Blooming America

"what did you say?"

　　 Olsen was pleasantly surprised to listen to the voice on the phone, and then he drew his ears to make sure he heard it correctly.

"Intel is willing to inject 10 million US dollars...At the same time, they have acquired 65% of our company's shares in ARD. I have agreed." The other party is Anderson, a friend of Olsen, and one of the founders of DEC. .

　　 Last year, ARD, a venture capital company founded by Rockefeller, used a $300,000 loan and part of the interest in exchange for 65% of the other party’s shares.

　　 Olsen owns only 13% of the company’s shares, which is completely different from Catherine’s 100% holding (Intel’s 95%).

　　 For Catherine, it is necessary to occupy an absolute controlling stake.

　　 And Olsen has already given up most of the shares for his own company.

　　 Because of this, Catherine is much more convenient. Catherine would just buy shares directly from ARD.

　　Although ARD has made a lot of money, for Catherine, there is nothing more worthy of business.

　　 At this time, Olsen’s DEC is a company that is about to stinks, and ARD is not optimistic about them at all.

　　10 million dollars?

　　 There is no better news for Olson’s company.

　　 Without Catherine’s intervention, Olsen would have earned a profit of US$900,000 this year, a reduction of 300,000 in profit compared to 1963.

　　 DEC's negative earnings growth will continue next year, and the company will not reverse its decline until the emergence of the "matrix".

　　 Olson, who was still at home, rushed to the company immediately and saw the plan of the Ark Group.

　　 DEC will cooperate with Intel and Apple to develop computers in the direction of miniaturization and miniaturization. The PDP series developed by DEC is originally a minicomputer (not a microcomputer), which is specially developed for the company. However, when cheaper Microsoft computers appeared, their computers were not as popular as before.

　　What many companies need is just a word processing device, not a professional computer. Today's computer functions are not perfect, and the price of simple word processing equipment is relatively low, so Catherine's machine is very popular.

　　 Especially her machine can also print out computer documents. For many companies, this machine saves a lot of time and makes each company do more with less.

　　 DEC and Intel will cooperate on a new generation of microprocessors, the code name of the new generation of microprocessors-Z80.

　　 In fact, Catherine even wanted to call it MOS-6502, which was also the name of the CPU used on the earliest red and white game consoles, produced in the 1970s. This is also a bad taste of Catherine.

　　 It’s just that Z80 has higher performance than MOS-6502 in the same era. Catherine also hopes that the meaning is better.

　　 In terms of computers, DEC needs to cooperate with Apple to develop equipment standards for a new generation of computers.

　　 After all, Catherine changed all the processing equipment from integrated to independent. In this case, many things were not completed as well as imagined. Although there are many semiconductor companies in contact with Catherine, Fairchild has no idea about the whole machine, but still has some interest in some hardware of computer equipment.

　　 Olsen analyzes Catherine’s company.

　　 For Intel and Apple, their biggest rival is not IBM, but Motorola.

　　 Olsen once stayed at IBM. The slow response speed and extremely serious bureaucracy of this big elephant made Olsen extremely dissatisfied with the company. In fact, many people left IBM because of this.

　　 What's more, the current IBM was beaten by Seymour Clay's combination of punches so that North could not be found, and he was now dizzy.

　　 Motorola is different. Because of the cooperation with the U.S. government in radio, Motorola's beauty is the same. Motorola and National Film and Television Co., Ltd. developed the first rectangular picture tube for color TV, which has become the standard for picture tubes.

　　 The so-called first-class companies set standards, and that's almost the case. Even Catherine’s GameTV uses their company’s standards.

　　 Olsen founded DEC and developed the popular computer series, but he is more than just a computer engineer.

　　 Now, Catherine is almost Olson’s boss. After analyzing these issues, he immediately wrote a question about the company’s prospects and wrote a report.

　　 Catherine was deeply impressed by Olson's question.

　　 In fact, Catherine’s $10 million is entirely Olsen’s price.

　　 Without Olsen, there would be no DEC. There is no problem with saying that the other party is worth 100 million or more.

　　 But for Catherine, the main problem now is not with Motorola, but they need to immediately develop the 8-bit Z80~www.wuxiahere.com~ This is the kingly way.

　　 Now Catherine’s 4004CPU is a 4-bit CPU, which is used for current Microsoft computers, and it is not very useful.

　　 But with Z80, things are different.

　　 The historical Z80 has 8K memory and 64K video memory. The maximum number of colors is 512, the number of colors on the same screen is 64 colors, the maximum resolution is 320x448, the maximum number of active blocks is 80, and it supports AV output and RGB output.

　　 But now, Catherine has stripped the graphics card and CPU, at least for a long time, she is not going to merge them.

　　 Catherine did not have high requirements for the Z80. After stripping off the graphics card function, the Z80 became a pure computing device. At the same time, Catherine also created a graphics card called MOS-6502 to support output...

　　 These conceptual questions, after Catherine wrote down the basic reference plan, passed them to Olson and Jerry Sanders.

　　 The cooperative relationship between the companies has been established. In this aspect of research, there is no rush. Everything will be shown to the researchers.

"Super Mario".

　　 Catherine wrote these two words (in English) in her notebook, then after thinking about it, she added "Pac-Man".

　　 She still has a lot to do.

　　Intel also immediately released the Z80 plan to the outside world, and decided to make Z80 the core and standard of the next generation of Microsoft computers.

　　 Catherine now wants to show to the Pentagon that her company has enough power...

　　……

　　 There was a power outage and the network was disconnected, and the laptop could not be connected to the network. It was cheating.