Silicon Valley

Henry's disease caused the world to be turbulent, and the stock prices of listed companies under Henry's name plummeted, causing a series of domino reactions, causing global stocks to fall one after another!

Seven days later, news of Henry's safe recovery came out, and the global stock price slowly recovered.

The Wall Street Journal headlined: "Henry Williams can't be sick, he's sick, and the whole of Wall Street is shaking!"

ABC TV invited two expert professors to analyze Henry Williams' illness. One expert professor said solemnly: "If Henry Williams dies, it will definitely cause a world economic crisis! Definitely!!! "

Another expert professor nodded and said: "Yes, I agree with Professor Brown very much, what he said is very reasonable..."

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Henry read the newspaper, then watched the TV news, and shook his head speechlessly, "These newspapers or experts and professors are alarming, I'm just sick, how could it cause such a big disturbance!"

At this moment, Harrison immediately sent someone to collect information on the world's most outstanding supercomputer research and development company after getting Henry's order. Afterwards, Harrison organized the information and sent it to Henry's e-mail.

Henry was accompanied by two beauties, but he was enjoying the blessings of all.

"Helen, get your notebook, Harrison just sent me an email!"

"Um……"

Henry took the notebook from Helen's hand, turned it on, entered the email, and then saw the information sent by Harrison.

"Summary of Supercomputing Company Data"

After Henry clicked it, he browsed.

Henry browsed very quickly, almost ten lines at a glance. After a minute or two, Henry finished reading the information.

This information was exactly the same as what he remembered.

IBM occupies the top position, followed by HP, and the third is Cray!

According to this data, Cray controlled the entire supercomputer market and occupied the top position for five years (1985-1990), but then due to IBM, HP giants also developed in this direction, through continuous annexation of rivals, to seize market share. Cray has also been affected, and its market share has fallen sharply!

Cray is a very powerful company in Henry's memory.

It went bankrupt in the early years and then developed again. The technology is very powerful. The supercomputer developed by Cray has more powerful performance and better energy efficiency than IBM and HP! IBM may be the company that makes the most supercomputers, but Cray is definitely the company that makes the most supercomputers!

Coincidentally, Cray once made a supercomputer called "Jaguar" Jagaur, its name is the same as Atari's new 64-bit machine, from November 2009 to June 2010 was The world's fastest supercomputer was later replaced by "Tianhe-1A". In 2012, Cray made improvements on the basis of Jaguar, and once again created the world's fastest supercomputer - Titan!

Coincidentally, Cray was eventually acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1994. If the acquisition of Cray is now considered "return to the original owner"?

Cray was overtaken in the 1990s. It wasn't that Cray's technology was not good, but that IBM and HP were both developing too fast. These two companies are rich owners. Under the frenzy of acquisitions, the technology and the market are theirs. Cray company can only express very helpless!

So Henry then called Harrison and asked him to buy Cray.

Harrison was instructed by Henry to immediately launch an acquisition of Cray. Cray has a very difficult time now. Facing the siege of IBM and HP, its market share has plummeted to less than 10%. According to the current trend, Cray's market share will continue to decline!

Cray Corporation urgently needs to find a solution to the current predicament! ! !

At this time, Williams Electronics threw an "olive branch" to Cray, which was undoubtedly an opportunity!

Since Cray can be acquired by Silicon Graphics, why would it reject Williams Electronics?

It didn't take long for Cray to say it would accept a takeover from Williams Electronics. Williams Electronics invested only $500 million to complete the entire acquisition.

As soon as the news came out, newspapers reported: "Cray, a very famous supercomputer manufacturing company in the United States, has turned to Williams Electronics and is expected to return to the top!!!"

IBM and HP were shocked when they received the news.

Most of the orders for supercomputers come from government agencies or scientific research institutions. Usually, IBM, which has a great relationship, HP is easier to get orders.

But now that Cray is merged into Williams Electronics, that's a problem.

Williams Electronics is not a vegetarian either. His boss, Henry Williams, has a much closer relationship with the US government than IBM and HP. Many industries under Henry Williams' name deal with the government. It can be said that Henry Williams has infiltrated the US government very seriously!

IBM and HP could not help but feel a deep sense of urgency, but also a taste of helplessness. Previously, they suppressed Cray with the power of capital. Now, I'm afraid it will be called back by Cray in the same way...

Williams Electronics is much richer than IBM and HP, and its subsidiary Cisco alone ranks first in the world's market capitalization. As long as it is willing to support Cray, Cray will soon develop.

