"Yes, RISC-V can be applied to graphics cards, Mr. Huang, we can talk about this in detail. ”

"Mr. Cang, what does it take us to join the RISC-V Alliance? We're having a hard time right now. ”

"I already have the majority of the shares of Shengdi Company, I am ready to buy Scottber Company, and the rest are you, Maiwei, VIA and NVIDIA. The RISC-V Foundation will contribute more than 30% of each of your three companies, so that you will automatically become a Diamond member of the RISC-V Development Alliance, and receive a perpetual free license to the RISC-V instruction set.

My request, if your company is financed, we will continue to inject capital to ensure that the shares are not diluted to less than 30%, this requirement is to provide funds to promote the rapid development of your company, and the second is to have a certain right to speak, which can accelerate the formation of the RISC-V ecological environment.

Rest assured, we will not interfere in your company's decision-making, well, there are not so many high-level managers who want to intervene, so it is basically just to make suggestions, and we will also provide some resources to help the company develop, such as suggestions on the development direction, the authorization of some patents, and so on. ”

"This is a good thing, we haven't made a profit yet, we are short of development funds, Lao Huang is also like this, right? ”

"There is no problem with blood transfusion, we can also do some division of labor within the alliance, we can also develop synergistically, and become bigger and stronger together, the products under the X86 architecture must be developed, this is a profitable business, the alliance will not interfere, but we must also keep up with the development of RISC-V, otherwise we will suffer losses in the future." ”

"That's for sure, the business under the X86 architecture, that's to see the face of the wintel alliance to eat, under the RISC-V architecture, it's our own things, of course we can distinguish which is more important. ”

"If a few people have no opinion, then it will be decided, if you lack funds, we can also take more shares, but I hope you pay attention to the equity and structure, you still have to have a controlling stake, try to implement the AB share structure." ”

In the end, after discussion, Mabwell Technology and Nvidia, the two companies in a more miserable situation, agreed in principle to give up 40% of the shares, and Cang Yaozu gave more relaxed capital injection conditions, Mabwell is 40 million US dollars, and Nvidia is 30 million US dollars, in exchange for 40% of the equity of the two companies. Of course, the specific signing needs to wait for the contract to be drawn up.

VIA Electronics only gave 30% of the share quota, but the price was as high as 80 million US dollars, which is a little more expensive, but it is not bad, VIA Electronics' current market share is still very high, however, it is rumored that AMD will release the K6 processor this month.

Cang Yaozu communicated with Chen Wenqi and Wang Xuehong, VIA Electronics is actually Wang Xuehong's decision, and Wang Xuehong's proposition is diversified development, involved in many fields, but did not reach the peak in any field.

Last year, in order to get Apple's shares in ARM, Cang Yaozu asked Melissa to buy Apple's Newton company, and Cang Yaozu proposed that he planned to take out this company and cooperate with VIA Electronics to set up a communications company specializing in the production of PDAs and mobile phones.

Wang Xuehong has also been thinking about the establishment of HTC recently, and now with the authorization of the RISC-V instruction set, she has moved her mind, RISC-V architecture has the characteristics of high efficiency and low energy consumption, which is very suitable for the design of mobile phone chips, and the two sides hit it off, Cang Yaozu occupies 45% of HTC HTC with Newton and $10 million in cash, and Wang Xuehong occupies 55% with the communications department of VIA Electronics and $30 million in cash HTC also became a Diamond member of the RISC-V Development Alliance, and received a perpetual free license to the RISC-V instruction set.

Cang Yaozu also told Chen Wenqi about X86 licensing and patent layout, whether it is chipset or communication, we must pay attention to research and development, pay attention to patents, beware of those industry giants turning their faces ruthlessly. It's best to buy Cyrix in advance, Cyrix is a factoryless semiconductor company, producing low-end X86 processors, although because of the lawsuit with Intel, the company failed to go public, and the operation is also in trouble, but they have the patent authorization of the X86 architecture.

Now that Cyrix has not merged with the United States National Semiconductor Company, it is really a good opportunity to buy it. In fact, Cang Yaozu believes that it is difficult to develop under the X86 architecture, the advantages of Intel and AMD are too great, and the chance of VIA Electronics is not great.

