"Since the Oriental people already have optical storage technology, it makes no sense for us to ban the sale of hard disks to them." Grove paced back and forth: "If we continue to ban it, it will only make their optical storage technology better and better, and it will even replace our hard drives in the future." ”

"Yes, this Oriental is really strange, what we ban them, they can break through, this was the case in the field of chip production, and now it is also the case in the field of storage." Moore said with emotion: "I'm more worried about their progress in flash memory than optical storage, and if they continue to work in this field, it is likely that the external memory of computers will make a big step forward, and even keep up with the speed of computers." ”

For a long time, the speed of external memory is greatly behind the overall speed of the computer, after all, external memory depends on the rotation of the hard disk, there are mechanical limitations, and the use of chips to create external memory, the speed will be increased a lot.

Whether it is optical storage or flash storage, it is an advanced technology that needs to be contained!

How to curb it?

The only way to do this is to release the ban on hard disks, so that most of the users will still choose hard disks as storage media out of inertia, so that the technology of the East cannot be promoted!

"Unexpectedly, our blockade failed again." Grove said annoyedly, "But, fortunately, our Pentium processor has been built, and we can continue to stay ahead!" ”

"Yes, the technical indicators of our Besturn processor are currently advanced, and we still need to work hard to improve the process, Dongfang has begun mass production of 0.5 micron chips, and we have just matured the 0.8 micron technology ......"

The more advanced the manufacturing process, the more transistors can be accommodated by the chip in the same area, the higher the density of the chip, the smaller the power consumption, and the lower the heat generation, which are all complementary to each other.

Needless to say, Intel, the whole of Silicon Valley is lagging behind in this field.

Grove frowned: "Yes! ”

They are trying to catch up, but it seems that there is always a distance in front of them, and they can't catch up no matter how they catch up.

In Silicon Valley, countless companies are amazed by the latest optical storage technology developed by the Pacific Group.

"This technical route is really genius, using flash memory as a buffer, and a rewritable disc as the main storage device, avoiding many defects of the hard disk, such as encountering a strong magnetic field, the data can continue to be saved, so creative!"

"The key is the large capacity, as long as the laser head is replaced in the future, the data storage capacity can be doubled several times!"

"At this time, it would be stupid to ban the sale of hard drives!"

"That's right, especially in the last few years, the storage industry has been sluggish, and I heard that Minimize is about to go bankrupt."

"This company is completely self-inflicted."

Miniscribe was once a big name in the storage industry.

Back then, when the platter of the hard drive was still as big as the tires of a car, the Minimize company was founded, and they mastered the key technology of the 5.25-inch hard drive, which was unique throughout the eighties.

It's really strong in the early stage, but in the later stage, it's just by cheating.

With the invention of 3.5-inch hard drive technology by IBM, the big 5.25-inch hard drive gradually went downhill, and Miniscribe's financial situation deteriorated.

In this case, Miniscribe should continue to develop and update its products to gain more users, but unfortunately, Miniscribe did not follow the usual path and used other means.

For example, 26,000 bricks are stuffed into a hard drive enclosure and sent to a customer, and then the product is recalled as a product defect.

What's the use of that?

Of course, it is to forge transaction records, which is similar to a treasure in later generations. This is how the asset bubble came about by using false transaction records to prove the strength of your company and thus obtain more financing.

For example, in '89, Minimize claimed to have doubled its sales that year, but in fact, they just multiplied their sales by a multiplier and got a brilliant number.

There are too many lies, and there will always be a time when someone will find out.

Now, Miniscribe's lies are no longer possible.

In the company's general manager's office, the fifth and last general manager, Abberwitz, looked at the mess in front of him and was helpless.

"Now, everyone in the industry knows that our 5.25-inch hard drives are no longer sellable, and the only option in front of our company is bankruptcy." Alice, the sales manager, was full of loneliness: "I think at the beginning, we were still the leader in the industry, but now?" Damn engineers, they shouldn't have resisted 3.5" hard drives! ”

With the 5.25-inch production technology, it could have been possible to continue the development of 3.5-inch hard drives, but the engineers of their Minimize company chose to resist without hesitation, because they wanted to ensure their monopoly on 5.25-inch hard drives.

Monopolies are always unenterprising, and if they can sleep on their own achievements, who will change? By the time you find out that you are facing a crisis and want to change, it is too late.

This is the case now.

Aberwitz frowned: "Even if we produce 3.5-inch hard disks, it is useless, the future belongs to optical storage, the technology of the East comes out, IBM and other companies are afraid, our company is ......"

Just then, there was a knock at the door.

"General manager, there are a few guests outside, saying that they want to come to buy our company and want to talk to you."

Acquisition?

Aberwitz's face was a little surprised, their Miniscribe company is already a thing of the past, and there are still people willing to buy it?

