After saying goodbye to the three from the New England bar, Hu Yiting and Harold left side by side.

"Hu Yiting, does Chongguang really plan to develop an X86 architecture processor?"

Seeing that Harold's expression was a little helpless, Hu Yiting suppressed the excitement and uneasiness in his heart from just now, and hid his expectations in his heart.

"What I just said is from the heart, you know that producing desktop PC processors can help our company grow and gain influence over the domestic government, and if we're lucky, maybe we can get some government orders. ”

Harold nodded and said slowly: "Maybe, I hope that the production of PC processors can bring the honor and benefits you expect for your company, but as a friend, I want to say that on X86, you can't fight Intel, no one can do it, I don't mean to offend." ”

Hu Yiting said gratefully: "Thank you, Harold, I know you are telling the truth and thinking about me. But like I said, the Chinese government will help us get 200 million dollars back, and we've kept our company from being acquired. ”

Harold finally smiled: "Then I wish you success." What you say makes sense, just like when the British government purchased all the computers in the education system from our ACORN computers, as long as the government supports it, you can earn this money back. But don't think too much, in just two years, I'm betting that Intel will come up with a new product, Moore's Law is a son of a bitch!"

"Hahahahaha......" Hu Yiting laughed heartily: "I won't be too greedy." ”

After the excitement passed, Hu Yiting was a little tired, said goodbye to Harold and went straight back to the hotel to rest, he knew that he had to have dinner with Friedman, the global president of Cyrix, in the evening, and he had to recuperate himself.

As a global partner of Cyrix, once Chongguang reached an agreement with Intel, it was tantamount to a betrayal of his ally, Hu Yiting was lying on the bed in the hotel room, his drunkenness gradually subsided, thinking about how to explain to Cyrix, but after thinking about it, he didn't know if Yu Youcheng could persuade Intel's management to accept the deal, and it was better not to think too much about it at the moment, let alone reveal the slightest tone to Friedman.

Hu Yiting thought over and over again: "Chongguang signed a 12-month exclusive licensing agreement with Cyrix on August 30, and if a deal is reached with Intel, then Intel's processors will not be available until August 30, 96 at the earliest." However, Intel wants to integrate the two chips, and it will also take time technically, and there will be another month of tape-out and production stockpiling, which means that it will not delay too much time. ”

Thinking of this, Hu Yiting couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and thought: "In case Yu Youcheng can't get along with the senior management of their company, then I still have to stick to the strategic plan I thought about before, continue to support Cyrix, and continue to attack Intel, so that this giant beast will continue to lose blood and weaken." So don't get into trouble with Cyrix right now!"

Hu Yiting didn't dare to take a nap, just lay down and think, and seeing that the exhibition was about to close, he got up and went to the exhibition hall to look for Friedman.

Friedman was very hospitable to Hu Yiting, and treated him to a steak in the luxurious restaurant of Caesars Palace Hotel, where he was served a large top-quality steak covered in marble after the lemon juice oyster as an appetizer and the puff pastry cream soup as a side dish.

"I knew our cooperation would be very successful!" said Friedman with a spring breeze on his face after the previous friendly small talk.

"The board of directors is very pleased with the sales of Dragon, the market response has been fantastic, and we even have to start thinking about finding a second foundry considering the supply to the global market, and the production schedule of the Texas Instruments Austin fab is already full, and we want to squeeze new orders into it until at least the second half of next year. You're right, we don't have enough capacity. ”

Friedman expertly cut the huge half-raw steak into small pieces and kept it in his mouth, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, he gently wiped it with a snow-white cloth, and said with a smile: "To be honest, the steak here is not as good as our Texas, but it is much better than the kind of 'steak' you ate in Northern China last time." When talking about the steak in the northern capital, Friedman playfully gestured with both hands on the sides of his head in double quotation marks, and then continued to gush: "When you come to Austin in two days, our chairman, Mr. Adam Cohen, plans to invite you to his farm, and then let you taste the orthodox Texas farm steak!" You know, the best steak must master the low temperature maturation time, in addition to the temperature to be accurately controlled, each part of the cow needs to be matured in different times, short like sirloin and beef rump only 28 days, long like ribeye to 35 days, but to determine the specific completion time, or rely on professionals to closely observe and grasp the measure, want to eat the steak with just the right degree of maturation, except in the farm is not possible. ”

"I am very honored. Hu Yiting ate the seven-ripe steak in front of him, feeling that the fat and juicy heat was just right, as a Chinese, he couldn't stand the feeling of drinking blood.

Friedman took a sip of red wine and rinsed his mouth, and said, "Actually, I can tell you in advance that we hope to have a deeper cooperation with Chongguang. At the moment, our sales momentum is very good, and the capital market is very optimistic about us, which gives us the confidence to start a new project. ”

"Oh?" Hu Yiting was stunned, he didn't expect a small company like Cyrix to have ambitions.

"Yes, a new project, influenced by the success of your re-focused multimedia instruction set, our VP CTO James Ellwood and his engineers agreed that the future of CPUs must be multi-functional and not limited to improving mathematical computing capabilities. As far as I know, our rivals Intel and AMD are now crazy about accelerating the development of their own multimedia instruction sets, and we at Cyrix must not give up our hard-won leadership.

Hu Yiting: You know, now that network technology is developing rapidly, we plan to develop a new generation of instruction sets that fully support various Internet protocols and web applications, so that users can get a faster and smoother Internet experience. ”

Hu Yiting admired in his heart, and felt that Cyrix was still very discerning, you must know that in history, the SSE instruction set launched by Intel after the MMX instruction set is called "Internet instruction set SSE" The instruction set, which was also known as MMX2 in the industry, was added and comprehensively enhanced by Intel in the instruction set, which not only improved the efficiency of 3D computing again, but also optimized the image and audio processing, which greatly enhanced the processing ability of the processor for web development and website audio and video streaming.

Hu Yiting nodded heavily and said, "This is a good idea!"

Friedman smiled, "But we are relatively weak in the development of the instruction set, but fortunately we have a strategic partner like you Chongguang, so we plan to work with you to develop the next generation of the instruction set of the Shadow Overlord." ”

After speaking, Friedman calmed down and watched Hu Yiting's reaction.

Hu Yiting couldn't help but scratch his chin and said, "Actually, we are already working on the next generation of instruction sets. ”

"That's great, we at Cyrix can be of great help to you. ”

Hu Yiting knows Friedman's mind, the core technology of the 6X86-Dragon processor is completely dependent on Chongguang, Cyrix not only has to pay a license fee, but also pays a patent fee of 20% of the shipment price to Chongguang for each one sold, such a high proportion is intolerable, Cyrix, as an American company, is so dependent on an IC company from China, which is simply roasting the self-esteem of American IC people with fire.

Hu Yiting refused as tactfully as possible: "I am very grateful for your kindness, but to be honest, multimedia instruction set is the only core technology that Chongguang can get his hands on at present, this is the core of our business, involving many core technologies of our company, and we do not plan to share it with others." Unless ......"

Friedman was disappointed and angry when he heard this, firstly, he did not expect Chongguang's R&D to be so forward-looking, and secondly, he did not expect Chongguang to be disdainful of Cyrix's R&D capabilities.

"Unless what?"