Intel has countless powers, but the scale is too small, and it has been invested by IBM, pinching its neck, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

Noyce, Moore, Grove and other characters, how can they be willing to be controlled, so they have long been stupid 'wanting' to move, but the PC has been controlled by IBM and has no chance.

I didn't expect IBM to let its customers join the AT camp with higher 'sexuality' performance, and withdraw from the PC market, which is cheap and weak, but the demand is still strong, how can this not make Intel overjoyed?

The Big Three immediately held a seminar to analyze future market countermeasures.

“...... The specific situation is like this, there is no sign that the compatible machine manufacturers will be defeated, but it looks like it is thriving, which is reflected in the fact that after IBM withdrew from the PC-XT competition, the sales of compatible phones of various companies have risen sharply, and our 8088 chip shipments have greatly exceeded the same period last year. The marketing director spoke first and summarized the current situation, "So, this shows that our strategy of giving up memory products and concentrating on manufacturing processors is correct, and the president's decision is far-sighted, beyond our reach." ”

This is not a big sycophant, but Noyce is very cool, and he smiles slightly. Don't you know that it was also a few stinky decisions made by Noyce back then, which 'forced' away several talented processor designers, and they are still regretting it.

"The situation is not optimistic, and we can't let our guard down!" Grove said in a deep voice, a stout Jew who always seemed to be in crisis, "It's not that the expansion of the compatible machine market means that we can sell more chips, it all depends on whether IBM is willing to continue to support our 86 architecture, and only when the market becomes a habit, we don't have to listen to people." ”

Neuschi said: "Isn't the 8088 now shipping seven million pieces a year to achieve the goal of dominating the market? Defeated the traitor Z8000, PC occupies the vast majority of the microcomputer market, even Apple, I think now the general trend has become a trend, no one can shake our market." ”

Grove snorted from his nose and continued to do annoying things: "I think it's the opposite, Intel is in a more dangerous period than '78!"

It's really not shocking, anyway, Noyce is very unhappy, but a leader is a leader, and he doesn't go crazy on the spot because of the confrontation of his powerful subordinates, after experiencing that talent crisis, he at least understands that he must not deny the vision of professionals.

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"First, Zilog is not what we defeated, it was they who really beat them. The Z80 has an advantage over us in terms of performance and cost, and its market share is far above ours. It's just that Fagan is smarter than us, this architecture was created by his own hands, and he understands any pros and cons, so he painstakingly created the new 16-bit architecture of the Z8000. Gloff paused and continued, "It's just that our market strategy is right, so nothing earth-shattering happened, and the result is that we are still alive with the old 86 architecture, and Fagan's Z8000 is dead, and that's it." ”

There was silence for a while, and all the people present were experts, so they naturally knew that Grove was telling the truth.

Grove continued: "Second, our 286 is not invincible, it's just that the PC market is on our side, and there are better chips in the industry, such as Motorola's 68000. Although this thing appeared very early and the cost is very high, after so many years of improvement, the current 'sexuality' is still ahead of our 286. As long as any company uses their chips — like Apple — I doubt the 286 will survive?"

Grove put on his glasses and flipped through the dossier again: "Since the 'chaos' and 'chaos' in '78', our microprocessor design has been very problematic, and we are basically 'groping' for directions. It took us at least two years to 'wave', and it was very frustrating that there was a garbage like 186 during this time. Our advantage is to adhere to the same line of processor structure and achieve backward compatibility, which is why the market will favor Intel. It is a sad that the designers of 186 would do such a stupid thing as being incompatible with their own controllers. Just as a good building cannot be built on the same sloping foundation, although our 286 also integrates a lot of technology, it still has major defects and is not a first-class product. ”

Grove himself is the leader of the R&D department, and he said such a thing as a very unceremonious self-irony, which embarrassed the people below.

Noyce was also deeply impressed, and cheered up the people below: "Andy said very well, we can't be arrogant, the key to our success in the past lies in an excellent team, as well as a consistent market strategy, this still has to be adhered to......"

Noyce said a lot of morale-boosting words, which diluted the gloomy atmosphere of the meeting, and everyone turned their frustration into motivation, as if they felt that the future was bright.

Moore glanced at Grove and coughed: "According to market analysis, the existence of compatible machine manufacturers is beneficial to us, indicating the benefits of open architecture, but now IBM seems to be suspected of closing this big 'door', so we need to help them." ”

Moore is in charge of semiconductor technology, and he is good at discovering the laws behind phenomena, and he is easy to talk about, but he is always in the middle of his words, so Noyce takes his opinion seriously.

