Chapter 710 Investing in Loongson
He had children but didn't start a family, and Zhou Shi didn't have the idea of starting a family at this time, he didn't know how his thoughts changed so quickly, as if he was thinking about getting married not long ago. Waiting for idle changes but old people's hearts, but old people's hearts are changeable. The relationship between people is really too easy to twist and turn.
There is no time for the love of children and heroes, this year is a critical year for the outbreak of Zhou Shi's industry, Spreadtrum basically replaced MediaTek, baseband chips, GPU and CPU performance, almost all aspects crushed MediaTek's mobile phone chips, Qualcomm and Spreadtrum have cooperated on GPU before, seeing this phenomenon, this year invested heavily in the acquisition of Imagination. In order to catch up with Qualcomm in the field of mobile phone chips, Spreadtrum is preparing to develop its own chip architecture, that is, to adopt the MIPS open source architecture. Although the specific open source strategy was not well designed, a strategic partnership was reached with Spreadtrum, so Spreadtrum began pre-research after Yahoo acquired MIPS. Abundant orders and high profits have enabled Spreadtrum to carry out various researches.
Nokia and Nut Mobile have reached a cooperation with Spreadtrum to invest in the joint development of chips based on MIPS architecture, which can obtain the right of first refusal. Everyone knows that you can't put your eggs in one basket, and ARM's stock price fell with it. However, the smartphone market exploded in 2012, and ARM's stock price quickly rose back.
The changes are certainly more than that, Apple, which has gained the patent, has a good chance of winning the patent lawsuit against Samsung, HTC has long been defeated and restricted from selling in the US market, and at the same time launched a patent lawsuit against Guohu. Apple, wielding a patent stick, was consciously or unintentionally pushed by Zhou Shi to shake their brand value on social networks. However, even if it is a patent war, Guoke will not be afraid, buying some patents from IBM and Microsoft, and the basic patent reserves of Android in the operating system are increasing, and Guoke insists on R&D and patent investment, including the acquisition of some patents of Nokia, ZTE and Huawei, which is enough to restrain Apple. Although Samsung's mobile phones are strong, they are strong in the industrial chain and sales channels, and the patent reserves in the field of telecommunications are far less than those in the field.
There is a great possibility that Apple and Guoke will finally reconcile, and even if the nut phone is a little worse, there will be no big losses. The outbreak of husks and nuts is obviously not only the rapid rise in mobile phone sales, but also the expansion of the industrial chain. Guoke and Microsoft jointly released a laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed, and began to enter the personal PC market. Although it is not as praised as the mobile phone and the brand, it has also achieved good results.
Nokia and Nut launched mobile phones based on Windows Phone 8.0, the difference is that Nut is only a small batch of attempts, and Nokia is a mobile phone that has launched Microsoft's mobile phone operating system on a large scale. Then the unfortunate thing happened, YouTube, Facebook &Friends, Twitter and Google, which have been adapted to the three mobile phone systems, have not developed apps based on Windows Phone 8.0. In particular, this one is not compatible with Microsoft's previous mobile phone operating system, making it even rarer to adapt to Microsoft's operating system.
"After the market share of Windows Phone phones comes up, let's adapt it!" More than one start-up team said that Windows Phone7 and Windows Phone8 are completely incompatible, purely two operating systems, how do they play?
In this matter, not long ago, when Microsoft was in a close relationship, he decisively stood on Google's side and cracked down on new entrants. You must know that the adaptation priority of Zhoushi's affiliated enterprise APP is Time Android first, Apple IOS second, and Google Android third. If it weren't for the fear of the threat of anti-monopoly law and anti-unfair competition law, this matter would have been more hidden, and Time Android's market share might have been higher. At this time, the market share of the smartphone operating system was basically half of that of Android, and Android was half of Android. Others are niche systems like BlackBerry, Microsoft and Symbian, with a total market share of around 10 percent.
Microsoft has not done much in the Internet era, and the top few websites in the world in terms of traffic basically do not have Microsoft's figure, and they have invested in Facebook before, but after the merger with Friends, although the previous contract is still being fulfilled, Microsoft is inevitably marginalized, and I don't know if they have considered this. An operating system without an app has no future, and the reason why Time Android can do it is because the world's most popular applications are perfectly adapted to this operating system, and before the popularization of IOS, Zhou Shi deliberately postponed the support of major websites for IOS, which led to the patent cooperation between them, and the patent dispute that has been postponed to the present. As for Google Android, it also has its own needs, and Time Android has no chance to unify the overseas market, and cooperation with all parties is indispensable. Microsoft's Windows Phone is not so necessary, and with their arrogance they have not asked for it.
Nut mobile phone is still aimed at the Chinese and European and American markets, a large amount of advertising investment will definitely have an effect, mobile phones at various prices and levels have enriched the market, impacting Samsung and LG's position in this field. Coupled with the launch of Internet mobile phones around the world, the ultimate cost performance, hunger marketing has attracted great popularity at home and abroad. At the same time, nuts launched smart wireless routers and portable WiFi in several major countries and regions, and the sales of a single product reached one million in a short period of time.
Time's Chromebook notebook and Chromecast screen projection artifact also appeared on the market, this notebook focused on learning and education with weakened local functions, although it was not as popular as Google launched this product in its previous life, it still caused a lot of attraction. After all, it has twice the battery life of a regular laptop. This will not be the limit, and when the development of the CPU based on the MIPS architecture is completed, its performance will be even improved. If this product can be recognized, Zhou Shi also wants to launch a Chromebook based on Loongson in China. But that's an afterthought, at least not this year.
"You mean to buy our chips to make cheap notebooks?" Hu Weiwu was extremely surprised
Zhou Shi launched Chromebook not to make money, but for industrial layout, such as promoting MIPS chips, such as helping Loongson develop, etc., as for whether the final result will make money, that's another matter, anyway, it won't lose much.
"It's not a cheap notebook, it's a notebook for focus and learning efficiency, students don't use many functions when they are in the office, but they are delayed by many things, this notebook can overcome these problems very well....." Zhou Shi will not admit that this is a cheap notebook, although in fact there is nothing wrong. Lenovo is too conservative, Chromebook is commissioned by time Lenovo to produce, they actually can't look down on this product, this is also drunk, vision and pattern determine the height of a company, this is really no problem.
"Of course we do, but ......" Hu Weiwu
"Time Holdings is willing to invest in Loongson, but one condition is to actively participate in the MIPS open source architecture organization led by Yahoo. "Zhou Shi
"Yahoo is really going to open source?" Hu Weiwu has always been suspicious of this, including many people who thought it was a gimmick, after all, Yahoo is suing ARM......
"This is a little contribution I have made to the domestic industrial security, I hope you like it, and I hope you don't want to be too narrow-minded, only to expand the entire industrial chain, for the country, for Loongson is the most beneficial. Zhou Shi, there have not been many people and organizations in China who participate in open source projects and make contributions.
"Rest assured, if Yahoo open-source MIPS, we will fully support it!" Hu Weiwu
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