Chapter 100

Henry grinned bitterly, went into the bathroom, took a bath and changed into clothes.

"When people are free, they will think wildly. It's better to find something to do..."

Last time, Henry asked Qualcomm to come to the UK to acquire the ARM chip design department of acorn computer company. Although acorn computer attached great importance to this department, it agreed immediately in the face of the 5 million pounds offered by Qualcomm.

Now the mainstream is CISC complex instruction set processor, especially Intel's chip is the best seller!

Arm is a chip processor based on RISC reduced instruction set. It is a minority in the current market and few companies use it!

However, acorn computer company has no choice but to develop RISC.

In 1984, acorn intended to use Motorola's 16 bit chip, but found it too slow and expensive“ A 500 pound machine can't use a 100 pound CPU“ So they turned to Intel for 80286 chip design information, but was refused, so they were forced to develop their own.

Then RISC reduced instruction set is designed, and RISC based processor has simple instructions, so it has low power consumption and low price, which is especially suitable for mobile devices. But the computer aspect belches fart, is suppressed by CISC cannot raise the head. Therefore, acorn computer company at most has a small reputation in the UK and belongs to a second rate company in the world.

Acorn computer company was originally expected to reorganize in November this year and set up arm company! Apple has already contacted acorn computer company before. When it officially reorganizes and establishes arm company, Apple will invest 1.5 million pounds in arm company, chip manufacturer VLSI will also invest 250000 pounds, and acorn itself will invest 1.5 million pounds in intellectual property rights and some engineers!

However, at present, Qualcomm has invested 5 million pounds, which is 1.75 million pounds higher than the valuation of the upcoming arm company.

At this moment, CISC is like a black fog covering the earth, and arm's future is uncertain.

In the face of the temptation of five million pounds, acorn computer company did not need to think about it at all!

Acorn computer company's job is to develop computers, the reason for the development of RISC RISC computers, mainly because there is no money. If he has money, he won't use Intel chips? Most computer manufacturers around the world are using Intel chips. Naturally, it makes sense. Intel chips must be good, so they will be used. Acorn computer company is a poor company, so it will be careful to develop RISC RISC. However, the performance is far worse than that of CISC, and it is impossible to compete with computers that use CISC chip processors!

As a result, acorn computer company's performance declined, and even later, it simply gave up the research and development of computers, and instead concentrated on the development of arm company. But if acorn gets a huge sum of money, they will be able to develop computers based on CISC processors. Computer is very popular at present. Acorn computer company will definitely not give up developing computer and keep arm company.

This is a very simple multiple choice question.

Therefore, acorn computer company finally decided to sell the ARM chip design department to Qualcomm.

Qualcomm bought the ARM chip design department and immediately established arm company. Its headquarters are temporarily located near Cambridge University in London. In the future, it will only be a branch, and its headquarters will move to Silicon Valley in the United States. When Henry came to arm, Apple was there. Acorn computer sold arm to Qualcomm, while Apple's partnership with acorn computer moved to Qualcomm.

Apple needs arm to provide chip design support for its product Newton, which is still in the research and development stage and is the world's first PDA. Apple has high hopes and great ambition for it. It wants to change the whole PC market and break the current dilemma of apple through Newton's "change of Dynasty".

As far as Henry knows, Apple has hired powerful foreign help to develop Newton. Its electronic design and manufacturing are in Rb, and sharp is responsible for it!

After the successful development of Newton, it has touch screen, infrared, handwriting input (even support cursive) and other functions. If it evolves again, it will become an iPad... In fact, this Newton is the rudiment of the iPad!

However, Newton's sales were not good at all. Apple had no choice but to stop the production of the product. But after more than three years of painstaking efforts, apple lost a lot and almost went bankrupt!

When Henry passed by apple, he laughed and said, "don't be nervous. Don't worry. Arm will definitely cooperate with you. Ha ha

If you don't cooperate, how can you pit apple?

Newton is a big hole!!!

Henry came to the office of the CEO of arm company. At present, the CEO of arm company is George Moore, the former head of arm Department of acorn computer company. This is the first time that Henry met him. He was tall and thin, with short hair, a high bridge of nose, sunken eyes and a little ugly face.

Henry sat down and listened to his report on arm. Arm has more than 30 employees, including only 12 chip design engineers. But every chip design engineer is a top talent in chip design, especially good at RISC chip architecture design!

At present, arm in RISC chip design, it ranks second, no one dares to row first!

In RISC chip design, arm is the most authoritative company in the world!

In addition, arm company has many basic RISC patents. If others want to develop RISC based chip processors, they must be authorized by arm company!

Patent makes Qualcomm, patent will make arm company too!!!

The reason why Henry emphasizes that he must acquire arm company is that he has a good eye on the patents of arm!

After listening to George Moore's report, Henry nodded and said: "at present, although the RISC chip market is in a slump, RISC chips are highly efficient, fast response and low power consumption. I think RISC will have more development prospects than CISC, especially in mobile devices, such as mobile phones, RISC is far better than CISC. Although CISC is widely used in the field of computer, CISC wins by stacking a lot of complex instructions. Our RISC is a kind of reduced instruction, which is less than CISC. However, the more developed CISC is, the more bloated it will be, and the higher the cost will be; After optimization and improvement, RISC will become more powerful and catch up with CISC, but the cost is much lower than CISC! "

"In the future, chip processor will be the world of RISC and arm. I'm very sure about that," he said

George Moore is stunned. Although he is the CEO of arm and full of confidence in arm, he is not sure that arm will become the chip overlord in the future

Now, Intel has gradually become the industry's Big Mac, as if an unattainable mountain block in front of arm! To say that arm can beat Intel, George Moore has no confidence at all

Who can get rid of the fog blocking the future and see through decades at a glance? Henry is the only one in the world!!!

Smart phones, smart watches and many other intelligent terminal products will basically use arm architecture chip design, in the embedded field, arm is the king!!! When the era of intelligence comes, arm will fight Intel and kick AMD. It's no good

When Henry saw George Moore, he didn't believe what he said and didn't explain. If he did, Henry would have to wonder if he had come back from the future