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Chapter 346 A fat sheep has arrived in Asia, ready to slaughter 2 million US dollars in one fell swoop? Dream on! Chen Yansen: The sugar water is very sweet!
After Lao Gao finished communicating with Qu Fang, he left a set of keys on the table before leaving.

Chen Yansen looked up but didn't say anything. He knew that this was the key to the villa near Delta Park.

This should be the seventh house he has bought in his lifetime.

As for room 0418, he doesn't plan to cancel the lease. The monthly rent is only 400 yuan. He can go back occasionally and experience the feeling of revisiting the place with Mengjie or Song Yuncheng.

All five villas in Luzhou are currently under renovation. They will be moved there once the Orange Technology headquarters is completed.

The original plan was to buy three sets, but after a moment's thought, Chen Yansen had Gao Weilin buy two more sets.

Three sets aren't enough!

After finishing his work on Xiaohongshu, Chen Yansen opened Cadence Spectre to continue his unfinished tasks.

Wu Shengyu and Mike Keller are leading their team, working overtime to develop the Tiangong T100 chip.

Of course, he wouldn't be idle either.

Otherwise, with only the limited manpower in the chip division, it would be difficult to launch the Tiangong T100 in less than six months.

Time passed second by second, and the night soon reflected on the glass, creating speckled spots of light.

After successfully launching the new product, Wang Teng immediately took his staff from the Intellectual Property Department, as well as legal and financial personnel, to the UK to discuss architecture licensing cooperation for ARM instruction set patents with ARM.

However, ARM's asking price was extremely high. In addition to a one-time licensing fee of $2 million, a 3% royalty based on chip shipments was also required.

Before setting off, Wang Teng studied ARM's previous licensing fee standards, which were basically 'slot fees' of 3000 million to 8000 million US dollars, plus a 1% royalty.

When dealing with major clients like Apple, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and MediaTek, they will proactively reduce their royalty rates to 0.5%.

This shows that ARM has no scruples and wants to treat Orange Technology as an Asian prey to be slaughtered.

After a full day of discussions, ARM only agreed to reduce its royalty rate to 2%, while the one-time licensing fee remained at $2 million.

“Buzz buzz—!”

Just then, the cell phone on the desk rang.

Chen Yansen picked it up, glanced at it, and without thinking much of it, pressed the answer button.

"Boss, things are a bit complicated. ARM is sticking to the price of $2 million, plus a 2% royalty."

Wang Teng stood in the corridor of ARM headquarters, his face gloomy. He was seething with anger. These bastards were taking advantage of him like a sucker.

However, in the eyes of ARM's top management, Orange Technology's valuation has exceeded 500 billion US dollars. As the head of Senlian Capital, Chen Yansen has a net worth of more than 2 billion. Is it too much for them to offer 200 million US dollars?
Since Orange Technology wants to pursue the path of developing its own chips, is there a problem with paying some tuition fees?

These British guys rip off Apple, Qualcomm, and Broadcom without hesitation, so what chance do they have against Orange Technology?

More than a decade later, Huawei spent $10 billion to secure a permanent license for the ARM V9 architecture.

Therefore, given Orange Technology's market size, a royalty rate of 1 million US dollars plus 1% is reasonable, but a royalty rate of 2 million US dollars plus 2% is somewhat greedy.

"Can't reach an agreement?" Chen Yansen asked calmly.

"I won't budge on the one-time licensing fee, but the royalty rate might be reduced by another 0.5%," Wang Teng confessed truthfully.

In the chip industry, ARM is like a developer, providing bare-bones houses for Apple, Qualcomm, and Huawei. The instruction set architecture is like a building construction tool. Only after obtaining a technology license can processors be developed.

For example, Huawei's HiSilicon K3v2 processor is a heavily modified version of the ARM Cortex A9 architecture.

Apple and Qualcomm are no exception; for every chip they produce, they have to pay a 'toll' to ARM.

Because of ARM's reduced instruction set patent, which has higher compilation efficiency, processors can be given the characteristics of power saving and low energy consumption.

ARM has spent over two decades, employing thousands of engineers, and building a technological moat through massive amounts of code and patents, which is naturally not so easy to break through.

This is also the main reason why ARM dares to make such exorbitant demands!

"Okay, I understand. You can come back now."

Chen Yansen narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice.

"Boss, are we not buying the architecture license?" Wang Teng was slightly taken aback and immediately asked.

He is well aware of the importance of ARM's patented RISC architecture technology to the future development of Tiangong T100 and Orange Technology.

Being slaughtered by ARM is just one cut; being slaughtered by Qualcomm and MediaTek is two cuts.

