Chapter 570: Three Years Later

Shijie in 1993 was turbulent in Fang Mingyuan's eyes, and on January 1, Czechoslovakia was officially divided into two countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In January, U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Boris Jr., who won the Gulf War, fought with Boris Sr. Yeltsin signed the Second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

The 1993 shijie was wonderful, and in this year, the president of the United States, William Lee, left a strong mark in the history of the United States. Jefferson. Clinton was the first U.S. president born after World War II and the second president to be impeached by Congress. Roosevelt and John. The youngest U.S. president after Kennedy, and Franklin F. Kennedy. Roosevelt was the only Democratic president to succeed in re-election. Of course, he is also a US president who left a deep impression on Fang Mingyuan's memory.

And not just because Clinton and White House female intern Monica. Lewinsky's sex scandal was later exposed by the American media, and Clinton was investigated by the judiciary for it. Republicans also introduced an impeachment bill in Congress, but it was not passed. This is the famous "zipgate" case, and at least he looks more pleasing to the eye than Bush and Obama.

Also in this year, the first special line for Huaxia to access the Internet, the 64K special line leased by the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to access the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in the United States, was officially opened, which marked that Huaxia also began to enter the Internet era. This made Fang Mingyuan, who had been waiting for many years, feel sincerely happy. He was even happier than Cameron's "True Lies" was a box office hit.

Although it is said that compared with broadband or optical fiber Internet access in the previous life, the speed of 64K dedicated line is like a snail crawling, not to mention watching movies, even watching a few pictures will take a long time. But it's like a sparrow can't forget its majesty in the sky just because it sees the eaglet's clumsy flight. Although Fang Mingyuan did not really enjoy the fun of going to the world at high speed in his previous life, compared with foreign countries, Huaxia's Internet speed can only reach one-tenth of others, but it charges twenty times the Internet fee of others, and the blackest company in the world can at least rank in the top ten. Of course, without a few of its siblings, it would have been even higher.

In this year, Intel officially released the pentium processor, which made Fang Mingyuan feel that he finally had a computer that he could barely accept, before that, Lin Lian and they were very strange, weishenme For high-tech products like computers, although Fang Mingyuan advocated that people in the company learn to use them, he never touched them. But in a conversation with Microsoft President Bill. In Gates' talks, he seemed so confident.

"Rong Rong, where is Microsoft's Windows system? When exactly will it go on sale? Fang Mingyuan, who was already one meter seven or eight tall and already had a thin beard on his lips, looked at the report in his hand and asked with a frown. At the end of '91, Fang Mingyuan, under the introduction of Cameron, met with Microsoft President Bill Brown. Gates began to get in touch, and in the second year, he successfully acquired a 5% stake in Microsoft, and in the next two years, Fang Mingyuan has been absorbing Microsoft's shares, and now, he is second only to President Bill Brown in Microsoft. Gates and Paul. Allen's third-largest shareholder holds nearly 14 percent of Microsoft's shares. And Microsoft's Windows system, with his proposal and insistence, is about to be released ahead of schedule. Although Fang Mingyuan has always felt that WIN93 does not sound so pleasant.

Since Lin Rong graduated from college last year, she replaced Lin Lian and became Fang Mingyuan's assistant. And Lin Lian, together with Aso Xiangyue, took on the important task of overseas development of Fang's industry. It is in charge of a huge amount of overseas funds. The collapse of the Soviet Union caused Fang Mingyuan's huge investment in advance to rise in turn, and the value of the resources he bought in Russia has now doubled. It's just that all of this is like an iceberg in the North and South Poles, only a corner of the eyes of the world is exposed. Even Old Man Fang and Su Huandong didn't know how many assets the Fang family had now.

"The initial tests have been completed, and Microsoft Development believes that it would be better to set it for Christmas so that they can have more time to test the software." Lin Rong replied immediately. Although Fang Mingyuan does not hold any executive position in Microsoft, as the third largest shareholder of Microsoft and a director of the company, he certainly has the right to know the company's work process. In particular, the WIN93 system was developed at his suggestion.

