Reborn Capital Empire

Chapter 87: Soc System Chip

Chapter 87 SOC System-on-Chip

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In the next two days, Guo Shouyun started looking for a house in the wealthy area of New York. Now San Francisco and Los Angeles have a foothold, and New York, where Thornbird and Phoenix Asset Management are headquartered, is no exception. And, after Rowling left New York, he wasn’t going to stay at the Plaza Hotel any more.

Money can make ghosts run the mill, and Guo Shouyun, who likes quietness, rejected the hustle and bustle of the Upper East Side of New York and bought a luxury manor worth $18 million, covering an area of 3.6 acres and 14,400 square meters, on the seaside of East Hampton. Instead of paying the full amount, take a monthly payment of $56,000 a month with a $3.6 million down payment.

A 20% down payment, plus a 30-year repayment period, has almost become a must for Guo Shouyun to buy a house now. Because he knows very well that the dollar will definitely depreciate faster than the 6% annual mortgage rate in the future. Moreover, he can enjoy the benefits of house price appreciation. This deal is absolutely worth it.

“Boss, Juji will not let go and insist on $25 million!”

Guo Shouyun, who was holding the phone, could not help frowning. Since Juji Electronics agreed to sell its CDMA department and patents, Qin Zhicheng has been talking to the other party on behalf of Guo Shouyun. After two months of wrestling, the price has overwhelmed the current $25 million from the initial $40 million. Although Guo Shouyun can still afford the money, but now he can’t wait to split a dollar into two and spend it in half.

Since writing the book, his royalties have been 19 million in June, 32 million in July, and peaked at 45 million in August. But after the three-month sales peak, the monthly sales figures for the first releases of “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” inevitably began to slip, despite the fact that “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Beasts” Supplementary to The Hangover, September’s sales still fell. Although the final result has not yet come out, it will definitely not exceed the value of 40 million.

Because the U.S. tax time is April 15, there is still more than half a year from now, so there is no need to worry too much. Therefore, the money can be completely controlled by Guo Shouyun.

However, from the royalties in June and July, 15 million was used as the start-up capital for the filming of “The Fast and the Furious”; 10 million was used for the filming of “Chainsaw” and the publicity of “Smart Ghost Recording”; 1000 After Wan invested in Guo’s Business Group, he had less than 8 million working capital left.

The royalties for August and September should be allocated 30 million yuan each, and Guo Shouyun will take 30 million yuan from the ‘Thorn Bird’ and put it into the Phoenix Company’s ‘Thunder Investment Plan’ to short Enron.

Therefore, after going to Guo Shouyun to buy a house, after the last investment in buying art in Central Park, he now only has about 15 million working capital.

After deducting the 5 million that promised William Zhang to short gold, there is only 10 million left. 10 million is 25 million, which is 1.5 times worse. Fortunately, the Matrix game “Counter-Strike” CD-ROM sold well, has generated nearly 50 million US dollars in profit in a few months. With this money, it is enough to buy the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji.

“Do you think there is still room for lower prices?”

“Yes, but not much!”

Nodding slightly, after thinking for a while, Guo Shouyun turned to ask, “How is the PayPal acquisition?”

“12 million, I think they still have some lions to open their mouths.”

“12 million is 12 million. Don’t delay. By the way, after the acquisition is successful, remember to reserve 10% of the options for management and major technical personnel!” After frowning slightly, Guo Shouyun quickly made a decision.

The most valuable thing about PayPal is not only its online payment, but also the famous “PayPal gang” in later generations. The talents who came out from here have founded a large number of world-renowned “unicorn” companies. These include the Space Exploration Technology Company founded by Elon Musk, Tesla and Suncity, etc.; and LinkedIn, which should have been founded by Reid Hoffman, but is now preempted by Guo Shouyun; YouTube, Yelp, the largest business review site in the United States, a data analysis software company widely used by the U.S. government, and Slide, the world’s most popular photo sharing site, etc.

The combined market cap of these post-PayPal unicorns exceeds $75 billion.

