1991 Starting from the core

Su Xinghe looked at his son. He didn't know whether to describe his son as arrogant or proud. In the end, he just smiled and sighed.

The father and son fell into a brief silence.

After a while, Su Yuanshan took a long breath.

"Dad, do you know how much Yuanxin's scientific research funding is this year?"

"How many?"

"The three core departments of X86 architecture, YX architecture, and communication protocols plus three independent laboratories add up to more than 4 billion U.S. dollars and more than 30 billion yuan - not counting joint research and development teams and projects. Regardless of the In fact, in terms of scale, we are already the company with the highest investment in scientific research funds in the world, no one."

"If compared with the actual purchasing power of the RMB and the relatively special salary environment in China, our R\u0026D investment scale in the west is actually close to US$7 billion..."

Su Xinghe: "...with so much money invested in research and development? How do you maintain rapid expansion?"

"Capital operation, you eat what you eat." Su Yuanshan said concisely and concisely: "Dad, we have been shouting about the explosion of information technology for many years, but no one knows when it will explode. In my opinion, it was just a stage of burning the fuse before. Now, This is the real explosion stage. How much you invest in this period will bring you much returns in the future. That’s why we are expanding our R\u0026D team and R\u0026D fields at all costs, striving to seize the opportunity before our peers have recovered. "

"So, dad, tell me, who dares to compete with me in the field of scientific research?"

Su Xinghe: "..."

"And next year, we will also promote the establishment of the EUV Alliance. Although we will unite other companies to invest, the real leader is us - the EUV Alliance will definitely bring in many universities..."

"Wait, EUV Alliance?" Su Xinghe immediately stopped his son: "The one established by the United States?"

"Yes! We lick our faces and apply to join every year, but the other party refuses every time... Then it's up to us to build a team ourselves. And unlike the United States, we only do it ourselves, but we need to unite the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia regions , and even some companies and universities in Europe.”

"At that time, there will be more than a dozen scientific research institutions from all over the world cooperating at the same time. You said, if domestic scientific research institutions still follow the same old style... Wouldn't it be funny... Do you really think that our money comes from the strong wind? Do you really think we are doing charity?"

"..."

"So, dad, you have to be tough when you have to be tough. I have never planned to back down on a matter of principle. Whoever dares to disobey can come to me in person and I will always be with you."

Su Xinghe smiled helplessly: "...What you said, no matter how much you say it, you won't break up."

"Yes, that group of people... they want both respect and face. They don't dare to quarrel or go to extremes. They only dare to sneak some eye drops and hold things back..."

Su Yuanshan spoke softly and snorted coldly: "But they don't know... I'm different. I dare to break up. If they dare to hit me, I will let them know what a real 'student master' is." .”

Su Xinghe looked at his son with a look of disdain and determination on his face, opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word for a long time.

As the principal, although he is already upright enough, he still has to consider all aspects. The Electronic Science and Technology Department has been able to achieve its current position as the top two domestic science and engineering disciplines. In addition to being tied to Yuanxin, an increasingly large technology giant, his compromises and struggles in all aspects are also indispensable.

But now, the son seems not to compromise.

What to do?

Of course I support it.

After a while, Su Xinghe wiped his face and laughed: "You are worthy of being my Su Xinghe's son. You and I are old now. I don't have so much energy and have many friends. It's hard to fall out, but you are different... … You can indeed fall out."

"Hey, Dad, I knew you wanted to support me."

Su Xinghe slapped his son on the back: "Nonsense, if I don't support you, who will you support?"

…

With the end of the first WCG, Christmas has arrived as scheduled.

As if to confirm Su Yuanshan's prediction, this year's Christmas, whether in the West or the East, whether it is year-on-year or month-on-month, Internet shopping has set off a small climax.

What is particularly worth mentioning is that while the WCG was still in progress, Custom’s digital version of the game started a carnival, especially those games that participated in the event, and even sold out this year’s sales in one week.

This means that, at least in the field of virtual digital goods, players have begun to accept online payments.

Under the premise that capital seeks "reasons" for its actions, Internet stocks were immediately lifted. Whether it was HK or Nasdaq, almost all technology stocks benefited from this.

