Tesla worked with Edison for a longer time when he was younger, and it was because of Edison's sponsorship that he was able to achieve his ambition at a young age.

But Edison often criticized and ridiculed many of Tesla's ideas

"unrealistic", and at the same time secretly stealing Tesla's patents, thus gradually achieving their own business empire, which made the two finally completely turn against each other.

In fact, in addition to Edison, some consortia did not want to see Tesla's invention of alternating current succeed because it would threaten their direct current interests.

Although Tesla has Westinghouse Electric Company to support his alternating current, the direct current interest group led by Edison still tried every means to suppress alternating current, and even deliberately let some people be electrocuted to death for this purpose, thus creating the illusion that alternating current is harmful.

Of course, in the end, Tesla won the game

The "War of Currents", which not only helped Westinghouse make a fortune, but also changed people's lives and the rules of the electrical industry.

Thomas Edison said, "Genius is made up of 1% inspiration and 99% diligence, but that 1% inspiration is far more important than diligence!" "Tesla was a genius with infinite inspiration, while Edison was a genius with hard work.

Tesla invented alternating current, which solved the problem of large consumption of electricity for long-distance transportation. It is precisely because of this that Edison was red-eyed, and if the alternating current was successful, his market prospects would not be good, so the two scientists became mortal enemies.

The hatred between scientists is really irreconcilable, and in most cases, the world will always remember the first place and not understand the second place.

After Zhang Zhonghua and two company executives left the Apanet office, they quickly returned to the Santa Clara headquarters with their own people.

YH Software now has about 800 employees, and has just recruited a lot of talented hardware and software talent from Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

Zhang Zhonghua and the new employees of the company got to know each other briefly, and then deployed some protocols of ARPANET to the server, so that they can be better compatible with the hardware environment after being familiar with the protocols.

There's no way, Zhang Zhonghua can't be too demonic, it's not a good thing to be too eye-catching. The next day, Zhang Zhonghua met with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, the real inventors of the IX system.

These two computer language gurus also came to Santa Clara from Bell Labs to support YH Software, after all, it was involved in the Ugly Nation military's project.

Zhang Zhonghua ceremoniously received the two experts, with the two of them joining Zhang Zhonghua is a lot easier, the system upgrade will be faster, and the UNIX system and C language can also return to the normal historical trajectory.

As for the time when it is basically impossible to poach the two gods into the company, YH Software and Bell Labs are not at the same level at all, and Bell Labs is more attractive to these experts.

A few days later, Zhang Zhonghua came to Intel opposite the company, and he commissioned the research and development of Intel microprocessor chips for almost a year.

Although it has not been successfully developed, Zhang Zhonghua is not in a hurry. In the previous life, Intel's 4004 microprocessor was only really launched in 71 years, not to mention that other companies also have their own business, so they can't be too pushed.

Intel has also developed extremely rapidly this year, and has also launched two products, in general, Intel has developed rapidly on the trajectory of history.

In the first half of last year, Intel released its first product, the 3010 bipolar RAM, which is often referred to as the main RAM, the internal memory that directly exchanges data with the computer CPU.

RAM can be read and written at any time, and the speed is several times faster than others, mainly for the operating system or the running computer program temporary data storage media, of course, the price is also expensive.

In the second half of the year, Intel released the world's first metal-oxide-semiconductor static random access memory 1101, that is, SRAM.

There is static RAM, of course, there will also be dynamic RAM, which is the more familiar DRAM, which should also be released next year.

With the addition of several memory products and 4004 microprocessors, Intel laid the foundation for semiconductor chips and has skyrocketed ever since.

Intel CEO Robert Noyins welcomed Zhang Zhonghua into the conference room, such a powerful Intel company now has only more than 100 engineers, Texas Instruments employees are now more than human behemoths.

Zhang Zhonghua also met the team of engineers who developed microprocessors, and he didn't expect that these semiconductor engineers who were responsible for developing microprocessors were really too young, and he really had to admire.