"Quick, invite them in!" Abervitz was excited, now that their company is completely struggling to make ends meet, it is about to go out of business, and it would be great if another company could buy it!

Several yellow-skinned and black-eyed faces walked in, and Aberwitz looked at them curiously, "Are you from the East?" ”

"Yes, we are from Xiangjiang Unisplendour Storage Co., Ltd., and I am Wang Hua, the person in charge." The face of the East in the suit and leather shoes introduced himself: "We heard that you are currently struggling to operate, so you want to send charcoal in the snow, if you want to, then we will buy it, and then the whole factory will be relocated to the East." ”

Hearing the other party's words, Aberwitz's eyes showed more doubt: "Relocation? There is a huge investment in the relocation of the factory, so can't you just inject capital and let us stay in Silicon Valley? ”

"Continue to inject capital, then the outside world will think that our company is still a miniscribe company shell, the outside world will continue to be full of distrust, not broken and not standing, only to relocate the factory, only to completely tear down and start over, the outside world will think that we are a new company, your miniscribe company's reputation has been completely stinky, we must be completely separated from the past."

Aberwitz's face was a little ugly.

Although this is a fact, now their miniscribe company does not have any reputation in the industry, the order is zero, the company has long been insolvent, and it will go bankrupt at any time, but it is a little difficult for him to accept that he is still a yellow-skinned person who is said by the other party.

"And we have our own unique technology." Wang Hua spoke: "When we moved to the East, we used new technology to manufacture it, which can easily double the capacity of our new hard drives. ”

Technology?

Aberwitz's eyes widened: "What technology do you have?" ”

"Xianchen technology, the specific technology, needs to be relocated after our factory is relocated, in short, it is to change the hard disk from single-sided storage to double-sided storage."

"How is this possible, stored on both sides, the magnetic field will affect each other, and the user's valuable data will disappear!"

At present, the hard disk technology has been gradually improved, and the result has been the same, the main body of the hard disk is a platter that can be rotated, just like a record, a magnetic head is similar to a pickup head, moving back and forth on the platter, reading the magnetic direction above, so as to obtain data.

In contrast to tape, it can read data from any piece of storage at any time, and tape needs to be run sequentially.

The disc is equivalent to a small magnetic needle, the distance between these small magnetic needles can not be too close, otherwise they will affect each other, at the same time, the disc can only be used on one side, the other side can not be used, otherwise the two sides will affect each other, which is already a recognized recognition by the public.

"With the support of fairy dust technology, the two sides will not be affected." Wang Hua said: "Now, let's talk about the acquisition agreement, we are willing to pay 3 million US dollars to buy your factory." ”

"Three million dollars? At its peak, our company had a market value of nearly 100 million US dollars! Abberwitz immediately denied it: "You want to buy our factory for three million, dream!" ”

"Then we can only wait for you to go bankrupt and come again, and when you go bankrupt, all the fixed assets will be seized, and then auctioned, when the time comes, we only need to use a million dollars, you can buy your equipment, after all, now the hard disk market is saturated, and no manufacturer is willing to invest in this industry."

With a market value of hundreds of millions of dollars, there is a bubble, and the bubble is quite large! There is no future in the hard disk industry, who is willing to buy the hard disk production equipment here?

"When the time comes, those people on your board of directors won't get a dime, and now if we buy it, they will be able to share tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, which is better than wasting the money." Wang Hua said, leaving a business card: "You think about it, just call me, you must be fast, next, I need to visit other hard disk manufacturers." ”

How many of the world's 221 hard disk manufacturers are facing a desperate situation? In the 90s, more than 80% of them would go out of business, go bankrupt, or be completely eliminated as a subdivision of a large company, and they would not want to be acquired, and there were other companies that were willing to be acquired!

Of course, Aberwitz, the general manager, can't make a decision, after all, this kind of thing has to be discussed in the company's board of directors.

Aberwitz originally thought that the company's directors would be furious, but unexpectedly, after receiving the news, these directors nodded one after another: "Okay, yes, no problem!" ”

Aberwitz suddenly reacted: these guys who hold shares in the company are a group of speculators, they invest, but they are optimistic about the development of the hard disk field, and now, the technological change is in front of you, the hard disk may be eliminated later, they have cashed out a lot in the past few years, when the company's stock price was high, and now the company can be taken over, just to get rid of a mess, they can't ask for it!

It doesn't matter how much it sells, as long as it can be thrown away, as long as it is better than going bankrupt.

"Okay, then I'll contact Unisplendour Storage Company."

The once most brilliant company in Silicon Valley was sold, the two sides signed an agreement, and the factory equipment began to be dismantled and loaded, and everything went very quickly, and the rest of the industry did not pay much attention after hearing the news.

Intel Corporation.

