More than ten hours later, Yu Youcheng's chip named "X8" was processed and baked. After the pen and fun www.biquge.info, it is to test the performance of this chip with software.

"Yu—Oh, this ...... What's going on with the chip, just more than 4,000 transistors, with a clock frequency of 1.5MHz~2.2MHz? Floating-point arithmetic actually reached 1.76 million times?" Martin Van Deng Brink said a little tremblingly, "It's really an 8-bit CPU chip?"

If it is a 16-bit chip, he will never doubt it.

The low-end 16-bit chips on the market now have more than a million floating-point operations per second.

"Yes!" Yu Youcheng said quite smugly, "There are more than 4,000 transistors, of course, eight-bit chips, but its design is more streamlined and reasonable." The 8080 chip, which is also an octbit processor, has only 290,000 floating-point operations per second with 6,000 transistors! My design, with fewer transistors, has five times the performance of the Intel 8080! The reason for such a big difference is that the 8080 chip is a complex instruction set, while the chip I designed is a reduced instruction set chip. ”

"Reduced instruction set?" Martin Van Deng Brink nodded.

Although for a chip with more than 4,000 transistors integrated, it is a bit surprising to have such an impressive efficiency.

But Martin Van Deng Brink may not be optimistic about the commercial prospects of this chip.

No matter how powerful it is, it is only an 8-bit chip, and at this time, chip manufacturers in the United States have already launched 16-bit chips.

16-bit chips mean more advanced processes!

The design can't compare to your reduced instruction set? Then, the technology is more advanced than yours, and it will also crush you in performance!

Even if it can't match you in terms of performance, but - what about compatibility?!

Those chips that are the king in the market may not be the best chips, but in terms of compatibility, they determine the future of business......

No matter how advanced a chip is, if it can't make money, there will be no funds to continue to invest in follow-up research and development, and in less than two years, the original advanced performance will become backward!

I heard that this 8-bit chip has such a powerful floating-point computing performance. Lin Qi was a little excited, and said, "Lao Yu, there are good things, why don't you take them out earlier?"

"It's not mature, it's not mature!" Yu Youcheng said modestly, "Didn't you say that you want to start with a 16-bit chip? This 8-bit chip is lagging behind when it comes out, and there is no value in mass production." At least, we won't produce it ourselves!"

Lin Qi thought about it for a while, so he reluctantly buried this 8-bit chip performance king in the laboratory for the time being.

"Have you registered a patent?" asked Lin Qi.

"I want you to say!" Yu Youcheng said proudly, "Even if it is an immature product, it is necessary to register a patent! The patents are all registered in the name of the new venture electronics company, and lawyer Zhao is in charge." ”

Lin Qi breathed a sigh of relief, although this chip is definitely not the main product of the new start-up electronics company, but it ...... Because the process it requires is very simple, so that the current semiconductor factories in Chinese mainland have the ability to mass produce it.

It does not produce itself, and is authorized to semiconductor companies in the mainland to support the semiconductor foundry industry in the mainland.

In the handheld of the 80s, the performance of the 8-bit chip was sufficient!

The performance of this chip is about twice that of the 6502 chip, and it can be used to replace the 6502 chip currently widely used by the company.

Now Xinchuang Electronics purchases no less than 3 million 6502 chips every month, and if these orders are transferred to domestic semiconductor factories, let them produce X8 chips. Then, at least 10 semiconductor factories with an annual output of 3 million CPU chips can be supported.

Although, there is no guarantee that each factory can continuously upgrade technology and processes in accordance with the law of Moore's Law. But as long as there is a factory that can update its technology according to the law of Moore's law, then, in the future, the 16-bit chip of the new venture electronics company will be successfully developed, and it will be able to find a suitable factory to help OEM production!

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In the next few days, with the help of St. George, Lin Qi met with the senior management of the Philips Group, and the two sides had already negotiated the purchase of lithography machines and supporting equipment, and now the negotiated project has been transferred to the patent authorization of CD technology.

"Lin, we are very optimistic about the prospects of CD patents. Ke Cilei, president of Philips' professional audio system business unit, said with a smile as a negotiator, "For this reason, we have set up a professional audio company, you can know how much we attach importance to this market!"

"Didn't Philips license Sony's CD patents?" Lin Qi said, "In that case, why don't you license a few more?"

"The thing that our group executives regret the most is licensing Sony a CD patent!" said Kotsleigh.

Frankly, before Sony granted the CD patent, Philips did not necessarily attach much importance to this patent, and only regarded CD as a miniaturization of LD technology.

However, with Sony's product making a CD music player, it is a product that is not compatible with Philips' standards. The CD player sold by Sony can only read CDs produced by Sony. The size of its CD is completely different from that of Philips.

Polygram Records, a subsidiary of Philips, has a large number of music copyrights, but it can't eat this piece of cake because of incompatible technical standards.

One can imagine how angry Philips is!

In the future, Sony will also engage in MD standards and smaller CDs to compete with CDs for the market...... Of course, MD has never been the mainstream technology standard, after all, it's suitable for music players.

In addition to music players, CD technical standards are also suitable for computer optical drives, VCDs, DVDs and other markets.

"If the CD patent is granted to us, we will be fully compatible with Philips' labeling in the CD music player standard!" Lin Qi categorically assured, "We will guarantee that the Philips standard will become the mainstream technical standard in the market!"

That's right!

Only the CD music playback rights are compatible with Philips standards. As for CD-ROM, or upgraded products such as VCD and DVD, it depends on Lin Qi's mood.

Lin Qi and Philips promised to help Philips teach the anti-bone boy Sony. In the end, Philips agreed to the patent license, but the license fee was as high as $10 million!

"Can I pay in five years?" Lin Qi asked.

"Yes!" Philips considered that a one-time payment of $10 million was indeed unrealistic, and that the $10 million that could be obtained from selling patent licenses was beyond expectations.

Sony is just using millions of dollars in cash to jointly develop products under the guise of obtaining patent licenses cheaply.

But in fact, after Sony got the patent license, it quickly drove the Philips team back to the Netherlands.

It wasn't until after Sony's CD player was launched that Philips didn't know about Sony's R&D progress......

With the end of the cooperation with Philips, Lin Qi and others returned satisfied. As for the lithography machine and other equipment, it will take at least a few months before it can arrive in Hong Kong by sea.