Military Industry of Great Powers: Build the Strongest Flanker.

Chapter 237: Battle of Standards: Who is the mockery of the times?

"This is an opportunity!"

"An opportunity to enter the semiconductor industry!"

Wang Xuehong and Chen Wenqi looked at each other for a long time without expressing their opinions.

Although it is an opportunity for VIA, if it steps into it, VIA will also be controlled by Zhongxun.

ARM provides public version designs of CPUs and chipsets, while CITIC provides chip manufacturing. What does VIA have?

Wang Xuehong said: "Can we authorize VIA chipset design? We have designed a special chipset for AMD, and VIA has such technical reserves."

Teacher Xiao Zhao nodded, VIA's chipset is indeed excellent.

Chen Wenqi said: "Mr. Zhao, VIA has received such great benefits, what do we have to pay?"

Zhao Guoqing said: "I hope we are allies!"

ally!

Allies needed to charge into battle.

Zhao Guoqing told Chen Wenqi: "The frequency of ARMv6 has reached more than 400MHz, and the existing platform has far limited the performance of ARMv6..."

"Memory!" Chen Wenqi quickly realized what Teacher Xiao Zhao meant.

The existing memory is only 66M Hz, which is just right when paired with 486. But with ARMv6, the speed is far from enough. It is too far behind the CPU speed, otherwise the overall performance will not be improved so much.

Teacher Xiao Zhao nodded and took out a technical standard from his desk, which read: SDRAM memory technical standard!

"VIA is also a member of JEDEC (International Memory Standards Association) and is qualified to propose standards proposals!"

"..."

Most of the current memories use EDODRAM and EDCDRAM memory, which are the main standards promoted by JEDEC, and there is also Rambus supported by Intel, which is eyeing it.

Although Rambus has powerful performance, this company, like Qualcomm, clings to the synchronous flash patent. You must know that the standards recognized by JEDEC require the surrender of patent rights. This is why Rambus is not yet a member of the JEDEC Association, and JEDEC has not yet It will be too late to come up with the next generation of technical standards...

"Intel is trying to change the JEDEC regulations and set the Rambus memory standard that requires patents as an international standard. They have selfish motives. The shareholders of Rambus and Intel's shareholders are highly overlapped..."

It's obvious that the boss behind it wants to make money on the side. If the Rambus memory standard is set as an international standard, the whole world will pay them royalties in the next ten or twenty years.

Everyone is not a fool, how is it possible!

What troubles Chen Wenqi is that Zhongxun has begun to formulate international standards, which means...

Zhongxun has begun planning to lead the entire microcomputer industry...

Chen Wenqi looked at the standards and was speechless.

SDRAM, double DDR standard, double DDR second generation standard...

You can go along this line...

"Mr. Zhao, this...?"

Zhao Guoqing smiled and said: "SDRAM has great potential. I think we need to set this international standard so that we don't have to worry about this in the future..."

Computer memory is one aspect, and graphics card memory is also another aspect. The existing EDCDRAM is so rubbish that the performance of the graphics card cannot be brought out at all!

Wang Xuehong took a long breath. If the SDRAM standard is implemented, there is no doubt that VIA will gain great international reputation.

“But VIA alone can’t do it!”

Zhao Guoqing smiled and said: "As long as you put forward a standard solution, Kingston, HP, Compaq, Micron, Samsung, and of course, we at CITIC, will support you..."

"Um..." All these manufacturers have come forward, and they probably occupy 90% of the memory market...

……

For VIA, the pros and cons are obvious. In fact, when they heard Mr. Zhao say that Motorola was also considering entering the ARMv6 processor field, they had basically made up their mind.

In fact, as early as 1974, Motorola manufactured the world's first microprocessor, the MC6800, which was used in Apple computers and was a great success.

However, Motorola's success was short-lived. After Apple stopped using Motorola's microprocessors, Motorola was confused and they lost their direction.

Even though two years later, Intel launched the 8086 processor, which was lower in performance than the MC6800 released by Motorola two years ago, IBM still chose Intel as their partner...

A year ago, Motorola launched the 68000 processor, which has been reduced to providing it to game console manufacturers as a microcontroller chip.

As for switching to the ARM camp, well, Mr. Zhao is just bragging. He did propose to President Tommy that Motorola is welcome to join the ARM family, and Tommy didn't say he disagreed!

The next day, Wang Xuehong went to Zhao Guoqing alone to express that VIA agreed to cooperate with Zhongxun, but she also raised a question?

"Mr. Zhao, VIA doesn't have any experience in designing processors. Maybe we can only use the public version of ARMv6!"

Sister Wang’s eyes were so aggressive that Teacher Zhao knew exactly what she wanted to do.

"Zhongxun can provide technical assistance to you, and our development on ARMv6 can be transferred to VIA!"

Wang Xuehong did not show any excitement, just nodded and said thoughtfully: "Mr. Zhao, is Wison International interested in investing in VIA?"

"..."

Unexpected!

Zhao Guoqing asked: "How much investment does Mr. Wang need?"

"Ten million US dollars will be used to expand the processing plant and assembly plant. VIA can give Wison International 40% of the shares!"

Zhao Guoqing thought for a while. With 40 million US dollars and % of the shares, VIA's market value was only million. To be honest, the current VIA is not worth so much money at all. However, after VIA entered the China Communications Alliance, its value has increased. More than twenty-five million.

In fact, the company's market value once reached $50 billion.

What Wang Xuehong thought was that if Zhao Guoqing had shares in VIA, he would be a stakeholder, and he would naturally not be able to abandon VIA casually.

The two of them thought of going together.

Zhao Guoqing said: "Wison doesn't have much liquidity now, and Vision still has a lot of money in its account. Let's invest in the name of Vision!"

"Okay, Mr. Zhao, happy cooperation!"

"Happy cooperation!"

……

The Voodoo graphics card launch conference was held at the Shenzhen International Hotel. Teacher Xiao Zhao did not attend in person, but there were many people in attendance. HP and Compaq both sent their vice presidents of business to attend.

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Silicon Valley Technology News, and The Times also sent reporting teams to cover the entire event.

Compaq's vice president of commercial affairs, Lloyd Lloyd, announced in a high-profile press conference that Compaq's latest smart series of microcomputers will be equipped with Sinocom voodoo graphics cards and will be released simultaneously around the world.

HP is naturally not far behind.

At the press conference, the most impressive thing was that the little-known EA company took advantage of the Sinocom voodoo graphics card conference to launch the "Red Alert" real-time strategy game.

In the venue, Landon Pigg opened the game on the 486 computer on the field. As the game screen unfolded, a base vehicle opened briskly with the crisp metal collision sound in the game music...

(End of this chapter)