Chapter 308 (1/2)
After handling the matter in Germany, baozixuan went directly to Britain. This time, he has a reason to go. With the rapid development of computers and the continuous acceleration of chip development, tundish Zixuan has provided a lot of help, but heiyun only occupies a small share now; And this share is still low-end chips such as memory, which can be said to have made no achievements in CPU.
Now black cloud uses Motorola and Intel chips, and its chip design ability is very weak. Not only did not want to expand development, but also there was no top engineer in this field.
The purpose of baozixuan's coming to the UK this time is to persuade a newly established chip company in the UK to accept its own investment and let him hold it.
On December 5, 1978, physicist Herman Hauser and engineer Chris curry founded CPU company in Cambridge, England, whose main business is to supply electronic equipment for the local market. In 1979, the CPU company was renamed acorn company.
At first, acorn planned to use Motorola's 16 bit chip, but found it too slow and expensive“ A 500 pound machine can't use a 100 pound CPU“ They turned to Intel to ask for the design information of 80286 chip, but they were refused, so they were forced to develop it by themselves.
In 1985, Roger Wilson and Steve Furber designed their own first generation of 32-bit, 6mhz processors,
It is used to make a RISC instruction set computer, referred to as arm (acorn rismachine). This is the origin of the name arm.
RISC's full name is ”reduced instruction set computer”. It supports relatively simple instructions, so it has low power consumption and low price. It is especially suitable for mobile devices. The early typical device using ARM chip was Newton PDA of apple.
In the late 1980s, arm quickly developed into acorn's desktop products, forming the basis of computer education in Britain.
On November 27, 1990, acorn company was officially reorganized into arm computer company. Apple invested £ 1.5 million, chip manufacturer VLSI invested £ 250000, and acorn itself invested £ 1.5 million in intellectual property rights and 12 engineers. The office of the company is very simple, just a barn.
In the 1990s, arm32-bit embedded RISC (reduced construction set computer) processor expanded to the world, occupying a leading position in the application field of embedded systems with low power consumption, low cost and high performance. Arm neither produces nor sells chips. It only sells chip technology licenses.
At present, the company is still in the start-up stage. Baozixuan just wants to start in advance when others don't pay attention to him. And not in the name of black clouds, but in their own private name. Although the effects are the same, so that the black cloud is not particularly large. Although it is already large, it can be reduced by a corresponding part!
When Bao Zixuan came to Cambridge, he saw the two founders of acorn company. Herman Hauser and Chris curry also wondered how the black cloud group could find them. After all, this is the hottest enterprise in recent years. And they are still a small company that can't be any smaller. The strength of the two enterprises is completely unequal.
Now I see baozixuan, the founder of black cloud, coming in person, which makes them more confused. After all, not everyone can let the young boss come forward in person. At least they think they can't reach their own strength.
Herman Hauser said excitedly, ”I don't know what you're looking for, Mr. Bao.”
If baozixuan is just an entrepreneur and doesn't get such high respect, he also has an identity as a Turing Award winner. As long as they are engaged in the computer industry, they are not excited because they do not know the importance of this award.
Bao Zixuan: ”it seems that Mr. Hauser is an acute child, so I won't beat around the bush. I want to take a stake in acorn company. I recognize your strength. I am very optimistic about the future of this company. ”