The reason why Hu Yiting must win the X86 license is very simple, whether it is Intel's Pentium processor, or Cyrix's 6X86 processor or AMD's 5X86 processor, as the next generation of 486 processors, in addition to the newly designed computing unit, they all have one or more built-in 486 processing cores, the purpose is to ensure backward compatibility, to ensure that users used to operate normally in 286, 386, A variety of legacy software on the 486 processor platform can continue to run on the new processor.

Without Intel's X86 architecture license, the new processor is unlikely to be compatible with previous software, and to design a compiler to translate those programs designed based on the X86 platform into a language that their own processors can understand, which leads to a significant reduction in chip processing performance, for example, the ACORN series computer produced by ARM, the processor in it uses the core of ARM, and when running those programs designed based on the X86 platform, it will lose at least 40% of the processing performance! And when there is a problem with the compilation of instructions, it will directly lead to the phenomenon of freezing or even crashing! Which user in the world can accept this fatal flaw?

When Yu Youcheng promised Hu Yiting, he would try his best to persuade Intel's senior management to accept the deal, the communication between the five people in the New England bar became more and more fluent, Hu Yiting got everyone's contact number and email address, and recommended the QQ of Chongguang software to everyone, I hope everyone can register and use, after all, these people here can be called industry leaders, if they can use QQ, they can expand their influence with points and areas, which is undoubtedly the biggest publicity for QQ.

The five of them chatted in depth until half past two in the afternoon, and then left the restaurant in a happy mood.

Yu Youcheng walked all the way back to the hotel, and as soon as he entered the room, he had already organized the language in his stomach and thought about how to report, so he confidently called Andy Grove.

Yu Youcheng reported for an hour, and told the story of meeting ARM's Harold and Chongguang's Hu Yiting in the restaurant at noon from beginning to end.

Andy Grove thought about it for a long time on the other end of the phone before he said slowly: "Chongguang and ARM? Could it be that they are going to port the multimedia instruction set to the RISC processor?"

"I'm not sure about this, but don't worry about it, ARM is now half-dead and weak, relying on licensing fees for various embedded platform chips, maybe their major shareholder Apple wants to get the technology and experience in the development of multimedia instruction sets, which is also uncertain. ”

"Yes, you're right, leave it alone for now, the Apple computer is just an expensive toy.

In any case, I'm very interested in the deal you mentioned, and according to what you said, Hu Yiting's purpose was to get the equivalent of $200 million from the domestic market by producing low-end processors, and I think he was telling the truth, and my view on this is consistent with your analysis.

But I think they may have benefited more than $200 million, but not mainly in personal computers, after all, China's process technology is too poor, and they have no experience in processor design, they just have a unique way in multimedia processing algorithms, and they happen to be ahead of us. Based on my years of experience and sense of smell in the market, I estimate that if they design processors, they may not even be able to sell AMD and Cyrix, and if they insist on joining free competition, they are very likely to suffer huge losses! If they do so, there is only one dead end, and AMD and Cyrix, the two price scum, will crush them to death at low cost!

Yu Youcheng asked: "So do you think they have made a strategic miscalculation?"

Andy Grove wisely analyzed: "No, I think they are very smart! Just like Hu Yiting said, the Chinese have a strong sense of national pride, which is somewhat like us Jews." And their government is also very face-loving, if a company can come up with a domestic home computer processor, without the help of a compiler can run on the X86 platform, Chongguang company will definitely get countless honors, this 16-year-old genius will become their national hero, there is Cheng, we have all been young, you must know that young people's desire for honor is endless. ”

"But there's no way he's going to give up his interests for the sake of honor, right?"

"Haha, Youcheng, Hu Yiting is a smart person, he is not so stupid. I estimate that once he gets the support of the Chinese government, then in the future in the server market and embedded chip market, they may get huge benefits from the production of 386 or even 486 chips, after all, the current Chinese personal computer market is currently smaller than the industrial chip market, and they can get preferential treatment from government procurement, especially state-owned enterprise procurement. If they can also come up with a good custom solution for the customer's equipment, I estimate that in three to five years, they may make more than $200 million in profits in China's domestic embedded chip market, and with the government's tax support, they will earn back $200 million, and they will be able to expand the company's assets, much larger than they are now. ”

Yu Youcheng exclaimed: "As soon as you analyze it like this, I found that this kid is really a genius!"

Andy Grove said with some smugness: "Yes, he is definitely a genius, according to intelligence, he is a world-class mathematical wizard, how can the guy who solved Poincaré's conjecture be a fool, this kid is shrewd! As far as I know, they are also involved in the communication equipment manufacturing industry, the production of program-controlled switch equipment, which requires a large number of low-end processors." ”

Yu Youcheng asked, "Then should we refuse him?"

Andy Grove immediately said, "No, no, no! Don't refuse him!" I'm glad to see a Chinese company that can help us expand our share of x86 processors in the Chinese embedded chip market!

You know, our performance in the embedded chip market and the server workstation market is far worse than ours on the PC side! The competition there is too fierce, IBM, DEC, SUN, HP, DELL, Compaq and even Europe and Japan are all doing servers! What's more, they almost all of them don't deal with us! Some develop their own processor chips! Some use MIPS instruction set architecture! Some use ARM architecture! But they just reject our X86 architecture! Youcheng! Every one of them is resisting us!"

Yu Youcheng: "They are jealous. ”

"Yes, because we're too strong!

Yu Youcheng: "I understand a little, Andy, you hope that Chongguang can become a tool for us to develop the market." ”

"Yes, to be honest, I hope they do a better job in the future. You know that on a server, CPU only accounts for a small part of the cost, and sooner or later it will have to be upgraded, and high-performance memory and motherboard chipset is the most profitable, if China can use a large number of X86 architecture servers, in the future, the motherboard chipset of these servers will needless to say that all support X86 architecture, and our X86 architecture motherboard chipset design is the best in the world! And thanks to our process level, our high-performance server memory has always been the best!

Yu Youcheng exclaimed: "Andy, as I have always said, you are really a business genius! You can always find places that ordinary people can't see! After your analysis, I finally see clearly now, the purpose of Hu Yiting's lunch with Harold at noon today is to discuss the technical cooperation of ARM architecture embedded chips!"

Andy Grove laughed proudly on the phone and said: "It's a pity that you have disturbed it, this is really God's arrangement! Youcheng, this is a good deal! As Hu Yiting said, a win-win situation! It is enough to put it into the textbook of the business school as a model of cooperation! Thank you Youcheng, it is you who have brought such a good business to Intel, if it is not for your chance encounter this time, God knows when we will be able to come up with a multi-functional product, I can't even sleep well in the past two days, and I have dreamed that the evil dragon in the new advertisement of Cyrix is biting me! Now I can finally have a good dream. ”

Yu Youcheng said: "So do you think this deal can pass through the U.S. Department of State and Commerce?"

"Hey, no problem, I'll report to Moore right now, he'll call and coordinate with the guys on Capitol Hill.

In addition, I want to fire the China manager, that Wu Tong, she simply did nothing, and she didn't even find out Chongguang's true thoughts! When others reject you, you must at least know the other party's true thoughts, and she will only report truthfully! Too bad! I have stressed countless times that managers should take the initiative and be enterprising, and she really disappointed me, which is a serious dereliction of duty!"

Yu Youcheng also said: "Wu Tong is actually a talent, but she lacks constructive vision, and now it seems that she is not good at in-depth communication and negotiation with customers."

Maybe...... Maybe she's just not suitable for management, so I think it's better to transfer to our R&D department. ”

"Maybe, whatever you want. ”

With that, Grove hurriedly hung up the phone.