The plane landed smoothly at San Jose International Airport, Zhang Lexing dragged his luggage out of the airport, and the accompanying bodyguards looked at the surroundings vigilantly. Not far away, a young man held a sign with the words "Zhang Lexing" written in Chinese, and when he looked at the stroke, he knew that it was Yang Xinxin's handwriting, and it seemed that the company should have sent him to pick up the plane. Seeing Zhang Le walking out, the young man put the sign down and waved his hand enthusiastically to Zhang Lexing's side. At the same time, a brown 84 Dodge Caravan drove over and parked in the aisle, a bodyguard carefully checked the license plate and the driver, when he signaled "OK", Zhang Lexing followed another bodyguard into the car, and the young man who was holding the sign just now also opened the other side of the car door and sat in.

The car has a lot of space, and it is more than enough to fit Zhang Lexing and his luggage. After waiting for the bodyguard outside the car to put away the luggage and get into the car and sit down, the car quickly started and drove to the VS company headquarters. After the car started, the young man who came to pick him up introduced himself, and Zhang Lexing learned that his name was Fang Shaozhuo (English name Michael Fang), a third-generation Chinese. Fang Shaozhuo only joined the company at the beginning of last year, starting as a clerk, and with his outstanding ability and good performance, he has now been promoted to Yang Xinxin's administrative assistant. This time to pick up the airport is a task arranged by Yang Xinxin, not because I am worried that Zhang Lexing will not be able to find the new headquarters building of VisualSystem Company, but in order to facilitate Zhang Lexing to grasp the company's recent business situation as soon as possible, so Fang Shaozhuo came to pick up the airport and brought a lot of relevant information by the way.

Considering that Zhang Le's car looks convenient, Yang Xinxin's preparation of information is not thick, mainly from the second half of 86 to the first half of 87 years between the operation of VisualSystem and foreign investment. Zhang Lexing took a cursory turn, and judging from the data alone, the company's development during this period was quite good. In this year, VisualSystem's own business has developed rapidly, the market share of operating systems and office software in North America has increased year by year, and overseas markets are gradually expanding, and the revenue of 86 years has increased significantly, exceeding $1 billion for the first time. In the same period, the company's foreign investment income is good, since the beginning of foreign investment in 82, the investment project gradually began to enter the benefit period, by the end of 86, the annual income brought by the investment has exceeded 500 million US dollars, especially the 85 years of the equity acquisition of Microsoft, after the completion of Microsoft's restructuring, adjustment of the product line, not only brought hundreds of millions of dollars of income every year, but also through the company's IPO listing to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.

After reading the information, the car also came to the underground parking lot of the VisualSystem corporate headquarters building. The bodyguards were able to retire, and Zhang Lexing took the elevator directly to the 10th floor where the conference room was located. Walking out of the elevator and through the corridor, Zhang Lexing came to the conference room at the other end, where Yang Xinxin and the company's executives and technical executives were waiting. Today's meeting is important and related to the company's operations in the second half of the year.

Pushing open the door of the conference room, Zhang Le walked to the round table, pulled out an empty chair and sat down. Yang Xinxin smiled at Zhang Lexing and said hello, and then she announced the official start of the meeting.

First of all, Yang Xinxin introduced the company's operation some time ago, which was more detailed than the information Zhang Lexing saw, and then the company's technical directors began to introduce the development of the project they were responsible for.

The first speaker was Bill Joy, who said, "The operating system developed by our company in collaboration with Sun has launched SunOS 3.0 earlier this year, with enhanced support for NFS features and bugs fixed in the previous version, and is currently working on the next version, which is planned to include support for Sun's SPARC processors, and will include virtual memory technology, which is also planned to be used in the upcoming new version of Kylin's system." KylinWindows 2.0 is scheduled to be officially launched in November and is now in beta testing......"

Next to speak was Kildare, and the professor said as he flipped through the materials: "Kylin 3.1 was officially launched in May this year, and the main improvement is the addition of support for high-capacity hard drives and IBMPS/2. The next version, Kylin 4.0, is scheduled to be launched in March next year and has entered the Alpha testing stage, with the main improvements being the new memory management mode support for the 386 system and the application of virtual memory technology......"

