Chapter 353: A New Era
With the troubles out of the way, William White stopped paying attention, he had more important things to focus on.
After Intel got rid of the burden, it began to travel lightly, and the new CPU that frequently jumped tickets finally unveiled the veil of mystery.
For this forced CPU, William White has no expectations. To put it bluntly, its architecture is not as good as Motorola's 6800, and the only thing worth mentioning is that IBMPC finally has a 32-bit processor.
Many people believe that 80486 is what determines Intel's position in the industry. This so-called 386 is a serious congenital deficiency.
There is some truth to this view, but it is not comprehensive. In fact, it's useless to take out 80486 now, the price of supporting memory is too expensive, and the hard disk is only about 40 megabytes, and the computing speed of the CPU is a waste no matter how fast it is.
Correspondingly, Motorola also launched the 6900 series, and the specific parameters are also comparable to the 386, and there is no outstanding performance.
For this kind of carelessness, Motorola still has a lot of complaints. However, William White didn't buy it at all, if you weren't satisfied, we'd get together and disperse.
This group of stupid 13 don't know what to think. Apple's new model has not been able to show up for a long time, and Wang An's computer is also frying cold dishes, buddy, this is basically a waste.
In the face of two unsuccessful partners, what do you want William White to do? The first to adopt this CPU was not a computer at all.
Yes, the arcade machine in the legendary world has been fully upgraded, and with the blessing of a 2D acceleration card and a 32-bit processor, this arcade machine has undergone a fundamental change.
"Graphics accelerator card?"
"Yes, they use the PCI card slot, and they have launched engineering cards, which have excellent performance, especially in the face of our Windows 1.0, the effect is very significant, but the price is expensive. ”
Bill Gates listened to the report of his subordinates, his expression was very strange, he was wondering, Jobs, is that guy scolding now.
Well, someone was right, as an engineering dog, of course Jobs knew what this thing does. He didn't have to try to know that if this thing was used on iOS, McIntosh would take off.
In the face of Jobs's complaints, William White disagreed, that broken chassis of yours has a fart position to install this thing.
Besides, don't you have to look at the price? The price of two Macintosh computers is just the price of an accelerator card, what kind of computer do you put this thing on?
IBM was so sore that the White system simply chose to ignore them. People's advertising also says that it is compatible with 386 and 6900, and there is no mention of ibmpc.
In their opinion, this thing should not be on the PC at all, and you are in a bit awkward about the position of the minicomputer.
When Compaq introduced the so-called graphics computer, IBM was really embarrassed, and they found that their small computer was not a match at all.
Compaq is not the only one who plans to do this, and today's computers can already cope with some graphic design needs. With this graphics acceleration card, the number of customers with these needs is also increasing.
Seeing this opportunity, many knowledgeable guys began to move, just a computer is useless, no software, no matter how powerful the hardware is, it is for nothing.
"Boss, Motorola has a lot of complaints about what we do. ”
"Oh, what do you mean?"
"They want to be able to produce boards, not GPUs. ”
William White smiled bitterly, why didn't he want to take it all, but today's memory prices can't bear to look at it directly, and there may not be any profit from producing it himself.
"Tell them that I don't agree, they have opinions that they can keep, and if they think they have great ability, let them produce it themselves, I don't support it, and I won't oppose it, they will get a better price, that's my bottom line. ”
"Okay, boss, I got it. ”
Well, they really can't say anything, William White has already given in, looking at that meaning, he is not optimistic about this business at all.
In fact, William White's set is very common in later generations, and the company that produces GPUs usually releases a public version, and then authorizes it.
You can produce higher-end boards according to your own positioning, and you can also produce cheap boards at a lower level. As for marketing, that's your own business.
This thing is nothing in the future generations, but in today's IT world, it is simply unreasonable.
Many people find that this product is really hated by the factory. If it is not a last resort, absolutely no products will be produced in the United States.
Donkeys don't like this guy naturally, and neither does the guild. This kind of bastard who doesn't provide jobs for the people of the United States is just a mean vampire.
The only thing that embarrassed them was that this bastard had been named the best employer for many years in a row, and looking at this year's stance, it seems that he will be re-elected.
It's just that although his business also has guilds, it has been weakened very much. To put it mildly, it's just a signboard.
William White doesn't mind sharing benefits with workers, and he doesn't mind having any partners. The only thing that makes people criticize is that this thing seems to have a very bad temper.
What the guild requires?
No, it will not be considered.
Dissatisfied?
Great, you can leave.
The most outrageous thing is that these so-called demands will soon be adopted, even more than they requested.
After playing a few times, no one went to look for any guilds, and in the eyes of the workers, it was a bunch of rubbish.
Since William White hates opening factories, Motorola has nothing to say. It's really hard to let them do it themselves.
At the very least, Wall Street trusted William White more, even though they hated the guy just as much. However, this does not affect their judgment, and since William White does not support it, you still play with mud on your own.
"Boss, what should I do about government procurement?"
"Well, how can this be the case?"
Tom is also very speechless, this so-called second supplier is really a bit nonsense.
"There's no second supplier, they don't need to use it, and Intel doesn't have a second supplier?
"Then I'll find out more. ”
"Hehe, AMD's quality is better than him, the price is lower than him, Andy Grove must be very hilarious, right?
For the boss's schadenfreude, Tom is also powerless to complain. In fact, he is also worried about this kind of thing, R&D and production, sometimes you can only focus on the same. It's impossible to have both of them.
From this moment on, AMD started its counterattack. No matter how good Intel is, this little strong just doesn't compromise.
"Don't you want government procurement?
"That's it, anyway, there is no second supplier, which is strange to say, he threw out so many production authorizations, why GPU just refused to give it. ”
"Hehe, he didn't give the CPU either, the foot basin company is just a manufacturer, and there is no research and development ability. ”
"Boss, you're saying he's worried about AMD?"
"Hehe, if you don't do that, then it will definitely appear, in fact, this so-called second supplier is really a bit nonsense. William White is right, I spent so much effort to develop it, why should you pick up the cheap. ”