Reborn Tech Maniac

Chapter 920 The Hundred Billion Dollar Club

Manpower will eventually run out.

There was less than half a year left before Xiangjiang's return, but Chief Deng couldn't see it with his own eyes.I have to say, this is a great regret!

After Tang Huan sighed, he pointed out: "Since the news has been confirmed, of course we must pay attention to the timeliness of the news-you know, for Phoenix Media, this is an opportunity to show its own ability."

"I understand." Weng Jingjing turned to ask: "Then do you want to come to Yanjing?"

"Of course." Tang Huan checked the time, "I'll leave as soon as possible and fly directly from Moscow to Yanjing."

……

At 2:19 on February 23, Phoenix Media's satellite TV network urgently broadcast a news report on the death of a great man of a generation, becoming the first international media in the world to disclose the news.

At 2:20 on February 0, CNN quoted a report from Phoenix Media.

At 2:20 on February 2, Reuters broadcast the news of the death of Chief Deng.

Two minutes later, Huaxin News Agency officially announced the news of Deng's death.

At the same time, CCTV interrupted the "important news", and the announcer Luo Jing broadcast the "Report to the Party, Army and People of All Nationalities in the Country".

In this regard, the global media began to report the news of the death of a generation of great Chinese people on a large scale.

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On the morning of February 2, at the flag-raising ceremony in Antianmen Square, the flag was lowered to half-mast in memory.

On the same day, the flag at the United Nations Headquarters in New York was flown at half-mast; the General Assembly observed a moment of silence.

At 2:24 a.m. on February 9, Chief Deng’s body was sent to Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery for cremation. Millions of people gathered from the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital to Babaoshan’s Fuxing Road to SJS Road.

On the morning of February 2, a memorial meeting was held in the Great Hall of the People; at 25 o'clock, the trains on the Kowloon-Canton Railway entering and leaving Hong Kong Hung Hom Station blew their horns for 10 minutes to express their condolences.

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Tang Huan attended a series of related mourning activities in Yanjing. For him who has personally experienced the death of two generations of great men, the biggest feeling is that compared with more than 20 years ago, the 12 billion Chinese people are no longer confused—— —The road ahead is already clear!
One of the great things about great men is that, even after death, the influence remains.

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It is natural for Tang Huan to look at his grandpa and grandma with special concern these days, which aroused the impatience of the old man, who waved his hand away and said, "Go, go, do what you should be busy with."

Uncle Meng Qingguan patted Tang Huan on the shoulder, and teased, "Boy, filial piety should be careful and long-lasting."

Tang Huan put his hand on his forehead and said, "Come on, I'd better listen to my grandfather—go get busy."

"Wait." Meng Qingguan tugged on Tang Huan's arm and asked, "What job did you arrange for my girl? It's hard to see anyone in Xiangjiang, so I don't have a chance to go on a blind date with her."

"You don't understand even if you tell me." Tang Huan broke away and slipped away.Before leaving the house, he left another sentence, "After next year, Xiao Jing will definitely be free."

"It's next year again!" Meng Qingguan said angrily: "You are so unkind as a brother, why don't you feel guilty about using people as coolies? Next year she will be an old girl who is over 30 years old!"

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Tang Huan didn't stay long in China, and returned to San Francisco in the United States without stopping. Gein had an urgent and important meeting waiting for him to attend.

The anti-monopoly investigation that Zheru Software Company is facing is like a tarsus maggot, and it is definitely not a joke!must be dealt with comprehensively.

For example, after the Congressional Senate hearing at the end of last year, Zheru Software further expanded its strength in legal affairs—according to media speculation, the legal fees alone cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Obviously, this is a game that only the strong can afford; others want to play, but they don't have the ability!
The meeting that Tang Huan had to attend was a milestone work report for the legal team.

The richest man, sitting in the middle of the meeting room, looked at the 20 most famous lawyers in the United States sitting in the hatchback along the long table.

When he turned his attention to George Conway, a lawyer from New York, especially his female assistant, Tang Huan paused slightly, and casually opened the documents in front of him.

George Conway, who graduated from Yale Law School, is good at litigation involving securities, mergers and acquisitions, contracts, and antitrust.

The female assistant next to George Conway is called Kellyanne Conway. She is not famous now, but Tang Huan has already matched her name-this should be the one when Trump ran for the US president 20 years later in time and space. The campaign manager, the first woman in the history of the United States to win a presidential election, was finally rewarded for her meritorious deeds as an adviser to the President of the United States.

The richest man made a gesture of invitation, "Everyone, whoever will speak first."

The people who could sit at the table were all the elites among the elites, and they all immediately looked at George Conway, who was being paid special attention to by the super-rich donor.

"Then let me report on the results of my work so far." George Conway nodded slightly, and said without hesitation: "First of all, let me talk about the biggest disadvantage of Zheru Software Company, that is, its market monopoly status is recognized by everyone, even if It is a traditional monopoly that is different from the past, and it is a natural monopoly by establishing advanced industry standards early—while public opinion is discussing this, they are all guessing whether Netscape can survive this year, and their sympathy for the weak is beyond words. "

"The advantage of Zheru Software Company is that the company's top management has a correct understanding of monopoly—for example, it has kept videos of training employees on relevant laws, minutes of marketing strategy formulation meetings, and other clear evidence; at the same time Many authoritative figures in the field of economics believe that the current anti-monopoly investigation against Zheru Software is the destruction of market freedom."

"We are very confident that we will win this round of lawsuits initiated by Netscape in the first half of the year. However, Zheru Software should also cooperate to make some compromises, especially the integration of browsers and media players in the operating system. It is packaged and sold by virtue of platform advantages, such as browsers, office software components, file compression and decompression tools, and multi-protocol download tools."

