Chapter Fifty-Eight: Intel Is Coming Out with a New Guy
After leaving Professor Brady's monocrystalline silicon laboratory, Yao Fei went to the location of Intel Corporation, and as soon as the Windows personal computer came out, even though San Francisco and New York were separated by more than 4,000 kilometers, his name was already known to everyone in Silicon Valley.
Without much effort, under the guidance of the beautiful front desk lady, Yao Fei walked all the way through various office areas and went straight to the office of Moore, the boss of Intel.
Moore did not have any unhappiness about Yao Fei's unscheduled visit, because in the past two months, Feiyue Technology has purchased CPUs, motherboards and caches at all levels worth 60 or 70 million yuan from Intel, and it seems to be one of Intel's important big customers.
Although Feiyue Technology also chose to purchase the products of his old rival AMD, which made him a little unhappy, but there will never be only one product supplier in each company, and he is relieved at random, and they Intel has never looked at AMD in their eyes, don't you know that AMD is still operating at a loss from its inception to the present!
"It's a great honor to welcome you, Mr. Yao Fei!"
Moore smiled and gave Yao Fei a hug very warmly.
"It's a pleasure to see you again, Mr. Moore!"
People are polite, and Yao Fei is of course polite.
"Mr. Yao Fei, this time you came to our company, is there anything we can do for you?"
Having said that there is nothing to do and go to the Three Treasures Palace, Moore certainly thinks that Yao Fei came with some purpose.
"Mr. Moore, I want to express my gratitude to you this time, if it were not for your company's products as an effective support for the operation of our company's Windows system, I think we would not be able to sell thousands of personal computers in such a short period of time.
On the other hand, I also hope to strengthen the relationship with your company, and the two sides can work together to establish a deeper cooperative relationship......"
Passing by the door of someone's house, Yao Fei purely had the intention of coming to sit, but he couldn't tell Moore that I was idle and had nothing to do, so I came to sit with you......
"Mr. Yao, your proposal is what we need to do next, and we are very willing to provide you with the best service for high-quality customers like you.
Here is a little bit of product news to tell you in advance, our company has designed and preliminarily tested a new X86 series of microprocessors iAPX286 to replace the currently widely used 8088 processor.
In this processor, we have integrated a total of 134,000 transistors, 105,000 more than the 8088, and according to our predictions, the processor with a 16-bit data bus and a 24-bit address bus can reach a maximum frequency of 20MHz, which is more than three times the efficiency of the 8088.
And for your Windows computer system we have also done some understanding, it needs a lot of hardware resources to run, and the existing computer configuration can only barely make it work, but I believe that once your computer is equipped with our excellent processor, these problems will become a thing of the past.
And we have also pioneered two working modes for it, real mode and protection mode.
In real mode, the iAPX286 will be limited to 1M bytes of memory for direct access, and more memory will need to be mapped through EMS or XMS memory mechanisms.
In protected mode, the iAPX286 has direct access to 16M bytes of memory, and has an exception handling mechanism, which can continue to run when the program has syntax errors, running errors, and logical errors to avoid crashes. ”
Historically, Intel's 80286 was released in February 1982, so it makes sense that they have now completed the design and have preliminary test results.
However, what Moore doesn't know now is that this processor will directly lay the foundation for the hardware of Yao Fei's Leap Technology's first and the world's first multitasking operating system.
"Mr. Moore, thank you very much for telling me this important news in advance, which undoubtedly gives our company a new reference point, whether it is for the design of computer operating systems or computer software development, and it is also very helpful for our company's sales plan.
I think we will only be able to repay Mr. Moore for helping our company with more orders in the coming days......"
Historically, Intel's 80286 was listed in 1982, but Yao Fei didn't know the specific time, and he was not a history buff, but the news from Gordon Moore was enough for him to deduce the approximate time when 80286 was listed.
Knowing the performance of the next generation of personal computer brains will undoubtedly allow the designers of Feiyue Technology Systems to design a more complete system based on the existing one, and prepare it months in advance, which will undoubtedly make their company's products invincible in the market.
And what Moore didn't expect was that it was precisely because of the launch of the Intel 80286 processor that Feiyue Technology's first and the world's first multitasking operating system laid the foundation for the birth of hardware.
"Ha Luha, very much looking forward to it, this is a very wonderful thing for both of us, and many departments of our company are now loyal users of your company's products, such as with your company's floppy disks and floppy drives, they no longer need tape drives to store data, and with your personal computers, their work efficiency has also been greatly improved!"
Although foreigners speak directly, it does not mean that they do not understand the art of language.
Moreover, Moore told Yao Fei the data of 80286, not with the intention of showing Yao Fei their Intel strong muscles, don't play with AMD's kids, lest AMD's outdated products have some adverse effects on the brand of Feiyue Technology.
However, Moore's words, Yao Fei didn't bother to pay attention to it, in the early 80s, Intel once licensed the 8080 microprocessor to 15 companies, Zilog, National Semiconductor, Motorola and other new stars and giants went forward to challenge, and in the end they inevitably lost.
But as a person who has come over, Yao Fei knows that although he has been following Intel, the boss of the chip industry, to learn and imitate its products, AMD will become the only survivor, they will not only survive, but also successfully break Intel's monopoly on processors, and gradually improve and surpass in product technology.
After leaving Intel's headquarters, Yao Fei immediately went to AMD to continue his journey, and he was very fortunate that AMD's family member Santos was also there, who is also a legend, and it can be said that Sanders' AMD is a very legendary history of struggle.
Santos, who is from a marketing background, is very good at adjusting the atmosphere, and is very polite to Yao Fei, who is likely to rise to a large customer of hundreds of millions of dollars, from beginning to end, Yao Fei feels very comfortable, from his mouth, Yao Fei also learned about the recent situation of the three of Gaogang Gongyun Abt, AMD can be said to take good care of them.
And in return, when the two of them talked about their happiness, it seemed that inadvertently, Yao Fei "leaked" the news that Moore told him......
Let these two old enemies continue to fight, although in the end the most benefits must be their buyers, but it is appropriate to pull AMD, which is absolutely harmless for the development of Feiyue Technology Company......