On June 12, the "Star Cup World E-sports Competition" began.

In the past six months, the employees of Star Entertainment have also developed many other games, and the sales are not bad. However, to join a large-scale event such as the "Star Cup", it is still not qualified. And "Tank Wars", a very popular game, is not suitable for battles.

So there are only three events in this competition, "Great Wall Cube", "Snake", and "Bubble Dragon".

This time, Wu Ming continued to play. To the disappointment of avid fans, Wu Ming only won a bronze medal for "Snake", and the other two projects were only shortlisted for the finals.

Wu Ming also wants to continue to win gold medals, but these three games are not like Rubik's Cube, which can crush other players with advanced technology, and can only rely on skilled experience.

Wu Ming can usually play with a Rubik's Cube anytime and anywhere, but it is impossible to carry an arcade machine with him.

However, the gold medals of "The Great Wall Cube" and "Snake" were still taken by the Chinese, after all, the people in Xiangjiang have more experience than people in other places. In the end, they defeated players from other countries by a small margin.

On June 13, the seven-day "Star Cup" ended perfectly.

A total of 50 events, a total of 150 medals, and a prize of 6 million US dollars have been distributed.

The data shows that in the months after the competition, the sales growth rate of the products of the two companies was one or two times more than before.

This effect has made the two companies very satisfied, Duole Toys and Xingchen Entertainment, and are ready to continue to hold it in the coming year.

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As soon as he came to Aihua Electronics, Wu Ming was pulled into the laboratory by Yu Youcheng.

Yu Youcheng held a chip, with an irrepressible smile on his face, and said with a smile: "You see, this is the A8 chip, the world's first reduced instruction set CPUU has finally been successfully developed." ”

Hearing such good news, Wu Ming couldn't help but be stunned.

"Great, hahaha!"

After recovering from this sudden surprise, Wu Ming couldn't help but laugh out loud.

After receiving strong support from Wu Ming, Yu Youcheng spent a lot of money to recruit many researchers from Intel, and communicated with some developers in the United States who were also working on reduced instruction sets.

After half a year, ARM8, the first 8-bit chip in the reduced instruction set, was finally developed.

It uses 6 micron manufacturing technology, integrates 5,000 transistors, and operates at a frequency of 3.23MHz.

You must know that the first 16-bit complex instruction set CPU "i8086" developed by Intel in 1978 only reached 4.77MHz. And its 8-bit CPU "i8080" is only 2MHz.

After being happy, Wu Ming sighed with emotion: "I've waited too long for this day. ”

Yu Youcheng also sighed with emotion and said excitedly: "Yes, we have been looking forward to this day for a long time, and we will change the entire CPU industry." Anyway, we can still be the CPU hegemon. ”

Today's CPU market is in a state of fragmentation, and the future CPU hegemon company Intel is just beginning to rise.

Compared with CPU, people now pay more attention to the memory business, and they are also the leaders in the memory industry, of course, they will not take the profit of CPU in their eyes.

It's just that later the memory manufacturers of the island country came to the stage, and they almost forced Intel to death with a low price as a weapon.

Intel, which was in trouble, had to make a new choice. In 1985, Intel finally made up its mind to abandon the memory business and transform into a CPU company.

Therefore, the five years before Intel's transformation is the best time for Aihua Electronics to compete for CPU supremacy.

Wu Ming thought for a while, and said: "Yes, now that the old CPU companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor are already going downhill, it is a good opportunity for us to attack the city and seize the land." Now that the CPU has been developed, let's go into production as soon as possible. ”

"Of course. Yu Youcheng agreed.

Then he showed a sad face, and was embarrassed: "It's just that the introduction of the wafer factory is very troublesome." Companies in the United States and island nations are simply reluctant to sell technology to the outside world. ”

"Why?" Wu Ming wondered, "Don't they make money yet?"

Yu Youcheng smiled wryly and explained: "It's not because we are Chinese, the mainland in Xiangjiang is too close, if we want to build a wafer factory, we must go to North America to set it up." ”

"Damn foreign devils!" Wu Ming scolded in a low voice.

Yu Youcheng smiled bitterly: "There is really no way, we can only build a factory in North America." ”

Wu Ming bared his teeth and said: "But the labor in North America is too expensive, and we want to build a factory in Xiangjiang because the labor here is cheap, so that we can quickly recover the cost." Don't look at the high profits of their fabs, sooner or later they will not be able to bear the high wages of labor in North America, and they will have to move to our side in Asia!"

After pondering for a while, Wu Ming frowned and asked in a deep voice, "Can't you develop it yourself?"

Yu Youcheng smiled bitterly: "Of course you can, but it will take too long." I'm afraid I can't catch up with the production of the block machine!"

Suddenly, Wu Ming had a flash of inspiration, turned his anger into joy, and said with a smile: "There is a way." ”

Yu Youcheng couldn't wait to ask, "What's the way?"

Wu Ming smiled slightly and said, "We can go to Europe, especially France, which has left NATO." In order to restore the former glory of France, the country is often the first to loosen its mouth in the various technological blockades of the West. ”

When Wu Ming said this, Yu Youcheng also understood, and said excitedly: "Yes, I forgot that there are Gallic chickens." ”

Wu Ming said with a smile: "No wonder you forgot all of a sudden, after all, the global semiconductor market is now dominated by the United States and Japan." Those semiconductor companies in Europe are too inconspicuous. ”

"Indeed, now that the United States and Japan semiconductor companies are attacking cities in the world, I really don't think of European countries for a while. Yu Youcheng nodded and said, "Then I'll contact the relevant companies in France now." ”

The French side was also shocked when it received Yu Youcheng's inquiry. They didn't expect that there would be people who wanted to build a fab in this kind of place.

After checking the information of Aihua Electronics and knowing that Aihua Electronics has the support of Xingchen Entertainment behind them, they suddenly realized.

In recent months, the sales of Pokemon pet machines in France have also been very hot, and some of their own families have indulged in the fun of raising electronic pets.

After knowing that Aihua Electronics, an unknown company, did have that strength, they readily indicated that they could sell fab-related technology and production equipment to the outside world.

A week later, after difficult negotiations with the French semiconductor company, Yu Youcheng finally succeeded in pushing the price to the minimum.

Aihua Electronics spent a total of 60 million US dollars to purchase the corresponding technology and production equipment. Within a month, all the equipment will be able to reach Xiangjiang.