Chapter 265 Celebration Meeting

Yang Xing thought that the most improved thing in this life was his English level. He hadn't attended classes for four years in college, but he was all foreign language experts. He stayed in Hong Kong for a while and often asked people to tutor him. Although the Japanese teacher made up for the tutoring, it was fine to achieve daily conversations. After chatting with Wolf and Hawk, he asked straight to the topic: "I heard that Mr. Hawk is the vice president of technical research and development in Qualcomm? Then the mobile processor developed in cooperation with ARM in the UK must have already been finished." Hawk felt a little strange. ARM in the UK is a company specializing in the design of RISC architecture chips, mainly used in niche fields such as mobile applications and industrial control. It neither produces chips nor sells chips, but allows other companies to design and manufacture chips that suit their needs through the sale of chip technology licenses.

This business model is very strange. It was an unknown small company at this time. Qualcomm and they didn't start long. As for the product prospects they developed, Qualcomm was not sure about the chip developed with ARM. The chip developed by Qualcomm is just one of the more than 100 technical products developed by Qualcomm every year. In Hawke's eyes, Yang Xing, who is a big boss, actually pays attention to this small project, which really makes him a little strange, but this is not a secret. You can find out after a little inquiry in the industry. For Yang Xing, who just became a partner, he told the truth: "We do have it."

Is Mr. Yang interested in developing chip projects suitable for personal digital assistants (PDAs)?" Yang Xing smiled, "I am very interested. Our company is developing a similar project called Mobile Internet Assistant (Mobile Intercom Assistant). It is a mobile application based on PDA and is also called a Smartphone (Smartphone) project. Of course, a good chip is needed to support it." "Smartphone, Smartphone?" Hawke thought about it.

Of course, Yang Xing would not chat with Qualcomm's vice president of technology without any target. In fact, when he launched the mobile phone project, his ultimate goal was to develop the throne of the mobile phone - smartphone. However, with current technology, even the predecessor of smartphone PDA has just appeared and its functions are very imperfect. Jobs, who just joined Apple computers, completely gave up because of the uncertain future of the Newton PDA developed by his own. At present, only Palm, which has mastered handwriting input technology, is still struggling to support PDA, which is at best just a handwritten digital terminal. As for the first generation of smartphones that integrate PDA technology, it is said that they are still experimenting in the laboratories of several major mobile phone giants. According to Yang Xing's memory, the finished product will not be launched until the end of next year, probably Motorola's A6188.

At this time, he expressed his interest in the mobile chips that Qualcomm and ARM cooperated with, which really surprised them. However, the young president had a clear understanding of the forward-looking vision of new technologies. Hawk, among the two, was the head of technology, while Wolf was inclined to market promotion. Since he met a soulmate, Hawk introduced in detail their cooperation with ARM within the allowable scope. No one paid attention to this conversation at the time, but it triggered a series of most important technological changes in the history of mobile communications later.

ARM (Advanced RISC Machines) is a company born in Cambridge, England. Relying on the technical power of this world-famous university, it has become one of the few companies that can develop computer microprocessors (chips). It mainly develops RISC processors, related technologies and software. The so-called RISC refers to one of the two major methods of microprocessor architecture design. Microprocessor design is generally divided into two types, RISC and CISC. Among them, CISC is the abbreviation of Complex Instruction Set Computing. Currently, the mainstream computer chips in the world are written according to this instruction set. The most famous one is Intel x86 architecture chips, which are widely used in computers, servers and supercomputers.

RISC means reduced instruction set computer. Corresponding to CISC, its instructions are simpler, code development is easier, and parallel task processing is more convenient. The most important thing is that it consumes less power and is suitable for products that require long-term use but cannot get power support. The disadvantage is that it has low ability to perform large tasks compared with CISC and is incompatible with mainstream computer operating systems, especially Window. Therefore, ARM products are more used in industrial embedded control, multimedia terminals and mobile applications.

