Chapter 1176 – Allen’s resentment
To buy AMD’s shares, Feng Yu had no choice but to buy the non-voting shares from those shareholders. All the shareholders want to sell their non-voting shares and want to keep their voting shares. After all, like what Sanders said, AMD is making profits, and the share prices will rise sooner or later.
After a series of complicated transactions, Wind and Rain Holdings owns more than 30% of AMD shares and 50% voting shares. Of course, Sanders’s shares had dropped to 40%. The remaining 10% is shared by Kingston and Nvidia.
Wind and Rain Holdings is the controlling shareholder of Kingston and Nvidia. This means the remaining 10% voting shares are controlled by them.
AMD’s board of directors remained and only added one more director from Wind and Rain Holdings.
Although Sanders had given up his power over AMD, he had gotten Kingston and Nvidia shares, including their voting shares. Although it’s a small amount, it will tie all three companies together. At the same time, he became a director of these two companies and still retain his position as AMD’s Chairman.
These were all suggested by Ralph, and Feng Yu is very satisfied with this arrangement. Now, other than the operating system, Feng Yu can manufacture all the components of a PC.
Lenovo had followed Feng Yu’s instruction to develop an operating system that is similar to Win 7. Feng Yu wanted to develop the best operating system, but he forgotten Win 7 files is too big. Many Lenovo developers are not confident of this new operating system as it will take up the most hard disk space. The commonly used hard disk is only 80G, and only the latest and high-end PCs are using 160G.
Feng Yu had also wanted this operating system to be compatible with the Windows system, which resulted in the slow development of the operating system.
Luckily, Microsoft was sued for monopolization and was forced to release their source codes. They claimed this is to help other companies to develop operating systems. But this is bullshit. How can other companies develop operating systems based on so few source codes?
At most, some companies can develop modifications and improvements to the codes. Still, in the end, these will be sold to Microsoft. This is equivalent to Microsoft, giving out some of their codes and getting a group of software developers to work for them without paying them salaries.
To other companies, there are not many areas for improvements in these codes. But to Lenovo, many areas can be improved. Lenovo Kingsoft had been decoding Microsoft’s operating systems all this while.
Feng Yu wants his products to be the best and unique. He does not want his latest product to be compatible with others. But if a product is developed by others fast, he must think of ways to make his product compatible with them. This way, he can snatch away other companies’ customers.
Feng Yu wants to change the PC industry in five years. His Crystalline silicon factory had started production and had control over the supply chain’s up and down streams. If he still cannot succeed, he will be a failure.
Some companies produce both hardware and software like Feng Yu. IBM is such a company, but they are not as crazy as Feng Yu.
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Feng Yu is in a good mood these few days as his investments are finalized. He came to his sports arena to watch the first round of the playoffs. Although the Wind and Rain Team had not performed well this year, its attendance is high, and the team is entertaining.
Olajuwon’s injury is the only issue the Wind and Rain Team is facing now. His injury is quite serious, and he cannot play in the playoffs.
It seems like it is hard for the Wind and Rain Team to defend their title, but the team is not worried. Coach Carl had come up with lots of tactics and strategies for the team to play without Olajuwon. Their defense will be focusing on the outside marking. When the game got into a stalemate, and the opposing team’s center forward is scoring, they will use foul tactics.
Using this set of tactics and outside marking, Wind and Rain Team got the fourth position. Coincidentally, the Blazers are in fifth place.
Paul Allen saw Wind and Rain Team’s lineups and laughed. Wind and Rain Team does not even have a good Center forward and had to use a lousy defensive player. He cannot even outrun other players and will be retiring next year. The Blazers can thrash such a team easily!
Wind and Rain Team has good perimeter players? Hah! The Blazers have the best perimeter defense in the NBA. More importantly, Pippen is back on form this season. Pierce had been very arrogant last year, and we will let him know who the real all-star player is!
So, Paul Allen had come to the Wind and Rain Team’s arena to watch the game. He wants to watch the Wind and Rain Team getting trashed by his team. But this time, he did not bring along Blazers’ fans.
This is not only the Blazers’ revenge. Paul Allen is aiming for the league champion and had paid high luxury tax this year.
The Blazers are not afraid of the other strong teams from the Western Conference, other than the Lakers. But Wind and Rain Team can beat the Lakers. Why can’t the Blazer win against them? It’s just a Hack-a-Shaq strategy. The Blazers have six inside players, and one person can commit six fouls and a total of 36 fouls. The outside players can also commit fouls. This is enough to put Shaq out of the game.
As for the Eastern Conference, Paul Allen felt none of the teams is good enough to beat the Blazers.
“Paul, how are you?” Feng Yu saw Paul Allen and went over to greet him with a smile. But Paul Allen hated the smile on Feng Yu’s face.
“Hmph! I am doing well. If my team can win your team by more than twenty points, my mood will be better!”
How can Paul Allen be in a good mood? He had lost quite a lot in the stock market, especially since Microsoft’s account was exposed to have issues. This made Microsoft shares to fall again.
Paul Allen is furious. You had left Microsoft and had stepped on us once. Now, you are stepping on us again!
Paul Allen realized that after knowing Feng Yu, he had been down on luck! He suffered losses in all his investments, and when he finally made some money from Microsoft shares, Feng Yu stirred up problems and caused him to lose money.
Paul Allen had never thought that he is not a good businessman, and never listen to his subordinates’ advice. He always wants to do things his way, but having high intelligence does not mean he is suitable for investments.
Bill Gates’ net worth had shrunk a lot too. In this year’s <Forbes> list, Bill Gates’ net worth is only 10 billion more than Feng Yu, and he might be overtaken by the latter anytime. After all, Feng Yu has lots of businesses.
Most of the billionaires’ net worth on <Forbes> list had shrunk, except for Feng Yu. Feng Yu’s net worth had increased. Although the increase is not a lot, it made Paul Allen jealous. His net worth had fallen below 10 billion USD and was even overtaken by two Hong Kong tycoons.
How can I, Paul Allen, lose out to Asians?!
All these had added to Paul Allen’s hatred against Feng Yu. However, he has no way to get back at Feng Yu. Luckily, he still has a basketball team. His team must help him vent his frustrations today!
