Chapter 056: Asgard Chip

The next day, Wang Xiao first accompanied Liu Mimi and Liu Tiantian to Shanghai, and signed an acting contract with Feng Simin, after which Wang Xiao did not return to Jiangcheng, but took the plane to Huawei Technology Company in eastern Guangdong Province.

His trip was to cooperate with Hua Wei Technology Company to jointly establish a new chip company.

Going with Wang Xiao was Zhao Yaming, the manager of the company's R&D department.

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"Mr. Wang, this is Xu Jun, vice president of Huawei Company, Mr. Xu."

Because Zhao Yaming has always been in charge of the cooperation with Huawei, he has already met Xu Jun.

"Hello, Mr. Xu, I am glad to meet!"

Wang Xiao smiled and shook hands with the other party.

And Xu Jun also looked at the young man in front of him with a hint of curiosity, looking at the appearance, Wang Xiao is only twenty-three or four years old, even if he is more, he will definitely not exceed twenty-five years old, but it is such a young man who has developed two mobile games that are popular all over the world in a row, which has to impress Xu Jun.

"Mr. Wang, I have admired my name for a long time!"

Xu Jun also said with a smile, "I'm a loyal player of Angry Birds, and in order to get the underwater world version, I also specially registered a Xisheng translation software account." ”

"That's a real honor."

After a few pleasantries, the two entered the conference room.

"Mr. Xu, this is the chip architecture designed by our company, you can take a look."

After taking his seat, Wang Xiao handed over a copy of the text to Xu Jun.

"Chip architecture?!"

Xu Jun was slightly surprised, when the two sides talked about cooperation before, Zhengdao Technology did not say that they had a chip architecture.

After glancing at Wang Xiao, Xu Jun didn't look at the text in a hurry, but asked first: "Dare to ask Mr. Wang, is your chip architecture based on Intel's x86 architecture or ARM architecture?" ”

Wang Xiao shook his head: "This is a new chip architecture developed by ourselves!" ”

"A new architecture developed independently?!"

At this moment, Xu Jun was completely stunned, and subconsciously said: "This is ...... possible"

YOU MUST KNOW THAT THE CURRENT GAME CONSOLE MARKET IN THE WORLD IS BASICALLY MONOPOLIZED BY SONY'S PS4 AND MICROSOFT'S XBOXONE, BUT EVEN TWO LARGE INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES LIKE THEM RECENTLY ANNOUNCED THAT THEY CHOSE TO GIVE UP THEIR INDEPENDENT CHIP ARCHITECTURE BECAUSE OF THE HUGE COST OF DESIGNING CHIPS, AND INSTEAD ORDERED CHIPS FROM AMD.

And how can Zhengdao Technology come up with a chip with a new architecture?

Thinking of this, Xu Jun's eyes when he looked at Wang Xiao were a little wrong, could it be that what Zhengdao Technology came up with was a randomly designed chip architecture to fool himself?

Yes, it seems a little strange, even Microsoft and Sony have given up independent research and development of chip architectures because of huge costs and design difficulties, how can Wang Xiao still design chip architectures at will?

Isn't chip architecture design difficult?

Of course not.

For example,

If the smart devices such as mobile phones, PCs, and tablets we use are different houses, then the systems on the devices, such as win7, IOS, Android, etc., are the houses themselves, and the various applications installed in the system are different furniture and household appliances in the house.

So what is the chip for this house?

Foundation!

The chip is the foundation of a house!

Without a foundation, no matter how big and beautiful your house is, it is just a castle of sand, and it will collapse when the wind blows.

So if the complete chip is the foundation, what is the chip architecture?

The design of the foundation, of course!

If you want to build a house, the first thing you need is a design drawing, without which you can only build a shack.

Well, since this is the case, then the question arises - is it difficult to design the chip architecture, or the design of the house?

It's hard to say, it's not hard to say.

Even a kindergarten child can draw a box on a piece of paper, and then mark it with various lengths, widths and heights, and this is a house plan!

Of course, it is conceivable whether anyone is willing to build a house based on this plan (which is popular with the market).

Therefore, chip design can be said to be a very simple, but equally difficult job.

Imagine a pigsty in the countryside and Burj Al Arab in Dubai with the same difficulty level?

That's why Xu Jun has doubts.

And Wang Xiao was also expected of Xu Jun's appearance, so there was no angry look on his face: "I know, Mr. Xu will definitely be suspicious." After all, even if Microsoft and Sony, two major international manufacturers, choose to customize chips from AMD because the cost of developing their own chips is too high, we believe that a company that has just been established for less than three months rashly comes up with a chip with a new architecture, and it is normal for you to be suspicious. ”

After listening to Wang Xiao's words, Xu Jun nodded and said, "This is also where I am confused, I wonder if Mr. Wang can solve my doubts?" ”

Wang Xiao naturally agreed: "In fact, this independent chip is not completely designed by our Zhengdao Technology Company, this architecture was purchased by me from another organization, and the other party had to suspend the research and development of this architecture for some reasons, so I took over, but we Zhengdao Technology currently does not have talents in the field of chips, so we will choose to cooperate with you." ”

"I see."

Although this reason seems a bit incredible, it is indeed the most reasonable explanation, Xu Jun naturally did not ask which organization Wang Xiao bought the chip architecture from, but asked again: "That means that you Zhengdao Technology Company does not know much about this chip...... However, is this new architecture chip suitable for the game console business? ”

"That's natural, the other party developed it for the console game business!"

Wang Xiao nodded affirmatively, joke, this is the chip he summed up from the knowledge of the Sea of Inheritance, and there is no second chip in the world that can support console games better than this.

