Hu Yiting came to visit Hu Yiting in the afternoon, and Vice Minister Xiong of the Ministry of Education was familiar with him, after all, he had just received the trophy and certificate of the National Science and Technology Competition for Middle School Students from him not long ago.

Vice Minister Xiong did not hesitate to praise Hu Yiting, and in addition to greetings, his secretary left four bottles of canned fruit and two canned milk powder.

After Vice Minister Xiong left, the condolence group of the computing institute also arrived, and Liu took the head of the trade union to shake hands with Hu Yiting with a smile on his face, and when the chairman of the trade union left condolences and 500 yuan of condolences and left, Liu stayed alone.

"Hu Yiting, Hu Yiting, you have a big problem for me. ”

Liu Suo sat in front of the hospital bed with a wry smile and took out a plastic paper clip from his briefcase.

Hu Yiting smiled and took a closer look.

"100,000 US dollars is not a small amount for an ordinary single patent, but I have a patent package, a total of 89 patents, and Liu Suo's price is being cheated by devils. ”

Liu Suo was unconvinced: "The American Imperial League Company only gave 80,000 US dollars, which is less than the devil." ”

Hu Yiting put away his smile and pointed to the appendix of the contract and said, "I don't know what conditions the Imperial Alliance gives, but Fujitsu can't accept these conditions at all."

You see, Party B has the right to make changes to all the patents and designs assigned by Party A after obtaining the authorization of Party A, and has full ownership of the new patents after improvement.

Do you understand what this means? This means that the devil will be able to apply for a new patent when he goes back and moves my design a little and changes the direction of the route! With the influence of the devil in the world electronics market, he will soon be able to spread out their Li Ghost patents, authorize the market for a large number of fees, and squeeze out my original patents!"

Liu Suo took it for granted and said directly: "Why do they do this? It doesn't make sense, the patents are all authorized to them, and they can use them directly......

Speaking of this, he seemed to wake up a little suddenly: "You mean that they want to use our own patents to squeeze us? This is too unusual, isn't it? Impossible, Fujitsu is a big company, how can it use such a subordinate." ”

Hu Yiting smiled dumbly, sighed and said: "Under the market economy, the benefits are the greatest, and the devil has spent money, of course, he has to think of making up for it, otherwise he will not put forward a fully authorized entry in the appendix at all." You remember, if the IC design asks the other party to give full authorization, instead of just buying the license, it is a conspiracy, and it is to find a way to change the design of the original patent!

Liu's attitude was sincere: "So that's the case, we couldn't design advanced chips before, so I have never handled the patent authorization of IC design, this is the first time, I didn't expect there to be this name in it, but it makes you laugh." ”

Hu Yiting looked at Liu Suo's eyes seriously, and said word by word: "Suffer a loss and grow wise, as long as you don't suffer a loss on purpose." ”

Of course, Liu Suo could hear the meaning of Hu Yiting's words, and his heart suddenly became angry, but he really blamed himself for being inexperienced, so he had to suppress the unhappiness in his heart, and bluntly changed the topic: "I didn't expect you to be so experienced in patents, did you learn from Huachuang Company in Shenzhen?"

Hu Yiting got off the donkey down the slope and said, "Yes, Liu Suo, you also know that I worked in Huachuang?"

"I heard that the THT1062 you designed has won the internal audit of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, and this year's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Science and Technology Progress Award is indispensable for you, and the Ministry of Electronics Industry also appreciates THT1062 design very much. ”

Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Huachuang is a dynamic company, very experienced and energetic in developing the market. ”

Liu Suo nodded, and asked again: "Then if this clause is deleted from the contract, are you willing to sign it?"

Hu Yiting asked rhetorically: "That's why you want to sign a contract with Fujitsu?"

Liu Suo's face turned red: "Hu Yiting, don't get me wrong, I definitely didn't take the benefits of the Japanese to help them speak." You may not know that the major shareholder of Changxiang Group is our Chinese Academy of Sciences, and to put it bluntly, Changxiang Computer is the child of our Computing Institute.

Last year, we imported a PCB printed circuit board production line from Fujitsu to produce computer motherboards, and the cooperation between the two sides can be regarded as very harmonious, but the Japanese side was very unhappy when you made such a fuss at the last technical appraisal meeting, saying that we insulted their dignity and said that they would reconsider the export of our technology. ”

This time, the person who endured the anger in his stomach changed Hu Yiting, and he asked, "What technology?"

