For ARM's authorization, Hu Yiting is determined to win, if it is not subject to the Wassenaar agreement, Hu Yiting even wants to control or even acquire ARM.

However, a Western company like ARM, which has first-class IC design capabilities, will never agree to the holding requirements of a Chinese company.

Although China has taken the initiative to downplay the ******** dispute after the reform and opening up, the West has never relaxed its vigilance in the field of ********. Historically, Chinese enterprises have been rejected for overseas mergers and acquisitions, and Western high-tech enterprises can be resold within the Western camp at a price of $3 to $5 million, but once China wants to acquire them, even if it is willing to spend several times the price and shell out tens of millions of dollars of real money, sometimes it cannot be approved by the Western government. The Group of Seven Western countries, led by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada, as the seven most advanced industrial countries in the world, firmly control the front-line industrial technology, and they would rather rot their meat in the pot than sell it to China, for fear that China will steal their jobs in the high-end scientific and technological fields after improving its technological level.

The design and manufacturing technology of high-end IC is considered by the West to be the cutting-edge technology of the future, and it is regarded as a national strategic pillar industry by the United States, so the control is particularly strict. Hu Yiting could also think with his eyes closed that as long as he proposed to buy ARM, the British government would never ignore it, and the United States would never allow Britain to sell such an important cutting-edge technology company to China.

But Hu Yiting knew that he had to take advantage of ARM's lack of development at this time and get the ARM technology authorization as soon as possible. You must know that after ARM went public in 1998, it gradually became more and more popular in the field of smart phones and mobile computing, and their technology patent licensing fees also rose, and the architecture licensing fees of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past have become an old calendar, starting from 2000, ARM's architecture and instruction set licensing fees have been adjusted, and the starting price is 1 million US dollars! Up to 10 million US dollars! plus the pre-licensing fee, the late licensing fee, the initial licensing fee, the development tool price, the technical support service fee, 1% Up to a 2% commission, a set of fees adds up enough to discourage cash-strapped companies from buying off-the-shelf processor design licenses. without expecting structure and directives and mandates.

After the adjustments, the full ARM architecture and instruction set licensing have been added with a lot of restrictions. The first is the number of years, which is one price for five years and another price for ten years. If you want to extend it after the expiration date, then add additional money. The second is the instruction set, if you want to add an instruction set, then take the money and want to add another one. Then pay for it again.

Hu Yiting doesn't want Chongguang to become an ARM ATM in the future. At the beginning of the Loongson project in China, it also considered buying ARM architecture, but one of the reasons why it finally gave up was that there were too many restrictions put forward by ARM, so it finally chose the MIPS instruction set architecture.

At that time, there were only three more mature processor instruction set architectures in the world, X86, ARM and MIPS. Among them, X86 belongs to CISC (Complex Instruction Set), and ARM and MIPS belong to RISC (Reduced Instruction Set).

Among them, X86 is firmly held in Intel's hands and refuses to let go, so there is basically no need to think about it, so if you want to design a processor, you can only choose between ARM and MIPS.

Unlike the ARM architecture, which focuses on low power consumption and low cost. The MIPS architecture was ambitious at the time, and the company's development strategy was set in the high-performance field, wanting to compete with the X86 architecture.

The MIPS architecture in the 90s has a higher performance instruction set than the ARM architecture, and the performance is strong, but the power consumption is also relatively high, but before the mobile computing demand blows out, power consumption is not a problem at all, and no one cares about the processor in the device consuming more than a dozen watts of power. Therefore, products using MIPS architecture are widely used in network routers and servers. Most of Cisco's products use MIPS architecture processors, so MIPS is very nourishing this year, and a group of American venture capital companies are rushing to invest in him, and there is no money to spend at all.

Hu Yiting pondered. If you run to MIPS to buy a license at this time, you will be slaughtered severely. When Loongson found MIPS when the project was established in 2000, the lion asked for $10 million, and finally the state privately channeled various channels to dredge the negotiations, so to put it mildly, it was about $5 million.

Hu Yiting thought that one day Chongguang Company would be so strong that it would not take $5 million in his eyes. At that time, it was not too late to buy the architecture from MIPS. After all, MIPS has a strong performance in the high-performance instruction set, and later ARM had to bow its head and buy as many as 498 high-performance instruction sets from MIPS to improve the computing power of complex numbers of ARM-based processors. One of the reasons why Loongson finally chose MIPS is that it values the powerful computing and processing capabilities of the MIPS architecture.

Hu Yiting took a sip of the coffee cup, and the rich black coffee lifted his spirits.

"Mr. Harold, there is no need to ask the company, as a negotiator, I have enough authority, I have already decided, and I have to authorize it completely. ”

Harold laughed and said, "Okay, I'm fine, as long as you can afford to spend it." ”

Hu Yiting smiled and asked, "I wonder if Nokia has ever come to look for you?"

