After the receptionist delivered the coffee and went out, only Andy was left in the small reception hall. Grove, Ling Shizhe and Gray. Brown trio. yan()kuai

Ling Shizhe looked at Gray. Brown, who is not handsome, but has a resolute face and bright eyes, became the president of the world-renowned Motorola company before the age of 50, and he must have his advantages.

Gray. Brown is also looking at the two carefully, especially Ling Shizhe, who gave up the inheritance of the family property at a young age, and ran to Canada to break out of the huge family business in just a few years. Brown thought about how he was still thinking about how to win his girlfriend's favor at his age. And the young man in front of him has already started his business for his dream.

After a long time, Gray. Brown was the first to break the silence and said, "I'm here for your network equipment. ”

Ling Shizhe and Andy. Grove glanced at each other, but he didn't expect the other party to be so direct. Grove cleared his throat and said, "Hasn't Motorola been working on electronic communication devices?" How did you start to get interested in network equipment? ”

Gray. Brown smiled nondeniably: "Network equipment is also communication equipment." ”

At this time, Ling Shizhe spoke, "I can give you the relevant technology of your company's network equipment, as long as you buy my company's chips." ”

Since Ling Shizhe and Alison decided to export the network equipment technology to the National Semiconductor Company, Ling Shizhe made a proposal to Spot in November, but unfortunately it was rejected by the largest director of the National Semiconductor Company, that is, the U.S. government, which made Ling Shizhe have to find another home, but Motorola came to the door, so Ling Shizhe decided to export the relevant technology of network equipment, which can not only avoid the prism door incident in later generations, but also promote the rapid development of the Internet in advance, why not.

The U.S. government is not yet aware of the power of the Internet, but they will one day react and release this technology sooner. There is also a piece of hot potato missing.

Motorola has always been a supplier of communication equipment to the United States, and it is better for them to come to the door by themselves, the technology is given to you, and how you play by yourself is your business. The accident had nothing to do with Ambrera. In the previous life, Cisco was after the Prism Gate incident, its business volume fell to the lowest point in history, and after 2015, it could only survive in the domestic market in the United States, which shows how big a blow this incident has hit Cisco.

"Nope. What I want is a full set, we are not going to buy your company's chips, we have our own chip factory. ”

"Well, then you'll have to pay royalties, but royalties aren't cheap." Andy. Grove said.

"We're not going to pay royalties either."

"Mr. Brown, are you here to play with us?" Andy. Grove said angrily, "You should know that we spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop these devices, and you don't want to get any price, you want to get network equipment technology." It's a bit unreasonable, isn't that what Motorola does? ”

"The two of you misunderstood, and I meant the exchange of technologies." Gray. Brown explained.

"What technique did you use to exchange with us?" It turned out to be a technology exchange, Ling Shizhe put his mind at ease, as long as the technology given by the other party was helpful to Ambrera, he didn't mind.

"We know that Ambrera is in the business of semiconductor discrete components in addition to chips, and we use this to exchange with your company's network equipment technology." After saying Gray. Brown took out a form from his briefcase and handed it to Ling Shizhe on the other side.

The semiconductor industry is made up of two pillars, integrated circuits and discrete devices, and the relationship between them is like the brain and the limbs. As far as the wind control of an electric fan is concerned, at least a master microprocessor is required to give instructions to the whole system, and a Hall element is used to detect the number of revolutions of the motor. A small power thyristor element is used for the rectifier speed regulation of the AC motor, and a motor control microprocessor is used to control the number of revolutions of the motor. Among the key components of fan electrical control, integrated circuits and discrete devices account for half each, which shows the important position of discrete devices in the semiconductor industry.

Later republics had a wrong understanding of the semiconductor industry, believing that integrated circuits were everything, and all policy resources were tilted like chips. It is believed that discrete devices are just simple things such as diodes, transistors, capacitors, and resistors, but they ignore the new induction devices such as optical, magnetic, temperature, and rays that are booming abroad.

The real integrated circuit is to integrate the transistors and diodes, resistors, capacitors, inductive devices and other discretes required for the project into a chip through wiring, or take the electric fan as an example, in the future, it is completely possible to integrate two discrete devices with a high-performance microprocessor together, and turn four chips into one large chip.

In this way, it can not only save the production cost of electric fans to the greatest extent, but also set a very high technical threshold for opponents. Taking China as an example, in the 80s, they could copy most of the world's electronic products or electronic devices, because the circuit board of the equipment at that time was clear at a glance as soon as the circuit board of the equipment was opened, and the technical principles could be easily restored.

But in the 90s, the domestic copycat technology gradually failed, and as soon as the circuit board was opened, there was nothing except a few large square chips, and after the new century, the West's technological blockade on China was much looser. It is also because with the application of VLSI integrated circuits, it is becoming more and more difficult for products to be reversed. Without the control chip machine, it is a pile of scrap metal, so many seemingly high-end technologies have gradually flowed into China. For example, high-speed rail and automobiles, and so on.

After the first decade of the new century passed, all the people knew about the country's shortcomings in integrated circuits, and then the country devoted itself to the construction of the wafer industry with unparalleled enthusiasm. It's a pity that they only focus on the processor, but ignore the other pillar of the semiconductor industry, even if the republic makes a big breakthrough in the processor and throws Intel out of the eight streets, it can only be the king and hegemony in the computer industry, without the support of related discrete devices, it is still a cripple in the industrial field.

