Global Monopoly of Technology

Chapter 681 [I just like the way you see me when I'm upset and can't do anything about me]

Lowell McAdam contacted several major Silicon Valley tech giants who had major business dealings with Luo Sheng's company to explain their purpose, and the heads of these tech giants all agreed with Lowell's suggestion and were glad to do so. promised him.

So we decided to organize a group to visit Luo Sheng, in order to tell Luo Sheng that we are not in the same group as Wang Xing. .

These high-tech giants of Laomei can only save themselves now, trying to ask Wang to help? Thank goodness for not making a mess.

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Cote d'Azur Inc.

"Mr. Luo, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam led a delegation to visit the Cote d'Azur with the global vice presidents of eleven well-known Silicon Valley technology giants. This is Lowell's personal letter and list of personnel, just waiting for your agreement. , he will lead the delegation over." Tang Xin entered the CEO's office to report.

This is to say hello in advance, so we can prepare later. If you come in a hurry and get a closed door, Lowell can't be ashamed, and Silicon Valley can't be ashamed, they don't want the next day. Saw some embarrassing content on the news headlines.

The embarrassment of the head of ASML, they have not forgotten it.

Luo Sheng took the letter and opened the list, and said in surprise: "Oh, such a luxurious lineup, all my partners, haha, most of these old friends in Silicon Valley can't stand being tossed by Wang, and come to me to complain. ."

Luo Sheng, who was delighted to hear it, immediately looked at Tang Xin: "Okay, let me answer, I also have face with so many Silicon Valley bigwigs visiting, and I will accept it with pleasure."

Tang Xin nodded: "Okay, then I'll make arrangements."

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After Lowell and others clearly got Luo Sheng's attitude, they flew from North America to Sioux City two days later. Although they came in a low-key manner, they were discovered by some media at the terminal of Sioux City Airport. .

For a time, it attracted widespread attention from people in the industry. To say that the most important person should be the head of Verizon, and the others are global vice presidents who have not caused much thought.

But the problem is that this is not one or two. There are so many vice presidents and a technology company behind each of them is a well-known industry giant or a top existence in the industry, so it is not an ordinary heavyweight.

After arriving in Sioux City and only taking a day off to avoid jet lag, we arrived at the headquarters of the Cote d'Azur, Galaxy City, early the next morning.

The meeting time and place had already been agreed, and Luo Sheng naturally got up early, and the meeting place was not in any hotel conference room, office or golf course, but at Azure-5 at the headquarters of the Cote d'Azur. General Assembly Department Building.

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"Mr. Luo, this is Mr. Lowell McAdam, the CEO of Verizon. This is the director and global executive vice president of Qualcomm..."

At the entrance of the building at the moment, Tang Xin introduced Luo Sheng to a group of foreigners who came to visit one by one. After the courtesy meeting and handshake, Luo Sheng, the host, immediately extended his hand and gestured to everyone, and immediately led them towards the room. Inside the Azure-5 assembly line.

Lowell McAdam and others found that the meeting was very different from what they expected. They didn't expect to walk and chat in the product assembly department like this.

But this is all secondary, as long as it is more important to be able to see Luo Sheng for an interview in person.

"To be honest, Mr. Lowell, you really shouldn't come to me." Luo Sheng walked comfortably and looked at me and said slowly: "The media is reporting on your coming here, and I believe it will be soon. When it spreads to North America, your characterful head of the family sees it and will only hate me even more, you are causing me trouble."

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that such a luxurious Silicon Valley lineup in the technology industry has come all the way to Sioux City, and only one person has the energy and qualifications to make such a large lineup.

Anyone with a bit of logical derivation ability can easily guess that they are looking for Luo Sheng.

When Lowell McAdam heard this, he felt contempt in his heart for a while. It's been dumped. Isn't it the result of your agreement to be able to talk face-to-face now? Would you like to state that we will come? Immediately, he replied with a helpless expression on his face:

"Mr. Luo, this is not the time to blame each other, maybe he will hate you even more, but we are not much better, I bet $10, maybe he will post a message on MicroBlog tomorrow to deduct one from us. A traitor's name."

Luo Sheng smiled and said nothing.

They are all human beings, and some words are enough to stop there, and the days ahead will be long.

Luo Sheng took these foreigners around the Azure-5 assembly workshop for a while and came to a high-level area. In fact, the huge workshop has very few staff, and most of them are intelligent machines to coordinate the assembly of products. The entire workshop takes about 18 seconds. Time to get a full Azure-5 smartphone.

This efficiency also shocked everyone's hearts. Luo Sheng looked at the busy scene below and suddenly said: "Every engineer here has a master's degree or above, and nearly 45% of them have a doctorate. Ross wants me to go to the rust belt to build a factory. You are the elite among the elite. After seeing this, I want to ask you, do you really think your country can achieve the return of industrial production? Is there any living soil?"