This also declares that the spring of the Internet has officially arrived.

…

After New Year’s Day, we are looking forward to the New Year. At the last corporate executive meeting before the Spring Festival, Yuanxin passed a resolution to go all out to establish an EUV alliance next year to fight against Western technology hegemony.

Since an alliance is to be established, "union" is the most important step. At the meeting, Yuanxin arranged communication tasks for several big leaders after the Spring Festival. Except for Su, Chen, and Duan, Mr. Xi could not escape... He would also rarely visit major universities as the chief scientist of Yuanxin to give Yuanxin a sense of presence.

As for Su Yuanshan, his task is more to contact high-level officials to clarify the importance and necessity of establishing the EUV alliance, as well as the coordination and cooperation required at the national level.

So Su Yuanshan stayed in the capital for the whole of February after the Spring Festival, and then moved around to major optical research institutes, on the one hand to keep in touch with each other, and on the other hand to do some research.

It was not until early March 2002 that Su Yuanshan hurriedly returned to the Science and Technology Park to attend the first executive director meeting after the Spring Festival.

The reason why it is "urgent" is because it is time for the YX architecture to be separated.

…

"The first one today is mainly to discuss the split of the YX architecture department."

This year’s chairman of the executive board is Duan Yongping. Since last year we had already made arrangements for this year’s general direction, the task of this year’s opening meeting was extremely easy.

"Mr. Duan, it stands to reason that the split of YX architecture is Yuanxin's business, right?"

The person who spoke up was Wang Chaoxin. He was lying on a chair, facing the sun, somewhat unable to open his eyes, and somewhat lazily.

"Well, in theory, yes. But Mr. Qin's outing is very serious. Even though we prepared for a long time before the New Year, we still haven't completely sorted it out..." Duan Yongping shook his head, looked at Qin Weimin and smiled: "Qin The veteran who is always the founder of Yuanxin really wants to go out, both in terms of our structure and the emotions of our employees, it is extremely complicated...so everyone is helping us.”

Duan Yongping said this, and the others didn't say anything. After all, although the companies and departments represented here are different, one thing is the same - the interests of Yuanxin.

And everyone knows that Duan Yongping is right. At the beginning, Qin Weimin's job number at Yuanxin was No. 3 - what does this mean? This means that he is the first official employee after the two founders Su Xinghe and Zhang Ke - Su Yuanshan was still a minor under the age of 18 at that time!

In addition to his high position and seniority, Qin Weimin single-handedly presided over the development of the YX architecture. The Kirin series SOC mobile chips and the Suzaku series chips for notebooks currently designed based on the YX architecture are also created by him—— The former also involves cooperation with Tian Yaoming's mobile communication technology department.

With such a complicated relationship, it can be said that as soon as he leaves, at least half of the strength of the entire Yuanxin Technology Park headquarters will disappear!

Qin Weimin smiled slightly: "Haha, it's not that complicated. The main thing is that if the division is too obvious, some cross-department cooperation will not be able to continue."

"So after discussing it several times, Lao Tian and I now have a new idea."

"Oh?" Duan Yongping looked at Qin Weimin and Tian Yaoming - these two people were almost inseparable from each other and always sat together: "Let's talk about it."

"First of all, we have to make it clear that the YX architecture is released to maintain our monopoly in the field of streamlined instruction sets and low power consumption - to put it bluntly, it is to reassure all partners. This is the premise."

"As long as we can be loyal to this premise, then we can think about how to maintain the existing business structure. At present, the split will have the greatest impact, mainly on the two teams of Kirin and Suzaku, because many people Wearing multiple hats - Even though we started consciously dividing tasks a few months ago, everyone knows that in the field of chip design, how can core members be replaced at will? And to put it bluntly, between our Kirin and Suzaku Therefore, it can be called the twin stars of YX architecture and the king of performance. Mainly because its team members wear multiple hats and have a better understanding of YX architecture than others."

Qin Weimin paused as he spoke, picked up the teacup and took a sip before continuing: "So we thought, why not just make the Suzaku team independent? The Qilin team cannot be independent because it relies too much on the communications team. But Suzaku The team is different, the Suzaku team is essentially a commercial processor team, and we can complete the control."

