I'll go!

Zhang Heng almost vomited blood.

I was listening to you talk about the history of revolutionaries with respect, but I didn't expect the topic to suddenly return to business, and your painting style changed too quickly.

We haven't even eaten yet.

Sure enough, every big guy is a scheming boy.

Even though Noyce has always been known for being tolerant and even cowardly, and when it comes to major matters of the company, he still skillfully uses words, while remembering the past, he unknowingly puts Zhang Heng in the trap.

This statement almost made Zhang Heng unable to refute.

After taking two sips of cold water and sorting out his thoughts, Zhang Heng said: "I deeply regret this, but I respect the choice of you and all your colleagues and salute you." ”

He held up the glass from which the waiter had just poured the red wine, and everyone followed suit, "Cheers." ”

"It's a pity that I'm not yet 21 years old, and the first bite is according to our Chinese tradition, so please feel free to do so next. Putting down the cup, Zhang Heng picked up the knife and fork and ate the hot steak.

The Yankee food tradition can be called pathetic, and the restaurants of some grade are all foreign-owned, Italian, Chinese, RB, Spanish, Mexican, Irish, etc.

This is an Italian restaurant with a wide variety of dishes, seafood platters, assorted soups, macaroni, steaks, grilled lobster, salami sausages, pizzas, salads, chocolate ice cream, and one dish after another.

Zhang Heng turned on the gluttonous mode, ate violently throughout the whole process, and stopped talking, which made Noyce, who was ready to greet him, very uncomfortable, eating absentmindedly, observing his expression from time to time, and the other three of Intel could only accompany the boss like this.

"Excuse me, do you have Italian cod sauce?" Halfway, Zhang Heng suddenly put down his knife and fork and asked the waiter standing not far away.

The waiter quickly brought a large plate of cod sauce, Zhang Heng motioned for him to put the plate in front of Fakin, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fakin, I heard that this is the most famous specialty of your hometown, please enjoy it." ”

Fakin was stunned, and then smiled awkwardly: "As Robert said, call me Federico, thank you, Zhang." ”

"Zhang, have you been to Vicenza?" Noyce asked thoughtfully.

"No, I came across a story in a magazine and learned about Federico's hometown. Zhang Heng smiled, "I also remember the others, Robert's hometown is Burlington, Iowa, and Ted's hometown is Manchester, New York, as for Edward, unfortunately, that report did not mention it." ”

Gelbo humorously: "It seems that as a newcomer, my fame has not kept up with the pace of the company. ”

Everyone laughed, and Noyce and the others looked at Zhang Heng deeply, secretly admiring his memory.

After tasting the ice cream that was finally delivered, Zhang Heng bowed slightly and motioned for the others to continue, gently put down the tableware, and wiped his mouth with a napkin.

Everyone also stopped, and Noyce said, "Zhang, do you want to go to the café on the first floor to sit down?"

"Let's talk to my room and let them bring the coffee. Zhang Heng smiled.

"Okay, then bother you. Noyce didn't think much of it, got up and walked out side by side with him.

Gelbo, who was following behind, frowned, and the advantage aura that he had finally achieved before dinner was swept away, and the boss seemed to be a little breathless, and was dragged away by the other party, which was not a good sign, but at this time, he couldn't go up directly to remind him, so he could only pray that the boss could hold on.

When he arrived in the room, Zhang Heng was not in a hurry to discuss the business, and discussed Intel's most profitable EPROM (erasable programmable read-only memory, which requires ultraviolet irradiation to erase data) with Noyce and others, and asked seemingly casually: "How has your company solved the problem of 1702A ultraviolet exposure time for too long?"

Noyce was stunned for a moment and said, "There has been progress, we will launch the new 2716 soon, and the scrubbing time will only take less than half an hour." ”

"The last time I saw in the magazine, it was Froman who invented EPROM, is he still in charge?"

At this time, Noyce was taken aback, and after a while, he shook his head and said: "Dove went to Africa, and now someone else is in charge." ”

Gallbo was awe-inspiring in his heart, this young man's understanding of Intel was shocking, so it seems that 8008 should have a large market, but the company has not found it yet, maybe it is hiding in the documents that have been discussed and sorted out before, and he will go back and review it carefully.

"Africa is not a good place, good luck to him. Zhang Heng smiled and turned to discuss sports with Noyce.

When he was in college, Noyce won the Midwest college diving championship in the United States, and also worked as an advertising model for fitness equipment, and the topic revolved around diving, fitness and Chinese kung fu.

Noyce coped helplessly, and gradually felt a little impetuous, today he came out with the mentality of finalizing this order no matter what, but he didn't expect the other party to be so difficult, and he talked about him a few times, and he didn't answer his words about the 8008 business at all.

He looked at his watch, was in his early 20s, and finally couldn't hold back and spoke directly: "Zhang, about 8008, is your company still ready to cooperate with Intel?"

You finally can't hold your breath anymore!

Zhang Heng was secretly refreshed in his heart, but said with a bitter face: "Robert, the original customer of 8008 has jumped because of performance problems, and if we use 8008 as the core of our future products, we are a little worried." ”

Noyce immediately said: "Don't worry, there is no technical problem, and the price is negotiable." ”

Galbo almost covered his face, looked at the boss depressedly, and then looked at the two technicians, but there was a faint joy on the faces of these two people, and he sighed in his heart, the technicians and the marketers can never see the same.

Zhang Heng hesitated: "There are two choices in front of us now, Intel's 8008, or TI's TMX1795, the performance indicators of the two are similar, and we are also very embarrassed......

Lin Liang leaned into his ear and "whispered": "Boss, maybe you can wait until you have been to Texas before making a decision, Mr. Gary Boone warmly invited you over the day before yesterday, and they are happy to take care of the round-trip air ticket." ”

In fact, TMX1795 was the first microprocessor (CPU) in the true sense of the word, developed by the CDC (renamed from CTC) in collaboration with TI, two months before 8008, and Gary Boone was the overall leader of the TI microprocessor project.

Zhang Heng did call TI in Los Angeles and had a short chat with Boone, but the other party's reaction was not as earnest as Lin Liang said, on the contrary, he was very impatient.

For TI, which has 45,000 employees at this time, Daheng Technology, which is far away in Xiangjiang, is like an ant.

TI paid the price for its arrogance, and in the original plane, TMX1795 was also rejected by the CDC (this company is very good, rejecting the two earliest CPUs in history, and inadvertently changing the history of the CPU).

Efforts to market it to Ford, the largest car seller in the United States, to act as an engine controller also went bankrupt, and TI announced that it would stop marketing TMX1795 and focus on more profitable calculator chips.

TMX1795 was silently lost in the dust of history......

Four years later, the TMS900, the second CPU made by TMX1795 after substantial improvements, also did not gain the market share it deserved, and TI withdrew from the CPU market and never returned.