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To be honest, this kind of meeting is not only boring, but also easy to stir up unknown fires.

Mr. Richest attended the whole process to the end with astonishing patience, and demanded: "Zheru Software has a modest attitude towards anti-monopoly, but I hope that this successful judicial process will not be at the expense of Zheru Software's success. Tao comes in exchange, otherwise, there will be no clear end, and they will continue to be entangled."

"Take the product packaging that has been opposed by competitors as an example. Zheru Software has obviously reduced the cost of use for users-is there anything wrong with that?"

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Listening to Tang Huan's opinions, all the lawyers exchanged glances from time to time, and then thought together - this super client is really not easy to serve.

Thinking about it, Mr. Richest is generous, but the money is not brought by strong winds. Of course, these legal elites have to use all their skills to earn it.

The central idea in Mr. Richest's words can be summed up simply, that is, no matter how you play this expensive legal game, it will not affect Zheru Software's plan to make money.

In fact, the anti-monopoly countercurrent set off by Netscape has not had a negative impact on the performance of Zheru Software, which is competing with General Electric for the top spot in market value.

Since the start of the Internet boom, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached the level of 1995 points in 5000; then it took about a year to reach above 6000 points; In less than half a year, it broke through the 2-point mark.

At this stage, if the market value does not reach 1000 billion US dollars, don’t worry about rankings—the top ten heavyweights in the US stock market are high above the 2000 billion-dollar club; Companies with a market value of more than [-] billion US dollars are chasing after each other for the top spot.

Correspondingly, according to the latest edition of the "Forbes Global Rich List", Tang Huan, the leader of Silicon Valley and a symbol of IT, has a net worth of more than 1000 billion U.S. dollars - I don't know how many countries' GDPs have been crushed!

Of course, all this did not happen by accident.

Take Zheru Software Company as an example, the product blueprint is full of flowers and stars, especially the recent new version of EBase, an enterprise-level relational database, which implements new features such as data warehouse for the Internet, and the result is an order The huge increase has forced one of the competitors, Oracle, to mess up - there are bugs in the product, and the trouble has made its CEO Larry Ellison ignore the NC and NOISE alliances. If this Kammai If he didn't go there, he would most likely be photographed dead on the beach by the tide of the Internet.

Zheru Software's main task at present is to launch a matching platform with the next-generation Fangyuan personal computer.

Intel CEO Andy Grove also reported to Tang Huan on his own new generation of CPU - Pentium 2.

This time, Intel finally achieved a satisfactory combination of product functions, that is, it merged the two microprocessor branches of Pentium and Pentium_Pro, and became Pentium-II.

Previously, although the P6 architecture of Pentium_Pro was better than the P5 architecture of Pentium with MMX instruction set, the lack of MMX instruction set resulted in unsatisfactory multimedia performance, and when running 16-bit programs, there appeared Poor performance is a design flaw.

Now, Pentium-II is based on the P6 architecture of Pentium_Pro, adding support for the MMX instruction set, which greatly improves the multimedia performance, and at the same time eliminates the problem of poor performance of Pentium_Pro running 16-bit programs.

In this case, Pentium-II has become a perfect desktop computer CPU with almost all the technical advantages of Intel, so that Intel relies on Pentium-II to plan a more powerful Pentium-II for high-end markets such as servers and workstations. -Xeon—Pentium 2 Xeon CPU product line.

It is obvious that the Xeon CPU is a trump card crafted by Intel, which has been longing to enter the high-end market for a long time. It may make the CISC-style x86 family microprocessors start to really threaten the RISC-style microprocessors like Zheru Holder.

Of course, the perfection of Pentium-II is also relative.One of the current flaws is that it has 750 million transistors, which is 200 million more than the previous generation Pentium_Pro, which makes the CPU products produced using the 0.35 micron process generate a lot of heat; it also makes it possible to further improve performance. The difficulty of entering the secondary cache increases and affects the yield rate.

Intel, on the other hand, cleverly used this as an excuse to introduce a new interface called "Slot-2" for installing the CPU to the motherboard with the Pentium 1.

This action exposed Intel's ambitious attempt to control the socket standard of desktop CPUs in addition to coveting high-end markets such as servers and workstations.

You should know that the current x86 family CPU socket of desktop computers is a Socket-321 socket with 7 pins. Simply put, the microprocessor is "flat" on the motherboard—including Intel's Pentium and AMD's K5. Many models of CPUs in the world use Socket-7 sockets, which can be called an industry standard widely.

The "Slot-2" designed by Intel for Pentium 1 is like the graphics card, sound card, network card and other components inserted into the motherboard slot. The level cache chip is also placed in that board.

Andy Grove and Intel may pass the test by fooling others, but Tang IT directly reveals its true colors.Gein knew too well that the semiconductor factory would soon be able to solve the Pentium 2's need for a large number of integrated L[-] cache chips.

The real goal of Intel's "Slot-1" is to replace the "Socket-7" that everyone can use through its own patents, thereby further cracking down on AMD and other x86-compatible CPU competitors.

As the situation became worse and worse, DEC, which was once infinitely beautiful, began to become a fertilizer for its peers to absorb nutrients-a large number of technical elites left, such as the achievements of Microsoft's Windows_NT team.

AMD's CPU R&D team has also received such support. The price/performance ratio of its K6 microprocessor is very attractive, and this series of CPUs uses the "Socket-7" socket.

Tang Huan nodded impatiently to Andy Grove, "This 'Slot-1' is useless except for causing trouble.

(End of this chapter)