Silicon Valley

Henry's acquisition of DEC's Alpha architecture processor division and the establishment of Alpha Company aroused great vigilance in Intel Corporation!

Later, they heard that Henry had injected $2 billion into Alpha, and Intel immediately held an emergency meeting.

"Henry Williams looks ready to compete with us at Intel on the processor side!"

"That's right, Alpha Corporation, with his support, does pose a great threat to Intel Corporation!"

"Yes, it must be guarded against!"

"Increase investment, we can't let Alpha company catch up with us!"

"..."

Intel Corporation soon made a major decision to invest $1.5 billion to develop new processors!

The processor war is on fire.

Intel Corporation and Alpha Corporation have received great attention from the outside media.

However, Alpha is generally not optimistic. After all, Intel has a monopoly in the semiconductor industry. It is difficult for Alpha to surpass Intel in a short time!

Industry analysts have their own opinions, but they all believe that Alpha is the only company that can challenge Intel, and AMD, which ranks second, has almost been forgotten in the corner... Henry actually owns the third largest company in the world. Cyrix company, specializing in the production of cheap processors!

In order to strengthen Alpha's technical strength, Henry merged Cyrix into Alpha, but kept the cyrix division, allowing them to still produce cheap processors.

At present, the media are generally not optimistic about Alpha Company. Naturally, Alpha's comprehensive strength is worse than Intel's.

In terms of the number of developers, Intel can beat Alpha by several blocks. However, Alpha Company is taking the elite route, and the engineers in the company are all outstanding talents. but. Doing scientific research does require a lot of talents, and the number of talents in Alpha is still a little less!

Even cyrix company joined Alpha company. Also far less than Intel Corporation.

Spring is in full swing, and Henry is walking around at Williams Electronics. The sun in San Jose is bright, shining on people, and it is very comfortable. Henry went to the lawn and lay down. Squinting at the blue sky and white clouds. The gentle breeze, with the fragrance of grass, can't help but be intoxicated!

In order for Alpha Company to fight against Intel, Henry decided to invite the "grandfather" to come forward.

Silicon Valley's semiconductor companies can basically be traced back to one company - Fairchild Semiconductor!

More than half of the semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley are basically direct or indirect descendants of Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1957, "Eight Rebels" was backed by Fairchild Photographic Equipment. Together they founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Subsequently, silicon transistors and integrated circuits were invented, laying the foundation for the future semiconductor industry!

At that time, Fairchild Semiconductor was 10 times more arrogant than the current Intel company. The talents who were basically engaged in the semiconductor industry came from Fairchild Semiconductor. At a conference of semiconductor engineers in Sunnyvale in 1969, fewer than 24 of the 400 attendees had never worked at Fairchild. It's so terrifying, it's obvious!

It thrives and declines, and Fairchild Semiconductor is no exception. Because the general manager of the parent company continued to shift profits to the East Coast to support the profitability of Fairchild Photographic Equipment, which caused the dissatisfaction of the "eight rebels". Then they left Fairchild Semiconductor! The loss of talents eventually led to the decline of Fairchild Semiconductor!

Who are the "eight rebels"? In fact, referring to the rebellion of eight geniuses. They were both students of the famous physicist and Nobel laureate in physics William Shockley who discovered the transistor effect. Later, they all left Shockley, angry Shockley called them "eight rebels"!

The achievements of the "eight rebels" have played a great role in the development of Silicon Valley.

Witnessing the unfairness of the parent company, Herney, Roberts and Claire in "Eight Rebels" first ran away in anger and established Anelko Company. Sanders founded AMD, and Charles Spock and Jerry Sanders went to National Semiconductor. The last two Noyce and Moore in "Eight Rebels" founded the famous Intel Corporation!

Moore is even more awesome. I wrote three pages casually, and finally became "Moore's Law", which is called the "First Law" of the emerging electronic computer industry! Moore, the genius, predicted that the number of transistors that could be integrated on an integrated circuit would steadily double every 18 months, and would continue to do so for decades to come. As a result, he was really hit by what he said...

As the old saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although Fairchild Semiconductor is no longer available, the foundation is still there.

Intel is awesome, so buy Fairchild Semiconductor and let its "father" teach it a lesson.

Henry was lying on the lawn and couldn't help but be happy.

In the afternoon, the person Henry sent to investigate Fairchild Semiconductor came back, and Hui reported: "Mr. Williams, Fairchild Semiconductor is now in National Semiconductor. However, National Semiconductor seems to be a little bit down on National Semiconductor and is preparing to Move it out of Silicon Valley!"

"Where to move?"

"Myanmar!"

"Damn it, move to that ghost place!" Henry shook his head unconsciously, the once brilliant Fairchild Semiconductor actually moved to Myanmar, which is too much of a loss...

"You go and tell National Semiconductor that I, Henry Williams, are going to buy Fairchild Semiconductor!!!"

"Yes!"

After all, Fairchild Semiconductor is also a symbol of Silicon Valley in the United States and the cradle of Silicon Valley talents. It has nurtured thousands of technical and management talents for Silicon Valley. It is called the "West Point Military Academy" in the computer industry. Pass! How can we not be reduced to Myanmar!

Soon, National Semiconductor offered to sell it for $300 million!

Hearing this price, Henry couldn't help sighing slightly. Looking at Intel Corporation today, and then at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, the gap is really big. One has a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the other has a market value of less than 300 million dollars!

Henry didn't talk nonsense, and ordered someone to buy Fairchild Semiconductor.

At present, Fairchild Semiconductor also has 6,500 employees. What makes Henry laugh is that Fairchild Semiconductor actually recruits a large number of artificial intelligence talents. After Henry asked, he learned that it turned out that the National Semiconductor Company had just taken over it not long ago. Previously, Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield technology service company, bought Fairchild Semiconductor. It originally wanted Fairchild Semiconductor to quickly enter the field of robot production, but it did not do so in the end. However, these artificial intelligence talents have been recruited.

OK, artificial intelligence talents, brother can use it!

Fairchild Semiconductor is famous, and the brand is too loud. Henry thought about it and finally decided to keep the name.

If you continue to operate the Fairchild Semiconductor brand name, what about Alpha?

Alpha?

Alpha robot? !

Henry's eyes lit up...

(To be continued ~^~)