Taking the red-eye flight on the evening of the 19th, the tour group of Chongguang Company woke up on the plane and arrived in Silicon Valley. Arranged by Cyrix President Friedman, they visited one of their fabs in Santa Clara County, which was a small line that Cyrix used to design. But even so, the internal equipment also made Hu Yiting salivate, knowing that these equipment would not be exported to China anyway, unless the country itself made a breakthrough in the equipment.

Because the manufacture of programmatic machines requires a large number of digital-to-analog conversion chips from the National Semiconductor Corporation of the United States, as an inspection supplier, we visited a R&D building of National Semiconductor in Silicon Valley on the afternoon of the 20th.

On the 21st, the large force left for San Francisco. On the international flight back to China on the same day, the United States left only Hu Yiting, Wang Lili, Wu Shihuan, and Liu Renkuan to visit their headquarters in Austin, Texas, on a business jet rented by Cyrix.

At this time, the MIPS licensing contract has been signed by Wang Lili, and at a cost of five million US dollars, Hu Yiting has obtained a complete development authorization for the MIPS architecture including IP cores and all instruction sets.

Hu Yiting felt that this trip to the United States was very rewarding and satisfying, the company not only made money, but also got the authorization of the two major architectures of Alpha and MIPS, plus the previous ARM authorization, and now he has the technical authorization of the three major architectures in his hands, and the thought of being able to develop many products on these three architectures in the future is enough to make Chongguang a heavyweight in the IC industry.

The interior of Cyrix's Gulfstream III business jet is simple and luxurious, with thick carpeting in the aisles, bulkheads upholstered in white leather, and orange-yellow calfskin seats that are wide and comfortable.

Friedman sat on the seat opposite Hu Yiting and Wang Lili, holding a mineral water cup in his hand and said: "This Gulfstream is rented from NETJET Lijie, and the usage fee is five thousand dollars per hour, which is not expensive. ”

Wang Lili put down the orange juice in her hand: "American planes can still be rented, which is quite convenient." ”

Friedman explained: "NETJET WAS FOUNDED BY SANDURI, A FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS BANKER, AND NOW THERE ARE MORE THAN 100 BUSINESS JETS IN OPERATION. ”

Hu Yiting asked: "As low as $5,000 an hour, isn't it possible for everyone to rent it?"

"But the customers who join first pay one-eighth of the purchase price, about $700,000," Friedman laughs. Appointments are made four hours in advance of each use, and there is an annual management and maintenance fee of approximately $150,000. ”

Wang Lili smiled: "I understand, it means that everyone pooled money to buy a plane and used it evenly." This method is not bad, that Sanduri is so smart, it is equivalent to not spending a penny, the customer helped him buy all the planes, he is only responsible for management, and the management fee is extracted. ”

Friedman smiled and nodded, "Wang Lili, you are really a smart person, that's the case." It is important to know that most private jet users only use a few hundred hours per year, and the annual utilization rate of private jet equipment is too low compared to airline passenger aircraft, which is a big waste.

Because even if private jets fly very little every year, the annual maintenance costs, taxes, civil aviation management fees and other expenses will not be reduced. What's more, the aircraft has a depreciation life, and the electronic equipment and engines will become obsolete with the development of technology, so it is not cost-effective to buy an aircraft yourself. ”

Wang Lili said: "I see, there are too many rich people in the United States, so it can give birth to a lot of high-end service industries. ”

Friedman smiled, "Yes, there are rich people from all over the world in the United States. At one point, the captain told me that he flew from Denver to Los Angeles just to send a client there for a haircut and then to send that client back to Denver. ”

Wang Lili said: "This is too extravagant. ”

Friedman laughed, "But the client was a poodle." ”

Wang Lili shook her head and sighed: "Wasting at will where you don't need to spend money is luxury." ”

Friedman said appreciatively: "It's a real pleasure to listen to a smart person like you, Wang Lili, which business school did you graduate from?"

