Age of Dreams

() Shaking his head, Xiao Qi felt that he should not be in a hurry to find Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, and he should do what he was sure of first.

When coming to the US this time, the most important thing is to find Linus and register the patent, and the rest are some things that Xiao Qi inquired about before and can be done with money.

Coming out of Mario, Xiao Qi went directly to the New York branch of arm in the United States.

The arm company headquartered in Cambridge, England, is the one that Xiao Qi asked Cai Mingsheng of MediaTek before, if he could use their technology to develop his own microprocessor.

In fact, arm microprocessors have not yet entered into rapid development, because the era of smart phones has not yet arrived, and the high-precision requirements of microprocessors are not high. Many manufacturers can make them, and arm has not yet reached 2010. In 2010, the chips produced with their technology reached a shipment of 6 billion pieces, so they ruled the world.

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

As a company that is open to selling chip technology licensing platforms, arm is very enthusiastic. When they heard that Xiao Qi wanted to entrust them to design smart chips, a responsible manager appeared in the small reception room.

The manager in his thirties was named Carlos. He had dark skin and was of tropical South American descent. He smiled before speaking, making him look very comfortable.

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

Arm's chips are produced one series at a time, with various floor plans, anatomical diagrams, function introductions, and so on. It's all on the slides one by one, very detailed.

They don't need to play tricks at all. Arm has applied for patents for all these structures and details. In developed countries such as Europe and the United States, anyone who dares to use it without paying will be fined by Zheng Fu so that you will cry "I Never dare again."

After briefly 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 want to buy finished products, you can choose arm6td, Motorola's mid-to-low-end models are widely used now, and they are definitely very useful in the Chinese market, and the price is not expensive. The licensing fee is only US$500,000, and we charge a US$1 patent fee for each chip. enough."

The licensing fee is $500,000, which is very cheap.

But if you charge one dollar per chip, it’s a big deal: to make a million mobile phones, you have to give them a million dollars, and 10 million units is 10 million dollars!

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

However, in Western society, this kind of all-in-one means to make money is often seen.

If you fall headlong into it, you can only blame yourself for being unlucky. No wonder those who set traps, but do not break the law.

Xiao Qi was not as tactful as when discussing business in China, so he immediately refused. "Why don't you give me an ice that can support on-chip breakpoints and debug points? There are also embedded hardware multipliers? Why not 32-bit risc technology? Shouldn't these functions be a popular trend? Or should you say that your arm Don't have the ability to integrate these functions?"

Carlos smiled sarcastically, and was secretly surprised. He didn't expect this extremely young Chinese man to know the latest technology of his company. Just looking at his understanding and proposal of professional vocabulary, he knew that he was definitely an expert in the chip industry.

"Hehe, what you said. That should be the arm7tdmi microprocessor launched by our company this year. The cost of this will be much more expensive. At least three million dollars in licensing fees will be required, and the patent fee for each chip will be three dollars. Although it is a bit expensive, it is definitely superior in quality, and its performance is superior to those recently produced by Nokia!"

Carlos is worthy of being a professional businessman, and with a few words, he turned the embarrassment into the promotion of his own products.

Xiao Qi interrupted his boasting, "Mr. Carlos, the PU graphics processor you mentioned, I think the sgx series of the British Imagine Technology Company is very good, please help me integrate it into the CPU chip. I hope that the final product will not The manufacturing process should not exceed 45 nanometers."

As the manager of arm, Carlos is also a technician. He often receives many weird design requirements. Even after he has negotiated for a long time, he is also shocked by Xiao Qi's conditions.

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

The current smart chip is only a very simple one. Manufacturers usually only require some simple performance, and there is no mention of making major changes to the large architecture.

Because the microprocessor is originally set to be extremely fine, the current manufacturing process can reach 80-100 nanometers, which is already very outstanding, Xiao Qi almost doubles the fineness in one breath, this is because he always claims to be a mobile phone cpu Overlord's arm will also feel very headache.

As for other performances, almost all of them are not compatible with the arm8 series. Carlos has the heart to say that Xiao Qi is messing around, but he knows that because of the mature technology of the arm7 series, even in the main chip It is not as advanced as the arm8 series, but the stability of the integrated effect is definitely much better than the arm8 series.

In addition, although the two companies are based in the UK for the GPU image processor of the British Imagination Technology Company, they are absolutely rivals because they are both making smart chips. , The two have strengths in each other, and they are super strong in the professional field. They want to improve their weak aspects and completely trample their opponents under their feet.

"Imagine Technology Company?" After thinking about specific technical problems for a while, Carlos suddenly laughed, "I don't think Mr. Xiao understands that our two companies are in competition. Arm's CPU chips never use Imagine Technology's GPUs; Their gpu has never been integrated with our cpu, maybe you will be disappointed this trip."