In this way, Alice easily sat in Intel's office, ranking among the top three shareholders and embedded with the title of "technical advisor" for her position in Microsoft. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Of course, everyone, including the company's three founders, current chairman Gordon Moore, CEO Secret Grove and the high-ranking Robert Noyce, knew that the role this girl would play in the company was more than just a staff presence.

On the day of the shareholders' meeting, Alice spent a whole working day walking around the building, visiting every office, knowing the names of every employee, and also learning about the company's current fab address in the United States, and having a thorough understanding of the current situation of the entire company through financial reports.

When the price remains the same, the number of components that can fit on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every 18-24 months, and the performance doubles. In other words, every dollar that can be bought for a computer will more than double every 18-24 months. The famous Moore's Law reveals the speed of information technology advancement, and as the person who proposed this law, Gordon Moore's position at Intel is unquestionable. He was the only one who could say the most about the ideas she had come up with, as Alice pored through the relevant company documents.

"Computer technology was born in the United States," Moore said in the afternoon, in the bright and spacious chairman's office, "Stanford University, Caltech, and of course, Berkeley, these universities provide countless talents to Silicon Valley every year, and this is the cradle of the entire computer industry." So Alice, it's really hard for me to understand, why would you want to fund the construction of a lab in the UK?"

There is a sentence that Moore has not yet expressed, and that is that Intel has its own laboratory, so why bother?

When the price remains the same, the number of components that can fit on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every 18-24 months, and the performance doubles. Of course, this does not mean that as long as the time comes, Intel can directly ask the offline manufacturers to produce electronic products of this specification, which is the physical mass production link after all, and before that, the latest products are of course born from professional computer laboratories.

The R&D and production of new CPUs is not a time-saving process, let alone a money-saving process. First of all, the company needs to have a professional laboratory, recruit a sufficient number of computer experts, work day and night to research new products, and in the process continue to invest in updating equipment to provide raw materials. Then, when the new product is really released, they also have to ensure that the process of the exclusive factory is qualified, and it can really manufacture products of the same level.

Talent, labs, processing plants, and even headquarters, Intel's world is all in the United States, and there is nothing more convenient than that. But now, Alice has proposed to go to the UK to build a special laboratory, which is really surprising.

"In principle, this requires a non-disclosure agreement. Alice was slowly sipping the tea, and Moore had already heard the details before the new shareholder was about to visit, and he had prepared a box of top-quality Biluochun.

"Of course, you're the founder and chairman of Intel, and I'm the new guy, so this step can be omitted. She smiled and looked at Moore, who listened attentively, that it was convenient for intellectuals to touch each other, as long as they were talking about the technical field, as long as the two sides had already learned about each other's abilities through various channels, it would be very easy to talk about the day - of course, don't get into the horns.

"The reason why I wanted to set up a separate lab overseas was not directly for Intel's business, but to start a new business - the research and development of ternary computers. ”

This term really surprised Moore, but of course it was not because of the novelty of the concept. He just looked at Alice in surprise, and a trace of astonishment first flashed across his face, and then turned into confusion: "The kind developed by the Soviet Union is fine, but we don't need it, right?"

The answer was completely unexpected, so that Alice replied without thinking after taking a sip of half a cup of tea: "If it is a simple businessman who considers the gains and losses, your answer is normal." But Mr. Moore, aren't we people in Silicon Valley engaged in the computer industry in order to change the world and pursue the latest technology?

"One positive, one negative and one flat, one is non plus unknown?anthropomorphic thinking?" If the word ternary is a concept that Moore fully understands, but Alice's words after this really made him a little stunned, so much so that he muttered to himself.

The abandonment of ternary computers by the Soviet authorities was a news that came out many years ago and never went unnoticed by anyone. After all, it is a matter of the Soviet Union that the USSR will develop it, and the United States, where computers were born, is the world of binary, who will put a ready-made foundation and not develop, and specifically study the things of that camp?

"It's true that it's not more than a decade ago. With our current process, it is true that a faster and more reliable ferrite core and semiconductor diode can be used to form a good controllable current transformer, which can represent positive, negative and zero voltages, and consume very little power. ”

He is also the proposer of Moore's Law, and Alice's words can trigger a lot of associations with him. However, power is power after all, and after two decades as chairman of Intel, he immediately threw out a crucial question.

"If you're only going to build this lab at your own expense, that's your freedom, and we don't have the right to interfere. But Alice, since you're trying to borrow Intel's capital, I'm going to have to ask you a very important question on behalf of all the shareholders. ”

They all knew what the problem would be, so Alice gave a very simple "uh-huh." ”

"Companies can't buy and sell at a loss. Manufacturing may not be able to be put into practice, whether the technology is mature or not, manufacturing costs, development methods, and supporting products, which requires the cooperation of a whole industry. From all types of hardware and their drivers, to operating systems and various application software, you simply can't get it all together without decades of specialized development!"

The more he continued, the more agitated Gordon-Moore's tone became, and he ended with a high-pitched aria. Sitting opposite the nearly sixty-year-old man, looking at his flushed face with excitement, Alice was a little intimidated by his momentum, so much so that she had to stand up backwards!

So, after realizing his gaffe, Moore immediately gasped and laughed: "Sorry, kid, ah no, Alice, excited, after all, this ideal of yours is indeed very great." Ternary Computer ...... Good fellow, kid, ah no, Alice, I must admit that I support you 100% from the point of view of new technology research and development!"

They are all sensible people, and Moore certainly knows how important scientific research is. Many projects are not commercialized in just five or ten years, and theoretical physics and fundamental physics research is an endless task, and ternary computers certainly have the significance of their development.

But because of this, the old man also said a correct but meaningless nonsense - I support you, I support you spiritually, I support you 100% spiritually, as for practical actions...... Ahem.

But it was his words that Alice was waiting for.

"I've got a candidate for research. She slowly filled herself with a cup of tea: "I have recruited a group of private talents all over the world, of course, about seventy percent are in the United States. is the so-called folk master, idle is idle, and giving a legitimate career can be regarded as allowing them to find a sense of existence in life. Of course, more importantly, some people can explain to their parents~"

This sentence can be said to be too subtle, what is the idle and idle folk master, no sense of life existence, and explain work problems to parents?

Moore had been in the circle for more than twenty years, and there was a girl like Alice Wang sitting in front of him, so after a little thought, an answer that made people laugh and cry immediately jumped into his mind.

"Hackers!?"

"Bingo!" Alice also snapped her fingers for him: "The research and development of the ternary computer, and I also specially plan to set up the laboratory in a place where there is no one to live, think about it, for the group of secondary two teenagers who have nothing to do all day long and always like to mess around on the Internet, is there a more secondary two project than the research and development of the ternary computer!?"

There was also Moore herself as an example, and when it was Alice's turn, her tone became more and more high, so that at the end, it actually became an aria-like tone. So, before expressing further thoughts, Moore first had to soothe her with a smile and tears: "Makes sense, it makes sense, you make a point." ”

After Alice stopped contentedly, Moore recalled her words for a moment, but was attracted by one of the unimportant words: "What did you just say about the hackers and this project...... Joan...... Embarrassment...... What does it mean?"

"Middle two, well, you can look up the Japanese dictionary for the specific meaning. Alice waved her hand and wisely shook off the crooked topic: "So first of all, talents can save a lot of costs when they go to the company." Well, of course, I don't expect to make quick money with this kind of computer, find a house for them in the ice and snow, and make it myself every day~"

As she spoke, as if she had reached something very interesting, Alice laughed so much...... Gloat. (To be continued.) )