Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 87 The clues of the chess plan

Since it was put into service in 1970, the Boeing 747 has gradually become the main aircraft type of major airlines.

Tang Huan traveled between the West Coast of the United States and Asia many times, basically all on this kind of plane.

But he has never thought of buying a Boeing 747 as a private jet, because he can’t afford it and can’t afford it for the time being. It is estimated that most of the world’s richest people are also reluctant to be such a prodigal, which shows how wayward Christina is.

The special plane of the President of the United States, Sky One, is currently in service with two Boeing 707s. It will not be upgraded to a modified Boeing 747 until 1990.

To some extent, Christina is one step ahead of the world after such a toss.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan couldn’t help but yearn for it. After all, with a special plane, your journey across the Pacific will be greatly facilitated.

But as the saying goes, people have short mouths and short hands. Tang Huan doesn’t like the feeling of inferiority.

After getting off the plane, Tang Huan finally formed a preliminary speculative idea about the cost of the plane.

This time Tang Huan returned to the United States alone, and Hu Yinmeng was left in Xiangjiang to supervise the filming of “Shang_Ban”.

Tang Huan is energetic, which is not what most people can imagine. He directly boarded the commercial vehicle sent by the company to greet him and rushed from the airport to Silicon Valley.

When he came to the company and entered the president’s office, Tang Huan immediately picked up the phone and called Jobs, “I have come back, and I can visit PARC at any time.”

“Let’s leave tomorrow.” Jobs changed the conversation and asked thiefly: “When were you raised by that Greek female ship king, tusk, a Boeing 747, it’s really a favorite.”

“Look at what you said so sourly, so envy and hate it.” Tang Huan retorted.

Seeing that Tang Huan’s tone was calm and not stimulated, Steve Jobs was a little upset, “Yes, your life is so colorful, and you want to be a man.”

“Then you can be mentally balanced, no one can afford the price package _ support me. See you tomorrow.” Tang Huan finished calmly and hung up the phone.

It seems that Christina’s trick not only scratches her own itchy, but also caters to the taste of the media. Even Jobs has been bombarded and heard.

Just then Chambers and Simeone walked in, and Tang Huan waved for them to sit down.

Because they can learn about important operations here through overseas calls every day, what they talk about next is some minor matters, and it is mainly Simeone’s progress in reporting technology research and development.

“Xiaobawang game consoles are really popular in the market. People come to negotiate business every day, and the excitement affects the R&D department. I simply allocate space on the first floor and set up a dedicated office to handle affairs, so that outsiders will not think we are. Philosopher transformed into a video game company.” Chambers said as a joke in the gap in the conversation.

Tang Huan nodded, “When I went to the company just now, I saw the signboard. This distribution is quite reasonable.”

Because of the company’s development and growth, the entire office building has now been rented by Zheru, and the model of Xiangjiang Company was adopted first, and a product showroom was set up on the first floor.

“My idea was also inspired by several members of Apple’s board of directors. They saw the potential of the Xiaobawang game console and wanted to share their rights and interests. They even started to propose a plan for us to add an executive director position to them.” Qian Perth explained in detail.

Tang Huan raised his brows and said flatly: “The structure of the board of directors will not change for the time being. Let them get out. As for sharing the benefits brought by the game console business, don’t even think about it. Their piece of cake is only in software. Within the scope of business, and already rich enough.”

Twenty percent of the shares of Philosopher in the United States belong to Apple, but 9 percent of them are shared among Jobs, Markkula, and Woz. Apple accounts for the remaining 10 percent. 1. Correspondingly, Tang Huan owns 7% of Apple’s shares and becomes the fourth largest individual shareholder.

This transaction was finally reached after Tang Huan’s painstaking efforts at the beginning. He couldn’t help feeling resentful, and asked himself that Zheru’s current performance is worthy of Apple, and his back is straight. Naturally, he has the confidence to believe that the interests of the two parties are limited to this.

Not to mention that Jobs, Markkula, and Woz did not mention this to themselves. I think it was just some jumping clowns on the Apple board of directors.

After all, Apple’s financing activities before the listing have been in full swing. It is inevitable that some profit-seeking businessmen will be recruited. They just stare at the dollar. It is not clear what kind of significance the philosopher has to Apple.

“By the way, who are making noises, you help me write it down, it’s a blacklist.” Tang Huan added.

Chambers nodded and agreed that the mall is a battlefield without gunpowder smoke. He naturally knew that there might be a crisis hidden in it.

