Across the ocean, Lynchburg College.

"Found it, finally let me find it!" Thomas's excited voice rang out, and the guy, whose hair was messy like a bird's nest and whose body was full of stench because he didn't take a bath, suddenly let out a cry of excitement.

"There is a problem with the Pentium processor! There is a certain chance that this processor will make a mistake when performing the countdown calculation! I counted a billion countdowns, and one of them was wrong! ”

Finding a wrong one from a billion countdowns is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, but, as a mathematician, Thomas had the patience, and he succeeded!

"Now that you've found it, then you can go back quickly, take a shower, change your clothes, if you continue like this, then I won't be able to stay in this office." Robert spoke.

"No, I'm going to Silicon Valley, I'm going to Intel headquarters, I'm going to tell them that their Pentium processors are defective!"

"Hey, then you should also take a shower and change your clothes......"

"I'm so good, I'm going to let them know because they made me like this because of their mistakes......"

Silicon Valley, Intel Corporation's headquarters.

The executives all gathered and looked at a computer in front of them.

"Now, let's set the outer frequency to 66 megahertz and the octave to 4." An engineer said, adjusting the jumper on the motherboard, and after some operation, he turned on the power and pressed the button.

Drip!

With a soft sound, the computer began to start, and in half a minute, blue sky and white clouds appeared on the screen.

"Now, let's run a superπ program to calculate pi and test the computing power of this processor......"

"No, no, it's impossible, how can the potential of this Loongson No. 1 be so great." At this time, Grove only felt that he was about to collapse.

Last year, they Intel released the 486 processor, originally thought that they could lay an advantage in one fell swoop, but they did not expect that the Loongson of the Pacific Group was born, relying on the main frequency of 100 megabytes, and they could not find the north.

They held back their anger for a whole year, and finally got the Pentium processor out, and the frequency was finally increased to 200 megahertz, originally thought that they could maintain a leading edge for a period of time, who would have thought that Loongson just improved the process and achieved the same performance!

"The production process has been reduced from 0.8 microns to 0.5 microns, which greatly reduces the heat generation of the chip, so it has also effectively improved the potential of the chip, this setting is still quite conservative, mainly because the memory chip cannot adapt to too high external frequency, otherwise the external frequency will be adjusted to 75, or 100, then the main frequency of this processor can be doubled."

Grove clenched his fists: "In other words, the Pentium processor that we worked so hard to develop was directly knocked down in front of Dongfang's new process without any strength in a battle?" ”

According to their plan, the Pentium processor will have to make at least three years of money to occupy the high-end market, so that there will be enough money to develop the next processor, and now? After spending a lot of money and so much energy, the processor developed only maintained a leading edge for a month, and then, it was caught up under the more advanced process in the East!

The interior of the Pentium processor is newly designed, which has taken a lot of effort, and Dongfang is still the original processor, but it has improved the manufacturing technology, which is not fair, this is not fair!

As the head of the company, Grove knew that he had to keep his sanity at this time, but what was in front of him made his mind flutter for a while, and he couldn't stay awake at all.

What's next?

Moving on to the next processor? What are you kidding, they simply don't have this ability! The next processor will take at least three years to develop, and the Pentium processor is equivalent to a drug, which is destined not to last long.

Lifting the process?

They have just been upgraded to the 0.8 micron process, and the yield rate of production is not high enough, how can it continue to be reduced to 0.5 microns, and this will take at least three years!

So, they can only watch as Loongson continues to lead the processor? They Intel is the leader of this industry, right?

"The Oriental people said that they are willing to provide foundry business to the world, and if they are allowed to produce our Pentium processors, our products can easily reach 300 megahertz, and even be overclocked to 45 ......"

"Fart!" Grove was furious: "Give our processors to the Oriental foundry? Is your head full of poop? If it is handed over to the Orientals, they will be able to master the internal structure of our Pentium processor, and they will have our core secrets! ”

"Report, report." Just then, the secretary came in from outside, and was a little frightened to see Grove so angry.

"Say."

"There's a math professor from Lynchburg College out there who says he's looking for you."

Lynchburg College, founded in 1903, is a very ordinary private university, although it can also produce master's and doctoral degrees, but it is also ranked outside the top 300 universities in the United States, and the most famous of this college is journalism, which can be ranked among the top 30 schools in the southern United States.

Why did a professor from such a school come to him?

