Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 276: Rocket launch

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The size of Apple Newton is very large, and the length and width of the previous iPad are almost the same as 8 inches and 5 inches. In the current trend of pursuing the smaller the product, the Apple Newton obviously does not meet the requirements of the market. The palm handheld computer is small, light and cheap, and it is inevitable to crush AppleNewton!

The failure of AppleNewton made Apple even worse, and a large amount of inventory in the warehouse could not be sold, resulting in serious losses. In recent years, Apple's market share has declined year after year, and has now fallen below 5%. The failure of AppleNewton became the fuse, John Sculley was forced to resign as CEO of Apple, and Michael Spindler took over!

After Michael Spindler took over, he had no idea how to take Apple out of the predicament.

In the first quarter of 1993, when the financial statements came out, Apple lost $400 million. Michael Spind Alexander, and finally under his leadership, Apple finally began to go to the hospital in a hurry, and decided to produce cameras and home game consoles!

Kodak cameras are very profitable, well known.

Nintendo’s game consoles are even more gold-fishing. Nintendo’s operating income in 1991 was equivalent to that of TVs in the United States.

Michael Spind seemed to see the light in the dark...

Apple will soon announce its decision to develop cameras and home game consoles, hoping that these two products can reverse profits and losses. After Henry saw the news, he couldn't help laughing. Apple didn't even know how the word "dead" was written.

In the field of camera competition, Williams Electronics has expressed great pressure.

After getting the technology authorized by Carl Zeiss, Williams Electronics combined with its own micro hard drive to finally launch the Williams camera. The core competitiveness of Williams cameras is mainly the large capacity of micro hard drives. However, because of the use of micro hard drives, the price is more expensive, priced at $1,500.

After the product is released. Although selling well. But still can't fight Kodak, Canon, Sony and other companies.

What core competitiveness does Apple have now?

The lens technology is awesome? then what?

Absolutely not.

After the launch of the Apple camera, the response must have been mediocre.

As for the Apple game console...hehe. It's just the rhythm of hunting for death!

Competition for home game consoles is far more cruel than cameras. At that time, Sony PlayStation. Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Nintendo N64.

Why do Apple game consoles compete?

The shrimp soldiers and crabs will be involved in the war between giants. I was crushed to death casually! ! !

Henry couldn't help shook his head.

Apple is taking it into the ditch by itself, so I really can't blame others!

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The Clinton era is coming. This means that the development of the Internet will advance at an incredible speed.

Encouraged by the government, network infrastructure in various states is being vigorously built, and ISP Internet access service providers are booming.

The number of netizens is increasing. The profitability of Internet companies is getting bigger and bigger.

Currently, the two most profitable Internet companies are Global Online and Isearch.

Both companies sell advertising. Although the global online revenue is only more than 3.2 billion US dollars, the net profit is as high as 1 billion US dollars. Isearch's annual revenue is only 2.5 billion US dollars, but the net profit is 730 million US dollars.

When the 1992 annual financial statements of the two companies were released. Suddenly caused a sensation.

Numerous companies have entered the Internet industry one after another. According to the statistics of the domain name management company under Henry's name, an average of 1,000 domain names are born every day in the world.

At this time, the business of Noah's Ark's server hosting business immediately skyrocketed, and more than 1,000 server hosting sites around the world were already operating at full capacity. At the same time, many companies buy servers every day. Today, Noah’s Ark’s factory has begun to work overtime to produce servers.

Henry had anticipated this situation a long time ago, so he had asked Noah's Ark to expand five factories earlier, and the production capacity increased by more than five times.

At the moment, Noah's Ark's shipments rank first among server manufacturers, which is more than the sum of the server shipments of the next two companies. The market share once increased to 71.5%, almost monopolizing the global market!

The performance of Noah's Ark server was originally the best, and the brand awareness was also the highest. Now that the scale has expanded, the manufacturing cost has also been reduced, and Noah's Ark server has an advantage over other companies in terms of price!

IBM and Dell can only be left behind.

