Chapter 347 A fat sheep came from Asia, and we want to kill 200 million US dollars with one knife? Dream on! Chen Yansen: The sugar water is very sweet!
After Lao Gao finished communicating with Qu Fang, he placed a bunch of keys on the table before leaving.
Chen Yansen raised his head without saying anything. He knew that this was the key to the villa near Delta Park.
This should be the seventh house he has bought in his life.
As for Room 0418, he has no plans to cancel the lease. The monthly rent is only 400 yuan. When he goes back occasionally, he can experience the feeling of revisiting the old place with Meng Jie or Song Yuncheng.
All five villas in Luzhou are under renovation, and we will move there after the Orange Technology headquarters is completed.
The original plan was to buy three sets, but after a little thought, Chen Yansen asked Gao Weilin to buy two more sets.
Three sets are not enough!
After dealing with the Xiaohongshu matter, Chen Yansen opened the Cadence Spectre and continued his unfinished work.
Wu Shengyu and Mike Keller are leading a team that is working overtime to develop the Tiangong T100 chip.
Of course he won't be idle.
Otherwise, with the limited manpower in the chip department, it would take at least half a year for Tiangong T100 to be launched.
Time passed by minute by minute, and the night sky soon reflected on the glass, creating star-like spots of light.
After organizing the new product launch, Wang Teng immediately took the staff of the Intellectual Property Department, Legal Affairs Department and Finance Department to the UK to discuss architectural licensing cooperation for the ARM instruction set patent with ARM.
However, ARM's asking price is extremely high. In addition to a one-time licensing fee of US$200 million, it also needs to pay a 3% royalty commission based on chip shipments.
Before setting off, Wang Teng studied ARM's previous licensing fee standards, which were basically 30 to 80 million US dollars in "slot fees" plus a 1% royalty commission.
When encountering big customers like Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and MediaTek, we will proactively reduce the royalty commission to 0.5%.
It can be seen from this that ARM has no scruples and wants to slaughter Orange Technology like a fat sheep in Asia.
After a whole day of discussion, ARM was only willing to reduce the royalty rate to 2%, and the one-time licensing fee was still US$200 million.
“Buzz buzz buzz——!”
At this moment, the phone on the desk rang.
Chen Yansen picked it up and took a look, without thinking much, he pressed the answer button.
"Boss, things are a bit complicated. ARM has insisted on a price of 200 million US dollars, and also wants a 2% royalty commission."
Wang Teng stood in the corridor of ARM headquarters with a gloomy face. He was very angry at the moment. These bastards were just taking advantage of him.
But in the eyes of ARM's top management, Orange Technology's valuation has exceeded 20 billion US dollars. As the head of Sunlink Capital, Chen Yansen has a net worth of more than 50 billion. Is their offer of 200 million US dollars too much? Since Orange Technology wants to go the route of self-developed chips, is there a problem with paying some tuition fees?
These British guys even rip off Apple, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, let alone Orange Technology?
More than a decade later, Huawei spent 1 billion US dollars to obtain the permanent license for the ARM V9 architecture.
Therefore, considering Orange Technology's market size, US$100 million plus 1% royalty commission is reasonable, but US$200 million plus 2% royalty commission is a bit too much.
"Can't come to an agreement?" Chen Yansen asked calmly.
"The one-time licensing fee will not be reduced at all, and the royalty commission may be reduced by another 0.5%." Wang Teng explained truthfully.
ARM is equivalent to a developer in the chip field, providing rough houses for Apple, Qualcomm, and Huawei. The instruction set architecture is similar to decoration tools. Only after obtaining technical authorization can it develop processors.
For example, Huawei's HiSilicon k3v2 processor is a modified version of the ARM Cortex A9 architecture.
Apple and Qualcomm are no exception. For every chip they produce, they have to pay a "toll" to ARM.
Because of ARM's reduced instruction set patent, it has higher compilation efficiency and can give the processor the characteristics of power saving and low energy consumption.
ARM has spent more than 20 years using thousands of engineers to build a technological moat through massive amounts of code and patents. Naturally, it is not easy to break through.
This is also the main reason why ARM dares to ask for such a high price!
"Okay, I understand. You can come back first."
Chen Yansen narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice.
"Boss, don't you want to buy the architecture license?" Wang Teng was slightly stunned and asked immediately.
He is well aware of the importance of ARM's patented RISC technology to the future development of Tiangong T100 and Orange Technology.
Being ripped off by ARM is just one blow; being ripped off by Qualcomm and MediaTek is two blows.
After all, Qualcomm and MediaTek have to pay royalties to ARM, and this part of the cost is naturally passed on to the customers.
