Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 87

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

Tang Huan traveled between the west coast of the United States and Asia many times, basically taking this kind of plane.

However, he has never thought of buying a Boeing 747 as a private jet, because he can't afford it yet, and he can't support it. It is estimated that most of the rich people in the world are reluctant to be so prodigal, which shows how capricious Christina is.

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

To a certain extent, Christina is one step ahead of the world by doing this.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan couldn't help yearning.After all, with a private plane, his journey across the Pacific Ocean will be greatly facilitated.

But as the saying goes, Tang Huan doesn't like the feeling of being inferior.

After getting off the plane, Tang Huan finally formed a preliminary speculative idea in his mind to pay for the plane.

This time Tang Huan returned to the United States alone, while Hu Yinmeng was left in Xiangjiang to supervise the filming of "Shanghai Beach".

Tang Huan's energy was beyond ordinary people's imagination. He directly boarded the commercial vehicle sent by the company 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'm back, and I can visit PARC anytime."

"Then let's leave tomorrow." Jobs' tone was full of credit.

After ending the call, Chambers and Simeone walked in, and Tang Huan waved for them to sit down.

Because they can learn about the important operations here through overseas phone calls every day, what they talk about next are some minor things, and mainly Simeone is reporting on the progress of technology research and development.

"The Xiaobawang game console is so popular in the market. There is an endless stream of people coming to discuss business every day, and the excitement has affected the R&D department. I simply allocate a separate space on the first floor and set up a special office to handle affairs, so that outsiders will not think we are Zheru transformed into a video game company." Chambers mentioned it as a joke during the conversation.

Tang Huan nodded, "When I arrived at the company just now, I saw that signboard. Such an allocation is quite reasonable."

Because of the company's development and growth, the entire office building is now rented by Zheru, and the model of Xiangjiang Company was first adopted, and a product exhibition hall 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 the rights and interests from it. They even started to propose a plan for us to add an executive director position to them." Money Boss explained in detail.

Tang Huan raised his brows, and said decisively: "The structure of the board of directors will not change for the time being, let them go away quickly. As for sharing the benefits brought by the game console business, don't even think about it. Their piece of cake is only in the software It is within the scope of the business, and it is already rich enough.”

20.00% of the shares of American Zheru Company belong to Apple, but 11.00% of it is evenly divided between Jobs, Markkula, and Woz. Apple occupies the remaining [-]%. Correspondingly, What's more, Tang Huan owns [-]% of Apple's shares, becoming the fourth largest individual shareholder.

Tang Huan worked hard to finally reach this deal, so he couldn't help but feel resentful. He also asked himself whether Zheru's current performance was worthy of Apple, and he was straight-backed. Naturally, he had the confidence to believe that the interest relationship between the two parties was limited to this.

What's more, Jobs, Markkula, and Woz never mentioned this matter to themselves. It seems that it was just some clowns on Apple's board of directors making trouble.

After all, Apple’s financing activities before its listing have been in full swing, and it is inevitable that some profit-seeking businessmen will be recruited. They only care about the dollar, and they don’t know the significance of philosophy and Confucianism to Apple.

"By the way, who are making trouble with ulterior motives, please help me write it down, it can be regarded as a blacklist." Tang Huan added.

Chambers nodded and agreed, the shopping mall is a battlefield without gunpowder, and he naturally knows that there may be a hidden crisis.

"The memory procurement contract with Intel has been temporarily put on hold because the new pricing has not been negotiated." Chambers changed the subject and talked about this unsatisfactory matter.

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

This is important, in stark contrast to National Semiconductor, which is a shattered company and has a reputation for knowingly selling defective products.

In the original time and space, the clock chip produced by it made Apple's third-generation machines hard. 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 troubles it might encounter. The failure of Apple's third-generation machine was not just because of this.

For example, the design goal is to be compatible with Apple II, but the simulation function is deliberately restricted, and the advanced Apple II functions cannot be used, which brings great trouble to Zheru's software development.

It can be said that under the surface of close cooperation between Zheru and Apple, there are also various contradictions. Perhaps this is the normal state of the world.

It is precisely because of Intel's rigor that Tang Huan has always placed it at the forefront of the list of purchasing manufacturers. However, the other party has always been strong in terms of price, even if the demand for memory has increased due to the large-scale production of Xiaobawang game consoles and Fangyuan computers. , the other party didn’t buy it either.

"What's the reaction from Texas Instruments?" Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows. He could only describe Intel as a mixture of love and hate.

"These two leaders in the semiconductor industry seem to have a tacit understanding of their market strategies." Chambers spread his hands helplessly.

"Then let's continue with the original purchasing method for the time being, and at the same time check the product quality of companies like AMD. Fortunately, there is a second supplier mechanism, otherwise we will be more controlled by others." Tang Huan made a decision ponderingly.

These Americans have not yet realized the threat of small RB in the semiconductor industry. In 1978, RB MITI shouted the slogan "Information is the future" and began to vigorously develop robots, computers, and communication technologies, and established Silicon Valley in Tsukuba. , Kyushu established Silicon Island.

Zheru's Asian factory has contacted RB's NEC, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Panasonic, and Mitsubishi, the six major semiconductor companies, and purchased components. It seems that it should select some stable partners from them as soon as possible.

"I remember that Intel engineer George Perlegos has resigned. What's happened to him recently?" Tang Huan remembered the achievements of digging at Intel earlier.

"The two Perlegos brothers have accepted our investment and established Seeq in Silicon Valley with several other engineers who jumped ship together.
Technology company should start producing EEPROM as scheduled in the first quarter of next year. ’ replied Chambers, flipping through his notepad.

Tang Huan nodded with satisfaction, "These people's actions are fairly quick. If Intel pays attention to EEPROM, patents will be a problem."

"As a fellow Hungarian, I once visited Intel President Andy Grove. Although it did not help with the quotation for the purchase order, I accidentally discovered a strange thing. There are several Someone from IBM met with him several times and had a heated argument over confidentiality clauses," Simeone said slowly as he recalled.

"There is such a thing. Could it be that the chess plan has started." Hearing the news, Tang Huan stood up frantically.

"What chess plan?" Simeone asked in amazement.

"Let me sort out my thoughts first." Tang Huan started walking with his hands behind his back.

Although Intel has now entered the top [-], it is just an ordinary small factory in front of Big Blue.

IBM's computer kingdom is a system of its own, and there is almost nothing it can't do. At most, it just buys some relatively cheap memory from Intel. It should not involve any confidentiality clauses, or even quarrel over it.

Based on such speculation, it is likely to be the chess project that has been going on for more than a year.At that time, IBM's personnel were negotiating with selected partners with confidentiality clauses, signing first, and then cooperating.Due to legal concerns, Kildare also missed the opportunity to hug the thigh, allowing Gates to take advantage of the loophole.

But if we calculate the time carefully, it seems that the chess project was launched earlier than in memory. Could it be that it was because of his big moves in the field of personal computers that Big Blue made up his mind to get involved?

In any case, you can’t go wrong by planning as early as possible.

Thinking of this, Tang Huan sat down again, and said solemnly: "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 68000% reached, Intel has many competitors, and Motorola's MC8086, which was put on the market this year, is better than Intel[-], so Intel is not willing to be chained before formal negotiations have begun."

(End of this chapter)