Harold was stunned: "Nokia in Finland? They consulted the technical information of ARM-V3 last month, and they are very appreciative of our low power consumption, and they are interested in purchasing the technical license of our ARM610 processor." But how do you know?"

Hu Yiting smiled, thinking that ARM is about to develop, and ARM has been favored by Nokia in history, and has successfully caught up with the tide of the mobile market by the golden thigh of Nokia. Since then, ARM has continued to make efforts in low power consumption, Java acceleration, single-instruction multiplicity, code compression, etc., which completely meets the needs of Nokia and widens the distance from MIPS.

"I heard from a friend that Nokia is working on a smart business phone called Nokia-unicator, which has a black and white LCD screen like a PDA, built-in notepad, math calculator and other functions, so they really need a low-power processor. Mr. Harold, you should take the initiative and try to win this customer. ”

Harold listened to the information revealed by Hu Yiting, and said in surprise: "Thank you for your kindness, Hu, I will remember your Jianyi." ”

Hu Yiting smiled: "I just provided a message, because I really like ARM's technology." What a sad thing it would be if there were only x86 processors left in the world!"

Harold was happy when he heard this: "Well said! Hu, God bless ARM! To hell with X86!"

Next, Hu Yiting and Harold began formal negotiations on patent licensing, and the two came to a small conference room. More than 300 pages of ARM's patents were stacked in front of Hu Yiting, all of which are related to the ARM-V3 architecture, and some of them are ARM-V4 architecture and the latest developed instruction set that ARM is developing.

"If you fancy any of the patents in V4, you can license them for a small fee. Harold reminded with a smile.

Now Harold began to look at Hu Yiting to buy more licenses. Since the Chinese company wants to become one of the few fully licensed partners of ARM, he wants them to buy as many of the latest technologies as possible, so that they can design products that will not be eliminated from the market after the long R&D cycle.

Hu Yiting carefully flipped through the information on the table, and the speed of ten lines at a glance was very fast. He hadn't been exposed to these old architectures and instruction sets for a long time, and in his previous life he had used to use ARM's 7/9/11, Cotex-A series, V8-Cotex series, and Mali-GPU graphics processor designs. For an old antique like ARM-V3V4, Hu Yiting can only rummage through his mirror-like memories for comparison.

Harold didn't bother Hu Yiting, leaving him to work alone in the room. When it was time for lunch, Harold invited Hu Yiting to have a buffet lunch in the company cafeteria.

"You don't have to rush too much, it usually takes two or three weeks or even a month or two to understand the technology and finally decide what licenses you need and what kind of help you want ARM to provide. Harold said as he sat next to Hu Yiting and ate a plate of vegetable salad.

Hu Yiting knows that some companies can study the vast amount of technology and patents at most for five or six months when negotiating licensing with ARM. Fortunately, the ARM product line in this year is still very short, and the information is only more than 300 pages, if you get 7 or 8,000 pages of technical information. It really took me a few weeks to get it done.

"I've almost finished reading it, and after a rough calculation, I will probably add 15 new instructions that have just been developed in the current V4 version. ”

"You've finished reading it?" Harold looked at Hu Yiting suspiciously, and said in his heart, you kid must not have looked carefully. What a hairy boy.

Hu Yiting swallowed a mouthful of curry potato roast beef, took a sip of creamy vegetable soup and said: "Anyway, ARM currently has so many technologies, and the range of trade-offs is not large." ”

Harold felt that Hu Yiting's words also made sense: "Well, as long as you have enough funds, I also hope that you can buy as many as possible." ”

By three o'clock in the afternoon, Hu Yiting had already determined the required technical authorization. Give the list to Harold.

"Okay, you go back to the hotel first, I can give you the quotation tomorrow afternoon, if you have no other opinions after review, we will choose a date and sign the contract under the witness of the lawyers of both parties." ”

"Very good. ”

Hu Yiting shook hands politely with Harold, and then left ARM and walked all the way back to the Soren Hotel.

Three o'clock in the afternoon is the time for the elderly residents of Cambridge Town to hang out and move, on the narrow street where only two cars can be side-by-side, the elderly are walking in twos and threes, the cute children are riding children's strollers, laughing and chasing on the lawn on the side of the street, and the residents of small villas are watering and pruning their own flower beds.

As far as the eye can see, almost all of the people Hu Yiting saw were old people, women and children, and it was clear from the buildings and people's clothing that the living standards of the residents of Cambridge Town were quite high.

"Britain is worthy of being an empire on which the sun never sets, and its family background is solid enough, and it will take about thirty or fifty years of struggle for China to catch up with the living standards of Britain...... I hope that my efforts can make China ......rise as soon as possible." (To be continued.) )

PS: Thank you for love born from the heart 2010, Wang Xuanxuance, Dark Wind Night Talk, Pig's Head Watching the Sword, Kashiwagi Dayo, Little Mouse on the Prairie, jasonahand reward.

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