Yuanxin and Xinghai are high-quality partners of Texas Instruments.

Whether it is a VCD chip or a series of chips for cordless phones, Texas Instruments is chosen. You must know that the improvement of the process and the improvement of yield need to be constantly fed with orders.

In return, Deyi also supports Yuanxin EDA, sharing various data from the birth of wafer fabs, and providing strong support for the simulation of Yuanxin EDA. In turn, Yuanxin EDA has also played a role in promoting the improvement of process and yield of wafer fabs.

So when Su Yuanshan proposed to meet, Vincent immediately pushed away other things and waited for him intently.

But Vincenti didn't expect Su Yuanshan to take the initiative to let Deyi take a stake in Xinghai - he admitted that there are not many people who covet Xinghai and even Yuanxin, and Deyi is one of them.

After making sure that he didn't understand the mistake, Vincenti's mind quickly turned.

He immediately thought of the recent rumors and looked at Su Yuanshan with a look of surprise.

"Are you really planning to buy Cyrix?"

Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile: "In fact, even if you don't acquire Cyrix, Xinghai also plans to reach a deeper cooperation with your company through cross-shareholding." It's just that Cyrix has been having a bit of a hard time lately, and we're willing to help them get through it. ”

"No, you're trying to pull Texas Instruments to gamble with you on Cyrix's lawsuit and future. Vincenti immediately shook her head and got to the heart of the matter.

"The acquisition of Cyrix was not a gamble, but a deliberate result. We have conducted a rigorous analysis and believe that Intel will eventually reach a settlement with Cyrix. After all, your company still has the X86 architecture authorization in hand, and under the current legal interpretation, I believe that the righteous judge will definitely make a judgment that is beneficial to the development of the entire semiconductor industry. ”

"After all, Intel is now very powerful. A CPU company with no rivals is not in line with the spirit of Sherman's antitrust law. ”

Listening to Su Yuanshan's calm analysis, Vincenti said in a deep voice: "You forgot that there is also the PowerPC Alliance. ”

"In the near future, PowerPC is bound to lose. ”

Vincenti raised an eyebrow: "Why?"

"Because Mr. Gates is a genius, there should be a genius in the PowerPC camp, but it's a pity that this gentleman went to make a movie. ”

Vincent knew who the gentleman Su Yuanshan was talking about was making a movie — the almost paranoid idealist who had been praised countless times by Robert Noyce, the father of Silicon Valley and the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. It is a character who can enter Noyce's bedroom casually.

Well, his name is Steve Jobs.

However, Su Yuanshan's words obviously couldn't convince Vincent. Instead, a smile rose into his mouth: "So, why don't you choose to join the PowerPC camp? ”

This is a bit ridiculous - because Su Yuanshan is already known as a genius.

Su Yuanshan sighed softly in his heart.

As a veteran enterprise that can cultivate a founder like Zhang Zhongmou who will be the overlord of the wafer factory in the future, Texas Instruments has technology, connections, and policies. But their real scenery is in the 90s, after the defeat of Niguo Semiconductor.

After the new century, with Liang Mengsong preemptively completing the 0.13 micron copper wire process, it defeated the landlord team of IBM, UMC and Infineon in one fell swoop, and successfully stood at the peak of the process of the wafer factory and became the hegemon.

Since then, UMC, Texas Instruments, NEC, and Grofont have never turned over.

Texas Instruments has such a strong technology accumulation and resources, but in the end it ended up with the same fate as Niguo Wafer Factory, I have to say...... They still barely mean it in their eyes.

"That's right, Mr. Vincenty. Su Yuanshan said: "The Wintel alliance is far more solid and reliable than the PowerPC alliance, and it also has more technical advantages - I can even foresee that intel will launch new products soon - because they have not cooperated deeply with our EDA, so we have reason to believe that they have products that will be successful based on other EDA designs before." ”

On the other hand, PowerPC, although MOTO and IBM are also very strong, but the semiconductor industry is an increasingly subdivided industry in the final analysis, and the future industry giants will definitely subdivide countless fields, and each field will give birth to a giant, and then these giants will work together to promote the progress of the entire semiconductor industry. So I don't think their CPUs will be more competitive than Intel's. ”

That's why we chose to embrace the X86 ecosystem. And even if Texas Instruments is unwilling to join this war, it can choose to cooperate with us a little and get involved in it through the sea of stars. ”

Su Yuanshan pursed his lips as he spoke, and chuckled: "Mr. Vincenti, you don't think that Yuanxin and Xinghai relied on gambling to rise, right?"

Vincenti's eyebrows furrowed slowly.

For the rise of Xinghai and even Yuanxin, it has long attracted everyone's attention. Even TI has done an internal analysis of why it suddenly rose.

The result was very surprising, three words: good luck.

But as we all know, luck is just a lie. Everyone is playing with technology, and we all know that these three words actually represent three other words - visionary.

After pondering for a long time, Vincenti exhaled softly: "What will I propose to the board of directors - what is the maximum number of shares you can sell?"

"About 20 percent. ”

Vincenti didn't have any doubts about this number, he nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said with a smile: "I heard that you have become a famous angel investor in Silicon Valley, have you picked up a treasure?"

"Yes, there are a lot of treasures. Su Yuanshan replied with a smile.

Under Qin Si's tactics of generally casting nets and focusing on fishing, Xinghai invested in dozens of small teams like sprinkling wine and rice, although there was no luck like Howard's cordless phone team, but there were also many teams engaged in gadgets that were hatched. One of the most useful is a company called RenderMorphics.

The reason why Qin Si took a fancy to R· M, it's all because Su Yuanshan took the initiative to dig a GPU team, and the GPU team was very excited to meet Su Yuanshan, a boss who fully supported them to engage in 3D, in addition to chips, they also planned to continue to engage in professional graphics API interfaces.

Just as he was about to recruit, R· The founder of M came to the door and said that he wanted to build a professional graphical interface, and then the two sides hit it off. Xinghai doesn't do it himself either, and directly invests in R· M, based on the GPU being designed by Xinghai, a tailor-made API called Directx 3D.

Yes, this is what became known as Directx – which, if nothing else, was acquired by Microsoft two years later and integrated into the operating system. And because it is not professional and powerful, it was beaten all over the ground by 3DFX's Glide and OpenGL at the beginning, but it couldn't stand up to others...... In the end, the salted fish turned over and reversed.

In this life, the butterfly's wings have hung up in a hurricane, although OpenGL is still showing up as promised, and Glide has disappeared without a trace. However, Directx has been reborn thanks to the blessing of the original 3DFX team.

In the near future, Su Yuanshan plans to give R· M and Microsoft pull the strings.