Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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I have to admit that there is never a shortage of smart people in this world——Tang Huan's bright arrangement at the Zheru Spring Developer Conference has been analyzed by those who are interested.

If copper interconnection is a rich club - only companies with considerable strength can afford it, then wifi is a civilian club - most computer practitioners can participate as long as they are willing.

This is the phenomenon of all kinds of circles in the IT field-whatever the NC alliance and the Java alliance, no matter whether it is fighting for hot spots or fighting for quantity, Tang IT can suppress its limelight in different ways.

As soon as wifi appears, it can be foreseen that it will immediately bring a wide range of business opportunities - for example, like Bluetooth in the original time and space, it becomes the standard configuration of notebook computers, giving birth to a new selling point, and this is just the most obvious example .

In short, the content and value of Tang's it ecosystem has been constantly enriched, so that those who are outside the circle dare not stand in line wholeheartedly.

When Tang Huan introduced the topic of wifi at the Zheru Spring Developers Conference, the stage was specially arranged as if without any cables.

Tang Huan glanced at the battery indicator on the laptop, and jokingly said, In order to show the effect, the staff didn't even provide me with a power cord. Maybe they're also afraid of me talking endlessly.

Having said that, the richest man shrugged, Alright then, I won't write a long story for an hour.

When the laughter in the audience stopped, Tang Huan waved his hand, In a sense, wifi is to wireless local area networks, comparable to the World Wide Web to the Internet—you have also seen that in today's Internet age, this laptop computer It can keep the network online without being tied down by any cables. I can even hold it, go to the audience, sit among everyone, and still maintain data communication to complete the introduction of this topic.”

It’s no wonder that the richest man praised wifi, and specifically referred to hi-fi, the form of high-fidelity, to name it.

You know, wifi is the first commercial standard for wireless local area network, relying on the influence of Tang's IT ecosystem, it will inevitably conquer cities and occupy the throne of industry standards. The general standard of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering on wireless LAN - ieee_802.11, is still under discussion.

Look at this backward posture, it is estimated that like other general standards before, the International Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has to pinch its nose and adopt wifi, which has already become a reality, on a large scale.

First-rate companies make standards, second-rate companies make brands, and third-rate companies make products—it’s nothing more than that!

Tang Huan raised his phone and shook it, Someone may have doubts, what is the difference between Liuhe, which is used by mobile phones and laptops to synchronize communication data, and wifi?

Putting down the phone, Tang Huan explained leisurely: It is true that both Liuhe and WiFi are a kind of data communication implementation under the wireless local area network, and both use radio waves in the ISM frequency band, but at this stage, the purpose of Liuhe is mainly to provide a set of different Between devices, the point-to-point wireless interconnection solution has a communication distance of no more than 10 meters; and after ignoring the differences in transmission methods, the performance of wifi at the use level is almost the same as that of the well-known Ethernet.

While Tang Huan was talking, he picked up a Fangyuan handheld computer that was not popular in the market, I want to use this pocket device to surf the Internet. I can't drag a network cable and walk around? But with wifi Finally, PDAs, laptops, desktops... etc., all have equal status when they play the role of network terminal.

At this time, a note was handed up from the audience.

Someone asked -- will NC get equal treatment in front of wifi? Tang Huan glanced at it and laughed playfully, Actually, it all depends on the NC manufacturer itself. As I said, the atmosphere of our industry Is from ~ free.

If nc manufacturers feel it is necessary, then adopt this technology.

Turning this topic over, Tang Huan opened the picture on the laptop, projected it on the big screen, and introduced: This is the scene we are testing in Starbucks, California High Speed ​​Rail and other places-do you think that wifi will let us life, become more interesting?

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The few pictures that Tang it showed were too sensational. So much so that when CNN was tracking the report, the host began to imagine that if a place like the California High Speed ​​Rail could access the Internet, the convenience of travel would be unimaginable.

The industry experts who served as guests expressed their opinions on the ground: 1990 was called the first year of the World Wide Web-I think this year can be called the first year of wifi.

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After Tang Huan completed his task at the Zheru Spring Developers Conference, he also participated in some activities that other people were in charge of. For example, the subject of the new Internet programming language c# hosted by Anders Hailsberg.

At this stage, it is becoming more and more obvious that java and c# are fighting in the arena.

Java relies on virtual machines implemented on various platforms to interpret and execute bytecodes of java programs to support the cross-platform feature of write once, run everywhere.

C# is similar in cross-platform support mechanism, but its cross-platform, compared to java, as analyzed by critics, shrunk, because it prioritizes Tang's IT ecosystem.

On this point, Zheru Software does not argue, but only emphasizes that the significance of c# is to become a model of a new generation of programming language that has been integrated so far, and the cross-platform feature is mainly embodied in its function library. And the runtime library - on.

In other words, which platforms are supported, c# programs can run on those platforms.

In fact, Zheru Software's pursuit of programming language development tools is not limited to the cross-platform that Java has been talking about all day long, but also a wider range of openness-as long as the programming language conforms to the specification, then it can It can run in the environment and enjoy the features that originally belonged to c#, including cross-platform.

In this way, all programmers can use their most accustomed programming language to write the most fashionable Internet programs in the environment.

Obviously, the ambitions of c# and Java have surpassed java.

At the Zheru Developer Conference this year, Zheru Software made c++ and pascal, like c#, support specifications.

Anders Hellsberg confided again-Microsoft is very interested in making his best programming language-basic, also support the specification.

The relationship in the IT circle is so complicated - while fighting and killing, it is also mixed with various transactions.

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When the Zheru Spring Developers Conference ended successfully, the outside world found that nc, java, and browsers that were in the forefront all suffered a head-on blow without exception.

