The sky above Xiangjiang International Airport is covered with dark clouds.
The reason why Gao Yuanyuan and Xu Xin were asked to meet Fang Yihua was because what Lu Fei wanted to see was ten or a hundred times more important than Fang Yihua.
The drizzle fell on the umbrella. Lu Fei was standing on the apron when he saw Su Zifeng coming down from the boarding elevator and immediately went to greet her.
The world's richest man personally picked him up at the airport. Su Zifeng was flattered for a moment and said half-jokingly: "Mr. Lu, you are probably the most expensive airport waiter in history."
"That's right. It's an honor for me to be able to protect a talented person like you from the wind and rain!" Lu Fei said seriously.
Su Zifeng shook her head and laughed, "Mr. Lu, I'll do it myself. No matter what, you are my boss."
"Today is Sunday, not a working day, and there are no subordinates or superiors." Lu Fei raised the corner of his mouth, "Haha, by the way, wasn't it said that Jim Keller is coming too? Why don't you see anyone else?"
"Oh, the research and development of ZEN (Zen) processor encountered some unexpected situations. Jim canceled the trip temporarily. He asked me to apologize to you." Su Zifeng replied.
"It doesn't matter, it's just such a pity."
There was regret in Lu Fei's tone.
Jim Keller is the "Silicon Immortal". In his previous life, he was also a major contributor to Apple's A4 and A5 processors. Now, he is one of the core leaders of Logic's Zulong series and Zen architecture.
"Jim also feels very sorry. He originally wanted to tell you about the situation of CPU, GPU, AI and NPU in person, but now I can only do it for him." Su Zifeng said with a smile.
"There will be opportunities in the future."
Lu Fei opened the car door, "If I don't have to talk to you later, I can be your driver for a while."
"That's the most expensive driver in the world!"
Su Zifeng felt respected and lived up to this respect.
Under her leadership, Logic's chip department cannot be said to be thriving, but at least it is advancing by leaps and bounds.
In terms of baseband chips, the Balong 2000 developed by Huawei HiSilicon has achieved new breakthroughs. It already supports three standards: WCDMA, CDMA and TD-SCDMA. Although the integration problem has not been solved, it is still plug-in like Qualcomm.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, we decided to decentralize it to Shenzhou.
When the SOC that integrates CPU, GPU and baseband is completed, logic can be embedded into the flagship series and defeat Qualcomm!
In terms of servers, after absorbing Transmeta's business and team, we can compete with AMD and Intel to reduce the market share of servers. As for mid-to-high-end and cloud servers, we can only wait until the day when the Zen architecture comes out.
"Where's the GPU?"
Lu Fei asked: "How is the cooperation with NVIDIA going?"
Su Zifeng looked serious, "Mr. Lu, this is also the important thing I want to report on this trip. To be honest, the results of the joint research are much worse than we expected. The mobile phone GPU is not ideal!"
“Are Tegra chips bad?”
Lu Fei glanced out the window and saw that the rain was getting heavier.
"The actual performance is really shocking, and there are many problems such as heating, lagging, poor compatibility, poor signal, and so on."
Su Zifeng took out the data report from her bag.
"so serious?"
Lu Fei calmed down and knew that NVIDIA was cheating him, causing Xiaomi to suffer a tragedy comparable to that of the Snapdragon 888, but he really didn’t expect that NVIDIA could cheat him to this extent when making mobile phone GPUs!
Su Zifeng was very speechless. After losing to Intel and AMD, she lost to Iagation, and then she lost to a small GPU department of ATI acquired by AMD. She was ashamed!
Nvidia builds mobile phone GPU, can Huang Renxun do it?
Do you know if you don’t have the ability? Be pragmatic!
First understand the concept of Ma Liang GPU!
“…”
Lu Fei cleared his throat awkwardly: "So, 'Ma Liang' can't be used on the latest iPhone 5 for the time being, right?"
"You may still want to use the first solution and choose Iagation's PowerVRSGX543."