Then Kevin introduced the development of office software: "At present, there are two main parts of office software, one is the graphical interface VisualOffice launched on Mac according to the agreement with Apple, which has achieved more than 80% of the North American market share, and the other is VisualOffice, which has a character interface on the PC platform, and the North American market share has exceeded 90%. According to our technical analysis, if the performance of the new generation of processors launched by Intel can be improved by more than 30% in integer operations, it will be able to basically meet the VisualOffice operation under the KylinWindows platform. ”

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After everyone finished speaking, Zhang Lexing cleared his throat and said, "Well, everyone has done a good job, and the results are quite good." But it's not time to relax yet, our competitors are still working on it, and we don't have to hurry up yet, especially in the OS development department. According to intelligence, IBM has now begun to concentrate on the development of PC operating systems, and not long ago launched the first version of their research results, OS/2. ”

Someone in the meeting of the operating system development department laughed: "As far as IBM's broken system is concerned, it is not enough to see at all, after studying it for so long, it is still a character interface thing, to be honest, it is not as easy to use as Kylin3.1, let alone compared with our KylinWindows." ”

"Although the first version of OS/2 is very general, but we must not underestimate IBM, their strong human resource reserves are not comparable to us now, as long as they are willing they can even organize a development team of more than 1000 people to do this, the current OS/2 first version of the performance is not good, but they are not familiar with the graphical operating system, and when they are familiar with it in the future, then our trouble will come. The usual IBM is not terrible, but the IBM that is seriously focused on doing one thing is difficult for us to compete with at this stage. So we have to take advantage of the current leading position, increase R&D efforts, and try to expand our leading position. ”

Looking at everyone's relaxed expressions, it is obvious that Zhang Lexing's painstaking words are said to the air, perhaps because IBM has not shown too much pressure for the time being, and Zhang Lexing can only do his best to obey the destiny of heaven.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Zhang Lexing changed the topic: "Just now the Office Software Division mentioned the problem of processor (CPU) performance, I believe that Joey also has this idea, if Intel can really develop a new generation of processors with higher performance, our KylinWindows will be able to run faster, and the functions can be more comprehensive." ”

Zhang Lexing took a sip of water, took out a piece of information from his briefcase, and threw it on the round table, "This is the news I just received, Intel has planned to develop a new generation of processors, this information is their expected research and development goals, you can circulate it." ”

Since 85 years, the industry has been blowing a whirlwind of RISC (Reduced Instructions), and even Intel Corporation, which made its fortune on CISC (Complex Instructions), has been deeply affected. Intel wanted to consolidate its position in CISC processors, but was worried that it would miss the opportunity if it gave up RISC, so Grove simply joined two R&D groups. One is the traditional CISC architecture processor R&D group, and according to the naming convention, the code name of the chip is 80486. The other is a processor R&D group based on the RISC architecture, with the chip code 860. The two development groups competed within Intel, and interestingly, a Chinese-American couple joined the two development groups, not only competing in the office, but sometimes arguing over who was stronger or weaker at the dinner table at home.

Intel's two processor R&D groups were formed last year, and although they have not yet come up with the final product, they have also made a lot of technical gains. In order to prevent the processor from being launched without the right software, Intel informed VisualSystem, an important ally, of the situation early on, so that VisualSystem could arrange a suitable software development plan in a timely manner.

From Intel's point of view, of course, it is hoped that VisualSystem will develop supporting software for both processors, but it is difficult to say. The 860 processor may be very good, but Zhang Lexing has never heard of it in his previous life, obviously there is a reason, and Zhang Lexing has invested in the MIPS company, which also belongs to the RISC system, of course, he will not take the initiative to help Intel develop the market so stupidly. In contrast, the 80486 processor is much cuter, it is a successful product that has been proven by the market, and it maintains backward compatibility with the previous 80386 processor, which is much less difficult for the development of the operating system.

After reading the information, everyone's reaction was similar to Zhang Lexing's expectations, almost no one was willing to support the Intel 860 plan, almost one-sided support for 80486, even the market and administrative staff who are not very proficient in technology, it seems that the 80486 processor is really the trend of the times.

Now that the choice has been decided, Zhang Lexing immediately made corresponding personnel adjustments, and transferred some elite soldiers from Joy and Kildare to Intel's 80486 R&D team to assist in development, so as to grasp the technical characteristics of the chip in time. As for the R&D team under Joy and Kildare, the personnel department will arrange backup personnel to supplement it in a timely manner, which is very important in the future, but the current project cannot be relaxed. Although everyone doesn't care about IBM, for Zhang Lexing, the powerful IBM is like a sword of Damocles hanging over his head, and he doesn't know when it will fall.

After arranging the technical matters, Zhang Lexing left Yang Xinxin and other executives to continue the meeting, October is coming, although many things have already been arranged, but in order to better deal with it, it is still necessary to plan well.

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