If you want to buy Cyrix, it will cost about 500 million US dollars, which is not a small amount, Cang Yaozu promised Chen Wenqi that he could contribute about half of the funds, 200 million US dollars or 300 million US dollars is not too much of a problem, anyway, just give some shares of VIA Electronics.

I hope that in this life, VIA Electronics and HTC will not die out like that life. The development of these two companies is still very regrettable. Now, Cang Yaozu's investment in VIA Electronics is still very useful, at least it can attract Intel's attention. As for the joint venture with Wang Xuehong to establish HTC, that is the first step for Cang Yaozu to test the waters of the wireless communication market. Now there are domestic mobile phones with independent intellectual property rights, well, there is no one, basically those companies are still doing OEM for foreign brands.

When it comes to independent intellectual property rights, we have to mention patents, and in the past six months, Cang Yaozu's task for Ge Liqin is to acquire and register as many patents as possible, and all patents related to semiconductors or mobile phones are within the scope of collection and purchase. Cang Yaozu's patent layout has also been doing, although it costs a lot of money, but it is absolutely impossible not to spend it.

As for the RISC-V instruction set, Yaozu did not choose to be completely open source, after all, it is still early, the great development of ARM has not yet come, and he has now won a controlling stake in ARM. At that time, ARM was threatened with RISC-V open source and MIPS patents, and the acquisition was completed, and the bridge could not be crossed, so it was not possible for RISC-V to be completely open source.

However, this limited perpetual free license can still be engaged, and Cang Yaozu stipulates that if the diamond member sells the company, Cang Yaozu has the right of first refusal, and can acquire related businesses according to the situation, and the permanent free license will also be changed to annual renewal. In short, Cang Yaozu is very strict against other competitors who take this permanent free license by means of company acquisition, such as Intel and the like.

Although the RISC-V instruction set is authorized to diamond members for free, you can use this instruction set for free, but it does not allow you to use the CPU designed by Cang Yaozu based on RISC-V for free.

Diamond members may propose the addition of new directives, which will be decided by the RISC-V Industry Alliance.

Mabwell also said that it can develop RISC-V cores to be used as control processors for the company's storage devices. At the same time, Cang Yaozu and Mabwell talked about the patent authorization of the USB flash drive, which is not free. The U disk project will surely enable Mabwell to achieve profitability quickly.

As for the MP3 patent, Cang Yaozu didn't take it out, one is that the record company in which Cang Yaozu is now a shareholder is now only Universal Records, which is still too few. After the Asian financial crisis, when he had enough money, he encouraged Edgar Bronfman Jr. to win Polygram Records or EMI Records, and it would be better if he could win them all.

When the time comes, you can launch MP3, digital music sales and MP3 licensing must be linked, otherwise it will be a big loss, anyway, the patents of MP3 players are almost registered, wait for a year, no problem.

Huang and Cang Yaozu exchanges are very deep, Nvidia is now only producing graphics cards, there is no concept of GPU, Cang Yaozu explained the concept of GPU and Huang Jenxun in detail, this GPU design idea makes Huang very happy, this is the right way to defeat Voodoo graphics cards. Cang Yaozu also gave him a vision of the broad future of NVIDIA. Although smartphones don't need a separate GPU, they can be integrated, and Cang Yaozu also plans to enter the tablet and laptop market, so it needs the support of GPUs.

In the end, Cang Yaozu told Wang Fengmin and Lai Gaoen about his plan to acquire Scober, and planned that Wang Fengmin would be the CEO of Scober, and Lai Gaoen would be the CTO, and both of them would have corresponding equity incentives, but both of them would need to sign a work contract of more than five years.

Both of them said that there was no problem with this, not only was there no problem, but they were also very happy, and after listening to Cang Yaozu's imagination, the future of the image processing field was promising. It seems that Cang Yaozu's verbal kung fu is getting stronger and stronger. Because of his rebirth, Cang Yaozu looked very confident, and his tone of voice was also very affirmative, which was naturally more convincing.

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