After arriving in California, Pell immediately contacted Jim Keller and explained her intentions.

Jim Keller has also been looking for a suitable company recently, and has even made initial communication with a chip company, but he has not yet confirmed that he wants to join.

After receiving Pei'er's call, he was also slightly surprised.

Peier reported that she was a Star Electronics Holding Company, and she had no concept of this Star Electronics and Jim Keller.

But when Pell talked about the company's three brand divisions, he immediately knew which company it was.

This is a tyrant company from the East!

The acquisition of IBM's personal computer business by Yu Wenfei in the previous period also caused quite a stir in the United States, and Jim Keller, as a practitioner in the IT industry, has of course heard about it more or less.

It is said that this person is not only super rich, but also has a wide range of contacts on the American side.

Otherwise, the Foreign Investment Review Board would not have approved the acquisition so readily.

However, isn't this company in the branded computer business?

Why do you want to meddle in the chip industry again.

Although a little puzzled, Jim Keller readily agreed to meet and chat, who would refuse a rich and powerful company.

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In Silicon Valley, in a quiet café, Yu Wenfei met the legendary "Silicon Immortal", Jim Keller.

Jim Keller is only in his early thirties, with a tall, muscular build, a bushy beard, a dashing mid-parted head, and a big smile on his face, which doesn't look like a technician.

"Hello, Mr. Yu Wenfei, I have admired the name for a long time. ”

When facing Yu Wenfei, Jim Keller was not arrogant, and he spoke quite respectfully.

He warmly stretched out his hands and greeted Yu Wenfei.

Although Yu Wenfei's age is much younger than him, he can't be proud of Yu Wenfei's net worth.

"Hello, Mr. Jim, may you sit down and have a cup of coffee?"

Yu Wenfei stood up with a smile and shook hands with him, greeting.

"Black coffee, thank you. ”

Once seated, the café waiter quickly brought a steaming cup of coffee.

Jim Keller picked up the coffee cup, but didn't drink it, but asked seriously: "I heard Miss Pell say on the phone that Star Electronics is going to set up its own chip design department, I want to know, is it going to develop a computer CPU or a mobile chip?"

This is a person who does technology, just met, and before a few words of greeting and blowing to each other, he went straight to the point.

"Which one does Mr. Jim think is more appropriate?" asked Yu Wenfei with great interest.

However, the desktop CPU monopoly is relatively serious, and if you want to develop it, you must get the authorization of the X86 architecture, which is now in the hands of Intel. But if Star Electronics wants to get authorization, it shouldn't be difficult, your relationship with IBM is so good, they still have a lot of say in authorization.

As for the mobile chip, in fact, it is currently the mobile phone chip, and I think this one has a greater prospect. At Broadcom, I am doing the research and development of mobile chips, and I have a deeper understanding of this. If you want to make mobile chips, the market threshold is not so high, the authorization is easy to get, and although the competition in the market is fierce, no company has an absolute advantage.

Therefore, I feel that with the strength of ZIM, it will have more development prospects when it enters this industry. ”

Jim Keller replied confidently.

In business, he thinks that he is far inferior to Yu Wenfei, but when it comes to chips, there are not too many people in this world who know better than him, of course, he has confidence.

Yu Wenfei nodded, of course he would not step into the quagmire of desktop CPU at this point in time.

Because in that industry, AMD and Intel are highly monopolized!

Moreover, after so many years of computer development, basically all software and hardware are developed around the X86 framework, and any company that wants to enter this field must abide by other people's rules.

Otherwise, do you want a company to develop all the software and hardware involved in the computer by itself?

That's not realistic.

But the mobile chip is different, the market is chaotic, the demand is great, and there is no patent monopoly, as long as you want to do it, you can get a permanent license.

And in recent years, the mobile phone industry has developed rapidly, compared with the computer industry, it is simply a sunrise industry and a sunset industry.

