Tarik observed everyone's reactions, and when he saw that everyone's attention was focused on him again, he smiled and nodded, "Just now our technician made a small mistake and took out the new product we were testing, and according to the plan, this product should be launched in two months.

This product is the secret weapon that Cyrix will jointly launch with Chongguang Company, a subsidiary of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is a coprocessor chip, which can greatly improve the floating point performance of the processor after being equipped with the guò motherboard.

As you've seen for yourself, the chip is astounding in terms of improving the overall performance of the system. With the help of this coprocessor chip, the floating-point performance of Cyrix's 6X86 processor has been greatly improved, and the test score is 33% higher than that of the same Intel Pentium processor.

However, at present, since we have only completed 95% of the cooperation negotiations with the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chongguang Company, and the contract is still in progress, it is not convenient to disclose too many details.

But I can tell you that Cyrix attaches great importance to the Chinese market, and we believe that the Chinese market has unlimited potential, so we will cooperate with more Chinese companies in the future to develop more excellent products......"

Tariq's remarks are largely nonsense, but as long as they are not accused of falsifying in tests, then commercial lies are relatively acceptable.

After all, there was room in his words, and even if he couldn't launch a product in the future, he could excuse himself by saying that the cooperation with the other party had not been negotiated.

Next, Tariq greatly curryed favor with Chinese customers, praised the excellent performance of agents around the country, and praised the good operation and after-sales system of the Chinese branch.

Finally, he changed the topic and talked about the current situation of the processor market in the United States. In short, it is to tell everyone that Cyrix is currently in a good shape, which can be described as a red flag and a noisy show, and has not been squeezed by Intel and AMD, and the 6X86 processor will definitely be able to fight a bloody way in front of Intel's Pentium and AMD's 5X86 processor.

In those days, many people who were new to computers were often dizzy by tongue twisters such as 286, 386, 486, 586, and 6x86, and many people mistakenly thought that the first number in the name was bigger. This means that the faster the processor, but in fact these numbers don't matter much from 486 onwards.

Because whenever Intel produces next-generation processors, companies like AMD and Cyrix, which produce x86 instruction set-compatible processors, are always playing on the sidelines, labeling their products as being the same as Intel's new products. Your name is 386, my name is 386, your name is 486, and my name is 486, and U.S. trademark law prohibits the use of numbers as trademarks. So Intel can't stop others from calling it 386 and 486 at all.

So after 486, Intel's next-generation products are simply called Pentium, and they are no longer named 586 according to logic, in the final analysis, in order to prevent opponents from following the trend and naming them.

But AMD still persevered, and continued to call 5X86, Cyrix is even more slogan no money, shouting out 6X86, in fact, these are products that belong to roughly the same level as Intel's original Pentium, but there are only differences in performance.

Further back, companies such as AMD and Cyrix are ashamed to continue to use numbers. Since then, each family has gradually developed its own independent naming habits.

Tariq's enthusiastic speech was endless, and finally everyone forgot about the oolong just now, and instead began to look forward to Cyrix's high-performance coprocessor chip.

As soon as the product launch was over, Tariq immediately ordered to contact Chongguang immediately.

Li Tonghe, who was responsible for contacting Chongguang Company, was Li Tonghe, who received Hu Yiting and Wang Lili at the beginning, and Li Tonghe, according to Malmo's instructions, urgently asked Chongguang Company to immediately send someone to Cyrix's Beijing headquarters for a detailed discussion.

Wang Lili was very excited after receiving a call from Cyrix and Li Tonghe on her mobile phone. hurriedly informed Hu Yiting, and Hu Yiting did not dare to slack off, after all, the other party is a well-known American national semiconductor company, if the other party is willing to place an order. It can be said that the roots of the cold hair are thick with the waist of the heavy light company.

This time, the reception received by the two was obviously a hundred times stronger than the last time, and when they walked into the hall on the first floor of the office building where the other party was, Li Tonghe was already waiting there with a girl.

"Hello, Hello, Welcome to Cyrix!"

Seeing Li Tonghe's warm hospitality this time, Hu Yiting and Wang Lili looked at each other and smiled, guessing that the other party must have tested the "Shadow Overlord" and was impressed by the performance of this chip.

To know when we last met. Li Tonghe only gave the two of them three minutes, and then politely thanked the guests.

While waiting for the elevator, Li Tonghe greeted: "Mr. Wang, Hu Gong, why didn't you say earlier last time that this is a floating point coprocessor, I thought you were going to recommend a motherboard with an integrated video decoding chip!"

Hu Yiting spoke straightforwardly: "I think we said it clearly enough at that time, and with such strong performance, how can the floating point operation ability be weak?"

Li Tonghe was speechless for a while, after all, he studied business administration, and technology was not his strong point.

