Chapter 87 SOC System-on-Chip

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Two days later, Guo Shouyun began to look for a house in a wealthy area of New York. Now that San Francisco and Los Angeles have a foothold, New York, where Thorn Bird and Phoenix Asset Management are headquartered, is no exception. And, after Rowling left New York, he wasn't ready to stay at the Plaza Hotel anymore.

Guo Shouyun, who likes to be quiet, denied the hustle and bustle of New York's Upper East Side and bought a $18 million, 3.6-acre, 14,400-square-meter luxury estate by the East Hampton Sea. Instead of paying the full amount, he took out a down payment of $3.6 million and made a monthly payment of $56,000.

A 20% down payment and a 30-year repayment period have almost become a must for Guo Shouyun to buy a house now. Because he knows very well that the dollar will definitely depreciate faster than the mortgage rate of 6% per year in the future. And he's also able to enjoy the benefits of house price appreciation. The deal was definitely worth it.

"Boss, the giant company still won't let go, insist on $25 million!"

Guo Shouyun, who was holding his mobile phone, couldn't help frowning. Since Juji Electronics agreed to sell its CDMA department and patents, Qin Zhicheng has been talking to the other party on behalf of Guo Shouyun. After two months of wrestling, the price has gone from $40 million at the beginning to 25 million now. Although Guo Shouyun can afford this money, he can't wait to break a dollar in half and spend it now.

Since writing his book, his royalties have been 19 million in June, 32 million in July, and 45 million in August. But after the three-month sales peak, the monthly sales figures for the original "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Fifty Shades of Grey" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" inevitably began to slip, and despite the additions of "Finding Nemo" and "The Hangover", sales still fell in September. Although the final results have not yet come out, they will basically not exceed the value of 40 million.

Because the time for paying taxes in the United States is April 15, there is still more than half a year before now, so there is no need to be too anxious. So the money can still be completely at the disposal of Guo Shouyun.

However, the royalty income in June and July took out 15 million yuan as the start-up capital for the filming of "Fast and Furious"; 10 million yuan undertook the filming of "Chainsaw" and the publicity and distribution of "Smart Ghost Record"; after 10 million yuan was invested in Guo's Commercial Group, there was only less than 8 million working capital left.

The royalty income in August and September will be withdrawn 30 million each, and Guo Shouyun will draw 30 million funds from the 'Thorn Bird' to invest in Phoenix's 'Thunder Investment Plan' to short Enron.

Therefore, after Guo Shouyun bought a house again, after the investment in buying art in Central Park last time, now he only has about 15 million liquidity in his hand.

After deducting the 5 million that promised William Zhang to short gold, there is only 10 million left. 10 million is 1.5 times short of 25 million. Fortunately, the Matrix game Counter-Strike disc sold well, and in a few months it has generated nearly $50 million in profits. With this money, it is enough to buy the CDMA patent and R&D department of the company.

"Do you think there's room to cut prices?"

"Yes, but not much!"

Nodding slightly, after thinking for a moment, Guo Shouyun turned to ask, "How is the PayPal acquisition negotiated?"

"12 million, I think they're still a bit of a lion's mouth. ”

"12 million is 12 million, don't delay any longer. By the way, after the acquisition is successful, remember to set aside 10% options for the management and key technical personnel!" After frowning slightly, Guo Shouyun quickly made a decision.

The most valuable thing about PayPal is not only its online payments, but also the famous 'PayPal gangster'. The talents who came out of here founded a large number of world-renowned 'unicorn' companies. These include Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technology Corporation, Tesla Inc. and Sun City Inc.; and LinkedIn, which should have been founded by Red Hoffman but is now preempted by Guo Shouyun; followed by the famous YouTube, Yelp, the largest business review website in the United States, Palantir, a data analysis software company widely used by the U.S. government, and Slide, the world's most popular image-sharing website.

These unicorns in the post-PayPal era combined have a combined market capitalization of more than $75 billion.

Moreover, in PayPal there are also elites in the field of investment and hedge funds such as Peter Thiel, Rulof Botha, Pete Thiel and others.

