Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 245: Silicon image and MIPS

Some stories of He Fengshan will be added to Schindler's list, which Henry used specifically to win the favor of the Chinese government. Therefore, Henry considers it and feels that investing in his personal capacity seems to be more effective!

Henry imagined that at the end of the movie, a five-minute easter egg tells that the Jews rescued from Schindler’s list met other Jews, and then he learned from his mouth that there is a Chinese named He Fengshan in Vienna who is also like Schindler. Saved countless Jews

This easter egg is just like a micro movie, it has a movie title called "Visa of Life" and it also has a plot!

Henry told Spielberg of this idea. After he heard it, he immediately agreed, "Mr. Williams, this is a great idea!"

"Mr. Williams, do you mind mentioning your name when the easter egg appears? Oh, you know, the whole story of He Fengshan is what you thought of, and you should be the screenwriter of this story!"

Can't ask for it! ! !

Henry almost laughed in his heart, "Oh, I'm very happy, Director Spielberg!"

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools.

Henry wanted to build the strongest film special effects company, and naturally, computers were indispensable. The computer used to make movie special effects is different from ordinary computers. To be correct, it should be called a graphics workstation! At present, Pixar Studios, Industrial Light and Magic and Galaxy Special Effects are all using graphics workstations, and they use sgI's graphics workstations.

Toy Story, Jurassic Park, etc. are all made on sgI’s graphics workstation!

In his previous life, James Cameron wanted to shoot the Titanic, so he set up his special effects company digital studio digital1d company for a year and a half, used more than 30 sgI-level workstations, and sent more than 50 stuntmen 24 days a day. Hourly rotation production, and finally succeeded in producing the most shocking movie effect!

Speaking of sgI company, it is awesome, although it does not have IBm, hp company is famous, but its products and technology have a position that other products cannot replace in the field of graphics and high-performance computing!

The full name of sgI is Silicon Graphics. Founded in 1982, it is an important provider of high-performance computing systems, complex data management and visualization products in the industry. It provides visualization workstations with advanced computing capabilities! Before Henry's crossing, sgI was even better in the field of computing. Far away from other opponents, with 5oo of the world's largest computers, sgI occupies more than half of the market share! ! !

sgI is now acquiring the famous RIsc chip processor design company mIps!

In fact, the mIps architecture was born several years earlier than aRm, and the gap between mIps and aRm was not large at first. Even if Henry did not enter the aRm company, the former still accounted for about 3o% of the RIsc architecture microprocessor market; only in the subsequent exhibition process, especially in the mobile field, mIps began to gradually fall behind, and technical limitations caused it to be used in mobile devices. The above cannot meet the needs of the public, and the academic exhibition style also makes the business process of mIps lag far behind aRm. Therefore, mIps was quickly defeated by aRm! However, despite this, mIps is the company that is most likely to break aRm's monopoly in the future in the RIsc structure!

mIps has many patents on the RIsc instruction set. If Henry can acquire it and then merge with aRm, it can basically be said to be a monopoly on the RIsc structure market, and it will be a golden soup! ! !

If Williams Electronics acquired sgI Silicon Graphics and mIps, it would be even more powerful!

Noah's Ark, a subsidiary of Williams Electronics, runs a server. However, under normal circumstances, a server can actually be a workstation or a class computer. sgI Silicon Graphics can just enrich the strength of Noah's Ark! ! !

Williams Electronics CEO is the former Silicon Valley Electronics Group CEO Harrison. After the company's reorganization, his rights have been increased. Cisco, Noah's Ark. Qualcomm and aRm are both subsidiaries of Williams Electronics!

Henry immediately notified Harrison of the acquisition of sgI and mIps!

After receiving the order, Harrison did not dare to delay, and immediately organized personnel to make formal acquisition requests for sgI and mIps!

sgI company and mIps company are in a good talk, wanting to annex mIps company, never thought that Williams Electronics would make a purchase request to itself at this time. This is really big fish laughing. The food chain law of small fish eating dried shrimps!

sgI was listed as early as 1986, and its current market value is around US$1.8 billion!

The market value of mIps is much less, and it can be acquired for 20 to 30 million US dollars!

As soon as the news came that Williams Electronics was going to acquire sgI, the stock price of sgI rose suddenly! Obviously, sgI will be acquired only if it has value!

In fact, there is fierce competition in the field of workstations. There are large companies such as IBm and so on. sgI currently only wins with graphics workstations. Computer drawing and animation and movie special effects occupy the largest market, and other aspects are not competitive enough!

Unlike sgI, Williams Electronics has strong financial resources. sgI has negotiated with mIps for a long time and is only willing to buy it for 150,000 US dollars. However, mIps wants 200,000 US dollars. The electronics company came to the door and directly paid out 20 million US dollars, and mIps immediately knelt!

The agreement was signed the next day, and then a press conference was held to announce the matter.

After Williams Electronics acquired mIps, it directly merged mIps into aRm. However, aRm has established aRm framework department and mIps framework department! The main research area of ​​the aRm framework department is embedded, while the mIps framework is aimed at forming various workstations and computer systems, which just fills in the shortcomings of aRm in the early stage of the exhibition!

Compared with the cIsc type ~lightnovelpub.net~ type cpu, the instruction system is simplified, and the performance of the cpu using the RIsc architecture is much higher than that of the cIsc architecture at the same frequency. This kind of RIsc server is expensive and the system is closed, but it has good stability and strong performance. It is mainly used in the core systems of large enterprises such as finance and telecommunications! Henry builds a huge data center, which is just right for this; sgI Silicon Graphics is depressed, and his acquisition target has been cut off! However, in the face of the giant Williams Electronics, the sgI silicon image can only express helplessness! At this time, many shareholders within the company agreed to sell the company to Williams Electronics!

One is because Williams Electronics invested a premium of US$1.5 billion to acquire 7o% of sgI Silicon Graphics, and the other is because Williams Group Corporation is the largest customer of sgI Silicon Graphics, with orders accounting for more than 4o%!

The acquisition of sgI Silicon Graphics by Williams Electronics is equivalent to the acquisition of sgI Silicon Graphics by Williams Group. In case of offending customers, sgI Silicon Graphics will be over. Zi's biggest customer will definitely invest in its competitors!

(To be continued.)

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