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Shuangqing City, Jingya Court.
It was close to midnight.
Shi Lei sat in front of server No. 1 and looked at the various reports about AMD's acquisition on the screen. He instructed Izur to prepare to acquire AMD's shares at a high price.
Currently, Dream Entertainment held 48.14% of AMD's shares. They were only 1.87% away from having absolute control of AMD. They could convene a shareholders' meeting and force AMD to make any decision.
This included disbanding the current management, moving the headquarters, and even dissolving certain projects. All decisions related to the company's future could be carried out by the shareholders who had absolute control of the company.
It was only 1.87% of the company's shares. Even if the price was as high as 10.0 USD per share, it would only be 135 million USD at most.
Even if it was 20.0 USD per share, it would only be 270 million USD.
Shi Lei had prepared 3 billion USD for the acquisition of AMD. In addition, he had earned more than 800 million USD from the first round of speculation on AMD's shares. Shi Lei did not use much of the USD that he had prepared.
Based on the price of 20.0 USD per share, the acquisition of the remaining 1.87% of AMD's shares would allow Dream Entertainment to hold 50.01% of AMD's shares. The total cost would be about 1.157 billion USD.
It would only occupy 30.45% of 3.8 billion USD.
Even if they acquired AMD, there would be a buy-one-get-one-free discount. Holding AMD's shares would mean they would have to bear 1 billion USD of debt.
The remaining funds would be enough to pay off the debt and acquire the other 49.99% of the company's shares.
Indeed, after Dream Entertainment acquired 50.01% of AMD's shares, AMD's shares would soar.
But what if it was not Dream Entertainment that acquired AMD?
Moreover, if the force that acquired AMD immediately made some 'foolish' decisions after taking over AMD, wouldn't AMD's share price plummet?
Moreover, once Dream Entertainment acquired absolute control of AMD's shares, wouldn't they be able to create the conditions for delisting?
In Lijian Province's Nasdaq Stock Exchange, there were very strict conditions for delisting.
Once the company failed to meet the listing criteria, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange would notify the company to be delisted.
If AMD was delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange, the stocks in the hands of fixed investors would be faced with three choices.
First, if AMD's shares enter the agency stock transfer system, which is commonly known as the third board market.
Then, the shareholders would be able to choose to place their shares on the third board market and auction them off according to the lowest amount.
If the delisted shares did not enter the agency stock transfer system, the shareholders could wait patiently and hope that the listed company would continue to be listed after the restructuring, or wait for the shares to enter the agency stock transfer system for the transfer of shares.
Generally speaking, companies that voluntarily delisted would not be listed again.
Waiting for it to be listed again would be a huge trap!
The last option was to do nothing and keep the shares in their hands.
This kind of choice was the worst because this kind of choice could cause the stock to become a pile of waste paper, and not a single cent could be recovered.
Most shareholders would choose to trade on the third board when faced with a situation where their stocks were delisted.
After all, being able to recoup some of the losses was more or less a consolation.
If AMD's shares were to be delisted, they would definitely be traded on the third board and would not be listed again.
In the eyes of a discerning person, it was clear that AMD was being maliciously acquired. If they did not choose to sell AMD's shares on the third board market, they might not be able to recover a single cent.
Shi Lei intended to purchase the last portion of AMD's shares at a sky-high price. Once the purchase was completed, he would have absolute control over AMD's shares. Then, he would carry out an internal share transfer and transfer all the shares into one account. This would force AMD to be delisted from the NASDAQ stock market.
In the end, he would use the delisting method to achieve his goal of fully acquiring AMD and turning AMD into a wholly owned subsidiary of Mirage Technology, and not a holding company.
"Sir, what's the highest price you can accept?" Izur asked Shi Lei.
As an advanced pseudo-artificial intelligence system, although Izur was very 'smart', he did not have the ability to create, nor did he have the ability to make logical judgments based on human subjective intentions.
Izur's logical judgments needed to be limited by rules. As the system administrator, Shi Lei had to set the judgment standards for Izur in advance.
For example, as the main system of the Hero's World, Izur had already set the internal rules of the Hero's World, including the concept of good and evil, legal provisions, and so on.
Once a player did not conform to the rules of the Hero's World, as the main system, Izur could judge whether the player conformed to the rules according to the predetermined standards.