Harvesting a PayPal can not only get the world's most widely used Internet payment company, but also greatly make up for the shortcomings of Guo Shouyun's talents. It is more able to rely on this relationship to intervene in these unicorn companies in advance through angels, VCs, and PEs, so as to earn huge profits and have a deeper influence on Silicon Valley.

Compared to these, $12 million is really not expensive at all, and it is even cheap to death. If it weren't for the fact that the talents who were afraid of PayPal were not as concentrated as later, Guo Shouyun would have started long ago.

"Got it, Boss. What about the Giant Accumulation Company, continue to talk?"

When it comes to the huge accumulation, Guo Shouyun has a headache. Because it not only involves a huge amount of acquisition funds, but more importantly, how to develop after taking over the CDMA patent and R&D department of the company?

Guo Shouyun's ambition is definitely not only the baseband chip, but the entire SOC, commonly known as system-on-chip or system-on-chip.

However, in addition to the baseband chip, the SOC mainly has two parts: CPU and GPU. As for higher integration, SOC with ISP, HIFI, WIFI, and GPS is still a bit early. After all, 3D communication is still in its infancy.

Therefore, the basic factors that determine the quality of mobile phone chips are CPU, GPU and baseband chips.

When it comes to CPU and GPU, we have to thank ARM, which provides public GPU and CPU architecture and IP design, good performance, as long as it is integrated together, it can meet the needs of low-end mobile phone manufacturers. But if Guo Shouyun intends to get involved in the high-end, he must have his own CPU and GPU development capabilities. Of course, the microarchitecture is still ARM, after all, before his rebirth, whether it is Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, or even global chip design manufacturers are using ARM's microarchitecture. However, the IP content under the microarchitecture has to be designed by itself.

For example, ARM's microarchitecture is a rough house, and the layout and appearance have been fixed. IP content is the soft decoration inside, including sofas, wallpapers, furniture, etc. If you choose ARM's IP content, you are choosing a model room, which is beautiful but not necessarily completely functional. If you design your own IP content, it must be the most suitable for your own life needs, and it is the most comfortable to live in.

For mobile phone manufacturers who do not have their own CPU and GPU development capabilities, choose ARM's public architecture and IP content, and then attach a MediaTek cheap baseband chip, and a low-end mobile phone can be launched on the market. At the beginning, Meizu and Gionee in Huaxia did this.

Apple, Samsung, and Huawei are powerful, so they only use ARM's microarchitecture, and all the IP content is developed by themselves, and then integrate the baseband of non-full Netcom, or Qualcomm's baseband chip, which is a layer higher.

Now after Guo Shouyun buys the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji, he is equivalent to Infineon, ZTE and Ericsson in the future, only baseband, but no CPU and GPU, and no mobile phone platform to ensure profitability.

Therefore, at present, the most suitable path for Guo Shouyun is to use the advantages of baseband chips after the acquisition of the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji Company, plus ARM microarchitecture and IP content, to make a low-end SOC first. Make money first, and then slowly develop. As for whether to choose Qualcomm's 'pure SOC' road or Apple, Samsung, and Huawei's 'SOC plus mobile phone' road, there is still time for him to consider.

"No need to delay any longer, sign the contract!"

Although there are no competitors, Guo Shouyun wants to get this matter done sooner rather than later, and then find profit margins for this acquisition.

"Knock...!"

There was a sudden knock on the door.

"Come in!"

"Boss, Professor Fred has arrived!" Wendy Solo pushed the door in.

"You take him to the living room first, and I'll be right over!"

"Okay!"

After she left, Guo Shouyun picked up the phone again, "That's it for the acquisition of the CDMA patent and R&D department of the giant company, and when the acquisition is completed, I will give you a week off." When the vacation is over, I have a new task for you. ”

"Okay!"

"If it's okay, I hung up?"

"Goodbye, boss!"

"Goodbye!"

After hanging up the phone, Guo Shouyun got up and walked to the hanger, took out his coat and put it on, pushed the door and walked out.