Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 111

[One hundred and eleven.]

The Grimm brothers picked up the letter of intent, which had been translated into German, with a puzzled look on their faces.

Being able to use the corresponding language according to the other party’s language everywhere has become the ability that Lu Zhenyu is well known and admired by many people.

Not only did they use Zongheng to translate all kinds of texts, so that the appropriate language texts appeared at the right time, and it seemed that there was no language that Lu Zhenyu could not understand. The Brothers Grimm did not regard Lu Zhenyu as a person outside the German-speaking country since they came into contact with Lu Zhenyu. , because Lu Zhenyu’s German is really good.

Language plus text, few people are not tempted by such considerate and meticulous negotiating opponents.

The Brothers Grimm read the letter of intent carefully. The type of cooperation described in the letter of intent was unimaginably generous to the Brothers Grimm.

Digital Totem and IBM will also invest in Grimm Brothers.

Digital Totem and IBM will take 30% of the joint venture through capital, channel and technology involvement, while the Brothers Grimm will hold the remaining 40%.

Grimm Brothers will continue as an independent existence, not a vassal of any one business.

They will win orders from the two major groups at the same time with financial and technical support, especially for digital totems.

Digital Totem will adjust its production lines and products according to the new chips, and develop products based on “subtraction pipeline” chips. These products will include Zonghengjia handheld version, pet dog Bobo, and spider platform series products will also start to use this. kind of chip.

Lu Zhenyu listed these things in the letter of intent mainly to give the Brothers Grimm a guarantee.

Because, although the chips they developed are suitable for intelligent systems, it is a big question to what extent they can develop in the field of public computing.

Even with IBM’s help, it is difficult to enter the CPU market dominated by Intel and AMD.

For a long time to come, digital totems will be the main users of this series of chips.

The letter of intent also lists some restructuring and expansion work that must be carried out on Grimm Brothers after urgent consultation between Lu Zhenyu and IBM.

Including the company’s structure, management system, quality management system, research and development system, etc. Of course, there is also a very important thing, that is, Grimm Brothers must come up with a passable enterprise VI in a short period of time.

As long as they approve the letter of intent and sign a three-party contract, Grimm Brothers will no longer be a second-rate chip manufacturer, but leap into the ranks of first-rate.

If such a company is criticized for VI, it is really a shameful thing.

. . . of course, it all depends on the Grimm Brothers endorsement of this letter of intent.

After thinking for a moment, the Grimm brothers nodded in agreement.

Two days later, representatives of the Brothers Grimm, Lv Zhenyu and IBM will sign a contract for the three-way cooperation.

The approval of the Brothers Grimm really gave Lu Zhenyu a sigh of relief.

The two of them don’t have to know, at least not now. For this tripartite collaboration contract, Lu Zhenyu has been mediating with several senior executives of IBM all afternoon.

IBM’s chip design and manufacturing has always been strong, but they have not been very famous in this field.

Of course, because IBM’s core business is not here, the popularity of their server products is overwhelming, and on the other hand, it is also because they have been too high-end.

Their CELL processor can be said to be extremely powerful, but, except for some military products and Sony’s game consoles, there are still very few places where this chip is used.

It is difficult to say whether the income in this area is worth the R&D and production expenses they have invested.

However, from the products of the Grimm Brothers, they saw the hope that the high-end and the low-end would be one.

They have already mastered the technology of single-chip multi-core.

If the “subtraction pipeline” technology of Grimm Brothers is added, the number of cores that can theoretically be added in a single chip can be further increased. tough?

Since they lost the order to provide chips for Apple’s MAC, IBM has always wanted to regain a starting point in the chip field. In their opinion, the confrontation between Intel and AMD in the chip industry is not a good one. If you add IBM itself, the three Divide the world.

Their goal, of course, is to directly acquire Grimm Brothers.

But Lu Zhenyu did not allow such a thing to happen.

