Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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After Tang Huan got into the car, he was not eager to leave, but stayed for a while to observe. ?.?`

After seeing various computer manufacturers and even semiconductor manufacturers filed out, he sarcastically said: "These uninspiring guys are really unpopular."

John Chambers nodded, "It is true, but it lacks an opportunity to explode."

"It seems that I have become a villain in my early days." Tang Huan smiled and shook his head.

"In essence, this is the style of a leader." John Chambers carefully analyzed, "After you slap these semiconductor manufacturers awake, I can deal with the next trivial things much easier."

"Actually, I didn't express some opinions in the meeting just now. I can't give directions to these ignorant guys, and they won't appreciate it." Tang Huan snorted coldly.

"Due to the increasing emphasis of emerging economies on high-tech industries, the global expansion of semiconductor memory production capacity is a general trend, and the obsession with trade protection to save the market will only lag behind."

"In addition, the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley is undergoing a quiet division of labor, integrating design and manufacturing into one operation model, and it is beginning to favor each exhibition's strengths-fabless design companies can focus on creativity, and foundry companies You can improve the process and make full use of production capacity without distraction."

"This is an era in which industry exhibitions may undergo earth-shaking changes at any time. If the concept cannot adapt to the new rhythm, it is better to stop the loss as soon as possible."

"Ibm is a bit behind the times." Looking at the Compaq company representatives who walked past, John Chambers sighed: "Ibm-compatible manufacturers like Compaq have really good business. A conservative estimate is that they have at least seized the ibm- One third of the market capacity, and under our suppression, ibm-’s share in the personal computer market shows no signs of increasing. It can be seen how much business ibm has been robbed of by emerging companies such as Compaq. There is no way to get up."

"People who do bad things don't always get punished." Tang Huan waved his hand. Instructed the driver to drive, "ibm can't learn how to fight price wars on low-priced products. This is determined by the conservative tradition rooted in its bones. Of course, this is not as dynamic as a mountain. Many times it can be used to survive industry crises. ."

"Since the company launched a fully compatible ibm-, and other companies have also entered this field, thus making the technical difficulty of manufacturing an ibm-compatible machine further reduced." John Chambers reminded without worry: " According to this trend, these ibm-compatible manufacturers not only dig into the corner of ibm, they are also bound to pose a substantial threat to our Fangyuan personal computers.?.?`"

"There is no way. Who caused Pandora's box to be opened?" Tang Huan replied in a deep voice, "At present, the most effective way to deal with it is to use advanced technology while this camp is still a mass of scattered sand. Leave them far away."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan laughed playfully, "Of course, the person who should have the headache first is ibm. It is estimated that they are thinking about how to close ibm-this undefended door, and shut out disorderly compatible manufacturers. "

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The two exchanged ideas along the way. Arrived in Cupertino. John Chambers took a helicopter and flew to Mountain View, where the headquarters of Fangyuan Computer Company is located.

At present, ea and Fangyuan Computer Company have moved to Redwood City and Mountain View respectively, and Cupertino only leaves the software industry cluster and the first-level research center centered on philosophers.

Previously, tens of thousands of employees gathered in the tiny Cupertino, which not only brought various glories of glory, but also brought various problems to the local area.

For example, during the peak hours of going to work and leaving get off work, there will be complaints about traffic jams and continuous traffic. It even occupies public roads.

Such troubles are endless.

The administrative feature of the United States is regional autonomy. As long as you disturb the people, the public can ignore your strong enterprises. Still protesting, the local administrative department also used it as various bargaining weights.

Tang Huan did not superficially assume that by constructing a large number of XX centers in all directions and gathering all his subordinates together like bees, he would be able to enjoy the supreme sense of centralization.

From the bottom of his heart, Tang Huan is very willing to drive out the companies that bear his own thoughts. To start a family and start a business like a child, that's how to grow stronger.

In addition, the gathering of philosophers, Fangyuan, ea and other hegemons in this field can easily give people room for imagination. After all, no one is a fool in the United States, where the media is highly acclaimed. Apple's "1984" advertisement is so successful, essentially because it has a deep-rooted Western-style thinking gene at work.

Therefore, Tang Huan actively promoted the relocation of ea and Fangyuan Computer Company. From a long-term perspective, the land prices in Silicon Valley are quite attractive, and the two companies have encircled large sites separately. ea has built an industrial base for video games with itself as the center, attracting a large number of tourists every day to visit.

Looking down from the office on the fifth floor, Chinese-style gardens, European-style buildings, lawns, stadiums, squares, parks... are arranged in an orderly manner. Without the hustle and bustle of the crowd before, the comfort and quietness naturally makes people feel cheerful.

"This is the perfect combination of technology and art!" Tang Huan smiled slightly, took a sip of tea comfortably, turned back to his seat, and picked up a document.

At the spring dex held at the end of June this year, Tang Huan did not rush out of time to participate.

With the prosperity of the IT industry driven by personal computers, Sheldon Adelson desperately squeezed the value of the popular dex, which can be seen from the frequency of its holdings.

In the first two years, dex was only held once in Las Vegas in the fall. Seeing the surge in the number of visitors, Sheldon Adelson changed to two sessions in Spring and Autumn, and now he has added another stop in Europe.

The attention that the exhibition economy card can bring is very popular everywhere. In addition to the autumn exhibition fixed in Las Vegas, the exhibitions of other stations are touring in New York, Atlanta, Atlantic City, and even as far away as the Netherlands in Europe. Amsterdam.

As long as the product cloth beats can basically correspond to the dex in spring and autumn of a year, and the competitors are exhausted and struggling to follow, Tang Huan is too lazy to cheer on dex every time. You only need to show up on the autumn dex and give a speech on the industry outlook, which is enough to play the role of a leader.