"At this stage, there are two things that must be done, IBM's AT machine uses a new bus, and a large number of our 286 chips are purchased, which is a benefit. However, allowing the blue 'color' giant to suppress the compatible machine manufacturers to monopolize the microcomputer market is not conducive to the overall expansion of the PC market in the long run, and our backward compatibility advantage is impossible to talk about. So I wanted to work with the Institute of Electrical Engineers and other manufacturers to develop a bus specification that would not only be compatible with IBM's AT bus, but also support 16-bit and 32-bit devices, otherwise the manufacturers would not be able to compete with the blue giant on the 286 platform. ”

Noyce exclaimed: "Agree, what we have to do is to make a rule, we can't always let IBM sit in the bank, and we must take the initiative in our hands." ”

Moore smiled: "We are already working on this matter, and I believe that there will be progress soon." Another thing is about the development of new processors, as Andy said, we are just making improvements, there is no substantial 'sex' development, 286 integrates a lot of components, but the 'sex' performance is still not the most ***, as it seems that it can only make a leap at the stage of 32 bits. ”

"We tried to design a new 32-bit processor, but it seemed like a failure, not only was the 'performance' very poor, but the architecture was also incompatible, so we decided to go ahead with the 386," Grove said. ”

Noyce said: "You're talking about the 432 processor, it's really a failure." But this is undoubtedly an attempt by us, and the 432 processor integrates a lot of new architecture ideas, which can be used as a reference for us in the future. ”

Noyce gently and cleverly gave such an evaluation, and was able to get Moore to step down, because 432 was developed by Moore himself.

Grove was ruthless: "Time is running out, we must immediately continue the development of 386." The new architecture must be compatible with 8086 and 286, and it must be a 32-bit architecture, otherwise there will be no competitiveness at all. ”

Speaking of this, Grove seemed to remember something, and said to Noyce: "It is ironic that we have one more competitor!"

Puzzled, Noyce asked, "What?"

"Do you remember Mr. Yu?"

"The quality control director who resigned?"

"Yes, I was the one who poached him at the time, hehe, and then he opened his own computer company, which seems to be bankrupt. Grove said nostalgically, "I thought he would come back to Intel after all these things, but I didn't contact him, who knew that Yu actually had his own chip factory in Hong Kong." ”

Noyce was not interested: "Isn't it just a semiconductor factory, if you should pay attention in the United States, what kind of threat can there be in that backward place in the East?"

Grove sneered: "Originally, there was no threat, but Yu didn't know where he got a processor product called 021, which is now supplied to Japanese game consoles." ”

"What does this have to do with us?"

"He also cooperated with Xi'men', just a few days ago launched a microcomputer product EC, ENGINEERCOMPUTER, as the name suggests, this is a high-performance microcomputer for those engineers, it is said that its computing power far exceeds IBM's AT machine, and is currently competing with IBM in Europe. ”

Noyce was taken aback: "What do you mean ......"

"Yes, the EC machine does not use our chips, nor does it belong to Motorola, but Yu develops it himself. They advertise their processors as the fastest and most advanced 32-bit processors, supposedly faster than Motorola's 68,000!", Grove said, "and the bad news is that they have our 286 technology licensing ...... because they control Intel's distribution network in Europe."

"......," Noyce sighed, "this world is wonderful......

"This world is really wonderful!" Chang also sighed with Hans, but there was no sadness, because the information in hand made them excited.

"It's just that even God helps us when we're lucky. Hans rubbed his hands together and laughed, and opened a large barrel of German dark beer and poured it into the drink.

"IBM is also a self-error, such an important product would make such a low-level mistake, hehe. Chang Chang smiled.

"What are you so happy about?" said Dr. Yu, who walked into the office and saw Chang and Hans drinking and having fun there.

"Oh, Uncle Yu came just in time!" Chang Chang jumped up and filled a cup to Dr. Yu, "There is a big happy event, look at this!"

"There is a major defect in the AT machine, and users have returned the goods, IBM can't explain it!" Dr. Yu took the material and read it, looked up and said in surprise: "How can this be!"

Hans smiled, "Old friend, let's have a toast and celebrate." ”

"The AT machine is very advanced and the configuration is also high, but it is always unstable, and it is a crash or data loss at every turn, which makes the companies that use it miserable. "Long said," IBM still said that the machine was not faulty, but instead accused our godson system of having problems, which is really incomprehensible. ”

"It's not a trivial matter, and we need to study it well to see if it's our problem or IBM's fault. Dr. Yu said.

"It doesn't matter who is wrong, anyway, the brand of AT in Europe is smashed, and almost no one wants to buy this thing. Hans laughed maniacally, and took another big gulp.