In addition, chip R&D is now not only about hardware design, but also about both software and hardware. That is, while designing the circuit, it is also necessary to write the software on how to use the circuit. The overall development level and vertical integration level of the industrial chain are also key factors affecting the development of the domestic chip industry.

One of the most difficult things for the software in the chip is the instruction set.

CISC instruction set, also known as complex instruction set, English name is CISC, (abbreviation of ComplexInstructionSetComputing). In a CISC microprocessor, the instructions of a program are executed sequentially and serially, and the individual operations in each instruction are also executed sequentially and serially. The advantage of sequential execution is that the control is simple, but the utilization rate of each part of the computer is not high, and the execution speed is slow. In fact, it is the x86 series (that is, the IA-32 architecture) CPU produced by Intel and its compatible CPUs, such as AMD and VIA.

RISC is the abbreviation of "ReducedInstructionSetComputing" in English, which means "reduced instruction set" in Chinese. Tests conducted by CISC machines show that the frequency of use of various instructions is quite different, and some relatively simple instructions are most commonly used, which account for only 20% of the total number of instructions, but the frequency of occurrence in the program accounts for 80%. Complex instruction systems inevitably increase the complexity of microprocessors, making processors take a long time to develop and have high costs. And complex instructions require complex operations, which will inevitably slow down the computer. Based on the above reasons, in the 80s of the 20th century, RISC CPU was born, compared with CISC CPU, RISC CPU not only simplified the instruction system, but also adopted a so-called "superscalar and super pipeline structure", which greatly increased the parallel processing capacity. RISC instruction set is the direction of development for high-performance CPUs. It is the opposite of the traditional CISC (Complex Instruction Set). In contrast, RISC has a uniform instruction format, fewer types, and fewer addressing methods than complex instruction sets. Of course, the processing speed is much improved. The CPU of this instruction system is commonly used in medium and high-end servers, especially the CPU of RISC instruction system is used in all high-end servers.

And the reduced instruction set is also the direction of Meizu's CPU manufacturing. RISC-type CPUs are not compatible with Intel and AMD CPUs in both software and hardware. So Liu Si had to speed up. You must know that Intel's CPU is actually not the best, why it can dominate the PC field, the main reason is that the market for x86 architecture has been cultivated. At present, the market in China is actually small, and Liu Si needs to speed up the development of his own CPU and cultivate Meizu's own market and ecosystem in China.

The domestic development is not up, and the chip industry is rapidly upgrading, which is the most significant feature! It has caused the threshold for entry into the chip industry to be too high, and the amount of capital that enterprises need to invest is very large, but due to the slow rate of return, many chip companies have given up halfway due to funds. Therefore, there will be many domestic chip companies to accelerate the return on investment of products by purchasing foreign intellectual property rights, which also exacerbates our dependence on foreign chip technology on the other hand.

The domestic chip industry chain can't develop, that is the previous life, and in this life, Liu Si said "No!" "In terms of chips, electronic communications, he has to throw money to build a future, $1 billion, okay? No way! What about $10 billion? Not yet? As long as Liu Si has money, why not spend $100 billion!

The CPU is the core, but the manufacturing of electronic devices is not only the CPU, but also motherboards, hard disks, memory modules, graphics cards, and displays. The manufacture of electronic equipment is inseparable from semiconductors, and facilities and equipment such as lithography machines and etching machines are indispensable in semiconductor manufacturing.

Therefore, Zhou Chang's poaching operation is large-scale, including the United States intel, AMD, IBM, HP, Microsoft, SUN, NVIDIA, Atmel, Texas Instruments, Fairchild Semiconductor, Qualcomm, MPS, Apple, ...... British ARM, CSR (one of the largest manufacturers of Bluetooth and GPS chips), Wolfson...... Dutch ASML (the largest lithography machine giant), Philips ...... Japan Canon, Nikon, Sony, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi...... Samsung, SK hynix, LG, SFA, Semes, KCTech...... German Siemens, EPCOS, Zeiss ......

The United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the Netherlands are the focus of Liu Si's attention, but technology companies such as Finland's Nokia and Italy's STMicroelectronics are also focused.

According to this large-scale excavation of talents, the place in Angola alone will definitely not be enough. Where is mainly used to arrange IC engineers, LCD engineers, programmers, etc., who are coerced and kidnapped by Zhou Chang, most of the ordinary or voluntary IC engineers, LCD engineers, programmers and other experts will still be arranged in their home countries.

Zhou Chang is doing it in secret, and more often relies on Moynihan to poach people and build research institutes of Meizu and VIVO in various major countries. Now Moynihan has once again received an order of up to $1 billion from Liu Si, but this order has a long time span and high requirements. Just a public relations company of a dozen people is not enough, he is going to upgrade, and now the full name of Moy Consulting Co., Ltd. is Moi.