Su Zifeng said seriously: "Mr. Lu, I don't mean to slander. Maybe NVIDIA is not inferior to Intel and AMD on the PC side, but what I want to say is that in the field of mobile phone GPUs, NVIDIA may only be at the level of a third-rate layman."
"What do you think if we acquire ARM?"
Lu Fei looked straight at her.
Su Zifeng couldn't help being surprised, "Mr. Lu, do you want to use the ARM architecture for your own use?"
"It's just an idea. The operation is very difficult and has many difficulties, no less than buying back the Vaghlian aircraft carrier."
Lu Fei smiled and nodded.
"It's really difficult."
Su Zifeng has many concerns, not to mention whether the European Union and the United States will approve the acquisition. Although ARM and Android have mutual success, they value the company's independence. Apple also wanted to acquire it not long ago, but until now, there seems to be no progress.
"People still have to have dreams. How will you know if you don't try?" Lu Fei waved his hand, "Of course dreams are dreams, but we must also be prepared for failed acquisitions. That is self-research."
"Mr. Lu, I came here for self-study this time."
"Do you have any opinions or needs?"
"Although the mobile phone GPU we developed with Nvidia was not a success, the team has been trained and has basically mastered the ability of self-research. The biggest problem at present is the size of the team."
Su Zifeng hopes to recruit more troops.
"how do you want to do it?"
Lu Fei nodded. He wanted to not only master the graphics card and reap the dividends of the mining boom, but also develop mobile GPUs to catch up with the first echelons such as Intel and Iagation. Logic's team must not only have elite soldiers and strong generals, but also
The more the merrier.
"I have two plans for the time being."
Su Zifeng suggested that PC graphics cards can continue to be jointly developed with NVIDIA, but the Ma Liang GPU for mobile phones must be developed independently.
If we don’t have enough manpower, we need to buy more people to make up for it.
The first target is Iagation, the world's fourth largest manufacturer whose main business is GPU, with a valuation of 300 million pounds.
"What about the second one?" Lu Fei asked.
"It's the mobile GPU team originally owned by ATI, and AMD is planning to sell it out," Su Zifeng said.
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows, feeling surprised.
It’s not that I haven’t competed with AMD about ATI before, but AMD spent huge sums of money to take it away, even taking on huge debts.
Now, facing huge debts, AMD has no choice but to package its entire business unit, including the Iageon series.
"Now we have contacts with Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Infineon." Su Zifeng said, "We are also involved."
"Qualcomm!?"
Lu Fei squinted his eyes. Could it be that Qualcomm's proud Adreno GPU is from the ATI team?
If this is true, it is equivalent to cutting off Qualcomm!
As soon as I thought about this, I was suddenly interested: "How much is the price?"
"According to AMD's current disclosure, one company has raised US$65 million. I speculate that it is likely to be Qualcomm."
Su Zifeng cast an inquiring look.
"Okay, even Qualcomm, which usually digs Soso, has taken action, so it's even less likely for me to let Qualcomm get it!"
Lu Fei slapped his thigh, "But we can't come forward directly in the name of logic. That will arouse Qualcomm's vigilance and suspicion. Let's let a third-party patent operating company fight for this team for us. I'll leave this matter to you."
Take responsibility."
"Mr. Lu is still thoughtful!"
Su Zifeng's eyes showed admiration.
Rumble, spring thunder sounded outside the car.
The rain became heavier, and a layer of white rain and mist splashed on the streets and outside the hotel, like a misty white gauze.
Raindrops like soybeans hit the window.
Wang Ben stood guard at the door of the room and saw that Lu Fei and Su Zifeng had already received orders from Microsoft and Sony from Zen architecture microprocessors to game console chip business.
"Dong dong dong~"
At this moment, there was a slight knock on the door.
Wang Ben opened the door, took the cart from the waiter who delivered the food, and noticed the graceful woman in the corridor out of the corner of his eye.
"I am Xu Zishan from TVB."
She came closer and said, "Master Xizhiyun asked me to come."
"wait."