The chip technology mastered by Grimm Brothers is really in line with his needs, and there is still a lot of room for expansion in the future.

Once Grimm Brothers was acquired by IBM, it meant that another key technology was in the hands of others.

It’s not that Lu Zhenyu didn’t want to buy Grimm Brothers, so he could completely control the technology in his own hands, but he had concerns.

On the one hand, once he acquires Grimm Brothers, such a chip company that will soon have a great reputation may have to issue another round of technological blockade against China by the United States and Europe, overt or covert.

Although the products of Grimm Brothers can meet their temporary needs, once they are separated from the entire technology world, their future development will be very limited. busy.

On the other hand, if you compete with IBM to acquire Grimm Brothers, you may not be able to succeed.

Quite simply, the funding of digital totems is not comparable to that of IBM.

No matter what, there are tens of billions of dollars in the bank account.

The cash resources of IT giants are terrible.

The final result was a compromise between Lv Zhenyu and IBM. Both sides took a step back, and everyone jointly invested in Grimm Brothers to share this very interesting technological achievement.

Possibly, with their joint operation, the Grimm Brothers may become stronger and stronger, and it may be strong enough to occupy a not small share in the field of chips, but that is a matter of the future after all. .

It would be a lie to say that Lu Zhenyu didn’t want to eat the entire Grimm Brothers company.

However, considering all the various factors, Lu Zhenyu could accept the current agreement.

Of course, now is not the time to be happy. Although the agreement has been signed, in any case, the chips from Grimm Brothers want to be officially supplied, and that will be at least early next year.

Although Lu Zhenyu solved the chip problem, he still returned to Shanghai with empty hands after the Global IT Summit.

“Master, it’s not too tiring to be a secretary with you, but I’m flying around these days. The airline has called me a few days ago to tell me that my accumulated flight miles can be exchanged for very good gifts. No. Thinking that now I have become a trapeze myself.” On the plane, Su Wan, who was sitting next to Lu Zhenyu, said coquettishly.

If people see it, it is probably the scandal about President Lu raising Xiaomi. Lu Zhenyu doesn’t know why this idea popped into his mind.

He smiled slightly and said, “How to pull? These days aren’t where you should go? Don’t you give you half a day off to run wherever you go? If you want to take more leave, your secretary will be too relaxed. Right

?”

Su Wan shook his head and said, “No, no, I didn’t say that I am not satisfied with the current life. With the salary of the president’s secretary and the public funds flying all over the world, I probably can’t find a more comfortable day. I feel a little confused. Because you don’t explain a lot of things to me. Sometimes, I don’t quite understand what Master, you, and the elders in the company say.”

“Oh, why don’t you understand? “Lu Zhenyu was happy that Su Wan could take the initiative to express her doubts.

Now that this is the case, this apprentice is a bit interesting.

“Every time you come up with a new plan or something, or purchase or update equipment, the old wealthy owner of Loujiaminglou has to do the calculations again and again to make sure that he has enough funds in his hand to let go. Giving you money is not always so refreshing. Well. Why this time, when you told him to invest in a chip factory, Lou Jiaming agreed without thinking about it?” Su Wan asked, her tone towards Lou Jiaming was quite bad.

It’s not that she has any opinions, but it seems that she was born to have a bit of a relationship with that guy Lou Jiaming, and she can’t always get along with the extremely strict financial director.

“Of course he agrees, because this investment has made it clear that it is a profitable business. It can also lead to the improvement of the company’s entire procurement structure, so why not invest?” Lu Zhenyu said with some inductiveness.

“Definitely make money?” Su Wan tilted her head and asked while thinking, “What does your investment in a chip factory have to do with the company’s procurement structure?”