"Mr. Zhang, we named this solution MCS-4, a microprocessor composed of 4 chips. A random access memory chip is used to store temporary data named 4001, a read-only memory chip is used to store applications named 4002, a shift register chip is used for input and output IO ports named 4003, and the last CPU chip named -4 in the 4004 processor has a size of 3 mm x 4 mm, the outer layer of the processor is designed with 16 pins, and the inside contains 2250 transistors, which adopts a five-layer design and a 10 micron process. The 4004 processor is designed to be clocked at 108kHz and has a maximum clock of 740kHz, which can smoothly perform 4-bit operations, process 4-bit data, and also support 8-bit instruction sets and 12-bit address sets. The processor uses 10.8 microseconds and 21.6 microsecond run cycles. With a 10.8 microsecond cycle, it can be performed 90,000 times per second, and of course with a 21.6 microsecond cycle, 60,000 operations per second. Zhang Zhonghua was quite excited to listen to Robert Noyins's introduction, although it is only the simplest 4-bit microprocessor, which can only process 4-bit data.

But this is also enough for a calculator that only needs to perform functional calculations, and can already achieve 7 decimal places, which is enough for scientists today.

"So what's the progress of R&D now?" Zhang Zhonghua is still most concerned about this, if it can't be built, no matter how advanced the design is, it will be useless.

RAM has been put on sale, and the read-only memory technology is relatively mature, mainly because of the trouble with the central processing unit, which is probably not cheap.

"The CPU 4004 is still under development, and the process of five-layer design is still relatively complex, and it is expected that the design will be completed in three or four months. According to our estimates, the cost price of 4004 may be around $60, and a set will reach about $90. "Today, a microprocessor is 3 mm x 4 mm in size and contains 2,250 transistors.

Of course, there is no comparison with billions of transistors in a chip in the future, and there is no comparison with lithography machines in the nano era, but now it is only the end of the decade.

The disadvantage is that the cost is too high, calculator plus monitor, diode, etc., the cost of a calculator will reach about 150 US dollars, which is equivalent to about 900 Hong Kong dollars.

Although $150 is very expensive, it is already very cheap compared to Canon's super-large calculator, which big guy in Canon costs almost $350, and the volume is two big for the future Xiaobawang game console.

The calculator of Yuhuang Electric Company is very small, which is convenient to carry and more convenient to calculate. How much does this calculator sell, Canon's big guys sell for $350, this calculator of mine is so advanced, it's not too much to sell for $00, right?

After all, the R&D cost is very high, not counting the R&D funds of their own company, the R&D funds on Intel's side alone are as high as 1.3 million US dollars, and it is too expensive to engage in hardware research.

Zhang Zhonghua remembers that calculators entered the mainland in the 80s, and the price of counterfeit goods made in Xiangjiang was as high as hundreds of yuan, and electronic products were really profitable.

This calculator, Jade Emperor Electric can eat alone for a few years, and then use it to exchange patents with some large consortia, looking for opportunities to enter the large field, which is really a good idea.

"This cost is not high, and the purchase volume of Yuhuang Electric is also in millions, so I believe that the cost of mass manufacturing will be reduced a lot." Zhang Zhonghua said with a smile.

Hearing Zhang Zhonghua say a million orders, Robert Noyins almost fell off the chair in excitement, if Jade Emperor Electric really gave Ingle a million orders, the total amount would definitely be suddenly 100 million US dollars, after all, a million orders, it can't be a million.

If Intel eats this big order, the picture is too beautiful to imagine, and Intel's future is limitless.

"Zhang, if your Jade Emperor Electric Company has an order for one million pieces, the manufacturing cost will probably drop a lot, and it is estimated that it can be reduced to less than $70." Several Intel engineers in the conference room were very excited, and they would share a lot of such a large order.

Later, Zhang Zhonghua talked in detail with Intel for more than an hour, and after complimenting each other, he returned to the other side, and this microprocessor could earn hundreds of millions of dollars in the future, which made him very happy.

