Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Compared to Diego Maradona, who had hepatitis, had his leg removed, and was abandoned by Barcelona and had to return to Milan in a desperate manner, Michael Jordan, who is also talented and young and energetic, is obviously more interesting. , Without arrogantly rejecting Tang Huan's arrangement.

Since Michael Jordan was involved in the specific affairs of the sports industry, Tang Huan had the idea of ​​inspecting it.

You know, the popularity of these teams has really helped Tang Huan resist the recent attacks from the media, including the media. Fans recognize the richest man in the United States for his generous investment in teams in the region.

At this stage in the San Francisco Bay Area, there are no competitors competing with the Golden State Warriors for fans, but the Oakland Athletics have the San Francisco Giants competing for baseball fans, and the Oakland Raiders have the San Francisco 49ers competing for American football fans. The difference is that the San Francisco Giants' performance is relatively poor, while the San Francisco 49ers have been more active and strong in recent years. The last time they won the championship was in the 1981 season.

But with the Oakland Raiders winning the Super Bowl this year, the popularity has clearly become more dominant.

The National Football League also has a draft event called the "nfl annual player selection conference", more often called the nfl draft, which is two months earlier than the nba draft, just in April.

I heard that Tang Huan was coming to see, Mikhail Kogan enthusiastically introduced him to the preparations of the Oakland Raiders, such as promising rookies.

However, since the earliest performance season of the National Football League will not start until late July this year, players and coaching staff are on vacation, so the content of the show is more superficial.

"It's a pity that the North American home video game console market has collapsed. Otherwise, it would be another prosperous time for ea to release the long-developed rugby game." Mikhail Cogan said with great regret.

Tang Huan smiled, "Be patient. Wait three or four years, the market will always recover. As you can see, the dancing machine is not only a mess in Japan. It is also very popular in the North American market, which obviously drives it. The sales volume of the second-generation Xiaobawang game consoles. Sooner or later, changes in volume will trigger qualitative changes."

Having said that, Tang Huan threw the rugby to Michael Jordan, who was brainwashed with him, "It doesn't matter if it is buffered for a few years, the game engine can be further optimized, and more powerful hardware can be created."

Mikhail Kogan nodded and turned to Michael Jordan, "Hey, big guy. It looks like your physical condition is very good. Come to my Oakland Raiders."

Tang Huan waved his hand with a smile, "Don't make trouble, this is the rising star I'm looking for for the Golden State Warriors."

Looking at Michael Jordan, who was scratching his head and smiling, Mikhail Cogan continued to perplex: "How can NBA have nfl treatment, big guy, I am optimistic about you, come on."

Tang Huan was very speechless for the weirdness of Mikhail Kogan, an old naughty boy, and he simply ran away. Go straight to the next stop-the Oakland Athletics.

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Similar to the experience of the former owner of the Oakland Raiders who wanted to move the team out of Oakland, but was obstructed by the local government, and then replaced by Tang Huan, the former owner of the Oakland Athletics team Finley. As his wife requested a divorce and had to divide the property, he planned to transfer the team to oil tycoon Malvin Davis, but the prerequisite was to move the team to Denver, and the Oakland Municipal Government and Alameda County Government. By refusing to allow the Oakland Athletics to terminate the stadium lease in advance, the deal fell through. In the end, Tang Huan and Levi's Jeans chairman Walter Haas jointly bid $13 million to buy it.

The Oakland Athletics have won the U.S. Major League Baseball's highest honor-the World Series championship three times in a row. Unfortunately, it was already ten years ago.

Every team in Major League Baseball, except this team. There are also six to nine minor league teams of different levels, commonly known as farms. Come to provide reserves for the team, or help maintain the condition of injured players.

Therefore, after Tang Huan and Walter Haas took over the Oakland Athletics, they immediately invested in the reconstruction of their dilapidated farm system.

As one of the most obvious results, the Oakland Athletics have won the American League West Championship and the American League Championship in the past two years, but there is still a distance from the World Series championship.

