1991 Starting from the core

The phrase "the only future" made Jobs grit his teeth without leaving any trace.

He is a person who possesses and maintains "paranoia" in design. The specific manifestation is that he cannot tolerate any defects. It is because of this that he has achieved Apple and offended too many people, so that he was " "Catch" the Apple that he created with his own hands.

At this moment, he discovered to his dismay that Su Yuanshan was right.

In fact, the reason why he suggested that the ARM team be disbanded and at the same time bring the core team members back to Apple to continue maintenance is that he hopes to continue to complete evolution and breakthroughs based on the ARM architecture in order to find the possibility of replacing the PowerPC architecture in the future.

Even if Su Yuanshan doesn't come to him, he will go to Su Yuanshan at the latest this year and ask Yuanxin for patent authorization and settlement related to the YX architecture - if ARM is not disbanded, according to the "rules" passed down by Intel, Yuanxin will It is obviously impossible for Core to license its core patents to its competitor ARM.

And now that the ARM team has been disbanded, there is really no reason for Yuanxin to continue to hide it.

…

Su Yuanshan didn't guess the little Jiujiu in Jobs' heart, and he couldn't tell whether Jobs was tempted or not, but he judged that Mr. Qiao at least agreed with what he said, and the current PowerPC architecture was not suitable for mobile phones and tablets.

Regardless of power consumption or integration direction, it is not suitable.

"I might as well tell you that the YX architecture has begun to integrate baseband chips and is already preparing for tapeout."

"Huh?" Jobs was finally startled: "You mean, in the future, mobile phones can be made thinner, lighter and smaller?"

"Yes. Moreover, once the LCD panel technology matures, you can also have a hand-held readable mobile phone with an operating system - and we are also involved in the main obstacles that restrict the birth of such mobile phones, and we have A certain result.”

Jobs raised his eyebrows and asked almost without thinking: "You mean, the storage unit and battery life?"

Su Yuanshan nodded with a smile: "Yes."

Chips, displays, batteries, flash memory. In the past few years, Su Yuanshan has laid out the four major hardware components of future mobile phones, plus the operating system, bit by bit, gritting his teeth and completing cooperation and research and development with all parties...

The most fundamental thing is that he wants to become a giant monopolizing the mobile phone market!

With the goal of sneaking into the village and shooting people, Yuanxin has quietly completed the layout.

Looking around the world, I am afraid that not many people can understand their own layout.

But Su Yuanshan believes that Qiao always understands - he just showed that he understands by asking without thinking.

Now, Yuanxin has no rivals at least in China and even in Asia. All that's left is to look at the world.

However, looking at the world is easier said than done? The LCD panel, flash memory, and battery are all good, and even the operating system is fine - Su Yuanshan can open source it, the kind that shows off his underwear.

But chips, the bulk of profits in mobile phones, have to face many problems and even excuses made out of thin air.

——Su Yuanshan has always believed that without Trump, there would still be Yunpu, Guipu, and Broad Spectrum.

For mobile phone chips to go global, it must be more than Yuanxin’s genes.

So Su Yuanshan came.

He wants to completely destroy the powerPC alliance and not leave any chance for it to threaten the YX architecture. Even if it cannot be destroyed, a thorn must be stuck in it.

…

Jobs fell silent.

His breathing gradually became a little faster.

Frankly speaking, he has no good impression of the PowerPC Alliance. These are all ghost things done by his predecessor and even capital. Except for the creation of PowerBOOK, which was more attractive to him, the rest was useless in Jobs's eyes. And even PowerBOOK, according to Jobs's eyes, was designed a bit poorly.

Now Su Yuanshan has proposed cooperation between the two parties in the field of low-power and highly integrated chips. In a sense, it is another PowerPC alliance. But in fact, there are big differences between the two.

The PowerPC Alliance was ambitious when it was first established - as can be seen from the name PC, it was initiated by IBM, a big boss who wanted to overthrow the Wintel Alliance.

You know, Intel and Microsoft are both younger brothers who got up with the support of IBM...but the younger brother developed so well that the boss was very wary and wanted to slap him to death.

But now it seems that instead of killing the Wintel Alliance, it has killed itself half to death.

But now Su Yuanshan's proposal is different. He has not clearly positioned a competitor, and even the direction is very clear. He does not go into the field of personal computers, but directly faces the future and goes into the field of personal mobile and handheld devices.

In this area, there are no clear enemies—at least not yet.

After all, there are still many reduced instruction set architectures currently active, and many of them can support personal devices such as mobile phones.

If I have to say there is one, it is PowerPC.

With the rise and development of the personal mobile phone market, PowerPC has gradually developed towards low power consumption and begun to develop mobile phone chips. And it has achieved impressive results.

But Jobs knew that to realize the mobile phone he had in mind in the future, PowerPC chips would not work, and a design like nirvana and rebirth was needed.

After a few seconds of silence, Jobs suddenly realized that Su Yuanshan was sitting in front of him, waiting for him.

He was suddenly startled, smiled apologetically at Su Yuanshan and said, "Sorry, I thought about it."

"It's okay, so Mr. Jobs is interested in cooperation?" Su Yuanshan's eyes flashed. Of course, he was not naive enough to think that he could persuade him to cooperate with Apple just by making a trip, but judging from Jobs's reaction...

At the very least, Jobs was tempted.

As long as he's tempted, that's fine! The first thorn is enough to stick in anyway. As for cooperation...that depends on opportunity. If Apple can't do it, Su Yuanshan will continue to look for another company...

Or, simply Motorola?

Just when Su Yuanshan was stunned, Jobs's voice came slowly.

"Su, I have to admit that your legend is right. You have great vision."

Su Yuanshan narrowed his eyes and looked at Jobs seriously, waiting for his next sentence.

"I have to admit that I am tempted by what you said." Jobs stared at Su Yuanshan and said word for word: "In principle, I agree to cooperate with you."

Su Yuanshan's pupils shrank suddenly!

In principle?

"Then...what about non-in principle?" Su Yuanshan asked.

He has been a little allergic to this "in principle" recently, because judging from experience, the subtext of this sentence is "Although I agree with your point of view, I refuse to accept it."

Su Yuanshan didn't know if Jobs meant the same thing.