After the negotiation with Intel, as soon as she returned to the computing institute, Wang Lili asked Hu Yiting. ☆→☆→，

"Is the patent licensing of the x86 instruction set really worth so much money? The only thing Intel values about our company is probably the multimedia instruction set patent of our Chongguang company, for which they are willing to pay more than 100 million US dollars, and we are equivalent to using more than 100 million US dollars in exchange for a patent license. ”

Hu Yiting said: "The so-called patent authorization of x86 instruction set architecture is not one or several patents, it is a patent system composed of a series of hundreds of patents, which is the basis of the x86 architecture processor, just like formulating the standard of building a house with cement, how big the supporting windows are, how big the doors, and most of the sizes of the water and sewage pipelines, the so-called windows, doors, and pipelines are computer programs.

For example, if we didn't have Intel's patent license, we would have had to start from scratch, build a house with other materials, such as steel, and then develop a new set of building standards. Although steel structures perform better than cement, the software on the market is not designed for our standards at all, it is not ready to use, and it must be modified for our standards. ”

Wang Lili immediately understood: "That is to say, after the user gets the processor we designed from scratch, all the software he bought before cannot be used, and there is no supporting software on the market to run, isn't that equivalent to spending money to buy a brick?"

Hu Yiting nodded and said, "Not only software, but even the hardware designed for home computers can't be used." At present, the home computer hardware on the market is designed for IBM's x86 architecture PC, and IBM's PC standard is the standard of home computers! Drivers must be rewritten, and even hardware manufacturers are asked to redesign some products that can be directly driven by our processors. ”

Wang Lili smacked her tongue: "It's really a monopoly." ”

Hu Yiting smiled helplessly: "I also know that there is not much hope, after the death of the former president of Intel, Andy Grove, the new president, is very shrewd and determined not to license the patent of the x86 instruction set processor to any company again." ”

"What then? Wouldn't we negotiate in vain?"

Hu Yiting sighed: "You have to try everything, and you can be happy if you succeed." There are no regrets about defeat. In addition, I hope that through Guò's request for this purchase to make Intel a statement, to make them understand that if they want to get the multimedia instruction set license of Chongguang, they have to exchange their x86 instruction set license. ”

"I understand, then we will take this as our principle for Intel Corporation from now on. ”

Hu Yiting nodded approvingly: "Let's eat first, and the R&D team will discuss new products in the afternoon." ”

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The six-member team of the Computing Institute had learned yesterday that Hu Yiting had returned to Beijing, and had a meeting with Hu Yiting last night, and Hu Yiting also handed over the VCD decoding chip he developed to the six people, so that they could first combine the relevant knowledge of this period of time. Take a hard look at your design.

At the afternoon meeting, Hu Yiting was taken aback as soon as he entered the room, and saw that there were not only six people in the room, but also Xia Lao and seven or eight other researchers from the computing institute.

Hu Yiting hurriedly stepped forward to say hello: "Old Xia, why are you here?"

"I heard that you have developed a new embedded decoding chip, the algorithm is very novel, not only can support the PAL standard320*240Standard CRT color TV resolution,It can also support the 704*480 and 704*576 resolutions used in the NTSC system in North America and Europe,And it can also achieve accelerated playback。 It's so rare, it's not. I'm here with everyone, and you're going to teach us a lesson today. ”

Hu Yiting said with a smile: "Don't dare, don't dare, the teacher said that he laughed, the students will have to make mistakes later, and please ask the teacher and the seniors to correct it." ”

After Hu Yiting finished speaking, he bowed to the researchers who had come to the real room to observe, turned around and walked quickly to the front of the classroom. Stand by the blackboard and start explaining your design.

“…… The decoding chip I designed is basically similar to the high-end decompression card of Multiwave-Innovation in terms of performance, and it can also support video amplification of up to 1152*768 pixels, and it can still maintain stable filtering and color fidelity after amplification.

But the multib memory in the market sells for $749. It is equivalent to more than 6,000 yuan, and it is only for personal computers, mainly used for professional users who have strict requirements for video processing, such as TV stations, film and television companies, and advertising companies, after all, the supporting video processing software is the biggest selling point of the decompression card.

My design is specifically for home VCD, and has a built-in thin processor ARM6 processing core, which no longer needs the assistance of the CPU on the computer, and is a highly integrated embedded decoding chip.

Next, Hu Yiting began to explain his design endlessly, in fact, it is the ES3210 chip of the American ESS company, this chip was established at the end of 94 years, and it took two years to develop and complete, and finally broke the monopoly of the American Scobo C-Cube company.

"As you know, the VCD decoder chip on the market is only the CL-48X series produced by C-Cube company can be sold, and the VCD decoder chip is different from the decompression card of the home computer in that it is an embedded chip, the chip needs a built-in processor, and it has the ability to process the number of clock cycle sequences, and integrates the optical drive number JÙ decoder and MPEG system decoder, I will focus on the core technology of my chip today, that is, the algorithm and specific implementation of our MPEG system decoder。 ”

"As you know, what we Chongguang is best at is the algorithm of compression and decompression of multimedia data jù and the semiconductor design of the implementation algorithm, on this chip, our algorithm design is like this, first after receiving the number jù, it does not directly perform syntactic analysis, but fuzzy sampling of the number jù, and then stratified the number jù stream, so as to achieve synchronous and high-speed processing of audio and video......"

As soon as Hu Yiting talked about technology, he was completely oblivious to the time, and as he explained, many technical problems began to surface, and he continued to answer the questions raised by the six-member team and the group of observer researchers.

The technical seminar, which started at half past one in the afternoon and lasted until half past six in the evening, finally sorted out all the problems.

Seeing the six-person R&D team constantly taking notes, listening attentively to their explanations, and asking a large number of questions, Hu Yiting felt very satisfied, and seeing these six people continue to grow and progress, it will undoubtedly become a valuable asset for Chongguang Company in the future.

After the seminar, Xia Lao and the researchers were still unsatisfied, and asked Hu Yiting to hold another technical seminar tomorrow to explain some of today's design problems in more detail.

If other companies make such a request, there is no doubt that they will be refused, these technologies are absolutely confidential technologies for Chongguang Company, but Hu Yiting feels that as a Chinese, it is an honor to be able to spread technology to these experts and scholars who are engaged in scientific research in the country's highest scientific research institutions.

"Okay, Xia Lao, don't worry, I must know everything, but I hope that all the experts who participated in the seminar can sign the confidentiality document. ”

Xia Lao thought for a while, nodded and said: "That's fine, after all, this is an important product that your company will bring to the market next, and before applying for a patent, the technology does need to be kept secret." (To be continued.) )

ps: Thank you Yahe, Wang Xuanxuance, the little mouse on the grassland, Kashiwagi Daye, Shuangfu prodigal son for the reward! Thank you Yahe brother for the 100 yuan reward!u