Pang Xuelin's flickering can be regarded as completely suppressing Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo.

Next, they persuaded the two to change the name of Jereh Global Information Network Guide to Yahoo, and it became extremely easy to operate as a company.

Soon, the trio reached an agreement.

Pang Xuelin invested $5 million to establish Yahoo, accounting for 90 percent of the shares, and Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo respectively invested in technology and management, each accounting for 5 percent.

According to Pang Xuelin's estimate, Yahoo will be in the stage of burning money in the next few years, but for him, burning hundreds of millions of dollars, and then giving birth to a super Internet company with a market value of more than 120 billion US dollars, is simply a profitable business.

Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo were also overjoyed, originally engaged in Jereh Global Information Network Guide was their interest, but under Pang Xuelin's flickering, it has become their lifelong career.

Corporatized operation, registered the company, recruited employees, made large-scale changes to the homepage of the website, developed Yahoo Mail, and introduced some management concepts of later Internet companies.

In the middle, Pang Xuelin did not directly intervene in the operation of the company, and put forward guiding opinions in some key links.

How to do it specifically, it is up to Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo to grope for the operation.

Three months passed in a flash.

With the World Cup just around the corner, the entire United States is in the grip of an unprecedented soccer boom.

And the direction of the World Cup is no different from history.

Saudi Arabia, representing Asia, miraculously reached the round of 16, while Bulgaria from Eastern Europe defeated Argentina and Germany to reach the semi-finals.

Sweden stumbled all the way and eventually fought Bulgaria for third place without encountering a strong opponent, and won the battle.

Pang Xuelin invested a full $60 million in gambling through anonymous methods and some of Huang Zaixing's gambling channels, and finally made a profit of more than $600 million.

The only one who knows the inside story is Huang Zaixing, who helped Pang Xuelin with decentralized betting.

Regarding Pang Xuelin's magical prediction ability, Huang Zaixing not only felt Pang Xuelin's unfathomable depths again, but also had a little more awe of Pang Xuelin.

On July 18, 1994, the day after watching the final match between Brazil and Italy in Los Angeles, Pang Xuelin boarded a plane to Xiangjiang.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, after a long journey of more than ten hours, Pang Xuelin came out of the passenger exit of Kai Tak International Airport slightly tired, and saw Huang Zaixing, Liu Qi and his son leading more than a dozen black suits waiting respectfully at the international passenger exit.

But what really surprised Pang Xuelin was the people around Huang Zaixing.

Mu Qingqing, who was wearing a decent black and white dress and delicate makeup, changed into a Tang costume, and looked a little restrained, as well as the water babies in straight suits and Feng Wanying, who were like a pair of beautiful people, were all at the scene.

"Brother Shuiwa, third uncle, third aunt, why are you all here?"

Pang Xuelin was a little surprised.

In the United States in the past few months, although he has been in contact with the country, it is not very frequent.

It's just that when they talked on the phone two days ago, the third uncle and the third aunt were obviously still in Lancheng, why did they suddenly come to Xiangjiang after a few days?

Mu Qingqing on the side smiled and said, "Brother Pang, isn't this just the summer vacation?" The third uncle and three aunts haven't seen you for a long time, so I came to Xiangjiang to have a look, and I happened to come over to have a ride. ”

Pang Xuelin glared at her, of course he could see that the arrival of the third uncle and their arrival was indispensable for Mu Qingqing's behind.

At this time, Huang Zaixing stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, I invited your third uncle and third aunt to come to Xiangjiang, you came back from the United States, and the family can get together in Xiangjiang and have a good time." ”

"Okay!"

Pang Xuelin was a little helpless.

Of course, he could see that Huang Zaixing was covering for Mu Qingqing.

However, he didn't pursue Mu Qingqing's intention in the first place, so he naturally went down the slope.

Everyone chatted for a while at the passenger exit, and then went straight to the parking lot.

The tiger head of the water ran to escort three Rolls-Royce silver spirits, and drove straight to the center of Xiangjiang.

Pang Xuelin was in Huang Zaixing's car, Mu Qingqing accompanied the third uncle and three aunts in a car, and Liu Qi naturally sat in a car with Shui Wa and Feng Wanying.

got into the car, Pang Xuelin asked Huang Zaixing directly: "Lao Huang, the money for winning the World Cup has already arrived, right?" ”

Huang Zaixing said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, it's all here, do you need me to transfer it to your private account?" ”

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said, "Don't use it for the time being, don't you still hold a British passport now?" You're thinking about going to the UK in a few days and finding a way to buy a company called ARM. ”

"ARM?"

