Although the vast majority of African countries did not participate in the Olympic Games, but it could not stop the enthusiasm of enterprises, throughout the Olympic Games, Ambrera's Apple sold 500,000 computer cameras, 100,000 PC PCs, 1.6 million energy-saving lamps, and 300,000 photo-kines, and DreamWorks' comic sales also increased by 80% over the same period, which made Ambrera the biggest winner of the Games.

Especially with the crazy sales data of PC PCs, even idiots understand that the golden age of PCs has arrived.

As a result, more small and medium-sized appliance manufacturers have sent applications to Ambrera to join the PC and personal computer camp.

This includes Taiwan's Acer Asus, as well as Formosa Plastics Group.

In the face of so many applications, John. Jim doesn't know what to do, do they all agree? Obviously, it is not possible, and many compatible machine manufacturers will not only be detrimental to the development of personal computers, but will also cause a fierce vicious competition in the new personal computer market, and the ultimate victim is Ambrera itself. At present, only a few companies in the market have been authorized by Apple, and in the case of insufficient market competition, several companies, including Apple and HP, have made very considerable profits on personal computers.

Ling Shizhe did not expect to monopolize the entire PC market, as this could easily lead to an antitrust investigation by the Ministry of Justice.

But the existing few PC PC licensing companies are certainly not enough, because it is easy for several companies to reach a monopoly situation. Therefore, whether there are more or fewer compatible machine brands, it is actually not conducive to the development of Ambrera Company, and it is not conducive to John. Jim leads Apple.

So John. Jim handed over these applications, giving Ling Shizhe, the big boss, a headache.

These questions did not stump Ling Shizhe, and John. Jim Andy. Grove Allison, and Foster, who was hired back by Ling Shizhe after retirement to be a consultant for Ambrera, called over.

As soon as everyone sat down, Ling Shizhe took the application form of the first party and said to Andy. Grove said: "Andy, there are a lot of third-party companies asking to join the PC personal compatibility camp, and I want to ask. Our second-generation 16-bit PC PC has reached that stage? ”

"Based on the first-generation PC architecture, the second-generation 16-bit PC hardware has been fully completed, and now we are refining the operating system. If all goes well, it will be available in February next year. "Andy. Grove said.

At this time, Foster, who became a consultant to the company, said: "Boss, the first generation of PC PCs has only been launched for two years, and the second generation of PCs has been launched in less than a year. Isn't it in a hurry? ”

Ling Shizhe looked at Andy. Grove, hoping that he would answer, was instructed by Andy. Grove stood up, took a stack of materials from his secretary's hand, distributed them to everyone, and said: "This is a market survey I have done on personal computers recently, and since the beginning of '76, the sales of personal computers have been exploding, as of June 30th. In the world, mainly in Europe and the United States, as many as 10,000 personal computers have been sold, of which 500,000 are our Apple computers, and the rest are all occupied by third-party compatible machines.

And during the Olympics, in just one and a half months, we sold 100,000 Apple computers, and the first side of the PC compatible machines sold even more. Gentlemen, I would like to remind you that the golden age of personal computers has arrived, which is why our company receives so many applications for PC authorization. Because they all see a huge market for personal computers.

In addition to the large number of third parties asking to join us, I also got some other news, very bad news: IBM has decided to enter the PC market, and they have decided to do so the year after next or next year. Launched their own PC, and it was a 16-bit PC. ”

Rumble! Andy. Grove's words were like a bomb dropped in the calm waters, setting off a monstrous wave, and everyone in the audience was shocked by the news, what kind of company IBM is, everyone knows what kind of company it is, it is the king of computers. Although Ambrera has launched the world's first supercomputer and blade server in recent years, as well as the popular PC in the market, making the world think that Ambrera has surpassed IBM and become the No1 in the computer field, but everyone who sits there knows that this is just media hype, and the real boss of the computer is still IBM, and Ambrera can only be regarded as the second at best.

In the past, IBM has been entangled in anti-monopoly lawsuits, and does not have too much energy to deal with many small and medium-sized computer manufacturers, but two years ago, IBM was entrusted by the US Department of Defense to obtain blade servers and supercomputing technology from Ambrera Company, as well as RISC processor technology, the US Department of Justice in October last year, officially canceled the monopoly lawsuit against IBM, and removed this huge burden, IBM, is finally about to show its fangs.

