"What did you say?"

Olsen listened in surprise to the voice on the phone, and then he plucked his ears to make sure he heard correctly.

"Intel is willing to inject $10 million...... At the same time, they have acquired 65% of our company in ARD, and I have agreed. The other party was Anderson, a good friend of Olson's and one of the founders of DEC.

Last year, ARD, a venture capital firm founded by Rockefeller Jr., paid $300,000 in loans and a portion of the interest in exchange for a 65 percent stake.

Olsen also owns only 13% of the company's shares, which is completely different from Catherine's 100% control (Intel is 95%).

For Catherine, to occupy an absolute controlling stake, this is a must.

And Olsen has already given up most of his shares for the sake of his company.

It is precisely because of this that Catherine is much more convenient. It would be nice for Catherine to buy the shares directly from ARD.

Although ARD made a lot of money, for Catherine, there was nothing more worthy of business.

At this time, Olson's DEC company was simply a company that was about to stink, and ARD was not optimistic about them at all.

$10 million?

There is no better news for Olsen's company.

Without Catherine's intervention, Olson would have made $900,000 this year, down $300,000 from 1963.

DEC's negative earnings growth will continue next year, and it will not be until the emergence of the "matrix" that the company reverses the decline.

Olsen, who was still at home, immediately rushed to the company, and then saw the plan of the Ark Group.

DEC will work with Intel and Apple to make computers miniaturized and miniaturized. The PDP series developed by DEC was originally a minicomputer (not a microcomputer) and was developed specifically for the company. However, when cheaper Microsoft computers appeared, their computers were not as popular as they used to be.

Many companies just need a word processing device, not a professional computer. Nowadays, computers are not fully functional, and the price of pure word processing equipment is relatively low, so Catherine's machine qì is very popular.

In particular, her machine can also print out computer documents, which saves a lot of time for many companies and allows companies to get twice the result with half the effort.

DEC and Intel will collaborate on a new generation of microprocessors, codenamed Z80.

In fact, Catherine prefers to call it the MOS-6502, which is also the name of the CPU used on the first red and white game consoles, produced in the 70s. This is also a bad taste of Catherine.

It's just that the Z80 has higher performance than the MOS-6502 in the same era, and Catherine also hopes to have a better meaning.

On the computer side, DEC needs to work with Apple to develop equipment standards for next-generation computers.

After all, Catherine has gone from integrating all the processing equipment to being independent, and in this way, a lot of things are not as easy to accomplish as expected. Although Catherine has been in contact with many semiconductor companies, Fairchild has no idea about the whole machine, but it is still somewhat interested in some of the hardware of computer equipment.

Olson analyzes Catherine's company.

For Intel and Apple, their biggest rival is not IBM, but Motorola.

Olsen once spent time at IBM, and the slow response speed and extremely strict bureaucratic style of this big stupid elephant made Olsen extremely unoptimistic about the company, and in fact, many people left IBM because of this.

What's more, the current IBM has been beaten by Seymour Clay's combination punch, and now it is in a daze.

Motorola is different. Because of the cooperation with the U.S. government in radio, Motorola's scenery was unique for a while, and Motorola cooperated with the National Film and Television Company to develop the first rectangular picture tube for color television, which became the standard for picture tubes.

The so-called first-class enterprises do standards, which is almost like this. Even Catherine's GameTV is their company's standard.

Olsen single-handedly founded DEC and developed a popular line of computers, but he was more than just a computer engineer.

Now, Catherine is more or less Olsen's boss, and after analyzing the issues, he immediately wrote down a question about the company's prospects and wrote a report.

Catherine was impressed by Olsen's question.

In fact, Catherine's $10 million is entirely Olsen's price. ,

Without Olson, there would be no DEC. More than 10 million, there is no problem in saying that the other party is worth 100 million or even more.

But for Catherine, the main problem now is not the Motorola affair, but the need to immediately develop an 8-bit CPU capable of the Z80. That's the way to go.

Now Catherine's 4004CPU is a 4-bit CPU, that is, for the current Microsoft computer, which is not very useful.

But with the Z80, that's a different story.

The historical Z80 has 8K memory, another 64K video memory, the maximum number of colors is 512 colors, the number of colors on the same screen is 64 colors, the maximum resolution is 320x448, the maximum number of active blocks is 80, and it supports AV output and RGB output.

But now, Catherine has stripped the graphics card and CPU, at least for a long time, and she's not ready to fuse it together.

Catherine did not have high requirements for the Z80, and after stripping the graphics card function, the Z80 became a pure computing device, and at the same time, Catherine also created a graphics card called MOS-6502 to support the output ......

These conceptual questions, after Catherine had written down the basic reference scheme, passed them on to Olsen and Jerry Saunders.

The cooperative relationship between the companies has become, and the research is not in a hurry, and everything is given to the results of the researchers.

Super Mario.

Catherine wrote down these two words in her notebook, thought about it, and added "Pac-Man."

She still has a lot to do.

Intel also immediately released the Z80 plan to the outside world, and decided to make the Z80 the core and standard of the next generation of Microsoft computers.

Catherine is now showing the Pentagon that her company has enough power......

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The power outage is off the network, and the laptop can't be connected to the network.

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