Shaking his head, Xiao Qi felt that it was better not to rush to Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, but to do the things he was sure of first.

When I came to the United States this time, the first important thing was to find Linus and register a patent. The rest were some things that Xiao Qi had inquired about before and could be done with just money.

After leaving Mario's place, Xiao Qi went directly to ARM's New York branch.

ARM, a company headquartered in Cambridge, England, is the company where Xiao Qi asked Cai Mingsheng of MediaTek if he could use their technology to develop his own microprocessors.

In fact, ARM's microprocessors have not yet entered into rapid development, because the era of smartphones has not yet arrived, and the high-precision requirements of microprocessors are not high, and many manufacturers can produce them. ARM has not yet reached 2010

At that time, the chips produced using their technology dominated the world with a shipment volume of 6 billion pieces.

ARM has two U.S. branches. One is in Silicon Valley, the home base of the electronics industry, and the other is in New York, the most developed city in the United States. Both companies share the same resources. Engineers in the design center are also frequently exchanged, and their technical strength is no less than that of the United Kingdom.

Headquarters.

As a company that sells chip technology licensing platforms, ARM's attitude is very enthusiastic. When I heard that Xiao Qi wanted to entrust them to design smart chips, a responsible manager appeared in the small reception room.

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

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

ARM's chips are produced in series, and various floor plans, anatomical diagrams, functional introductions, etc. are all displayed 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 like Europe and the United States, if anyone dares to use it without paying, the government will fine you until you cry out "I'll do it again" when you sleep.

I don’t dare anymore.”

After briefly introducing the company's situation and philosophy, Carlos said: "Mr. Xiao, the chips we use for mobile phones are now divided into three series: 6, 7, and 8. If you want to buy finished products, you can choose ARM6TD.

Motorola's mid-to-low-end models are now widely used. It is definitely very easy to use in the Chinese market, and it is not expensive. The licensing fee is only US$500,000, and we charge a US$1 patent fee for each chip.

That’s enough.”

The licensing fee is half a million US dollars, which is very cheap.

But charging one dollar for each chip is a big deal: to make one million mobile phones, you have to give them one million dollars, and ten million units is ten million dollars!

Moreover, Carlos didn't have any good intentions. Even though the mature technology has developed to the 7 series, he still sold the 6 series chips to Xiao Qi, which were about to be eliminated, and the price was still so expensive. This is not the same as when foreigners retired themselves.

What’s the difference between the bad behavior of the Chinese people in selling the machinery and equipment they bought at high prices?

However, in Western society, this kind of resorting to any means to make money can often be seen.

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

Xiao Qi was not as tactful as when discussing business in China, and immediately refused, "Why don't you give me an ICE that supports on-chip breakpoints and debugging points? And a built-in hardware multiplier? Why not 32-bit RISC technology?"

?Shouldn’t these functions be a popular trend? Or does it mean that your ARM does not have the ability to integrate these functions?”

Carlos smiled and was secretly surprised. He didn't expect that this young Chinese man actually knew the latest technology of his company. Just looking at his understanding and presentation of professional vocabulary, you knew that he was definitely an expert in the chip industry.

"Haha, what you are talking about should be the ARM7TDMI microprocessor that our company just launched this year. The cost of this one is much more expensive. It requires at least three million U.S. dollars in licensing fees and three U.S. dollars in patent fees for each chip.

Although it is a bit expensive, it is absolutely excellent value for money, and its performance is better than those recently produced by Nokia!"

Carlos is indeed a dedicated businessman, and in just a few words he turned the embarrassment into promoting his own products.

Xiao Qi interrupted his bragging, "Mr. Carlos, the ARM7TDMI you mentioned is far from enough. I need the main frequency to reach 300MIPS, and also support floating point processors and CACHE. In addition, I think the GPU graphics processor

The SGX series of British Imagine Technology is very good. Could you please help integrate it into the CPU chip? I hope that the final product will not have a manufacturing process exceeding 45 nanometers."

As the manager of ARM, Carlos is also a technician. He often receives many strange design requests. Even though he has negotiated for a long time, he was shocked by Xiao Qi's conditions.

Now is not the time for smartphone chips to start explosive growth next year after Apple succeeds.

Today's smart chips are only very simple. Manufacturers usually only require some simple performance, and there is no talk of substantial modifications to the large architecture.

Because microprocessors are designed to be extremely fine, the current production process can reach 80-100 nanometers, which is already outstanding. Xiao Qi almost doubled the precision in one breath. This is because Xiao Qi has always claimed to be the overlord of mobile phone CPUs.

ARM will also give you a lot of headaches.

As for other functions, almost all of them are incompatible with the ARM8 series. Carlos even wanted to say that Xiao Qi was fooling around, but he knew that precisely because the technology of the ARM7 series was mature, even on the main chip

It is not as advanced as the ARM8 series, but the stability of the integrated effect is definitely much better than the ARM8 series.

In addition, the GPU image processor of British Imagine Technology Company. Although both companies are based in the UK, because they are both making smart chips, they are definitely enemies. ARM’s CPU is number one in the industry, and Imagine Technology’s GPU is unparalleled in the world.

, the two have each other's strengths, and they are super strong in their professional fields. They want to improve their weak areas and completely trample their opponents.

"Imagine Technology Company?" After thinking about the specific technical problems for a while, Carlos suddenly laughed, "I don't think you understand, Mr. Xiao, that our two companies are in a competitive relationship. ARM's CPU chips have never been used by Imagine Technology's GPU;
Chapter completed!