Mr. Richest set off for Asia non-stop, which was interpreted as coordinating the global supply chain of PCs and laying a solid foundation for the next price war.

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and Sun Microsystems President and CEO Scott McClenny were probably frightened and set off for Asia. Visit your partner.

Invisibly, the battlefield is expanding!

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Tang Huan's first stop in Asia was set in South Korea, of course because of its current semiconductor memory manufacturing capabilities.

The history of South Korea's semiconductor industry can be traced back to the initial stage of foundry in 1965; through the introduction and purchase of related technologies. In the mid-1980s, independent research and development began; after entering the current mid-1990s, it has developed into one of the most competitive and leading industries in South Korea, which can be compared with the United States and a book - the evidence is that in 1992, In the same period, it developed a 64mb DRAM; in 1994, it took the lead in independently developing a 256mb DRAM; now it is focusing on the development of a 1gb DRAM.

On the other hand, from the perspective of sales revenue, there is also definite evidence that the Korean semiconductor industry has achieved substantial and substantial development-just in the past 1995, Samsung Semiconductor ranked among the top 10 in the world; Hyundai Semiconductor and LG Semiconductors are also ranked within the top 20 in the world.

Of course, the development of Korean semiconductors can only be regarded as a rise now. In addition to the market share is still in the catching-up stage, the industrial status also needs to be improved.

To put it bluntly speaking, South Korea's semiconductor industry is booming now, and it is completely concentrated in the semiconductor memory sector. If you have a little understanding of this industry, you will know that it is not only semiconductor memory, but at least there are two types of semiconductor memory and microprocessors. It is a major part, while the industrial status of semiconductor memory is relatively low-end.

After entering the 1980s, the semiconductor industry once launched a murderous attack on the US semiconductor industry, but the battlefield was only limited to the scope of semiconductor memory, and the microprocessor has been purchasing licenses—from the Apple-II used The mos6502 series, to Motorola's mc68000 family, and even the rics microprocessor sprac of Sun Microsystems, are all like this.

In terms of microprocessors, the Korean semiconductor industry at this stage is still far from the ability of a peer to manufacture CPUs from the second supply source.

What's more, the coverage of semiconductor memory is also very wide. For example, in addition to the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that the Korean semiconductor industry is currently thriving, there is also flash memory that Tang It believes has a basically mature commercial value-the Korean semiconductor industry has not yet taken care of it.

The rise of South Korea's semiconductor industry also reflects South Korea's unique chaebol economic development model-led by the Korea Electronics and Communication Research Institute, a non-profit government-funded scientific research institution at the national level, Samsung, Hyundai, and LG are responsible for the specific investment. and operations.

After Silicon Valley One landed, Tang Huan walked down the gangway, and the welcome team he saw also invisibly reflected the characteristics of this chaebol-dominated - in addition to South Korean Prime Minister Lee Soo-sung, Samsung Group Chairman Lee Gun-hee, Hyundai Group will Chairman Zheng Mong-koo, president of LG Group Koo Ben-moo, etc. are also on the list.

Not long ago, Forbes magazine updated the list of the world's richest people, and Tang Huan continued to occupy the throne of the world's richest man - under the background of the Internet getting better and better, his net worth is even closer to the jaw-dropping 100 billion US dollars, just around the corner!

The main purpose of Tang's richest man's trip to Asia this time is well known in the circle, that is, to coordinate the global supply chain and set off a climax of PC sales within the year; in addition, the 64-bit fourth-generation Xiaobawang game console is ready to go— —The resulting huge demand for semiconductor memory has already stimulated the industry to the point of itching.

How to divide this big cake? It not only tests strength, but also tests connections!

Like a revolving lantern, the South Korean prime minister, who changes almost every year, has no power to appoint personnel and budget, and is only responsible for implementing the president's decisions. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is an errand.

In front of the welcome team, Li Jianxi and Lee Shoucheng, the Prime Minister of South Korea, stood side by side, reflecting the limited authority of this position. Head of Samsung Group.

Seeing Li Jianxi, who took the first step, deliberately showing off his deep friendship with Tang's richest man, Zheng Mengjiu and Gu Benmoo, who were standing behind, showed displeasure at the same time.

Last year, Samsung Semiconductor ranked sixth in the world, with a sales revenue of more than 8 billion US dollars, which was much higher than that of Hyundai Semiconductor and LG Semiconductor.

Looking at the scene in front of them, what Zheng Mengjiu and Gu Benmao thought of was that Li Jianxi clearly planned to have this network to himself and not let himself get involved.

Unlike Li Jianxi, who succeeded his deceased father Li Bingzhe and became the chairman of the Samsung Group in 1987, Chung Mong-koo and Koo Ben-moo became the second-generation heads of the family group in the past two years, and they also have their own personalities. The old father, the overlord, dictates.

When Tang Huan shook hands with these two people, he could feel that there was a clear distance between them and Li Jianxi in terms of demeanor.

After the welcome ceremony at the airport, Li Jianxi and Li Shoucheng accompanied the richest man into the car without hesitation, went straight to the hotel under the Samsung Group to rest, and prepared to meet South Korean President Kim Young Sam at Cheong Wa Dae, and did not give Chung Mong Koo too much And Gu Benmao's chance to play.

Lee Shou-sung did not take this seriously, Gein said, he has a lot of connections with the Samsung chaebol - before becoming the prime minister of South Korea, in addition to serving as the president of Seoul University, he was also the chairman of the Samsung Media Foundation.

Tang's richest man, who had a panoramic view of all this, remained calm.

He set South Korea as the first stop of this trip to Asia. He originally had considerations to check and balance the global semiconductor power structure, so in the Korean semiconductor industry, he can also check and balance at will.