On the same day, Huaxin Technology and Texas Instruments exchanged views on issues of mutual concern, such as spectrum analyzers, automatic photoelectric alignment equipment, high-power halogen laser light sources, etc., which are urgently needed by Huaxin Technology, Texas Instruments did not get stuck, and the reply given was that as long as the approval of the Export Committee was obtained, Texas Instruments was willing to reach cooperation in this regard.

Of course, in return, Huaxin Technology agreed that Texas Instruments would enter the Athlon™ CPU Instruction Set Architecture Committee and open up the existing CPU patents, and Huaxin Technology was also authorized to be related to the X86 architecture.

As for the treatment in the committee, the two sides still have differences, and Huaxin Technology's proposal to establish a cooperative research institute was also politely rejected by Texas Instruments.

Wang Anran shook his head, he could clearly feel that Texas Instruments was afraid of Huaxin Technology.

The most hurt is Rebus, as the CEO of Huaxin Technology, he did not succeed in speaking out for the first time.

In fact, the establishment of a cooperative scientific research institution is an idea put forward by Wang Anran, with two purposes, one is to cultivate talents, so that the scientific researchers of Huaxin Technology can understand what the research and development process of the international first-line chip giant is, and the other purpose is to use the software and hardware strength of Texas Instruments to achieve some key scientific research projects.

The biggest reason why duplex and immersion lithography technology are stuck is that there is no high-precision experimental equipment that meets the requirements in China.

And Texas Instruments has, which is also the reason why Wang Anran has no choice but to lick the dog.

As for the other condition proposed by Huaxin Technology, it has sparked a fierce debate within Texas Instruments.

"Huaxin Technology asks Texas Instruments to give up the Asian market!"

Huaxin Technology's explanation for this is: our chip foundry technology is backward and cannot maintain fair competition in the open market.

The marketing director of Texas Instruments shrugged his shoulders and said: "I think we can give up the Chinese market, after all, the entire Asian market is too big, and Huaxin Technology cannot maintain an advantage in the competition with Intel in such a large range." ”

Wang Anran shook his head and said, "No, this is our bottom line, we will not let our achievements be reaped by your Texas Instruments." ”

The negotiations reached a stalemate, and Wang Anran received the news that the FinFET transistor experiment had begun, and he really had no intention of focusing on each other.

The next negotiation was presided over by Rebus, and Rebus was at a loss at the moment, he needed to have an in-depth exchange with the boss, where is the bottom line of Huaxin Technology?

In Wang Anran's car, Rebus wore a suit and gave a serious Q&A: "Mr. Wang, most of the content has been agreed by the two sides, and there are only two more difficult ones at present, one is about the treatment of Texas Instruments in the instruction set architecture committee, and the other is the division of the market." ”

"Mr. Lei, what do you think?"

Rebus said: "Regarding the first article, my idea is that Texas Instruments must agree to the modification or addition of Huaxin Technology's Athlon™ CPU instruction set, and Texas Instruments' modification or addition to the CPU instruction set must be agreed by Huaxin Technology and its architecture committee, which is the principle!"

Wang Anran nodded, the establishment of a cooperative scientific research institution has been in vain, Huaxin Technology does not need to be polite to Texas Instruments on this, after thinking about it, Wang Anran asked: "What about the second one?"

Rebus continued: "Mr. Wang, I have an immature idea, we can ask Texas Instruments to OEM our CPU, in exchange for the market, in addition, we can use Texas Instruments' top 180nm manufacturing process, OEM part of our cutting-edge CPU, which is a manifestation of strength, can greatly enhance the image of Huaxin Technology." ”

Wang Anran's eyes lit up, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said: "Texas Instruments' 180nm manufacturing process has not yet been able to form mass production, and the yield rate is less than 7%, and the price of the CPU chips produced will be unacceptable." ”

Rebus said: "Mr. Wang, the price is expensive, as long as our products are top-notch, there will naturally be a market, I think we can first use it in our graphics workstations, small computer workstations, after all, millions of products, plus one or two million is nothing!"

Wang Anran's thinking has been on the popularization and application, after listening to Rebus's words, I feel promising, but when I think about it, Rebus will not buy the cutting-edge products of Huaxin Technology again, and play the melon-eating masses all over the world, I am also dumbfounded.

Opening the car window, the cold wind hit his face, Wang Anran turned his head and said to Rebus: "This is a 40 million transistor level design, and we don't know the design requirements of Texas Instruments' 180nm process, and the relevant EDA design software layout also needs to be adjusted, which you have to communicate with Texas Instruments." ”

Chip design EDA software is closely related to the chip manufacturing process, so it is necessary to fully grasp the process flow and requirements before further designing the corresponding physical layout and then chip production.

"I know, Mr. Wang, I'll coordinate this matter as soon as possible!"

Half a month later, the agreement between the two parties was finally reached, and Texas Instruments' idea of dominating the Athlon CPU instruction set architecture fell through, and was replaced by a compromise between the two parties.

Both Texas Instruments and Huaxin Technology can develop their own instruction set systems on top of the existing instruction set architecture, but they must maintain compatibility across the entire instruction set architecture system.

For example, MMX, SEE and other instructions containing multimedia processing developed by InteL and 3D NOW! instruction set developed by AMD are different, but they both belong to the X86 instruction set architecture.

In terms of dividing the market scope, Huaxin Technology also got what it wanted, and Texas Instruments promised no less than 200,000 pieces per year, and no less than 30% of its own CPU output, and opened the production capacity of 320nm manufacturing process to Huaxin Technology.

As for the production capacity of the 180nm manufacturing process, Huaxin Technology is not limited.

The outcome of the negotiationsBefore the agreement was reached, Rebus reported to Wang Anran.

"Mr. Wang, I can't figure it out, Texas Instruments didn't hesitate, and agreed to provide us with chip production capacity for 180nm manufacturing process, and it is completely unrestricted. ”

Wang Anran snorted and said, "Do you think they are kind?"

Rebus was stunned for a moment, just now he also expressed his good impression of the generosity of Texas Instruments, and now when he heard Mr. Wang say this, he asked suspiciously: "...... Mr. Wang, this is a 180nm manufacturing process, which is ahead of our manufacturing process of three generations, and they ......"

Wang Anran shook his head and said: "Hey, they are treating us as guinea pigs! The yield rate of your number cannot be commercialized at all, they can improve their manufacturing process by OEM 180 nanometer chips for us, which is equivalent to our Huaxin Technology, and pay for their technological progress!"

Forehead!

"Mr. Wang, do we still want to ......?"

Wang Anran directly interrupted Rebus's words and said: "Why not, they transfer the cost to us, and we will transfer the cost to the Americans, after all, the Americans have a lot of money......

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