Legend of Xiangjiang Tycoon Chapter 505

Of course, Li Zhiwen knows the reason, and also thinks that "Indiana Jones" will not have too much splash, even when the martial arts instructor is changed, after all, the story is too old-fashioned.

"In this case, it seems that these investors need additional investment!" Li Zhiwen said.

Spielberg breathed a sigh of relief. In Spielberg's view, it is too difficult to communicate with investors about introducing investment. On the contrary, it is easy to add investment.

"I don't know how much it costs to hire a martial arts instructor," Spielberg said.

"One million!" Li Zhiwen said with a smile.

One million, Spielberg heard the number lag at first, and then it was a little unimaginable.

You must know that the total investment of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is only 20 million US dollars, and it is 1 million to ask for a martial arts instructor. This is not a joke.

"A million?" Spielberg confirmed.

"Yes, one million dollars!" said Li Zhiwen.

Li Zhiwen is willing to let Hong Kong filmmakers go to Hollywood to work hard, but it is not regarded as leftovers by others, and they will be thrown away when they are used up.

Back then, Wu Baige worked hard in Hollywood for many years, but he was not thrown away in the end, so he could only go back to the mainland to shoot "Red Cliff".

So Li Zhiwen wanted to improve the quality of Hong Kong filmmakers from the very beginning.

Of course, if this was done in the previous life, it would have been completely impossible, because the Hong Kong Film Market was too complicated and chaotic, and it was not united and fragmented.

Today's Hong Kong film industry is indeed the largest in the Universal Cinema. Although it does not include all film companies, all the members of the stunt martial arts team are under the Universal Cinema.

Under the arrangement of Li Zhiwen, Universal Cinemas did not criticize these people, but kept them delicious and delicious, even though most of the films did not require stunt martial arts teams.

But now Li Zhiwen took "Indiana Jones" as an opportunity to import these stunt martial arts teams into Hollywood, conquer the old beauty, and immediately put these people up.

At the same time, let these filmmakers learn advanced aspects of Hollywood, such as special effects applications and brain holes, which may continue the glory of Hong Kong films or make Hong Kong films even more brilliant.

"Mr. Lee, that's too much. The best martial arts instructor in Hollywood is only $100,000!" Spielberg said.

"I sent a team, including martial arts, weapon use, stunts, etc. They are the best stunt team in the whole world!" Li Zhiwen said with a smile.

"But even that didn't help because I couldn't explain it to investors!" Spielberg said.

"Don't need to explain anything, can't Mr. Spielberg be the master of the crew?" Li Zhiwen said.

"Of course you can call the shots, but the price is too high!" Spielberg said.

"That's because they are great and worth it. Good things are not afraid of expensive!" Li Zhiwen said.

Spielberg heard Li Zhiwen's words and felt that it was indeed reasonable. These martial arts instructors are indeed worthwhile, but investors would not think so.

"Mr. Spielberg, 700,000 US dollars, but it is claimed to be 1 million US dollars!" Li Zhiwen said.

In any case, this price cannot be lowered, and once it is lowered, it will be out of control.

Spielberg remained silent.

"Mr. Spielberg, don't want to go to Hong Kong to find a martial arts instructor to fill in. That is impossible. All the martial arts instructors are my employees!" Li Zhiwen said with a smile.

Spielberg said: "Okay, I agree!"

"Man, you made the right decision, and the future Hollywood will be proud of your decision," Li Zhiwen said.

"Hopefully!" Spielberg said.

"So can we do a global screening?" Spielberg said.

"Oh man, I'm sorry, we have an exclusive contract with Twentieth Century Fox, and the two sides come up with three films a year for global screenings."

"So you can only find 20th Century Fox!" Li Zhiwen said.

"Mr. Li, what if I go to the Universal Cinema?" Spielberg said.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" has investment from Columbia Pictures, which belongs to the eight major Hollywood film companies as 20th Century Fox, so "Raiders of the Lost Ark" will never be released by 20th Century Fox.

"Mr. Spielberg, how do you predict the box office of Indiana Jones?" asked Li Zhiwen.

