Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 501 Flash Memory Developed

Tang Huan declined the Hong Kong government's and the UK's honorary plan, and the other party would naturally feel very embarrassed. While expressing understanding of the super billionaire's concerns, he asked him not to make the matter public, or at least wait for a while before proceeding. disclosure.

Zhou Mi, as the representative, immediately agreed one by one.

Compared with his indifference to the Sir titles attached to GBE and KBE, the most outstanding medals of the British Empire, Tang Huan attaches great importance to his doctorate and the Ph.D. degree it brings.

Good things come in pairs, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers—the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) approved the recommendation of Tang Huan to be elected as an IEEE Fellow.

For these academic achievements, Tang Huan has worked hard in the past five years. Using his fragmented time, he has produced at least one paper in the IT field that can be called a heavyweight every month, and his professional status has been upgraded to the top level.

Aunt Tang Yun greatly appreciated this, and bluntly said that this is Tang Huan's best example in front of her children.

Seeing everyone's recognition and joy, Tang Huan held a small private banquet to celebrate, and spent it with the 1983 Mid-Autumn Festival.

As for the scene of "Love to Protect Flowers" in the United States, with the convenience of the 11nd San Francisco Music Festival, the filming effect was perfect. When the crew completed the filming of the Golden Gate Bridge in early November, it was announced that it was finished. Tang Huan, who had been in the neck for more than half a year, let out a sigh of relief.

It has to be said that Tang Huan's ability to "not do business properly" with such ease is inseparable from the strength of his subordinates.

Although the third-generation Fangyuan personal computer had an accident of quality failure, after a comprehensive recovery, Fangyuan Computer Company had a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars on its books, and other aspects were not affected, especially when the problem was eliminated. When the personal computer came back into battle, the market reacted unexpectedly enthusiastically.

It is through the test of this crisis that Fangyuan Computer Company has proved its maturity to the outside world. The fate of the three generations of Fangyuan personal computers will not die prematurely like Apple's Apple III.

IBM, who wanted to see jokes the most, was of course disappointed. In order to boost the morale of its own camp, it immediately released the news that the new generation of personal computers IBM-PC/AT will be released at COMDEX this fall. It looked like he was knocking to the end.

Tang Huan didn't care about this, and it was enough for the soldiers to block the water and come to the soil, but what made him speechless was that Apple's MAC project had not yet been delivered.

Everyone is striving to be the first, why is Jobs so slow?Being methodical shouldn't be like this. The level of project management is really unflattering.

Tang Huan, who was complaining secretly, took a random opportunity and asked Markkula, but the other party shrugged helplessly, "After seeing the previous competition in the field of graphical user interface systems, Steve's obsessive-compulsive disorder Even worse, the plan to release MAC in the summer vacation was postponed for half a year."

"Apple has already recruited a CEO like John Sculley. How can they manage things as they please?" Tang Huan frowned.

"It's not bad. After John Sculley took office, Apple's operations have become much more orderly. It's just that no one can control Steve."

Markkula, who got rid of trivial matters and was relaxed, seemed very satisfied with John Sculley, and he didn't know whether it had something to do with the other party's persuasion and agreement to halve the million-dollar annual salary.

"Mike, you have to understand that the speed of updating the hardware configuration of personal computers cannot be ignored. If the progress of a project in the research and development period is delayed again and again, no matter how good the idea is, it will not be able to withstand the competition from this absolute performance gap." Tang Huan reminded him kindly.

"You're right." Markkula nodded thoughtfully, "MAC should be released at the beginning of next year. If it is delayed any longer, I believe that even Steve will be at a loss for words. After all, the mainstay of the company's financial resources—— Thinking that the old Apple II is about to release a new generation model, the Apple II GS, and that the rising star of MAC can no longer be without actual performance.”

Tang Huan clicked to stop, and saw that the other party listened, so he stopped talking, because he still had a lot of things to deal with.

You must know that in addition to commercial advancement, technological breakthroughs cannot be stopped.

Under the targeted guidance of Tang Huan, Zheru R&D Center has been maintaining efficient operation, and has developed Flash Memory—flash memory

To be precise, flash memory is a special variant of EEPROM, an electronically erasable rewritable read-only memory, which is currently a popular memory product.
As early as 1978, on the basis of EPROM technology, George Perlegos of Intel Corporation switched to a thin gate oxide layer so that the chip could electrically erase its own bits without ultraviolet light, and then developed the model 2816 16KB EEPROM.

However, at that time Intel was not fully aware of the commercial prospects and value of EEPROM.

When the Perlegos brothers, Gordon Campbell, Gordon Campbell and others left Intel, Tang Huan, who had long been interested in this technology, became one of the important investors who founded Seeq Technology.

For this reason, Intel was very annoyed and filed a lawsuit with Seeq Technology, but the establishment of this company also had some unclear relationship with Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, and Tang Huan and other shareholders The vigorous mediation, this ended in a friendly mediation.

On the basis of EEPROM, Zheru R&D Center launched flash memory including NOR type and NAND type, which is a matter of course. The only problem is how to mass-produce it in the factory with mature technology.As for the use, just like EEPROM, Tang Huan had already thought about it.

However, it is not the solid-state hard disk that was deeply rooted in the original time and space. Because the access methods of flash memory and EEPROM are quite different, the latter is performed in units of bytes, while the former is performed in units of larger "blocks". The performance of the main controller required for the calculation of the "garbage collection mechanism" algorithm is a severe test for the current level of semiconductors in the case of large-capacity solid-state drives.

Compared with EEPROM, flash memory has an obvious cost advantage. Tang Huan has too many areas to make it top, such as the font library of the printer, which will have a more flexible support method.

(End of this chapter)