Daguo Science and Technology started from the copycat system

However, Jobs on the other side ignored the hesitating Intel President Paul Odeline. He turned to look at Invida President Lao Huang on the other side and said:

"For your company's CUDA architecture, we, Pingguo, are willing to spend US$500 million to buy out the license in one go. I wonder what your company's opinion is?"

"$500 million!"

Hearing Jobs's words, Invida President Lao Huang couldn't help but feel a little moved.

Because the actual profit of the graphics card industry is not comparable to that of the processor industry, although the current average price of independent graphics cards exceeds that of CPU processors, the price of most independent graphics cards is more than twice the price of CPUs.

But in fact, the profit of this graphics card is not very high. After all, among other things, the number of transistors in a graphics card chip is usually several times that of a CPU chip.

Finally, the graphics card has accessory accessories such as a motherboard, flash memory, electronic components, fans, etc. In this case, the cost of the graphics card is naturally more expensive.

In the end, the average profit ratio of independent graphics cards is not as good as that of CPU processors. Therefore, although graphics cards are expensive, they are really not as profitable as CPUs!

At this time, Jobs was willing to give 500 million U.S. dollars, which was a considerable amount. This amount was actually equivalent to Invida's half-year net profit income.

So at this time, Invida President Lao Huang showed a somewhat moved expression, but after all, Invida President Lao Huang is an old man who has been in the business world for many years.

I saw that he quickly returned to his normal mood, and then pretended to be embarrassed and said:

“We naturally welcome your company’s desire to purchase a one-time buyout license for our CUDA architecture.

But it took us more than two years to develop the CUDA architecture, and it has been almost three years now.

It can be said that our company, Invida, has invested a lot of energy and efforts in the CUDA architecture, and the funds burned alone have reached more than one billion US dollars.

You want to buy the one-time buyout license for only US$500 million. This offer is really too low.

Well, let’s not talk about a one-time buyout of the license. How about purchasing a long-term license for the CDUA architecture for US$500 million? "

A one-time buyout license means that you don’t have to pay patent fees after purchasing it, while a long-term license means you have to pay patent fees for a long time.

Lao Huang naturally wants to do long-term business. After all, he does nothing while lying down. Who wouldn't be happy if he could make money every day by collecting royalties.

"No way, just a long-term license is not worth $500 million."

Jobs shook his head slightly and rejected the words of Invida President Huang, and did not want to spend money to buy the long-term license.

Because after you have the license to use the CUDA architecture, you can use the CUDA architecture openly, but the problem is that you have to continuously give away patent fees to Invida.

It can be said that the more profitable Pingguo's products will be in the future, the more patent fees Yinweida will collect. Naturally, Jobs does not want to accept this kind of thing.

So Jobs slowly spoke:

"We are willing to raise the price to US$600 million. This is our bottom line!"

"This is impossible!"

The president of Invida on the other side naturally refused, as if he was determined that Pingguo Company would purchase the one-time license for Invida's CUDA architecture and refused to let go.

So the next meeting fell into a quarrel. At this time, Pingguo President Jobs cooperated with Kuke to start a duel with Invida President Lao Huang.

On the side, Intel President Paul Oudening was caught in a tangle. As for why Intel President Paul Oudening was entangled.

The reason is that he knows that Pingguo Company's cash is limited, although Pingguo Company has gained a large amount of profits through the "Apple tax" levied on the iOS system.

But the problem is that there is an upper limit to this income. Previously, Pingguo Company spent US$5 billion to develop the third-generation Pingguo smartphone, and then spent US$600 million on the "Pingguo Design Award".

At this time, they wanted to buy Intel's X86-X instruction set and Invida's CUDA architecture. In this case, Pingguo Company actually had little money.

At this time, because Weida is asking for a higher price, it means that Pingguo Company has less money to spend to purchase the X86-X instruction set.

Seeing the quarrel between the two parties at this time, how could Intel President Paul Oudening not be entangled?

However, the meeting eventually broke up, and Pingguo Company and Invida Company broke off negotiations because they could not reach an agreement.

In the next few days, Pingguo Company conducted several separate negotiations with Intel and Invida, and finally on December 22, 2006, the eve of Christmas.

Pingguo Company was the first to reach cooperation with Intel. Pingguo Company successfully obtained Intel's one-time buyout authorization for the X86-X instruction set at a cost of US$2 billion.

In this regard, Invida on the other side also knew that Pingguo Company was probably running out of money after hearing the news, so they were a little more pragmatic.

Finally, in the afternoon of the same day, Pingguo and Invida reached a cooperation contract. Pingguo spent US$800 million to obtain the one-time buyout authorization of Invida's CUDA architecture!

In this regard, when the news was announced by Pingguo, the news naturally caused a super earthquake in the global technology circle. Countless media around the world were exclaiming that Pingguo Computer was about to rise.

At this time, Pingguo Company has obtained all the latest and most powerful core technologies in the computer CPU processor industry and graphics card industry, and it is also a one-time buyout of the authorization.

And the total amount spent is as high as 2.8 billion US dollars. This shows that Pingguo Company really attaches great importance to the computer industry this time, and its emphasis is not much worse than that of the mobile phone industry.

Under such circumstances, how can the global media not exclaim that Pingguo Computer is about to rise? The future era will be a situation where multiple technology giants will compete for supremacy.

"This time we have obtained the X86-X instruction set and CUDA architecture. Next, our plan to develop the M1 chip can be launched."

In a commercial building in Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Pingguo, was speaking with excitement in his eyes.

He spent a few days and finally succeeded in obtaining a one-time exclusive buyout license for the two core technologies, X86-X instruction set and CUDA architecture, which are related to the rise of Pingguo Computer.

Under this circumstance, the long-planned Pingguo M1 chip can finally be launched, which makes Steve Jobs a little excited.

In this regard, Pingguo CEO Ku Ke on the other side also smiled and said:

“Haha, at this time, Invida President Lao Huang and Intel President Paul Odeline probably don’t know what it means for them to sell us the X86-X instruction set and CUDA architecture.

I'm very curious about their expressions when they know what kind of terrifying miracles the X86-X instruction set combined with the CUDA architecture will produce! "

Having said this, Ku Ke's face looked excited at this moment, an expression of eagerness to try. (End of chapter)