Even when Izur disguised himself as Qin Lan and helped Mu Shuang acquire AMD's shares, there were limited rules, and those were the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
Without these rules and without learning how to operate Mu Shuang, Izur would not have been able to acquire AMD's shares on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange.
This time, the order that Shi Lei gave to Izur did not give any specific restrictions. Izur immediately asked Shi Lei what the highest price could be.
"No more than 20 USD per share. Make your own decision.
If the price is more than 20 USD, contact me directly. "Shi Lei gave a sky-high price.
Even though AMD's shares were very popular on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, the current real-time share price did not exceed 6.0 USD per share.
The acquisition price of 20.0 USD per share was equivalent to a premium of more than 330%!
There was probably no acquisition case in the world that could exceed this premium, right?
Even if there were similar acquisition cases, the acquisition price would definitely not exceed AMD's acquisition case.
“Yes，Sir。
The order has been received and is being conveyed to Mu Shuang and Xiao Bo. "Izur responded to Shi Lei.
The current acquisition operation was basically carried out by Mu Shuang and Xiao Bo. Izur had no use for it.
Izur was more suited to carry out simple and multi-threaded tasks rather than subjective tasks.
After Izur conveyed Shi Lei's order, Shi Lei's phone rang a few minutes later. The caller ID showed that it was Mu Shuang.
Shi Lei pressed the answer button and Mu Shuang's voice immediately came through.
"Shi Lei, I just received a message from Qin Lan. You ordered us to acquire AMD's shares at 20 USD per share?" Mu Shuang's tone was filled with doubt.
"Yes, that's right!" Shi Lei answered affirmatively.
"Shi Lei, acquiring AMD's shares at 20 USD per share? Are you crazy?"
Mu Shuang was puzzled. "As long as we wait patiently, we will definitely acquire the remaining shares."
"Mu Shuang, did you see the news report from Lijian Province?" Shi Lei asked. "Our acquisition plan has been exposed by Lijian Province's media.
Intel and Lijian Province's government have already come out against us.
If we don't act now, I'm afraid we won't have another chance soon! "
"What?" Mu Shuang's voice was filled with surprise.
"Exposed?
How did our acquisition plan get exposed?
Is there a traitor in our company? "
Shi Lei did not know whether to laugh or cry. "Mu Shuang, do you really think the other party is a fool?
AMD's share price is fluctuating abnormally. Even an outsider like me can see that there is a problem. How can an insider like you not understand it? "
In fact, Mu Shuang was just blinded by the situation.
Mu Shuang had seen Izur's operation plan and misjudged Izur's power. She thought that Izur would not attract attention by distributing the shares among more than 400 accounts.
But that was impossible!
Mu Shuang thought for a while and took the initiative to apologize. "Shi Lei, I'm sorry. I didn't realize this problem. I'm very sorry."
"It's okay. It's not a big problem. As long as we can obtain absolute control of AMD's shares, everything will be worth it." Shi Lei comforted Mu Shuang. Mu Shuang had done well enough. He was not dissatisfied.
"Mm, I understand. We will definitely obtain absolute control of AMD's shares." Mu Shuang said firmly.
"I'll wait for your good news!" Shi Lei replied with a smile.
After ending the call with Mu Shuang, Shi Lei placed his phone on the computer table. He rubbed his eyebrows and thought about how to deal with the Lijian Province's government.
Acquiring absolute control of AMD's shares was only the first step.
Facing the suppression of the Lijian Province's government would be the second test.
Intel might even take back AMD's authorization of the X86 framework.
If Intel really did that, Shi Lei had to be prepared to develop an API for the Hero's World based on the AMD64 framework.
Otherwise, what was the use of acquiring AMD?
The last problem was not a big problem.
Shi Lei had a prototype of a system based on the AMD64 framework. With Izur's cooperation, it would not take much time to complete.
The only problem was that facing the suppression of the Lijian Province's government might bring some trouble to Dream Entertainment.
Of course, if Shi Lei was willing to give up some benefits, it was not impossible to avoid the Lijian Province's interference.
"Sir, the number of people registered for the Hero's World has increased. In the past five minutes, the number of people registered has increased by 2,360,000.
Currently, the number of people registered is maintaining a rapid growth. "
While Shi Lei was thinking, Izur reported a piece of exciting news.
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