Three days later, the family arrived in Los Angeles, where Lin Guodong and Sun Mingren were greeted at the airport, and then the three lived in Chinatown.

Liu Donglai and Xu Wenxiu were very worried before, afraid that they didn't know English, how could they live abroad without a language barrier? However, when they arrived in Chinatown, they found that most of the people around them did not understand English, and even some Chinese who had lived in the United States for 10 years could only say the simplest English, such as "hello" and "sorry."

Sun Hu and his wife also followed Liu Lang to Chinatown, they held diplomatic passports, but according to the usual practice, diplomats can also rent a house by themselves, the two rented a small house in Chinatown, not far from where Liu Lang lives, but it is also a temporary residence, if Liu Lang is admitted to Stanford, they will follow to live near the university.

Sun Hu and his wife are about the same age as Liu Donglai, and their children are the same age as Liu Lang, who are very scared when they first arrive in a strange environment, and rarely talk outside.

For the new life, except for Liu Lang, they are very uncomfortable, but fortunately, they are all Chinese, even if they speak in dialects, most of them sound very troublesome, but at least the text is the same, and the neighbors around them are familiar with the two families in ten days, and sometimes they will be called when they go to the neighboring neighborhood to buy things.

During this time, Liu Lang stayed in Los Angeles, and sometimes he would go to ILM to wander around, guiding and guiding the other party's design, and all kinds of novel images appeared in his pen, which made Lucas and others cry out for God every time.

Liu Lang has begun to tell the story of Toy Story, the humorous and interesting story with the image of "Buzz" immediately attracted everyone's attention, many people think that this story should be filmed into a movie, Lucas also agreed, but now it can't be done for the time being, first of all, there is no money, you can't do anything without money, and the second Liu Lang feels that the current industrial light and magic still lacks enough technology, that is, the computer special effects have not really been realized, and the effect of the previous life cannot be done without computer special effects.

The technicians of ILM actually didn't know much about computer special effects, and they didn't understand what Liu Lang said, but this lack of understanding soon became no longer a problem, because in mid-May, the computer industry in the United States detonated two big bombs at the same time.

The first bomb was VIE's new product launch conference, announcing the world's first high-resolution image processing program, which was broadcast live by more than a dozen media outlets.

At the press conference, VIE displayed the Photoshop1 image processing system, and the three computers were the logo of VIE Company, the scenery of McGee Mountain, and the three pictures of popular movie stars, each of which was as clear as a photo.

"Photoshop1 has a powerful picture resolution function, and together with our latest generation of "Fenli" chips, the whole world will be displayed on this small computer......... In the future, with the continuous introduction of photoshop2 and photoshop3 programs, picture processing will become very simple, and engineers no longer need to do those useless work, they only need to input the picture into the computer to make random processing, such as moving Maijishan to the moon, such as taking a photo with Marilyn Monroe, all this will be so simple, only need this small computer. ”

Wan Lie was the host of the press conference and talked eloquently in front of more than a dozen media.

VIE's new generation of computers immediately caused a sensation, and everyone was fascinated by the high-resolution programs and chips, but they were a little disappointed that this kind of brain will only be sold 200 units a month this year, and each will cost $3,800, which is only 500 dollars more than the previous computers, and this month's 200 computers were immediately ordered by several companies.

That is, on the second day of the VIE press conference, IBM also held a new product launch conference, a computer that has more than doubled in size was shown in the eyes of the world, this computer named "miniature" is similar to the Apple computer a few years ago, the only difference is that the price of this computer is 2,500 US dollars, which is 1,800 US dollars cheaper than the Apple computer.

"The miniature is made with new technology, and it has a strong heart under the simple and smooth appearance, but that's not the point, its price is acceptable to anyone, we at IBM will continue to reduce costs, and at the end of the year, we will also launch a new generation of powerful computers, and their prices will make everyone feel excited......... In the future, computers will no longer be synonymous with bloat and expensive, but will be accessible to every household, and everyone can use it to easily handle everyday things. ”

The president of IBM personally presided over the press conference.

$2,500 a computer, and the size of the computer is very small, so small that one person can pick it up, the price and shape are enough to make those ordinary families excited.

"Wow, is it getting started?"

Liu Lang saw the press conference of the two companies on TV, and what surprised him was that VIE was also standing on the cusp of the new era, not relying on personal computers, but relying on new programs developed.

IBM, on the other hand, will lead the personal computer to become mainstream.

However, IBM is not the protagonist of normal development, the real protagonist is Intel and Microsoft, Intel's chips will soon adapt to personal computers, and that group of people is super capable, with powerful chips emerging in an endless stream, in the era of personal computers is like a fish in water.

Microsoft was also listed at this time, and its main business was programming for those large companies, but these programs were very ordinary, far from being powerful, with a market value of only a few hundred million dollars, which was not the same as the market value of hundreds of billions twenty years later.

However, in the next few years, Microsoft and Intel joined forces, as the so-called "two swords are invincible in the world", VIE was completely destroyed, IBM withdrew from the software industry, concentrated on the development of hardware, and the two world computer giants were beaten down by them.

Normal history is like this, now there are some deviations, VIE jumped out, and now it is ahead of Microsoft in terms of software, but this does not mean that Microsoft is finished, as the most famous dropout of Stanford University, he is not a vegetarian, and his talent is enough to make Microsoft a latecomer.

Therefore, the key is to look at the next research and development of VIE company, as long as they continue to launch new products, they can seize the market, and the future era is uncertain.

The two computer giants released their respective products, which immediately caused a big shock in the same industry, and only a few days later, Liu Lang saw a group of people talking about it in Industrial Light and Magic.

They were all talking about the computer at VIE that could display high-definition pictures.

"Boss, you must buy a VIE computer, isn't that exactly the equipment we need?"

A man yelled at Lucas.

This person's name is Edward Cattermole, after several contacts left a deep image on Liu Lang, he graduated from the California Institute of Technology, also majored in computer science, and is now mainly responsible for picture processing, which can be said to be the core technician of Industrial Light & Magic.

"Mr. Edward, you're right, the era of computer-generated special effects has arrived!"

Liu Lang, Lin Guodong and Sun Hu walked in.

"Boss, do you see? Even the boss said so, you must buy one, no, you have to buy two!"

Cattermor was excited.