In fact, there will be no big difference between Zhou Shi's international version of "Ant Forest" and Alipay's "Ant Forest", and the so-called low-carbon life is barely a lofty excuse. However, there are many people who like this excuse and are willing to follow it.

Yahoo Pay is negotiating with utilities across the United States to provide them with payment services, other phone bills, credit card repayment, and other movie tickets, group purchases, and online local consumption. Of course, its main function is to attach itself to Yelp, Lyft, etc., and provide services for them. If you really want to have the influence of Alipay, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve, at most it will reach the level of WeChat payment, uh, it seems to be very difficult. On December 12, Yahoo held a MIPS open source architecture cooperation conference in Silicon Valley, attracting most of the world's well-known high-tech companies to participate. These include Microsoft, Apple, Google, F&F, Oracle, Intel, IBM, AMD, Tesla, Nvidia, BAT, Huawei, Time Friends, MediaTek, etc., as well as a large number of technology workers who want to start a business in this direction. Zhou Shi personally presided over the meeting.

"To be honest, I don't know how significant the open source of MIPS architecture is, I only know that it is difficult for existing chips to meet the needs of artificial intelligence, unmanned driving, cloud computing big data centers, etc. I don't know if MIPS can succeed, but this matter ultimately depends on everyone's joint efforts......" Zhou Shi called on everyone to jointly create a good MIPS architecture ecosystem at the conference. In order to prevent the product from becoming so fragmented that it loses its competitiveness, MIPS engineers had a lot of discussions with Yahoo Research and Yahoo Brain members, and later had a lot of exchanges with Microsoft, Google, and Apple. The draft has been changed several times and delayed for a long time, which has now achieved a relatively perfect result.

Zhou Shi doesn't know exactly how to open source, but he knows that Yahoo maintains the leading power over the development of this project, and of course, the final right to speak needs to be decided by contribution.

With the official open source of MIPS, the market reacted immediately, and the most affected was obviously ARM, and the stock prices of Intel and AMD fell in response. In contrast, Yahoo's stock price rose, and its market capitalization finally exceeded $50 billion. There was a heated discussion about this.

"Mobile Internet, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, a classic open-source chip architecture can do a lot, the only question is why this is not done by Google, but by Yahoo, which is short of money. ”

"Can Yahoo really lead the way, and will they be dragged down by their own finances?"

"Microsoft, Google, and Time, the three major mobile operating systems, announced support for the MIPS open source architecture, will ARM disappear?"

Yahoo has made the MIPS architecture open-source, and it is ARM that is most affected, not American companies such as Intel, which has been widely praised by the academic community, including the business community, and is almost destined to give birth to a group of companies that do open source architecture chip design in Silicon Valley. It's just that the British are very tired of Yahoo's decision, in fact, from the time Zhou Shi released the rumor to open source, up to now, they have done a lot of work. It's just that open source is good for all countries, and the biggest loss is a specific enterprise, and at this time, it is obviously not appropriate to trouble Zhou Shi simply for commercial interests. There is another view of him in China!

"The open source of MIPS architecture has given Loongson and other enterprises a broader space for development, and Huaxia has a greater possibility to break the monopoly of Intel chips. ”

"This is the guarantee of the security of the Chinese industrial revolution, and we should vigorously develop ......"

"What is Yahoo's purpose in doing this? Is it really for the safety and security of China's information industry? Let's see how Yahoo's stock price has moved since Yahoo first announced the open source of the MIPS architecture at the beginning of the year......

MediaTek, a company that has been declining due to the strong rise of Spreadtrum Communications, has also been given a respite, and their chairman has also gone to Silicon Valley to express strong support for the open source of the MIPS architecture, and MediaTek's stock price has risen as a result.

You must know that at this time, Texas Instruments, Marvell Electronics, Nvidia, STMicroelectronics are still in the mobile phone chip market competition, the smartphone market is in the ascendant, and various mobile intelligent terminal products are emerging, although the artificial intelligence exclusive chip is not yet visible, but now the potential shown is enough to attract people IPS architecture mobile phone chips will definitely appear, whether it can replace the ARM architecture chip is hard to say, in short, it will not be defeated very badly. Time, Friends, Alibaba, Baidu and other companies can ensure that it will not lack applications in China, and there are also F&F, Amazon, Youtube, Twitter, Time and Yahoo in foreign countries to make special optimizations for the MIPS architecture. It can be said that whether it is entertainment games or social audio, MIPS is destined to achieve a good market share as soon as it is born. In 2013, Nut will definitely produce and sell MIPS chip architecture smartphones in small batches, and in 2014, Guoke will also launch mobile phones based on MIPS architecture. With its strong market share and brand appeal, Yahoo's MIPS success is almost certain, but it doesn't make much profit.

"If Yahoo fails in the end, it doesn't matter, if Yahoo's own layout and business can be successful, our contribution to the open source industry will become an attraction for our talent. When I first arrived, Yahoo didn't have any appeal to senior talent compared to Microsoft, Google and Facebook, so to speak, and we had to pick up what they were left over. But since I invested in artificial intelligence, developed Yahoo Brain, invested in the open source cloud computing industry, supported the open source cause, and acquired MIPS this year and open sourced it. Yahoo's attraction to talent has greatly increased, now at least it will not be worse than Facebook, our attraction to talent is not mainly from employee compensation, Yahoo does not have the financial strength and Google and Microsoft at this time than employee benefits. Now Yahoo's biggest attraction to them, in addition to artificial intelligence, is probably open source. The reason why Time can succeed in the United States is that the MYSQL database, Chrome browser, and Time Android system are largely due to open source. Zhou Shi explained to Liu Chuanzhi, who came to Silicon Valley, what was the reason for his actions at Yahoo.

"From the time you bought Yahoo, I didn't know how you were going to break the game, and at first I thought it would change the direction of Yahoo and let Yelp replace Yahoo. I didn't expect it to be not, I heard that you wanted to give up Yelp at that time. Later, I saw that you invested heavily in artificial intelligence, thinking that you wanted to gamble in this direction, but I didn't expect it to be wrong! You are actually for talents, it seems that I am really old, and my pattern and bearing are not as good as you!" Liu Chuanzhi

"Why do you say that, the final competition of an enterprise still depends on strength in the final analysis, and my approach is a bit biased, and it may not last long!" Zhou Shi

"Why are you arrogant, you don't know and think you're bragging, the competition between companies is still a competition between people, and the outside world now has a high level of trust in Yahoo's management team. It can be seen that your practice in the past two years has been recognized by everyone. Liu Chuanzhi

"This is the ...... I hoped for," Zhou Shi