Henry's acquisition of DEC's Alpha architecture processor division and the establishment of Alpha caused great alarm in Intel!

Later, they heard that Henry had injected $2 billion into Alpha, and Intel immediately called an emergency meeting.

"Henry Williams looks ready to compete with Intel in the processor area!"

"That's right, Alpha, with his support, is indeed a great threat to our Intel company!"

"Yes, it has to be guarded against!"

"Invest more, we can't let Alpha catch up with us!"

“……”

Intel soon made the big decision to invest $1.5 billion in the development of a new processor!

The processor war is on fire.

Intel and Alpha have received a lot of attention from the outside media.

However, they are generally not optimistic about Alpha, after all, Intel is already in a monopoly position in the semiconductor industry, and it is difficult for Alpha to surpass Intel in a short period of time!

Industry analysts have their own opinions, but they all agree that Alpha is the only one that can challenge Intel, and AMD, which is in second place, has almost been forgotten in a corner...... Henry actually owns Cyrix, the third largest company in the world, which specializes in cheap processors!

In order to strengthen Alpha's technical strength, Henry merged Cyrix into Alpha, however. However, the Cyrix division was retained, allowing them to still produce cheap processors.

Presently. The media is generally not optimistic about Alpha, and naturally Alpha's comprehensive strength is worse than Intel's.

In terms of the number of developers. Intel can throw Alpha several streets. However, Alpha takes the elite route, and the engineers within the company are outstanding people. However, it is true that a large number of talents are needed to engage in scientific research, and the number of talents in Alpha is still a little less!

Even if cyrix joins Alpha, it is far less than Intel.

Spring is in full swing, and Henry walks around Williams Electronics. The sun is shining brightly in San Jose, shining on people. Very comfortable. Henry walked to the lawn and lay down, squinting at the blue sky and white clouds. The gentle breeze and the aroma of grass can't help but be intoxicating!

In order for Alpha to be able to fight against Intel, Henry decided to ask "Master Zu" to come out.

Semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley can basically be traced back to one company - Fairchild Semiconductor!

More than half of the semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley are basically direct or indirect descendants of Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1957, with the support of the Fairchild Photographic Equipment Company, the "Eight Rebels" founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which subsequently invented silicon transistors and integrated circuits. Laying the foundation for the future semiconductor industry!

At that time, Fairchild Semiconductor was 10 times more popular than the current Intel company, and the talents who were basically engaged in the semiconductor industry were all from Fairchild Semiconductor. At a 1969 conference of semiconductor engineers in Sunnyvale, fewer than 24 of the 400 attendees had never worked at Fairchild. It's terrifying. You can see it!

Booms and busts, and Fairchild Semiconductor is no exception. As the parent company's general manager continued to shift profits to the East Coast, he supported Fairchild's profitability. However, this caused the dissatisfaction of the "eight rebels", and then they left Fairchild Semiconductor Company one after another! Eventually, it led to the decline of Fairchild Semiconductor!

Who exactly are the "eight rebellions"? Actually, it refers to the rebellion of the eight geniuses. They were all famous physicists. The students of the Nobel laureate in physics William Shockley, who discovered the transistor effect, later all left Shockley, and the angry Shockley called them "eight rebels"!

The achievements of the "Eight Rebellions" have played a great role in the development of Silicon Valley.

Witnessing the unfairness of the parent company, Herney, Roberts and Claire in the "Eight Rebellions" first ran away in anger and founded Anelco. Sanders founded AMD, and Charles Spock and Jerry Sanders went to National Semiconductor. The last two of the "Eight Rebellions", Noyce and Moore, created the famous Intel company!

Moore was even more awesome, and he casually wrote three pages, which eventually became "Moore's Law," which was called the "first law" of the emerging electronic computer industry! Moore, a genius, once predicted that the number of transistors that could be integrated into integrated circuits would increase steadily at a rate of doubling every 18 months, and this momentum would be maintained in the coming decades. As a result, he really got it right......

As the old saying goes, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse. Although Fairchild Semiconductor is not working now, the heritage is still there.

Intel is awesome, so buy Fairchild Semiconductor and let its "daddy" teach it a lesson.

Henry lay on the lawn and couldn't help but laugh.

In the afternoon, the person sent by Henry to investigate Fairchild Semiconductor Company came back and reported: "Mr. Williams, Fairchild Semiconductor Company is now in National Semiconductor Company. However, the National Semiconductor Company seems to be a little disdainful of the National Semiconductor Company and is ready to move it out of Silicon Valley!"

"Where are you moving to?"

"Burma!"

"Damn, move to that hell place!" Henry shook his head unconsciously, the once brilliant Fairchild Semiconductor Company actually moved to Myanmar, which is too embarrassing......

"You go and tell the National Semiconductor Company that I, Henry Williams, want to buy Fairchild Semiconductor!!"

"Yes!"

In any case, Fairchild Semiconductor is also the symbol of Silicon Valley in the United States, the cradle of Silicon Valley talents, and has bred thousands of technical and managerial talents for Silicon Valley.

Soon, the National Semiconductor Company offered to sell it for $300 million!

When Henry heard this price, he couldn't help but sigh slightly, look at Intel today, and then look at Fairchild Semiconductor, the gap is really big. One has a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the other has a market value of less than $300 million!

Henry didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered someone to buy Fairchild Semiconductor.

Currently, Fairchild Semiconductor also has 6,500 employees. What makes Henry laugh and cry is that Fairchild Semiconductor has recruited a large number of artificial intelligence talents. After Henry asked, he learned that it turned out that the National Semiconductor Company had just taken over not long ago. Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield technology services company, bought Fairchild Semiconductor, which originally wanted Fairchild Semiconductor to quickly enter the field of robot production, but in the end it did not do so. However, these artificial intelligence talents have been recruited.

Okay, artificial intelligence talents, brother can use it!

Fairchild Semiconductor is famous, and the brand is too loud. Henry thought about it and finally decided to keep the name.

If we continue to operate the Fairchild Semiconductor brand name, what about Alpha?

Alpha？

Alpha Robot?!

Henry's eyes lit up......

(To be continued.) )