Wang Ben asked his bodyguard to go in and deliver the food. He stood in front of the woman and looked her up and down. Although he didn't know her, he knew her from TVB. From the looks of it, she was probably a TVB artist.
"Chen Zhiyun, the general manager of TVB."
Xu Zishan thought he didn't know Chen Zhiyun and emphasized again.
"Do you have an appointment?"
Wang Ben closed the door and wouldn't let her get even half a step closer.
"Master Zhiyun only asked me to come and didn't tell me if I had an appointment? How about you go in and ask Mr. Lu?"
Xu Zishan smiled and said: "I'll wait here."
“…”
Wang Ben and others frowned and stayed at the door of Lu Fei's room for a long time. Even if there were no paparazzi, if a passing waiter saw it and spread it, it would still be a scandal.
After thinking again and again, Wang Ben ordered his men to continue to stare at Xu Zishan, then walked in and told Lu Fei the truth.
"Chen Zhiyun's appointment? Nonsense."
Lu Fei smacked his lips.
Even before TVB acquired it, an actress came to the door.
"Then should I send her away?" Wang Ben asked.
"This kind of person who dares to come to the door will not give up easily. If she starts to make trouble and stalks her, it will have a bad impact."
Lu Fei glanced at Su Zifeng and asked her to eat first. The "Master Lu" character he had created as Corporal Li Xian could not be ruined.
He suppressed his anger and walked out of the door reluctantly.
"Rikusheng!"
When Xu Zishan saw the man, she was ecstatic and subconsciously posed, showing off what she thought was the most beautiful side.
"Your name is Xu Zishan, right?"
Lu Fei narrowed his eyes into a thin line.
"Tie it, tie it."
"Tell me the truth. Was it really Chen Zhiyun who called you here? This question is very important. Don't lie."
"Uh, no, no, I came here on my own, Saori, Lu Sheng, otherwise, you would definitely not see me..."
"If Chen Zhiyun knew that you came to see me without permission under his name, do you know what would happen?"
"Lu Sheng, I hope you will understand me about this matter. I, I just want to make progress too much. I apologize to you."
Xu Zishan's eyes were slightly moist, "You can punish me in any way you want."
He said with a wink secretly, "I will accept the punishment."
Is your apology serious?
Lu Fei wrote in his little notebook, "Xu Zishan, I remember you. Leave your number and go back and wait for notification."
Xu Zishan excitedly handed over her business card, not forgetting to scratch the palm of his hand, and then left in a hurry.
"hehe."
Lu Fei smiled coldly, turned around and returned to the room, pretending that the episode had never happened, "Where were we talking?"
"Oh, Mr. Lu, we talked about what the logic should be if we are prohibited from continuing to use X86 and ARM?"
Su Zifeng picked up a tissue and wiped her mouth.
"Yes, in the next few years, maybe five years, maybe sooner, we may have to meet the United States in Shangganling and Mount Everest. By then, we may be in close combat."
Lu Fei said seriously, "This is a lesson learned from the past. We cannot let logic become the next Toshiba or the next Panasonic."
"If this is the case, perhaps we should take these into consideration as a backup plan as President Lu said."
"That's right, the chip must have a spare tire, and the architecture must also have a spare tire. Do you have any opinions on this spare tire?"
"I wonder if Mr. Lu has ever heard of the RISC-V structure?"
"Tell me."
Lu Fei was startled and put down his chopsticks.
RISC-V comes from the University of California, Berkeley, and was only proposed this year as an architecture based on a reduced instruction set. It is like the mobile operating system Android, which is also free and open source.
"The only problem is that ARM is forming a stable ecosystem, not to mention X86. Whether it is hardware, software, or the entire industry chain, if we want to build up the entire RISC-V ecosystem, we will definitely be able to rely on Logic alone."
no."
Su Zifeng explained the difficulties in detail.
"This is the price of starting over from scratch, but no matter what, we must be prepared to start from scratch." Lu Fei said firmly.
Su Zifeng pondered for a moment and replied: "Besides RISC-V, there is another option, which is MIPS."
"Is this the instruction set used by Loongson now?"
