Rebirth of the Tech Madman

Chapter 454: IBM-PC loses its soul

Not only is the old rival in the game console industry in trouble, but even IBM, the big brother in the computer field, is also making gossip. ≥≥,

In fact, in Tang Huan's achievements in IT, squeezing old opponents only accounted for a part.

After all, IT applications can be used almost everywhere, and due to limited knowledge, these companies are still unable to accurately grasp the perfect combination point of technological invention and market demand at the current stage. The oil and water are limited, but Tang Huan can keenly capture the development of the times. The pulse, and then greatly expand the application range of it products.

It can be said that whenever Tang Huan advances his IT solutions to a new field, new opportunities will be created, allowing individuals to see new employment opportunities and companies to discover new ways to make money.

For example, software such as google.com has given birth to new industries such as desktop publishing and graphic design. Zheru's various computer information management systems led by erp have brought out a large number of industry consultants, implementation engineers, and service experts.

Therefore, ibm-similar to Atari, although they have been robbed of their leading position in the industry, their business is still flourishing with a strong background.

Take Big Blue as an example. The launch of ibm- has brought positive changes to its financial report. The stock price has risen from the initial price of 55 US dollars to around 80 US dollars, and the market value has expanded from the original value of more than 30 billion US dollars. Nearly $50 billion.

You know, the overall economic situation in the United States is still in a depression stage.

Therefore, Big Blue's rise against the market is enough to prove that ibm- has succeeded.

Naturally, as the head of the ibm-division, don? Estridge can be described as fame and fortune. Under the vigorous touting of the ibm public relations department. He has become the center of ibm-, and all media hype.

Seeing Don Estridge with his hair trimmed, glamorously groomed, and increasingly airy, accepting compliments with ease, one person couldn't help feeling sore. Out of balance.

This person is the forgotten name Liu Gebrecht, an extremely important chief engineer in the chess project. His relationship with ibm- is similar to the relationship between Woz and Apple. He developed it with his bare hands. ibm-prototype.

After the successful completion of the chess project, Liu Ergebrecht, as the chief designer of ibm-, received a bonus of 50,000 US dollars from ibm headquarters.

But this method is only an internal recognition of the company. Liu Gebrecht still hopes to get even just 15 minutes of public praise, but all the glory is given to Don Estridge.

At first. Not long after the beginning of the chess project, the promoter Bill Lovo was promoted and left the project team. Liu Augerbrecht thought that he would take over Bill Lovo's position as a matter of course, but he didn't expect that Don? Estridge.

Thinking of this knot in his heart, Liu Augerbrecht felt more and more despised, and resentment began to arise in his heart.

In this case, Liu Augerbrecht and another long-time partner. Started talking about leaving Big Blue and starting a company. The business is to design, manufacture and sell circuit boards that enable ibm-connected ibm mainframe computers.

This kind of peripheral product is not difficult in the eyes of Liu Augerbrecht, who has a deep understanding of computers.

So before he resigned from IBM, Liu Ergebrecht and his colleague established a company called Bridge Technology.

This behavior obviously violates the terms of the employment contract that all IBM employees must sign-all inventions and creations made by IBM employees during their employment belong to IBM.

But Liu Gebrecht and the others invested desperately and introduced another salesman as a partner. Its business plan is to sell this peripheral product to various companies that are selling ibm-.

Papers cannot contain fire, and the situation of Liu Augerbrecht's second career was inevitably revealed in the end. The bad thing was the corporate customers they contacted. Take the initiative to report this transaction to IBM.

The company, named , is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and its founder, Martin Alpert, is a doctor who was impressed by the business opportunities brought by the machine.

This dude once bought two ibm-computers from one of the Computerland chain stores in Chicago, added a hard disk system, and resold them for a small profit.

Martin Alpert was established with the purpose of expanding this reselling business, and the company's growth rate was somewhat beyond his expectations.

When bridge technology called martin alpert to recommend a new product that would link ibm- and ibm mainframes together, it revealed that there were more products, being designed by ibm-general Designer design and development, which will make everyone in a favorable position in the market competition.

Martin Alpert was immediately impressed by the functions of these products of Bridge Technology Company, so he agreed to meet with Liu Augerbrecht and others.

However, just before the meeting, Martin Alpert started to get scared. He suspects that Liu Gebrecht and others are providing him with trade secrets, which may lead to lawsuits from IBM, and even be implicated in losing the rapidly growing company.

Martin Alpert wandered between opportunities and risks for a long time, and it was extremely painful.

In the end, Martin Alpert picked up the phone and reported the agreed meeting between him and Liu Augerbrecht to the security department of IBM.

Big Blue's response was very quick. A team of security personnel from IBM immediately arrived in Cleveland by plane and handed a tape recorder to Martin Alpert.

On September 11 this year, on a Saturday morning, Martin Alpert met with Liu Augerbrecht, who was still an employee of IBM, and his companions. Martin Alpert recorded the conversation as they pitched the new product.

As for the outcome of the matter, it is conceivable that Liu Ergebrecht was fired soon.

At a hastily called meeting. Don Estridge posted what happened and concluded by saying, There's a thief in our midst. We fired Liu Augbrecht this morning for trying to sell out to a company in Cleveland, Ohio. Our ibm secret.

After the staff of the ibm-; department learned about this incident, they were greatly shocked, not to mention anything else. First of all, ibm-lost a technical soul.

And Liu Gebrecht's colleagues - those engineers who have worked in IBM for more than 20 years - inevitably became confused. Why did Liu Gebrecht make such a fuss about his second career?