In fact, IBM has long coveted the personal computer market in history, but at that time he was riddled with lawsuits, and he didn't know what the prospects of the personal computer market were, so he didn't rush to enter, and when he got rid of the anti-monopoly investigation of the U.S. Department of Justice, Uncle Qiao's personal computer made a big gain in the market, and then decided to enter the personal computer market.

In this life, because Ling Shizhe opened the personal computer market and supercomputers and blade servers in advance, the Americans felt threatened, so they ended the anti-monopoly investigation of IBM ahead of schedule, and IBM decided to enter the personal computer market in advance.

The participants quickly realized that Ambrera's honeymoon with IBM was over, and that the two companies would soon have a war of the century over the personal computer, a battle for the standards of the personal computer, a battle for the standards of the personal computer, a winner-takes-all, and a loser, would leave the personal computer market in disgrace.

As expected, on August 2, the day after the closing ceremony of the Montreal Olympics, IBM announced its entry into the personal computer market and launched IBM's own personal PC computer.

The news immediately caused a global shock, and the media soon realized that this was a battle between two companies or two countries in the field of personal computer standards, and many contributing writers published articles analyzing who would win in this battle of standards, Ambrera? Or IBM?

As a result, the media is not optimistic about Ambrera, because IBM has the support of the US government behind it, but what about Ambrera? Although there is the support of the Canadian government, Canada is simply not enough in front of the United States.

One tabloid called Global Current Affairs even focused on the relationship between the United States and Canada. It is believed that there has been a major rift in the U.S.-Canada relationship, and that the two countries are no longer close strategic partnerships, and may turn hostile from now on.

After the newspaper was released, it made waves again. It has added another fire to the current hot standards debate, and the personal computer standards war between Ambrera and IBM that has not yet started is getting hotter and hotter.

In less than two hours, "Global Current Affairs" was sold out and reprinted. It took a total of five reprints to meet the market demand, and the European and Asian media reprinted the chapters of "Global Current Affairs" one after another, and "Global Current Affairs" also became a big hit in front of the world.

The point of view of "Global Current Affairs" is actually very marketable, because there was a war between Canada and the United States in the 18th century, when the Canadian militia also captured Washington, the capital of the United States, and after looting on a large scale, they also burned down the White House. Neither in history textbooks nor in the media, it is not mentioned at all.

Now "Global Current Affairs" has thrown out the relationship between the two countries, so that the global media has to develop rich associations and dig into that period of history.

This is to expose the scars of the United States and stab his lungs, can the US government bear it? As a result, the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs sent a telegram to the Canadian Embassy in the United States, saying: IBM's entry into the personal computer market is a commercial activity between enterprises, and the United States is not behind it.

In the face of the increasingly heated relations between the United States and Canada in the world media. Quebec Premier Joseph. Andrew called Ling Shizhe's office.

"Ling, now all the media in the world are hyping up the relationship between the United States and Canada, and even turning over the previous Chen Sesame Rotten Valley. Ling, you shouldn't be silent anymore. You should stand up and set the record straight, because if this continues, the relationship between the two countries will inevitably be affected. ”

Recently, "Global Current Affairs" has hyped up the relationship between Canada and the United States, IBM and Ambrera have tacitly remained silent, and the media will let them fry if they want to hype. Through this hype, IBM's personal computer PC was hot before it was sold, and Ambrera's PC personal computer also used this hype to make its PC Apple computer a big sale in the market, and the first compatible machine company also followed the soup.

Joseph. Andrew is suspecting that the relationship between the two countries hyped by the media is made by the two companies.

Joseph. Andrew didn't guess wrong, this incident was Ling Shizhe and Thomas Jr. Watson made it.

When Ling Shizhe learned that IBM was interested in entering the PC and personal computer market, he immediately contacted Thomas Jr. Watson proposed that IBM join his PC camp, and the two companies worked together to develop the PC standard.

Thomas Jr. Watson was interested in Ling's proposal, but offered to take a stake in Ambrera Software. Apparently he is not stupid, knowing that in order to gain a foothold in the personal computer market, the operating system is an indispensable link.

With IBM's strength, it only takes one or two years to get their own personal PC, but the operating system is a bit difficult, his development cycle is a year and a half longer than the computer hardware, because to develop the operating system, your computer hardware must be finalized first, if the hardware is not finalized, it is always changing, and the software engineer has no way at all.

IBM's request made Ling Shizhe very difficult, once IBM was allowed to take a stake in Ambrera Software, it would be difficult for Ambrera to maintain the advantage of personal computers in the future, and if it was not good, it would make a wedding dress for IBM.