After hearing Wang Xiao's affirmative answer, Xu Jun handed over the text in his hand to the professional engineer in the chip field behind him for identification, and he talked to Wang Xiao about the details of the next cooperation.

After about an hour, the engineer came back with Wen Jiàn and whispered to Xu Jun: "Mr. Xu, the design of this new chip architecture is very creative, and it is ...... Some design ideas have strong reference significance for our HiSilicon chips. ”

"Oh?"

Hearing the staff's words, Xu Jun bowed slightly, and his eyes kept flashing.

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Jun raised his head and said, "Mr. Wang, we hope that Huawei will provide workers and 100 million cash to occupy 70% of the shares in the new company." ”

"It can't be."

Wang Xiao immediately refused, knowing that this chip is related to his future business layout, how can it be dominated by other companies: "The bottom line I can accept is that Zhengdao Technology Company will make the structure and occupy 90% of the shares in the new company!" ”

"Poof!"

Xu Jun, who had just drunk a sip of water, heard Wang Xiao's huge words, and immediately squirted out the tea in his mouth and coughed vigorously.

After a while, Xu Jun said with a little annoyance: "Wang Xiao is not joking, right? ”

Wang Xiao spread his hands: "Of course I'm serious!" ”

"But if the king is always serious, how can he say such outrageous conditions?"

Xu Jun was really annoyed and said loudly.

"Mr. Xu, do you think that a new chip architecture is not worth 900 million?" Wang Xiao asked rhetorically.

"It also depends on what kind of chip it is!"

Xu Jun didn't give an inch, looked directly at Wang Xiao and said: "A chip that has been certified by the market is worth 900 million, even 9 billion, but a new chip architecture that has not been certified by the market, and the designer has not even fully understood its functions, who dares to guarantee that it will survive in the future?!" ”

Just like the current X86 and ARM architectures, not to mention 9 billion yuan, even 9 billion US dollars is an insult to them, and in a certain sense, they can even be said to be priceless.

"Since Mr. Xu has such doubts......

Wang Xiao said with a look that I understand you and I think about you, "Then why don't we sign a gambling agreement?" ”

"Oh? How so? ”

Hearing Wang Xiao's mention, the anger on Wang Xiao's face disappeared instantly, as if it was not him who questioned just now, but someone possessed him.

Not to mention Wang Xiao, even the Hua Wei staff behind Xu Jun were amused by their boss's face-changing kung fu.

Wang Xiao said with a smile: "Doesn't Mr. Xu have doubts about the chip architecture I came up with, so you might as well ...... From the completion of the official sale of chip packaging, within two years, if the chip sales are less than 300,000, we will only account for 30% of the shares. ”

"If the sales volume reaches 300,000 and less than 500,000, we take 40% of the shares."

"If the sales volume reaches 500,000 and less than 800,000, we take 50% of the shares."

"If the sales volume reaches 800,000 and less than 1 million, we take 60% of the shares."

"If the sales volume reaches 1 million and less than 1.2 million, we take 70% of the shares."

"If the sales volume reaches 1.2 million and less than 1.5 million, we have 80% of the shares."

"If the sales reach more than 1.5 million...... Hehe, then we will occupy 90% of the shares. ”

After finishing speaking, Wang Xiao looked at Xu Jun and asked, "Mr. Xu, I don't know what you think?" ”

"This ......"

Xu Jun couldn't help but be a little moved.

You must know that SonyPS4, the game console with the highest sales volume in China, has only 500,000 genuine licensed sales, and even if you count the huge domestic parallel sales, its total sales are only 2.3 million.

THIS IS BASED ON THE COMBINATION OF SONY'S PS4'S MANY EXCELLENT EXCLUSIVE GAMES AND A LARGE NUMBER OF GAMES SHARED WITH XBOXONE.

Without the support of a large number of games behind its system, only with Sony's own games, PS4 sales can reach 100,000.

And now what about the game chip that Justify Technology has come up with?

A supported game doesn't!

It can be said that these conditions proposed by Wang Xiao can almost be said to be given to Huawei shares for nothing, even for the chip design ideas that can bring benefits to HiSilicon chips, these conditions must be agreed.

However, out of instinctive caution, Xu Jun still added: "I don't agree with the time limit, it's better to change two years to one year." ”

"One year ......"

When Wang Xiao heard Xu Jun say this, he knew that the other party agreed, and while laughing secretly in his heart, Wang Xiao still pretended to be dissatisfied and replied: "In the process of chip development, all the funds of the new company will be provided by you!" ”

Xu Jun thought about it, the most expensive place to develop chips is the architecture design, and this part has been solved by Wang Xiao, so the next test and production will not cost much even if it costs, so he nodded happily and agreed.

"Well, happy cooperation!"

"Happy working together!"

Wang Xiao and Xu Jun smiled at each other and shook their hands together, everyone thought that they had earned it, so they laughed very happily.

After the shares were determined, other things were easy to say, and after handing over these trivial things to his employees, Wang Xiao and Xu Jun began to chat.

"Mr. Wang, what do you think is the name of our new company?" Xu Jun took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and asked.

"Let's call it Asgard Chip." Wang Xiao thought about it and answered.

"Oh, what's the point?" Xu Jun asked curiously.

"It's nothing, chip technology is the most basic technology for the entire game console industry. And the chips we produce are to build ourselves into a fairy palace that everyone yearns for, so that other companies that design games for us are not immortals, what a good meaning. ”

Wang Xiao said with a smile.

So, in the midst of talking and laughing, the hegemon-level chips that created one miracle after another in the future were born.