1991 Starting from the core

Apple's pause is longer than expected.

Throughout the afternoon, the group held discussions in Jobs's guest room.

After dinner, everyone gathered again in the living room of Mr. Qiao's suite.

Jobs glanced at his watch. The time on his watch was still in downtown Silicon Valley, but it now showed that it was still four o'clock in the morning there.

"I guess we have to wait a little longer. Have you read the technical documents this afternoon?" Although Jobs didn't like the people on the board of directors, he wanted to reach such a far-reaching cooperation with Yuanxin without the support of the people on the board of directors. Support is beyond words.

"I've seen it. Frankly speaking, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, it would be hard for me to believe that they have such...advanced theories in terms of architecture." Ruins replied with a sigh.

Jobs only had a superficial understanding of chip design. For him, chips were just tools for processing data and realizing product requirements. As for whether the architecture is advanced, or where it is advanced, he really can't tell.

"How advanced is their architecture?"

"It solves the problem of data exchange and communication between modules." Ruins also knew that his boss did not have a chip background, so he did not explain it in a long way, but used a vivid metaphor: "If the current YX architecture is compared to a It is a building, and the floors inside have arithmetic logic units, register units, control units and other old residents, as well as new residents and baseband signal processing units."

Jobs nodded and motioned for the other party to continue.

"Old residents are very familiar with each other and cooperate closely, so they have their own effective communication and communication plans and channels. But new residents may not have it - after the improvement of the wafer factory process, the baseband chip Integrating it into the processor core is no longer difficult, but establishing an efficient data exchange channel in the middle is the difficulty.”

"Now it seems that Yuanxin has solved the problem very well. Their architecture can even integrate more functional units and design it in a modular way."

Jobs immediately thought of what Su Yuanshan said in the afternoon about the prospects of future SOC chips.

Not only desktop computers, mobile handheld devices, cars, airplanes, ships, and home appliances, all devices can be digitized and automated.

Of course, Jobs was not interested in airplanes or cars. His interest was still in personal digital products. But this did not prevent him from agreeing with Su Yuanshan's judgment.

Since we agree with the judgment, there is no reason to miss entering this field through chips - even if we only sell chips, we can still make money.

What's more, cooperation with Yuanxin will not have an impact on Apple's established development direction. What will be affected will only be the partners of cooperation and the future ecology of the product.

"Well, you continue to sort it out." Jobs hummed, picked up the coffee, took a sip, and then closed his eyes to rest.

At this time, the phone in the guest room suddenly rang, and Ruins immediately looked at the door alertly.

Jobs also opened his eyes, glanced at the door suspiciously, and then took the phone.

Su Yuanshan's voice came with a smile: "Is Mr. Jobs here?"

"it's me."

"Okay, I don't know if you are free. If you are, I will have someone send you a report."

Jobs nodded immediately: "Okay, you can send it over."

"Okay, I'll have the secretary deliver it to your door in about three minutes."

After hanging up the phone, Jobs looked at his watch again. Three minutes later, as the faint sound of high heels gradually approached, Jobs stood up and stood behind the door to wait.

There was a knock on the door as promised. After opening the door, Su Yuanshan's secretary Wen Xiaoqian stood holding the folder with a smile: "Mr. Jobs, this is the document Mr. Shan gave you."

"Okay, thank you - would you like a cup of tea?"

"No, thanks."

Watching Wen Xiaoqian disappear into the deserted corridor, Jobs smiled slightly, then quickly stopped smiling, closed the door, and returned to the sofa.

There are two copies of the document. Judging from the format, it seems that they are Chinese and English versions, and the content should be the same.

Document title: "Guiding Opinions on Vertical Procurement System"

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In Su Yuanshan's room, Qin Weimin was holding a teacup and chatting with Su Yuanshan. Seeing Wen Xiaoqian come in, Qin Weimin chuckled and said, "Xiaoqian, they are not very wary of you, are they?"

"I deliberately wore high heels." Wen Xiaoqian tilted her feet, revealing the high heels under her trousers, and said with some pride, "It's still the kind with iron palms nailed on. It makes a lot of noise when walking."

"...Brother, since he is willing to stay in our hotel, it means that he trusts our goodwill." Su Yuanshan smiled helplessly and shook his head: "Whether they really trust them or not, at least they show it in face. Well."

In fact, according to common practice, in such cooperation negotiations that generally involve the interests of both parties, the place where both parties live must be kept safe. This is also to avoid unnecessary trouble.

Unexpectedly, Jobs directly chose to live in Yuanxin. This means that no matter what the negotiation is, at least he believes in Yuanxin's business reputation.

This can be regarded as a great face that he gave Su Yuanshan.

And to be honest, Yuanxin Technology Park is so big, and Su Yuanshan didn't ask anyone to follow them anytime and anywhere. If Apple really wanted to discuss some secrets in private, it would be absolutely safe to just sneak into a small pavilion in an open area.

"Well, just kidding." Qin Weimin smiled and said: "I'm just a little bit emotional that Apple was actually forced by us to negotiate overnight - do you think they will accept our proposal?"

"80% will accept it." Su Yuanshan always said something in front of his senior brother, and now he said firmly: "Mr. Qiao chatted with me for a long time this afternoon, although Mr. Qiao is still an excellent, even genius, product manager. But at the end of the day, he's still the CEO of Apple."

"If Apple wants to continue to develop, in addition to opening up new opportunities in digital products, it must also consider factors such as its position in the industry chain and cost control - and these are exactly what we can give them."

As Su Yuanshan spoke, he looked at Wen Xiaoqian and smiled: "Xiaoqian, you have read the proposal for the vertical procurement system. Can you tell me whether the advantages of our vertical procurement plan will be attractive to Apple?"

Wen Xiaoqian was startled, and after a while she said awkwardly: "Mr. Shan, I think I saw it, but I really didn't understand it..."

"...Uh...Okay."

Su Yuanshan secretly sighed, he really couldn't bear to hit this little girl.

At this moment, he really missed Zhou Xiaohui, who was now in Silicon Valley.

It's a pity that Zhou Xiaohui will take an important position sooner or later, and she can't be his secretary for the rest of her life.