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"Schindler's List" will include some stories of He Fengshan, which Henry specially used to win the favor of the Chinese government, so Henry thought about it and felt that investing in his personal capacity seemed to be more effective!

Henry imagines a five-minute easter egg at the end of the film about Schindler's rescued Jews who meet other Jews, and then learns from him that there is a Chinese in Vienna named Ho Fengshan who has saved countless Jews like Schindler......

This easter egg is just like a micro-movie, with a movie title called "Life Visa", and it also has a plot!

Henry told Spielberg about the idea, and when he heard it, he immediately agreed, "Mr. Williams, this is a great idea!"

"Mr. Williams, do you mind mentioning your name when the easter egg appears? Oh, you know, the whole story of He Fengshan was thought of by you, and you should be the screenwriter of this story!"

I can't ask for it!!

Henry laughed inwardly, "Oh, I'd love to, Director Spielberg!"

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If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools.

Henry wants to build the strongest movie special effects company, and naturally computers are indispensable. At present, Pixar Studios, as well as ILM and Galaxy Special Effects, all use graphics workstations, and they use SGI's graphics workstations.

"Toy Story," "Jurassic Park," and more were all made on SGI's graphics workstations!

In his previous life, James Cameron wanted to shoot "Titanic", so he let his special effects company, Digital-Domain, use more than 300 SGI super workstations, and send more than 50 stuntmen to work on it 24 hours a day, and finally succeeded in producing the most shocking movie effect!

Speaking of SGI, it's awesome, although it is not as famous as IBM and HP, but its products and technologies have an irreplaceable position in the field of graphics and high-performance computing!

SGI's full name is Silicon-Graphics. Founded in 1982, SGI is a leading provider of high-performance computing systems, complex data management, and visualization products that provide visualization workstations with supercomputing capabilities. Far behind its competitors, SGI has more than half of the world's 500 largest supercomputers!!

SGI is now acquiring MIPS, a well-known RISC chip processor design company!

In fact, the MIPS architecture was born a few years before ARM, and the gap between MIPS and ARM was not big at first. Even if Henry did not join ARM, the former also accounted for about 30% of the RISC architecture microprocessor market, but in the later development process, especially in the mobile field, MIPS began to gradually fall behind, technical limitations led to its inability to meet the needs of the public on mobile devices, and the academic development style also made the business process of MIPS far behind ARM, so MIPS was quickly defeated by ARM! However, despite this, MIPS is the company that is most likely to break ARM's monopoly position in the future in terms of RISC architecture!

MIPS holds a number of patents on the RISC instruction set. If Henry can buy it and then merge with ARM, it can basically be said that it has a monopoly on the RISC architecture market, and it is impregnable!!

Williams Electronics' acquisition of SGI Silicon Map and MIPS would be a great deal!

Noah's Ark, a subsidiary of Williams Electronics, develops servers, but usually, those who do servers can actually make workstations and supercomputers. SGI's Silicon Chart is the perfect way to bolster Noah's Ark!!

The CEO of Williams Electronics is Harrison, the former CEO of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, and his power has been increased after the company's reorganization. Cisco, Noah's Ark. Qualcomm and ARM are both subsidiaries of Williams Electronics!

Henry immediately notified Harrison of the acquisition of SGI and MIPS!

After receiving the order, Harrison did not dare to delay and immediately organized personnel to make a formal acquisition request to SGI and MIPS!

SGI and MIPS were negotiating to annex MIPS, but they never thought that Williams Electronics would ask them to acquire it. It's a big fish laughing at. The food chain rule of small fish eating dried shrimp!

SGI went public in 1986 and is currently worth around $1.8 billion!

The market capitalization of MIPS is much less, and it can be acquired for two or three hundred million dollars!

As soon as the news came that Williams Electronics was going to acquire SGI, SGI's stock price immediately rose! Obviously, SGI would only be acquired if it had value!

In fact, the workstation space is super competitive, with IBM, DEC, HP, SUN and other large companies, while SGI is currently only winning with graphics workstations, with the largest market for computer drawing and animation, as well as film special effects, and not enough in other areas!

Unlike SGI, Williams Electronics has a lot of money, SGI negotiated with MIPS for a long time, and was only willing to buy it for $15 million, but MIPS wanted $20 million, and it was at a stalemate for a while, and Williams Electronics came to the door and directly offered $20 million, and MIPS immediately knelt down!

The agreement was signed the next day, and a press conference was held to announce the matter.

After Williams Electronics acquired MIPS, it directly merged MIPS into ARM, however, ARM established an ARM framework department and a MIPS framework department within ARM! The main research and development of the ARM framework department is embedded, and the MIPS architecture is aimed at constituting various workstations and computer systems, which just fills the shortcomings of ARM in the early stage of development!

Compared with CISC CPUs, RISC CPUs simplify the instruction system, and the performance of CPUs using RISC architecture is much higher than that of CISC CPUs at the same frequency. This kind of RISC server is expensive, the system is closed, but the stability is good, the performance is strong, mainly used in the core system of large enterprises such as finance and telecommunications! Henry builds a huge data center, is using this kind of RISC server!!

However, in the face of the behemoth Williams Electronics, SGI Silicon Chart could only express its helplessness! At this time, many shareholders within the company agreed to sell the company to Williams Electronics!

First, Williams Electronics invested $1.5 billion to acquire 70% of the shares of SGI, and second, Williams Group is the largest customer of SGI, accounting for more than 40% of the orders!

Williams Electronics' acquisition of SGI is equivalent to Williams Group's acquisition of SGI, in case of offending customers, SGI's biggest customers will definitely go to their competitors!

(To be continued.) )