“No.”
Chen Yansen said in a deep voice.
Although ARM held a large number of instruction set and microarchitecture patents in 2012, totaling as many as 2,700, Orange Technology could still find a new way and independently develop a new CPU architecture as long as it avoided technologies such as the Thumb instruction set, multi-core scheduling and conditional execution.
As far as he knows, ARM will even change the commission target from chips to terminal devices in the future.
The price of a chip ranges from 5 to 40 U.S. dollars, while the price of a smartphone is more than 150 U.S. dollars.
In other words, ARM increased its copyright commission by several times or even dozens of times at one time.
To this end, Apple had to launch the Apple Silicon architecture, while China accelerated the development of the free and open source RISC-V architecture. Europe, the United States and other countries even launched "chip regulations" and raised billions of US dollars in one go just to independently develop instruction set patents.
There is no way around it. ARM has always been ruthless when it comes to overcharging its customers.
"What about that Tiangong T100 chip?" Wang Teng thought his boss was just speaking in anger.
"I'll take care of it." Chen Yansen said in a firm voice.
If he couldn't even figure out a simple CPU architecture, wouldn't his reincarnation be in vain? He wanted to start from the field of chip design and gradually enter the semiconductor industry, but ARM was determined to kill him, and Chen Yansen couldn't stand it.
At worst, he could just set the Planck Clock talent to two seconds every day. He didn't believe that Orange Technology couldn't solve a problem that even Apple's R&D department could solve!
ARM wants to die, so let it die! Chen Yansen immediately made up his mind that once the research and development is successful, he will directly license it to others at a low cost and squeeze ARM out of business first.
Wang Teng saw this and immediately realized that his boss was not joking, so he took a deep breath and said, "Boss, I know what to do."
The other side.
In a meeting room at ARM headquarters, five or six staff members in charge of business negotiations were arguing in low voices.
"Warren, your offer is too high. I'm afraid it will be difficult for Orange Technology to agree to it." said one of the bald middle-aged men.
"Victor, you don't know the status of this mobile phone manufacturer in Asia. It is said that Orange's global shipments in 2012 have reached 40 million units. Do you know what this means?"
Another man of medium build, wearing a black suit, asked back with a smile.
"I know what you mean, but there must be a reasonable baseline for price. Your offer is obviously too high." Victor shrugged.
"NO no no! Asians are richer than you think. MediaTek can afford 160 million US dollars. Is it possible that an Asian super-rich man with a net worth of 50 billion US dollars can't come up with 200 million US dollars?"
Warren waved his hand and said it was not a big deal.
Victor smiled and shook his head. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a noise outside the door and had to keep quiet.
With a creak, the door of the conference room slowly opened. Wang Teng stood outside the door with bright eyes. A faint light shone into the room from behind him.
On his left and right sides stood six entourage members.
"Mr. Warren, Mr. Victor, because your company's quotation is extremely unreasonable, our company has decided to terminate the negotiations." Wang Teng straightened his back and announced loudly.
“That’s a real shame.”
Warren spread his hands, looking indifferent, and regarded Wang Teng's performance as a negotiation strategy of retreating in order to advance.
In his opinion, within two days, Wang Teng would completely surrender and sign an architectural patent licensing contract with ARM.
He has seen the same negotiating tactics countless times by representatives of Qualcomm, Apple and MediaTek.
"Don't try to bluff me!"
Warren complained secretly, and stood up to send Wang Teng and others out of ARM's headquarters building.
"Victor, how about a bet? I guess the other party will come to your door again within a day." Warren looked at his colleague beside him and said in a firm tone.
"Looking at the man's expression when he left, I estimate it will take a day just to get the news. I bet! I guess within two days." Victor said confidently.
In 2012, ARM held a pivotal position in the global chip design and manufacturing fields, which was the source of their confidence.
But what Warren and Victor didn't expect was that after two days, they didn't receive any visiting calls from Orange Technology.
Later, I went to the other party's hotel to inquire and found out that the people from Orange Technology had left Cambridge a day ago.
The two looked at each other, bewildered.
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at the same time.
Chen Yansen hung up the phone and started his research from complex instruction sets, to reduced instruction sets, and explicitly parallel instruction sets. He planned to conceive a completely new CPU architecture from X86 architecture to PA-RISC, PowerPC, MIPS, and SPARC architectures.
First collect data information, then integrate and reorganize it, and finally activate the [Planck Clock] talent to select the best technical solution from tens of thousands of feasible options.
It is necessary to achieve both higher compilation efficiency and lower energy consumption.