In the early stage, Liu Si gave Moynihan a deposit of 300 million US dollars, and Moynihan was not ambiguous, looking at the face of money, poaching ARM, CSR (one of the largest manufacturers of Bluetooth and GPS chips), Wolfson...... That's pretty impressive. In just one week, the VIVO and Meizu research institutes set up in London were overcrowded.

To this end, Liu Si had to buy two buildings in the suburbs of London, both of which were more than 20 stories high, and cost Liu Si a total of 90 million US dollars. But Liu Si is very happy, maybe he doesn't know too much about electronic communications and semiconductor technology, but it seems that the research atmosphere of Meizu and VIVO's research institutes is very good!

Of course, the cost of preparing for the research institutes of Meizu and VIVO in the United Kingdom is more than this, and so far, Liu Si has invested more than 800 million US dollars in it. Except for the $90 million spent on the purchase of the house, most of the rest of the expenses were spent on research equipment, and they were purchased at a large price. Of course, it's good to be able to buy it. The market price of a 0.35mm plasma lithography machine is about 40 million US dollars, and the Meizu (UK) research institute spent 150 million US dollars to purchase two units.

A country VIVO, Meizu research institute branch spent 800 million US dollars, the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands, the total calculation, no need to think about 5 billion US dollars, if you want to develop, you have to invest at least 10 billion US dollars, or even this is only the amount invested every year.

With $10 billion a year, Liu Si is under a lot of pressure! But gritting his teeth, he still got on the thief ship of semiconductor research and electronic communication technology research, as for whether he can land safely, it depends on God's will!

Liu Si thought it was a lot of $5 billion just drawn from Xinjiapo not long ago, but now he found out that $5 billion doesn't seem to be enough!

Bugatti and Lamborghini are not large, almost an empty shell, and they don't need to inject too much capital at present, but Rolls-Royce and Bentley have to inject capital. Why did Britain sell Rolls-Royce and Bentley because they couldn't run and had too many debts. Although Rolls-Royce and Bentley will now check their accounts again, the funds will not be credited to the corporate accounts of Rolls-Royce and Bentley, but at least $1 billion of financial support needs to be set aside for the two companies. Otherwise, Liu Si would only get the result of the bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce and Bentley.

Rolls-Royce and Bentley injected $1 billion; The research institutes of Meizu and VIVO in the United Kingdom cost $800 million and injected $200 million; $300 million in advance payments to Moy; Bugatti and Lamborghini injected a total of $200 million. In other words, Liu Si now has just over $2.6 billion in funds left.

But what? Nowadays, there are many companies in China that need capital to develop.

Times Real Estate needs funds to hoard land, and even get land and land development rights in various first-, second-, and even third-tier cities at the end of this year and early next year. Because the central government will cancel the policy of welfare housing in 98, Times Real Estate needs to make a profit in this first commercial housing welfare, so Times Real Estate needs a lot of funds to get land and land development rights in first-, second-, and even third-tier cities. Don't talk about the land, there are those second generations, everything is easy to say, and you only need to pay 15% of the price of the land to get the land. The most important thing is the land development right, if you want to get the land development right, you need to pay the full amount of the money to the government for the land to buy the land, that is to say, if you want to get the land development right, you need to bloom everywhere in the first-, second-, and even third-tier cities in China, and the funds needed are not small.

At present, only Nongfu Spring is produced in China, and the rest of the products such as instant noodles, herbal tea, biscuits and other products have been successfully developed, but there is no capital to purchase production lines and build production rooms, let alone layout the whole country, which requires a lot of funds.

With the help of the R&D personnel of Mingchen, Weimei Daily Chemical has developed toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, soap, soap, laundry detergent, laundry detergent, sanitary napkins, and toilet paper, and there is no capital to purchase production lines and build delivery rooms, let alone layout the whole country, which also requires a lot of funds.

If it weren't for the transfer of 500 million yuan of funds to the account of Xinyuan Property, two domestic companies of Meizu and VIVO, Xinyuan Property would have dried up its funds.

Alibaba, Baidu, Penguin, Ctrip and other online companies also need to burn money, and there is also a lack of funds.

As for the fact that Guangguang Media wants to develop and grow, let alone that.

Foreign angel investment and phoenix investment, if it weren't for Liu Si's early instructions to invest in companies such as ICQ, SHOPPING, and EBAY, as long as the price given by Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs, Softbank and other investment institutions is not too low, they can completely give up their controlling stakes, and angel investment and phoenix investment are definitely breaking down early.

Of course, in addition, you must know that the 98-year retreat of the DPP has officially begun, and there can be no shortage of funds.

Therefore, Moynihan originally thought of other countries' proposals to re-establish research institutes for VIVO and Meizu but was persuaded by Liu Si.