Fortunately, compared to the previous low popularity, the number of spectators for the Oakland Athletics team now enters the game to watch the game has soared. This regular season has begun in early April.

Tang Huan and Walter Haas, who were sitting in the box watching the game, were talking about things outside the court.

"The players from Baodao, if the conditions permit, try to give them the opportunity to exercise in the major leagues. They can’t always be in the minor league teams. The upcoming Los Angeles Olympics, although baseball is a performance event, Baodao The aspect attaches great importance to it, and I hope these players can produce results." Tang Huan reminded.

"In the previous spring training and warm-up matches, I have taken care of them specially." Walter Haas nodded.

The cost advantage of Southeast Asia has greatly improved the competitiveness of Levi's clothing business. Therefore, Walter Haas is also very active in assisting the treasure island athletes who have a relatively high level of development in baseball.

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After watching the game and sending Tang Huan to the car, Walter Haas saw the tall Michael Jordan, and, like Mikhail Cogan, he dug up the corner, "The young man is in physical condition." Yes, my Oakland Athletics team is hitting the World Series championship, you might as well come to play and create brilliant together."

Unexpectedly, Michael Jordan replied enthusiastically, "Okay, I will think about it carefully when I go back."

After the car started, Tang Huan glanced suspiciously at Michael Jordan, “Golden really shines everywhere. You really want to play for Major League Baseball.”

"I also like baseball." Michael Jordan answered honestly.

"The operation of nba is in the rising period. Don't miss the opportunity to become a hero of the times." Tang Huan didn't want to let his fancy "flying man" run away, so he quickly criticized education.

In order to show his importance to Michael Jordan, Tang Huan called Nike executives and sent him to the Golden State Warriors to get more familiar with the environment there. Fortunately, I will play next season.

At present, the NBA playoffs are in full swing, head coach John Bach led the Golden State Warriors. Although successfully qualified, he played very hard.

Franklin Miyuri still recognizes John Bach's coaching ability. Although Tang Huan understands that the team's reconstruction is not an overnight effort, and the current success of the Los Angeles Lakers, he still has the idea of ​​finding the next head coach in his head.

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After visiting the three major league teams under his name, Tang Huan made a special trip to the tennis club to visit Steffi Graf, who was seriously preparing for the French Open, Wimbledon, and the Los Angeles Olympic Tennis Exhibition.

At this stage, women's tennis has been jointly ruled by Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert since 1976. And they are also at the peak of their athletic careers. At present, the only player who has successfully broken through is the American talented girl Trish Austin.

Therefore, Steffi Graf, who is not yet 15 years old, must make extraordinary efforts if he wants to get ahead.

"Tang, I must take a heavy champion this year as a gift for you." Steffi Graf, who has repeatedly raised his goal, eagerly expressed his small wish.

"Haste is not fast. Let's take it slow. The key is that you can't get hurt. That will affect your sports life." Tang Huan smiled and touched Lori's head, and his eyes fell on another field where there was Two Chinese teenagers are practicing hard with pats. Pointing to the side was a middle-aged Chinese man.

"Boss, these two teenagers are a pair of brothers called Zhang Junpei and Zhang Depei. The coach is their father Zhang Hongsheng." The person in charge quickly introduced: "My brother Zhang Depei is 12 years old this year and has just won the U.S. junior hard court singles championship. I saw their potential and performance are good, so I signed them all."

"You did a pretty good job at work." Tang Huan patted the other party's shoulder with great satisfaction, and walked over.

It can be seen. The Zhang family and his son cherish the training conditions provided here very much, and their attitude is very serious. It took a while before I noticed Tang Huan and his party.

"Tang, Mr. Tang?" Zhang Hongsheng was delighted. Asked uncertainly.

Tang Huan nodded slightly, "Is this fellow Mr. Zhang Hongsheng Zhang?"

"It's me." Zhang Hongsheng nodded repeatedly, "Thank you Mr. Tang's tennis club for giving us the opportunity."

"You still have the ability, your son has good potential." Tang Huan continued to stare at Zhang Depei, who was not affected by the outside world.

