Chapter 59: Something Must Be Going On
After visiting Intel and AMD in a row, it was getting late and people were a little tired, and Yao Fei temporarily dismissed his plan to continue the raid on the Xerox Parker Institute, which is located halfway up the mountain at Stanford University.
However, if you can't go today, then you can go tomorrow, and there is a night of preparation time, Yao Fei can make an appointment in advance, the Parker Institute is not something that can be entered if you want to, as the core research institute of Xerox, you must know that Jobs led his team to work in this institute for three days, but paid the price of millions of dollars worth of Apple stock.
Go back to the laboratory first, the lights inside are on, but because the growth time of monocrystalline silicon is generally about 50 hours, now at most it is to complete the crystal introduction and enter the shoulder release stage, and in this growth process, only one person needs to guard and record the data, so of course Yao Fei didn't see Brady, only Porter is still here.
After caring about the other party, Yao Fei went to the hotel, and then called Kearns, but because the eastern time was three hours earlier than the western time, the phone could not be connected, which couldn't help but make Yao Fei a little helpless, and it was really a trouble to find someone on days without mobile phones.
Well, mobile phones may not be able to be developed for a while, but the development of pagers must be carried out as soon as possible, and when the research building in Hong Kong is completed, the research on mobile paging systems must be carried out immediately.
But fortunately, the phone at this time already has a message function, although the price is high, but as the CEO of Xerox, Kearns, can afford it!
As soon as it was dawn the next day, Mandy called, and also brought a reply, Kearns was enjoying his annual leave, but she still asked the general manager of the public relations department about this, Yao Fei can enter the Parker Research Institute to visit, after all, Xerox and Feiyue Technology are in the honeymoon period, Feiyue Technology enjoys Xerox inkjet printer dividends, and Xerox has the exclusive agency of Feiyue Technology Company's floppy disk drive Americas, but people also have conditions, that is, he is only allowed to enter.
Anyway, this is good news for Yao Fei, he didn't want to enter the Parker Institute this time to steal the technique, he is not rare at all, the main purpose is to get in touch with those geniuses inside and release some of his kindness.
Yao Fei was received by Pete, the director of the Management Research Institute dispatched by Xerox, and when he met Yao Fei and shook hands, Yao Fei could clearly feel that the other party's smile was very far-fetched.
I didn't seem to have provoked him, but I also got Xerox's permission to visit the Parker Institute, and as a guest, it seems that I should also receive some care.
However, Yao Fei was not taken care of at all, because after half an hour, Pete had been leading Yao Fei around the courtyard of the research institute, without the slightest intention of leading him into the room.
"Mr. Pete, may I take a tour of the lab?"
The courtyard of the research institute is very large, and if I continue to walk around like this, I don't know when I will go shopping, so I decisively change my strategy, take the initiative, and directly put forward my own requirements.
"Okay, Mr. Yao, come with me......"
Hearing Yao Fei's request, Pete frowned, but after thinking for a while, he still agreed to Yao Fei's request, and the people in the head office had already agreed to the other party's request to visit, and he had no reason to refuse.
"Director Taylor, this is our guest, Mr. Yao Fei, he needs to visit your laboratory, please spare some time!"
Although Pete said very politely, the tone of his words was so unquestionable, and then he turned around and prepared to leave without saying hello.
"Got it, Pete!"
Taylor's answer was similarly lukewarm.
There must be something wrong here, from the changes in the expressions on the faces of the two when they met and the tone of voice when they spoke, Yao Fei obviously felt that something was wrong with the two parties, because the two did not have the cordiality and friendliness of each other's colleagues at all. But then Yao Fei was secretly happy in his heart, even if a strong fortress was often the easiest to be attacked from the inside, but he immediately restrained his joy very well.
"Mr. Taylor, it's a pleasure to see you again!"
While talking, Yao Fei also learned to give Moore a warm hug to the other party.
"I'm glad to see you in our institute, but I think some of my colleagues will be happier than I am......"
Now seeing Yao Fei, Taylor has completely lost the arrogance that he did not take a look at Yao Fei at the beginning, from the inkjet printer that reversed the business situation of Xerox at the beginning, then the floppy disk and floppy disk drive that were very popular in the market, and then to the current Windows personal computer, Yao Fei's achievements on the bright side are enough to make this forward-looking person of the times dare not look sideways.
"Are they interested in our company's personal computers?"
My company only has so many products now, and it's easy to guess.
"Yes, we can have some discussions on computer issues, and we have developed some results, but the arrogant guys in the company don't seem to be interested in our scientific research results at all, and keep accusing us of not doing our job properly and wasting the scientific research environment that the company has created for us!"
Speaking of this, Taylor's expression was already a little angry, he was trying his best to bring their personal computer Otto to the market, that time was 1973, if they had entered the personal computer market since that time, with the research strength of their research institute, they could completely dominate the personal computer market, selling well in Europe and the United States, and becoming popular all over the world.
How can we be like now, watching other companies continue to launch generation after generation of computer products and lead the market trend, hey, it's bloody tears!
The deeper he thought about it, the more angry he became, why did his gang of people not do their jobs, it was completely because the guys in the company didn't know how to translate their research results into the company's economic benefits, because some time ago he also had a big quarrel with Pete, accusing Pete, the representative of Xerox, of not knowing how to cherish their research results, but asking them to continue to cooperate with the research and development of products within the company's business scope.
"Director Taylor, you've done a very helpful job, and I don't think anyone else is in a position to blame.
As a good scientist, the most important job is to concentrate on the subject of interest, and as for the transformation of technology into a product, I think this is something that businessmen should consider, and it has nothing to do with you......
For this big bull with the ability to lead an era, Yao Fei of course wants to do what he likes, pick it up, and hold it comfortably.
"Mr. Yao, what you said is completely right, the purpose of our establishment of the research institute is to create a future company, and our research core is also around it, and has not deviated, although Xerox's products are also around office products, but more about printers, copiers products......"