A few days later, the head of the Jade Emperor Publishing House also arrived in San Francisco, along with several employees and two boxes brought from Los Angeles.

"How did you get to San Francisco?" Zhang Zhonghua asked curiously. The Jade Emperor Publishing House was also established mainly to facilitate the settlement of Zhang Zhonghua's royalties, and the two books "The Three-Body Problem" and "Redemption" were published in dozens of countries around the world.

What's more, Zhang Zhonghua has also published several computer textbooks, which are also published around the world and have become textbooks for more than 100 universities, and the royalties of the textbooks are far more troublesome.

"Boss, I'm here to send you some trophies, "Redemption" won the Pulitzer Prize for literature, "The Three-Body Problem" won the Nebula Award, and there are too many other literary awards." Earl Holliman, the head of the Jade Emperor Publishing House, said with a smile.

The Pulitzer Prize, also known as the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism, was established in 1917 in accordance with the will of Joseph Pulitzer, the newspaper magnate of the ugly country, and has long since developed into the highest honor award in the global press industry.

The Pulitzer Prize became the highest international award in the field of global journalism, also known as:

"Nobel Prize in Journalism". The Pulitzer Prize for Literature is not a stand-alone award, but one of many branches of the Pulitzer Prize.

The Pulitzer Prize includes a number of journalism awards and seven creative awards, including the Creative Award, the Drama Award, the History Award, the Biography Award, the Poetry Award, the Non-Fiction Award, and the Music Award.

Zhang Zhonghua knows all about this, but he also knows that the Pulitzer Prize for Literature also has strict nationality restrictions.

Winners of journalism awards are not limited to nationality, but they must also have published their work in the media of the ugly country; The winner of the creative category must be a citizen of the ugly country, with the exception of the historical writing award, and foreign writers whose works are related to the history of the ugly country are also eligible for the award.

And Zhang Zhonghua has a green card in the ugly country because of the convenience of his activities in the ugly country, and the so-called green card is only a permanent resident card of the ugly country, not a nationality.

Holding a green card, although you can also enjoy some of the rights of citizens of ugly countries, but there is still a big difference between them and the nationality of ugly countries.

"It's not going to be a Pulitzer Prize for history, is it going to win the Pulitzer Prize for History?" Zhang Zhonghua asked.

"Yes, the Pulitzer Prize requires you to be a citizen of an ugly country, so you can only be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history." Earl Holliman's words made Zhang Zhonghua speechless, and when he was awarded the history award, he also did it to the ugly people.

After complaining helplessly in his heart, Zhang Zhonghua continued to ask: "In which year was the Nebula Award established?" "The Nebula Award will be on a par with the Hugo Award in the future, and it is also one of the important science fiction awards, and the two awards are called together

"Double Award". If a science fiction wins both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, it will also mark the entry into the palace of world classics, of course, the current Nebula Award is still worse than the Hugo Award.

"The Nebula Awards were established in 1965 and have a history of 5 years, although they cannot be compared with the Hugo Awards, but they can almost rank second. If the boss wants me to go to the public relations to win the Hugo Award, it is estimated that four or five hundred thousand dollars will be almost enough. Earl Holyman explains.

PR a little bit? PR You and your aunt! The first and second parts of Lao Tzu's "Three-Body Problem" series have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and the reason why such a best-selling sci-fi did not win the award was because he didn't pay the money.

Zhang Zhonghua didn't expect that ugly Chinese people would also love to play this set, so it is estimated that the Oscars will be selected by Laiwu.

But Zhang Zhonghua turned his head and thought, capitalist countries, this is too normal, no, no, no one really thinks that the awards in Europe and the United States, including the Nobel Prize, are fair and just, right?

"Forget it, it's better than going to PR. Anyway, the third part of "The Three-Body Problem" has also been released, and if I don't win another award this time, my work will not participate in any selection of the Hugo Awards in the future, and it will not be inferior to his award. Thinking that the literary selection of the ugly country is so dark, Zhang Zhonghua plans to set up an award in Europe as well, which is called the Zhang Zhonghua Award.