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This is already a significant drop.

Especially for heavy-asset companies like Intel.

For example, according to Intel's financial report last year, the annual revenue was $54.2 billion, with a net profit of only $4.4 billion.

If revenue decreases by about thirty percent, next year's revenue will only be over $30 billion, and with that revenue, let alone making a profit, it's highly likely they will incur losses.

In contrast, interest rates in the United States are still maintaining at a high of 4%.

This means that Intel shouldn't continue manufacturing at all, and putting all the money in the bank to earn interest would be more profitable than laboriously developing the industry.

In other words, capital expectations are already low enough; tech giants like Intel aren't qualified to drag down the entire market, they are not worthy.

The same logic applies to NVIDIA.

Shouting out slogans like "make A great again" is easy, and fast talkers might even shout it twice in a second, but achieving it is challenging.

Huaxia has a weight of favorable conditions but still finds implementing a series of AI initiatives extremely difficult, needing to overcome a host of hurdles. Not to mention Amelica, which has been dominating on this small broken ball for two hundred years.

The two hundred years of primitive accumulation have allowed the vested interests to amass countless fortunes, forming various intricate alliances. The complex situation where a slight change can affect the whole, means that any change could lead to many unpredictable changes and pushbacks.

Many see through all this, but being amidst it often leads to losing reason. Of course, it might also be that history is too short, leaving many experiences from inter-dynastic era changes unrealized without a direct encounter.

In short, the clever people have already realized the crisis, but the response at the top remains slow. It's contradictory without a better way. After all, many blinded by greed are still thinking about how to carve more flesh out of this decaying body.

Just like smart people such as James Sterling.

Even if the currency system denominated in US Dollar truly collapses, James Sterling wouldn't care. Because he believes there's ample time to convert the currency into more value-preserving assets. As long as it can buy him a free and beautiful life for the rest of his days, why not sacrifice the entire nation?

This kind of thinking is good, might as well think more about it.

So, James Sterling thinks a lot and indeed sees many things from this unusual stir.

In the past, if the Xilin Institute of Mathematics was to be described in one word, it would be low-key, very low-key, in the eyes of this operator.

Even Dou Dou, although active online, has hardly been so active offline. When something unusual happens, it means something peculiar is going on, so the high profile of Xilin announcing Dou Dou's participation in this launch event highlights their emphasis on it.

Economic benefits? Impossible!

It's well known that Xilin's AI system controls material models, and by this means, controls the export of a series of new materials.

According to James Sterling's understanding, just from this alone, Xilin can earn considerable profits from foreign trade every year, and it's net profit. Not to mention the cash flow brought by Group Wisdom by that invisible helmsman Qiao Ze of Xilin.

So it's impossible to be about economic benefits.

As for technological development? Well, even more impossible.

Xilin doesn't need to prove anything in this domain again.

Not just because of Xilin's smart city construction, but more due to the status of Xilin Institute of Mathematics in the whole science and technology industry. Yes, it's not just academia, it's the tech industry.

Whether it's already proven material models, photolithography factories, still speculative collider technology, or the perfect implementation of smart cities, all are evidence of Xilin's power in technology export.

So the truth can only be one!

Xilin's emphasis and the high-profile promotion of this Youwei Group's product launch indicate that they're about to reveal something.

Yes, James Sterling's intuition is so strong that it kept him excited and sleepless all night, continuously watching this livestream, more steadfast than the most devoted Dou Dou fans. Of course, mainly he hopes to analyze more things from Dou Dou's few words.

But nevertheless, when the first ray of sunlight lights up Manhattan, James Sterling has already begun to set up, rushing early into the office, where countless messages speed through radio waves.

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Let alone, since the funds amounting to hundreds of billions were gathered to his hands, it's already started to quietly set up numerous positions, acquiring many chips.

Recently, a series of futures accounts set up by the fund have been continuously selling various index futures contracts, like the S&P 500 Index, NASDAQ 100 Index, Jones Industrial Average, etc. At the same time, many inverse ETFs have been bought for these indices.

Today, he's going to sound the horn for the full assault!

He believes that by early morning tomorrow, after the Youwei product launch and the so-called good news announced by Dou Dou, it will undoubtedly bring about a profound panic, thereby rewriting the logic of the entire world's financial investment and asset allocation.

"Trust me, sir, this time we're going to make a huge profit. All prosperity needs a foundation, otherwise it's just false prosperity. And ours is built upon the ocean! I have a hunch that this Youwei Group's product launch is about more than just graphics cards.

Yes, it's about that artificial intelligence. If you understand it enough, you'll know. Whenever it starts to warm up to a particular message, it tends to announce some major news favoring Huaxia! This time, nothing could be more exciting than the ocean topic! Yes, sir, I am very sure!

"What? You've also received some news and noticed unusual movements? Someone's doing the same thing as us? Damn! I knew it wouldn't be that smooth. Huh... alright, I understand, I'll try to handle it!"

James Sterling hung up the phone, feeling an immediate headache!

Sure enough, he's not the only smart one. But don't these big names love their country?! Don't they realize that if everyone plays like this, it will be a disaster for the US stock market? Don't they remember the Great Depression, and how terrible the consequences were if a financial crisis is triggered?

Especially since the US stock market is at such a high point now. If things really go astray, the consequences are beyond imagination.

James Sterling closed his eyes to think carefully.

Originally, he didn't want to touch the bond market.

After all, if he really moved on the idea, who knows what chain reactions would emerge. But now with more competitors, it doesn't matter much anymore. After all, there are just so many chips, dumping a massive amount of short orders suddenly would only advance the explosion, benefiting no one.

Even though he handles only that over hundred billion fund, from the call just now, James Sterling is almost certain that the company has already invested a far larger sum.

Evidently, the big bosses have far more sources of information than he does.

He just hit the right time and place, while probably the big bosses have more credible information. No wonder the meeting with the higher-ups went so well, practically with no extra scrutiny, giving him the opportunity to showcase his talents.

So after thinking about it, James Sterling found he actually has no choice.

If he doesn't get involved, others would, so since everyone's bound to get involved, might as well let the excitement be bigger. After he becomes a billionaire, it would be best to temporarily leave this country to lay low elsewhere.

After all, these actions would definitely leave the higher-ups displeased with regulation. Morgan has always maintained a close and pleasant cooperation with regulation, yet after this, keeping that same relationship would be hard.

Exhaling deeply, James Sterling tossed all those miscellaneous thoughts behind.

His gaze gradually firmed up, maybe only through destruction can there be construction!

Not to mention there's no turning back with a drawn bow, now it's too late to think of these, only according to the plan, fully committing to it, not seeking to earn the last penny, but the set goals must be achieved.

His demands are actually not high, as long as the fund he controls can earn a 30% return this time, it would suffice.

Don't think 30% is unachievable, for a fund of a billion scale, achieving a 30% return in just half a month is an operation akin to divine intervention.