The Science Fiction World of Xueba

Pang Xuelin's fooling around completely stunned Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo.

Next, it became extremely easy to convince the two to change the name of Jerry World Wide Web Guide to Yahoo, and to operate as a company.

Soon, the three reached an agreement.

Pang Xuelin invested 5 million US dollars to establish Yahoo, accounting for 90% of the shares. Yang Zhiyuan and Filo invested in technology and management, each accounting for 5%.

According to Pang Xuelin's estimation, in the next few years, Yahoo will be in the stage of burning money, but for him, burning hundreds of millions of dollars and then creating a super Internet company with a market value of more than 120 billion dollars is simply a profitable business .

Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo were also overjoyed. It was their hobby to create a Jerry World Wide Web guide, but under Pang Xuelin's tricks, it has become their lifelong career.

Corporate operation, registered company, recruited employees, made large-scale revisions to the homepage of the website, developed Yahoo Mail, and introduced some management concepts of later Internet companies.

During this process, Pang Xuelin did not directly intervene in the operation of the company, but put forward guiding opinions in some key links.

How to do it will have to be operated by Yang Zhiyuan and Fei Luo.

Three months passed in a flash.

With the advent of the World Cup, the entire United States has fallen into an unprecedented football boom.

The direction of the World Cup is also the same as in history.

Saudi Arabia, representing Asia, miraculously broke into the top 16, and Bulgaria, from Eastern Europe, defeated Argentina and Germany one after another to break into the top four.

Sweden stumbled all the way, and finally competed with Bulgaria for the third place without encountering a strong enemy, and won the battle.

Pang Xuelin invested a total of 60 million U.S. dollars in gambling through anonymous means and Huang Zaixing's some gambling channels, and finally made a profit of more than 600 million U.S. dollars.

The only person who knew the inside story was Huang Zaixing who helped Pang Xuelin to disperse the betting.

For Pang Xuelin's miraculous predictive ability, Huang Zaixing felt Pang Xuelin's unfathomable depth again, and he was a little more in awe of Pang Xuelin.

July 18, 1994

The day after watching the final match between Brazil and Italy in Los Angeles, Pang Xuelin boarded a plane to Xiangjiang.

At eight o'clock in the morning, after more than ten hours of long journey, Pang Xuelin came out from the passenger exit of Qi Tak International Airport a little tiredly, and saw Huang Zaixing, Liu Qi and his son leading a dozen black suits respectfully at the international airport. Wait at the passenger exit.

But what really surprised Pang Xuelin was the people around Huang Zaixing.

Mu Qingqing, who was wearing a decent black and white dress and exquisite makeup, changed into a Tang suit, and the three uncles and three aunts who looked a little stiff, as well as Shuiwa, who looked like a pair of lovers with Feng Wanying, were all present at the scene.

"Brother Shuiwa, Third Uncle, Third Aunt, why are you all here?"

Pang Xuelin was a little surprised.

In the past few months in the United States, although he has been in contact with China, but not frequently.

It's just that when we talked on the phone two days ago, the third uncle and the third aunt were still in Lancheng, why did they suddenly come to Xiangjiang after a few days?

Mu Qingqing on the side smiled and said, "Brother Pang Da, isn't it just the summer vacation? The third uncle and the third aunt haven't seen you for a long time, so I came to Xiangjiang to have a look, and I just happened to come over to play."

Pang Xuelin glared at her, of course he could see that the arrival of the third uncle and the others was due to Mu Qingqing's instigating behind the scenes.

At this time, Huang Zaixing stepped forward and said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, I invited your third uncle and aunt to Xiangjiang. When you come back from the United States, the whole family can get together and have fun in Xiangjiang."

"All right!"

Pang Xuelin was a little helpless.

Of course he could see that Huang Zaixing was covering for Mu Qingqing.

But he didn't intend to pursue Mu Qingqing in the first place, so he naturally went downhill.

Everyone chatted for a while at the passenger exit, and then went directly to the parking lot.

Hutou Ben, escorting three Rolls-Royce Silver Spirits, drove straight to the center of Xiangjiang.

Pang Xuelin was in Huang Zaixing's car, Mu Qingqing was in the same car with his third uncle and third aunt, and Liu Qi was naturally in the same car with Shui Wa and Feng Wanying.

After getting into the car, Pang Xuelin asked Huang Zaixing directly: "Old Huang, have all the money for winning the World Cup already arrived?"

