The sun rises early in the British summer, and the sun has risen high at half past eight in the morning, thinking about business negotiations, Hu Yiting only slept for four hours and got up, because of lack of sleep, wearing short sleeves and feeling cold on his body.

Wu Shihuan, who was in the same room, was still snoring, Hu Yiting put on his clothes lightly, went downstairs to the front desk to get a breakfast coupon, ate a sandwich in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel, and drank two cups of coffee.

The waiter looked curiously at the young man with a Chinese passport in front of him, and after filling him coffee, he sat next to him and asked him what China was like.

Hu Yiting drank coffee and chatted casually with the blonde girl, and learned that her name was Mary, a student at Cambridge Middle School, who worked as a waiter at the Soren Hotel during the summer vacation, hoping to save enough money to travel overseas with her classmates during the winter vacation this year.

Hu Yiting wanted to say enthusiastically, you can come to China, I will be your tour guide, but when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed back, he is now busy as a dog, how can he have time to receive these children.

"It's very cool in the UK, I haven't felt hot until I got up, and it's 37 degrees Celsius in the northern capital now. Hu Yiting changed the subject.

At this time, there was no one in the restaurant except Hu Yiting, Mary hugged the tray and sat quietly next to Hu Yiting to be lazy: "The highest temperature in August in the UK is only 21 or 2 degrees, and the night is generally about 10 degrees, if you come back late, it is best to wear a coat and go out." ”

"Thank you for reminding me, no wonder I even felt a little cold last night. ”

Mary smiled: "Beidu is a city that I would love to visit, it is very old, it makes me feel mysterious, like an oriental temple. ”

Seeing Mary's longing for China like this, Hu Yiting couldn't help but reveal the warm and friendly hospitable nature of the Chinese, and sighed: "Then you come, I can provide you with a place to live." ”

Mary grinned happily, "Really, thank you, I promise I won't bother you for too long, my classmates and I are backpackers, as long as you can provide us with a living room, we will always be in the city to enjoy the local customs." ”

Hu Yiting nodded: "I have something to do now." Do you know where ARM is, and how much time does it take to get there?"

Mary was stunned, suddenly laughed, pointed out the window of the restaurant and said, "Go out and walk three hundred meters east along this street, and you will be able to see ARM company." They have a little sign in front of the door, you won't miss it. ”

Hu Yiting couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and said to himself: "No wonder you introduced us to live here, it's so close." ”

Saying goodbye to Mary, Hu Yiting went back to the room and put on a jacket. I took out the leather bag containing the company's documents and fax letters from my luggage, walked all the way downstairs out of the hotel, and walked slowly eastward along the street.

Summer is the most beautiful season in the UK, the town of Cambridge is full of greenery, two-storey cottages are hidden in the shade of roadside trees, the lawns in front of the houses are manicured, the flower beds are full of unknown small flowers, and the air is filled with the smell of pollen, which makes people want to sneeze.

Walking in such an environment, Hu Yiting was in a good mood. The pace was easy, and it took five minutes to walk the 300-meter road.

ARM looks small, there are only three five-story buildings in total, in a semi-enclosed concave shape, wrapped in a huge lawn in the middle, the company has no doorman, Hu Yiting entered the gate, stepped on the lawn and went straight to the largest building.

After the report from the front desk, Hu Yiting finally met Harold, the marketing manager of ARM.

"Welcome to the UK. Harold looked at Hu Yiting in surprise. I thought, "Is this person born baby-faced?" Or do Chinese people look younger?"

Hu Yiting sat down on the sofa in Harold's office: "I am also very happy to come to Cambridgetown, I think this is the most beautiful city in the UK. ”

"You're right. "Harold is not modest.

"Mr. Harold, how much do you know about our Chongguang Company?"

"Your company's CEO, Wang Lili, sent us a fax. We know that you are the company that developed the Shadow Overlord coprocessor, which is a great coprocessor, and I heard that you have reached a partnership agreement with Cyrix?" asked Harold with great interest.

"Yes, we want to help Cyrix increase its market share. Hu Yiting said vaguely.

Harold nodded, a little unimpressed. In his opinion, what is the great thing about a Chinese IC company? The short-lived technology is only temporary, and sooner or later it will be overwhelmed by the endless succession products in the market.

"Hu, have you read the detailed patent information of ARM before you came?"

"Yes, I've seen it. ”

"Are you sure you want to license the ARM6 processor? This processor uses ARM-V3 cores, are you planning to produce ARM6 processors, or are you going to integrate ARM-V3 cores into your design?"

"It is enough to have an ARM-V3 core license, and there is no need for the entire ARM6 processor structure license. ”

"Okay, once the contract is signed, we will hand over all the development materials and instruction set code for the development of the ARM-V3 core to you.

According to the market size, we will charge a patent fee equivalent to 1% to 2% of the market price of the product, the specific number depends on the sales volume of your product, first at 2%, if the total patent fee exceeds 100,000 US dollars, then it will be charged at 1.9%, and so on, for every 100,000 US dollars you pay in the patent fee, you can enjoy the next level of patent rate, and the total patent fee exceeds 1 million US dollars, you can use the V3 core at a rate of 1% permanently. ”

"We plan to produce a VCD decoding chip that uses the ARM-V3 core as the processor part of the decoding operation. ”

"Great business, if your products can come out as soon as possible, I believe there will be a lot of market potential, as far as I know, the American C-CUBE decoding chip is selling very well. ”

Hu Yiting and Harold struck up a conversation, and soon Harold was impressed by Hu Yiting's profound knowledge and became interested in him.

"Hu, may I take the liberty of asking? How old are you?"

"I'm 16 years old. ”

“…… Are you kidding?"

"Do I look like 18?"

"God, you do look like 16, but how can a 16-year-old boy know so much? At what age did you go to college?"

Hu Yiting didn't bother to listen to his fuss: "I'm in the Chinese Academy of Sciences." ”

Harold had a look of sudden realization: "You are a genius, Hu, you are amazing, through the conversation with you, I think you can immediately adapt to the working environment here even if you come to ARM." ”

"But I'm not an underage, can you hire child labor?"

Harold's mouth was open, his lips twitching, "Oh...... I didn't take that into account...... Well, maybe you can consider coming to the UK in the future, please keep in touch with me, I promise that the treatment here is much higher than in China. ”

Hu Yiting smiled: "Thank you for your appreciation, I am honored, but before I come, the company also hopes that I will negotiate with ARM on the instruction set, and I hope to get the full authorization of your company." ”

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, we hope to get the development authorization based on the ARM instruction set, so that Chongguang is allowed to develop and use the processing core of the ARM instruction set by itself, and has the right to add, delete and modify instructions in the existing core design of ARM. ”

"This can't be!" Harold rejected Hu Yiting's wishful thinking. (To be continued.) )