Chapter 370, Two Proposals

Intel Corporation's reputation is known around the world, as the first company in the world to introduce a computer microprocessor, and it has always been the world's largest manufacturer of personal computer parts and CPUs. Since its establishment in 1968 and the launch of a CPU in 1971, Pen, Fun and Court www.biquge.info has only been a senior enterprise with a market value of tens of billions of dollars based on the short and efficient development speed of the entire industry.

Today, its headquarters is located in Silicon Valley, just like other IT companies, and it has a very important day.

The shareholders' meeting was held on time, and at this time, the spacious meeting room was filled with seventeen men with different expressions.

It had been five minutes since the scheduled point, but the three most important people had not yet arrived.

As a typical technology-oriented enterprise, "Fairchild Semiconductor Company", which was founded by six people, has been upgraded to the shareholder level after a total of 20 years of development. Geniuses are unruly, but at this time, while they were waiting for the newcomer who was late, none of them even complained, just waited quietly.

Finally, when the lateness had accumulated to ten minutes, the half-open door was immediately pushed open.

"Sorry for being late. Chairman Gordon Moore strode into the room and immediately walked to the chief seat, followed by Intel's new CEO, Andy Grove, a 50-year-old man of standard Jewish ancestry who was not at all the center of attention.

"Let me introduce you," so when the third person walked into the house, there was almost no need for Moore to speak, and the room was full of people with a knowing smile: "Our company's new major shareholder, Cisco's Alice Wang!"

"Good morning, everyone. "Wearing a cardigan jacket on the top and a knee-length skirt on the bottom, a pair of dark high heels just matched the age itinerary perfectly. Alice walked over to the conference table and said to everyone, "I'm sorry you all know me, I'm sorry, I was late just now, and the highway in Santa Clara Valley seems to be extra congested today. ”

"It's an honor to meet you, Miss Alice. The second man on the left hand of the shareholder seat stood up, shook hands with Alice and said, "Robert Noyce, director of the technical department, you are such an amazing girl. ”

Looking at the man in her sixties in front of her, Alice raised her eyebrows in a little surprise and said, "One of the eight rebels of Fairchild Semiconductor Company back then, one of the founders of Intel Corporation, it should be an honor for me to meet you, Mr. Noyce." ”

"Oh, I'm not surprised that you know who I am. Noyce smiled and said, "Although many years have passed since the fairy child incident, I guess your parents didn't know each other at the time, but fortunately we still have a library, don't you say?" said the gray-haired old man, and winked childlike at Alice.

When Alice smiled and replied, Moore said aloud: "Sit down first, and introduce yourself as well, what's the point of standing at the table?" Alice, please sit down first." ”

Before the three arrived, the three chairs that had been idle immediately welcomed their owners. The chief was, of course, Chairman Gordon Moore's, and the first seat on the right hand was Andy Grove, then CEO, and then, under the watchful eyes of everyone, Alice calmly sat on the first seat on the left hand, one place higher than Noyce.

"So, I think you all know what the main content of this shareholders' meeting is. "Alice invested $400 million in our company at the end of last year, and she managed to secure a very important position on the board. Everyone, let's welcome Alice once again!"

A rumbling round of applause followed, not too enthusiastic, but also not so embarrassing and unfamiliar, because everyone's expressions couldn't help but have a clear sense of apprehension. Looking at this group of colleagues who have basically been promoted from key employees to the board of directors, Alice already has some spectrum in her heart.

"It's just a fluke," Alice said when the applause fell: "After all, the impact of last year's stock market crash on the NASDAQ is not small, and if it is placed in ordinary days, I can't buy so many shares of the company with 400 million yuan." To be honest, I didn't even think that I would become the third largest shareholder of the company with this amount, and it was just a fluke, just a fluke. ”

In response, the marketing director, who sat diagonally across from Alice, and the man who indicated "Hassan Sabako" on the table, said: "It's not a fluke, Miss Alice, it's a stock market crash." Most people don't have time to sell their stocks, and how many people dare to invest in the opposite direction at this time? Wealth has always been the most risk-taking person, and your age is here, don't be too modest. ”

Alice looked at Sabako with some surprise: "Marketing Director...... Seeing that you have just reached the age of forty now, where did you go before that?"