Huang Zaixing said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, we are all here, do you want me to transfer to your private account?"

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment, then said: "Not for now, don't you still hold a British passport? You want to go to the UK in a few days and find a way to acquire a company called ARM."

"ARM company?"

Huang Zaixing was slightly taken aback.

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "Don't ask for the specific reason, in short, you can handle this matter well!"

"good!"

Huang Zaixing no longer hesitated, and nodded directly.

Pang Xuelin's acquisition of ARM is naturally for the ARM instruction set in his hands.

In the era of mobile Internet, ARM is well-known.

The entire smartphone camp, whether it is Apple, Samsung or Warwick, cannot do without the authorization of ARM for their processor architecture.

But in this day and age, ARM is an unremarkable little company.

The so-called ARM refers to the ARM instruction set.

The ARM instruction set is a reduced instruction set.

For a long time, computer performance has been improved by increasing the complexity of hardware.

With the rapid development of integrated circuit technology, especially VLSI (Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit) technology, in order to facilitate software programming and improve the running speed of the program, the method adopted by hardware engineers is to continuously increase the instructions that can realize complex functions and a variety of flexible programming methods. address mode.

Even some instructions can support complex operations categorized by high-level language statements.

To make the hardware more and more complex, the cost is also increased accordingly.

In order to realize complex operations, in addition to providing programmers with functions similar to various registers and machine instructions, the microprocessor also realizes its extremely powerful functions through the microprograms stored in the read-only memory (ROM). After each instruction, a series of primary instruction operations are executed to complete the required functions. This type of design is called a complex instruction set computer (plex Instruputer-CISC) structure. Generally, the number of instructions contained in a CISC computer is at least 300, and some even exceed 500.

The X86 instruction set headed by Intel is the masterpiece of complex instruction sets. The combination of X86 and Microsoft's WINDOWS has occupied the main market of personal computers.

Of course, a computer using a complex instruction system has a strong ability to process high-level languages, which is beneficial to improving the performance of the computer.

When the design of computers developed along this road, some people did not follow the trend. They looked back at the road they had traveled in the past and began to doubt this traditional approach: IBM did not organize its research center in New York in 1975. The rationality of the power research command system.

Because at that time, it was felt that the increasingly complex instruction system was not only difficult to implement, but also may reduce system performance.

In 1979, a group of scientists headed by Professor Patterson also began to carry out this research at the University of California, Berkeley.

It turns out that complex instruction sets have many disadvantages.

First of all, in this kind of computer, the usage rate of various instructions varies greatly: 80% of the instructions used in the operation process of a typical program account for only 20% of the instruction system of a processor.

In fact the most frequently used instructions are the simplest instructions fetch, store and add.

In this way, long-term commitment to the design of complex instruction systems is actually designing a processor with an instruction system that is rarely used in practice.

At the same time, the complex instruction system will inevitably bring about the complexity of the structure.

This not only increases the design time and cost, but also easily leads to design errors.

In addition, although VLSI technology has reached a very high level, it is difficult to make all the hardware of the complex instruction set on one chip, which also hinders the development of single-chip computers.

In the complex instruction set, many complex instructions require extremely complicated operations. Most of these instructions are direct replicas of some high-level language, so they have poor versatility.

It also slows down frequently invoked simple instruction sets due to the two-level microcode implementation.

Therefore, in response to these disadvantages of complex instruction sets, Patterson et al. proposed the idea of ​​streamlining instructions.

That is, the instruction system should only contain a small number of instructions that are frequently used, and provide some necessary instructions to support the operating system and high-level language.

The computer developed according to this principle is called the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (Reductruputer-RISC) structure, or RISC for short.

The reduced instruction set did not blossom in the early days of the Internet. The existence of the Wintel Alliance directly suppressed the development of reduced instruction set technology.

This can be seen from the development history of ARM company.

In 1991, ARM was established in Cambridge, England, mainly selling licenses of chip design technology. Microprocessors using ARM technology intellectual property (IP core), in the 1990s, the shipments of processors stagnated.

After entering the 21st century, due to the rapid development of the mobile phone manufacturing industry, shipments have shown explosive growth, and the reduced instruction set processor has quickly won the favor of mobile phone manufacturers by virtue of its low power consumption.

ARM processors dominate the global mobile phone market. In 2006, the global shipment of ARM chips was 2 billion pieces, and in 2010, the shipment of ARM partners reached 6 billion.

