Chapter 238: Of course we support Intel!
Yu Youcheng was telling the truth, and Hu Yiting smiled honestly: "I don't have any ill will towards Teacher Yu. ”
Yu Youcheng thought that Hu Yiting misunderstood that he was unhappy with him, and immediately smiled: "Xiao Hu, don't worry, business belongs to business, everyone is Chinese, the domestic IC design industry can make such an excellent chip, I will only be proud of you, how can I be unhappy?"
Hu Yiting inquired: "Then what is Intel going to do next? With Intel's technical strength, it should soon come up with its own multimedia instruction set, right?"
Yu Youcheng smiled and sighed: "It's difficult...... It's really difficult! It's all in the industry, so I won't hide it from you, at the moment our multimedia instruction set is still under development, but according to the company's plan, a press conference will be held in advance on December 1. ”
Hu Yiting was surprised: "So fast, Intel is really powerful!"
Yu Youcheng smiled bitterly and did not answer.
Harold will come to his senses and said with a smile: "Xiaohu, don't be scared by Mr. Yu, Intel is deliberately letting go in advance to prevent customers from changing their doors, first use the carrots that can't be eaten to put the user's desire to buy on hold, and at the same time lock the user's wallet, if it is a loyal user, then it will temporarily ignore other products, and wait patiently for the release of new products." ”
After that, Harold smiled and raised his glass to Yu Youcheng and said, "Mr. Yu, am I right?"
Yu Youcheng smiled bitterly: "In short, this is also forced to do this, and it makes our technical department very nerve-wracking and stressful." The company plans to announce at the press conference that it expects to launch a multi-energy Pentium processor at the end of the second quarter of next year, but I know that I can eat a few bowls of dry rice, and things can be launched before the end of next year, which can be regarded as burning high incense. ”
Yu Youcheng is so frank and honest, because here except for Harold, they are all Chinese, and they are all executives with heads and faces, everyone is eating in the IC industry, looking down and not looking up, and Intel is the only manufacturer here that makes X86 processors, and there is no competition with these four, although ARM also makes processors, but what is done is RISC thin processors, the company and Intel are as small as an ant and an elephant, so he doesn't mind Harold hearing it.
After Yu Youcheng said this, everyone was silent for a while, knowing that he was willing to reveal these inside stories out of trust in the people present.
Zhang Rujing said: "Mr. Yu, don't worry, I won't tell anyone." ”
Huang also said: "I won't say it either." ”
Hu Yiting said: "Me too." ”
When Harold saw everyone looking at him, he immediately spread his hands: "Of course! I swear to God, I will not reveal this news to any media." ”
Yu Youcheng smiled and put his hand on the shoulder of Hu Yiting, who was sitting next to him: "Xiaohu, don't you really consider selling the company to Intel? Or transfer technology to Intel, that's 200 million US dollars!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and Zhang Rujing thought to himself: "Oh my God, I didn't expect that Chongguang Company is so valued by Intel that it is willing to pay 200 million US dollars to acquire it! A mainland IC design company is actually worth so much, and it seems that their technical strength is really very strong! It seems that it is true that the legend of Cyrix's 6X86-DRAGON processor is selling well! Chongguang's set of multimedia instruction sets must be a very key core technology, and eighty percent of them are stuck in Intel's neck. ”
Huang Jenxun was surprised and thought: "200 million US dollars! If NVIDIA is changed and Intel takes a fancy to it, we will sell it for 100 million US dollars, no, let alone 100 million US dollars, we can consider selling it if it is more than 10 million US dollars! Even if it is to hug the thighs and let Intel take a stake, it is good!"
Harold looked at Hu Yiting with envy, before the rapid birth of the VCD decoding chip, he knew that Chongguang had great technical reserves, and later learned that the Youying Overlord coprocessor chip was also the masterpiece of this company, and he admired Hu Yiting very much, and now Yu Youcheng proposed a sky-high acquisition of 200 million US dollars on behalf of Intel, which made him convinced that Chongguang's technical strength is the TOPGUN of China's IC industry, and it is the best NO.1!
"Even our ARM doesn't have such a high valuation! I must remind the board of directors to firmly grasp this customer when I go back, and Chongguang is very likely to help ARM move towards unknown success in the future!"
