Chapter 68: Intel's New President

It's April.

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Fallout 2" both went on sale at this time.

The "Harry Potter" series can now be said to be a household name, and "Fallout" has become quite famous because of last year's Cuban Missile Crisis and Catherine's $20 million. The box office record is now held by "Ben Hur" at $15 million, and now, this record is held by Catherine.

At this time, Catherine was sitting in the office in a rare place, and she was preparing to interview a person, who Bruce had discovered.

It wasn't supposed to be an interview, Catherine just wanted to see if this person was the same as the one she remembered. After all, Catherine only knew the name of this person.

A man with a sinknose walked in. He actually looks pretty good, but the scars on his face and that nose have detracted a lot from him.

"Jerry Sanders?"

"Yes, Miss Edson."

Saunders was born in Chicago in 1936. His parents divorced when he was still in kindergarten, and he was raised by his grandfather. He is very smart at reading, has always had excellent grades, and skipped one level in middle school. But he likes to fight unevenly, so he often gets involved in fights. At the University of Illinois, he studied engineering. Once, one of his classmates named Jim had a dispute with a gang of hooligans, and when Jim was about to be beaten, he went up and pulled the hooligans away, and Jim ran away, but he was beaten all over his body, so that he was broken forever. His nose was deformed, his frontal bone was sunken, and he had broken several ribs, and he almost died.

In a few years' time in Silicon Valley, Sanders will become a prominent figure and earn the title of "Prince of Clowns."

But not now.

He now works under the Motorola umbrella, but he has always been dissatisfied with his job.

And at this time, Bruce extended an olive branch to him.

At this time, Sanders's talent was just manifesting, but Motorola had not yet taken it seriously.

"I wonder, what do you think about the electronics industry? I've heard that you've always had a unique perspective on this aspect. ”

Sanders is a very strong person, and he encountered the development of the electronics industry very early.

"I think that the development of personal computers shows that computers are moving towards popularization and industrialization, and are no longer the industry of companies such as IBM. Supercomputers may only appear in certain research institutions in the future, and for the average enterprise, this will become unnecessary storage. I think our company should make PCs really 'personal'. We should make them dependent on our products, for now, profitability should come second, and first of all, we need to expand the industry and occupy the market. ”

The other party did not despise the other party because Catherine was a little girl, but spoke eloquently about his opinion.

Catherine smiled.

"Mr. Sanders. Now I want to congratulate you, starting today, you are the president of Intel Corporation. ”

Sanders was also taken aback, before that, his position should have been general manager, and now, he has suddenly become the president of Intel......

Bruce wasn't experienced enough right now, and Catherine felt that it would be better for someone to share his pressure. And Sanders is a very strong person, at this time, if you don't let him come, who else will you look for?

Catherine pulled out a contract.

She hired Sanders with a 2.5 percent stake in Intel and a whopping $500,000 (and increasing by 100,000 to 1 million each year).

Because of these remarks, Catherine also decided to develop a second-generation Microsoft computer.

This time, Catherine made a decision: open hardware standards.

In other words, allow third parties to set up plug-ins for their own computers!

Just like the motherboards, CPUs, and graphics cards of the future, there are countless manufacturers to make them.

Catherine decided to open up the standard.

It's just that every time a manufacturer sells a product, he has to get a commission. After all, they own the patents of their products, and the standards are also their own company.

Catherine, however, wasn't sure what her idea would be.

But IBM has noticed the PC market at this time, and some other companies seem to be ready to develop PCs, and Catherine doesn't want to "die on the beach", so if you can open up your own standards, it will also be helpful for your market share. ,

The Microsoft II computer was the bomb dropped by Catherine.

Catherine has opened up the standards for memory, CPU, and graphics cards, and has also reserved a few sockets that allow other companies to configure their products with plug-ins such as sound cards.

Catherine's current computer uses 8KB of memory, which was originally integrated into the motherboard, but now, Catherine has decided to make it independent, and at the same time, the original display output device has also been replaced.

Originally, Catherine used monochrome graphics cards and color display cards, although the so-called color, only 16 colors, but it is already a big cost. That's why Catherine will only use monochrome display for working versions of Microsoft computers.

However, Catherine did not open up the standard for the motherboard. Each piece of hardware must include an agreement from Catherine to be able to replace hardware for your computer.

If someone wants to develop a separate motherboard and their own standards...... Sorry, this is a court subpoena.

However, the electronics industry is in its infancy, and it will take some time to really wait for it to bear fruit.

Now, Catherine has hundreds of thousands of dollars, and she immediately invested them in Intel. Fairchild is the big brother of the semiconductor industry, but even now when it is extremely strong, its internal contradictions have begun to come to the fore, and Catherine is preparing to wait for the opportunity to poach all the best semiconductor engineers of this era. Even if she can't dig it all, Catherine hopes she can dig up most of it.

Catherine's vision for the Microsoft II computer was written into a proposal and handed over to the technical department.

In order to maintain confidentiality, she also had the technical department sign a contract guaranteeing that no secrets would be leaked during the study.

Catherine believes that in two years at most, new computers will appear.

The electronics industry is dormant, but the film and television industry is taking off, and Catherine's GameTV is taking over the market faster and faster.

The rise in the popularity of television led to a boom in the television industry.

Thus, Catherine's television station was also established.

AngelBeats, Angel Beats.

Abbreviated as "AB TV", or "Angel TV".

If nothing else, Catherine's television station will be launched on July 1, 1964. And the TV series version of "Fallout" will be Catherine's main show......

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