Chapter 41: Intel's Ambitions

(Thank you for the wonderful long comment of the book friend "This Kid White", thank you for the big guys for the reward and recommendation, the list is being counted, thank you for the old machine.) )

Who is the world's largest graphics chip manufacturer, NVIDIA? or AMD(ATI)?

Neither.

The world's largest chip manufacturer is Intel, whose graphics chips account for about 60% of the market share in 9102.

Of course, intel's graphics chip is mainly integrated inside the CPU, and it has almost no influence on the independent display chip.

In this era, Intel's graphics chips basically monopolized the entire market, mainly to provide the most basic graphics interface integrated on the motherboard.

The performance is low, but it can meet the needs, and the main thing is that the demand for graphics cards is not strong in this era.

Later generations have heard of 3D masterpieces that can eat graphics cards in detail, but they have not yet appeared, and there is no standard for even 3D video interfaces, and they are in a situation where major manufacturers are fighting their own battles.

Wang Anran sat in the office, and the teacup on the table had been filled with water many times.

Xu Chengtao was very puzzled, the boss's face was excited for a while, solemn for a while, and he would smile weirdly all the time.

But what made her even more amazed was that the boss had drunk all the water in the teapot, and he didn't pee......

Wang Anran looked at the forty-seven job applications, and the fifty people who did this internship were almost wiped out, and the remaining three from other places were also places that had been arranged long ago because they had a mine at home.

Now there is money, cannons, and people.

The project of the graphics card is imminent.

Intel's 586 Pentium processor has now completed the simplification of X86 complex instructions, and its execution efficiency has been comparable to that of RISC reduced instructions.

Moreover, Intel is streamlining the instruction set, creatively developing superscalar (supporting multiple streams at a time) technology, and super-streamline technology (deepening streams, decomposing an instruction into several RISC instructions), plus the MMX multimedia instruction set integrated by the Besturn 586 processor.

It can be said that Intel has set up many barriers in the x86 processing architecture, and it is basically difficult for other manufacturers to get involved in these patents.

But why AMD can get authorization from Intel.

There are two reasons, first, AMD has unique features in x86 technology, and some patents cannot be bypassed even by Intel, so it can only be patent sharing and cross-licensing.

Second, according to the antitrust law of the United States of America, if a company forms a state of market monopoly, it may face the danger of a spin-off according to the law.

This danger has been encountered by both Intel and Microsoft.

Overall, intel's development in CPU processors is smooth, but in graphics chips, intel does not want to only eat the low-end integrated display market.

Historically, Intel has had a bad fate in the development of graphics chips.

Two years later, 3D video acceleration cards became popular, and Intel had ambitious plans to integrate 2D and 3D displays into a single chip.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the project was developed, it encountered the famous voodoo graphics card and dominated the rivers and lakes.

In this case, Intel lost hundreds of millions of dollars.

When it came to the hegemony of the graphics card Seven Kingdoms, Intel made a comeback, and who knew that Nvidia would withdraw from the GF2 God Card.

Intel's products were defenseless in the face of GF2 and quickly lost money, losing billions of dollars.

And Nvidia didn't treat Intel as an opponent at all, in this battle, Nvidia pulled voodoo off the altar and replaced it himself, establishing a godhead in one fell swoop.

After that, the independent display will enter the era of Nvidia and ATI competing for hegemony, and Intel's chances are even smaller, and it can only eat a little residue on the set display.

Intel was unwilling, Wang Anran knew very well that in 9102, Intel also ambitiously formulated a nuclear bomb program, but the result is unknown.

Wang Anran decided to fulfill this dream for intel, and he wanted to prepare a big poison pill for intel.

I was about to plan carefully when I received a call from Mr. Lu.

"Anran, come to me in the afternoon. ”

Wang Anran said: "Teacher Lu, I'm busy ......"

Lu Wei raised his voice: "Busy, no matter how busy you are, I have to come over, I can't see you for a semester, what's the matter, I don't have time to take an exam at the end of the year?"

“……”

Lu Wei heard that Wang Anran didn't squeak, and continued: "Anran, another thing is that I just received a confirmation letter from IBM, and IBM will terminate the sales system before the school clearly explains the purpose of the power unix system, so ......"

As expected, Wang Anran naturally did not react excessively, but just said lightly that he knew.

Wang Anran called Jiang Wanmeng and said that the supply was suspended.

Jiang Wanmeng asked on the phone: "Anran, this business is doing so well, why did it stop." ”

Wang Anran said truthfully: "Mr. Jiang, IBM stopped providing operating systems, don't mention it." ”

Jiang Wanmeng sighed with pity: "It's a pity, Anran, what are your plans?"

There are millions of small computers every month, in fact, except for the first few in the name of Wan Yan, and the next eighty or ninety units, all of which are agents of the company established by Lao Jiang himself.

According to the gross profit of 300,000 yuan per machine, in the past few months, Lao Jiang has earned more than 20 million gross profits in this business, and he is naturally reluctant to give up.

Similarly, Wang Anran is also unwilling, and the small computer business also brings nearly 200 million cash to Huaxin, so that he can show his strength in the coming days, and can also provide a steady stream of cash for subsequent chip projects.

In the face of Jiang Wanmeng's inquiry, Wang Anran didn't say anything, and now is not the time to make it public.

According to the news from Hao Fugui, the outsourcing software part has been basically completed, and the final test and debugging is underway.

Within Huaxin, the core code of the operating system is also progressing smoothly, and it is expected that it will take another month to conduct joint testing.

However, during the two-month window period, the expected income loss exceeded 10 million.

Wang Anran sighed: "No wonder Lenovo will go further and further in trade, industry and technology, this thing is a Du product, it is addictive......"

…………

IBM lost money for the first time in 1992, and the compatible microcomputer was seriously threatened by Compaq, Dell and other manufacturers, and the entire market territory continued to shrink.

In the Chinese market, IBM microcomputers are also strongly challenged by local company Lenovo.

It is undeniable that Lenovo has made great achievements in the experience of using the machine, among which the computer with Hanka is installed, which can save users from the trouble of the English operating system, which greatly reduces the difficulty of use.

Not only that, Lenovo has also developed functional components such as one-click Internet access, automatic LAN formation, and fool connection printers.

A series of combination punches knocked IBM, an international giant that was a little uncomfortable, to lose its armor.

In the second half of this year, Hans, president of IBM China, was surprised to find that the small computer business, which was almost monopolized in the Chinese market, encountered a cliff-like decline.

The results of the investigation all point to a newly established company...... Huaxin Technology!