Just when Ling Shizhe was in a dilemma, Foster made a proposal to divide Ambrera Software into two, into application software companies and system software companies.

The system software company is responsible for the development of operating systems and computer languages, and the reason why IBM wants to take a stake in Ambrera Software is because it takes a fancy to our operating system, so that IBM can take a stake in the system software company, not only can IBM be tied to Ambrera's PC personal computer chariot, but also in the mainframe fields such as blade servers and supercomputers, IBM and us are tied together, and more importantly, if the system software company faces anti-monopoly prosecution in the future, with the god of IBM, we can also resolve it more easily.

Of course, the premise is that we can no longer provide the operating system for free to compatible machine manufacturers, and we must charge a certain fee, but how much should we charge. Then again.

Anyway, it can't be high, and it can't be low. The high will drive the first party away, so that other software companies can take advantage of it, and the low will affect the company's normal profits.

A few days after the letter was sent. IBM was quick to respond, agreeing to Ambrera's proposal, and IBM joined the PC camp. At present, although the two sides have not reached an agreement on the issue of shares, it does not prevent the two sides from taking advantage of the matter of Canada-US relations to speculate.

Small actions from both companies. Although the two governments do not know yet, but in the long run, the governments will know sooner or later. When Andrew called the phone, Ling Shizhe knew that he should accept it.

But in order to prevent accidents, Ling Shizhe said to Joseph on the phone. "We think it's only a matter of time before IBM enters the PC market, and we're in talks with them to join us," Andrew said. If you can't reach an agreement in the end, competition is inevitable. We are not afraid of any competition. I'm afraid that someone will use off-the-plate tricks, you must know that the original Kodak incident, we still have lingering palpitations. ”

Andrew's understanding, if IBM can join, both Ambrera and Canada are beneficial, although the PC personal computer has only been born for two years, not only Canadian enterprises and the Canadian government themselves, can get great benefits from the PC personal computer market, not to mention, just the prosperity of the PC computer market brings jobs. The Canadian government has benefited a lot.

After the collapse of the gold dollar and the outbreak of the oil crisis, the global economy has been in a state of recession, and the large number of unemployed workers has caused headaches for governments. And the Canadian government is no exception.

Now that the golden age of the personal computer has arrived, fools know that this will create a lot of jobs. If IBM starts anew at this time, how much of a blow will Ambrera have to lose in this competition to Canadian jobs, Joseph. Andrew doesn't have to think about it at all, he can figure it out with his toes. Canada's economy is sure to take a hard hit.

Therefore, it is absolutely beneficial for Canada to bring IBM in, on the contrary, whether Ambrera wins or loses, it will affect the employment situation in Canada.

Now the two sides are, if they can contribute to this and promote this, then he is a great contributor to Canada, and the Liberal Party will have a great advantage in the next election of the Canadian prime minister. Andrew's own position in the Liberal Party will also rise, laying a solid foundation for the next election as prime minister.

Figured out what's at stake, Joseph. Andrew took action, first of all, he reported to the leader of the Liberal Party, and under the operation of the Liberal Party, Joseph Brown. Andrew reached out to the United States in his capacity as Canada's interim foreign minister.

After more than two months of negotiations, the two countries finally reached an agreement to jointly develop telecommunication standards, including even for the global Internet.

Let's not talk about Joseph. Andrew in this negotiation, how much political capital has been obtained, the United States alone has made a lot of concessions, because it is not okay not to make concessions, because the employment situation in the United States is much more serious than that of Canada, if it can reach an agreement with Canada on personal computer standards, it is also strong for American employment, and Ambrera has been ahead of the United States in the personal computer market, and people have also recognized the PC personal computer standards of Ambrera company.

At this time, the United States is not sure that it will be able to win this war, rather than the two sides fighting a bloody battle and cheapening Europe, it is better to take a step back generously, and the two sides will unite to formulate standards, so as to obtain the maximum benefits in the personal computer market feast that has come.

On October 1, the day of China's National Day, Ambrera and IBM issued a grand press conference in San Francisco, USA: IBM invested $600 million in Tongsoftware Inc., holding 45% of the shares, and IBM announced that it would join Ambrera's PC personal computer camp, and in the first half of next year, launch the second generation of 16-bit PC personal computers. Ambrera has also announced that it will first launch a second-generation 16-bit PC PC in February next year. The CPU process will reach 3.5 microns.

The world is shaking! (To be continued.) )