1991 Starting from the core

Back in the apartment, Su Yuanshan stood under the shower and let the water flow through his body.

In the water curtain, he opened his eyes and looked at himself, filled with water vapor. Then he saw the undisguised worry in his eyes.

The news from Qin Weimin is excellent, and the negotiation teams of Zhou Xiaohui and Gao Xiaodi have also set a time for the first round of negotiations with Intel. It seems that everything is moving forward on track.

But Su Yuanshan still didn't dare to take it lightly.

As Chen Jing said at the meeting, the name of Yuanxin says everything - in Su Yuanshan's eyes, any other industry can be developed, but chips, including wafer fabs, will lose their best potential once they lose their best value. If the timing is not right, then it will be difficult to develop further.

Therefore, Yuanxin's core business is chips.

And we will soon face two negotiations that will change the future of Yuanxin, and there is no room for mistakes.

After taking a shower, Su Yuanshan changed into clothes and walked to Chen Jing's room with his notebook.

…

On September 26, the Apple team headed by Jobs traveled from Tokyo to the capital, and then to the provincial capital. Their visit this time was unusually low-key, and in order not to cause unnecessary cumbersome matters and troubles, Yuanxin also said hello to the relevant departments. However, what made Su Yuanshan a little miscalculated was that the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade directly dispatched the police after hearing the news. They even reached the far core first.

After all, this is no longer the simple investment and cooperation between the two countries in the past, but involves the exchange of cutting-edge chip technology. After being sanctioned by the West for a long time and suddenly having a viable project, the country naturally has the responsibility to conduct early observation and later review of the cooperation between Yuanxin and Apple.

Su Yuanshan personally went to the airport to pick up Mr. Qiao and his party, and then Chen Jing held a simple welcome ceremony at the gate of the science and technology park headquarters.

According to the meeting procedure, Mr. Qiao and the others will stay in a hotel in the Science and Technology Park to catch up on the time difference. Then they will visit various departments of Yuanxin on the second day, and conduct formal negotiations on the third day. The whole process will last for five days - no Needless to say, just judging from the time arrangement, Mr. Qiao did come with a willingness to cooperate.

In order not to overwhelm the guest, Su Yuanshan handed over Jobs to Chen Jing and Xi Xiaoding, and he returned to the administrative building.

…

Yang Yiwen's brother, Yang Guangliang, currently a member of the newly established Foreign Trade Leading Group of the Development and Reform Commission and deputy director of the Foreign Economic and Trade Commission, is currently drinking tea with his legs crossed in Su Yuanshan's office.

"Why don't you go accompany Mr. Qiao?"

"It would be better to have a clearer division of labor. Besides, Brother Liang, you are a distinguished guest. How dare I leave you here alone?" Su Yuanshan smiled and sat down next to Yang Guangliang.

"Tsk tsk, don't praise me. I'm really just here as a clerk." Yang Guangliang turned to Su Yuanshan. He knew that this guy was actually a little uncomfortable with his arrival - no one wanted to negotiate business. The shadow of the competent authority appears in it.

But there was nothing Yang Guangliang could do.

"Xiaoshan, you know, we have been engaged in foreign trade for so long, and we have always been involved in the import and export of products. As for technology, it has always been imported technology, and there has never been any precedent similar to exporting technology. So the ministry has to figure it out. To cross a river with stones, let’s learn from your Yuanxin’s experience first.”

"You are not crossing the river by feeling for stones...you are clearly crossing the river by feeling for our core."

"Haha, who made you so powerful? But don't worry, no matter which department, no one will interfere with your external cooperation." Yang Guangliang emphasized his purpose to Su Yuanshan again, and said with a smile: "Everyone knows, You definitely won’t suffer a loss.”

"Brother Liang, you are really wrong about this... From a technical point of view, we are really at a disadvantage by cooperating with Apple."

Yang Guangliang was slightly startled.

Ever since he joined the Development and Reform Commission group and because of Yang Yiwen's relationship, he has been responsible for specific affairs in science and technology. Therefore, I am more or less familiar with Yuanxin's business, such as chips and wafer fabs.

He knows that Yuanxin's YX architecture is indeed one of the most advanced architectures in the world, and it has also passed the product inspection of Yuanxin mobile phones and Sony PS.

Now listen to Su Yuanshan say this - from a technical point of view, does it mean that Yuanxin's technology has surpassed Apple's and is a bit number one in the world?

"That's it, Brother Liang." Su Yuanshan thought for a while and decided to explain it clearly to Yang Guangliang first, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble for Yuanxin in the future.

"I guarantee with my vision and identity as an architect that the YX architecture, both in terms of ideas and long-term planning, surpasses the current PowerPC and MIPS architectures - the only ARM architecture that has any hope of catching up with it. , has been stopped." Su Yuanshan paused as he spoke, looked at Yang Guangliang and said: "I mentioned that these architectures are all based on simplified instruction sets, not the complex instruction sets of desktop computers like X86. You... …Do you understand?”

"Well, I don't understand the instruction set very well, but I know these are two different systems." Yang Guangliang didn't mind Su Yuanshan's "Do you understand me?" He smiled and said, "Can I understand it this way? ——YX architecture is currently the most powerful?”

"In terms of reduced instruction sets, this is the case." Su Yuanshan nodded: "Reduced instruction set processors can be used in many scenarios, such as mobile phones, various program-controlled machines, and specially optimized operating systems. Compared with Desktop computers only have different instruction sets and pipeline lengths, which lead to different tasks. Other than that, there is no difference."

"Of course, the software ecosystem is also involved here... Anyway, let me put it this way."

Su Yuanshan pondered for a moment and said: "The development direction of computers based on Intel, AMD, Xinghai and other X86 architecture CPUs paired with Windows operating systems is basically the same as the computers we see everywhere. But the YX architecture is different. It will appear in On lots and lots of hardware.”

Yang Guangliang frowned and said tentatively: "You mean like a microcontroller?"

"Yes! You can understand the YX architecture as a powerful microcontroller."

"Then I understand."

Su Yuanshan laughed: "If Brother Liang understands this, it will be easy to understand - our YX architecture is currently the best in the world, but it is almost difficult to go abroad. The biggest users are Yuanxin and Xinghai."

Yang Guangliang opened his mouth and wanted to say that Xinghai had gone abroad...

But since Su Yuanshan said this, he knew that in Su Yuanshan's eyes, Xinghai still belonged to him.

"That's why you cooperated with Apple to try to go abroad."

"Yes, even if we suffer a little loss, it's okay."