The reason why Pang Xuelin decided to acquire ARM is to prepare for the future mobile phone market on the one hand, and on the other hand, if he is going to make his own chips, he can master such an instruction set and architecture with unlimited potential, whether it is to learn from ARM in the future and use the ARM instruction set Open authorization, or directly closed and developed by yourself, there are all benefits and no harm.

Pang Xuelin and Huang Zaixing talked about the general situation of ARM Company, and before they knew it, the car drove up the mountain along the middle ring of Xiangjiang Island.

Pang Xuelin was slightly taken aback, and asked doubtfully, "Old Huang, where are we going?"

Huang Zaixing said with a smile: "Mr. Pang, I made a lot of money following you in this World Cup, so I made a good idea and bought you a villa in the middle of the mountain and registered it under your name. Your third uncle The third aunt came here this time, and I directly arranged them here. The Filipino maids working in this villa were also carefully selected by me, and I also recruited several top bodyguards from the security company to be in charge of their work in Xiangjiang. The journey during the period is safe."

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "I have a heart!"

For Huang Zaixing's overtures, he was not surprised.

He himself earned 600 million US dollars in this World Cup, and Huang Zaixing estimated that he made at least 100 million US dollars.

For Huang Zaixing, spending tens of millions of dollars to buy the price of a luxury house in the middle of the mountain to please Pang Xuelin, it is naturally a very affordable thing.

The convoy went all the way up the winding mountain road, and finally stopped at the entrance of a mansion near the top of Victoria Peak.

When everyone got out of the car, there was already a Filipino maid actively waiting at the door, and opened the door to let everyone in.

The villa has three floors, plus two basements. There is a swimming pool in the yard, and a large terrace on the roof, overlooking the beautiful scenery of Xiangjiang Central and Victoria Bay.

It was almost noon when everyone arrived.

The Filipino maids have prepared a delicious lunch.

After lunch, Pang Xuelin called Liu Qi into the study and asked about the sales of Xinghuan CVD.

As soon as Xinghuan CVD was mentioned, Liu Qi immediately became elated.

"Brother Pang, in the past six months, our CVD business has been selling like crazy. From last year to now, Xiangjiang has shipped nearly 300,000 units. In addition, my brother under my old bean is selling those pirated CDs everywhere. Now almost every household in Hong Kong has our products. As for the mainland, that is even more exaggerated, do you know how many units we have shipped every month now?"

"how many?"

Pang Xuelin asked curiously.

Liu Qi stretched out a finger and said: "One hundred thousand units! And it is still growing slowly. I guess by the end of this year, there will be no problem at all. And the disc piracy market in mainland China has also risen. I guess we The sales volume of CVD products is still on the rise!"

Pang Xuelin couldn't help being a little surprised.

With 5,000 sets of Star Ring CVD, and a monthly sales of 100,000 sets, wouldn't the monthly sales be able to exceed 500 million?

There are so many rich people in the Mainland?

Pang Xuelin felt that he might have underestimated the purchasing power of the mainland.

Compared with Wanyan's sales volume of 20,000 units a year when it was first established in history, the annual sales volume of Transwarp Technology has directly increased by 50 times.

But this is also understandable.

On the one hand, CCTV advertisements and media hype made Xinghuan CVD quickly become a household name in the entire mainland market.

On the other hand, with the rise of the pirated disc industry, CVD buyers will soon be able to buy pirated discs of various film and television works at extremely low prices.

Considering that LD laser disc players with a price of 7,000 to 8,000 yuan can sell hundreds of thousands of units every year in the mainland market, and the annual sales of Transhorn CVD breaks one million, it seems not so surprising.

"Oh, by the way, Brother Pang, CCTV sent us an invitation letter some time ago, inviting us to participate in the CCTV advertising bidding conference in October. For next year's CCTV advertising, how much do you think is more appropriate?"

Pang Xuelin thought for a while and said, "One hundred and twenty million, just don't exceed this price."

Liu Qi was slightly taken aback: "Is this tall?!"

Pang Xuelin said with a smile: "This year's price of 50 million won so many golden advertising spaces, we have already taken advantage of it. It is impossible for other companies not to see the advertising effect of CCTV. There will definitely be those who spend money at all costs. Advertisement It is not necessarily safe to double the fee, so if we directly bid at such a price, I guess it will be possible to succeed."

You know, in the history of 1994, the advertising fee of CCTV's "Best King" was only more than 50 million yuan. Now that it has been directly turned over so much, Pang Xuelin can't believe it.