The reason why Tang Huan wanted to make PeopleSoft become an IT service company from a department of Zheru is to achieve the purpose of "focusing on business", so as to compete with industry pioneers such as IBM and large customers such as government departments, military, banks, large enterprises, and scientific research institutes.

In addition, PeopleSoft's solo flight away from Zheru can also isolate the increasingly prominent mechanical differences between the two in terms of operating models.

Zheru is the earliest company established by Tang Huan, and it has been 5 years now.

This incubator, as well as the many "IT babies" born from it, increasingly need the link of "corporate culture" to link each other together, so as to ensure that they can still keep the country after they have laid the country, rather than a flashing meteor and a wedding dress made for others.

In other words, Philosopherism should sort out a set of "Philosopher's Way" that suits itself, just like HP polishing a set of "HP Way".

This kind of retreat is difficult to understand thoroughly, but the top management has to walk on thin ice to summarize and implement.

By and Arthur. Tang Huan held a ZeroneSeminar in Cupertino, where these executives, as well as professors in the field of business management at various universities on the West Coast of the United States, were invited to talk.

In addition to listening carefully, Tang Huan plans to set up this activity on a permanent basis, on the one hand, to help himself sort out a set of "ways of governing the country" that is in line with reality, and on the other hand, to let the outside world know about his company.

After sending these experts away one by one, the subordinates reported to Tang Huan. Noyce, Gordon. Moore, Andy? Grove joint visit.

"Why are these three so idle?" After muttering to himself. Tang Huan hurriedly came forward to receive the other party.

Since the Japanese semiconductor manufacturers formed a group to encircle and suppress their American counterparts. Intel, which was originally a pioneer in the industry. Stunned by the price war, it is simply unable to adapt to the rapid changes in this market environment.

And at the technical level, 256KB of DRAM has been launched in the memory field, and only Motorola in the United States has kept up with this wave of market, and Intel has fallen behind, which is incredible.

In order to deal with the existential crisis, Robert . Noyce, is using his influence. Running around, uniting with American semiconductor manufacturers, trying to use the strength of the entire industry to resist the attack of Japanese counterparts supported by the state, and at the same time lobbying the federal government to come forward to save the semiconductor industry in the United States.

Therefore, Robert. Noyce is not ordinarily busy, but he actually came to Cupertino today, Tang Huan was naturally a little surprised.

After all, the business correspondence between the two sides, by Andy? It is enough for Grove to be in charge, there is no need for Robert at all. Noyce, Gordon. Moore, the entrepreneurial veterans who have retreated into the background, personally went into battle.

After the pleasantries. Andy? Grove took the lead in getting to the point, "The current high-end model of the Fangyuan personal computer. and Fangyuan workstations, all of which use 32-bit CPUs, but among the CISC types, there is only one processor architecture in the Motorola MC68000 series, I wonder if you are interested in one more option? ”

"Of course." Tang Huan smiled and nodded, he had already vaguely guessed what the other party was going to say next.

In addition to Intel8080, Intel8086, Intel80286 series, Intel CPUs also have another InteliAPX432 that started in 1975 and is of the same CISC type.

The two are not compatible with each other, they belong to two independent product lines developed in parallel, and the design of the InteliAPX432 is much more advanced.

Intel's first 32-bit microprocessor was the InteliAPX432, not the famous Intel80386 that was launched a few years later. However, due to the fact that InteliAPX432 has become a complete commercial failure, Intel is ashamed to mention it, and has been hiding it, trying to let it naturally drown in the dust of history.

After all, the myth of Silicon Valley also needs to be operated, just like when the iPhone was popular all over the world, Apple, Silicon Valley, and Wall Street were very resistant to the media over-promoting Jobs's secondary school behavior when he was young, such as Hollywood's biographical films, so as not to affect the idol effect and make a fortune.

As Tang Huan expected, Andy? Grove immediately showed the card, "Our InteliAPX432 project has been able to produce results, this time I would like to ask Don to visit and evaluate it in person, so that we can reach a cooperation like Intel8086 and Intel80286." ”

"What's the reaction from IBM?" Tang Huan asked casually unhurriedly, "I don't mean anything else, just pay attention as usual, after all, the competition between them is fierce." ”

"We came to you as soon as possible, after all, IBM has a lot of processor projects of its own, and it may be more time-consuming and labor-intensive to talk about cooperation." Andy? Grove replied calmly.

Tang Huan pretended not to understand the appearance of InteliAPX432, and inquired about some information, Andy? Grove answered them one by one and graciously invited him to visit Intel tomorrow.

Originally, in time and space, the failure of InteliAPX432 was inevitable, and I believe that in this time and space, Intel still could not avoid such an ending, but Tang Huan still showed great interest, rather than a cold face.

You know, in a way, the experience of failure is a very valuable asset.

Intel's new microprocessor projects, the Inteli960 and IntelPentiumPro, in the 1990s, drew important lessons from the failure of the InteliAPX432 project in the 1980s, but the expensive tuition fees were really painful for Intel.

For Tang Huan, he doesn't mind being a supporting role and consuming some tuition-based resources, just like when he knew that Apple's AppleIII and Lisa computers had a worrying future, as long as the other party came to ask for software cooperation, he gave a positive response.

Waiting for Andy? After Glover and Tang Huan talked about the topic of InteliAPX432, Robert . Noyce coughed lightly and said, "Don, I personally want to talk about another thing when I come to visit this time. ”

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PS: Happy New Year's Day to everyone. (To be continued.) )