So Jim Keller is very optimistic about mobile chips.

"If we want to develop our own chips, mainly for mobile phones, where should we start?" Yu Wenfei asked.

"It depends on your company's time requirements, if time is tight, I suggest buying a chip design company that should get a permanent license from ARM, hiring more engineers on this basis, giving me two years, I can come up with the industry's top chips!" said Jim Keller dryly.

The method he said was also what Yu Wenfei originally planned to do, and it can be said that the hero sees the same thing.

Yu Wenfei nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Very good, if I hand over the chip R&D department to you, I don't know if you are interested?"

Talking about the key issues, Jim Keller became cautious, and he said: "The investment in research and development of chips is not small, and the salary of technical personnel alone is a big expense, and the cost of each tape-out in the future is even more astronomical." I don't know your company, are you mentally prepared?"

R&D chips are a burning of money, because hundreds of engineers are needed to work as a team, and the salary of such high-end technical talents is no joke.

If the R&D center is located here in Silicon Valley, it can be said that the salary expenses will be as high as millions or even tens of millions of dollars every month!

On a two-year cycle, the cost of wages would be nearly $200 million......

This is indeed not something that ordinary companies can afford, but the R&D team of hundreds or thousands is nothing in front of Intel and AMD, but it is a very high configuration in a mobile chip R&D company.

The goal of forming such a large-scale team is to make the best mobile phone chips!

Yu Wenfei smiled slightly, "I have prepared 300 million US dollars, all of which will be smashed in the chip research and development department, can you give me the world's strongest mobile phone chip in two years?"

Jim Keller's eyes lit up, a technical genius like him wanted a platform that was unfettered and financially backed.

Now that Yu Wenfei has prepared such a platform for him, of course he is satisfied.

"I'll leave the entire R&D department to me, and no one will dictate?" asked Jim Keller.

"Of course, since I asked you to do this, I can trust you, I just need to see the results in two years. Yu Wenfei said boldly.

One is rich and willing to delegate power, the other is talented and ambitious, the two sides hit it off, and the matter is settled.

Star Electronics set up a chip R&D department, with Jim Keller as the department head, reporting directly to Yuwenfei.

The R&D center is located in Silicon Valley, in order to quickly form combat effectiveness, at the suggestion of Jim Keller, Yuwenfei is ready to acquire a mature chip design company, and then expand on this basis.

Build a huge technical team of thousands of people, the goal is to come up with the world's strongest mobile phone chip in two years!

The acquisition of chip companies, the establishment of chip R&D centers, renting or purchasing office space, etc., of course, fall on Zhou Mengyi.

IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT SHE IS ALSO THE PRESIDENT OF TIHKPAD, AND THE THINKPAD COMPUTER BUSINESS UNIT IS ALSO LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES, AND IT IS FORESEEABLE THAT ZHOU MENGYI WILL SPEND MOST OF THE TIME IN THE UNITED STATES.

After explaining the matter, Yu Wenfei was ready to return to China.

Before leaving, Zhou Mengyi sent him to the airport, and before parting, Yu Wenfei said apologetically: "I'm going to work hard for you again, and when the R&D center here is stable, I'll give you a long vacation and take a good rest." ”

Zhou Mengyi smiled nonchalantly: "It's okay, what is this, it's you, it's all about big things, pay attention to your body." By the way, our house is renovated, you can go and live, and find a few housekeepers and servants or something. Don't live in a small company apartment, there's no one to take care of you. ”

Speaking of the house, Yu Wenfei nodded, after the villa in Tan Palace was renovated, he went to live with Hu Jingjing for one night and experienced it.

I have to say that it is indeed much more comfortable than the apartments in the science park.

However, if you move there, it will be troublesome, so you can't live alone.

The villa was very large, seven or eight bedrooms, a dozen rooms, and four floors if you count the basement floor.

If you really want to live there, housekeepers and maids must be on the agenda.

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