"Christmas?" Fang Mingyuan scratched his head, it is only July, and it takes almost half a year to conduct the test, which is not a short time. However, he thought about it, the emergence of the Windows system, for computer users, can be said to be an epoch-making change, and Microsoft's system has always been famous for many patches, do more testing, to ensure that after the market, there are fewer bedbugs, and it is also worth it Now Microsoft is barely its own company, less scolded or haode.

Seeing Fang Mingyuan stretching and standing up from the desk, Lin Rong understood that Fang Mingyuan was over for the time being, and he had to rest for a while.

"Mingyuan, you said that the new processor of Intel company Weishenme will not be called 486 and 586, but must be named Pentium?" Lin Rong asked curiously. In her opinion, it was a natural thing to do.

"Hehe, that's not about making money" If you change to someone else, you may not understand Intel's intentions, but Fang Mingyuan, who has experienced the era of network information explosion in his previous life, is clear in his heart.

The sale of the 80486 was a huge success in Shijie, and Intel, which had made a huge amount of dollars, launched a new generation of high-performance processors, the Pentium, in 1993. However, due to the increasingly fierce competition in the shijie computer market, Intel felt that it could no longer let AMD and other companies use the same name to grab their jobs, so they filed for trademark registration, but because the law in the United States is not allowed to use Arabic numerals to register, so Intel played a trick and used Latin to register trademarks. "Pentium" means "five" in Latin. Due to the importance attached to the Chinese market, Intel also gave it a rather nice Chinese name - Pentium.

"So that's the case," Lin Rong suddenly realized, "Intel doesn't want other companies to take a ride."

"That's the truth," Fang Mingyuan said with a smile.

"Huh?" Fang Mingyuan suddenly remembered, as if he remembered that the early products of Intel's Pentium processor had a problem with the floating point arithmetic unit, and in a few cases, it would cause the accuracy of the processor's division operation to be reduced. This flaw was later discovered and spread so widely that Intel lost face and had to set up a recall to recover the problematic processor. The losses were heavy, and more importantly, it gave rival AMD the opportunity to catch up.

This is a rare opportunity, and if we can find this flaw first, we will have to talk to Intel. Under Fang Mingyuan's name, there is now a computer production company, but it is not wholly owned by the Fang family, but jointly invested and established by the Su family, the Guo family, the Mei family and other families, and Fang Mingyuan only occupies 30% of it... The shares of 333, and the rest of the shares were divided among others. The shares of the Su family are advanced by Fang Mingyuan without interest, and the company will make profits in the future, and then return to Fang Mingyuan from the dividends.

Although Fang Mingyuan also knows that Huaxia's computer market in the future is quite considerable, as long as you think about Lenovo in your previous life, you can know how much profit is here. But Fang Mingyuan believes that no matter how impressive its profits are, in the final analysis, it is just an assembly company, just purchasing computer parts from various companies and selecting the most suitable assembly. Instead of working this, it is better to study the production of motherboards, graphics cards, and optical drives, which is of more practical value for the improvement of Huaxia's manufacturing level.

The reason why Fang Mingyuan decided to establish this company is to get a share of the huge market on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is more important to link the interests of the family more closely with him through this means. In Huaxia, no one in the officialdom has difficulty doing business, so even if he hates this, he has to do it. Fortunately, through this method, there will be fewer leather bag companies that will harm the market. Moreover, Fang Mingyuan also hopes that through this method, the children of these high-ranking officials will realize that they can also make money by doing business seriously

"Rong Rong, you contact James and ask him to buy a few of the latest Pentium processors in the United States, and let the people in the company perform floating-point operations to test their performance, especially the accuracy of his division operations must be tested repeatedly to ensure that nothing goes wrong" Fang Mingyuan immediately said, although Intel has sold Pentium processors to the outside world, it will still take some time to enter Huaxia, and this testing work can only be handed over to Cameron for the time being. Fortunately, in the past few years, the special effects company jointly invested by Fang Mingyuan and him has achieved good benefits, and the company has a large number of computers, so it is not difficult for them to do this kind of work.

Although Fang Mingyuan remembered that this defect had taken a long time, it seemed that it would take a full year for people to discover it, but such a rare opportunity to knock on the bamboo bar of Intel Company, he was unwilling to let go of the rebirth of his little butterfly, which had caused a small deviation in many things on Shijie, who could guarantee that this defect would still be discovered in the original time?