Lu Zhenyu smiled and explained to Su Wan carefully: “Each of our products is very good. It can be said that in terms of the perfection of a single product, few companies’ products can surpass ours. Whether it is software , games are still handheld, pet dogs, and even spider platforms. Perfection has the advantage, that is, the product is very attractive, but it also has the disadvantage, that is, the user’s need for replacement is not urgent, unless, you can give them an absolute The big motivation for updating the product. You see, our two software “Zonghengjia” and “Search Engine”, “Search Engine” still has some adjustments and patches are constantly being updated. But what about “Zonghengjia”? From the software level From the above, there is not much need for a 2.0 version, right? Because the core will not change, the development of the surrounding has become a system, and everyone does not need that. The software of “Zonghengjia” is basically perfect. … Another example, Bobo dog, will you replace it for some small adjustments in appearance or function? I don’t think so, because even for us, it is difficult for us to change the existing products at one time. Generate enough motivation to make users feel that they need to buy, and it is worth buying. Our products are only sold once, and this is also a problem….”

Su Wan thought about Lu Zhenyu’s words carefully, and said, “That means, the matter of changing the chip. , will it be a sign of the company’s product upgrade?”

“Yes. I have carefully calculated that if this chip from Grimm Brothers is used in a handheld, the speed of the handheld will be increased by at least 35%. If it is replaced by Bobo. , Bobo’s processing capacity per unit time is greatly enhanced, so you can set more rich and more realistic dog actions for Bobo. As for the spider, the chip and the computer system have been changed, and the processing capacity has been greatly enhanced. For military use In terms of things, the computer responds a lot faster, and it also reduces the weight of the heat dissipation part. Whether this is attractive or not, I don’t need to go into details?”

Su Wan nodded, indicating that she understood: “Sure enough. The replacement of products, as well as the upgrade of old products, this profit is really attractive. No wonder the old wealthy Lou let go so quickly.”

These are just the benefits that can be discussed on the table.

Lu Zhenyu smiled.

The user group of Digital Totem is already a huge network, and many users worship the products of Digital Totem, and there are even many spontaneous user organizations that worship Apple Computer back then.

However, in these user organizations, what is most discussed is not the appearance and performance of the series of digital totem products, but how to dismantle those digital totems, and how to make these digital totems look individual. .

And the more they come and go, the more they hope that Digital Totem can launch products with better foundations, giving them more leeway.

For these people, as soon as the news of the core change is announced, they will immediately start waiting for new products.

For ordinary users, it is hard to predict how attractive these two words will be to ordinary users after the hype of the company’s market and public relations departments, through conscious guidance, exaggeration, and amplification. .

This time, after all, it is the first generation of artificial intelligence-specific processing chips that have been put into use.

How big a gimmick is this?

As soon as he returned to Shanghai, UU Kanshu www.sonicmtl.com Lv Zhenyu distributed a series of technical materials of the chip specifications of Grimm Brothers, and instructed the research center to come up with the adjustment of all products based on this core chip in the shortest time. At the same time, the formulation of upgrade plans for products with potential.

The research center has never been too busy. This seemingly complicated work has been placed in the hands of various laboratories and research groups in the research center before you know it.

“Xiaoyu, Xiaoyu…” Chen Ning suddenly rushed into the office and shouted loudly.

“Are you calling me or Yue Yu?” Lu Zhenyu looked stunned.

Overlapping names can sometimes be a hassle.

“Well, I’m looking for you this time.” Chen Ning smiled and said, “Big trouble, big trouble, it’s finally here.”

“What’s the big trouble? Haven’t you been taking care of the company’s business recently? What’s the big trouble asking you to come forward?” Lu Zhenyu was a little puzzled.

Now, Chen Jing helps manage the company’s affairs quite a bit.

Chen Ning also fully delegated powers. Except for school and team matters, the company’s business is basically laissez-faire.

Anyway, she knew very well that there was a guy like Qingqing staring at him, and they would still be notified if there was any problem.

“It’s not the company’s business.” Chen Ning shook his head, “It’s in the game. Domestic players and Japanese players are on the same page. The Sino-Japanese naval battle is about to start.

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