After a visit by Ono and Sakamura, Gawain realized that there was a huge risk in being the first person to eat crabs, and that there was a huge risk in making the Red Dragon operating system free and open-source, and he had to find another feasible solution to replace it to help him complete the system tasks.

Although he also hopes to be able to borrow chickens to lay eggs, relying on the promotion of Japanese electricity to change the soup without changing the medicine, the kernel is still the TRON operating system of the Red Dragon operating system to help him complete the task as soon as possible, but he is not a person who likes to build hope on others after all. That is too unsafe for him, and only his down-to-earth efforts and his own efforts to achieve his goals can make him feel at ease.

At this time, Gao Wen thought that unless he was willing to risk being hit hard by American interest groups, it was obviously impossible to rely on pure software promotion programs and promote the Red Dragon operating system with free and open source gimmicks.

But fortunately, to promote the Red Dragon operating system, there is not only one way to go for personal PCs. Just as the Linux operating system can be applied to personal PCs, it can also be derived from the Android system, which can be applied to mobile phones and tablets. The Chilong operating system produced by the system is not a narrow operating system that can only be applied to personal PCs, but can also be used in other fields such as home game consoles, handheld computers, and small computers.

So after finding that the pure software promotion plan could not work, Gawain soon embarked on the road of combining software and hardware. Of course, taking the road of combining soft and hard, the requirements for his own strength will be correspondingly higher.

However, Gao Wen is not a person who is afraid of difficulties, not to mention that just as software development is mainly based on design and programming, the development of intellectual resources is most important, and the hardware field can also be divided into hardware design, which focuses more on the use of intellectual resources, and hardware manufacturing, which attaches equal importance to intellectual resources and industrial manufacturing base.

In the field of hardware, he can go from easy to difficult, starting with hardware design, strategically getting the points that can be easily obtained first, and then concentrating on overcoming the remaining difficult bones, so that he can get the highest score in a limited time.

Soon, he chose to start from the two major aspects of software development and chip design, and divided the people who belonged to the PolyU Computer Club into two groups according to their talents and specialties. Two major business groups of software and hardware were initially established, and Chilong Software Co., Ltd. and Ruilong Semiconductor Co., Ltd. were established accordingly, which were responsible for software development and chip design. Among them, Chilong Software is in charge of Yao Qingge, and Gao Wen himself is in charge of Ruilong Semiconductor.

After the establishment of the two major companies, Gao Wen kept referring to the collected EDA design software, complex instruction set chips, and reduced instruction set chips, consuming the remaining 1000 points, and relying on the system as a gunner, he designed the Ruilong EDA design software, C80 processor and Z1 flash memory chip that belong to Ruilong Semiconductor.

Now that the designed chip is already available, the next step is to choose a foundry to tape it out.

Gao Wen has already planned for this, and for the flash memory chips used in solid-state drives, he will of course use the upcoming 5-micron wafer production line for production. After all, SSDs are a unique technology for today's society, and even if the cost is higher, its huge data capacity will attract some high-end users who don't care about the price.

As for the C80 processor, as the central processing unit of his planned cheap home computer (often abbreviated as FC, also known as home game console), of course, the cheaper the cost, the better, for which he fell in love with the existing 10-micron wafer production lines in mainland China, and planned to use these 10-micron wafer production lines to produce C80 processors for him.

Although wafer foundry was not popular in the 80s, he believes that with today's domestic desire for foreign exchange, he will still help him to produce C80.

To this end, he made full use of his existing identity and contacted the China Institute of Microelectronics under the banner of a scholar from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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Beijing, in the office of the director of the China Institute of Microelectronics

Gao Wen looked at the white-haired and dressed in a plain tunic, and asked him politely:

"Elder Qian, I don't know what I want to do with the cooperation I mentioned?"

After a long pause, he nodded slowly and made a decisive decision: "In principle, we agree. ”

Gawain was overjoyed when he heard this.

At this moment, the old man suddenly changed his words again: "But..."

Hearing the word 'but', Gao Wen's heart couldn't help but sink.

But in the next second, I listened to the old man again: "But Xiao Gao, if you are willing to authorize the architecture design of the C80 processor to our research institute, we will not only cooperate with you, but also provide you with unlimited C80 processors at cost price." ”

Although there is no patent law in China, and capitalism was not practiced in the past, as a person who studied in the United States in his early years, Qian Daoming still understands the technology patent system. And with the strength of the China Institute of Microelectronics, there is no big problem in imitating the C80 processor. After all, they already have experience in reverse research on Intel 8086 microprocessors, and now they have some design materials for the C80 processor given by Gao Wen, so it is even more familiar to do reverse imitation work.

It's just that the country has now opened its doors, and it is necessary to pay attention to a certain international influence in doing things. Unlike the imitation of Intel 8086 chips, it was in 1978, when the country was not opened, and things were still done according to the old ways, and there was no need to care too much about international influence.

It is now 1980, and the state has even established special zones to encourage foreign trade with processing materials and welcome overseas investors to invest in China.

Now Gao Wen is one of the few investors who take the initiative to seek cooperation in China. Whether it is to set an example for later investors, or not to blacken the country's face, he must follow the set of capitalist technology patents and seek technical authorization from Gawain for the C80 chip architecture.

It's just that the landlord's family has no surplus food, so he has no choice but to brazenly use the domestic set as a quid pro quo. (At that time, in order to earn foreign exchange, China often earned foreign exchange at a price much lower than that of similar foreign products, or directly exported its own products at cost price to earn foreign exchange, and the profit depended on foreign trade export subsidies.) ）

Gao Wen, who did not know much about the national situation in the 80s, couldn't help but light up after hearing the words of the old man, and said with great joy: "That feeling is good! With such good conditions, of course I have to agree." ”

When the old man heard this, he couldn't help but blush. His conscience of the older generation of intellectuals made him finally can't help but remind Gao Wendao:

"You've got to think it through. ”

"What's there to think about here. ”

Gawain said as he glanced at the old man strangely.

He dared to find a domestic wafer factory foundry, and he was already prepared that his C80 processor would be copied, and it was already an unexpected joy for him to have unexpected compensation at this time, so what was there to think about.