The reception was not simple, almost all the guests were insiders in the electronics industry, and after paying attention for a long time, almost all of the people who could be regarded as figures in Silicon Valley came, and they were obviously divided into several groups of people - IBM and compatible vendors definitely did not deal with each other, and several well-known software vendors were also not cold, but a group of people who seemed to study processor technology got together.

Under the recommendation of Grove and Hennessy, I have known many people whose names have only been seen in textbooks before, and once upon a time they were all great gods to be worshiped on the top of their heads, but now they can talk face to face.

After a long time of saluting them one by one, you can step aside and listen quietly to these guys fighting, and it is better not to participate in the battle of the great god level.

It turned out that these people were all discussing the development direction of processors together, but this topic involuntarily turned to the dispute between CISC and RISC, and the two factions saw the escalation of the smell of gunpowder, so they were about to point their noses and shout.

Grove didn't say much, but also stood next to Chang Chang with his cup in his hand, and whispered to him to everyone who was speaking.

"That tall and skinny guy is Patterson, known as MrRisc, hehe. Grove whispered almost to his ear for a long time, so many people were fighting and didn't notice what they were doing, "But I have to admit that this is a difficult guy, and he still has some ability to sell his 'lean' simplicity in Silicon Valley all day long, and his design processor is considered to be the fastest today." ”

Chang Chang nodded, looking at the master who had admired his name for a long time.

I only heard Patterson talking there, although the Risc camp here is thin, but it is no problem to have this grandmaster to support the overall situation, and a series of questions have refuted the technical representative of Motorola on the other side, and he is hopeless looking for reinforcements.

Patterson was talking about the assembly line problem, which is the dead 'hole' of the CISC architecture, but the technical manager still stuck to this problem, trying to use the interlocking problem to argue that RISC's future is bleak.

"Actually, this problem is not so difficult to solve. Grove glanced at the technical representative of Motorola with contempt, and said to Chang Chang, "386 solves this problem, and our x86 architecture has also realized assembly line operation, and the 'performance' can be greatly improved compared with before, if it is compared with the RISC processor, the gap is not so big." ”

Chang said: "It's a pity, IBM is not ready to use it, hehe." ”

Grove laughed, "So what do you guys think?"

"Naturally, I need your samples and development machines, it only takes half a year, at most a year, and I believe that the 386 machine will conquer the whole of America. After thinking for a long time, I said, in my memory, 386 was officially released in 86 years, and Compaq launched the 386 computer before IBM, which is very clear.

"3 is definitely better than 2, the weakness of the PC is the memory, and the 386 has solved this problem perfectly. Grove boasted confidently about his child, "We need a '' system that can rival Apple's, and enough killer software, just like you do on that workstation of yours." ”

"That's no problem, I'm sure when Part 1 386PC comes out, these will be there. For a long time, as if he hadn't heard Grove's tentative exploration of the workstation, he just stared at Patterson in the field, "The premise is that VS must be involved in the development of 386pc, otherwise we can't do anything." ”

"So far, three companies have applied for development machines from me. Grove nodded nonchalantly, "I don't care if IBM comes or not, the development progress must be accelerated, 386 must master the standards of the PC, and it is too dangerous to let IBM make any moves." ”

I have been very touched by this for a long time, although the current software sales are good, but IBM can make VS company's business decline in a word, this influence must be eliminated, the best way is to set their own standards, Zhuang or do it yourself.

As he was talking about the secret, the people who were debating burst into laughter, and Mr. Patterson's face was pale, obviously annoyed.

I was amazed for a long time, but I heard Grove say: "Every time it's like this, these 'bastards' will attack each other once they can't debate, but I never want to participate in it, only people who don't have the strength will take advantage of their tongues." ”

It seems that RISC is in charge of the 'door' and is now 'mixed', and the knowledge beyond the times is really not easy to be understood, and he has been very sympathetic for a long time, but he didn't want to do anything.

I can't watch the play anymore, because the main protagonist has appeared, it is the fat Martin's 'daughter', Martin officially announced that today is his daughter's birthday, so that everyone can drink happily.

Speaking of this long-term shock, it turned out that no one had ever mentioned that today was someone's birthday, and seeing the young 'girl' like a doll above accepting gifts from guests one by one, I remembered that I hadn't prepared anything.

I couldn't care about the people around me for a long time, so I hurriedly said goodbye to Grove and searched for Zhang Yi all over the world, but I must not make a fool of myself.

When he was 'messing' around like a headless fly, he was suddenly slapped on the shoulder, "Run, run!"

