Chapter 199

Shaking his head, Xiao Qi felt that he had better not hurry to find Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, or do something sure first.

When I came to the United States this time, the first important thing is to find Linus and register the patent. The rest is what Xiao Qi asked about before, which can be done with money.

Out of Mario's side, Xiao Qi went directly to arm's New York branch.

Arm, headquartered in Cambridge, England, was the one where Xiao Qi asked Cai Mingsheng of MediaTek if he could use their technology to develop microprocessors by himself.

In fact, arm's microprocessors have not yet entered the era of rapid development, because the era of smart phones has not yet arrived, and the high-precision requirements of microprocessors are not high. Many manufacturers can make them. Arm has not yet reached the world with the shipment of 6 billion chips produced by their technology in 2010.

There are two American branches of arm, one in Silicon Valley, the home of the electronics industry, and the other in New York, the most developed city in the United States. Both share the same resources. The engineers of the design center are often exchanged, and the technical strength is no less than that of the British headquarters.

As a company open to sell chip technology licensing platform, arm's attitude is very enthusiastic. It is said that Xiao Qi wants to entrust them to design smart chips. A responsible manager appeared in a small reception room.

The manager in his thirties is Carlos. He has dark skin and a bit of South American tropical descent. He smiles before he speaks, making people look very comfortable.

After a while of courtesy, Carlos turned on the projector and played their company's chip products.

Arm chips are produced series by series. Various plans, anatomical drawings, function profiles and so on are on slides, which are very detailed.

They don't have to play tricks at all. Arm has applied for patents for all these structures and details. In developed countries such as Europe and America, whoever dares to use them without paying money, the government will punish you to cry "I dare not again" when you sleep.

After a brief introduction to the company's situation and philosophy, Carlos said: "Mr. Xiao, our chips for mobile phones are now divided into three series: 6, 7 and 8. If you buy finished products, you can choose arm6td. Now Motorola's medium and low-end models are widely used, which is absolutely easy to use in the Chinese market, and the price is not expensive, The licensing fee is only $500000, and then we charge a $1 patent fee for each chip. "

The licensing fee is $500000. This is very cheap.

But if you charge a dollar for each chip, you can't calculate it carefully: if you make a million mobile phones, you have to give them a million dollars, and 10 million is 10 million dollars!

What's the difference between Xiaoming's and Anqi's 6-series machines, which have been sold to foreigners at a high price, and Xiaoming's technology is about to be retired. What's the difference between this and Anqi's?

However, in western society, this extreme method is often seen in order to make money.

If you fall into it, you can only blame your bad luck, not those profiteers who set traps but do not violate the law.

Xiao Qi was not as tactful as when talking about business in China, and immediately refused, "why not give me ice that can support breakpoints and debugging points on the chip? And embedded hardware multipliers? Why not 32-bit RISC technology? Shouldn't these features be a popular trend? Or does your arm not have the ability to integrate these functions? "

Carlos smiled and was surprised. Unexpectedly, this young Chinese knows the latest technology of his company. Just looking at his understanding and proposal of professional vocabulary, he knows that he is definitely an expert in the chip industry.

"Hehe, what you said should be the ARM7TDMI microprocessor just launched by our company this year. The cost of this microprocessor is much more expensive. It requires a licensing fee of at least US $3 million, and the patent fund of each chip is US $3. Although it is a little expensive, it is absolutely superior to the performance of those models recently produced by Nokia!"

Carlos is worthy of being a professional businessman. In a few words, he turned the embarrassment into the promotion of his own products.

Mr. Carlos, I don't need to support the 300mi processor enough. In addition, the GPU graphics processor, I think the SGX series of British imagination technology company is very good. Please help integrate it into the CPU chip. I hope the final product will not be manufactured, and the process will not exceed 45 nm. "

As the manager of arm, Carlos is also a technician. He often receives many strange design requirements. Rao is shocked by Xiao Qi's conditions after long negotiation.

This is not the time for the explosive growth of smartphone chips after Apple's success next year.

The current smart chip is only a very simple one. Manufacturers usually only require some simple performance, and do not say to make significant changes to the large architecture.

Because the microprocessor has been set up extremely fine, and the current manufacturing process can reach 80-100 nm, which is already very outstanding. Xiao Qi almost has to double the fine in one breath. This is because arm, which has always claimed to be the overlord of mobile phone CPU, will also feel a great headache.

As for other performance, almost in the arm8 series, some can not be compatible. Carlos has the intention to say that Xiao Qi is fooling around, but he knows that because the technology of ARM7 series is mature, even if there is no advanced arm8 series on the main chip, the effect stability of integration is definitely much better than arm8 series.

In addition, although the two companies are both in the UK, they are definitely enemies because they are making intelligent chips. Arm's CPU is the first in the industry. The GPU of imagination technology company is unique in the world. They have their own strengths. Their professional fields are super strong, and they are determined to improve their weak aspects, Completely trample your opponent under your feet.

"Imagine technology?" After thinking about the specific technical problems for a while, Carlos suddenly smiled, "I don't think you understand, Mr. Xiao. Our two companies are competitive. The CPU chip of arm never needs to imagine the GPU of technology; Their GPU is never integrated into our CPU. Maybe you will be disappointed this time. "（ It's not finished yet. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly ticket at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation.)