Age of Dreams

Shaking his head, Xiao Qi felt that he shouldn't rush to find Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.

When I came to the United States this time, the first important thing was to find Linus and register the patent, and what was left was some things that Xiao Qi had inquired about before and could be done with only money.

Coming out of Mario, Xiao Qi went directly to ARM's New York branch.

ARM, headquartered in Cambridge, England, was the one that Xiao Qi asked MediaTek’s Cai Mingsheng if they could use their technology to develop their own microprocessors.

In fact, ARM's microprocessors have not yet entered the high-speed development, because the era of smart phones has not yet arrived, and the high-precision requirements of microprocessors are not high, and many manufacturers can produce them. ARM has not yet reached 2010. At that time, the chips produced with their technology reached a shipment of 6 billion pieces so that the world dominated the world.

ARM has two US branches, one in Silicon Valley, the headquarters of the electronics industry, and one in New York, the most developed city in the United States. Both share the same resources. The engineers in the design center are often exchanged, and the technical strength is no less than that of the United Kingdom. Headquarters.

As a company that is open to sell chip technology licensing platforms, ARM has a very enthusiastic attitude. I heard that Xiao Qi wanted to entrust them to design smart chips, and a responsible manager appeared in the small reception room.

The 30-year-old manager is called Carlos. He has a dark skin and is a bit of tropical South American descent. He smiles before he speaks, which makes people look very comfortable.

After a period of courtesy, Carlos turned on the projector and played their company's chip products.

ARM's chips are all produced in series, with various floor plans, anatomical diagrams, functional briefs, and so on. It's all on the slides, very detailed.

They don’t have to play tricks at all. ARM has applied for patents for all of these structures and details. In developed countries such as Europe and America, whoever dares to use it without paying, the government will fine you to sleep and cry, "I’m going to Don't dare anymore".

Slightly introducing the company’s situation and philosophy, Carlos said: "Mr. Xiao, the chips we use for mobile phones are now divided into three series, 6, 7, and 8. If you are buying a finished product. You can choose ARM6TD, This is now Motorola's low-end models are widely used, in the Chinese market is definitely very easy to use, and the price is not expensive, the licensing fee is only half a million US dollars, and then we charge a patent fee of one US dollar for each chip. enough."

The license fee is 500,000 U.S. dollars, which is very cheap.

But if you charge one dollar for each chip, it’s not a big deal: to make a million mobile phones, you have to give them one million dollars, and ten million is ten million dollars!

Besides, Carlos didn't have any good intentions, obviously now the mature technology has developed to the 7 series. Or sell the 6 series chips that are about to be phased out to Xiao Qi, and the price is still so expensive. What is the difference between this and the bad behavior of foreigners selling their retired machinery and equipment to the Chinese at high prices?

However, in Western societies, this kind of all-purpose method for making money is often seen.

If you fall in, you can only blame you for bad luck. Can't blame those profiteers who set traps but do not violate the law.

Xiao Qi was not as tactful as he did when discussing business in China, so he immediately refused. "Why not give me an E that can support on-chip breakpoints and debugging points? There is also an embedded hardware multiplier? Why not a 32-bit technology? Shouldn't these functions be a popular trend? Or can you say that you don’t have ARM? The ability to integrate these functions?"

Carlos smirked and was surprised in his heart. He didn't expect this overly young Chinese to know the latest technology of his company. Just by looking at his understanding and suggestion of professional vocabulary, he knew that he was definitely an expert in the chip industry.

"Haha, what you said. It should be the microprocessor that our company launched this year. The cost of this is much more expensive. At least three million US dollars are required for licensing fees, and each chip patent is three US dollars, although It's a bit expensive, but it's absolutely superb. Compared with the performance of the recent Nokia models, they are better!"

Carlos deserves to be a professional businessman, and a few words turn the embarrassment into the promotion of his own products.

Xiao Qi interrupted his boasting, "Mr. Carlos, what you said is far from enough. I need the main frequency to reach PS, support floating point processors, and support HE. In addition, GPU graphics processors, I think the United Kingdom Imagine that the SGX series of the technology company is very good. Could you please help me to integrate it into the CPU chip. The final product, I hope that the manufacturing process will not exceed 45 nanometers."

As the manager of ARM, Carlos is also a technician. He often receives many weird design requests. He was also shocked by Xiao Qi's conditions after long negotiations.

Now is not the time for the explosive growth of smartphone chips after Apple's success next year.

Today's smart chips are only a very simple one. Manufacturers usually only require some simple performance, and do not say that they will be greatly modified on the large architecture.

Because the microprocessor was originally set up to be extremely fine~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The current production process can reach 80-100 nanometers, which is already outstanding. Xiao Qi almost doubles the fineness in one breath. This is because ARM, which is the overlord of mobile phone CPUs, will also feel a lot of headaches.

As for other performances, almost on the ARM8 series, there are some that are not compatible. Carlos has the heart to say that Xiao Qi is messing around, but he knows that because the technology of the ARM7 series is mature, even on the main chip It is not as advanced as the ARM8 series, but the stability of the integrated effect is definitely much better than that of the ARM8 series.

In addition, the GPU image processor of the British Imagination Technology Company, although both companies are in the UK, because they are both making smart chips, they are definitely rivals. ARM's CPU industry is the first in the industry, and Imagination Technology's GPU is unique in the world. , The two have their own strengths, the professional field is super strong, and he wants to improve his weak aspects and completely step on his opponent.

"Imagine a technology company?" After thinking about a specific technical problem, Carlos suddenly laughed, "I don't think Mr. Xiao, you don't understand that our two companies are in a competitive relationship. ARM's CPU chip, never imagined the technology's GPU; Their GPUs have never been integrated into our CPUs. Perhaps you will be disappointed this time.” (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Support is my biggest motivation.)