In fact, Cray has grown far beyond IBM and HP's imagination...

In order to save himself, Henry will spare no expense to build the strongest supercomputer! ! !

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Henry continued to stay in the hospital for a week before being discharged. When he was discharged from the hospital, Henry shuddered when he saw Dean Hilton's reluctant gaze. Scientists are so crazy, Dean Hilton has obviously regarded himself as a guinea pig for his scientific research...

If it weren't for his special status, maybe he would be sliced ​​and played in the laboratory!

"Mr. Williams, since you insist on being discharged from the hospital, how about I arrange for a special nurse to take care of you?"

"It's better not to, you know, my condition cannot be known to ordinary people!" Henry declined politely.

"It's okay, this super nurse is my granddaughter. She is 18 years old and comes from a medical family. She has a high professional level and looks outstanding. Most importantly, she will definitely keep secrets!" Dean Hilton approached Henry and whispered. , "Besides, Mr. Williams, your condition needs professional care at all times..."

"Okay, then there's work..." Henry thought about it and nodded. Indeed, if you have any good or bad, it is better to have a professional nurse for emergency treatment.

Dean Hilton heard the words, and said happily: "Well, I will arrange for my granddaughter to come over as soon as possible!"

"Yeah!" Henry responded, and then said goodbye to Dean Hilton.

Henry quickly left the hospital in a black Rolls-Royce stretcher and had the driver drive to Williams Electronics.

At the moment, Harrison and Cray founder Seymour Cray and others are discussing how to build a powerful supercomputer!

When they learned that Henry was coming, Harrison and his party rushed to the door of the company to greet him.

Henry got out of the car, glanced at everyone, and saw a strange face.

Harrison pointed to Moses Cray and introduced Henry: "Chairman, this is Dr. Moses Cray, the founder of Cray Company!"

"Oh, hello, Dr. Moses Clay, nice to meet you!" Henry laughed, reaching out to shake his hand.

Moses Clay hurriedly shook hands with Henry respectfully and said, "Me too, nice to meet you, Mr. Williams!"

"Haha, go in and talk more, don't all stand here!" Henry laughed and walked into the company first.

Harrison, Moses Clay and others followed Henry into the company.

After a while, he came to the chairman's office.

After everyone sat down, Henry looked at Moses Clay and asked with a smile: "Dr. Moses Clay, has Harrison told you that I want to build the world's fastest supercomputer?"

Moses Clay nodded: "I have already said that before you came, we were discussing the manufacturing plan."

Henry only knows a little about supercomputers. He knows that supercomputers are computers composed of hundreds of thousands or even more processors, which can calculate large and complex tasks that ordinary PCs and servers cannot complete. Supercomputers are not as simple as stacking a large number of CPUs, memory and other hardware, which should be applied to a variety of "soft" and "hard" technologies such as parallel access to file systems, data partitioning, non-uniform memory access models, and cooling. In other words, the core technology of supercomputers is architecture!

China's Tianhe-1 and Tianhe-2 are ranked first in the world's supercomputer rankings, which shows that China's technical level is still acceptable. However, in terms of effective computing efficiency, it is a bit poor. However, Cray can take into account both the computing speed and the effective computing efficiency, and its technology is very strong.

Henry didn't ask about anything too complicated. Although supercomputers are not simply stacking processors, processors are the key to supercomputers. Without processors, there would be no supercomputers.

Henry looked at Harrison and asked, "Has the MIPS processor been developed? If we want to build a supercomputer, it is best to use our own high-performance MIPS processor!!!"

The MISP processor is designed based on the RISC reduced instruction set. Henry knows that because the RISC instruction system is related to specific application fields, RISC machines are more suitable for special-purpose machines; CISC machines are more suitable for general-purpose machines. The supercomputer that Henry is going to develop will be used exclusively for medical computing, and the MISP processor is the best!

Moreover, almost all high-end servers use RISC instruction system CPU.

It can be seen that Henry's choice of MISP processor is very correct.

Harrison heard the words and said to Henry: "The development progress of the MIPS processor has reached four-fifths, and in another month, samples will be available!"

Hearing this, Henry nodded in satisfaction.

"But..." Harrison looked at Henry and said, "Chairman, although we have established a fab to manufacture processors, we do not have our own packaging and testing factory. In addition, the scale of the fab needs to be expanded. , should choose a new place to build the factory!"

Henry thought for a while and asked, "Where do you think is the most suitable place to build a factory?"

"Taiwan Hsinchu Science and Technology Park!!!"

(To be continued ~^~.)