"Mr. Li, don't talk about surpassing "Terminator", but there is still a box office of 500 million!" Spielberg said to himself.

In fact, if "Terminator" is not a film invested by Li Zhiwen, and now needs a global theater chain, Spielberg even dares to say that it will break the global box office record.

Li Zhiwen smiled and shook his head: "Man, I don't think so, without my martial arts instructor, Indiana Jones 2 may not have exceeded $200 million at the box office, and now my prediction may be $300 million. !"

In other words, in Li Zhiwen's opinion, Li Zhiwen's martial arts team can get 100 million US dollars for the film.

If Li Zhiwen has no good movie ideas, this is a good choice, but Li Zhiwen has too many good choices.

"Home Alone" and "Terminator 2" are very good scripts.

"Home Alone" has the smallest investment and the highest output.

As for another script, Li Zhiwen is going to use Quan Xiangjiang's screenwriters to brainstorm a film to test the waters of the lighthouse country market.

So when there are so many good choices, Li Zhiwen is not too interested in "Indiana Jones 2".

"Mr. Lee, I think your choice is wrong, I'm going to bet with you this time!" Spielberg said.

"I like gambling, what should I do?" Li Zhiwen said.

"If the US box office exceeds 300 million US dollars, then the box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" released in the Universal Cinema cannot be shared by the Universal Cinema," Spielberg said.

"What if the U.S. box office didn't exceed $300 million?" Li Zhiwen asked.

"I don't want the Universal Cinema box office of Indiana Jones 2!" Spielberg said.

"Mr. Spielberg has a good plan, but can you be the owner of the investor?" Li Zhiwen asked.

"Of course, that's for sure," Spielberg said proudly.

Of course, how many of them are brave, and Spielberg himself knows.

"Forget it, I don't want to embarrass Mr. Spielberg, so if the box office does not exceed 300 million US dollars, how about you, Mr. Spielberg, make a film for me for free?" Li Zhiwen said.

Li Zhiwen's thinking is very simple. In this case, it is better to shoot "Jurassic Park" first. Anyway, the novel has not been written yet.

"No problem, Mr. Lee," Spielberg said.

Spielberg wants to shoot "Raiders of the Lost Ark 2" well, use reality to hit Li Zhiwen in the face, and prove his status as a Hollywood director.

"So happy to cooperate!" Li Zhiwen said.

"Great collaboration, but when will the martial arts instructor be in place!" Spielberg asked.

At this time, he was eager to prove himself and let "Indiana Jones 2" be released as soon as possible.

"Three days later!" Li Zhiwen said.

Li Zhiwen wanted to recruit the stunt team and instill loyalty to them.

Seattle Silicon Valley Port SMC Division

Li Zhiwen met Zhang Zhongmou here.

"Zhongmou, how is the situation on HKSMC's side?" Li Zhiwen asked.

"Boss, the situation is very good. Our proposed wafer foundry has been welcomed by many semiconductor companies, and we are currently negotiating cooperation."

"And the factories and equipment on the Xiangjiang side have also been debugged, and the orders from the lighthouse country are ready." Zhang Zhongmou said.

"It's not bad, but foundry is not the ultimate goal. What we need to do is to produce it independently, and the technology will not be too much worse than other semiconductor companies in the lighthouse country." Li Zhiwen said.

Taking advantage of the fact that the mainland and the beacon country are currently in the honeymoon period, and that Hong Kong is still under the control of the United Kingdom, HKSMC will have to update and iterate to complete the qualitative change.

"Yes, boss, at present, the technology research laboratory in Silicon Valley has absorbed many Ivy League students. In addition, I have dug a lot of technical experts from Fairchild." Zhang Zhongmou said with a smile.

"Fairy Child Company!" Li Zhiwen repeated.

"Yes, Fairchild, the semiconductor company's West Point Military Academy!" Zhang Zhongmou said with a smile.

Zhang Zhongmou said this for a reason.

Semiconductors are mainly composed of four components: integrated circuits, optoelectronic devices, discrete devices, and sensors. Since integrated circuits account for more than 80% of devices, semiconductors and integrated circuits are usually equivalent.