Huang Zaixing was slightly stunned.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Don't ask the specific reason, in short, you just need to do this well!" ”

"Good!"

Huang Zaixing no longer hesitated, and nodded directly.

Pang Xuelin wants to acquire ARM, naturally for the ARM instruction set in his hands.

In the era of mobile Internet, ARM is a well-known existence.

The entire smartphone camp, whether it is Apple, Samsung or Warwick, their processor architecture is inseparable from ARM's authorization.

But in this day and age, ARM is still a small and unremarkable company.

The so-called ARM refers to the ARM instruction set.

The ARM instruction set is a reduced instruction set.

In the long run, improvements in computer performance have often been achieved by increasing the complexity of the hardware.

With integrated circuit technology. In particular, with the rapid development of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit) technology, in order to facilitate software programming and improve the running speed of programs, hardware engineers have adopted the method of increasing the number of instructions that can realize complex functions and a variety of flexible addressing methods.

Even some directives can support complex operations after categorization of high-level language statements.

As the hardware becomes more complex, the cost increases accordingly.

In order to achieve complex operations, in addition to providing programmers with functions similar to various registers and machine instructions, microprocessors also achieve their extremely powerful functions through microprograms stored in read-only memory (ROM), processing a series of primary instruction operations after analyzing each instruction to complete the required functions, this design type is called the complex instruction set computer (plex Instruputer-CISC) structure. Generally, the number of instructions contained in the CISC computer is at least 300 or more, and some even exceed 500.

THE X86 INSTRUCTION SET, LED BY INTEL, IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMPLEX INSTRUCTION SET, AND X86 IS COMBINED WITH MICROSOFT'S WINDOWS TO OCCUPY THE MAIN MARKET FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS.

Of course, computers with complex instruction systems have a strong ability to process high-level languages, which is beneficial for improving computer performance.

When computer design developed along this path, some people did not follow the crowd, but they looked back at the path they had traveled and began to doubt the traditional approach: IBM did not organize a research center in New York in 1975 to study the rationality of command systems.

At that time, it was felt that the increasingly complex command system would not only be difficult to implement, but could also degrade the performance of the system.

In 1979, a group of scientists led by Professor Paterson also began to carry out this research at the University of California, Berkeley.

The results show that there are many disadvantages of complex instruction sets.

First of all. In such computers, the usage of instructions varies greatly: 80% of the instructions used in the computation process of a typical program account for only 20% of a processor's instruction system.

In fact, the most frequently used instructions are the simplest commands to retrieve, save, and add.

In this way, long-term commitment to the design of complex instruction systems is actually designing a processor for instruction systems that are rarely used in practice.

Meantime. Complex instruction systems inevitably bring complexity to the structure.

This not only increases the time and cost of design, but also makes it easy to make design mistakes.

In addition, although VLSI technology has now reached a high level, it is difficult to make all the hardware of complex instruction sets on a single chip, which also hinders the development of single-chip computers.

In the complex instruction set, many complex instructions require extremely complex operations, and most of these instructions are direct copies of a high-level language, so they are not very versatile.

Due to the two-level microcode execution, it also slows down the operation of simple instruction systems that are frequently called.

Therefore, in response to these shortcomings of complex instruction sets, Patterson et al. proposed the idea of reducing instructions.

That is, the instruction system should contain only a small number of instructions that are used frequently, and provide some of the necessary instructions to support the operating system and high-level language.

Computers developed according to this principle are called Redustruputer-RISC architectures, abbreviated as RISC.

The reduced instruction set did not blossom in the early era of the Internet, and the existence of the Wintel consortium directly suppressed the development of the reduced instruction set technology.

This can be seen from the history of ARM.

Founded in 1991 in Cambridge, England, ARM mainly sells the licensing of chip design technology. Microprocessors with ARM technology intellectual property (IP cores), in the 90s of the 20th century, processor shipments stagnated.

After entering the 21st century, due to the rapid development of the mobile phone manufacturing industry, the shipment volume has shown explosive growth, and the reduced instruction set processor has quickly won the favor of mobile phone manufacturers with the advantage of low power consumption.