In the minds of these people, Liu Gebrecht is the best engineer, but he has done this kind of thing. As a colleague, what is the future?

Ibm's personal computer department has been distracted from top to bottom, and it hasn't recovered yet. AMD President Jerry Sanders finished the gossip vividly. So concluded.

Under Tang Huan's guidance, at present, amd, as a third-party chip manufacturer, has seized business opportunities for chips such as interrupts, dma, clocks, etc. that Fangyuan Computer and IBM-need, which is much worse than relying solely on counterfeit Intel products. I don't know how many times it has been moisturized.

In addition, the compatible version intel 8086 produced by amd has excellent performance in terms of power consumption and clock frequency.

When Intel's supply chain to Fangyuan Computer was lost. AMD also filled the position in time and expanded the proportion of supply. As a result, its position in the industry has also been significantly improved.

You went to IBM for a while, and you brought back such a lace news? Tang Huan asked disapprovingly.

Isn't the impact of this incident on IBM important? Jerry Saunders asked in disbelief, At least it will slow down IBM's pace of catching up with Fangyuan Computer, Liu Gebrecht That's the chief architect of ibm-.

The impact of fart. Tang Huan snorted, If a small company with weak cohesion may collapse at that time; even a medium-sized company will lose its vitality; but IBM is a huge kingdom, and the individuals in it Relative to the whole, it is very small, and it can be touted as a personal hero according to need. But his status and role are not indispensable.

Okay, let me tell you about other news I heard. Jerry Sanders shrugged, IBM- came out with an enhanced model, which comes with a native hard disk system, but for further specifications, I will I don't know.

I've heard that, like the Fangyuan computer, it is equipped with a 5.25-inch hard drive with a capacity of 10 mb. Tang Huan was not surprised by this news at all. Sources, there's no need to make that clear with Jerry Sanders.

In addition, it is said that Liu Gebrecht's second career incident has awakened the top management of IBM, and they plan to launch an IBM-style IBM mainframe terminal.

Speaking of this, Jerry Sanders smiled wryly, I was quite touched after hearing the news, but why are you indifferent? You are indeed the richest man in the United States, so calm.

Because I don't need to be afraid of IBM now. Tang Huan smiled resolutely, Besides competition, we also have cooperation. For example, Chinese, Japanese and other Far Eastern languages ​​support technology patents. IBM will ask me.

I'm not in the mood to study the game between you big companies. I came to you this time to seek financial assistance. Jerry Sanders looked directly at Tang Huan, We developed an intel 80286 compatible The processor is already very resource-intensive, but if you still want the intel 80286, you have to reach out to help.

No problem. Tang Huan nodded happily, AMD has a lot of experience in optimizing chips, I believe in your ability, and I am also looking forward to the performance of the intel 80286 process in terms of operating frequency and power consumption.

I heard that you have some new sound processing chips and network chips... Jerry Sanders continued to probe greedily.

Stop. Tang Huan waved his hand to cut off Jerry Sanders's thoughts, Believe me, you will benefit a lot if you have a thorough understanding of the design and manufacture of the intel 80286. After this matter is settled, I will give Your list of other types of chips.

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Tang Huan was not as indifferent to the Liu Augerbrecht incident as Jerry Sanders had seen on the surface.

You must know that Big Blue is definitely a charming employer in the eyes of employees, and Liu Gebrecht, who has served ibm for many years, can also be regarded as a core member of the ibm-department, but he still loves him. Resentment, a strange heart, which is a bit intriguing.

Tang Huan is very clear in his heart that his company still has a long way to go in terms of qualifications, status, sense of honor, etc. in the industry, and established companies like IBM, and such software factors can only be caught up step by step. It may happen overnight.

The reason why so many people follow him to the world is mainly because of the hardware factors of real money and the attractiveness of bright prospects. The so-called like-minded people are a bit vain.

Tang Huan is starting many projects, many of which have core figures like Liu Ergebrecht. Once the other party's hearts are not enough and they feel resentment, it will be really troublesome.

Therefore, Tang Huan, who didn't know what to eat, deliberately took the time to pay attention to the company's personnel relations.

Tang Huan was busy eliminating hidden dangers, and resentment began to grow in the backyard. After all, he brought Monica Bellucci by his side in the name of teaching, and his acquaintances knew what was going on in essence.

Ever since, the women who felt sour in their hearts tried to embarrass Tang Huan in their own ways.

Zhao Yazhi was busy recovering after giving birth, and asked Tang Huan to take time to take care of the baby who was not long after the full moon.

Lin Fengjiao also sent her two sons here, saying that if they didn't spend more time together, the children would no longer know Tang Huan.

Coincidentally, Deng's father was ill, and Deng's mother was really worried, so she temporarily sent a pair of grandchildren to San Francisco, and returned to Baodao by herself.

In other words, Tang Huan had to face six babies at the same time, and his head suddenly became dizzy.

The four big boys would run all over the ground, messing around, and Tang Huan was dizzy seeing it, so he asked the four little guys to form teams in pairs to play basketball games.

While Tang Huan was refereeing the four young players, he observed their tempers.

The remaining two babies were placed in the stroller, and Tang Huan stood by with a feeding bottle.

Not to mention, Tang Huan's arrangement was orderly. Seeing the four clowns pushing and tugging at each other on the field made him laugh out loud, and invisibly gave his brain, which was busy with calculations all day long, a rare rest. (To be continued..)u

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