After turning his head for a long time, he saw that the beautiful woman who could not be found everywhere was behind him, and he was magically holding a box with a "fine" package in his hand, and he couldn't help but be settled.

"I said you were ready, what am I anxious about. ”

"Self-inflicted!" Zhang Yi inexplicably despised for a long time, "You don't have a 'relationship' with others, what do you want to do in such a hurry?"

"Forehead ......"

The following show was also carried out according to the procedure, and I was not good at these for a long time, but I just followed Grove everywhere and 'messed around', and I also obtained the signatures of many heavyweights.

Although the people who were asked for signatures were all surprised, and they didn't expect this kind of thing to happen at all, they were all very face-saving, and some even wrote some language with beautiful 'fancy' in font.

Of course, Grove was also blackmailed, making him cry and laugh, completely unable to understand where such a bad taste for a long time came from.

The others didn't care about this young man, they all thought that some rich kid admired him to make such a move, until Grove introduced that this was the head of VS, and they were surprised.

At this time, although VS is not the largest software company, but in the eyes of industry insiders, it has great potential, and those Wang An companies and the like still occupy the top spot, but the blind can also see that it is the end of the empire, and it can't be restarted.

On the contrary, almost all of the company's products are unusually profitable, and almost all of the industry's recognized killer software is from the hands of VS, but there are really few people who know the mastermind behind the scenes.

However, Chang Chang is also a little confused, today's wine party made him feel a little different, and it seems to be a little different from his memory.

It turned out that Intel had long thought that the development of Intel was smooth sailing, and it had always been to seize the opportunity step by step, without giving any competitors a chance.

When I arrived at this time and space, I found that this was not the case at all, just now, Intel seems to have encountered a very difficult problem, and even the eyebrows of a determined paranoid man like Grove hide a faint worry, and there is surprisingly no speech in this kind of *** 'exchange' situation.

After a little thought, I understood it for a long time. It turned out that the so-called mid-80s was the era of explosive development of information technology, and the new generation that had been known for a long time did not take the initiative, on the contrary, the current market is still dominated by those old companies.

For example, the most popular processor architecture is CISC, but the representative company is Motorola, which has a more superb production process than Intel, and the classic product 68000 has been undefeated for several years, and has become a symbol of high-end processors, and there are new products 68010 and 68020.

As for the small form factor, DEC is no match either, and VAX is now undoubtedly the market standard. As for the field of high-performance computers, the high-end company is CRAY, and the popular one is IBM, which is like a monolith, and it is difficult for others to break into it.

And it is the emergence of the PC that has made Microsoft, Apple, Intel, VS and other emerging companies 'emerge' to the fore, which have made a lot of money over the years, but compared with those old companies that have made a lot of money, this is a completely different concept, to put it mildly, they are struggling, just for a vague future.

Participated in this high-level "exchange" meeting, for a long time to feel the industry's confusion, a kind of uncertainty about the future development of the 'nature', although CISC is now in full swing, but there is no progress in research, all the technology has not departed from the original development of the rut, to put it bluntly, is eating the old book.

And the success of the RISC research, especially Patterson's dead-end propaganda, has slowly accepted the view that the RISC architecture is the architecture of the future. Don't look at those Motorola people who devalue RISC like garbage, in fact, as we have known for a long time, they are also full of worries about the future of CISC, because the classic product 68000 is its pinnacle, the reason why the 'sex' can be compared with other complex architecture processors is not an order of magnitude higher, the underlying reason is that it is a hard-wired processor, and does not use the popular microcode architecture of CISC, which improves the running speed.

However, this is also a swan song, after all, the integration scale of the 68000 is too large, and it is almost impossible to continue to use hard wiring, so this design has to be abandoned on the next generation product 68010, so its 'sexual' performance has returned to the normal level.

As for the emergence of the real product of the RISC architecture, the debate in the industry has resumed, and most of them are waiting and seeing, and the real support is those new companies that do not have any burden.

Because all of the company's products were based on complex architectures, and some even developed into several generations, the hasty transfer to a 'lean' and simplified architecture was too costly—the software market worth tens of billions of dollars had to be abandoned.

Without a strong leader, there is a 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' market, Motorola, Intel and others dare not put their eggs in one basket, and each has a RISC research plan.

Originally, IBM's PC was very likely to dominate the world, and IBM had this qualification and has also achieved something. Originally, this was a good thing, but IBM made a statement at this critical moment, I don't play anymore, I want to be alone Missy.

So the 'melee' war resumed, everyone was precarious, Intel was in the green again, the 386 processor was only designed, and it was conservatively estimated that it would take 86 years to mass production, and the capable long-term can only stare dryly because of the different architectures, focusing on the European market and the Asian market