Liu Suo frowned, and said with a gloomy face: "14-inch CRT display production line." ”

Hu Yiting said in a deep voice: "What kind of bullshit new technology is this? Except for Japan, no one else sells it?"

Liu Suo frowned and said: "The price of the Japanese is one percent cheaper than that of the United States and Europe, and except for the Koreans, no one offers lower than them." ”

"Then why not Korean?"

Liu said patiently: "The technology of the Koreans is also imported from Japan, and the price is about the same, of course, the Japanese production line is preferred." ”

Of course, Hu Yiting knows that the mainstream trend in the future is liquid crystal display, but at present, the liquid crystal display has not solved the problem of large-size manufacturing, and it is impossible to manufacture the mainstream 14-inch or larger display in the market, even if it is manufactured, it faces extremely high costs, and the dead pixel rate of the panel also directly affects the yield rate of the product. So in the next ten years, CRT big butt monitors will also make money in the market.

The Japanese are blackmailing us, you just have to sue the Japanese, either deliver the goods according to the contract and the agreement, or tear your face, and we will buy the Korean production line. ”

Liu Suo was anxious and said: "How can this be said to change, and it is not a child's house." ”

Hu Yiting said: "If the Japanese want to blackmail us, they won't allow us to change our minds? If you don't earn money, let them die! I said, Liu Suo, can you make your waist harder?"

Liu Suo was silent for a long time: "Then you don't want to authorize Fujitsu anyway?"

"Who said that?"

Liu Suo was surprised: "Then what do you mean?"

Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Liu Suo, what do you say is also the chairman of Changxiang Group, the road must be wider than mine, I want to ask you to do a favor, please go to three or five graphics card companies that have a cooperative relationship with Changxiang, let's talk about cooperation." ”

"Cooperation?"

"yes, co-production of graphics cards. ”

"Production graphics cards?"

"Yes, have you read Wu Shihuan's performance test report? This multimedia chip I designed has powerful 2D3D graphics processing capabilities when paired with any ordinary image processing chip, why can't we build such a graphics card?"

Liu Suo waved his hand and said: "Unreliable! The success rate of your chip's actual yàn chamber tape-out is only 12%, who can afford this cost." ”

Hu Yiting couldn't scold Liu for his brainlessness, but he had to suppress his anger and said patiently: "Our country currently does not have a mature 1 micron process, but it does not mean that others do not, the United States, Japan, European countries, and even South Korea and Taiwan can produce, and at present, the world's chip manufacturing industry has a tendency to shift to Asia, and South Korea and Taiwan, which have no pressure of technology embargo, have benefited the most, especially Taiwan's low cost and can be foundry!"

Liu said: "I have been in contact with the heads of Taiwanese companies in Changxiang, but we have never had any new chips that need to be foundry, so there is no demand for their chip foundry, and the two sides of the strait cannot directly trade at present, and they also need to be re-exported through Hong Kong." ”

Hu Yiting said directly: "My opinion is not to talk directly with the Taiwan side, it is better to find an agent, such as a company like Dimeng or Fujitsu, and let them help us place an order, and we give them the condition that we buy graphics card image processing chips from them." ”

Liu thought for a while and asked, "Why don't you just find a Taiwanese manufacturer?"

Of course, Hu Yiting can't say that I know that the Taiwan Strait crisis will break out in 96, and when the other party says "breach of contract because of force majeure", he can't even get compensation for a single child, and he has delayed business opportunities in vain.

"At present, the internal affairs of the island of Taiwan are in chaos, who knows what will be chosen to come to power next year? If it is an inconspicuous goods, the Taiwan Strait will inevitably be tense at that time, and once the political forces on the island interfere, it will inevitably affect the supply of the other side, so it is the safest way to find a large foreign manufacturer to procure on its behalf, and Taiwan will not dare to offend companies in Europe, the United States and Japan. ”

Liu Suo looked at Hu Yiting in surprise: "You kid still know so much about international affairs? Then I'll try to help you ask." ”

Hu Yiting said firmly: "Don't try it, you have to do it quickly, before 3Dfx releases Voodoo (Voodoo) 3D accelerator card next year, our chip is the strongest 3D game solution." ”

"What is a voodoo 3D accelerator card?" asked Liu Suo, for some reason.

