Intel Blue Glass Building Headquarters,

In Grove's office, according to Intel's convention, small meetings always decide big things, and this time Grove called only two secret businessmen, one is the new executive vice president Craig Barrett, and the other is the general manager of the processor business unit, House.

"Stegosaurus is selling well, dealers can't stand it, half of the merchants who promised us not to distribute goods to Cyrix have already broken their contracts! and half are wavering, and I can't count on their loyalty for the next two months!" Craig Barrett, executive vice president of Intel, reported to Grove with a solemn expression.

Grove said with a gloomy face: "Don't count on these wall grass, a penny is worth betraying them, the most important thing now is enterprise customers, last week I negotiated with Mr. Hewlett, chairman of the HP management committee, on the golf course, Pratt & Whitney will continue to support us, in addition to the low-end models using AMD chips, high-end business jets will continue to use Intel's products, on the condition that we give them another two percentage points of rebates, of course, to other customers need to be confidential." ”

House General Manager of the Processor Division nodded slightly, "According to the test of our technical department, the running score of Stegosaurus is quite good, and it is still 2.2% higher than us in the integer operation of the same main frequency product, but we are better than them in floating-point operation, although the Slot1 interface is very ingeniously designed, but it is still slower than the L2 cache we integrate inside the processor, and our running score is 3.6% higher than them." ”

Grove shook his head: "It's too little, we pay a much higher cost than them, and now we can only deal with it by extraordinary means, House, you have to come up with a way!"

House's lips were reluctantly curved, and he said with difficulty: "After two days of technical discussions, our processor division believes that there is only one way to increase the attractiveness of our products to customers in a short period of time, that is, not to lock the frequency, and let go of the main frequency of some low-end CPUs, so that users can directly overclock." Thanks to the excellent quality of our products brought by our advanced wafer fab, our 66MHz products can be steadily overclocked to more than 85, some products can even go to 100MHz main frequency, and 75MHz products have been tested, 80% It can run smoothly on 100MHz, our 100MHz products can be overclocked to 133MHz, I would like to open the frequency lock of these three products first, the specific method can allow users to download our firmware package, flash the BIOS of the processor under INDOS, and use the software to open the backdoor we set in the Pentium processor to unlock the main frequency. ”

Grove's face turned pale and he said angrily: "This is impossible, then our product line will be messed up, and our backdoor in the Pentium processor may be detected, it will become a huge scandal!

House's mouth cracked a twisted slit: "Either we will no longer lock the clock of the new factory processors from now on, and leave the existing ones on the market alone." Other than that, I can't think of any better plan for a short period of time. ”

Grove tightly twisted his hands and ten fingers, and after struggling in his heart, he said in a deflated manner: "Since you want to let go, let's just have a good time, if you only open the frequency lock of low-end products, it will only make the users of high-end products angry, let it go!" He rolled his Adam's apple and swallowed hard, "All the new factory processors in the Pentium product line, let them go! Immediately! We want to crush Cyrix with performance!"

Grove said with a low roar, adjusted his mood, and regained his deep voice, "You know, the situation is very bad right now, our stock has been falling since the beginning of the year! We can't drag it out any longer, we must not allow the stegosaurus to ride on our head for two months! Before the Pentium MMX goes public, we need a shot in the arm!"

House was extremely impressed by Grove's decisiveness, and bowed his head respectfully: "I'll arrange it today." ”

Craig Barrett said: "What about those employees who are subject to internal review and FBI investigation? Now nothing has been found, they are very resentful, I have no preconceptions against these Chinese, they are Intel's very important resources, I feel that it cannot continue, the investigation should be closed as soon as possible." ”

Grove sighed and said, "If this leak is not investigated, I can't rest assured. You must know that not only the multimedia instruction set, but also the Slot1 interface technology, and now our technical department has found that there are many places in the patents registered by Chongguang that are highly overlapping with our research and development direction of the onboard processor interface, not to mention, they even directly stole our R&D name, Slot1!

The more Grove spoke, the more angry he became, and after scolding a few words regardless of his identity, he suddenly felt that his chest was suffocating, and he felt like he was about to explode, so he blurted out: "Fire Yu Youcheng! Fire him! Before that, he was under the full leadership of the technical department, even if the leaker was not him, he could not escape the blame!"

House and Yu Youcheng have been colleagues for many years, and they have a very good relationship, and when they heard this, they felt sorry for him, and said carefully: "If he is fired, will he leak secrets again?" I mean if he resigns himself, then there are restrictions on intra-industry competition clauses in the contract, and he can't help our competitors, but once fired, these constraints will be gone?"

Craig Barrett said with a tiger face: "It's okay to be fired!" This can give an explanation to the whole company and let others end the days of investigation as soon as possible, and now several projects in the technical department are in chaos, these Chinese were originally technical backbones, and after being transferred to the 'security position', their role has been greatly weakened, and there is no suitable person to replace them for a while. ”

Grove decided: "Fire! Immediately! Let the HR manager officially announce it to him today! Now he has nothing to leak, the instruction set or the Slot1 interface? The only two promising technologies in the project he is responsible for are the secrets! What secrets are there now! Our secrecy is a joke! Let him go! I don't want to see this man in this building again!"

Seeing that the matter had come to this, House knew that it was irreparable, and wisely kept his mouth shut.

Craig Barrett thought for a moment and said, "We should let them taste the pain of this thief. ”

Grove nodded heavily: "Moore and several of the managing directors of our board of directors, including the Strategic Technical Advisory Group, they have been in Washington last week, they have been active on Capitol Hill these days, and so far, as far as I know, Mr. Chairman, their team has been working with the President's Science and Technology Advisory Council, the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, The FBI's Cyber Security Investigations Division has reached a tentative agreement that we will have to wait until we get the results, but I believe it won't take long. ”

Craig Barrett had already learned about this, and at this moment there was finally a smile on his face.

Hearing this, House opened a pair of brown eyes in surprise and looked at Grove's mouth, thinking too vainly, since when did our great America already need to take trade protection measures in semiconductors and information technology? Moreover, the opponent is actually a small Chinese company that was unknown a year ago, when did this turning point in the scientific and technological strength of China and the United States begin? Is the United States about to be surpassed? This is incredible...... It's a nightmare......"