Moreover, Peter Thiel, Rulov Botha, Peter Thiel and other elites in the field of investment and hedge funds also appeared in PayPal.

Gaining a PayPal can not only get the world’s most widely used Internet payment company, but also greatly make up for the shortcomings of Guo Shouyun’s talents. With this relationship, through angels, VCs, and PEs, they can intervene in these unicorn companies in advance, earn huge profits, and have a deeper influence on Silicon Valley.

Compared to these, $12 million is not at all expensive, even cheap. If it wasn’t for the fear that PayPal’s talents were not as concentrated as they were later, Guo Shouyun would have already started.

“Understood, Boss. What about Juji Company, continue talking?”

When it comes to Juji, Guo Shouyun has a headache. Because it not only involves huge acquisition funds, but more importantly, how will it develop after winning the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji Company?

Guo Shouyun’s ambition is definitely not just the baseband chip, but the entire SOC, commonly known as system-on-chip or system-on-chip.

But SOC, in addition to the baseband chip, mainly has two parts: CPU and GPU. As for higher integration, SOC with ISP, HIFI, WIFI, GPS is still a little early. After all, 3D communication is still in its infancy.

Therefore, the basic factors that determine the quality of mobile phone chips are CPU, GPU and baseband chips.

When it comes to CPU and GPU, we have to thank ARM. The public version of GPU and CPU architecture and IP design provided by them have good performance. As long as they are integrated into one, they can meet the needs of low-end mobile phone manufacturers. But if Guo Shouyun intends to set foot in the high-end, he must have his own CPU and GPU development capabilities. Of course, the microarchitecture is still ARM. After all, before his rebirth, whether Apple, Samsung, Qualcomm, or even global chip designers were using the ARM microarchitecture. However, the IP content under the micro-architecture has to be designed by itself.

For example: ARM’s micro-architecture is a rough house, and the layout and appearance have been fixed. IP content is the soft furnishings inside, including sofas, wallpapers, furniture, and more. If you choose ARM IP content, you are choosing a model room, beautiful but not necessarily completely practical. If you design IP content yourself, it must be the most suitable for your own life needs and the most comfortable to live in.

For mobile phone manufacturers that do not have their own CPU and GPU development capabilities, they can choose ARM’s public version architecture and IP content, and then plug in a cheap baseband chip from MediaTek, and a low-end mobile phone can be launched on the market. At the beginning of China’s Meizu, Gionee and the like did this.

Apple, Samsung, and Huawei are powerful, so they only use ARM’s microarchitecture ~www.readwn.com~ to develop all the content themselves, and then integrate non-Netcom basebands or Qualcomm’s baseband chips, which is a layer higher.

Now, after Guo Shouyun bought the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji, it is equivalent to Infineon, ZTE and Ericsson in later generations, only baseband, but no CPU and GPU, and no mobile phone platform to ensure profitability.

Therefore, the most suitable path for Guo Shouyun at present is to take advantage of the baseband chip after acquiring the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji, plus the ARM micro-architecture and IP content, to build a low-end SOC first. Make money first, then grow slowly. As for whether to choose Qualcomm’s ‘pure SOC’ road, or the ‘SOC plus mobile phone’ road of Apple, Samsung, and Huawei, there is still time for him to consider.

“Don’t delay any longer, sign the contract!”

Although there are no competitors, Guo Shouyun wants to get this thing done early, and then find profit space for this acquisition.

“Dong dong…!”

There was a sudden knock on the door.

“Come in!”

“Boss, Professor Fred is here!” Wendy Solo pushed in the door and said.

“You take him to the living room first, and I’ll go there right away!”

“OK!”

After she left, Guo Shouyun picked up the phone again, “The acquisition of the CDMA patent and R&D department of Juji Company is like this. After the acquisition is completed, I will give you a week off. When the vacation is over, I have a new task for you. you.”

“OK!”

“If it’s okay, I hang up?”

“Boss, bye!”

“goodbye!”

After hanging up the phone, Guo Shouyun got up and walked to the hanger, took out his coat and put it on, pushed open the door and walked out.