The world is like a tide, it is not always so wishy-washy, Yu Jun's departure, poaching penguins, and returning Zhang Xiaolong to his right position can be regarded as a kind of luck in helplessness.

In fact, Yu Jun's going to Baidu is harmful to Yahoo Search, and if Zhou Shi finds a reason not to let him go, Yu Jun has nothing to do. However, he believes that the twisted melon is not sweet, and he hopes to rely on his own strength to defeat his opponent. I also want to know if there is a genius in this world who can turn the tables against the wind! Besides, Galaxy Capital is the major shareholder of Baidu, and if Baidu develops well, Galaxy Capital will also be beneficial!

Continuing to return to his work, Yahoo's various undertakings have entered the regular stage, and he does not need to do much, only fine-tuning. For example, his MIPS open source project, Yahoo is an Internet company, and it is a bit reluctant to do hardware, let alone chip design. The entire team is centered around the original MIPS people, and Jim Keller has expanded the R&D team with the addition of Jim Keller. Yahoo has invested a lot of money in it, but in addition to improving the international status of the MIPS architecture, the output is very limited. Because in the beginning, MIPS was the target of Yahoo Brain and Yahoo Cloud Computing, and then the external market.

Of course, Zhou Shi doesn't want to see this situation, what he wants is to promote the progress of the entire industry, and then rely on first-mover advantage or acquisition or investment, and integrate the market with the help of capital. Large companies often do this, but those companies that have stepped on the node of the times, the founders are very good, and the enterprises that develop at an extraordinary speed can get rid of the oppression of large enterprises.

To put it bluntly, all intellectual property protection may be able to protect the enthusiasm of invention and creation, but the most important function is to protect vested interests. Even if an ordinary team person invents a technology that can change the world, he may lose everything under the encirclement and suppression of capital. To put it bluntly, the stronger the power, the better the protection of intellectual property rights. The most typical is that it is not only difficult for ordinary people to apply for patents, but also it is difficult to register many patents at the same time to form protection. Once the weakness is discovered by large enterprises, it is easy to find a breakthrough, and then fight a lawsuit with the patent owner who is not strong enough, and drag on for a few years, the large company may complete the upgrading of technology, and the small company or individual can only burp!

Yahoo is a big company and definitely supports the protection of intellectual property rights, and in fact, it is time for Huaxia to vigorously protect intellectual property rights. According to the general law reasoning, the stricter the laws in terms of finance and economy, the more difficult it is for people from ordinary families to have a chance to get ahead, which can only say that Yahoo is no longer an ordinary person!

"So what do we do with MIPS?"

Open source has become an important symbol of Yahoo, and MIPS is one of the important representatives. Even if Yahoo doesn't want it, it's not easy to make a move. Of course, Zhou Shi didn't want MIPS, but felt that it shouldn't be wasted by Yahoo. It is difficult for Yahoo to have as much capital as Google in the short term, and it is difficult for human, financial and material resources to support MIPS to become a chip design giant. One of the most important is the lack of concentration! Just imagine, even the company's boss does not pay attention to the project, will the employees at the bottom pay attention to it?

"Separate as a subsidiary, self-financed?"

"Go independent and accept venture capital?"

"Or just sell it!"

"......" suddenly fell silent

Selling MIPS, it's not impossible, Zhou Shi is now taboo-free, as long as it doesn't violate the law and morality, as long as it's beneficial to the company, he can do it. There is no need to care about the evaluation of the outside world.

"We sold MIPS to AMD?" Morse

The Zen architecture is performing well from the published data, and AMD's business prospects are bullish, and its main business scope is computer CPUs and graphics cards. The upper limit of these two industries is limited, and it will naturally have no impact in a short period of time, but if you want to surpass Intel, you must have a new breakthrough. In the previous life, Intel opened up the route of unmanned autonomous driving and found a new way out for itself, while AMD concentrated on the development of PC chips. But forget about the new changes that are coming to the PC market.

In the 5G era, with the emergence of cloud computers, an excellent display with a CPU with not powerful functions but excellent energy consumption control can complete all operations on the PC in the cloud. At that time, not only Intel, AMD will face huge challenges, and Microsoft may also be subverted. A Chrome browser can do all the functions of the current PC era, but what do you need a complex operating system to do? Besides, Office365 is powerful, but other cloud office software represented by Google Docs is not necessarily bad. At this time, Intel and Microsoft have their own new ways out, and only AMD is trapped in a lonely city.

Cloud computing data centers can use chips of various architectures such as x86, ARM, and MIPS, and AMD's advantages through the Zen architecture and advanced manufacturing process may disappear most.

"Let AMD acquire MIPS and open up business in multiple directions such as mobile chips, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving......

It's a win-win for AMD, and we can maintain the right amount of influence in the new company!"

Zhou Shi listened with great interest, and saw that Jim Keller and others did not have many objections, and it seemed that they did not approve of Yahoo's working environment.

"Can AMD buy it with equity? We may be able to give some more cash and control more ......shares," Zhou Shi said

He has always wanted to control AMD, but until now he only has a 19.9 percent stake. If we can break through this restriction through acquisitions......

"You can try!" Morse

"That's good!" "The most fearful thing about doing things is that there is no hope, as long as you know that this thing can be done, and there is hope, then you will succeed for the most part!"

Thinking about the possible changes after AMD's acquisition of MIPS, it seems that a thriving company is about to be born. At that time, high-performance CPUs for PC servers, low-energy and high-performance CPUs for mobile terminal MIPS architecture, artificial intelligence chips, and unmanned driving chips are all industries with huge prospects. It is equivalent to giving AMD a chance to be reborn. Of course, the current strength of MIPS is not very strong, and AMD may not be able to see the world's largest open source chip architecture!

"Our MIPS architecture chip for cloud computing data center has responded well after this period of practice. With the same new energy, we can save 40% of the cost. Yahoo Engineering, Open Computing Program Director

In the future, Google and Amazon will use their own chips in their own data centers, and the reasons for this are worth pondering. There may be a more noticeable difference between generic and dedicated!

"In the next step, we will adopt MIPS chips on a large scale, and our long-term strategic partner Time Cloud also has the possibility of adopting MIPS chips!"

What he meant Zhou Shi understood that MIPS is not without a market, but the important thing is that Yahoo does not have this environment and experience, and it is difficult to do things well!