Hu Yiting felt that Yu Youcheng's expectations were under great pressure on him, he licked his lips and asked: "I don't know if Ms. Wu Tong has brought her words, I am here to express my attitude, we feel extremely honored that an industry overlord like Intel can look at our Chongguang company! If you ask me if I support Intel, then I will definitely tell you that I support it 100 percent! Intel is such a great company, how can I not support it?" The computers I grew up with were all Intel CPUs, and I even admired Intel very much! Otherwise, I wouldn't have developed coprocessors for the x86 architecture.
But just like China has its own national conditions, we also have our own difficulties, as a national enterprise, we bear the future of the country and the expectations of the nation, everyone's eyes are on us!
Not to mention anything else, just after the birth of the Youying Overlord Association processor chip, the Xinhua News Agency followed up and reported on it, sending seven or eight newsletters before and after, the People's Daily twice reported on our company's products and technology on the front page, and published articles on our achievements five times, and all kinds of domestic media praised us all over the world! What a great honor this has given us! What a great encouragement! At this time, if I sell the company to the Americans, Mr. Yu, believe it or not, I will immediately become a sinner of the nation! The dregs of the country! The scum of the world?"
Yu Youcheng nodded in annoyance, pursed his mouth and said nothing gloomily. After all, he is Chinese, he experienced the War of Resistance when he was a child, and he can understand the national feelings and self-esteem of the Chinese.
Hu Yiting continued with a humble attitude: "In fact, our request for Chongguang is very pitiful, and it is also very simple, that is, as long as Intel gives us a little face, gives us a step down, and treats us as our own little brothers, we will definitely support Intel! In the future, wherever Intel points out, we will fight wherever it is, and we are willing to be Intel's pawns!"
Yu Youcheng said confusedly: "You mean the authorization of the X86 architecture?"
Intel is willing to pay even $200 million for the authorization of the multimedia instruction set of the Youying Overlord chip, can a small architecture license defeat Intel?
AMD has an X86 architecture license, have they shaken Intel?
Cyrix has an X86 architecture license, did they hurt Intel in the slightest?
Not to mention IBM, Nexgen, and even IDT and RISE, which I heard were about to launch X86-compatible CPUs, all of them have the X86 architecture license given by Intel, and I haven't heard of anyone who can beat Intel.
Since they can't, why do they think that they should focus on light energy? We are not three-headed and six-armed, and we must know that China even relies on imports of telephone chips, so why do we think that China can manufacture processors that harm Intel's interests? This is simply unreasonable!
In my opinion, in the final analysis, this is something that some people with ulterior motives are practicing the theory of the Chinese threat and deliberately using the hands of the United States to rectify China! However, China is weak and is bullied and ridiculed, and is this good for the status of overseas Chinese? No! In the end, foreigners will point at the Chinese nose and call us barbaric yellow pigs! A technologically backward inferior nation!
Yu Youcheng opened his mouth slightly, and stopped what he wanted to say, but nodded slightly, and it could be seen that he was touched by Hu Yiting's words.
Zhang Rujing and Huang Jenxun next to him were also a little touched, their eyebrows and eyes lowered and they didn't say a word, and their expressions were a little heavy.
Harold patted Hu Yiting on the back and said, "Hu, I don't have any discrimination against the Chinese, and I support you." ”
After that, Harold simply said to Yu Youcheng directly: "That's right, what are you Intel afraid of! Technology is for sharing! In this way, the world will be better in the future! The development of technology can be faster! We at ARM have always encouraged the sharing of technology, and have never restricted technology licensing! You Intel did not give us the technical authorization of 286 processors at the beginning, but as a result, we relied on ourselves, and we did not come up with the ARM architecture ?!!."
Harold was a little excited when he said this, and he took a proud sip of the remaining beer in the cup, turned to Hu Yiting and said: "Don't worry, Hu, we ARM support you to relight, I suggest that you develop a processor based on ARM architecture, RISC instruction set architecture is much more efficient than CISC instruction set like X86, X86 is a bloated fat pig, only those fools and laymen who play games on the computer can use it."
Hu Yiting smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that in this world, except for us and other people who are studying computers, they are all laymen! Are there any ordinary people who can't live without INDOS? Before Android came out, have you ever seen a layman playing RISC processors?