Wang Lili replied with a smile: "You guessed wrong, I graduated from Hangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and now it is called China Academy of Art. ”

Friedman smiled heartily: "I am not too surprised, almost all the painters I have met have the talent of a businessman. You must be a very remarkable woman. ”

Wang Lili was complimented by Friedman, and she couldn't close her mouth with a smile, and she didn't care a little about his previous trip to the dance club with Hu Yiting.

After a three-hour flight, the plane arrived at Austin Airport, and the stretch car rented by Cyrix was parked on the side of the runway, and the four of them were picked up directly and headed straight for the company's headquarters.

Received by Friedman, everyone quickly finished the tour, had a simple lunch in the company, and then took a luxury stretch car again, and after a two-hour drive, they came to the farm house of the company's chairman Adam Cohen on the outskirts of Austin.

Adam Cohen, chairman of Cyrix, looks like a typical western farmer, wearing a blue and white striped plaid shirt with blue jeans and a pair of khaki casual leather shoes.

When Adam Cohen heard the horn of a car, he came out and greeted everyone at the gravel intersection leading to his farm home.

Seeing this, Hu Yiting hurriedly stopped the car, and after everyone got out of the car, he exchanged pleasantries with Adam Cohen and followed him home.

The gravel lane leading from the farm to the road is unremarkable, with no signage at the junction and only a long row of tall tree walls blocking the buildings behind the road, making it difficult to find without guidance.

The inconspicuous black fine gravel used to pave the driveway glowed cleanly, apparently new. In order to keep this kind of high-grade gravel road clean and beautiful, it has to be replaced with new gravel every year, and someone is usually responsible for maintenance, sweeping the gravel scattered on the side of the road.

Walking along the driveway to the inside, the eyes suddenly opened, only to see an old-fashioned American colonial Victorian style white building standing on the lawn of tens of thousands of square meters, although there are only three floors, but this villa looks taller than the ordinary five-story building, and there are red brick annexes on both sides, I am afraid there are nearly 100 rooms. In front of the double-open white wooden dome arch, six large gray marble columns supported a spacious doorway of about thirty square meters, in which seven or eight men and women in the uniforms of maids and valets stood with their hands bowed, but none of them were black.

According to Adam Cohen, his family's farm has more than 500 acres, about 2 million square meters, mainly growing wheat, and there is also his own small cattle farm on the periphery of the farm, raising more than 500 beef cattle.

Everyone entered the villa and followed Adam Cohen into his large living room, where he sat down on the long sofa. The maid brought trays of fruits, coffee, tea, and pastries one by one.

After talking with Adam Cohen, Hu Yiting learned that his family was an early immigrant from the Americas, and had been "farming" in Austin a long time ago, and there were seven or eight tall commercial office buildings built in the city for rent. Hu Yiting sighed with emotion, and said in his heart that the gray-haired middle-aged white man in front of him was undoubtedly an ancestral tyrant, to be precise, an American aristocrat.

Everyone chatted about economics, politics, music, and art all the way to the old IC.

"When I graduated from Harvard Business School, I didn't know much about computers, but I knew it was a shining gold mine, and you don't lose money investing in high-tech industries," Adam Cohen laughs. ”

Hu Yiting said: "Your vision is very accurate, the IC industry is still a blue ocean industry, although the competition is fierce, but the market growth is very fast, as long as you can stick to it, maintaining market share is enough to make a lot of money." ”

Adam Cohen said: "I want to thank you for your heavy technology, without your Shadow Overlord, we at Cyrix would still be competing with Intel and AMD in the low-end market for profit Weibo forage." How did you do that? Isn't it a huge engineering problem to develop such a chip?"

"Maybe we were lucky enough to start exploring the technical route of using coprocessors to assist computing very early. ”

Adam Cohen nodded, "Foresight is also a kind of genius. Come, try this, puff pastry apple pie, my pastry chef's best. ”