You must know that in the future, the global computer market will demand 400 million units a year, and the annual demand for industrial chips will be at least ten times that of the computer industry. Before Ling Shizhe's crossing, more than 300 domestic electronic companies that produced discrete devices were still crowded into vicious competition in the field of diodes and transistors. At the same time, the annual import quota of various independent sensing devices alone exceeds $10 billion.

Gray. The reason why Brown exchanges discrete component technology with Ambrera is because Motorola has always focused on the electronic communication industry, and discrete components are just a dispensable chicken rib for them, but for Ambrera companies that are interested in the field of industrial control computers, various discrete components or independent electronic sensors are quite important.

Gray. All Brown handed to Ling was a table full of patents related to the technology related to the discrete components. The most important of these are IGBT-related patents.

IGBT is the abbreviation of "insulated gate bipolar power tube", which is a composite fully controlled voltage-driven power semiconductor device composed of BJT (bipolar triode) and MOS (insulated gate field effect transistor).

To put it simply, it is a high-power electronic switch. By controlling the voltage across the gate, the transition between conduction and shutdown can be achieved. Compared to mechanical switches, electronic switches can respond up to hundreds of thousands of times per second without the fear of damage due to repeated switching. The transistor in the radio is also an electronic switch, and the IGBT can be regarded as a special type of transistor. It is characterized by higher withstand voltage, higher current, faster speed, and better reliability.

IGBTs are used in a wide range of applications. From rail transit, aerospace, electric power, petroleum and other pillar sectors of the national economy, to consumer electronics such as inverter home appliances, digital cameras, and induction cookers, IGBT can all be found.

Ling Shizhe remembered that the idea of IGBT was first put forward in the late 70s, but he didn't expect that Motorola had IGBT technology-related patents in the mid-70s, which really subverted his cognition.

Why did Motorola take out the IGBT, don't they know that the IGBT has a broad market prospect in the future? In 2010 alone, IGBT exceeded the 100 billion dollar market every year.

In '74, Ambrera set up a separate laboratory for IGBT research under the discrete components laboratory. With Ling Shizhe's guidance, the laboratory's research on IGBT has progressed very quickly, and the IGBT-related patents in Motorola's hands can just make up for the technical shortcomings of Ambrera.

There is no reason for Motorola to take out this technology and share it with Ambrera, is there something wrong, or what conspiracy awaits him?

For the sake of prudence, Ling Shizhe asked Andy. Grove gave a look, and it was up to him to turn to Gray. Brown clichéd, but Ling Shizhe quietly turned on Sony's latest Walkman recorder in the corner.

The conversation lasted more than 30 minutes, and the atmosphere was "friendly" and "warm." When he finally left, Ling Shizhe asked Gray. Brown said: "I have received the sincerity of your company, and I will keep this patent form if there are no problems." I think both sides can sign the contract. ”

Gray. "There is certainly no problem, we are here in good faith, the network will be the future of computer technology, and if we can reach a consensus, it will be good for both sides," Brown said. ”

"Okay, we'll get back to you as soon as possible." After speaking, Ling Shizhe stretched out his right hand to the other party.

Gray. Brown shook him and left. Ling Shizhe returned to the reception room and picked up the form and looked at it again, then picked up a red pencil and drew a few circles on it. Grove instructed: "Send the form and recording back to headquarters, and ask Alison to organize the analysis, especially if I have drawn a circle, we must focus on the investigation." ”

"Okay boss, I'll take care of it myself." Andy. Grove replied.

After explaining the matter, Ling Shizhe walked out of the reception room to the booths of other companies, there are many electronics companies that come to participate in the CES exhibition, but most of them are exhibiting electronic products in the professional field, and civilian consumer electronics only account for a very small part, which is very different from the CES of later generations.

After walking around the venue for most of the time, Ling Shizhe unexpectedly found an acquaintance, an acquaintance he was familiar with in his previous life, but people didn't know his acquaintance - Bill. Gates.

As with the history of the original plane, Bill. Gates & Paul. Allen founded Microsoft last year, that is, in 1975, but unlike the original time and space, because Microsoft's BIOS technology was copied by Ling Shizhe in advance, the current Microsoft can only rely on the Basic program as the company's single product. However, judging from the reaction of the audience, Basic should sell well.

Ling Shizhe also squeezed to the front of the crowd to look at this basic program, and found that this is the basic programming language developed by the PC computer, Ling Shizhe also tried it on the computer himself, and found that this basic program is much better than the original version in history, and it is quite a perfect product, probably influenced by the um assembly language launched by Ambrera Company, so it will be so perfect.

After trying it a few times, Ling Shizhe had no bugs, so he left the computer, walked to Microsoft and asked, "Who are you in charge here?" ”

Immediately, a young man in his twenties walked from the side, standing in front of Ling Shizhe, and said respectfully: "Hello Jester. Mr. Ling, I am the person in charge here, my name is Bill. Gates. ”

"You know me?" It's so young, it's Bill. Gates left his first impression on Ling Shizhe.

I saw that the young man said a little shyly: "Who in this world doesn't know the famous father of chips - Jester. Ling"

"When did I get such a nickname?" Ling Shizhe laughed, "I'm very interested in your basic, can you find a place to talk?" ”

"It's a great honor, please come with me to the reception room." With all said and done, Bill. Gates walked forward, opened a door, and made a gesture of please. (To be continued.) )xh118