1991 Starting from the core

The next day, the first meeting between the two sides took place as scheduled.

The morning talks were largely just about both parties stating their wishes and setting the tone at the same time, so Chen Jing was responsible for presiding over it. Then the subsequent negotiations involved specific technical introductions and demands. Chen Jing stopped participating, and Su Yuanshan and Qin Weimin took over entirely.

After all, this is the first time that Yuanxin has exported its core technology to the outside world, and Su Yuanshan should be present.

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"As expressed by our chairman, Ms. Chen Jing, in the morning, our appeal is very simple. We hope to establish an in-depth cooperative relationship with you, and both parties will jointly establish an architecture development team based on the YX instruction set."

Qin Weimin was not good at gossiping, so this job only fell to Su Yuanshan. He glanced at the "good old guy" face that had been hiding behind Chen Jing in the morning, looked at the circle of representatives opposite, and finally stopped at Jobs' expressionless face.

"Therefore, your authorization request..." Su Yuanshan said with a smile: "Actually, we can agree to it, but Mr. Jobs... If this is the case, do you need to come in person?"

Jobs remained expressionless, but tapped his pen lightly. So immediately next to him, David Ruins, who had been involved in the PowerPC architecture, coughed slightly and said to Su Yuanshan with a smile: "Mr. Su, your team's requirements are a bit excessive - let ours The team comes here collectively, and if you are like this, it is better for both parties to establish a new chip research and development company."

Hearing this, Su Yuanshan and Qin Weimin looked at each other and both laughed.

"That's okay too."

Ruins: "..."

Jobs' eyes flickered, and there was a bit of a smile on his face, but it was fleeting: "Mr. Su, we have seen the technology you provided this morning. It is undeniable that the idea of ​​baseband integrated chips will be the development of future mobile phones. direction."

Su Yuanshan suppressed his smile slightly, nodded, and made a gesture to please continue.

"It's not just you who see this. In fact, as far as I know, many architectures, including PowerPC and DSP chips from Texas Instruments and IBM, are going in this direction."

Su Yuanshan said in his heart, "That's weird."

ARM was the first to develop baseband integrated chips. Now that the ARM team is gone, and Yuanxin is so far ahead of schedule, who can match it?

"Furthermore, another point is that there are currently no formal rules on which standard to use for communication baseband. If we jointly develop, it will inevitably be affected by the different communication standards that both parties are exposed to."

Jobs really hit the mark on this point.

The first and second generation mobile communication networks are simply the Eight-Nation Alliance, especially the United States, so much so that the mobile phones in Xinghai have to buy baseband chips from several companies.

If both parties adopt teamwork, there will inevitably be conflicts in the choice of communication standards.

"So we adopt the method of independent development and then sharing technology. It seems to be the most reasonable and the most suitable cooperation model for both parties at present."

After Jobs finished speaking, he closed his mouth.

Frankly speaking, before Su Yuanshan came to the door, he carefully evaluated the YX architecture, and finally concluded that the YX architecture is indeed excellent, and is very similar to the ARM architecture in concept - and because of this, he decisively Interference was proposed and the ARM team was stopped.

Because if we continue, we can only pursue the development path of Yuanxin. Let’s not talk about infringement. At least it will be difficult to surpass it in a short time.

So, from Apple's perspective. There is no more favorable cooperation method and choice than obtaining a large-scale authorization of the YX architecture, and then letting Apple realize its own ideals and visions.

But now it seems that Su Yuanshan's appetite seems to be more than that. Not only does he hope to be more closely integrated with Apple, he also hopes to eat Apple's related teams in one bite.

This was a bit difficult for Jobs to accept.

Besides, why does Su Yuanshan think that, purely in terms of the YX architecture, Apple will not achieve a better breakthrough than Yuanxin when both parties are at the same starting point?

"Mr. Jobs, I admit that your considerations are reasonable." Qin Weimin smiled and nodded, taking over the topic.

His English proficiency was not good at first, but later, under Su Yuanshan's compulsory request, he, Tian Yaoming and others began to improve English, and even found a spoken English teacher at the Foreign Languages ​​College for this purpose - as for the teacher who taught him spoken English Becoming his girlfriend is a thing for another time.

After a pause, Qin Weimin continued: "After all, we are based in China, and domestic mobile networks have developed relatively late, so we all adopted the GSM protocol - including our Yuanxin, which also adopted the GSM protocol at the beginning."

"The main thing is that you can directly intervene in the market through administrative orders, right?" Ruins replied with a smile. It was not clear whether his words were intentional or just casual.

Qin Weimin glanced at Ruins. He didn't care what Ruins said and continued to smile: "But this has nothing to do with the fact that we chose the GSM protocol, right?"

"Um."

"Therefore, our technology is directly integrated GSM protocol baseband." Qin Weimin looked at Su Yuanshan again, and then took out a box from under the table.

The box packaging is very simple, just like an ordinary pencil box.

When he took out the box, everyone, including Jobs, looked at him, wondering what kind of medicine Qin Weimin was selling in the gourd.

"Mr. Jobs, this is the first handheld mobile communication device produced with a baseband integrated chip. In front of it... To be honest, previous mobile phones can only be called bricks."

Hearing Qin Weimin's words, the muscles on Jobs's face trembled. He glanced at Su Yuanshan in surprise, then reached out and took the small box.

He calmed down, suppressed the shock in his heart, and opened the box.

I saw a mobile phone that was as small as half a cigarette box and only as thick as the diameter of a cigarette, lying quietly in the box.

Put it this way, it's only about the size of four cigarettes side by side.

Picking up the phone, Jobs's eyes finally narrowed.

At this time, Su Yuanshan's words came slowly.

"Mr. Jobs, there is also a screwdriver in the box. You can take it apart and see how streamlined the mobile phone motherboard can be after integrating the baseband chip and some other functional chips."

Jobs took a deep breath, took out the small screwdriver from the box, and then took apart the phone in front of everyone, regardless of his identity.

Curiosity is at the heart of creativity, and he always has been.