Recently, there are not many completely new products that have emerged on dex. Let’s take Zheru as an example. The so-called new products launched are mainly new versions with more functions, which also makes the small system software of virtual floppy disks appear to be particularly eye-catching.

ibm- has an obvious limitation on the use of memory, that is, you cannot directly use memory above 1mb, although this is related to the real mode of cpu. But it is also due to the design of ibm. And this is only a restriction on the system. The memory that can be used directly by the user is just what it looks like.

With the use of large memory, ibm- must solve the problem in two steps, the first is the use of the 384kb memory occupied by the driver program, and the second is the use of the above memory.

At present, ms- has not given a direct and effective solution at the operating system level, but some hardware manufacturers have designed a type of expansion board to provide a solution.

There is no such troublesome trouble on the Fangyuan personal computer platform, and the support for large memory is perfect. And then can dig out more functions than the ibm-platform.

Virtual floppy disks can make full use of the mainstream hardware resources of 512kb memory and hard disks, and emulate non-copyright-protected floppy disks into hard disks or even memory to reduce calls to slow floppy disks, which not only extends the service life but also saves time. In addition, the benefits are endless.

The greater significance of this software is to let more people understand that a personal computer with more memory is not a waste. It's just that the imagination of programmers needs to be further improved.

Zheru's series of software has a very obvious pulling effect on the consumption power of hardware. It has implicitly formed a tacit understanding in the IT industry that allows users to spend more money, which can only be said to be unspeakable. It also strengthens the position of Zheru as a leader in the industry.

Of course, there will never be a lack of cubs in the lion group who will challenge the throne of the lion king.

After Lotus Software wiped out all the competitors of spreadsheet software-2-3 on the ibm-platform, it began to extend its territory to other application software areas, especially office collaboration.

Regardless of the form of the token ring network or the form of the Ethernet, the development of the local area network is very fast. Software application solutions based on this architecture have given many small companies the opportunity to settle down and even get ahead.

The expansion method of Lotus Software is very old. It directly uses the cash accumulated from the sale of spreadsheet software-2-3 to acquire several well-doing small companies, and cleanly extends its tentacles into the application field of office collaboration.

"I have to say that Lotus Software is really lucky to find a good helper." Tang Huan muttered to himself while looking at the name "Jim Manz" specially marked on the file.

It’s startups that can succeed and have gone for a long time in this era often benefit from the perfect combination of marketing genius and technical genius, such as Apple’s Jobs and Woz, Microsoft’s Gates and Paul Allen, and Larry Ai Lison and Bob Miner et al.

At the beginning of the creation of Lotus Software, it was precisely this condition that was lacking, and Mitchell Kapor basically took it on his shoulders. But Lotus Software is not as short-lived as other small companies that have successfully started their businesses.

The reason is that Benjamin Rosen, who invested in Compaq Computer and Lotus Software at the same time, helped Mitchell Kapoor find Jim Manz, a good helper.

Like Louis Gerstner, Jim Manz has the experience of working for McKinsey, a well-known management consulting company. He has a very good management and has played an active role in the position of manager.

At present, Lotus Software operates its own site on the ibm-platform honestly, and is conscientiously acting as the blue giant's gold medalist. It's really not easy to take a move across the world.

It is a waste of resources to acquire a company that only develops software for the ibm-platform.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan couldn't help but shook his head regretfully.

At this time, the secretary reported on the phone: "Boss, Mr. Bill Gates of Microsoft is here."

"Please come to the reception room." Tang Huan stood up, stretched his waist, and went to see Gates.

"Bill, I heard that Microsoft and ibm have a new cooperation project, planning to open a more powerful operating system?" After greeting, Tang Huan asked casually.

Just like Tang Huan is working on a 32-bit personal computer, although the actions in the IT circle can be kept confidential for business, they can't avoid the clues of turmoil.

Therefore, Gates did not hide it, and replied clearly: "It is an operating system tailored for ibm's third-generation personal computers."

"Then ms-what will happen in the future?" Tang Huan asked curiously.

You should know that although Zheru has not developed many software on ms-, Tang Huan and Gates have long used running in the database ebase environment as a bargaining chip to reach a private transaction open at the bottom of ms-, which makes him different from others. A deep understanding of ibm-pbsp from one angle; “As a weakly functional version, let’s show it in parallel. However, ms- also gets more free space.” Gates laughed mockingly, and there was ambiguity in his speech. Meaning, obviously he doesn't want to mention the details of bargaining with ibm.

Tang Huan smiled slightly. He had guessed that this new operating system jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft should correspond to something like os/2 in the original time and space.

The blue giant's new start can only be blamed on the poorly rooted ms-self for failing, especially compared with the Fangyuan personal computer platform, which is even more unbearable.

And Microsoft sells ms- to the booming ibm-compatible machine manufacturer ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ so that it makes a fortune, the blue giant can't help but mind.

Tang Huan fully anticipated that the operating system that ibm wants to build, in addition to wanting to further control the platform, must also solve the multitasking, large-capacity memory and hard disk support, graphics she11, etc. that ms- lacks and cannot provide. Shortcomings of other functions.

"The research on ibm's new products is also in full swing." Tang Huan quipped: "In your opinion, compared to the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer, who is the third-generation ibm-powered and weaker in performance?"

Gates did not answer directly, but changed the conversation and said: "ibm is not optimistic about the 32-bit architecture of the fourth-generation Fangyuan personal computer. They believe that the technology span is too large and it is very likely to fail."

Seeing Tang Huan's disapproval, Gates said haha, "But I think 32-bit architecture is the general trend. Actually, I am here this time to promote a new operating system, hoping to get a 6-square-meter computer platform. Permission." (To be continued.)

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