Lowell McAdam and the others looked at the scene below, and faced Luo Sheng's questions in silence.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Luo Sheng withdrew his gaze and glanced at Lowell and the others, and said calmly, "Do you think you can defeat the Azur? I can say for sure, it's impossible, absolutely impossible. Active or passive, in the field of high-end manufacturing, it has always had a leap-forward development. You are all my partners. I am very happy to see you here. It means that you can see better than your politicians, and you should think about how to get there. Participate, if you don't get on the bus earlier, if the future pattern changes drastically, you will be very passive, right?"

Lowell looked directly at Luo Sheng and questioned in disbelief: "Mr. Luo, are you so sure that manufacturing cannot return to North America?"

Hearing this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but shake his head with a smile, and replied, "Why do you have to ask this? Everyone standing here at the moment, you actually understand, even better than me, otherwise, what is the point of your presence here?"

Lowell didn't answer, and neither did the others.

Seeing this, Luo Sheng smiled and said: "OK, I recently saw a statement from Wu Jiao, saying that you can use my country's rare earths and spend at most $1 or 2 billion to restart the production line yourself. Stupidity is self-deception."

Lowell and the others still didn't answer.

Luo Sheng put his hand on the mast and looked at the assembly line below and said leisurely: "Of course North America is not short of money, what is a dollar or two billion when the money printing machine starts? But the return of the industry, especially the return of high-end manufacturing, is not only about It’s a question of capital and more of an engineering capability.”

Having said that, Luo Sheng looked at Lowell and others and added: "Take rare earth as an example, you have a lot of rare earth resources and strong capital, but what about engineers? More than 95% of the high-end talents in the rare earth field are in my country. , once the industrial system is lost, it must start from scratch. Once industrial production stops, the industry will be discontinued, and North America has begun to relocate large-scale industries since the 1980s. It has been discontinued for 20 to 30 years. Can it be revived in a year?"

"Wujiao Building said that this rare earth will cost an extra US$1 or 2 billion. That is because assuming that the cost of human resources remains unchanged, investment can be obtained and the price is appropriate. The market also guarantees that Wujiao Building will give orders. $100 million, what about all industries? Do you have engineers? The prosperity of Silicon Valley has deteriorated, and now you are recruiting either engineers from India or Chinese engineers, because the quality of the native North American population has fallen sharply, and you want to revive the manufacturing industry. Isn't this embarrassing?"

Lowell McAdam coughed a few times in embarrassment. Luo Sheng's series of rhetorical questions made everyone present unable to refute, but even more unable to admit it.

There are two extremes in the education system in North America. The capitalists instill happiness education to the general public, but the education of their own descendants is the opposite. The result is that the educational resources of the elite group and the general public are completely different. And they are all moving closer to the virtual economy. Almost all of the best analysts on Wall Street are not born in finance majors, but a group of top scientists.

Therefore, the best mathematicians and physicists in North America are not in the laboratory, but in Wall Street.

If you choose to be your own boss, you will outsource the dirty work of engineers, recruiting a large number of foreign engineers, and watching the stock rise, isn't it delicious?

At this time, Qualcomm's global executive vice president tried to regain a bit of the initiative, and saw him say: "Mr. Luo, your company is not invincible. Azure mobile phones do not have Qualcomm's baseband, and all the equipment and personnel here have to stop working."

The implication is that you, Luo Sheng, don't be too arrogant, we also have things that hinder you.

The two sides seemed to be chatting casually, but in fact they were playing games between the lines. When Lowell and others came here, they knew that they were asking for help, but they had to act as if they were not asking for help.

Luo Sheng was very unhappy with their attitude, and immediately looked at Qualcomm and said with a half-smile: "This is inauthentic, I am Qualcomm's biggest customer, you are threatening customers, I am not only you Qualcomm The consumers of the company also participated in the research and development process with their experience in the process of purchasing applications. How much technical value did I contribute to you by purchasing your chips? A chip is very complicated, and some special chips can be said to be absolutely capable of money. But if you don’t have a good device, who do you sell your baseband chips to? How to develop together with system integrators? Not to mention there are other suppliers who are eyeing for it.”

When Qualcomm people heard the phrase "other suppliers", they immediately thought of a name-Huawei.

Wah Wei is desperately fighting for the baseband chip, and Luo Sheng is still supporting it. This is what Qualcomm fears the most.

In addition to Qualcomm's ineffectiveness, the people next to IBM are not much better, and they also feel offended.

Huawei's server business has been booming in recent years, and it has gradually moved closer to the main business from an edge business of Huawei. Among them, Luo Sheng's support has played an extremely important role. It can even be said that without Luo Sheng's support, Huawei's server business would not have been possible. Impossible to rise so fast.

IBM felt a huge crisis back then, and took practical actions to try to contain it, but it didn't play a big role. It would be false to say that it doesn't hate Luo Sheng. The business has to be done as it is, it is really too much, I really can't let it go.

Of the foreigners present, more than half of them gritted their teeth with hatred towards Luo Sheng. The most uncomfortable thing was that they wanted to kill the other party, but they couldn't.

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