Grove suppressed the anger in his heart and took a few deep breaths: "Okay, I'll take a look." ”

The academy is still very famous in the field of journalism, and it is better not to offend the media people, Grove walked to the door of the reception room, tried to squeeze out a smile, and then pushed the door open, and saw a maverick.

With a stench and messy hair, this looks like a university professor, just a bum.

"Mr. Grove, Mr. Grove!" After seeing him, the other party strode over, and a foul smell followed.

"Well, what's the matter with you?" Grove felt like he was going to suffocate.

"I was doing the calculation of the Brownian constant, and I found a vulnerability in the Pentium processor! This processor is flawed and will be miscalculated when doing countdown calculations! "The probability is about one in a billion......," Thomas said.

"No, no, no!" Grove's voice sharpened, as if he had been stimulated: "Our processor is not defective, our processor is very good, it must be your programming error, secretary, secretary, send this professor out!" ”

If it weren't for the stimulation of Loongson, Grove might have been more patient, maybe the tragedy would have come later, but, Grove is in a terrible mood now, the original Pentium processor can't play, if any flaws are exposed, then the Pentium processor can't be sold like 486!

486 is unsalable, and the Pentium processor is also unsalable, and their Intel company is finished!

So, Grove had to deny all this, and in his eyes, there was nothing wrong with it.

Only those mathematicians would have cornered computers where a normal program would count billions of countdowns!

The smell of floating in the air was so bad that Grove didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he turned around and left.

"No, it's not that my program is wrong, my program runs perfectly fine on the Loongson computer, it's a vulnerability of the Pentium processor!"

Hearing the words coming from behind him, Grove stopped, turned his head to look at Thomas, and spat out a word: "Get out!" ”

Even if it is a first-class university, a professor from Harvard University comes, Grove will say this word, at this time, he is the most taboo to compare others with Loongson, let alone the unpopular Lynchburg College.

At this moment, Thomas was also stimulated.

He was aggrieved.

Because of the loophole of the Pentium processor, he became what he is now, his spirit was hit a lot, he found the cause of the error, and he did not plan to disclose it in the media, but found Intel as soon as possible, he didn't plan to ask for mental compensation, he just wanted to tell Intel, there is a problem with your processor!

And now, Intel not only doesn't admit it, but also wants him to get out!

He froze in place, clenched his fists, and then two dark-skinned men walked in, and they lifted him up and walked outside.

Sou!

Thomas was thrown to the ground and rolled over, perfectly fulfilling Grove's request: roll.

Getting up from the ground, Thomas's face was ugly: "Intel, do you think you are the industry leader, so you don't see anyone?" If there are loopholes and they haven't been modified, can you hide them? ”

That's what to go for!

"What's wrong with you, sir?" At that moment, a voice came from my ear.

Thomas looked up and saw a Ford Mustang parked next to him, with a beautiful blonde coming down from it.

The blonde didn't care about the smell of Thomas, didn't care about his image as a homeless man, and the smile on her face was extremely bright.

"Intel is so deceitful! I told them that there was a bug in the processor, and they not only didn't agree with it, they kicked me out! ”

"Really? You look a little miserable, get in my car, I'll take you to the hotel, take a shower, change your clothes, and then have a cup of coffee together, and talk while drinking, how about it? ”

"Okay."

"By the way, my name is Jenny, a reporter from the Century Daily, what about you?"

"Thomas, professor of mathematics at Lynchburg College."

"Wow, math professor!" Jenny pretended to be surprised: "I admire academics the most, but, how did you become like this?" ”

"Tormented by the Pentium processor."

"Oh, then you have to take a picture first, use this picture as a newspaper picture, and let everyone see what the Pentium processor tosses a college professor into!"

"Okay."

The next day.

Intel Corporation, Conference Room.

"In the research and development of the Pentium processor, we have spent a lot of money, but also borrowed a lot of money from the bank, fortunately, the stock has risen a lot recently, we should be able to repay the bank's funds, however, our liquidity is still very tight, it is impossible to immediately invest in the research and development of 686!"

486 is 586 down, and it is named Pentium, and after 586, it should naturally be 686.

Since you are lagging behind, you have to continue researching, but what about the money?

The company's products are unsalable, there is no profit, there is no way to continue to invest in research and development, and the capital chain may be broken at any time.

"In the same way, we can't invest in improving the production line, we have invested a lot of money in our 0.8 micron line, we can't scrap it now and update it to 0.5 microns, and we don't have this technology."

"Damn, we can't do anything, but the Orientals can keep improving." Grove's face was gloomy, all he heard was bad news, how could he not annoy him.