After all, Qualcomm and MediaTek have to pay royalties to ARM, and this cost is naturally passed on to the customers.

"Don't buy it."

Chen Yansen said in a deep voice.

Although ARM held a large number of instruction set and microarchitecture patents in 2012, totaling 2700, Orange Technology could still find a new path and independently develop a brand-new CPU architecture by avoiding technologies such as the Thumb instruction set, multi-core scheduling, and conditional execution.

As far as he knows, ARM may even change its revenue-generating target from chips to terminal devices in the future.

A single chip can cost anywhere from $5 to $40, while a smartphone costs over $150.

In other words, ARM increased its royalty rates by several times, or even more than ten times, in one go.

As a result, Apple had to launch the Apple Silicon architecture, while China accelerated the development of the free and open-source RISC-V architecture. Europe and the United States even launched 'chip regulations' and raised billions of dollars in one go, just to independently develop instruction set patents.

There's no way around it; ARM has always been ruthless when it comes to ripping off customers.

"What about the Tiangong T100 chip?" Wang Teng assumed his boss was just saying that out of anger.

"I'll handle it," Chen Yansen said firmly.

If he can't even handle a simple CPU architecture, wouldn't his rebirth have been in vain, and his cheat code have been wasted?
Chen Yansen originally intended to start with chip design and gradually enter the semiconductor industry, but ARM was determined to rip him off, which he couldn't tolerate.

At worst, he'll just activate the Planck clock's talent to two seconds every day. He refuses to believe that Orange Technology can't solve a problem that even Apple's R&D department can solve!

If ARM wants to die, then let's grant its wish!
Chen Yansen immediately made up his mind that once the research and development was successful, he would license it to others at low cost and force ARM into bankruptcy first.

Seeing this, Wang Teng immediately realized that his boss was not joking, so he took a breath and said, "Boss, I know what to do."

the other side.

Inside a conference room at ARM headquarters, five or six business negotiation staff members were arguing quietly.

“Warren, your offer is too high. I’m afraid Orange Technology will have a hard time accepting it,” said one of the balding middle-aged men.

“Victor, you don’t know the status of this mobile phone manufacturer in Asia. It is said that Orange Mobile’s global shipments reached 4000 million units in 2012. Do you know what that means?”

Another man of medium build, dressed in a black suit, smiled and asked in return.

“I know what you mean, but there has to be a reasonable baseline for prices. Your quote is clearly inflated,” Victor said with a shrug.

"NO no no! Asians are richer than you think. MediaTek can afford a price of 1.6 million US dollars. Does that mean an Asian super-rich person with a net worth of 500 billion US dollars can't come up with 2 million US dollars?"

Warren waved his hand dismissively.

Viktor smiled and shook his head. Just as he was about to speak, he heard a noise outside the door and had to fall silent.

"Creak" sound!
The conference room door slowly opened, and Wang Teng stood outside, his eyes bright, a faint beam of light shining into the room from behind him.

On his left and right sides stood six entourage members.

"Mr. Warren, Mr. Victor, due to the extremely unreasonable price offered by your company, we have decided to terminate the negotiations," Wang Teng announced loudly, straightening his back.

That's a real shame.

Warren shrugged, appearing nonchalant, and took Wang Teng's behavior as a strategic retreat.

In his view, Wang Teng would completely give in within two days and obediently sign a licensing agreement for the architecture patents with ARM. He had seen the same negotiation tactics countless times with representatives from Qualcomm, Apple, and MediaTek.

Don't try to fool me!

Warren muttered to himself, then got up and saw Wang Teng and the others out of ARM's headquarters building.

“Victor, how about a bet? I bet they’ll be back within a day,” Warren said confidently to his colleague.

"Judging from the expression on that person's face when he left, I reckon it'll take a day just to get the news. I'll bet on it! I guess within two days," Viktor said confidently.

In 2012, ARM held a pivotal position in the global chip design and manufacturing field, which was the source of their confidence.

To Warren and Victor's surprise, two days passed without them receiving a call from Orange Technology.

They then went to the hotel where the other party was staying and found out that the people from Orange Technology had left Cambridge a day earlier.

The two looked at each other, completely bewildered.

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at the same time.

Chen Yansen hung up the phone and began his research, starting with complex instruction sets, then moving on to reduced instruction sets and explicit parallel instruction sets, and from the x86 architecture to PA-RISC, PowerPC, MIPS and SPARC architectures, intending to devise a completely new CPU architecture.

First, collect data and information, then merge and recombine it, and finally activate the [Planck Clock] talent to select the best technical solution from tens of thousands of possibilities.

We need to achieve both higher compilation efficiency and lower energy consumption.