Lu Fei's eyes lit up.
"Yes, Mr. Lu, most of Loongson's chips are based on MIPS-authorized architecture." Su Zifeng shook his head and laughed, "But the biggest problem of this company is its business model. It has technical capabilities, but it is not commercialized enough.
We stuck to sunset industries such as printers and failed to follow up on the mobile Internet, solve chip power consumption, improve the ecosystem, and cooperate with Fabless, so our business has been shrinking and we have been losing money in these years."
"Isn't this better! If we want to acquire it, it will be easier than acquiring ARM and Iagation!"
A thought had already crossed Lu Fei's mind——
Just like Hongmeng donated to the country, it bought the MIPS instruction set and donated it to open source and share it. This way, Loongson no longer has to pay licensing fees and can mess around with it. The backbone team of the MIPS company can both do MIPS and research.
RISC-V.
If you retreat, you will have Godson and Huawei as your allies.
There are two ways to advance: RISC-V and ARM.
"Mr. Lu, one more thing, Jim is also very good at MIPS processor research and development, and many of Broadcom's chips have his results."
Su Zifeng showed a bright smile.
Awesome, my Silicon Immortal!
Lu Fei made up his mind, I want them all, ARM, Iagation, and MIPS, since all I have to spend is Wall Street money.
Penguin short squeeze, great job!
The rain has stopped and the clouds have dispersed, and the cool breeze carries a moist breath.
Lu Fei separated from Su Zifeng and returned to the hotel where he was staying. He saw Gao Yuanyuan wearing a suit, looking dashing and capable, with her eyes focused on the densely packed documents on the table.
"A Fei, you came just in time."
"Did we discuss it?"
“Except for some small details, it’s pretty much the same.”
"Is Fang too compromised?"
"Well, Sister Xin said that Li Zekai was arrested, which was a blow to her and Wu Wanlan." Gao Yuanyuan said that the final agreed price was 200 million Hong Kong dollars for 26% of TVB's equity and the land in Clear Water Bay, which was paid for by Li Jiajie's family.
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"It's still acceptable. Where are the director seats?"
Lu Fei sat next to her.
"Mrs. Fang hopes to give her some dignity."
Gao Yuanyuan looked at him with a smile on her face.
Fang Yihua hopes to reserve a seat for herself, and within one year at most, she will take the initiative to step down and hand over the directorship to Mr. Lu, and bid farewell to TVB completely. During this period, she is willing to sign a concerted action agreement and vote for Mr. Lu unconditionally.
6 board seats, 6 votes.
Enough to give them control of the board and the TV station.
"Since Mrs. Fang is so sensible, let's give her this dignity. After all, TVB has been in the hands of her and Shao Yifu for decades. When the curtain calls, let her make a decent exit."
Lu Fei took out a business card from his pocket.
"What's this?"
Gao Yuanyuan was very curious.
"Xu Zishan."
Lu Fei's tone was cold and he asked Gao Yuanyuan and the others to ban her immediately after they took over TVB and never use her again.
Gao Yuanyuan deliberately pretended to be confused, "Why?"
Lu Fei told the story, "I was talking to Su Zifeng about a very important matter at the time! If I hadn't known that she was a TVB artist, I might have suspected who sent her as a spy."
"How can there be such a stupid spy? She just wants to make progress too much." Gao Yuanyuan stared at the business card with a smile on her face, "Ah Fei, you are so right. TVB's Yingying Yanyan is so tempting."
"That's right! Am I a good boy? Is there any prize?" Lu Fei is harmless to humans and animals and is deliberately trying to be cute.
"Of course I'll be good to you."
Gao Yuanyuan rolled her eyes angrily and squatted down.
Lu Fei smiled and said: "Yuanyuan, did Wu Guanlan tell you who the two people who helped Chen Guoqiang were?"
"I told you, Guo Guangchang."
Gao Yuanyuan hesitated and said: "There is also Lu Yun."
The corners of Lu Fei's mouth rose, and there was murderous intent in his eyes.
