Speaking of which, at this moment in the United States, in the six-story blue glass curtain wall building of Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara County, California, there is a earth-shaking quarrel.

In his six-square-meter glass cubicle office, Grove stood straight behind his desk, pointed at Yu Youcheng, and said angrily: "I need an explanation! Yu! Tell me why Intel's newly developed MMX instruction set overlaps with Chongguang's Youying Overlord instruction set! Isn't this the latest technology developed by our Haifa Research Laboratory in Israel over a period of 28 months! What the hell is your R&D department doing? I think you have a serious leak!"

It was a warm morning in California at the end of March, and the sun was shining through the glass curtain wall on the south side of the building, and Yu Youcheng was sweating on his forehead, but he felt cold at the moment.

Yu Youcheng said according to his own understanding: "I don't know why this is the case, after comparison by the technical department, the MMX instruction set is indeed almost exactly the same as the Youying Overlord instruction set authorized to us by Chongguang, I suspect that it is because Chongguang's products were launched very early, so the Israeli side borrowed Chongguang's design, after all, the instruction set is a public patent, even if you don't know the source code, you can reverse the rough algorithm from each instruction." ”

Grove slapped the table angrily: "You did a good job! 28 months of hard work, but almost no patent can be applied!"

I'm going to abolish the Haifa Laboratory!

To hell with these rats! I'm going to fire all these bastard researchers!

I'm going to start an internal investigation! There's got to be something dirtier here!

It's too late for you to confess to me! Tell me! Did you leak anything to your Chinese friends during the development of the MMX instruction set?"

In the face of Grove's unusually severe accusations, Yu Youcheng couldn't help but be frightened, and said in shock and anger: "How is it possible! How can you say that? I swear to God! Every second of my time at Intel is loyal to my own morality and the interests of the enterprise!"

Grove stared at Yu Youcheng in silence, clearly not quite believing what he said.

"What's next for your R&D department?"

Yu Youcheng said sadly: "We originally planned to launch a multimedia Pentium processor that integrates the instruction set of Youying Overlord first, and only need to wait until August 30th, when Chongguang's technology exclusive contract with Cyrix expires, it will be launched to the market.

At the same time, during this time, we want to organically combine the MMX instruction set with the Youying Overlord instruction set, so that one plus one is greater than one, and then use 8 to 10 months to carry out targeted IP design for the upgraded new instruction set, integrated in the new processor, to launch the second generation of multimedia Pentium processor.

But now, since the technologies of the MMX instruction set and the Shadow Overlord instruction set are so highly overlapping, there is no need to make any combination, they are like twins to each other, so of course our second-generation instruction set development plan has been cancelled, and there is no need to spend another 8 to 10 months to implement the instruction set. ”

"So you don't have plans for a second-generation instruction set?"

"The Haifa Lab originally planned to start the development of the next generation of multimedia instructions as soon as the MMX instruction set came out, but now that you are planning to fire them, this plan will have to be taken back to headquarters. ”

"Yu, who do you think is the most suspicious in the technology department? Or anyone, who do you think is the most suspicious among all the employees in the company?"

"I don't know, I'm not a detective, and I've never doubted the loyalty of my colleagues to the company. ”

"I think someone in you Chinese leaked secrets, in the early days of the MMX development plan, maybe 95, maybe 94, maybe even in November 93 when we started the multimedia instruction set development program, he sold Intel's technical secrets, and more than once, it must be a long-term regular leak!"

Listening to Grove's words, Yu Youcheng felt cold: "This is impossible, there are a total of 16 people in the technical department who participated in the plan and signed the confidentiality agreement, including me, I can't think of anyone who will leak the secret." ”

Grove said coldly, "You made a big mistake.

Yu, I can't trust you anymore.

You're good to go. ”

Yu Youcheng walked out of the glass compartment of Grove with a dead face, although he was in a terrible mood and his mind was mixed, he clearly knew that his career at Intel was coming to an end.

Grove's words couldn't be more clear.

Yu Youcheng went back to his cubicle in despair, sat there in a daze until he got off work, and when he returned home, he faced the concern and inquiry of his wife and daughter, but he didn't dare to say what happened today.

As soon as Yu Youcheng went to work the next day, he was notified by the office assistant that his office had been replaced. Yu Youcheng took a piece of paper with his new office location printed on it, carried a briefcase out of Intel's blue building, and after a fifteen-minute drive, he finally found the new office location on XXX Street, which was Intel's processor warehouse.

Yu Youcheng found the person in charge of the warehouse, and the other party received him with an embarrassed face and took him to an independent hut that had just been sorted out on the west side of the warehouse. Yu Youcheng saw his secretary Jessica Chen here.

When Jessica saw Yu Youcheng, she said with tears in her eyes: "Boss, it's too bad here." ”

Yu Youcheng tried his best to be optimistic, and forced a smile: "This hut is much larger than my previous cubicle in the Intel Building, look at the brooms, mops and buckets over there, this should have been a cleaner's room before, hehe, we probably robbed someone else's job." ”

Jessica held back tears: "I was notified early in the morning, I just cleaned briefly, I don't know what we can do here except for cleaning the room." ”

Yu Youcheng put the briefcase on the old desk in front of him, sat down on a cheap black swivel chair in front of the desk, and watched Jessica sit opposite him with an aggrieved face, sorting out a stack of official letters that didn't need to be sorted out at all.

Anger finally began to burn in his heart, and he thought, "What am I doing? Why should I endure such naked humiliation! What have I done wrong!"

When he finally figured out that this was Intel's punishment, his anger finally reached its peak, and he stood up, picked up his briefcase, and walked out of the hut without a sound, across the lawn, and in the parking lot to unleash his red mustang in the parking lot, all the way home.

At the same time, Intel's purge is in full swing, the leaders of each department held departmental meetings after secret discussions with Grove and Moore, a large number of Chinese were transferred from the original important positions to the so-called "safe position", the technical department as a place where the Chinese gathered, but also the hardest hit area of the purge, including Yu Youcheng, all 16 engineers who signed the MMX instruction set confidentiality agreement were deprived of the work at hand and temporarily transferred to the "safe position" Shelved and waiting for further investigation and evidence collection, as many as 37 Chinese engineers and technical directors from various R&D projects were forced to accept internal interviews and ask for cooperation with the investigation.