It wasn't until 8 p.m. that he finally walked out of the office, exhausted, his eyelids heavy, as if he might fall asleep at any moment.

"Boss, what's wrong?"

In the lobby on the first floor, Ye Qiuping was just about to leave work when she saw Chen Yansen walking towards her, her face turning pale.

"It's nothing, I'll just go back and get some sleep," Chen Yansen said listlessly.

After saying that, he prepared to drive away.

Ye Qiuping's heart softened; she couldn't bear to see Chen Yansen like this. She subconsciously raised her hand and checked his temperature on his forehead.

"Thank goodness, she doesn't have a fever." Ye Qiuping breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, ignoring Chen Yansen's objections, he pushed him into his car.

Seeing this, driver Xiao Li silently got into the driver's seat and drove straight to Ye Qiuping's residential area.

Chen Yansen leaned on Ye Qiuping's shoulder, inhaling the milky scent emanating from her, and closed his eyes slightly.

Despite his current haggard appearance, he can unleash tens of thousands of kilograms of force with a casual swing of his hand if he so desires.

Half an hour later, Chen Yansen lay on Ye Qiuping's bed, watching the woman in front of him bustling around, a slight smile playing on his lips.

"How about I make you a few side dishes? And a bowl of sweet soup?" Ye Qiuping asked tentatively.

"Either is fine, I trust your skills," Chen Yansen said, licking his lips.

Ye Qiuping keenly noticed this detail and immediately turned around to pour him water.

Unlike Meng Jie and Song Yuncheng's youthful innocence, Ye Qiuping was like a ripe peach, exuding fragrance.

She has excellent life skills; not only is she good in the kitchen, but she can also wash Mr. Chen's socks and underwear without batting an eye.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Yansen vaguely heard Ye Qiuping calling his name. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a bowl of brown sugar rice wine in Ye Qiuping's hands.

"Do you want me to feed you?" Ye Qiuping asked with a gentle smile.

Chen Yansen opened his mouth, his intentions self-evident.

Ye Qiuping scooped up a spoonful of sugar water and fed it to Chen Yansen, as if she were taking care of a child.

In no time, Chen Yansen finished the bowl of sugar water.

When he arrived in the living room, he found that Ye Qiuping had already prepared four dishes and a soup, all simple home-style dishes, but they were beautifully presented and smelled delicious.

As soon as Chen Yansen sat down, Ye Qiuping handed him the bowl and chopsticks.

"A gift for you."

Before eating, Chen Yansen took a key out of his pocket and tossed it into Ye Qiuping's arms.

"Your house key?" Ye Qiuping held the key, a hint of joy appearing in her eyes, like a blooming peach blossom.

"Sort of, but the house is in Luzhou and is still under renovation," Chen Yansen replied.

"How many sets did you buy?" Ye Qiuping silently put the keys into her pocket, then suddenly asked.

"One set," Chen Yansen said seriously.

Don't ask, it's all the same, it doesn't matter who comes.

"Thanks." Ye Qiuping didn't believe it at all, but she didn't call her out on it.

It's a good thing for three, four, or five people not to make things clear.

"You're welcome, it's just a key," Chen Yansen joked.

The implication is that Ye Qiuping only has the right to reside there, not ownership.

"Do you have to spell it out so clearly? Can't you let me be happy for a few seconds?" Ye Qiuping rolled her eyes and said angrily.

"When have I ever failed to make you happy for two hours?" Chen Yansen raised an eyebrow, looking at the other person with a mocking expression.

"Then eat quickly," Ye Qiuping suddenly urged, seemingly lost in thought.

Chen Yansen chuckled. He was just in a bad mental state, not in a bad physical state.

For some reason, even the overhead lights suddenly seemed much softer.

The next day at dawn, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Chen Yansen got out of bed feeling refreshed. Outside the window, everything was white, and the balcony was covered with a layer of fine snowflakes.

Before December even arrived, the first snow fell in Xucheng.

The cold wind howled past, leaving behind a low, guttural roar.

For him, the three-second Planck clock was still a struggle. Even though his physique had broken through 47, it was only enough to keep his mind clear and his stamina sufficient after he turned off his talent.

He already had a general direction for the design of the instruction set; all that remained was to proceed step by step.

At 9:00 a.m., Chen Yansen returned to the company by car. After dealing with work emails, he overturned all of ARM's fixed-length instructions, general-purpose registers, and conditional execution rules based on the characteristics of the RISC reduced instruction set, and then chose delay slot technology to replace conditional execution.

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"Klock Technology Co., Ltd.? Chang Wei?"

On November 28, Cheng Wei learned of Chang Wei's existence for the first time.

Didi Bike has a new competitor!

(End of this chapter)