1991 Starting from the core

Su Yuanshan paced back and forth in the office, his brows furrowed.

Qin Weimin here also quickly realized that according to the efficiency of ARM7, it can indeed meet the needs of many orders currently won by YX02.

Moreover, these orders will not need to be upgraded for a long time in the future.

"Damn, I'm a little annoyed." Su Yuanshan stopped and tapped his fist lightly on his palm: "Our current supporting systems and applications can't keep up. If you are not careful, you will be dragged to death."

Su Yuanshan took a deep breath, bit his lip and pondered.

There is no doubt that ARM has no future - Su Yuanshan has been working on the ARM architecture for so long in his previous life. If he cannot rub it on the ground in this life, his life will be in vain.

The YX architecture and the ARM architecture follow exactly the same path. Even the basic ideas and business models are similar. As the technology lags behind the YX architecture, if the ARM team continues to pursue it, then it can only say Stupid.

However, Su Yuanshan did not expect ARM to admit defeat so early and in such a decisive way.

In the previous life, there was also an open source RISC-V instruction set, and RISC-V was open source only in the Year of the Monkey (2010)! At that time, not to mention ARM, even MIPS and others already had a fairly large and stable application base.

Not to mention that Kidney 4 was already popular all over the world at that time, and the A4 processor used in iPhone 4 also used the ARM-authorized instruction set.

But even in this case, when faced with a bunch of "old and bloated" veteran instruction sets, RISC-V still found a way out.

——This is the advantage brought by open source. (of course more than)

"It's a bit annoying!" Su Yuanshan repeated again: "Why did they just lie down?"

Qin Weimin: "..."

"Brother, it seems that we need to change our operating strategy." Su Yuanshan took a few deep breaths and said solemnly: "ARM cannot be allowed to develop."

"Yeah." Qin Weimin nodded. He also realized the seriousness of the problem at this time - he had only congratulated his opponent's avatar purely from a technical point of view. But now that I understand it from a business perspective, I realize that this matter is a bit big.

To put it bluntly, although the YX architecture has advantages, to put it bluntly, commercialization has just begun and it has encountered disruptions.

"How to do it? We can't open source too, right?" Tian Yaoming also looked at Su Yuanshan seriously and said.

"Don't panic first. We need to find out what kind of licensing model they have." Su Yuanshan sat at his desk and said calmly while dialing: "If it is the BSD licensing model, then they should give up competing with us commercially and switch to Instead, we will compete ecologically.”

BSD licensing is the most friendly licensing agreement for commercial companies.

"Don't look at it, it's BSD open source." Qin Weimin opened his phone and took a look at the text message, and said seriously: "How to deal with it?"

Su Yuanshan put down his hands, pursed his lips and closed his eyes in silence. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and said softly: "If that's the case, then we have to consider a few issues."

“First of all, capital will not do charity unless it is forced to do so.”

As Su Yuanshan spoke, he thought of the time when Netscape was beaten to the ground by Microsoft IE and finally made the browser open source.

"Since they have no choice but to do so, they will definitely take the path that is most conducive to retaining their own technology and pedigree. Among the several companies that established ARM, the only one that can inherit and carry forward ARM is APPLE."

Su Yuanshan looked at the void ahead, thinking of the chain reaction caused by Xinghai joining the X86 camp, and realized a possibility...

A few days ago, Xinghai released the Thunder series processors, which not only gave Intel a slap in the face, but also beat Intel to the point where it still hasn't recovered its breath. Faced with the overwhelming denunciation of the Pentium processor division vulnerability on forums and news groups, Intel has also acted like an ostrich and has not given any accurate information so far.

But more importantly, it gave the already troubled PowerPC camp a "swastika solution".

Maybe it's time for that man to return to Apple.

"If Mr. Jobs were to take charge of Apple again, I believe that with his courage, he would be able to do something like this."

Su Yuanshan looked away and said in a deep voice: "Old Qiao is a sensible person. He knows what the future trends will be. I think he probably hopes to rely on Apple to pick up the ARM architecture and use open source to disgust us while promoting his APPLE OS ecosystem. .”

"Then what?" Qin Weimin asked immediately.

"There is no end." Su Yuanshan pursed his lips and said softly: "The enemy will stop us. We are on the commercialization route. We will first make the product good, establish technical advantages, and then modify the licensing strategy."

"Then how do you authorize it?"

"Free authorization. Cancel the authorization fee, directly adopt the method of sales and pumping, and provide technical support."

Su Yuanshan stood up and breathed softly: "Hurry up, senior brother. Whoever develops monopoly-level applications and products first will be the winner - and the baseband chip we are integrating is the application with the largest market. Grade product!”

…

Because of what ARM did, Qin Weimin and others, who were originally on vacation, suddenly felt the urgency. Even though Deyi's team has not yet arrived, the two of them started to get busy with their own team.

Then, perhaps Intel thought that the news of ARM's open source would not cause enough gossip in the chip circle, so it chose a weekend to have Andy Grove publish a brief statement in the New York Times.

The title is just one word.

Change!

As the saying goes, fewer words mean bigger things.

The attitude... became more determined.

A simple word means that Intel will pay more than $400 million in additional costs to recall and replace the first-generation Pentium.

So...the whole Wall Street was boiling.

Intel's stock price is like a Cobra fighter jet. Users and investors who were "touched" by the swipe immediately pulled it back. It was even slightly higher than before Xinghai's press conference.

…

"This is a bit outrageous..."

Zhou Xiaohui looked at the report with a look of disbelief.

"What's so outrageous?" Su Yuanshan was very relaxed.

He had already been mentally prepared for Intel, otherwise he would have shorted Intel if he didn't know it at the beginning. Andy made the decision to change the CPU. On the one hand, it was because Intel had indeed made money in the past year or two, and on the other hand, it was also Character dictates.

To put it bluntly, this old man is still a bit responsible.

However, no one expected that when Intel faced Xinghai's Thunder series processors taking away the performance throne, it would make a comprehensive recall of CPUs, which was not conducive to its financial situation. This decision would actually cause a collective climax among stock investors...

This can only be said that the people of the Lighthouse Country are indeed naive.

"The stock price keeps rising..." Zhou Xiaohui sighed: "Even Xinghai's IPO is not as favorable as before."

"Calm down."

Su Yuanshan spoke slowly, looking at a new message.

Steve Jobs returns to Apple.