Duan Yongping was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood: "You mean, you are independent with the Suzaku Team, and then the Suzaku Team becomes your holding subsidiary?"

"Yes! From now on, the chips of the Suzaku team will not be limited to Yuanxin and Meijie. This kind of internal digestion will be internally digested. It can become a purely commercial chip..."

"After all, currently, apart from Suzaku, there is no real commercial chip based on the YX architecture, and there is no competition."

Qin Weimin looked at the crowd as he spoke, smiled and said, "That's probably the idea, please read it carefully."

Everyone looked at each other, and finally looked at Su Yuanshan "accidentally".

——Everyone knows that Qin Weimin is his senior brother, and even Duan Yongping and Chen Jing listen to Su Yuanshan when it comes to splitting the YX structure.

Su Yuanshan slowly picked up the tea cup, took a sip and looked back at everyone with a smile.

Of course he knew what Qin Weimin was thinking.

It stands to reason...or, from Yuanxin's point of view, he doesn't want the Suzaku team to leave.

But judging from the future of the YX architecture, the YX architecture does need such a "subsidiary".

——He thought of ARM in later generations.

In future generations, whether it is the awesome Apple A series, M series, Qualcomm chips, or those places that cannot be seen...

It can be said that ARM has actually completed its domination of the world.

However, the market value of ARM itself is not high, and its profits... profits can only barely sustain a living.

As an IP and service provider, it stands to reason that ARM should make money while lying down... But in fact, because of its policy of small profits but quick turnover, ARM makes not only hard-earned money, but also hard-earned money... …

Compared with Qualcomm and Apple, it is really a comparison between people, which is very annoying. So much so that NVIDIA, this shameless person, wanted to package and acquire it directly.

In this life, the YX architecture still follows the ARM path.

In other words, even if the YX architecture reaches the status of ARM back then, its market value is still only tens of billions...

Therefore, if you can give it a Suzaku chip, as long as it can be implemented, it will be equivalent to ARM owning Apple's A/M series chips.

In this way, it is very good for the development of YX architecture... but for Yuanxin, it is a field left in vain.

To put it bluntly, Su Yuanshan still hopes to rely on the Suzaku chip to fully deploy notebooks and high-performance PADs. This is a good time. What was originally produced and sold by oneself will have to be bought from now on.

But it was Qin Weimin who proposed this idea... He really couldn't refuse.

And Qin Weimin is right. The prerequisite for the separation of the YX architecture is to maintain the status and subsequent development of the YX architecture - if the YX architecture "dies" after it is separated, then everything will be in vain.

Therefore, Su Yuanshan did not think about it for long before he approved Qin Weimin's proposal.

"Well, everything is for the development of the team. If the Suzaku team continues to stay in Yuanxin, it will indeed be greatly affected." Su Yuanshan put down his teacup, expressed his attitude, and chuckled: "But, senior brother...the estimated funding this year is At that time, you didn't make this request. Otherwise, I think... Mr. Duan would definitely not agree to give me that much money."

Qin Weimin laughed: "We can talk about the shares later."

"Well, let's talk about it later." Su Yuanshan looked at Chen Jing and Duan Yongping with a smile: "Mr. Chen, Mr. Duan, I'm embarrassed to bargain with Mr. Qin, so I'll leave it to you."

"Are you still embarrassed?" Qin Weimin glanced at him. Although he was complaining in his tone, there was a smile on his lips: "If you don't mention this, Mr. Duan and the others may have forgotten about it."

"Ahem... I can't forget it." Duan Yongping coughed immediately, opened the notebook, made two notes and said with a smile: "I have already written it down."

After everyone laughed, Duan Yongping continued to turn a page, and then looked around at everyone: "Then let's continue talking about the EUV Alliance. In the past two months, we have traveled to many places and met with many companies and schools. ...Although we are not as arrogant as the Americans, we still need to have dominant rules."

"I have a list of people that can be included in our cooperation. Let's think about it and see which ones can join our alliance."