Silicon Valley
Chapter 249
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Some stories of he Fengshan will be added to Schindler''s list. This is Henry''s special purpose to win the favor of the Chinese government. Therefore, Henry thinks that it seems better to invest in his personal capacity!
Henry imagined that at the end of the movie, he would make a five minute egg to tell the story that Schindler''s list of rescued Jews met other Jews. Then he learned from his mouth that a Chinese named he Fengshan in Vienna had also saved countless Jews like Schindler
Like a micro movie, this egg has a movie name called "life visa" and a plot!
Henry told Spielberg the idea, and when he heard it, he immediately agreed, "Mr. Williams, this is a great idea!"
"Mr. Williams, would you mind mentioning your name when the eggs appear? Oh, you know, you think of the whole story of he Fengshan. You should be the writer of this story! "
I can''t wait for it!!!
Henry laughed. "Oh, I''d love to, director Spielberg!"
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Sharp tools make good work.
If Henry wants to build the strongest special effects company, computers are indispensable. The computer used to make movie special effects is different from ordinary computer. Correctly speaking, it should be called graphic workstation! At present, Pixar studio, industrial light magic and Galaxy special effects are using graphics workstation, and SGI''s graphics workstation is used.
"Toy Story", "Jurassic Park" and so on are all produced on the graphics workstation of SGI company!
In a previous life, when James Cameron wanted to shoot Titanic, he let his special effects company, digital domain company, spend a year and a half, use more than 300 SGI super workstations, and send more than 50 special technicians to make the film 24 hours a day. Finally, he succeeded in producing the most shocking film effect!
Speaking of SGI, it''s awesome. Although it''s not as famous as IBM and HP, its products and technologies are irreplaceable in the field of graphics and high performance computing!
SGI company''s full name is Silicon Graphics. Founded in 1982, SGI company is an important provider of high performance computing systems, complex data management and visualization products in the industry. It provides visualization workstations with super computing power! Before Henry''s crossing, SGI was the best in the field of supercomputing, far away from other competitors. SGI occupied more than half of the market share of the world''s 500 largest supercomputers!!!
SGI company is now acquiring the famous RISC chip processor design company MIPS company!
In fact, MIPs architecture was born several years earlier than arm. At first, the gap between MIPS and arm was not big. Even if Henry didn''t join arm, the former occupied about 30% of RISC architecture microprocessor market; However, in the later development process, especially in the mobile field, MIPs began to fall behind gradually. Due to technical limitations, MIPs could not meet the needs of the public on mobile devices, and the academic development style also made the business process of MIPs far behind arm. Therefore, MIPs was soon defeated by arm! Nevertheless, MIPs is the most likely company to break arm''s monopoly in RISC architecture in the future!
MIPS company has many patents on RISC instruction set. If Henry can acquire it and merge with arm company, he can basically monopolize the RISC architecture market!!!
The Noah''s ark company of Williams electronics develops servers. However, under normal circumstances, servers can actually be workstations and supercomputers. SGI silicon graphics company can just enrich the strength of Noah''s Ark!!!
Therefore, if Williams electronics company acquired SGI silicon diagram company and MIPS company, it would be like a tiger adding wings!
At present, the CEO of Williams electronics company is Harrison, the former CEO of Silicon Valley electronics group. After the reorganization of the company, his rights have been improved. Even Cisco, noah ark, Qualcomm and arm are subsidiaries of Williams electronics company!
Henry immediately informed Harrison to purchase SGI company and MIPS company!
After receiving the order, Harrison did not dare to delay and immediately organized personnel to make a formal acquisition request for SGI company and MIPS company!
At the moment, SGI company is having a good negotiation with MIPS company and wants to annex MIPS company. However, I didn''t think Williams electronics would make an acquisition request to itself at this time. This is the food chain rule that big fish eat with smile and small fish eat with shrimps!
SGI company was listed as early as 1986, and its current market value is about 1.8 billion US dollars!
MIPS company''s market value is much less, two or three million dollars can be acquired!
As soon as the news came that Williams Electronics was going to buy SGI company, the share price of SGI company immediately rose! Obviously, SGI company has value to be acquired!
In fact, the competition in the field of workstations is extremely fierce. There are IBM, Dec, HP, sun and other large companies. At present, SGI only wins by graphic workstations. Computer drawing, animation and special effects occupy the largest market, while other aspects are not competitive enough!
Unlike SGI, Williams is rich and powerful. SGI and MIPS have been negotiating for a long time, and they are only willing to buy it with us $15 million. However, MIPs wants us $20 million, and it is in a stalemate for a while, while Williams comes to the door and directly offers us $20 million. MIPS immediately kneels down!
The next day the agreement was signed and a press conference was held to announce the matter.
After Williams electronics acquired MIPS company, it directly merged MIPS company into arm company. However, arm company has set up arm framework department and MIPS framework department! The main research and development aspect of arm framework department is embedded, and MIPS architecture is for the composition of various workstations and computer systems, which just fills the short board of arm company in the early development!
Compared with CISC CPU, RISC CPU simplifies the instruction system. Under the same frequency, the performance of RISC CPU is much higher than that of CISC CPU. This RISC server is expensive, closed system, but good stability, strong performance, mainly used in finance, telecommunications and other large enterprises in the core system! Henry build a huge data center, is using this RISC server!!!
SGI silicon diagram company was depressed, and its acquisition object was cut off! However, in the face of the massive Williams electronics, SGI silicon diagram can only show very helpless! At this time, many shareholders in the company agreed to sell the company to Williams electronics!
The first reason is that Williams Electronics Co., Ltd. has invested 1.5 billion US dollars to acquire 70% of the shares of SGI silicon diagram company at a premium. The second reason is that Williams group is the largest customer of SGI silicon diagram company, and the order amount accounts for more than 40%!
Williams Electronics'' acquisition of SGI silicon company is equivalent to Williams group''s acquisition of SGI silicon company. In case of offending customers, SGI silicon company will be finished. Zi''s biggest customer will definitely go to his competitors!