Can your ARM run the indos platform and the software on the platform without any performance loss? If you can, your ACORN series computer will not go out of business!
Hu Yiting continued to talk to Yu Youcheng with a bitter face: "Besides, the United States is the hegemon of the world! There is also the Wassenaar Agreement embargoing all kinds of cutting-edge equipment to China! What is there to be afraid of? Without cutting-edge process technology, we can only produce low-grade CPUs, and at best, we can compete with Cyrix and AMD for those users who are shy in their pockets and work hard in the low-end market." ”
Yu Youcheng nodded sharply, obviously agreeing with what Hu Yiting said, and smiled: "I also know that even if Chongguang produces X86 architecture CPUs, it is impossible to threaten Intel's position, which is indeed a completely unnecessary concern for our Intel executives." After all, there is no company in this world that understands the design concept and structural essence of the X86 architecture better than us at Intel, which is our own son. ”
Yu Yu glanced at Harold and said, "As for the reason why we didn't license the technology of your 286 in the first place, Mr. Harold, have you ever seen that company license its sales star to a competitor? Besides, after we produced the 386 processor, why didn't you apply for the technology license of the 286?"
"That's because we came up with our own ARM architecture!" Harold said with a proud of his neck.
Hu Yiting continued to persuade Yu Youcheng: "I have already said why Chongguang can't sell the company's bitterness, since Mr. Yu, you can also understand." So Intel will give us a step back at this time, and we will be able to step down with dignity. As long as Intel gives us the authorization of the X86 architecture, we will be able to produce low-end processors, so that some low-end computers on the market can be equipped with domestic CPUs, which is a great political achievement! The government also has face, and the people are also satisfied, and we can also earn back the equivalent of 200 million US dollars, and Intel can also immediately launch a multi-energy Pentium, no longer need to write blank checks, and naturally will not lose trust in users. This is a typical case of using Chinese wisdom to solve practical problems, and it is enough for Harvard Business School professors to brag about the business cooperation model of 20 years as MBA training cases!"
Yu Youcheng saw that what Hu Yiting said was interesting, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.
"You have completely convinced me, Hu Yiting, if this is what you want, I will do my best to facilitate this, and by tonight at the latest, I will report in detail to President Andy Grove and Chairman Gordon Moore about these factors you mentioned, I believe that with their wisdom, they can understand this win-win model, which is indeed good for us!"
After Yu Youcheng finished speaking, he pondered and thought: "This can be regarded as an alternative contribution to the nation that raised me as a Chinese."
Besides, even the low-end CPU market is not so easy to enter. In the 486 processor market, which has shipped as many as 38 million units, Intel offers product families of more than 40 specifications, which has already surrounded the entire market! AMD only accounts for 4 million units of the market, while Cyrix's share is less than 2 million units, which is not even half of AMD's.
It is conceivable that the fledgling heavy light must be the main 486 market, in terms of China's process technology, the product quality is estimated to be even AMD and Cyrix, not to mention Intel, as for the Pentium processor, not to mention the 0.35 micron process technology, China simply does not have 0.35 micron process technology! And the cost and quality of laboratory line preparation chips cannot be used for commercial use, so it is indeed Intel's market impact is minimal.
On the other hand, after Intel obtained the authorization of Chongguang's multimedia instruction set, it could immediately improve the performance of the company's products, which was about a year ahead of the original schedule of using the MMX instruction set developed by the Haifa laboratory in Israel for products, which is a big leap! Sure enough, technology sharing is the means to quickly improve technical strength. We Intel haven't lagged behind our competitors for a long time, and it seems that this has directly led to our inertia, leading for too long, so that we have almost forgotten the easiest way in the world to use technology exchange means to quickly improve our own technical strength!"
Hu Yiting was overjoyed when he saw that Yu Youcheng promised to do his best to persuade Andy Grove and Gordon Moore, but he couldn't bear to show his joy on his face, and he still had a melancholy expression, but his heart had betrayed him, and the beating of war drums beat his chest, almost popping out of his throat!
He raised the beer glass, which was almost full, toasted to Yu Youcheng, raised his head and drank it all, praying silently in his heart: "You must convince Grove, you must persuade Moore, as long as you give me the authorization of the X86 architecture, Chongguang will definitely soar to the sky!"