The little girl brought by Li Tonghe saw that her boss was deflated, looked at Hu Yiting in surprise, and said in her heart, "The engineer of this small company has such a hard tone, but he looks younger than me." ”

Hu Yiting and Wang Lili were taken to Cyrix's president's office, where Li Tonghe introduced them to Malmö, president of China, Tariq, president of Asia Pacific, and Fang Peng, technical director of Beidu Branch.

Hu Yiting looked at Malmö's office and saw that it was very large, with a single room of 100 square meters, and a bedroom and bathroom in the back.

Malmo smiled and said to Wang Lili: "I won't let him enter my office when ordinary guests come, only let him wait in the conference room, but your Chongguang company is a very potential IC design company, and we Cyrix are very interested in your products." ”

Wang Lili, as the president of the company, can understand the written text in English, but the listening and speaking skills are relatively poor, after Hu Yiting's translation, Wang Lili said in jerky English with some nervousness:

"Since Mr. Malmö is so direct, let's be direct as well, and we hope that Cyrix will put our 'Shadow Overlord' coprocessor in your sales channels and recommend it to customers along with your CPU. Or buy directly from us. Integrated into the public design of your motherboard. ”

Malmo heard this, and looked at Tariq, who sat quietly on the long leather sofa, looking at the strange duo of the Chongguang Company.

A little boy who doesn't talk like that. A young girl, these two are almost like the kind of leather bag company that the Chinese often say.

So Malmo first asked about the background of Chongguang.

Wang Lili asked Hu Yiting to introduce her on her behalf, so Hu Yiting said it briefly, but between the words, there was still a faint hint at the other party. He has the background of the Chinese Academy of Sciences behind him, and the so-called pulling tiger skin to make a big banner, Hu Yiting still understands this.

"How many people are on your R&D team?" Tariq asked suddenly.

Hu Yiting thought about it and felt that there were only thirty people in the entire company plus sales, but he was afraid that he would be underestimated if he said so, so he said: "About sixty people." ”

Somewhat surprised, Tariq appreciatively, "Great design team! I thought you had two to three hundred engineers at first, but now it seems that you are a very lean small business and very competitive." There are a lot of small IC design firms like yours in Silicon Valley right now. The business is very flexible and very dynamic. ”

Hu Yiting was silent, waiting for Tariq to speak.

Tariq said: "We have tested your product and are very satisfied, it can indeed increase the processing power of the CPU at a certain level. I don't like the obscure way of speaking, let me be straightforward, I want to buy all of your products. ”

Wang Lili was a little accustomed to Tariq's speed of speech at this time, and asked, "How much do you want to buy?"

Hu Yiting frowned, he knew that Tariq meant what he meant.

Sure enough, Tariq laughed, "The whole product." Including all of these patents, I can pay a million and a half million dollars. ”

Two hours earlier, when Tariq had learned from Li Tonghe, representatives of Chongguang Company would be coming to talk immediately. He judged that the other party was very eager to cooperate with Cyrix.

While waiting for Wang Lili, the president of the other party, and Hu Yiting, the chief engineer, Tariq reported to the US headquarters.

After learning that there is such a coprocessor that is perfectly compatible with x86 architecture processors, and can greatly improve the floating point computing power of its new 6x86 processor, thus surpassing Intel's Pentium processor.

The head office of the United States could not believe it, but it had to trust Tariq, who was in a normal state of mind. So the high-level management of the headquarters urgently told Tariq that he should immediately send a special person to send samples of the other party's products back to the US headquarters, and put forward three other requirements.

One is to cooperate with the other party at any cost, eat all the inventory in the other party's current hands, and if the cooperation fails, then dig technicians from the other party at any cost.

The second is to buy the other party's patent license at any price, even if the other party is unwilling to sell the patent, it must also buy the license to use.

The third is to try to acquire the other party as a whole.

Tariq saw that Wang Lili, the president of the other party, frowned and said nothing, and Hu Yiting, the chief engineer, smiled and tasted the freshly ground Colombian coffee served by Malmö's beautiful Chinese female secretary.

Tariq hurriedly explained further: "The investment in the development of a CPU is only a few million dollars, and the total investment of your coprocessor should not exceed 500,000 dollars, so why not triple your original investment now?"

Wang Lili knew that Hu Yiting would never agree, so she said with a straight face: "Mr. Tariq, I think you are simply crazy, this price is less than one-twentieth of the expected profit of our product." ”

Hu Yiting nodded approvingly to Wang Lili, and added to Tariq: "The R&D investment of this product is 300 million yuan, and it took two years, I don't know where you got the illusion that this is a product that can be developed by only 1.5 million US dollars? ”

After jokingly speaking, Hu Yiting drank his coffee and shouted to Malmö's beautiful secretary, "Refill!" )

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