have now become more than 48 billion US dollars through betting on the North American real estate market, and it is enough to directly take about 10% from it. The other funds are for Delay as much as possible to be exposed to short the North American real estate market, it has to go through some complex operations to apply.

Luo Sheng added: "The issue of funding is second, to recruit talents in Japan as soon as possible, and start the construction of the R\u0026D center as soon as possible."

Yao Jianhong nodded: "Understood!"

After explaining the matter, he also left Luo Sheng's office.

Taking the talents of the other party into the bag for your own use can not only strengthen yourself, but also stifle the cradle of potential competitors. Since Japanese companies have given up on smartphones and mobile Internet, don’t think about it if they intend to pick them up again. .

Even if Japanese companies such as Sony are involved in the smartphone industry, they will only be reduced to a niche, and they have no right to speak in this industry.

Luo Sheng stayed in his office for a while and also went to the Cote d'Azur laboratory. In the afternoon, he hosted a meeting of the technical department. Bai Lang, Lu Siming, Li Chunsheng and others were all on the list.

After a series of hard work, they are now qualified for the position of product managers. They all lead at least two development projects, and the size of the engineer team directly managed is more than 100 people.

"This time the company acquired Sony's Cell business and established a R\u0026D center in Japan is a good opportunity." Luo Sheng said to the technical executives at the meeting: "We have too few engineers in our country, and excellent engineers are even more scarce. , we can't just poach corners, we must grasp with both hands, and both hands must be hard. Therefore, we also need to find talented young engineers from within to train them."

After a pause, Luo Sheng added: "This year is still one to two months away. I decided to officially start next year and start preparations at the end of this year. We have to keep selecting excellent young engineers from the company every year, especially He is a young engineer with a pioneering spirit, and supported him to send him to study abroad, to study with the R\u0026D center we established in Yokohama, Japan, and to study with outstanding engineers in Japan, and to study in the R\u0026D center in Austin, Texas, and with outstanding engineers in the United States."

Of course, Luo Sheng is not stupid. The company pays money and sends a large number of employees to go abroad for further study. It is not driven by emotion.

Instead, they need to sign contracts and competition agreements. After finishing their studies, they cannot leave to work alone or change jobs immediately. They must stay in the company for at least eight years. After the lock-in period expires, the employee can decide whether to stay or go.

Otherwise, if the company spends a lot of time, manpower, material resources, and financial resources to carefully cultivate a talent, the result does not contribute any value to the company after graduation, and immediately leaves to work alone or change jobs, or even in turn compete with the parent company, Wouldn't that become the "Huangpu Military Academy in the IT industry", and even shot himself in the foot.

Although the treatment of Côte d'Azur company is already in line with international standards, the level of the world's top level, the company is in a period of rapid growth, and the company itself is a huge stage to display personal talents, the probability of job-hopping or going it alone is very small.

Few does not mean none, but there are.

Therefore, one code is one code, and none of the agreements that should be signed can be omitted. This is a manifestation of responsibility for both parties. Having a layer of contractual protection can eliminate the potential crisis of trust between them.

The talent issue is the key issue that Luo Sheng is always concerned about. The domestic talent base is too small, there are even fewer outstanding talents, and a large number of outstanding talents are going abroad.

No matter how talented Luo Sheng is, he is still a person after all, and human energy is limited, but his career is unlimited. As his career continues to rise, the plates of the two companies are getting bigger and bigger.

Today, the total number of employees of Bluestar Technology Group in the world has exceeded 70,000, and Côte d'Azur has also exceeded 30,000.

Luo Sheng needs talents in all aspects, including scientific research talents, management talents, legal talents, sales talents, etc., under his command, so that he can steer these two giant ships smoothly.

Foreign talents must find ways to hire them at high salaries for their own use, and at the same time, they must actively cultivate talents internally, send them out for further education, and then give back to the company when they return.

The internal trainer formulated the issue of the company subsidizing employees to study abroad. Luo Sheng made a decision very decisively.

It was a win-win situation, and it didn't take too long, and a week later it was made public within Côte d'Azur.

The company has decided to spend 1 billion yuan in budgetary expenditures from next year to start an internal talent training program and to subsidize its employees to study abroad.

The scale of budget expenditure is determined according to the company's development needs and actual situation, but it is no accident that it will be added year by year as the company grows.

It caused great repercussions from the staff group, especially for some young research-oriented talents. It is undoubtedly a personal sublimation to get the opportunity for a second study.

The point is, company funding.

The employees of Bluestar Technology Group saw the news from the "next door" and began to discuss it. It is obviously impossible to say that they are not envious. The employees of Bluestar Technology are also elites in the industry, and the more excellent they are. The more people know that backwardness will be eliminated by the times.

Regardless of whether it is Cote d'Azur or Bluestar Technology Group, there are anonymous employee community forums inside. Anonymity is to encourage employees to express their voices in the editorial forum to promote the improvement and improvement of all aspects of the company.

If it is a real name, everyone is afraid of offending the leader, so they dare not tell the truth.

After the news from the next door came, the anonymous community forum on Bluestar Technology also started to discuss, and they all petitioned the ultimate boss Luo Sheng, hoping that Bluestar Technology can also introduce such a welfare system, and not favor one over the other.

In fact, they are too anxious, but it is understandable that they are in their mood.

Of course, Luo Sheng will not forget that he is still the boss and founder of Bluestar Technology. The palms and backs of his hands are full of flesh, of course he will not favor one over the other, and Bluestar Technology also faces the problem of lack of talents.

No one, no outstanding talents, of course not.

The day after the announcement of the Cote d'Azur, Bluestar Technology Group also issued an announcement within the team. The group company will also spend 1.2 billion yuan on internal talent training programs starting from next year to fund its employees to study abroad.

The standard is the same as the Cote d'Azur, but all employees of the company can submit a written application, which needs to be double cross-examined by the relevant departments of the company and all approved before they can get the qualification for the quota. At the same time, there is a hard indicator for applicants. In principle, three years of working experience are required.

But at the same time, exceptions are allowed. Employees with less than three years of service also have the opportunity to qualify for the quota, but this requires the approval of the president's office.

This exception is to take into account some talented talents, giving them a better environment can grow faster than the average person and contribute more.

The news quickly spread from inside the company to the outside world, causing huge attention in the industry and society.

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