Immediately after reaching a collaboration agreement with Huawei.
These companies couldn't stop expanding. Waving huge piles of cash, the three companies crazily acquired businesses on their shopping list, filling out the entire map of technology research, and development and production.
Of course.
Not all companies were acquired.
Because Huaxia, as the "world's factory", wasn't just bluffing. They were tough in the low-end technology field, but the future technologies and high-end manufacturing represented by these three companies were too costly to buy and revamp.
As a result.
Most of the funds invested in high-end manufacturing were used to buy land and build factories, while low-end manufacturing would buy off-the-shelf.
Good quality companies were not easy to buy, and probably not suitable even if bought. Hence, whether it was labs or factories, the preference was to build their own, acquire secondarily, and partnership investments were third.