Chapter 426: Madness Spanning 150 Years
Sun Yaguan looked at Chen Zier's confused expression, and knew that he didn't understand very well, and with a flick of his index finger, the cigarette ash fell.
"It's technically determined, as I just said, that someone like me has no problems developing the kernel of a computer system at all, and it can be done with a little time, which is not that difficult, but it's actually not very useful," he explains. ”
"Because it'...... In any case, it is equivalent to a kernel, not a complete system, and a complete system is very expensive, and the wise choice is to build on the existing tests. In fact, Microsoft is constantly modifying its own system, building a brick-by-brick edifice, and in addition to Indos, Apple's macOS system is also not starting from scratch. ”
"This is an experience that we can learn from Apple as a latecomer, the system was developed on the basis of Mach, Freeebsd, Next and a lot of other open source code, they put a lot of effort into it, and the financial resources are definitely more than 5 billion, after the return of Jobs, the imac sales were good, Apple survived, but I would say that its success was built on top of the already mature open source Unix, so develop a completely new system...... Be a fool for one's pains. ”
Liang Shengjun pursed his lips and nodded, "Buying a company may be the most promising way to survive." ”
All he wanted now was to survive.
After hearing this, Chen Zier knew that if he wanted to seize the market on the PC side, it was already a matter that a reborn person needed yy, and he couldn't do it at all.
"Actually, I think I can think differently, the two of you may have misunderstood what I meant, I'm not going to compete with Microsoft on the PC side. ”
Sun Yaguan and Liang Sheng both glanced at each other.
"What do you mean?"
Chen Zier spread his hand and said: "You also need OS on your phone." ”
Professor Sun shook his head, "No matter what changes, the same system, the system in the mobile phone market is also fiercely competitive." ”
Chen Zier said: "Then what if I want to put all the functions of the PC system on the mobile phone as much as possible? Professor Sun, don't you think the current mobile phones are too clumsy?"
It's a little new, but people think about it and shake their heads even more, "It's good to have no mindset, but it can't be implemented technically, not that the software can't be developed, but other hardware can't keep up." The Symbian system released by Nokia in Europe cannot be compared with the PC system in terms of the functions that can be achieved, not that they don't want to be more poer, but that the hardware can't support him. ”
"The most obvious factor is power consumption, natural science has told us, powerful means power consumption, the PC system is based on Intelx86 architecture hardware runs, although Intel's chip is unique in the world, but this chip based on complex instruction set still consumes amazing power, and the volume of mobile phones is limited, which limits the volume of the battery, after forcibly moving over, that bit of power, ten times a day charging is not enough, in this way, what competitiveness does the mobile phone have? This is the equivalent of putting a space shuttle engine on a tractor and driving it in a fuel pool. ”
Chen Zier subconsciously shook his head, "No, no, no, it's not Intel, no Intel." ”
He thought of a vague fragment of his memory, and when he mentioned Intel, he knew that there was information that he had missed, because the "Biography of Steve Jobs" he had read told him that Intel's chip was not adopted by Apple in the end.
In fact, Intel seems to have been abandoned by the entire mobile smart device manufacturer.
All smartphone manufacturers have opted for chips from another company, for almost the same reason that Intel chips based on complex instruction sets overwhelm mobile devices that are not large enough.
Liang Shengjun was surprised and asked, "What is not Intel?"
Professor Sun also looked at him with puzzled eyes, this young man...... How weird.
Chen Zier tried hard to recall, but he couldn't remember the name, although his memory was strong, but anyone could remember these small details?
"Are there any other chip designers in the world?"
Liang Shengjun knows this, "That's more, didn't we discuss it last time, the threshold for chip design is not high, the threshold for chip manufacturing is high, if you want to talk about design companies, countries like Turkey have chip designers." ”
"No, no. Chen Zier waved his hand, "It's a chip designer that is different from Intel." ”
The two were confused.
Isn't it all different? Is there any company that is exactly the same as Intel? Then it's not Intel's awesomeness, it's his awesomeness.
Professor Sun said, "What are you asking? What is different from Intel?"
Chen Zier said: "It's that the source and thinking of chip design are different, didn't you just talk about a complex instruction set?"
Liang Shengjun was engaged in hardware, and he said tentatively: "Do you want to say that there is a difference between the instruction set and Intel?"
"Yes, the energy consumption is low. ”
"Got it, reduced instruction set, huh?"
Chen Zier slapped his thigh, "This is this thing." ”
Sun Yaguan then understood, "It seems that Mr. Chen is not a complete layman, and CISC and RISC also know everything." ”
Mother, what do you mean?
"I'll go back and explain to you slowly, in fact, everyone knows that the reduced instruction set is the general direction of chip design technology, because the complex instruction set is really a natural weakness, Intel also thought about taking the road of the reduced instruction set, in fact, they chose both to go, but after the introduction to the market, the 80860 processor based on the reduced instruction set failed, and the 80486 processor based on the complex instruction set succeeded, and so far, the reduced instruction set still has not seen the end of the day. ”
Chen Zier did not understand the decisions of these companies, he only knew that Intel's later market position was indeed shaken, and he was shaken by a company from the United Kingdom.
"I've heard people say before, is there a company in the UK that is going down the path of streamlining instruction sets?"
Liang Shengjun nodded, "There is a small company called ARM doing it, but compared to Intel, it is ants and elephants." ”
Chen Zier's brain was suddenly opened up by the name 'arm', by the way, this is the company!
It is the one that occupies the vast majority of the market for mobile smart device chips! Almost all mobile smart devices use chips designed by this company!
"Professor, Shengjun, I think Shengshi Electronics should go in a slightly different direction, I want to implement most of the functions of the operating system on the PC side on the mobile phone, I know that there are many problems, it is difficult, the problem of energy consumption may be only the most inconspicuous one, but this is always easier to survive than competing with Microsoft for the operating system on the PC side, right?"
Professor Sun understood what he meant, "You are trying to find a way to solve the problem of energy consumption by reducing the instruction set chip." ”
"And the technology of the battery itself is also improving, and I think this problem can be completely solved. ”
"I've heard people tell you...... The most successful businessmen always have a kind of optimism that doesn't know where to come from. It's obviously difficult, but I still don't change and persist. Professor Sun sighed: "And listening to your idea, it reminds me of the crazy ...... of Field's investment in the construction of the Atlantic submarine telegraph line."
Chen Zier smiled and said, "It's really crazy, despite the difficulties, but Field succeeded in the end, didn't he?"
In fact, if you look at the fees, you can see how crazy this investment was at the beginning, after the transatlantic telegraph line was laid...... One word, ten dollars, it took half a lifetime to finally get it, and then it paid back in 3 years. Ten dollars...... In those years, it was equivalent to a week's earnings of an average worker, and in simple terms, you wrote back a letter that said 'ok', okay, the next week, sorry, please eat dirt.
"I originally thought that Mr. Chen's idea was a fantasy, but when I heard you mention Field, I really understand. Liang Shengjun was also shocked by Chen Zier's idea that only works in theory, "People who make a lot of money at a young age are not rare to earn those easy money...... I didn't expect that 150 years later, I would be able to experience this kind of madness for myself!"
is to go crazy, Chen Zier is not short of money at all, even if he fails, the stocks of the giant company in his hand are enough for him to get away.
So the next question is, which company to acquire?
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