Silicon Valley

　　 Henry smiled wryly, took a shower in the bathroom and changed into his clothes.

　　 "People will think wildly when they are free. It's better to find something to do..."

　　 Last time, Henry asked Qualcomm to come to the UK to acquire the ARM chip design department of Acorn Computer. Although Acorn Computer attaches great importance to this department, he immediately agreed to the five million pounds that Qualcomm opened.

　　 The current mainstream is the CISC complex instruction set processor, among which Intel’s chips are the most popular!

　　ARM is based on the RISC streamlined instruction set. The chip processor designed is a niche in the current market, and few companies use it!

　　 However, the development of RISC by Acorn Computer is also helpless.

　　 In 1984, Acorn planned to use Motorola’s 16-bit chip, but found that the chip was too slow and too expensive. "A machine priced at 500 pounds, it is impossible to use a CPU with a price of 100 pounds!" So they turned to Intel to ask for the design information of the 80286 chip, but was refused, so they were forced to develop their own.

　　 then designed a RISC streamlined instruction set, and RISC-based processors, the instructions are relatively simple, so the power consumption is low, the price is cheap, especially suitable for mobile devices. But the computer belched, and was suppressed by the CISC and couldn't look up. Therefore, Acorn Computer Company is at best known in the UK and is a second-rate company internationally.

　　 Acorn Computer Company was originally expected to be reorganized in November this year to establish ARM Company! Apple has contacted Acorn Computer Company before and will invest 1.5 million pounds in ARM when it is formally reorganized to form ARM. The chip manufacturer VLSI will also invest 250,000 pounds, while Acorn itself will use 1.5 million pounds of intellectual property rights and Part of the engineers have invested in shares!

　　 However, Qualcomm has now cut Hu and invested 5 million pounds, which is 1.75 million pounds higher than the valuation of the upcoming ARM company.

　　 At this moment, CISC is like a black mist covering the earth, and the future of ARM is unclear.

　　 Faced with the temptation of 5 million pounds, Acorn Computer Company agreed without much consideration!

　　 Acorn Computer Company’s job is to develop computers. The main reason for the development of RISC reduced instruction set computers is because of lack of money. If he has money, he will not use Intel chips? Most computer manufacturers around the world are using Intel chips. Naturally, it makes sense. It must be Intel's chips that are good. That's why they use them. Acorn Computer Company is a poor company, so it will be careful to plan and develop its own RISC simplified instruction set computer. However, the performance is far worse than CISC, and it is impossible to compete with computers using CISC chip processors!

　　 As a result, Acorn Computer's performance declined, and even later, it simply gave up researching and developing computers, and instead concentrated on developing ARM. But if Acorn Computer can get a huge sum of money, they will be able to develop computers based on CISC processors. Computers are very popular nowadays, and Acorn Computer Company will certainly not give up on developing computers and retain ARM.

　　 This is a very simple multiple choice question.

　　 Therefore, Acorn Computer Company finally decided to sell the ARM chip design department to Qualcomm.

　　 Qualcomm bought the ARM chip design department and immediately established the ARM company. Its headquarters is temporarily located near Cambridge University in London. It will only be a branch in the future, and its headquarters will be moved to Silicon Valley, USA. When Henry came to ARM, someone from Apple happened to be there. Acorn Computer Company sold ARM to Qualcomm, and the partnership between Apple and Acorn Computer Company was transferred to Qualcomm.

　　 Apple needs ARM company to provide chip design support for its product Newton, which is still in the research and development stage and is the world's first PDA. Apple has high hopes for it and has great ambitions. It wants to "change the dynasty" through Newton, change the entire personal computer market and break Apple's current predicament.

　　 As far as Henry knows, in order to develop Newton, Apple has hired a strong foreign aid, and its electronic design and manufacturing are all in Japan by Sharp!

　　 After the successful development of Newton, it has functions such as touch screen, infrared, handwriting input (and even supports cursive writing). If it evolves again, it will become an IPAD... In fact, this Newton is the prototype of the IPAD!

　　 However, Newton did not sell well at all, and Apple reluctantly stopped the production of the product. But after more than three years of hard work, Apple has lost a lot, almost on the verge of bankruptcy!

　　 Henry smiled unconsciously when he passed by Apple, and said to his heart, brothers, don’t be nervous, don’t worry, ARM will definitely cooperate with you, huh...

　　If you don’t cooperate, how can you pit an apple?

　　 Newton is a big hole! ! !

　　Henry came to the office of the CEO of ARM. Currently, the CEO of ARM is George Moore, the former head of the ARM department of Acorn Computer. This is the first time Henry has seen him. He was tall and thin, with short hair, high nose, concave eyes, and a little ugly face.

　　 Henry sat down and listened to him report the situation of ARM. ARM has more than 30 employees, of which chip design engineers only have 12 employees, but each chip design engineer is a top talent in chip design, especially good at RISC chip architecture design!

　　 At present, ARM's chip design in RISC ranks second, and no one dares to rank first!

　　 In terms of RISC chip design, ARM is the most authoritative company in the world!

　　 In addition, ARM has many basic patents for RISC. If others want to develop a chip processor based on RISC, they must get authorization from ARM!

　　 The patent has made Qualcomm, and the patent will also make the ARM company! ! !

　　Henry emphasized the need to acquire ARM, the most important point is that he fancy ARM's patent!

After listening to George Moore’s report, Henry nodded and said: “Although the RISC chip market is in a downturn, RISC chips are efficient, fast in response, and low in power consumption. I think RISC will have more development prospects than CISC. Especially in mobile devices, such as mobile phones ~www.NovelMTL.com~ is far better than CISC. Although CISC is now widely used in the computer field, CISC wins by stacking a lot of complex instructions. And our RISC is It is a streamlined instruction with a small number, which is not comparable to CISC for a while. However, the more developed the CISC, the more bloated, and the higher the cost; while RISC will be optimized and improved, and will become more powerful, catching up with CISC, but the cost is lower than CISC A lot!"

　　 Henry paused and said: "In the future, chip processors will be the world of RISC, and it will be the world of ARM. I am very sure of this!!!"

　　 George Moore was stunned. Although he is ARM’s ceo and has confidence in ARM, he still dare not conclude that ARM will definitely become the chip leader in the future...

　　 Now, Intel has gradually become a giant in the industry, as if it is an unattainable mountain that stands in front of ARM! To say that ARM can beat Intel, George Moore has no confidence at all...

　　Who can remove the fog that obscures the future and penetrate for decades at a glance? Henry is the only one in the world! ! !

　　Countless smart terminal products such as smart phones and smart watches will basically use ARM architecture chip design. In the embedded field, ARM is the king! ! ! When the era of intelligence comes, ARM beats Intel and kicks AMD. It will be awesome...

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