1991 Starting from the core

With the help of various capitals, negotiations with Cyrix finally began.

The day before the negotiation, Su Yuanshan was so excited that he could hardly sleep. He repeatedly checked the information of both parties with Carly to determine the final bottom line for his side.

"The asset appraisal report is just a piece of paper that has been wiped. It has no use except disgusting people." Su Yuanshan drank a big gulp of coffee and said energetically: "Tomorrow, you go up and threaten me in the first round. I will do it in the second round. Let’s try to get it done in two rounds. How about it?”

Carly laughed: "We asked for the acquisition, how can we threaten others? Threatening them with a lawsuit? That is a job that Intel can only do."

Su Yuanshan scratched his head: "That's right, let's have an honest and frank negotiation tomorrow and see how much they offer."

"Well. The key is that their FPU is somewhat patented, and the patent is still valuable... This is very troublesome."

"It doesn't matter. We have a community of interests like Deyi here, which will be more beneficial to future lawsuits." Su Yuanshan rubbed his face, paused and said: "Actually, I am mainly worried now. Unless we can negotiate here, what will happen next? When the government intervenes, it will be over.”

Carly was speechless for a while: "It's not like Yuanxin came over for a cross-border acquisition... Xinghai is a company registered in Silicon Valley. And Cyrix doesn't have products related to the military. How can the government have so much time to care about you? Is it possible that after you acquired Cyrix? Just put all the people in containers and take them back to the mainland?"

"...I'm not a kidnapper."

Carly spread her hands: "Then it's over. It's natural for Silicon Valley companies to acquire Silicon Valley companies. Why do you have so little confidence in the government..."

Su Yuanshan said in his heart that I would like to have confidence in your government...

However, Su Yuanshan soon figured out that the Star Flag Nation now has strong confidence and strength to ensure that Xinghai "obeys the rules", so it doesn't care at all who funds and controls Xinghai. In addition, Cyrix only involves civilian products, and the technology is still backward, so it cannot use a big security stick.

You know, Yuanxin also has a CPU! And it’s a structure with fully independent property rights! The main frequency of 50Mz even makes it stronger than the 486DLC series currently produced by Cyrix.

The next day, the first round of negotiations with Cyrix officially began.

…

The asset appraisal report valued Cyrix at only US$60 million, but Claude's asking price was US$250 million, with conditions attached to maintain Cyrix's independence.

"It's okay to maintain relative independence. But 250 million... Mr. Claude, you have raised money twice in total from the beginning to now, the first time was 3 million, and the second time was 20 million. At 20 million, the valuation was only 1 100 million US dollars, that was half a year ago.”

Carly looked at Claude with interest: "Your valuation has increased by 2.5 times in the past six months?"

Since they are all acquaintances, Claude was honest and said with a smile: "We have launched a new CPU in the past six months, which just makes up for the low-end market."

"That also puts you in a lawsuit."

"But the odds are against us."

"But once you fail, you will go bankrupt. And your chance of winning is a settlement - you still have to pay expensive legal fees." Carly turned her pen and said with a smile: "In addition to Xinghai, there are still people who are willing to invest in Don’t you?”

Claude remained calm: "Carly, don't forget we have products."

"I know, I know, but your products are too low-end, so they can only go east. Didn't you and HP come to an agreement? They were robbed by AMD." Carly kept teasing Claude.

"..." When he mentioned that AMD had stolen HP's order, Claude immediately became a little angry: "Our retail market is also OK!"

Carly smiled: "That's not necessarily true. Haven't you heard that Intel will release a new product soon?"

Claude was startled: "Who said that?"

"I said it." Su Yuanshan took over with a smile. He motioned to Carly to come.

"According to reliable information, Intel's latest products are already being taped out. When their new products come out, what will happen if the prices of the old CPUs are reduced? What will happen if those old CPUs flow into the second-hand market? These will all have an impact on your products. "Su Yuanshan said slowly and calmly.

Claude's expression suddenly became uncertain.

Su Yuanshan continued: "And all of this comes from... You only know how to imitate, and you have no core technology and competitiveness of your own. Even if you win the lawsuit with Intel, you don't have to pay. Do you expect to rely on companies that are several generations behind? The product competes with Intel for the market? Oh no... it should compete with AMD for the market?"

"You know, since the 386 era, Intel has never planned to give its peers a way out."

Claude took a deep breath. He looked at Su Yuanshan carefully, hoping to find that Su Yuanshan was being alarmist.

But he was disappointed. He only saw a... faint sense of superiority on Su Yuanshan's face.

This sense of superiority can be understood by technical people at a glance. People who have mastered high-level technology look down on low-level technology.

This feeling made him very uncomfortable, but he had to admit... Yuanxin's technical strength was superior to his own.

Su Yuanshan smiled again: "As for the X86 architecture, we have actually been involved in it and have accumulated a certain amount of experience."

"You?" Claude immediately looked at Carly.

He couldn't figure out whether Su Yuanshan's "we" referred to the sea of ​​stars or Yuanxin far away on the mainland.

Carly shrugged: "Not this way."

"After all, Yuanxin has the YX architecture. Although it is a simplified instruction set, it is now well integrated with Linux, but the ecology is a bit worse. There is no way, Microsoft is too tightly tied to Intel and does not support our architecture, otherwise it will just With YX’s CPU, I dare to compete with Intel’s desktop processors.”

After hearing Su Yuanshan's words, Claude just smiled.

Complex instruction sets have natural advantages in building a software ecosystem, which cannot be compared with streamlined instruction sets.

But he quickly asked: "What progress have you made on the X86 architecture?"

"A lot of progress. I won't lie to you, but I can't tell you right now."

Su Yuanshan looked at Claude with a smile: "I will tell you when we become a family."

"You..." Claude almost laughed angrily.

Please! This is a negotiation between the two parties!

He casually said, "I have a secret weapon to help you, but you have to be mine to do it" - is this such a childish thing?

"Mr. Claude, if you know me well, you know that I never lie to others." Just when Claude was going crazy, Su Yuanshan stopped laughing and said seriously: "We do have a plan, otherwise... …Why do you think I chose you?”

"Even I am betting that Intel will reach a settlement after we acquire you, and then successfully obtain the authorization of the X86 architecture. This will save us further trouble."

"If this were not the case, I could cooperate with AMD - you have to know that AMD's probability of winning the lawsuit is much higher than yours."

Carly glanced at Su Yuanshan and tapped her pen at the right time.

"Claude, 120 million is enough to satisfy your investors."