"Excuse me, why would you ask for that?"

Mr. Gates looked at Su Yuanshan, and after a short period of distraction, he turned into curiosity.

Su Yuanshan shrugged: "Because we have a very cool idea, we can't wait to test it on your new operating system." ”

Gates laughed again: "What's the idea?"

"On top of the existing motherboard architecture, a completely new external bus was created, in serial mode, with versatility and plug-and-play. Su Yuanshan said with a smile.

Universal Serial Bus, abbreviated as USB.

In Su Yuanshan's plan, USB will be proposed next year, waiting for a breakthrough in the CPU on his side. But he didn't expect that as Chen Daohua transferred the Meijie R&D center to the Special Economic Zone, a motherboard design engineer named Jiang Tianfu burned the PS2 interface as a result of pulling out the mouse, so this guy was very depressed and irritable, and began to whimsically say if he could get an interface to support plugging and unplugging without shutting down.

Originally, this kind of thing should not have been reported to Su Yuanshan, but unexpectedly, this guy sent the Idea to the Yuanxin internal forum - Meijie (Special Economic Zone) and Zhongxin also connected to the internal forum, saying that they would solicit the opinions of the masses.

Then a group of guys from Yuanxin's side who went to work and fished on the forum made a suggestion, saying that if a new external bus was built, and the support of the operating system and motherboard chipset was obtained, it should be no problem.

When Su Yuanshan saw this problem, he was very shocked by the spirit of exploration of these guys - this group of people had already begun to think about how this bus should be named.

So Su Yuanshan replied: Universal Serial Bus.

......

Gates was immediately stunned, and his eyes suddenly deepened.

Although he is a software engineer, Gates is no stranger to hardware architecture - you know, he works with operating systems, directly dealing with the lowest level of hardware!

He pondered a few rules proposed by Su Yuanshan, and soon found that technically, this was achievable.

Gates was surprised, but soon asked, "Sounds good – but what about the use case?"

"For example, printers, mice - who knows what else will be?" Su Yuanshan smiled: "The main thing is that it adopts serial mode, which can theoretically expand an infinite number of interfaces." In the same way, it can theoretically have extremely high transfer rates...... It's also great if it can be used for memory. ”

"Mr. Gates, you know. I think that the birth of a new standard and technology is often not due to how many application scenarios it can provide for the time being, but because it provides more possibilities for the future. ”

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he closed his mouth and looked at Mr. Gates with a smile.

Gates smiled slightly, nodded and said, "Well said, provide more possibilities." But...... Proposal and promotion of any one standard? It's not something that can be done by one company or two companies. It's about the industry's sensibility — you're not just going to push this standard with Microsoft, are you?"

"How can it...... How many major computer companies must be invited? For example, IBM, HP? Compaq? NEC, Sony and many more. Of course...... If AMD is willing to join? Yes, too. ”

Gates looked at him with interest: "Why not Intel?"

"Because they are bad people, bullying Xinghai......" Su Yuanshan spread his hands: "Still fighting a lawsuit with Xinghai!"

Gates burst out laughing.

After laughing? Gates shook his head and said, "Excuse me? Sue. We are a strategic ally of Inetl, and all about computer standards, we can't possibly leave Intel alone. ”

Su Yuanshan said in his heart, I believe that you are a bad old man and only have ghosts - oh no, Gates is not yet 40 years old? It's not bad, old man.

In the old plane? In 2001, when Intel launched the X86-64 architecture IA64 (that is, 64-bit I-tanium Itanium), Microsoft also released the Windows XP 64bit Edition, which was a very conscientious fulfillment of the responsibility of an ally.

But when AMD's 64-bit processor AMD 64 processor came out, Microsoft also released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition – see no? Or with Professional - this is one of the important reasons why IA64 failed.

When IA64 failed, Su Yuanshan happened to enter Intel? It is to know what the whole Intel mood is towards Microsoft.

You know, at that time, it was known as Intel's biggest crisis - the market share was constantly being eaten away by AMD? Even around 06, AMD once counterattacked the situation of two worlds.

Of course? And then the Core came out? AMD is out of business? Began to move towards the road of agricultural enterprises. After sitting firmly on the throne, Intel also began to move towards the road of toothpaste factory.

Of course, Intel squeezed toothpaste to let AMD come up with a Zen core and directly turn the tables against the wind, that's a later story.

And in later generations, Microsoft and Qualcomm finally launched an ARM architecture cooperation, in the eyes of others, this is the official rupture of the Wintel alliance.

Therefore, there is no unbreakable alliance in this world.

The reason why it is strong is because it is not tempted enough, because the danger encountered is too great, and it has to be grouped together - at present, the PowerPc alliance dominated by Apple is still the enemy, and Mr. Gates does not dare to leave Intel.

"Then let Intel come in, even if it's a little angry. Su Yuanshan sighed: "Swallow your anger, just for technological progress." ”

Gates laughed again: "Did you reconcile?"

"Do you mean Xinghai? If you refer to Yuanxin......" Su Yuanshan smiled: "Yuanxin doesn't have any holiday with them." ”

"But if I take this opportunity to reach some agreement with Intel, I'd be happy to see it. ”

Gates smiled and nodded: "I'm also very happy to see it." ”

Su Yuanshan said in his heart, of course you are happy to see it...... You wish all CPUs in the world supported and only your operating system......

Next, the two casually bragged about the cowhide and talked about today's weather, and Gates also recommended a few Chinese restaurants for Su Yuanshan......

Finally, the two talked about the development of the Internet, and their opinions on the Internet are very unanimous, and they both believe that the Internet will be a new industry with rapid development, and the future is promising.

At the end of the conversation, Su Yuanshan asked casually, "Then why don't you develop a browser?"

Mr. Gates smiled slightly: "Because I give you face." ”

Su Yuanshan was stunned for a moment and laughed.

Although this sentence of "oriental characteristics" was surprisingly fake, it still greatly satisfied Su Yuanshan's vanity.

He's the one who even gives face to Gates......

......

Leaving the door of Microsoft, Qin Si saw Su Yuanshan smiling heartily and asked him why he was so happy.

Su Yuanshan said that Gates gave him face so much that he did not compete head-on with Xinghai.

"Really?"

"Of course it's fake. Su Yuanshan withdrew his gaze from the door of Microsoft and said with a smile: "The world has changed a lot, and Xinghai has become a force to be reckoned with in Silicon Valley, which is something I ignored before." ”

This clueless sentence made Qin Si stunned.

"Drive, Sister Qin Si, help me make an appointment with AMD tomorrow morning, and make an appointment with Compaq in the afternoon. ”