It was not until eight o'clock in the evening that he walked out of the office, exhausted. His eyelids were heavy and he might fall asleep at any time.
"Boss, what's wrong with you?"
In the lobby on the first floor, Ye Qiuping was about to leave work when she saw Chen Yansen walking towards her with a pale face.
"It's okay, just go back and have some sleep." Chen Yansen said dejectedly.
After saying that, he prepared to drive away.
Ye Qiuping's heart softened. Unable to bear the sight of Chen Yansen like this, she subconsciously raised her hand and tested the temperature on his forehead.
"Fortunately, I don't have a fever." Ye Qiuping couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, regardless of Chen Yansen's objections, he pushed him into his car.
Seeing this, the driver Xiao Li quietly got into the driver's seat and drove straight to Ye Qiuping's community as if he was familiar with the route.
Chen Yansen leaned on Ye Qiuping's shoulder, smelled the milky scent on her body, and closed his eyes slightly.
Even though he looks haggard at the moment, as long as he wants, he can exert a force of tens of thousands of kilograms with a casual wave of his hand.
Half an hour later, Chen Yansen lay on Ye Qiuping's bed, watching the woman in front of him busying around, with a slight smile on his lips.
"Shall I make you a few side dishes? And boil a bowl of sweet soup?" Ye Qiuping asked tentatively.
"It's all right. I believe in your level." Chen Yansen licked his lips and said.
Ye Qiuping keenly caught this detail and immediately turned around to pour him some water.
Different from the immaturity of Meng Jie and Song Yuncheng, Ye Qiuping is like a ripe peach, exuding fragrance all over her body.
She has perfect life skills. Not only can she cook, but she can also help Mr. Chen wash socks and underwear without batting an eyelid.
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Yansen vaguely heard Ye Qiuping calling his name. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a bowl of brown sugar fermented glutinous rice flour in Ye Qiuping's hand.
"Do you want me to feed you?" Ye Qiuping asked with a faint smile.
Chen Yansen opened his mouth, his intention was self-evident.
Ye Qiuping scooped up a spoonful of sugar water and put it into Chen Yansen's mouth, as if she was taking care of a child.
After a while, Chen Yansen drank up the whole bowl of sugar water.
When he came to the living room, he found that Ye Qiuping had already prepared four dishes and a soup. They were all simple home-cooked dishes, but they were exquisitely presented and full of fragrance.
As soon as Chen Yansen sat down, Ye Qiuping handed him the bowl and chopsticks.
"A gift for you."
Before eating, Chen Yansen took out a key from his pocket and threw it into Ye Qiuping's arms.
"The key to your house?" Ye Qiuping held the key, a hint of joy appearing in her eyes, like a blooming peach blossom.
"Yes, but the house is in Luzhou and is still under renovation." Chen Yansen replied.
"How many sets did you buy?" Ye Qiuping put the keys into her pocket silently, and then asked suddenly.
"One set." Chen Yansen said seriously.
Don’t ask, it’s the same no matter who comes.
"Thank you." Ye Qiuping didn't believe it at all, but she didn't point it out.
Not making some things clear is a good thing for three, four or five people.
"You're welcome, it's just a key." Chen Yansen joked.
What this means is that Ye Qiuping only has the right to reside, not the ownership.
"Do you have to make it so clear? Can't you let me be happy for a few seconds?" Ye Qiuping rolled her eyes and said angrily.
"When have I not made you happy for two hours?" Chen Yansen raised his eyebrows and looked at the other person jokingly.
"Then eat quickly." Ye Qiuping suddenly urged, not knowing what she was thinking.
Chen Yansen burst out laughing. He was just in a bad mental state, not in good health.
Somehow, for a moment, even the lights above my head became much softer.
At dawn the next day, the sky was slightly bright.
Chen Yansen got out of bed refreshed. It was white outside the window and the balcony was covered with a layer of fine snow.
Before December, the first snow fell in Xucheng.
The cold wind whistled past, leaving behind a low roar.
For him, the three-second [Planck Clock] still felt strenuous. Even though his physical fitness had exceeded 47, it could only barely allow him to keep his brain clear and have sufficient physical strength after shutting down his talent.
He already had a general direction for the design of the instruction set, and all that was left was to proceed step by step.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Chen Yansen took a bus back to the company. After dealing with work emails, he overturned all the fixed-length instructions, general registers and conditional execution rules of ARM based on the characteristics of the RISC reduced instruction set, and then used delay slot technology to replace conditional execution.
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"Krok Technology Co., Ltd.? Chang Wei?"
On November 28, Cheng Wei learned about Chang Wei's existence for the first time.
Didi Bike has a new rival!
(End of this chapter)
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