"voodoo is a 3D hard acceleration chip developed by a company called 3Dfx in the United States, which can be used with an ordinary graphics card to independently complete the three-dimensional image processing required for 3D games and 3D application software, without relying on the CPU for calculation, the core frequency of this chip is 50Mhz, and the graphics card is also equipped with 4M video memory. ”

"How do you know so well?"

Hu Yiting made up nonsense: "I talked to an American in Shenzhen, who is the marketing manager of 3Dfx and came to China to inspect the market. He thought I was a kid so I didn't want to be wary, and he asked me if there was a market for their products in China, and if there would be students who bought them to play games, so I wrote down these parameters of their products. ”

Liu Suo's mouth muttered: "Is there a market for a simple 3D acceleration card? Who would need it? It can be used for CAD modeling? Maybe foreigners want to use it to play games? That thing needs to be used with a graphics card? Isn't that an extra card inserted into the computer? Can that thing put a VCD?"

Hu Yiting said contemptuously: "You can't put VCD! And it comes with 4M video memory, which is completely a waste of video memory on the original graphics card! What's even more annoying is that it is not perfectly compatible with all graphics cards on the market, to put it bluntly, he is a picker, he does not support the older and newer graphics cards, and many consumers still want to change the graphics card to match him in the final analysis。

As long as our chip is installed on an ordinary graphics card, it can work perfectly with the original display chip, coordinate with the CPU, and carry out two-dimensional and three-dimensional image processing. ”

Liu also understood, and hesitated: "But the only defect of our chip is that we belong to the co-processing chip, which needs to call a lot of CPU computing power, so it needs to be integrated and optimized with the graphics card." ”

Hu Yiting said: "Integration is not a problem at all, and many graduate students of the Institute of Computing can do it.

Moreover, the current 3D games on the market do not eat CPU, and do not have high requirements for number jù calculations, mainly for 3D floating point operations, which happens to be our strength. ”

Liu Suo nodded: "If we really manufacture graphics cards, the cost of one of our graphics cards must be much cheaper than their 3D acceleration card plus a graphics card." ”

Hu Yiting said: "The 3Dfx company plans to sell the voodoo accelerator card for more than 100 dollars!"

Liu Suo was taken aback: "More than 100 dollars? After importing, it won't be sold for 13,500 yuan in China? If you add another graphics card, it's too expensive."

Hu Yiting asked: "But I heard the American manager say that the results of the current foreign market research are very good, and it is estimated that it is not a problem to sell 100,000 pieces of capital preservation in the world.

Liu thought deeply: "It depends on what kind of image chip is used, if you use a mid-range one, and then equipped with 4M video memory, plus other PCB boards, interfaces, capacitors and other accessories, about more than 300 pieces, right? ”

Hu Yiting said: "That's right, let's just purchase it and do it ourselves, if you don't have this appetite, entrust other graphics card manufacturers to OEM." ”

When Liu heard this, he began to fall into deep contemplation.

Hu Yiting tried to convince: "Don't hesitate, many companies are developing 3D technology to open up this market, but their products are either too expensive, or the performance is much lower than voodoo, and our products are cost-effective!"

Liu said to himself: "Dimeng's S3virge chip has also added a certain amount of 3D computing power, and there is also news on the innovation side that it will launch a 3D-BLASTER accelerator card, and Yamaha also said that it will soon launch a PRA3 processing chip, what are the advantages of our chip compared with them......"

Hu Yiting said: "Compared with the upcoming voodoo chip, we have a price advantage! Compared with other chips on the market with a certain 3D image processing ability, we have a performance advantage! This product is definitely the king of cost performance!"

When Liu heard this, his expression became a little excited: "I think it's safer to cooperate, so that it is technically guaranteed, but these graphics card manufacturers have their own graphics card chips with 3D image processing functions, although the function is not strong, they may not be willing to use our products to strengthen their graphics cards." ”

Hu Yiting said word by word: "Then let's just integrate this coprocessor chip on the motherboard, make a multimedia motherboard, and imagine that after so many years of assembling a computer, can't we even do this?"

"Multimedia motherboard?" Liu was stunned.

"Will this work?"