ARM processors have taken over the global mobile phone market. In 2006, global ARM chip shipments were 2 billion pieces, and in 2010, ARM partner shipments reached 6 billion.

The reason why Pang Xuelin decided to acquire ARM is to prepare for the future mobile phone market, on the other hand, if he is ready to make his own chips, he can master such a potential instruction set and architecture, whether it is to open the ARM instruction set like ARM in the future, or directly close it and develop it himself, it will be beneficial and harmless.

Pang Xuelin and Huang Zaixing talked about the general situation of ARM company, and unconsciously, the car drove along the central ring of Xiangjiang Island and headed for the mountain.

Pang Xuelin was slightly stunned, and said suspiciously: "Lao Huang, where are we going?" ”

Huang Zaixing said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, I also made a lot of money with you in this World Cup, so I made a claim and bought you a villa in Mid-Levels and registered it in your name." Your third uncle and three aunts came over this time, and I arranged them here directly. I also carefully selected the Filipino maids who work in this villa, and I also hired several top bodyguards from the security company to take care of their trip security during their stay in Xiangjiang. ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "I have a heart!" ”

He was not surprised that Huang Zaixing was so overtured.

He earned $600 million in this World Cup, and Huang Zaixing estimated that he earned at least $100 million.

Spending tens of millions of dollars to buy a luxury house in Mid-Levels to curry favor with Pang Xuelin is naturally a very affordable thing for Huang Zaixing.

The convoy made its way up the winding road and finally stopped at the entrance of a mansion near the top of Victoria Peak.

Everyone got out of the car, and there were already Filipino maids waiting at the door, opening the gate to let everyone in.

The villa is spread over three floors, plus two basements, with a swimming pool in the courtyard and a large terrace on the roof, overlooking the entire Central and Victoria Bay.

When they arrived, it was nearly noon.

The Filipino maids have prepared a delicious lunch.

After lunch, Pang Xuelin called Liu Qi into the study and asked about the sales of Transwarp CVD.

As soon as he talked about Star Ring CVD, Liu Qi suddenly became frowning and dancing.

"Brother Pang, in the past six months, our CVD business has been selling like crazy, Xiangjiang has shipped nearly 300,000 units from last year to now, plus my little brother under Lao Dou is selling those pirated CDs everywhere, and now almost every household in Xiangjiang has our products. As for the mainland, that's even more exaggerated, do you know how many units we ship per month now? ”

"How many?"

Pang Xuelin was a little curious.

Liu Qi stretched out a finger and said, "One hundred thousand units!" And it's still slowly growing, and I estimate that by the end of this year, there will be no problem at all to break one million. Moreover, the disc piracy market in the mainland has also risen, and I estimate that the sales of our CVD products are still on the rise! ”

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but be a little surprised.

With 5,000 Star Warp CVDs selling 100,000 units per month, wouldn't the monthly sales be able to break 500 million?

Are there so many rich people in the mainland?

Pang Xuelin felt that he was probably underestimating the purchasing power of the mainland.

Compared with the sales of 20,000 units a year when Wanyan was first founded, Transwarp's annual sales have directly increased by 50 times.

But it's understandable.

On the one hand, CCTV advertising and media hype made Transwarp CVD quickly become a household name in the entire mainland market.

On the other hand, the rise of the pirated disc industry has made it possible for CVD buyers to quickly buy pirated discs for various film and television works at extremely low prices.

It seems not so surprising to think that the LD laser disc player with a price of seven or eight thousand can sell hundreds of thousands of units every year in the mainland market, and the annual sales of Transwarp CVD exceed one million.

"Oh, by the way, Brother Pang, CCTV sent us an invitation letter some time ago, inviting us to participate in the CCTV advertising bidding conference in October, and next year's CCTV advertising, how much do you think is more appropriate."

Pang Xuelin thought for a while and said, "120 million, don't go higher than this price." ”

Liu Qi was slightly stunned: "This is high?!" ”

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "This year's price of 50 million to get so many golden advertising space, we have taken a big advantage, it is impossible for other companies not to see the advertising effect of CCTV, there will definitely be money at any cost, doubling the advertising cost is not necessarily insurance, let's bid directly at such a price, I estimate that there is a good chance that Jiǔ can be successful." ”

You must know that the advertising fee of CCTV in 94 years in history is more than 50 million, and now it has directly turned so much, Pang Xuelin can't take it if he doesn't believe it.