ARM only designs chips, but does not manufacture and sells one of its chips. It uses the license to many famous semiconductor, software and OEM manufacturers in the world. Each manufacturer gets a unique business model of ARM technology and related services. In recent years, with the development of mobile phone technology, simple mobile phone communication functions can no longer meet the public's unremitting pursuit of technology. The demand for built-in games, word processing, and even Internet access continues to emerge. Traditional mobile phone chips obviously cannot cope with these complex applications. Built-in multimedia application chips in mobile phones have become a consensus among major mobile phone manufacturers. As the leader in the mobile phone field, Qualcomm will certainly not take it lightly, so it made the decision to cooperate with ARM to develop smartphone chips.

However, ARM's life was not easy at this time. Apple, the company's largest customer and partner, announced that it would no longer develop PDA products, and the company's revenue was greatly reduced. When cooperating with Qualcomm, it asked Qualcomm whether it was willing to invest. However, Qualcomm's product line is numerous and it is still in the evaluation stage. After hearing this, Yang Xing couldn't help but feel excited and tried his best to pretend to be an understatement and asked: "Since that's the case, our company is also trying to develop digital products based on ARM chip design. Why don't we form an alliance and form a joint venture company to develop chips and software for smartphones!"

After a few days of negotiations, at the temporary headquarters in Santa Clara, everyone held a small cocktail party to celebrate the major gains of the trip to the United States. In addition to Qualcomm's cooperation plan, Starlight Entertainment and Hollywood in the United States reached a number of cooperation agreements, especially the filming of the film "The Matrix", Starlight Network's acquisition of Netscape and Real Networks, and the newly established Starlight search engine development team are all worth celebrating. In addition, Starlight Network, which seeks foreign aid in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Silicon Valley, and Zhang Shengli's "Black Hole" software, also brought back another satisfactory gain.

Xingdong Network has reached an agreement with three angel investment funds in the United States. With the appeal of China's largest portal website and multimedia game download platform, as well as the profitability and prospects of network companies at the same time, it easily raised a new investment of 200 million US dollars, allowing Xingguang Entertainment to invest in the first $10 million in a few months to gain a 10-fold increase in returns! Moreover, investors also promised to arrange for Xingdong Network to be listed on the Nasdaq as soon as the end of the year. By then, it will not only increase ten times, but also a hundred times of profits. Ma Huateng and others feel light when they walk, as if they are still in a dream.

Zhang Shengli boasted about the "black hole" software as a company that can provide software services to the Chinese government and enterprises, and develop game software. The slogan was specially designed by Yang Xing for them. EMC (EMC) in the United States is a world-renowned information storage and management system, software service provider, and a leader in software in the office and business fields. Although the company is not as famous as Microsoft, in the United States, EMC is the world's second largest software company with sales revenue after Microsoft. As for Blizzard, both China and the United States are household names. "Warcraft", "Diablo" and "Starcraft" launched this year not only represent the peak of stand-alone games, but also shows everyone the future development direction of the game - networking. Zhang Shengli's slogan of course attracted the attention of many American investors.

Of course, Zhang Shengli was not completely rude. The government office system they developed has been tried in Zhongyuan Mall, Jiudu and other places, and is known as the leader in government electronicization in China. The electronic taxation system jointly developed with the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has also passed the acceptance of the State Administration of Taxation and is preparing to be promoted nationwide. The sales profits of their own accounting computerization software and stock trading software are the most stable, and their sales rankings are steadily rising among similar products in the world. In addition, the "Black Hole" has also acquired some excellent domestic game development studios in recent years. The latest martial arts stand-alone game "Hero Tears" and the online game "Jianghu" have been well received. Among them, the point card sales and the development of game peripheral products used by "Jianghu" make the game a rare big-selling software in China, and many people have found that game development, which has suffered from piracy in China, can actually turn over in online games and make a lot of money.

Supported by excellent performance, American investors who are in the myth of online software companies getting rich overnight were stirred up by words such as "China", "network", "software", and "game". An American investment fund called "Sequoia" capital resolutely decided to invest $50 million in "black hole" software, and promised to arrange the "black hole" to be listed as soon as possible. With this money, Zhang Shengli can finally proudly declare that "we are also rich people." According to his shares in the company, he is already a wealthy man with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars just after leaving school. The million yuan invested by Yang Xing to support his career also received a return of more than tens of millions of dollars in a blink of an eye. The two sat down and talked about the scene at the Jiudu Veal Noodle Restaurant. Who could have thought that happiness would come so quickly and suddenly!
Chapter completed!