The richest man

Chapter 95 6502 Processor

At this moment, Shangguan Muye was stunned.

MOS Technology company? ? ?

What kind of company is this? I have never heard of it.

After Zhang Jun saw Shangguan Muye's expression, he knew that the other party didn't know much about this company.

MOS Technology, which owns a small fab, was a simple outsourced manufacturing company until a number of engineers left Motorola this year, bringing early designs with them. Only then did MOS transform into a chip design company, and the first project of this new team was to design a new microprocessor, the famous 6502 processor in history!
The emergence of the 6502 processor directly broke the monopoly position of Intel and Motorola, and the chip price was reduced from two to three hundred dollars to $25, which promoted the revolution of personal computers and the rapid development of the electronics industry.

"Let the people in the American branch quickly investigate MOS Technology," Zhang Jun said in a deep voice, "I want to buy this company!"

Even after investing in Intel, Zhang Jun still wants to acquire MOS Technology. The 6502 chip has a wide range of applications, and Legendary Game Company has a very large demand for 6502 chips. If this company is acquired, then it will be able to It greatly reduces its own production cost, making Legendary Game's arcade machines, home game consoles, handheld game consoles, electronic pets, etc. extremely competitive.

Zhang Jun plans to learn from Nintendo's strategy, dumping home game consoles at low prices, directly blowing up his opponents, forming a monopoly advantage, and then relying on selling software to make money.Third-party game developers want to act according to Zhang Jun's face. Thinking about it, it feels like a blockbuster!

MOS Technology is also in Los Angeles.

In fact, it is quite famous in the local area, and Zhang Jun's people quickly found out the address of this company.

Zhang Jun didn't waste any time, and directly led a group of people to MOS Technology Company.

After Zhang Jun identified himself as a group, Matthew Holt, president of MOS Technology, invited everyone to the office.

Matthew Holt has also watched the mv single "Billie Jean" and admires Zhang Jun's talent in music and dance.From the moment we met, his attitude was very enthusiastic.I also asked Zhang Jun when the other two English songs will be released, and he will buy them for collection.

"About the 20th of this month, "Baby" and "Take me to your heart" will be fully released in Europe and the United States. But Mr. Holt, I will send you my autographed album mv, and you don't need to go I bought it."

"Oh, that would be great!" said Matthew Holt happily.

Zhang Jun smiled and said, "Mr. Holt, does MOS Technology have the idea of ​​transforming into chip design?"

Matthew Holt said in surprise: "Zhang, you are so amazing that you guessed it right away. Yes, that's right, MOS Technology is transforming into chip design. Some time ago, there happened to be eight excellent engineers Jumped over from Motorola..."

Hearing this, Zhang Jun nodded secretly in his heart.

It seems that the design team has arrived, and it is relatively safe to acquire MOS Technology at this time.

"Mr. Holt, I don't like to beat around the bush, so I'll just get straight to the point. I want to acquire MOS Technology!" Zhang Jun said loudly, "I wonder what Mr. Holt's valuation is for MOS Technology?"

Matthew Holt was a little surprised, but his good professionalism made him react quickly.

As long as the price is right, there is nothing that cannot be sold.

Matthew Holt quickly valued MOS Technology in his heart, and after a while, he said: "I think the valuation of MOS Technology is as high as $800 million!"

After speaking, Matthew Holt began to introduce MOS Technology in detail.

Zhang Jun listened carefully while calculating the valuation of MOS Technology in his mind.

MOS Technology is a small company with a team of less than 30 chip designers and a small fab.

If Zhang Jun hadn't known that the team of chip designers was in such a mess, he would definitely not have spent money to acquire such a small company.

Zhang Jun quickly quoted his own price: "800 million US dollars is too high, I think the valuation of 500 million US dollars is more reasonable."

Matthew Holt said: "Zhang, since we can't reach an agreement, why don't we talk about it tomorrow. At the same time, I will hold a shareholder meeting to discuss the acquisition together."

"Okay, then I'll come back tomorrow."

Hearing this, Zhang Jun got up and left, and took a group of people back to the hotel to rest.

On Intel's side, Gordon Moore is sending someone to investigate the background of Legendary Game Company. How could this company need so many chips.But unfortunately, the results of the investigation only know that this company is developing arcade games.

conference room.

Gordon Moore said to the crowd: "Hong Kong Legendary Games is an arcade production company. They do need chips, but the number may not be as much as they say."

Someone said: "As long as the contract is signed, they are not afraid of their breach of contract. 50 chips, that is not a small amount, we will take this order."

Gordon Moore said: "The other party was very dissatisfied with our offer and cut it down to $100."

"$100 is too low, it must not be lower than $200!" A senior executive said loudly, Intel is currently in the stage of leading technology monopoly, even if the lion opens its mouth, the other party will have to buy it.

As soon as the voice fell, everyone echoed.

Obviously, within Intel, they all support the sale of the Intel 8080 processor at a high price.

In fact, the production cost of chips is extremely low, a chip is only a few dollars, but the price sold to outsiders is more than 200 dollars, this level of huge profits,
Really exaggerated.

The designer team of MOS Technology decided to break the monopoly because they couldn't see the past, and designed the 6502 chip. Its performance exceeds 8080, and the production cost is extremely low. The price of a chip is only 2 US dollars.Back then, Atari hoped that MOS Technology could supply it with 6502 and an I/O chip. The asking price was US$12. MOS agreed, because after calculation and estimation, the production cost of the two chips was only US$4, so the two parties could easily reach a consensus. .

Think $8080 for an intel 200 chip, and $6502 for a 2.

Anyone will go crazy.

PS: I have a cold and dizziness for the past few days, I will update a little less, my body should be better tomorrow, more updates

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