Riding the wind of rebirth

What happens in reverse?

If Samsung authorizes its EDA and ASIC software to be used by Clover, Clover's design capabilities and technical capabilities will be greatly improved, and it will be able to use the two software to complete the tape-out transformation in a few months.

The disadvantage is that you use your own abilities to cultivate a future competitor for yourself.

But the benefits are immediate, that is, they can join forces to explode production capacity, quickly seize the global share of high-end DRAM, and attack competitors in Europe, the United States and island countries.

Another big benefit is that China's future DRAM chips will undoubtedly have a strong "Samsung style" attached to them, allowing Samsung's IP cores to be added to China's production capacity to reap a large amount of copyright fees.

Until...the day when China's domestic DRAM grows powerful enough to perfectly bypass Samsung's IP core.

In the final analysis, for Samsung, this is a trade-off between short-term interests and long-term interests. Those who can sit here are industry elites, and everyone immediately started talking about it.

Quan Wuxuan raised his hand to signal the people behind him to be quiet. He smiled at Zhou Zhi and said, "Mr. Zhou seems to be very confident in the abilities of his team."

"President Quan laughed." Zhou Zhi said modestly: "In fact, we have always had domestic chip research and development capabilities. The only difference is the lack of application tools, software and user talents."

"We should also thank Microsoft for providing a lot of help in cooperating with us on audio decoding chips, which has greatly improved our company's capabilities in this area."

"As we all know, Clover has the ability to develop the MiniCos universal platform, as well as VC, an object-oriented software development tool based on the C language core."

"Based on these basic capabilities, although Samsung's EDA and ASIC software are self-developed, we are still confident that we can use them."

Quan Wuxuan and Shen Zongjun glanced at each other, and Shen Zongjun, who had not spoken before, said: "We admire your company's self-research capabilities. We are also very interested in the MiniCos general platform, especially the internal instruction set."

"Since everyone is sincerely cooperating, can we expand the scope of cooperation a little more? We open the license of Samsung EDA and ASIC to you, and we also hope that you can exchange it with us for the license of MiniCos."

"Shen Lianlian's proposal is what we hope for in terms of direction." Zhou Zhi smiled: "But in terms of exchange of benefits, the two sides are too unequal."

"What we want is the right to use EDA and ASIC, just like we buy enterprise OFFICE software from Microsoft. We only need a software package and a serial number, and the cost is only a few thousand yuan."

"If your requirements for MiniCos are the same, we can also provide you with the installation package, serial number and hardware dongle, which can guarantee equal usage rights with EDA and ASIC." Zhou Zhi smiled sincerely: "But , is this what Shen Lianlian means?"

Of course not. Shen Zongjun is the head of Samsung's mobile business. Of course, he has taken a fancy to the potential of MiniCos as an operating system for mobile devices. What he needs is not only a right to use it, but also the simplest summary similar to that used on WinClover. Control chips, but in-depth and lasting R&D capabilities for complex applications.

This is indeed the future of mobile devices, but right now, no mobile device manufacturer is sure of this future. Because Zhou Zhi has an insight into the future, the purpose of developing a universal platform is actually to prepare in advance for new tracks in the future.

Today's mobile phones are really mobile phones. In the eyes of most mobile device manufacturers, calling is the main thing. It is enough to be equipped with some multimedia functions, such as listening to MP3 or even FM radio.

The smartphone of the future is actually an ultra-small computer equipped with a call function, and the call function is actually insignificant in the entire mobile phone application.

This is just like the industrial control system developed by Jinan Group - Xihe.

Future CNC technology will bring earth-shaking changes to the machine tool manufacturing industry. It is also a new track. If you enter it in time, you can gain a first-mover advantage in the competition.

Even if we compete with Siemens, ABB, Schneider, Mitsubishi, and Omron, we will still lose in other places, but in terms of program-controlled software, everyone starts together and can even become the first mover. In the future, software can even be used to make up for some hardware. In order to overcome the shortcomings, we will gain opportunities to complement and cooperate with large manufacturers.

This is by no means a fantasy, but a completely achievable reality. Although the CNC machine tools in later generations in China were poor and lagging behind in all aspects, it only took ten years to catch up with the world level. Although it is not comprehensively advanced, it is by no means completely backward. In some fields, it is even leading the world.

If you don't even dare to think about it, then you are still doing nothing. A small technician dares to develop anti-theft door locks. How can he be so timid when he has the research and development capabilities? Being a comprador is not Cousin Enron's style.

Likewise, it's not a thoughtful style. Although he is actively looking for cooperation opportunities, he should not be too willing to bargain too much. For Zhou Zhi, who already has some bargaining chips, there is no need to consider unequal exchanges.

Everyone has to show real sincerity in order to work together.

Shen Zongjun can vaguely see the role of the MiniCos universal operating platform, but Shen Zongjun did not travel through time, so he cannot be absolutely sure.

And judging from the fact that in the previous generation Samsung Mobile had mixed up six or seven systems and none of them were easy to use, it seems that Shen Zongjun's acumen in this direction is quite average.

Sure enough, Shen Zongjun smiled and said: "We are only interested in the multi-interface protocol matching and compatibility of MiniCos, not to the extent that it is necessary. But just considering the importance, we are already quite mature in self-developed EDA and ASIC flows. The chip technology is not comparable to MiniCos, which has just been put into primary application. If Mr. Zhou is not even willing to make this exchange, we may have to doubt your sincerity in cooperation."

"If this is the case, it means that our MiniCos are not highly valued by Shen Lianlian, so what is the need for exchange?" Zhou Zhi will definitely not let go: "When it comes to exchange, we have already used Samsung DRAM for the bright future. , that is joint investment to achieve the absolute cost-effectiveness brought by the full domestic production of DRAM! And the huge global market advantage!"

"What is the pursuit of a manufacturing company? Isn't it just this? Whether it is technology investment, capital investment, human investment, management investment, market investment, isn't its ultimate goal just for this?" Zhou Zhi smiled: "This is what we are. Show the utmost sincerity, and the rest of the calculations are completely trivial compared to this sincerity."

"If you ignore this most basic point and worry about gains and losses in other aspects, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?"