Integrated circuits are mainly divided into four categories according to product types: microprocessors, memories, logic devices, and analog devices. Usually we collectively call them chips.

Speaking of the chip, many people may have seen it now. It is a black thing similar to a small box, which is composed of transistors.

Strictly speaking, transistors generally refer to all single components based on semiconductor materials, including diodes, triodes, field effect transistors, thyristors, etc. made of various semiconductor materials. Transistors are sometimes referred to as transistors.

So we can know that transistors are made of semiconductor materials, and chips are made of transistors.

The invention of the transistor can be traced back to 1929, when engineer Lillian Feld had obtained a patent for a transistor. However, limited by the technological level at the time, the materials used to make transistors were not sufficiently pure to make them impossible to manufacture.

In December 1947, a research group composed of Shockley, Bardeen and Bratton of Bell Labs in the United States developed a point-contact germanium transistor.

In 1956, Shockley, Bardeen, and Bratton were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the transistor. Shockley is also known as the father of the transistor.

In 1955, Shockley returned to his hometown of Santa Clara Valley, which is Silicon Valley, and was supported by Beckman to start his own company.

After Shockley founded his own company, relying on his own prestige, he quickly recruited a group of knowledgeable and skilled talents. At this time, we seem to see that a semiconductor business giant is about to rise and stand on the top of the world, but there are always accidents.

Because of winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, Shockley, who was already arrogant and domineering, has become even more solitary.

When the two geniuses, Noyce and Moore, joined Shockley Semiconductor, they actually ignored a detail that was not difficult to notice, that is, the employees recruited by Shockley did not have his former Bell Labs colleagues.

Shockley is a very individual scientist, and it is difficult to work with. Colleagues at Bell Labs are aware of his shortcomings, so that everyone is reluctant to follow him to start a business.

Shockley will focus his efforts on reducing the cost of transistors, rather than developing new technologies. According to his vision, if the price of transistors can be reduced by 5 cents, a huge market will be formed. In fact, this cannot be achieved until after the 1980s, when the world semiconductor market has long been dominated by integrated circuits.

In the second year of the company's establishment, Moore and other seven people couldn't stand Shockley's dictatorial style and planned to "defect" collectively. Before "defection", they persuaded Noyce, the number two person in the company, to go with them.

Contrary to their expectations, Noyce readily agreed, because he too had had enough under Shockley.

As early as 1956, Noyce discovered the tunneling effect of semiconductors, but because of his disagreement with Shockley, the research results were not published. The following year, Japanese scientist Jiang Qi published similar research results for which he won the Nobel Prize in 1973.

On September 18, 1957, eight young people headed by Noyce angrily proposed to resign. Shockley was furious when he learned of it, calling him "eight rebels".

The eight rebels in Silicon Valley are: Noyce, Moore, Blank, Claire, Herney, Rust, Roberts and Greenick.

Noyce, Moore, and others were about to leave Shockley's company to start a new business, but they didn't have the funds.

Claire, one of the eight, wrote to his father's investment manager, hoping to get the investment.

It just so happened that the investor had already resigned~www.mtlnovel.com~ The letter went around, and finally passed to a young investor named Arthur Locke.

Locke was just a traditional property manager at the time, but he was very interested in emerging semiconductors, so he persuaded his boss Coyle, and the two came to San Francisco to meet with Noyce and others.

Because of the hurry, Locke and Coyle did not prepare the contract at all. Fortunately, Coyle's mind turned quickly, and immediately took out 10 one-dollar bills, put them on the table and said, "I didn't prepare the contract, but everyone Signing on this is our agreement!"

Next, the great moment of the information industry came, and 10 people including Noyce, Moore, Locke and Coyle signed the 10 banknotes respectively.

Many of these 10 bills have since been lost, but one of them is kept in the Stanford University library, becoming a historical witness to the birth of Silicon Valley.

According to the negotiated results of 10 people including Noyce and Locke, Noyce and others needed to raise $1.5 million to start a new company to manufacture transistors, which was not a small amount at the time.

After a series of obstacles, Locke finally found the right direction - the Fairchild family, IBM's largest shareholder at the time.

Chapter end

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