Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

This dance is a communication channel. Of course, everyone can only discuss their intentions at most, and the specific details will definitely not be implemented here.

Brian quickly explained his purpose: "The Stanford Entrepreneurship Center has reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Crowdfunding Network, which has brought many conveniences to many student entrepreneurs. However, the Entrepreneurship Center does not have shares in Crowdfunding Network, so this cannot be guaranteed.

Stanford Student Rights.”

"So after discussing with Elizabeth, I hope to buy some shares from you so that Stanford can join the board of directors. What do you think?"

Wang Zheng quickly understood what he meant. With the current shareholding structure, if Stanford wants to join the board of directors and have voting rights, it needs at least 5% of the shares.

As the person in power, Elizabeth cannot hold less than 20% of the shares, otherwise her control over the company will be reduced.

Wang Zheng's current shareholding is 52.5%. Although he does not serve as chairman, he theoretically has direct veto power.

Stanford came to him to buy shares, which may not be Elizabeth's instigation - venture capital and Stanford are her die-hard allies.

As long as Wang Zheng's shares fall below 49%, Elizabeth will really have the final say on the board of directors.

Although Wang Zheng has not participated in the affairs of the crowdfunding network until now, his lack of participation does not mean that he cannot participate, and his lack of decision-making does not mean that he has no decision-making power.

For Elizabeth, who raised the crowdfunding website with her own hands, this is very important.

Wang Zheng quickly clarified the relationship between them and laughed a little.

The Crowdfunding Network was originally a tool he threw out to cash in and gain fame. The model was here, and even with Stanford's participation, he didn't think it could succeed - there will be an economic crisis in two years.

So many people have this spare money.

Thinking of this, Wang Zheng immediately replied: "Of course, Brian, how about 5%? It's enough for you to join the board of directors."

The old man and Elizabeth looked at each other, obviously very surprised that Wang Zheng would give up absolute control so quickly, but this was a good thing for them.

Brian gave Wang Zheng a hug with great satisfaction, held his hand and smiled: "Thank you, Phil. Stanford will give you a sufficient premium and will never let you down."

This kind of share transaction is carried out privately, and a sufficient premium is necessary. Now who doesn't know that the crowdfunding network is rising, and the valuation of the second round of financing is likely to be pushed to a height of about 100 million US dollars.

It may be worth more in the future, so if Stanford wants to get on the bus, it would be too much to not pay a premium.

However, Wang Zheng wanted more than just cash. He also had other demands. This opportunity was just right, so he simply said directly: "Brian, you know that I also have a company called Ultron, whose main business is data centers.

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Brian nodded and said: "I know. Ultron is very pragmatic and is also a company with great potential."

"Altra's business requires a large number of general-purpose computing chips. Although the performance of the x86 architecture is indeed good, the power consumption is too high. I know that Stanford has a laboratory that studies general-purpose chip architecture. Maybe we can conduct a school-enterprise cooperation.

What do you think about developing new low-power chips?"

Speaking of this, we have to say that general-purpose computer chips are the two major development directions of CPUs. One is CISC complex instruction set architecture, and the other is RISC reduced instruction set architecture.

The x86 and x86-64 architectures of Blue Factory and Red Factory are both complex instruction set architectures, while IBM's POS and other architectures are representative works of streamlined instruction sets.

Strictly speaking, under the same process technology, the computing speed of RISC with the same specifications is much faster than that of CISC.

Because the complex instruction set architecture focuses on versatility, it can do everything, but it is not very precise.

The reduced instruction set only targets a certain function, so professional equipment such as game consoles and servers mostly use RISC-type CPUs to reduce costs while providing good performance.

In personal computers, due to the Microsoft-Intel alliance, x86 has basically dominated the world. In recent years, this hardcore alliance has become more powerful and has begun to make a splash in the server market.

Wang Zheng really doesn't want to use IBM's POWER architecture. It's not suitable for future mobile devices. Its original design goal was high power consumption and high performance, hoping to benchmark against the X86 architecture.

This is in serious conflict with Wang Zheng's plan for the mobile Internet.

ARM is indeed very suitable, but it is only suitable for early use. After all, the intellectual property rights are not in your hands.

Therefore, at this time, it is very necessary to draw on the scientific research strength of Stanford, a world-class university, to develop a new reduced instruction set architecture, which will be completely open source by then. After the domestic foundation is provided, it can be used directly for development. Autonomous CPU.

With Wang Zheng's intervention, there is no need to worry about backdoors at the hardware architecture level.

It's like killing two birds with one stone.

As we all know, there are two top universities in China. Therefore, there are also two schools with the top computer science departments in the world, Stanford and MIT.

Louis Bryan really didn't expect that Wang Zheng's ambition would be so big, and he would directly work on the foundation of general-purpose computing chips.

Architecture is no joke. Writing code is not a big problem. The key is verification.

The verification process of a chip is much more expensive than mass production, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as burning money.

This is also the reason why we need to cooperate with Stanford. It does not mean that domestic research cannot be done, but the weak foundation will mean that even if it is researched, it cannot be verified.

As one of the world's top universities, Stanford certainly has profound academic research in chip architecture, and corporate sponsorship of laboratories has long been a practice.

Moreover, Stanford is very open in terms of school-enterprise cooperation. It is a model of casting a wide net. As long as someone is willing to invest money to fund research, they will not refuse.

Everyone is happy when research and development is successful, and both companies and schools can enjoy the fruits of success, whether it is intellectual property rights or reputation, the benefits are huge.

It doesn't matter if the research and development is unsuccessful. The level of professors and researchers has also improved, and students have been shown the way to failure. The disadvantage is that the company has no relationship with the school.

A big fish came to your door, and Stanford would not refuse it either emotionally or rationally. So Brian said very readily: "No problem. Another day I can introduce you to two professors who specialize in streamlined architecture. They also have their own laboratory."

The transaction went very happily, and both parties gained something they thought was important.

Brian walked away briskly to greet other guests, but left Elizabeth and Diane behind.

Elizabeth took two glasses of wine from the passing waiter, handed one to Diane next to her, and smiled at Wang Zheng: "Justin, the person you were chatting with just now was Zuckerberg from Facebook?"

"Yes, I refused a patent authorization, so he was a little disappointed." Wang Zheng didn't want to talk more on this topic, so he asked: "By the way, how is your Xianos?"

Speaking of her blood testing company, Elizabeth was very excited: "Although Ceanos has only raised US$3 million in crowdfunding, which is not a success, it has also won the favor of the capital side and the negotiations are going very smoothly so far."

As long as it goes well, Wang Zheng is relieved.

I was originally worried that a butterfly effect would occur, causing Elizabeth to give up the company directly, but now it seems that there is no need to worry too much.

After all, it was a dance, and no one would leave two beauties chatting here.

Soon Elizabeth was invited to dance, but Diane, who was more popular, refused several invitations in a row and did not leave. She stood near Wang Zheng, looking at the crowd on the dance floor intently, without knowing what she was thinking.

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