Silicon Valley

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"Schindler's List" will add some stories of He Fengshan. This is Henry's purpose to win the favor of the Chinese government. Therefore, Henry thinks about it and thinks that investing in his personal capacity seems to be more effective!

Henry imagined that at the end of the film, a five-minute easter egg would tell that the rescued Jews on Schindler's list met other Jews, and then learned from his mouth that there was a Chinese named He Fengshan in Vienna who was like Schindler. Saved countless Jews...

This Easter egg is just like a micro-movie, with a movie title 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, do you mind mentioning your name when the easter egg appears? Oh, you know, the entire He Fengshan story is yours, and you should be the screenwriter of this story!"

I can't ask for it! ! !

Henry laughed in his heart, "Oh, I'd love to, Director Spielberg!"

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If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.

Henry wants to build the strongest special effects company in movies, and naturally, computers are indispensable. The computer used for special effects in movies is different from ordinary computers. To be correct, it should be called a graphics workstation! Currently, Pixar Studios as well as ILM and Galactic Effects are using graphics workstations, and they are using SGI's graphics workstations.

Toy Story, Jurassic Park, and more are made on SGI's graphics workstations!

In his previous life, when James Cameron wanted to shoot "Titanic", he let his special effects company Digital-Domain Company spend a year and a half, using more than 300 SGI super workstations, and sending more than 50 A stuntman rotates 24 hours a day to produce the most shocking film effect in the end!

Speaking of SGI, it is awesome. Although it is not as famous as IBM and HP, its products and technologies have an irreplaceable position in the field of graphics and high-performance computing!

SGI's full name is Silicon-Graphics US Silicon Graphics. Founded in 1982, it is an important provider of high-performance computing systems, complex data management and visualization products in the industry. It provides visualization workstations with supercomputing capabilities! Before Henry crossed. SGI company is even more outstanding in the field of supercomputing, far away from other competitors, the world's 500 largest supercomputers, SGI occupies more than half of the market share! ! !

SGI is now acquiring MIPS, a famous RISC chip processor design company!

Actually. The birth of the MIPS architecture was a few years earlier than that of ARM. At first, the gap between MIPS and ARM was not large. Even if Henry did not join ARM, the former also occupied about 30% of the RISC architecture microprocessor market; it was only in the later development. In the process, especially in the mobile field, MIPS began to gradually fall behind. Technical limitations prevent it from meeting popular demand on mobile devices. Moreover, the academic development style also makes the business process of MIPS far behind ARM. Therefore, MIPS was quickly defeated by ARM! However, despite this, MIPS is a company that is most likely to break ARM's monopoly in the future on the RISC architecture!

MIPS has a lot of patents on the RISC instruction set. If Henry can acquire it and merge with ARM, it can basically be said to monopolize the RISC architecture market, and it is impregnable! ! !

And Noah's Ark, a subsidiary of Williams Electronics, develops servers. However, under normal circumstances, a server can actually be a workstation and a supercomputer. SGI Silicon Graphics can just enrich the strength of Noah's Ark! ! !

Therefore, if Williams Electronics acquired SGI Silicon Graphics and MIPS, it would be even more powerful!

At present, the CEO of Williams Electronics is Harrison, the former CEO of Silicon Valley Electronics Group, after the company was reorganized. His rights have been improved, and even Cisco, Noah's Ark, Qualcomm, and ARM are subsidiaries of Williams Electronics!

Henry immediately notified Harrison of the acquisition of SGI and MIPS!

After Harrison received the order, he did not dare to delay, and immediately organized personnel to make a formal acquisition request for SGI and MIPS!

SGI is currently negotiating with MIPS and wants to annex MIPS. However, I never thought that Williams Electronics would make an acquisition request to itself at this time. This is really a big fish laughing, the food chain law of small fish eating shrimp!

SGI went public as early as 1986, and its current market value is around $1.8 billion!

The market value of MIPS is much less, and it can be acquired for 20 to 30 million US dollars!

As soon as the news of Williams Electronics' acquisition of SGI came, SGI's stock price rose immediately! Obviously, SGI will be acquired only if it has value!

In fact, the competition in the workstation field is extremely fierce, with large companies such as IBM, DEC, HP, SUN, etc. SGI currently only wins with graphics workstations, and has the largest market in computer graphics and animation and film special effects, while other aspects are not competitive enough!

Unlike SGI, Williams Electronics has deep pockets. SGI negotiated with MIPS for a long time and was only willing to buy it for $15 million, but MIPS wanted $20 million and was stuck there for a while, and Williams The electronics company came to the door and directly offered 20 million US dollars, and the MIPS company immediately knelt down!

The agreement was signed the next day, and a press conference was held to announce the matter.

After Williams Electronics acquired MIPS, it directly merged MIPS into ARM. However, ARM has established ARM framework department and MIPS framework department! The main research and development aspect of the ARM framework department is embedded, and the MIPS architecture is aimed at forming various workstations and computer systems, which just fills the short board of ARM in the early stage of development!

Compared with the CISC-type CPU, the RISC-type CPU simplifies the instruction system. Under the same frequency, the performance of the RISC-based CPU is much higher than that of the CISC-based CPU. This kind of RISC server is expensive and the system is closed, but it has good stability and strong performance. It is mainly used in the core systems of large enterprises such as finance and telecommunications! Henry is building a huge data center and is using this RISC server! ! !

SGI Silicon Graphics was depressed, and its acquisition target was actually cut off! However, in the face of the behemoth Williams Electronics, the SGI silicon map can only express helplessness! At this time, many shareholders within the company agreed to sell the company to Williams Electronics!

One is that Williams Electronics invested US$1.5 billion to acquire 70% of SGI Silicon Graphics at a premium, and the other is that Williams Group is the largest customer of SGI Silicon Graphics, with orders accounting for more than 40%!

Williams Electronics' acquisition of SGI Silicon Graphics is equivalent to Williams Group's acquisition of SGI Silicon Graphics. If it offends customers, SGI Silicon Graphics will be over, and Zi's largest customer will definitely turn to its competitors!

(To be continued ~^~)