After accompanying Leader Yu on a tour of the renamed Huahong Technology, we arrived at the headquarters of Huahong Group, where all the shareholders who could come were also present.
Even if a powerful figure like them didn't want to come, their family would still make them show their face.
Nothing else was discussed; it was just a small seminar to chat, get to know each other, and have lunch together.
In the afternoon, the leaders left for Shenzhen for research.
When Xing Baohua returned to Huahong's headquarters, the young shareholders came to congratulate him, after all, he had made money in Europe.
But the small investors from the private equity firms are all asking whether they should receive a share of the profits from the Far East.
Xing Baohua originally intended to delay this for a few years, investing all the profits in airplanes, cars, and software/hardware projects. He only had emergency funds left, and this trip to Europe was financed by borrowing money from China.
You have to pay it back!
After paying back the principal and interest, there would still be over nine billion British pounds, which would be around 130-140 million US dollars.
Of course, he has other uses for this money. Now that he has money, he might as well share some! Look how envious those shareholders are.
This is a dividend, not a return of principal. We'll distribute 30% first, and then leave it hanging.
Xing Baohua called Zhang Dongshuo, who was researching superconductivity at his old villa.
When this man came to Hong Kong to see Xing Baohua, he asked, "I'm busy working on my theories back home. What are you sending me here for?"
“I’m letting you put this aside for now and change your environment. I just acquired a chip design team called Eagle, and I have an idea for you to get involved. If the design is successful, you can go back to working on your theory,” Xing Baohua explained.
“Now that we’ve acquired it, let them continue to follow your ideas. I can’t do much on my own. I’ll go back to working on the theory. Only with a solid theoretical foundation can we conduct experiments and turn the things on paper into reality,” Zhang Dongshuo said somewhat anxiously.
Seeing Zhang Dongshuo's somewhat reluctant expression, Xing Baohua patiently explained, "Superconducting chips not only take a long time to develop, but also require a huge amount of capital. I want to develop a cheap chip first, and only after we make money can we continue to invest. We are a private enterprise, and even if we encounter difficulties, the government will not provide funding; we can only rely on ourselves."
Try to reason with Zhang Dongshuo patiently. At this time, the R&D staff were easy to talk to and coax.
If you explain the reasons clearly, people will understand. It's just a temporary change of project, right? It's really tough when the company runs out of money.
But in the future, if the company's performance is not good, it has nothing to do with those researchers. If they don't have money, they can stop and find other projects.
After Zhang Dongshuo calmed down, Xing Baohua showed him several design drawings of ARM and ARM2.
After Zhang Dongshuo looked at it for a while, Xing Baohua said, "This chip is a 32-bit chip with a very simple instruction set. It can support 4M of memory and 512M of hard drive. If we have a smoother compatible system, we will bring down the price of all computers. At the same time, we can also use this chip to increase the price of tablets and mobile phones."
Zhang Dongshuo kept looking down at the blueprints. After Xing Baohua finished speaking, he looked up slightly and said, "This ARM2 only has 30,000 transistors. It's about the same as the 8086 CPU, which only has 16 bits."
Xing Baohua said, "The 386 only has 32 bits, but it has 230,000 transistors, so the difference is still huge."
Zhang Dongshuo scratched his head, put down the blueprints, and said to Xing Baohua, "This thing feels really strange. The design blueprints say the clock speed is only 0.8MHz, but the 8086 clock speed is 4.77MHz, and it can be overclocked to 10MHz. What can you do with 0.8MHz?"
"Low power consumption and simplification are the main uses of this chip. It can perform the functions of the 8086."
As soon as Xing Baohua finished speaking, Zhang Dongshuo said, "Then you can just go for the 8086 chip; it's much cheaper now."
"The 8086 is just a processor; you can't add anything to it. But ARM can! It's not that you can add anything to ARM2, but the structure of this chip allows it. We can directly stack layers and integrate power management chips, graphics chips, and audio chips. This is a RISC-compatible chip that can be compatible with many chips."
Upon hearing Xing Baohua's words, Zhang Dongshuo seemed to suddenly understand and picked up the blueprints again to look at them.
After watching for a while, he walked to Xing Baohua's office, picked up a pen, found a piece of paper, and began to calculate.
Xing Baohua waited patiently for more than ten minutes. Zhang Dongshuo looked up at Xing Baohua and said with a little excitement, "In this way, this chip can accommodate a lot of things. Power, graphics, and audio can all be included. At the same time, it can save a lot of space."
"Yes, so your next job is to work with those ACOM experts to modify a multi-compatible chip."
After Xing Baohua finished speaking, Zhang Dongshuo hurriedly asked, "What about the system?"
“We’ll do it ourselves. The person who can build the system is still Da Ying. His task isn’t finished yet. We’ll start working on it when he gets back.”
"People brought in from the Great Eagle?"
"No, he's one of us, and his skills are top-notch." Xing Baohua was referring to Xiao Tian. The order for Daying Electronics' foreign exchange market hadn't been processed yet. Once the price was right, the trader would close the position, and he was responsible for the follow-up work.
It won't take more than a few months to get back. Chip development isn't something that can be completed in just a few months. Although some structures and foundations can be used, adding graphics chips, audio chips, power management chips, etc., is equivalent to creating a new chip.
Xing Baohua introduced Zhang Dongshuo to Hauser and Hauser's team.
Hauser is still the leader of the research and development team for the new chip, with Zhang Dongshuo as his deputy.
Ultimately, ARM chips, thanks to their simplification and low power consumption, have fully entered the mobile phone chip market.
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