"I'm overwhelmed." Zhang Hongsheng said overjoyed: "Being able to get Mr. Tang's approval is not in vain for our husband and wife to accompany their brothers to train hard to this day."

"When did you arrive in the United States?" Tang Huan asked casually.

"I immigrated to the United States from Treasure Island in 1966 to work as a chemical researcher." Zhang Hongsheng proudly looked at his two sons on the court. "I like tennis very much, and I also studied tennis seriously. When Pei was 9 and Deppi was 6, they started training. Six years later, their brothers are still very upbeat."

"Tennis training costs a lot. You must have paid a lot." Tang Huan smiled and waved his hands to Zhang Junpei and Zhang Depei, who looked over curiously.

Zhang Hongsheng nodded, "In the beginning, our family lived in New Jersey. For the convenience of training and competition, we sold the house there and moved to Minnesota. Now we are in California again, and we happened to meet Mr. Tang’s tennis club. Open the door to convenience."

"Poor parents in the world." After Tang Huan sighed, he turned his head and instructed the person in charge next to him, "Zhang Depei is a good seed. The training conditions the club will provide to him in the future are the same as Steffi's."

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Silicon Valley, Seeq, CEO Gordon Campbell secretly convened a meeting, the participants were mainly the group of people with technology who left Intel at the time, no more than ten.

"Everyone, the board's distrust of us is becoming more and more obvious." Gordon Campbell said gravely: "The chief financial officer is directly responsible to the board. I can't direct him at all. The work is almost impossible to continue. Go down."

Everyone at the scene looked at each other, and no one knew how to speak. Suddenly, the atmosphere in the conference room became very depressing.

When the company was first established, the attitude of the board of directors was different. Not only did they help them resolve their patent disputes with Intel, but they also allocated ample funds. That's a nourishment in small days.

But when Gordon Campbell commanded a team that secretly developed an ibm-compatible motherboard chip and planned to put it into mass production, the board of directors noticed this development and immediately changed its attitude. Not only did it freeze the project, it also issued a threat to investigate the company. The financial problems of the people involved have frightened the people involved in it all day long, and until now they have not had the guts to act rashly.

Seeing the people so persuaded, Gordon Campbell secretly said "bad luck", then looked around the people, and analyzed the current situation from his own standpoint.

"Everyone, we should understand that now that Seeq has fully mastered the technology, and the value of those of us has also diminished, otherwise the board of directors would not be so unscrupulous about us."

"The reason why I secretly ordered the development of ibm-compatible motherboard chips is to increase Seeq's revenue. But the board of directors considered the problem from the background of the competition between Fangyuan Computer and ibm- the two major platform standards, and sacrificed mercilessly. Lost our interests."

"I once applied to the board of directors, hoping to introduce the latest flash memory technology, but was rejected. It can be seen that they did not intend to compensate us at all."

"From the current market structure, ibm-compatible motherboard chips are no longer valuable. If you want to make a difference, then you must directly develop ibm-compatible chips."

"But the board of directors will definitely not agree." Someone questioned weakly.

"So, I plan to leave seeq and create another company to seize the business opportunities brought by ibm-this technology patent-free platform ~www.wuxiahere.com~. Among you, who is willing to join me to develop Xintiandi?" Gordon Campbell said his plan in a sonorous tone.

"It can produce chips, and a semiconductor factory is needed. Where can I find this investment?" The shocked person asked eagerly.

"Like Intel, it takes strong operating capital to handle the entire process from design, manufacturing to sales, of course." Gordon Campbell smiled confidently, "And I have already thought of another set of solutions. It is fabless design and foundry. The model of our newly established company is a fabless semiconductor company, which only conducts the circuit design of hardware chips, and then the design is handed over to the foundry to manufacture finished products."

"In this way, we only need to focus our energy and cost on market research and circuit design, and let others do the costly semiconductor device manufacturing links."

Having said that, Gordon Campbell patted his chest and promised: "I have contacted interested investors in Japan, and it depends on your determination." (To be continued.)

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