Chapter 308

After handling the matter in Germany, baozixuan went directly to Britain. This time, he has a reason to go. With the rapid development of computers and the continuous acceleration of chip development, tundish Zixuan has provided a lot of help, but heiyun only occupies a small share now; And this share is still low-end chips such as memory, which can be said to have made no achievements in CPU.

Now black cloud uses Motorola and Intel chips, and its chip design ability is very weak. Not only did not want to expand development, but also there was no top engineer in this field.

The purpose of baozixuan's coming to the UK this time is to persuade a newly established chip company in the UK to accept its own investment and let him hold it.

On December 5, 1978, physicist Herman Hauser and engineer Chris curry founded CPU company in Cambridge, England, whose main business is to supply electronic equipment for the local market. In 1979, the CPU company was renamed acorn company.

At first, acorn planned to use Motorola's 16 bit chip, but found it too slow and expensive“ A 500 pound machine can't use a 100 pound CPU“ They turned to Intel to ask for the design information of 80286 chip, but they were refused, so they were forced to develop it by themselves.

In 1985, Roger Wilson and Steve Furber designed their own first generation of 32-bit, 6mhz processors,

It is used to make a RISC instruction set computer, referred to as arm (acorn rismachine). This is the origin of the name arm.

RISC's full name is "reduced instruction set computer". It supports relatively simple instructions, so it has low power consumption and low price. It is especially suitable for mobile devices. The early typical device using ARM chip was Newton PDA of apple.

In the late 1980s, arm quickly developed into acorn's desktop products, forming the basis of computer education in Britain.

On November 27, 1990, acorn company was officially reorganized into arm computer company. Apple invested £ 1.5 million, chip manufacturer VLSI invested £ 250000, and acorn itself invested £ 1.5 million in intellectual property rights and 12 engineers. The office of the company is very simple, just a barn.

In the 1990s, arm32-bit embedded RISC (reduced construction set computer) processor expanded to the world, occupying a leading position in the application field of embedded systems with low power consumption, low cost and high performance. Arm neither produces nor sells chips. It only sells chip technology licenses.

At present, the company is still in the start-up stage. Baozixuan just wants to start in advance when others don't pay attention to him. And not in the name of black clouds, but in their own private name. Although the effects are the same, so that the black cloud is not particularly large. Although it is already large, it can be reduced by a corresponding part!

When Bao Zixuan came to Cambridge, he saw the two founders of acorn company. Herman Hauser and Chris curry also wondered how the black cloud group could find them. After all, this is the hottest enterprise in recent years. And they are still a small company that can't be any smaller. The strength of the two enterprises is completely unequal.

Now I see baozixuan, the founder of black cloud, coming in person, which makes them more confused. After all, not everyone can let the young boss come forward in person. At least they think they can't reach their own strength.

Herman Hauser said excitedly, "I don't know what you're looking for, Mr. Bao."

If baozixuan is just an entrepreneur and doesn't get such high respect, he also has an identity as a Turing Award winner. As long as they are engaged in the computer industry, they are not excited because they do not know the importance of this award.

Bao Zixuan: "it seems that Mr. Hauser is an acute child, so I won't beat around the bush. I want to take a stake in acorn company. I recognize your strength. I am very optimistic about the future of this company. "

Herman Hauser: "but we are developing very well now, and if Mr. Bao takes a stake in the company, it can be said that we basically won't have much shares."

Bao Zixuan: "what do you think of this problem? After I take a stake, you will get unimaginable resources. And now the market value of the company is £ 1 million, which may reach £ 10 million according to your own development. But after I join in, the market value of the company will reach 100 million pounds and 1 billion pounds. Although your shares are less, the value of your shares has increased. Also, I just make investment and won't participate in company management. The management of the company is still up to you. You can develop according to your own ideas. "

Chris curry said, "I don't know how much Mr. Bao valued acorn and how many shares he hopes to get."

Bao Zixuan: "you decide the market value of acorn company. I don't like investment companies. Like investors more often. Only in this way can we be invincible. Companies can be established at any time, but talents can only be cultivated in ten years, decades or even hundreds of years. I want to take a long-term view. My interest in acorn comes from two people who are still in this company. "

Hearing that baozixuan valued them so much, both of them were very happy. In fact, when they first set up the company, they were more interested, but now they have developed to this stage. If they can't make profits, their lives will be affected.

They have invested quite a lot of savings for the company and also borrowed money from the bank. Now I hear that baozixuan is willing to invest in their company. Chris curry, an engineer, can say that the current situation is quite difficult. This is why he is so excited. I hope baozixuan will come to invest and ask how much the company is worth first.

Herman Hauser: "before, several investment institutions wanted to take shares in our company, but they all looked at the market value of the company relatively low. And there was some conflict with our philosophy in terms of operation, so we didn't talk about it. "

"Now Mr. Bao can give up the management right. Of course, we are more interested, but we hope that the valuation of the enterprise is £ 5 million."

Hearing what Jorge Hauser said, baozixuan wanted to laugh. It was not until 90 years in his previous life that the company could be worth so much money. It depends on whether he is young or stupid. How easy it is to bully him. I can't believe it's such a high price. But at the same time, he also understands that this price is really not expensive in the future. In the future, this enterprise will be the only chip giant that can compete with Intel in the United States.

Bao Zixuan: "I don't want this money, but don't you think it's too expensive! And can you guarantee that my investment is worth it? "

Jorge Hauser: "it seems that the enterprises and industries that Mr. Bao is optimistic about have never been missed. This is our confidence. And if I reveal the news that you came to negotiate with us, I think many venture capital companies will recognize this price. "

Indeed, the current trend of baozixuan has become a benchmark in some industries. This is all due to his great fame. Now he sees that they have no fear. He knows that coming to negotiate will really backfire.

We should listen to the opinions of professionals in the future, and we can't go our own way in this way. So he smiled and said, "you're not afraid that I'll set up a company next to you. I don't have technology, but I don't have time and energy to take care of these things."

Jorge Hauser: "you do have technology and strength. However, your time and energy will not be wasted on a small company, and you will not lose your investment in us. "

Bao Zixuan: "OK! According to your valuation, there is really no need to haggle over this money. "

Finally, baozixuan invested £ 3.5 million to occupy 70% of acorn's shares. The rest depends on how the founder, shareholders and other staff distribute it.

However, baozixuan knows that it still needs to develop slowly and can't be too hasty. Now just build the chip framework agreement. As for mass production, let's leave it to the future!