"Wall Street, that's right, Miss Alice, it's Wall Street. Sabako smiled heartily: "I've seen too many adventures there, not to mention that you are just selling short and speculating in stocks! To tell you the truth, when the company's stock price plummeted last year, I couldn't help but sell a large number of shares in my hand, and the result is good, I'm afraid that the shares thrown by everyone here have been bought back by you, right?"

Alice laughed modestly again, but this did not mean that the other shareholders would let go of this beautiful girl, and for a while, the sound of laughter rang out.

Of course, this is really why they don't do it. The vast majority of Intel's shares are in the hands of retail investors, and the core shareholders, except for one or two independent directors who don't care about the world all day long, are basically the company's own executives, and the amount of shares on hand is certainly not high. At that time, Intel's market value was as high as tens of billions, ranking third among all employees with a bang of 400 million yuan.

"So," Gordon Moore said after the usual welcome, "you all know who Alice is, you all know what she's capable of, and I believe that she didn't just choose to join Intel just to sit back and enjoy the dividends." So, let's all hear what Alice has to say, Alice?"

"Okay, thanks Gordon. Alice took over the meeting, and instead of speaking immediately, she looked around for a while, and only began to speak when she saw that everyone's attention was focused on herself, rather than staring at her breasts.

"I won't say much nonsense, you know a lot about the development model of the computer industry. Of course, I'm not a rookie, we're all elites, so I'll get straight to the point. ”

She began with a neat speech, saying, "My strength is in programming, you all know that." You all know what the CPU does, the CPU takes instructions from memory or cache memory, puts them in instruction registers, and decodes them. It decomposes the instruction into a series of micro-operations, and then issues various control commands and executes a series of micro-operations to complete the execution of an instruction. ”

"I'm good at programming, and I don't dare to say the specific data right now, but what I can assure you is that let me make a move, and the company's existing CPU can improve the operating efficiency by at least one-third under the premise of the same basic process!"

One-third, that's an extremely staggering number.

Therefore, as the technical director, Noyce couldn't help but put down his glasses: "I believe that Alice can have this ability, programming is a physical work, but also a mental work, genius has always existed." But Alice, do you mean a third improvement on the basis of the existing performance of the existing product?"

The question he asked was very pointed, and Alice's eyebrows twitched slightly, and she immediately recognized it.

"That's right, Noyce, it's not that a new model is developed, but that you give me a random CPU, as long as it doesn't use the arithmetic code I provided, it will definitely be improved by me by a third. ”

The correct and confident answer made everyone present look at each other. Although everyone restrained themselves from expressing their doubts, and did not even say a word, the doubts were evident in their faces, presented to Alice.

"Of course, of course," of course, Alice could see what effect her words were having and she said, "Practice proves everything, you are all people who have studied CPU research for many years, and it is normal to be difficult to accept when you hear me say this." On this point, let's just walk and see, it's morning, and in the afternoon, Noyce will lead me to the technical department for a walk, and show you a hand. ”

"No problem," Noyce said with a wry smile, "If you really have the ability, I can give you the position of director of the technical department, or like you did at Microsoft...... Hey, Moore, why don't you give Alice the title of technical advisor? You don't really want her to take my place, do you?"

"I'm fine, Robert, and I want you to bet Alice won't be interested in your position as a busy man. Gordon Moore smiled heartily and then said, "Of course, everyone, Alice joined our company this time, not only to improve the company's performance, as the boss of Cisco, she also has a very special ambition. ”

In a word, Moore simply aroused the interest of all the people on the scene. Everyone knows that Alice is a young genius who understands computer technology very well, what can happen if such a person suddenly has any "special ambitions"?

"According to Alice's proposal," Moore said, "Intel will find a location in the United Kingdom to build a computer lab with a large investment, and Alice herself will provide a considerable amount of financial support and a lot of talent." So guys, that's the second thing we're going to do this meeting, build a lab in the UK!" )