Chapter 1404: Don’t put the cart before the horse
What will happen the other way around?
If Samsung authorizes its EDA and ASIC software to be used by Clover, Clover's design capabilities and technical capabilities will be greatly improved, and it will be able to use both software to complete tape-out in a few months. Transformation.
The disadvantage is that you will use your own abilities to cultivate a future competitor for yourself.
But the benefits are immediate, that is, they can join forces to explode production capacity, quickly seize the global share of high-end DRAM, and attack competitors in Europe, the United States and island countries.
Another big benefit is that China's future DRAM chips will undoubtedly have a strong "Samsung style" attached to them, allowing Samsung's IP cores to be added to China's production capacity to reap a large amount of copyright fees.
Until...the day when China's domestic DRAM grows strong enough to perfectly bypass Samsung's IP core.
In the final analysis, for Samsung, this is a trade-off between short-term interests and long-term interests. Those who can sit here are industry elites, and everyone immediately started talking about it.
Quan Wuxuan raised his hand to signal the people behind him to be quiet, and smiled at Zhou Zhi: "Mr. Zhou seems to be very confident in the abilities of his team."
" President Quan laughed. "Zhou Zhi said modestly: "In fact, we have always had domestic chip research and development capabilities. The only difference is the lack of application tools and software and talents. "
"We should also thank Microsoft for providing a lot of help in cooperating with us on audio decoding chips, which has greatly improved our company's capabilities in this area."
"As we all know, our Clover already has Ability to develop the MiniCos universal platform, as well as VC, object-oriented software development tools based on the C language core. "
"Based on these basic capabilities, although Samsung's EDA and ASIC software are self-developed, we still develop them. Be confident that you can use it. ”
Kwon Wu-hyun and Shen Zongjun glanced at each other. Shen Zongjun, who had not spoken before, said: "We admire your company's self-research capabilities. Regarding the MiniCos general platform, especially the internal instruction set, we also Very interested. ”< br>
“Since everyone is sincerely cooperating, can we expand the scope of cooperation a little more? We open the license of Samsung EDA and ASIC to you, and we also hope that you can exchange it with us for the license of MiniCos.”
"Shen Lianlian's proposal is what we want in terms of direction." Zhou Zhi smiled: "But in terms of exchange of interests, the two sides are too unequal."
"What we want is The right to use EDA and ASIC, just like we have with Like Microsoft purchasing enterprise OFFICE software, it only needs a software package and a serial number, and the cost is only a few thousand yuan.”
“If you have the same requirements for MiniCos, we can also provide an installation package. I will give you the serial number and hardware dongle to ensure equal usage rights with EDA and ASIC." Zhou Zhi smiled sincerely: "But is this what Shen Lianhe meant?"
Of course. No, Shin Jongjun is the head of Samsung’s mobile business. Of course, he saw the potential of MiniCos as an operating system for mobile devices. What he needed was not just a right to use it, and the simplest master control chip similar to that used in WinClover, but in-depth and long-lasting support for complex applications. R&D capabilities.
This is indeed the future of mobile devices, but no mobile device manufacturer can be sure of this future. Because Zhou Zhi has an insight into the future, the purpose of developing a universal platform is actually to prepare in advance for new tracks in the future.
Today’s mobile phones are really mobile phones. In the eyes of most mobile device manufacturers, calling is the main thing. They can at most be equipped with some multimedia functions, such as listening to MP3 or even FM radio. That's enough.
The future smartphone is actually an ultra-small computer equipped with a call function, and the call function is actually insignificant in the entire mobile phone application.
This is like the industrial control system developed by Jinan Group - Xihe.
Future CNC technology will bring earth-shaking changes to the machine tool manufacturing industry. It is also a new track. If you enter it in time, you can gain a first-mover advantage in the competition.
Even if we compete with Siemens, ABB, Schneider, Mitsubishi, Omron, we will still lose in other places, but in terms of program control software, everyone starts together, and can even become the first mover. In the future, software can even be used to make up for some hardware. In order to overcome the shortcomings, we will gain opportunities to complement and cooperate with large manufacturers.
This is by no means a fantasy, but a completely achievable reality. Although the CNC machine tools in later generations in China were poor and lagging behind in all aspects, it only took ten years to catch up with the world level. Although it is not comprehensively advanced, it is by no means completely backward. In some fields, it is even leading the world.
If you don’t even dare to think about it, then you are still doing nothing. A small technician dares to develop anti-theft door locks. How can he be so timid when he has the research and development capabilities? Being a comprador is not Cousin Enron's style.
Similarly, it is not a thoughtful style. Although he is actively looking for cooperation opportunities, he should not be too willing to bargain too much. For Zhou Zhi, who already has some bargaining chips, there is no need to consider unequal exchanges.
Everyone must show real sincerity in order to work together.
Shen Zongjun can vaguely see the role of the MiniCos universal operating platform, but Shen Zongjun did not travel through time, so he cannot be absolutely sure.
And judging from the fact that in the last generation of Samsung Mobile, six or seven systems were haphazardly developed and none of them were useful, Shen Zongjun's acumen in this direction is quite average.
Sure enough, Shen Zongjun smiled and said: "We are only interested in the multi-interface protocol matching and compatibility of MiniCos, not to the extent that it is necessary. But if we only consider the importance, we are already quite mature. Self-developed EDA and ASIC tape-out technology is not just invested in MiniCos for primary applications are comparable. If Mr. Zhou is not even willing to make this exchange, we may have to doubt your sincerity in cooperation.”
“In this case, it means that our MiniCos is not that good. "Since Shen Lianlian is so important, what's the need for exchange?" Zhou said. He will definitely not let go: "When it comes to exchange, we have used the bright future of Samsung DRAM in exchange, that is, joint investment to achieve the absolute cost-effectiveness brought by the full domestic production of DRAM! And the huge global market advantage!"
“What is the pursuit of a manufacturing company? No Is this it? Whether it’s technology investment, capital investment, human investment, management investment, or market investment, isn’t the ultimate goal for this?” Zhou Zhi smiled and said, “This is our greatest sincerity, and the rest is nothing. Compared with this sincerity, it is nothing but trivial matters.”
"If you ignore this most basic point and worry about the gains and losses in other aspects, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?"
(End of Chapter)