When ACOM was founded, it only had 12 people, and the office was in a warehouse. It seems that foreigners often prefer garages or warehouses when starting a business.

It all comes down to money. Steve Jobs was in a garage back then, and I think Bill Gates was in a garage too. Logically speaking, since Gates was in slightly better financial condition, he should have had a proper office.

Aicon Computers was only responsible for chip design, and then they licensed the chips.

While the ARM processor architecture wasn't particularly outstanding in its early days, it was touted as an Advanced Reduced Instruction Set Computing (ARPC) chip. During the 386 era, it achieved 32-bit bandwidth addressing thanks to its ARPC. This technology was characterized by high performance, low cost, and low power consumption.

Well, back then, such sophisticated things were just talk; if you believed them, you were falling into a trap.

Through continuous improvement over time, their chip designs have been refined and their defects have been addressed. By the 1990s, their products were used in industrial control, consumer electronics, communication systems, and network systems.

ARM does not manufacture chips itself, but licenses its technology intellectual property to many well-known semiconductor manufacturers around the world.

So why didn't Xing Baohua purchase an ARM license earlier? The timing wasn't right. He had to wait until the early 1990s when Company A changed its name to ARM and had its own proprietary designs.

Furthermore, ARM chips and Intel chips are not in the same league. The former is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) chip, which emphasizes low power consumption. The latter is a CUDA (Complex Instruction Set Computing) chip, which emphasizes high power consumption.

Early computers were not very complex and operated with low power consumption, so they could dissipate heat even without a fan.

Furthermore, their architectures are different. Intel uses the x86 architecture, which is more suitable for computers. The ARM architecture, on the other hand, is more suitable for mobile phones and tablets.

Yes, that's why Apple didn't particularly like using Intel CPUs, and why Apple later focused on using ARM architecture chips, allowing the Apple system to demonstrate its superiority.

Xing Baohua's cooperation with Intel during this period was quite good, and he always wanted to license Intel products.

Now that we're backed into a corner, we'll just have to spend money to buy licenses or even buy out the licensed patents.

You can't expect Western capital to be lenient with you and give you a perfect chip sales plan. They could cut off your supply at any time if they get angry. Who can stand that?

ARM was also founded by two people: one with technical expertise and the other with financial backing.

The technology's founder is Herman Hauser. At first glance, the name sounds like he's a womanizer?

Whether he was a womanizer or not, I don't know, but he was a physics PhD. In the late 1970s, he met a businessman named Chris Curry at a banquet, and the two hit it off.

When Hauser shared his idea, Curry thought it was a good idea and they hit it off immediately. They agreed to find a warehouse, with Hauser providing the technology and blueprints, and Curry providing the money and space, so they could grow the business together.

In addition, Curry is a businessman with a lot of connections. No one knows whether the future products will be profitable. Based on the idea of ​​investing other people's money, he found more than a dozen shareholders through his connections.

At that time, there were fewer employees than shareholders. And that's how they grew and expanded with the support of capital.

If Xing Baohua remembers correctly, this chip design company was later acquired by Sun Honglei of SoftBank.

In this lifetime, however, SoftBank's Son couldn't acquire it. The acquisition price at the time was $32 billion.

Now, Xing Baohua can acquire it without needing a leader, and of course, as long as the seller is willing to sell, the price is not an issue.

Xing Baohua wasn't sure what the other party could sell him. Meanwhile, the shareholders were holding out for a higher price, hoping to get a better deal from him.

Dong Da met with the two founders, and Xing Baohua needed to go to their company to discuss the matter.

Xing Baohua hadn't left his house for a long time. He was afraid that those old nobles would trick some football hooligans into attacking him or something.

For safety reasons, security forces have been strengthened. In addition to using their own people for close protection, the outer perimeter is entirely staffed with mercenaries. They paid a high price to hire a foreign mercenary group from Rooster, who frequently operate in the North African region and have extensive combat experience.

Although the number of people hired was not large, they were all elites, totaling only about forty people.

Wow, this trip was quite something!

That's a really high ranking! Even the president of a small country isn't as afraid of death as him. He used over a dozen vehicles, all of them armed jeeps.

This heavily armed convoy set off from London and headed straight for Cambridge in the north.

The convoy traveled cautiously, averaging 60 miles per hour over a distance of more than 100 kilometers.

It took us almost two and a half hours to walk such a short distance.

Upon arriving at ACOM's office warehouse, the two founders, shareholders, and employees were waiting there.

The appearance of the shareholders was indeed unexpected for Xing Baohua.

Xing Baohua's demeanor was quite an eye-opening sight for the unsophisticated members of ACOM.

A tycoon acts like a tycoon; who has ever seen such a guard formation before?

Xing Baohua, accompanied by two secretaries, Xiao Tianna, Geng Rui, and several other technicians, walked to the warehouse.

The warehouse is a bit larger, with a dozen or so desks inside, and several offices and meeting rooms separated by partitions.

The conference room could only seat a dozen or so people, and Xing Baohua's group of five sat in the conference room listening to Hauser explain their chip structure and performance.

Xiao Tian was a systems expert; he understood the importance of chip architecture to a system. He took notes while thinking.

The chip architecture they mentioned is not suitable for Microsoft systems. According to the performance requirements they provided, their chips can only use open-source systems or BBC Micro systems.

Hauser then explained that their ARM2 chip, with only about 30,000 transistors, outperforms the 286 with its approximately 130,000 transistors.

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