Chapter 199 (1/2)
Shaking his head, Xiao Qi felt that he had better not hurry to find Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, or do something sure first.
When I came to the United States this time, the first important thing is to find Linus and register the patent. The rest is what Xiao Qi asked about before, which can be done with money.
Out of Mario's side, Xiao Qi went directly to arm's New York branch.
Arm, headquartered in Cambridge, England, was the one where Xiao Qi asked Cai Mingsheng of MediaTek if he could use their technology to develop microprocessors by himself.
In fact, arm's microprocessors have not yet entered the era of rapid development, because the era of smart phones has not yet arrived, and the high-precision requirements of microprocessors are not high. Many manufacturers can make them. Arm has not yet reached the world with the shipment of 6 billion chips produced by their technology in 2010.
There are two American branches of arm, one in Silicon Valley, the home of the electronics industry, and the other in New York, the most developed city in the United States. Both share the same resources. The engineers of the design center are often exchanged, and the technical strength is no less than that of the British headquarters.
As a company open to sell chip technology licensing platform, arm's attitude is very enthusiastic. It is said that Xiao Qi wants to entrust them to design smart chips. A responsible manager appeared in a small reception room.
The manager in his thirties is Carlos. He has dark skin and a bit of South American tropical descent. He smiles before he speaks, making people look very comfortable.
After a while of courtesy, Carlos turned on the projector and played their company's chip products.
Arm chips are produced series by series. Various plans, anatomical drawings, function profiles and so on are on slides, which are very detailed.
They don't have to play tricks at all. Arm has applied for patents for all these structures and details. In developed countries such as Europe and America, whoever dares to use them without paying money, the government will punish you to cry ”I dare not again” when you sleep.
After a brief introduction to the company's situation and philosophy, Carlos said: ”Mr. Xiao, our chips for mobile phones are now divided into three series: 6, 7 and 8. If you buy finished products, you can choose arm6td. Now Motorola's medium and low-end models are widely used, which is absolutely easy to use in the Chinese market, and the price is not expensive, The licensing fee is only $500000, and then we charge a $1 patent fee for each chip. ”
The licensing fee is $500000. This is very cheap.
But if you charge a dollar for each chip, you can't calculate it carefully: if you make a million mobile phones, you have to give them a million dollars, and 10 million is 10 million dollars!
What's the difference between Xiaoming's and Anqi's 6-series machines, which have been sold to foreigners at a high price, and Xiaoming's technology is about to be retired. What's the difference between this and Anqi's?