“The memory purchase contract between Intel and Intel has been suspended for the time being because the new pricing has not been negotiated.” Chambers changed his conversation and talked about the unsatisfactory matter.

At present, Intel’s main business is memory, including SRAM, DRAM, and ROM. Because of its strong technical strength, advanced production technology, and product performance and quality, it is at the forefront of the industry.

This point is very important. In sharp contrast, National Semiconductor Corporation has always had a reputation for deliberately selling defective products.

In the original time and space, the clock chip it produced made Apple’s third-generation machine pits not lightly. After a long period of use, the chip would suddenly fail, and finally Apple had to cancel this function.

Tang Huan did not remind Apple of the possible troubles. The failure of Apple’s third-generation machines is by no means just because of this.

For example, it is clear that the design goal is compatible with Apple’s second-generation machine, but the simulation function is deliberately restricted, and the advanced AppleII functions cannot be used, which has brought great trouble to the software development of Philosopher.

It can be said that the cooperation between philosophers and Apple, under the appearance of closeness, there are also various contradictions, perhaps this is the normal state of the world.

It is precisely because of Intel’s rigorousness that Tang Huan has always placed it at the forefront of the list of purchasers, but the other party has consistently been strong in price, even though the demand for memory has increased sharply due to the large-scale production of Xiaobawang game consoles and Fangyuan computers. , The other party does not buy it.

“What’s the reaction from Texas Instruments?” Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows. For Intel, it can only be described as love and hate.

“The two leaders in the semiconductor industry have a tacit understanding of their market strategies.” Chambers spread his hands helplessly.

“Then continue with the original procurement method for the time being, and at the same time examine the product quality of companies such as AMD. Fortunately, there is a second supplier mechanism, otherwise we will have to be controlled by others.” Tang Huan made a decision in deep thought.

These Yankees have not yet realized the threat of Little Japan in the semiconductor industry. In 1978, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan called out the slogan “Information is the future” and began to vigorously develop robotics, computers, and communication technologies, and established Silicon Valley in Tsukuba. , Kyushu established Silicon Island.

Zheru’s Asian factories have been in contact with Japan’s NEC, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Panasonic, and Mitsubishi, the six major semiconductor companies, and have purchased parts and components. It seems that they should select some stable partners from them as soon as possible.

“I remember that Intel engineer ePerlegos has resigned, what is his recent development?” Tang Huan remembered the results of digging in Intel earlier.

“The Perlegos brothers have accepted our investment, and a few other engineers who switched jobs together established SeeqTechnology in Silicon Valley. The production of EEPROM should be launched in the first quarter of next year.” Chambers flipped through the notepad and replied.

Tang Huan nodded in satisfaction, “These people’s movements are fairly quick. If Intel pays attention to EEPROM, patents will be a trouble.”

“I once visited Intel President Andy Grove as a fellow Hungarian. Although it did not help with the purchase order quotation, I accidentally discovered a strange thing. How many A person from IBM met with him several times, and there were fierce quarrels about the confidentiality clause.” Simeone said slowly as he recalled.

“There is such a thing, is it possible that the chess plan has begun.” Hearing this news, Tang Huanhuo stood up What chess plan? Simeone asked in amazement.

“Let me sort out my thoughts first.” Tang Huan started walking with his back on his back.

Don’t look at Intel now entering the top 500, but it is just an ordinary small factory in front of the Big Blue.

IBM’s computer kingdom has its own system, and there is almost nothing that it cannot do. The best thing is to buy some relatively cheap memory from Intel. There should be no confidentiality clauses involved, or even quarrels due to this.

After speculating like this, it is most likely that the chess plan has been carried out for more than a year before and after. At that time, IBM staff was holding confidentiality clauses and negotiating with selected partners everywhere, signing first, and then cooperating. Kildare also missed this opportunity to hold his thigh because of legal concerns, and Gates took advantage of the loophole.

But if you carefully calculate the time, the chess plan seems to be launched earlier than you remembered. Could it be that your actions in the field of personal computers have made the Big Blue determined to participate?

Anyway, it’s not wrong to plan as early as possible.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan sat down again, his face solemnly said: “I guess, IBM should have secretly decided to enter the personal computer market. Their people are looking for Intel, maybe they want to get a cheap microprocessor, such as Intel8086. But this kind of cooperation may not be achieved 100%. Intel has many competitors. The MC68000 that Motorola put on the market this year is better than Intel’s 8086, so Intel is not willing to be chained before formal negotiations have begun.”