"Minimize was suddenly acquired, and the other party said that it was Xiangjiang's Unisplendour Storage Company, and I am afraid that there is a shadow of the Pacific Group behind it." Moore said with a frown.

"It doesn't matter. Even if the Pacific Group wants to acquire, it is not a big deal, after all, Miniscribe only has 5.25-inch hard disk technology at hand, and their technology should have been eliminated a long time ago, and even if this Unisplendour company gets the technology, it is backward. Grove didn't care: "This company is cheating, it has long become a joke in Silicon Valley, how blind this Unigroup company should be, so it chose to buy this company!" ”

Boom!

At that moment, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

"Oh no, no! Our Pentium processor has exploded! ”

At this time, neither of them was calm.

Got a loophole?

"What vulnerability?"

"Our Pentium processor has a certain chance of error when calculating the countdown."

Computers are used to do the math, and now, the calculated data can actually go wrong, which will definitely have a major impact, and everyone present was stunned: "Wrong? What are the odds? ”

"When you do a billion calculations, there's going to be a data miscalculation."

When he heard the news, Grove breathed a sigh of relief: "My old man, you take it easy, don't make a fuss about such a trivial matter, we don't know if our Pentium processor can be sold for a billion yuan, our customers, maybe after a lifetime of calculation, they will not encounter a mistake, why bother." ”

This probability is so low that it has no effect on the average user.

They can, of course, modify, however, how long does it take? How many days and nights have their technicians not closed their eyes, do they have to continue to debug day and night? It's okay to say that it can be solved, but what if it can't be solved?

So, forget it.

The engineer who reported the message looked at Moore again.

Moore thought for a moment: "Now, for our company, the most important thing is to sell the Pentium processor, occupy the market as soon as possible, and occupy the market before the Oriental people develop more advanced processors, so that their processors are unsalable. ”

Moore also chose to cover up the flaws, because they really have no way out!

So, everyone else can only nod their heads, since that's the case, then forget it!

Orient.

"Mr. Qin, our hard disk acquisition is progressing smoothly." Ni Lao excitedly came over to report: "In three months, we will be able to have a hard disk factory!" The factory building over there in the magic capital can also be built, next to the first phase of our SMIC project, to build a hard disk factory, our industrial chain will be more complete. ”

"Well, they did a good job!"

"At the same time, dozens of hard disk engineers came over." Ni Lao said: "It's just that they all thought they were going to work in Xiangjiang, and suddenly they arrived in the magic capital, and they didn't know if they could adapt." ”

"If you can stay, you can stay, if you can't stay, you can leave, and then we will engage in 3.5-inch hard disks, let them study ordinary 3.5-inch hard disks, this fairy dust technology, to be firmly in our own hands."

"You know, let's add a production process in the middle, and this process is completely mastered by us." Ni Lao nodded, of course he knew that foreigners were unreliable, and they couldn't let them learn the technology.

"By the way, the vulnerability of the Intel Pentium processor, we have also verified it, when will we expose this vulnerability?"

Qin Feng smiled: "Don't worry, wait." The more they sell, the greater the need for recall, and the cost of this recall alone can make them Intel lose their vitality and even make them bankrupt! ”

Ni Lao nodded: "Okay." By the way, after our Loongson No. 1 was built with a 0.5 micron process, the performance has risen a lot, and many of the tests we have done ourselves can be increased to the main frequency of 200 megahertz. ”

In order to defeat Loongson, Intel can be regarded as carrying out the involution to the end, and has tinkered with the Pentium processor in a few months, and has also used frequency doubling technology to successfully advance the computing speed of the processor to the level of 200 megahertz.

What about our Loongson?

We don't need to modify, as long as we improve the process, we can achieve this breakthrough! After all, with the 0.5 micron production process, Loongson's overclocking ability is even stronger! As long as you don't lock the multiplier, the user can overshoot at will! If you burn it, it's your own, if you can't burn it, then you can pick up the baby, and the fun of DIY is here.

"Well, we don't need to advertise, we have to let customers discover it, so it makes sense."

"Yes."

Looking at the back of Ni Lao leaving, Qin Feng's face showed a smile, next, it's Intel's nightmare, how good the dream is now, how miserable the next nightmare will be!

Drip, drip!

Big Brother rang again.

Qin Feng picked up Big Brother, and a familiar voice sounded inside.

"Xiao Feng, how are you doing?"

"It's okay."

"Busy?"

"If you have something, just say it."

"The J-10's sliding experiment has been going well recently, do you want to go over and have a look?"

"Okay." Qin Feng spoke: "Of course, it's okay to take your air force's ride, but if you want me to pay for the journey, then forget it." ”

"Of course, it's a tailwind for our Air Force, and it's just right that some things are discussed on the way."

"Good. As long as we are not allowed to contribute money, technology, and ideas, we can do it. ”