Shaking his head, Xiao Qi felt that he should not rush to find Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, but should do what he was sure of first.

This time I came to the United States, the first important thing was to find Linus and register a patent, and the rest was to ask Haode about something that could be done with just spending money.

Coming out of Mario, Xiao Qi went directly to ARM's New York branch in the United States.

ARM, headquartered in Cambridge, England, is the one that Xiao Qi asked MediaTek's Cai Mingsheng if he could use their jishu to develop his own microprocessor.

In fact, ARM's microprocessor has not yet entered the high-speed development of things, because the era of smart phones has not yet arrived, the high-precision requirements of microprocessors are not high, many manufacturers can make it, ARM has not yet reached 2010, with the chips produced by their jishu, the shipment of six billion pieces is so dominant.

ARM has two branches in the United States, one in Silicon Valley, the home of the electronics industry, and the other in New York, the most developed city in the United States.

As a company that is open to selling chips, ARM's attitude is very enthusiastic, and when he heard that Xiao Qi wanted to commission them to design smart chips, a responsible manager appeared in the small reception room.

The manager, who is in his thirties, is called Carlos, has dark skin, a bit of South American tropical blood, and has a smiling face before he speaks, which makes people look comfortable.

After a moment of politeness, Carlos turned on the projector and played their company's chip products.

ARM's chips are all produced one series after another, and various floor plans, anatomical drawings, functional introductions, etc., are all on the slides. Very detailed.

They don't have to play tricks at all, all these structures and details, ARM has applied for patents, in developed countries like Europe and the United States, whoever dares to use it without paying money, the government will punish you to sleep and cry "I don't dare anymore".

A little bit about the company's situation and philosophy. Carlos said: "Mr. Xiao, the chips we use for mobile phones are now divided into 6, 7, 8 three series, if you buy a finished product, you can choose ARM6TD, this is now Motorola's low-end models are widely used, it is definitely very easy to use in the Chinese market, and the price is not expensive, the licensing fee is only 500,000 US dollars, and then we charge a patent fee of one US dollar per chip." ”

The license fee is $500,000. This one is cheap.

But charging one dollar per chip is a big deal: you have to pay one million dollars to make a million mobile phones, and ten million dollars is ten million dollars!

Besides, Carlos didn't have any good intentions, obviously now that the mature jishu has developed to the 7 series, he still sells the 6 series chips that are about to be eliminated to Xiao Qi, and the price is so expensive, which is the same as the bad behavior of foreigners who sold their retired machinery and equipment to Chinese people at a high price. What's the difference?

However, in Western society. This kind of method of doing anything to make money can be seen from time to time.

If you fall headlong into it, you can only blame your bad luck, and you can't blame the profiteers who set traps but do not violate the law.

Xiao Qi was not as tactful as when he talked about business in China, and immediately refused. "weishenme doesn't give me an ICE that can support on-chip breakpoints and tuning pilots? And an embedded hardware multiplier? weishenme isn't a thirty-two-digit RISCjishu? Shouldn't these features be a popular trend? Or is it true that you ARM don't have the ability to integrate these features? ”

Carlos smiled, secretly surprised in his heart, he didn't expect this overly young Chinese to actually know the latest jishu of his company. Just looking at his understanding and proposal of professional vocabulary, you know that he is definitely an expert in the chip industry.

"Hehe, what you said, it should be the ARM7TDMI microprocessor that our company only launched this year, the cost of this is much more expensive, at least three million US dollars in licensing fees, and the patent fee for each chip is three US dollars, although it is a bit expensive, but it is absolutely super-priced, compared to the performance of the recent ones produced by Nokia, it is excellent!"

Carlos is a professional businessman, and in a few words, he turned his embarrassment into a sales pitch for his own products.

Xiao Qi interrupted his boasting, "Mr. Carlos, what you said is ARM7TDMI far from enough, I need to reach the main frequency of 300MIPS, but also support floating-point processors, and support CACHE." In addition, the GPU graphics processor, I think the SGX series of the British imagination jishu company is very good, please help integrate it into the CPU chip, zuihou's finished product, I hope the manufacturing process does not exceed 45 nanometers. ”

As the manager of ARM, Carlos is also a jishu member, and he often receives many bizarre design requests, Rao is that he has been negotiating for a long time, and he is also shocked by Xiao Qi's conditions.

Now is not the time for smartphone chips to start to grow explosively after Apple's success next year.

Today's smart chips are only a very simple one, and manufacturers usually only require some simple performance, not to mention that they are greatly modified in the large architecture.

Because the microprocessor is originally set up to be extremely fine, the current production process can reach 80-100 nanometers, which is already outstanding, Xiao Qi almost doubles the fineness in one breath, which lies in the fact that ARM, which claims to be the overlord of mobile phone CPU, will also feel a very headache.

As for other performances, almost all of them are not compatible with the ARM8 series, and Carlos has the heart to say that Xiao Qi is messing around, but he knows that it is precisely because the jishu of the ARM7 series is mature, so even if the main chip is not as advanced as the ARM8 series, but for the stability of the integrated effect, it is definitely much better than the ARM8 series.

In addition, the GPU image processor of the British imagination jishu company, although the two companies are in the United Kingdom, but because they are both making smart chips, they are absolutely rivals, ARM's CPU industry is the first, imagine the GPU of jishu company is unique in the world, the two have each other's strengths, the professional field is super strong, and they want to improve their weak aspects, and completely trample the opponent under their feet.

"Imagine the Jishu company?" After thinking about the specific jishu problem for a while, Carlos suddenly laughed, "I think Mr. Xiao, you don't understand, our two companies are in competition, ARM's CPU chip, never need to imagine jishu's GPU; Their GPUs are never integrated into our CPUs, so you may be disappointed. (To be continued.) )