728 The Strong will always be Strong (2/2)

This was agreed upon when the chip was first sold, so Jiang Chen agreed without a second thought. The global price of patent fees was standardized - chips that used lix architecture would pay 10% of the selling price as a patent fee. Although this figure was twice as high as Qualcomm's 5%, Qualcomm's pricing was based on the total price of electronics, where Future Technology only conscientiously charged based on the price of a single chip.

However, Jiang Chen noticed that Mr. Wu Weiwen, president of Loongson who came to sign the patent agreement, wasn't particularly happy.

”Are there any problems, Mr. Wu?” Jiang Chen asked happily.

Wu Weiwen shook his head.

”No problem at all. I just think Mr. Jiang is especially crafty.”

”I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you explain it to me?” Jiang Chen laughed.

Wu Weiwen smiled and didn't speak further. He walked away with the lix architecture licensing agreement.

Jiang Chen noticed he seemed to have aged instantly.

Loongson was a state-owned enterprise and enjoyed financial subsidies in business operations. Theoretically, Wu Wenwei, the president, didn't need to worry about their financial performance. Even if he couldn't sell a chip in a year or two, the company would absolutely not worry about going bankrupt.

Frankly speaking, when Jiang Chen agreed and authorized him to use the lix structure with Loongson, Wu Wenwei could clearly sense his superiors' emphasis on Loongson.

However, when the first batch of Dragon Calvary X1 was sent to the supercomputing centers and the scientists at the Supercomputing Center shouted with joy, Wu Wenwei could clearly sense that the eyes of the superiors standing beside him suddenly shifted.

Especially after making the top 5 of the supercomputer list.

The leaders responsible for the National Key Project were almost collectively promoted. The project leader even received praise from the chairman.

This was a great achievement!

Whether it was the individual, the country, or the ethnicity.

Because of this achievemnet, they couldn't stop.

Sure enough, just as Wu Weiwen expected, the leader responsible for the supercomputing project contacted Future Heavy Industrial immediately after receiving the award and increased the number of purchasing orders. Technology was like a drug - once they started, they couldn't stop.

Did you get on the top five this year and would you be willing to lose your place next year? Do you still want to have a career?

What should they do if they didn't want to lose?

They could only buy Dragon Calvary X1. How long did they have to wait before the old scholars came up with research results?

On the dinner table, a sentence from the top leader made Wu Weiwen deeply distressed.

”You can't always follow protectionism. With no market, where's the competition? Future Group is a child who walked out of our country. Rather than attempting to fill this bottomless hole, it's better to obtain their technology. Aren't we a family after all?”

A dangerous thought.

Very dangerous.

However, Wu Wenwei was also clear that as a president of a state-owned enterprise, he simply couldn't change this.

Nothing could be done to solve the problem, but some things just couldn't be solved with money.

Unless he could beat the Dragon Calvary X1 and come up with the world's most powerful super chip...

But was this possible?

Future Heavy Industrial already occupied the high ground of the market and had become the standard chip maker. With its technical advantages, it would take over most of the orders. With the proceeds from these orders, they would continue to invest in these R&D projects, and their technology would only become more powerful and unreachable.

By that time, even Intel and ARM would have to learn from the instruction set of lix architecture to enrich their X86 architecture and ARM architecture and pay royalties to Future Technology, who owned the intellectual property rights.

The powerful would become more powerful. That was the market.

Before the existence of disruptive products, the giants who already occupied the high points would never stumble. It was foreseeable that even if he now obtained authorization of the lix architecture, they would absolutely depend on the chips from Future Group for the next ten years at least.