The arrival of the great era is sometimes slow, like the spring rain moisturizing things silently sneaking in, when people are discovered, the traces of this era have penetrated into all aspects, and then looking back, no one can tell when these spring rains wet the whole earth.

But sometimes, the arrival of the great era has a clear mark, although the people of this era have not yet realized it, but looking back, many people will find a significant sign, that is, this standard represents the arrival of this era.

IBM is located in New York, USA, it is the largest computer manufacturer in the United States and even the world in the past two years is not good, six years ago the rise of VIE brought him a huge impact, especially the PS system snatched 30% of his customers, their targets are for commercial companies, both sides of the hardware are similar, the software has its own characteristics, IBM is based on the company's establishment of decades of accumulated contacts, although some aspects are not as good as VIE company, but this gap will not let them suffer a crushing blow。

It's not good to be chased by a Chinese company all the time, of course, it's wishful thinking that the other party wants to defeat him, even so, those bigwigs of IBM are often stuck in their throats.

Three years ago, a computer called Apple was born, the simple style immediately attracted the attention of the world, a number of media have reported that Apple computer will change the development of the computer industry, at that time Apple was heroic, but also played the Super Bowl game scene of the shocking advertisement, in this advertisement Apple as a protester, and other companies represented by IBM are oppressors, this advertisement caused a lot of sensation, so that the United States remembered Apple.

But in the eyes of IBM's top management, Apple's actions were nothing more than building momentum for its own listing, and the following year, Apple went public, and the 27-year-old Jobs became a billionaire.

But so what? Your design is very good, but the price is $4,700, which is more than $1,000 more than the big and clumsy computers of IBM and VIE, and the features are pretty small, and a single mouse is still useful.

No one will buy such a high price, of course, it can also be used as a collectible, most of Apple's customers in the past few years are schools, used as a database to process the scores of some exams, and the annual financial report shows that Apple's computer shipments are really not good, hovering around five or six thousand units for a long time, and there are also some software sales, but these sales are not enough to satisfy those shareholders.

At the beginning of this year, Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple Computer, was ousted by all shareholders and left the promising company a few years ago.

Apple has never been regarded as a rival by IBM, and its opponent now seems to be only VIE, and the Texas Instruments can also occupy 10% of the market share in the United States, but if it wants to catch up with IBM, it must first defeat VIE, which occupies 25% of the market share, before it can challenge itself.

But at the beginning of this year, with the improvement of the production level of electronic components, the price of computers slowly declined, and in April, the price of a commercial computer has dropped from the original 3,200 US dollars to 2,700 US dollars, a drop of 16 percent, which is definitely a positive effect on the computer industry, the price is reduced, more people will buy computers, the same, whether it is IBM or VIE Ann, the sales volume of computers are rising in a straight line, it can be seen from the stock market, from the beginning of the year to the present, the stock price of VIE has increased by 20 percent, and the value of Chairman Wan An is also risingAt its peak, it reached $3 billion.

For this, Wan An's photo also appeared on the front page of Time magazine, and he himself was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.

These honors made Wanan's old rival IBM a little restless, even if IBM's computer sales increased by 17 percent, but as an old powerhouse, he would never allow a junior to show off his might in front of him.

So IBM engineers set their sights on personal computers again.

In the past, the price of personal computers was very high, close to $5,000 per unit, who would buy them? Now with the general reduction of the price of electronic components, the cost of personal computers has also dropped a lot.

At present, Apple's computers cost $4,100 each, which is still on the high side.

But IBM has a strong backing, many electronics industries serve him, cost control is the best, after more than three months of adjustment and assembly, the first personal computer printed with the IBM logo off the assembly line.

The shape of this computer and Apple computer is roughly similar, but there are obvious differences in style, the design of Apple computer is a simple style, in the eyes of IBM with deep pockets, this is a symbol of poverty, the computer is a high-tech product, it can reflect its high-tech not only its powerful computing power, but also should be connected to a lot of sockets, so that there is a future atmosphere.

IBM's first personal computer rolled off the assembly line at a cost of about $3,600, and the main cost was the integrated circuit board that concentrated the main unit and the display, which cost 20 percent more than the two integrated circuit boards alone.

When an IBM supplier received an order, he told them that as long as they were given four months, they could use the new technology to assemble the latest integrated circuit board at a lower cost, and the price of a personal computer at that time was only $3,200.

Even if the current price is $3,600, I believe it will attract some individual customers.

IBM seems to see another way to sell, not too much, as long as it can reach 20% of the sales of commercial computers, IBM will usher in a new round of glory.

So the company's top management is ready for the new PC to be pushed into the market within a week, and it is believed that the company's stock price will skyrocket again.

IBM is working on the introduction of personal computers, and VIE is not idle, fifty bulky computers are equipped with the latest chips, and when the computers are turned on, a clear picture appears on the screen.

"Guys, take a look, this is our latest image processing program, what do you guys think?"

Wan An pointed to the computer screen in front of more than a dozen company executives.

"Is this .........?"

Faced with such a clear picture, everyone was stunned.

Ordinary people will not be surprised if they see this clear picture, isn't this just a photo, where can they not see it? But all the computer experts present know how difficult it is to display a picture perfectly on a computer, at least now VIE cannot do it so clearly, even IBM cannot do it to this extent.

In the past, computers could only do some data processing and word processing, even if they could show pictures, the pictures were basically full of stiff pixel modules, and it was good to be able to roughly distinguish the graphics, but now the screen shows Wan An's avatar, which is the same as himself, well, maybe you can see rough if you look closely, but this is already very remarkable, and it is definitely a world-leading image processing program.

But now, the computer in front of Wan An has done it.