1991 Starting from the core

Three days later, Silicon Valley Xinghai completed the wholly-owned acquisition of the original Cyrix for US$150 million in cash. Cyrix, a company established less than four years ago, has officially become history, and its patent and trademark property rights have been completely transferred to Silicon Valley Xinghai.

Since Xinghai has not been listed or even publicly raised, the capital market can only express its views through the shares of Texas Instruments associated with Xinghai.

Wall Street is wary of Xinghai’s acquisition of Cyrix.

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"Mr. Claude, Xinghai's promise of Cyrix's independence does not mean that I will watch you go astray."

Su Yuanshan and Claude were walking in the villa garden. When they reached a peach tree, he stopped and said seriously: "I will give you two months to complete the current project, that is to say, the current core The CPU can only go up to 50Mz."

"In two months, I will let Yuanxin's CPU team connect with you."

Claude's eyes were always shining, and he said solemnly: "What is the code name of the new core?"

"I haven't thought about it yet. I originally wanted to call him Tualatin... but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it." Su Yuanshan looked at the location of Intel in the distance, smiled and said: "Let's just name it after the main god of Nordic mythology. How are you?"

"Thor is good." Claude smiled with a complicated expression. He looked deeply at Su Yuanshan and said in a deep voice: "But are you really sure that the 0.5 micron process can support the architectural idea you proposed before?"

"definite."

"Okay." Claude nodded and took a long breath.

He admitted that technology aside, Su Yuanshan was indeed worthy of his nickname of Wonder Boy in terms of foresight and insight.

Su Yuanshan actually thought of adding dozens of pipeline instructions to the X86 basis to form a new instruction set - this instruction set was named MMX by Su Yuanshan.

Multi Media eXtension - means multimedia enhancement instructions.

At present, due to the computing power of the CPU, it is almost impossible to complete multimedia video decoding alone. If you want to play the MPEG1 video file format on your computer, you must plug in a separate decoding card.

——Coincidentally, the main chip of this decoding card is also produced by Yuanxin.

But once this MMX instruction set is available, and combined with the vision of the "Thor" core just mentioned casually, all decoder cards on the market will be wiped out in an instant.

64-bit bus, bandwidth up to 500MB/S, 0.5 micron process, starting frequency of 150Mz... Once such a CPU is released, even Intel will tremble.

"But now the instruction set still lacks the technology to implement it, and there is no way to optimize it. And we still don't know whether Microsoft is willing to support it. If Microsoft's new generation of WINDOWS can support it, then MMX can be more streamlined and more efficient. If you don't support it, then you can only become more bloated..." Su Yuanshan said and sighed: "I talked with Mr. Gates and it seems that their relationship with Intel is too unusual. Before we have an absolute advantage over Intel, Their priority ally must be Intel."

Claude also sighed: "After all, the X86 patent is in the hands of Intel, especially the 338 patent, which is really rogue."

Su Yuanshan said happily: "So you thought of using Texas Instruments' authorization to circumvent it?"

"Yeah... I don't know if we can reconcile now." Claude looked at Su Yuanshan, feeling a little embarrassed.

After all, this was his fault. As a senior executive of Xinghai, he should be worried.

"Don't worry, we have a strong legal team and Texas Instruments is helping us. The probability of settlement is very high."

Su Yuanshan said in his heart, it's not very big, it's inevitable!

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After staying in Silicon Valley for two more days, Su Yuanshan and Xi Xiaoding rushed to the airport dressed lightly.

This time, Xi Xiaoding was driving, Tang Wenjie sat in the passenger seat, and Su Yuanshan and Yang Yiwen sat in the back.

Su Yuanshan wanted to talk to Yang Yiwen about something.

"Sister-in-law, three things." Su Yuanshan grabbed the passenger seat, sat upright, and became serious.

"Well, you tell me." Yang Yiwen knew that when Su Yuanshan stopped joking, he must have something serious.

Su Yuanshan stared at Yang Yiwen's big shining eyes and said softly: "Here at Xinghai, among the board of directors and senior executives, there is a gradient of trust in me. You should understand..."

Yang Yiwen blinked quickly and nodded with a smile: "I understand. In fact, everyone in Xinghai is not stupid. They all know that I am the imperial envoy you left behind. And Carly... through my observation, she is a standard Professional managers can still be trusted.”

"Yeah, but it's better to be on the safe side. So the first thing is that you have to help me keep an eye on the sea of ​​​​stars. You are the general manager of the company's legal department and a director. You have enough power to restrict some things that we don't want to see. Phenomenon."

Yang Yiwen nodded slightly: "Understood, what next?"

"Then we need to pay more attention to the attitude of the government here and develop a sense of confidentiality."

At this time, Tang Wenjie turned back and said with a smile: "Xiaoshan, you sound like you are doing underground work..."

"Be careful when sailing for ten thousand years. My sister-in-law's status is a bit special. Don't get into trouble if someone finds out about you."

Yang Yiwen just smiled and continued to nod: "What else?"

"Continue to be familiar with the laws here, and we must become a legal expert here - as long as we have money to litigate, the laws here must be fair. Oh no, to add rhetoric, the procedures are fair."

As Su Yuanshan said, he thought of the Simpson murder case that had not yet happened.

With almost conclusive evidence, Simpson's powerful legal team relied on "evidence flaws" to directly force the court to acquit him.

This case not only caused an uproar in the west, but also triggered profound thinking at home.

Of course, although the court acquitted Simpson of killing his wife, it did not mean that the judges let him go. After being awarded tens of millions in civil damages, he directly fucked him for 33 years in a robbery case a few years later. It fully demonstrates the unique legal system of the Star Flag Country.

And these are all things that Yang Yiwen needs to understand and recognize.

"Well, that's for sure." Yang Yiwen smiled and nodded: "Isn't it gone?"

"No, I'll wait for you to come back in China. When you get married, I'll give you a villa."

Tang Wenjie immediately shouted: "Holy crap! Where's the villa?"

"We'll see when the time comes - it might be the Shanghai stock market."

Su Yuanshan smiled and relaxed on his seat.

Offshore Xinghai currently has 500 million in cash lying quietly in its account. It cannot be used to build a wafer factory, but there is no problem in building a science and technology park.

Shanghai, the city with the greatest support for the semiconductor industry, is also the most international city. It is the perfect place for the next science and technology park.