"We at Intel only make chips, while Pacific Group is a large group, and they also make a lot of things, planes, cars, motorcycles, and even shoes and instant noodles, and they can use other profits to subsidize the chip industry, which we can't compare." Moore spoke: "We only make chips, and once the chip business is impacted, our situation will be difficult." ”

As a god in the field of chips, Moore also felt powerless to deal with it at this time, who could have known that after the development of the chip industry in the East, it would be so strong? When they were state-run, they were very backward, but now they have become private, and they have actually become the world's first.

"Oh no, no!"

Listening to the secretary's panicked voice, Grove immediately slapped the table: "What's the matter?" What are you doing in such a panic? ”

"Today's Century Daily has revealed the defects of our Pentium processor!"

"What?"

Grove stood up at once, took the newspaper, and the headline on the front page was the unkempt man, who made people think he was a vagabond.

On the left side of the page, the first sentence is an introduction.

The man on the right, Thomas Nesri, a professor of mathematics at Lynchburg College, is now in such a mess because he is suffering from a defect in the Pentium processor......

"Damn, I should have killed him yesterday!" Grove gritted his teeth.

Across the ocean.

Qin Feng had just returned to the headquarters of the Pacific Group, and before his ass was hot, Deng Xiaolong came over with a newspaper.

"Mr. Qin, the latest newspaper received, the news on it is related to Intel Corporation."

Qin Feng took it and glanced at it: "Who is this, bum?" ”

"A professor."

Qin Feng briefly skimmed the news on the left, and couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, mathematicians are devils who can force computers to death!" It's hard to use a computer to calculate that kind of thing. ”

This Brownian constant, just like pi, is calculated in the early stage to be used in practice, and then calculated in the later stage, it is purely a sense of existence, and it is easy to calculate hundreds of millions of digits, what is the point?

"However, this Intel company is also doing too badly." Qin Feng continued to sigh: "If they comfort this hard-working professor and promise to improve as soon as possible, this professor may not disclose it, and let the professor go!" ”

It's normal for processors to be defective, after all, no one can guarantee that their products will be perfect.

The key is what to do if a defect occurs.

In later generations, there was a conventional practice: when a vulnerability was discovered, the processor manufacturer was first notified, so that they could think of a remedy as soon as possible, and then it was officially disclosed to the public a week later.

But now, Intel shouldn't take it seriously, after all, whoever is idle counts down, and counts a billion times at once!

In the process of normal use, the Pentium processor is still very good.

"Mr. Qin, what should we do?"

"Originally, I wanted to postpone it for a while, but I didn't expect someone to find the loophole, since this is the case, then we will send Intel to the west, and the plan prepared before can be implemented!"

Intel Corporation.

In front of a large group of reporters, Grove remained calm and smiled.

"Welcome, I'm Grove, since taking the helm of Intel, I have gone through ups and downs, experienced countless storms, but our Intel is still standing, still the first in the field of microprocessors!"

"Last year, after the Oriental suddenly released the Loongson processor, the performance surpassed our 486, we immediately put into intense research and development, less than a year, we developed a new 586 processor, named Pentium! Looking at the entire Silicon Valley, only we at Intel have this strength! ”

"Of course, due to the rush of development, the processor may have some minor flaws." Grove continued to gush, his words full of emotion: "During the test, we have found that the Pentium processor will have problems when calculating the countdown, but this probability is very low, even if it is 9 billion users, only one user will make an error, so we don't think this will affect the use of customers." ”

When a person, or a company, is on the top for too long, there will be problems, self-righteousness, arrogance and ignorance......

Now Grove has unknowingly committed this problem.

In the face of this turmoil, Grove's thinking is very strange.

He wants to tell everyone that this flaw, we have known for a long time, and this is to confirm the strength of Intel and prove that their technology is the most advanced.

But now that you know, why not?

This is because we have calculated and found that it is insignificant to users at all, only one of the nine billion users will have a problem, the global population is not nine billion, and their Pentium processors have only sold for four million yuan until now.

So, for the average user, there will be no impact.

However, at this time, Grove didn't know that he held a press conference like this and told everyone that we already know the defects, and we can use them with confidence and not be affected, this attitude is not right!

So, what's Intel's next move? Have you decided to recall? A voice rang out below.

Recall?

Are you kidding!

What does the recall mean? All the processors that were produced before are scrapped! They still have to provide users with new processors, but they don't have the technology, and they can't solve this defect! In other words, it can't be solved in a short time!

"I've already said that it won't affect customer usage."