What makes Henry even more pleased is that Noah's Ark's blade server has been developed, and the conditions for establishing a large-scale data center are approaching mature.

The appearance of a blade server is not just as simple as a blade. Each "blade" is actually a system motherboard, which runs its own system, serves different user groups specified, and is not related to each other. However, these blades can be combined into a server cluster. In the cluster mode, all the motherboards can be connected to provide a high-speed network environment and share resources at the same time to serve the same user group! Moreover, new "blades" can be inserted into the cluster at any time, which can improve overall performance!

In short, the blade server can be a stand-alone player, but also can be transformed into a body.

In addition, multiple blades can be plugged into one chassis, which saves a lot of space.

Blade servers will basically become the mainstream of high-performance computing clusters, but they are expensive, and are generally used in large-scale data centers or fields that require large-scale computing!

You are not afraid, Henry has money!

Besides, even Noah's Ark is Henry's. Isn't he turning his left hand to his right?

However, Henry does not have much cash left, and the cost of the data center is not a small sum.

Henry decided to list his internet company for financing.

Right now, countless people are rushing into the Internet, leading to a boom in Internet concept stocks!

Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba can be split and listed.

There are also Global Online, Isearch, ICQ, IReader novel websites, Everyday Music Company, and the newly established Hospital website.

Henry got busy for a while. Organize manpower to start planning for listing.

It didn't take long. The outside world has heard that Internet companies under Henry's name will be listed collectively.

"Time": "It is rumored that the Internet company under the name of Henry Williams is about to go public. If it is true. Then, this will be the most sensational thing in the history of Nasdaq!"

"Wall Street Journal": "Internet companies under the name of Henry Williams go public. Their value will increase dramatically!"

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Senior Wall Street analyst: "Nicholas International E-commerce Group has a market value of more than 150 billion U.S. dollars. It has three major e-commerce platforms, B2C platform Amazon. C2C platform eBay and B2B platform Alibaba. The three companies were split and listed. It is estimated that the total market value may be higher than the parent company!"

"According to the data we collected, the net income of global online in 1992 was as high as 1 billion US dollars, and more than 50 branches or offices were established all over the world, and there were more than 20 different kinds of English, German, French, Chinese, etc. The language version has a market share of more than 75%, far surpassing the market share of less than 15%, ranking second in America Online!"

"In addition. Global Online is also the first profitable Internet company in the United States. In recent years, with the increase of Internet users, advertising costs have also increased sharply!"

"At a reception, Bill Gates once inadvertently revealed an expression of envy and regret to other people: "The Internet age is coming, and the global online is growing, and the money is getting more and more! It is difficult for Microsoft to catch up. on……'"

"And AOL CEO and Chairman Steve Case also said in an interview:'The existence of global online makes AOL very embarrassing. First of all, from the name, one is Global Online and the other is just AOL. It seems AOL is inherently weaker...'"

"I expect that after the global online listing, the market value will be beyond imagination!!!"

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The preparations for the listing of major companies are in full swing.

Henry received the news that NASA sent someone to SpaceX to investigate SpaceX. At this time, SpaceX’s launch vehicle was successfully manufactured, ready for launch testing. Henry is very confident in SpaceX. After all, he is the top talent snatched from the Soviet Union. The technical level is no worse than that of the United States. In the field of launch vehicles, SpaceX may be even stronger!

Henry asked SpaceX to buy a communications satellite from Lockheed, which was considered as a pre-acquisition contact. It was familiar to everyone and everyone was familiar with it. If you meet again, you won’t be unfamiliar...

Satellites are really expensive. SpaceX spent $150 million to purchase this Lockheed German communications satellite.

The cost of the launch vehicle manufactured by SpaceX is only about 50 million US dollars. As for the launch fee, it is waived because it is launched by the company's own company. If it's someone else, you will have to collect twenty to thirty million dollars for less.

Usually, there must be insurance premiums, twenty to thirty million U.S. dollars. This money, of course, comes from the other party.

Therefore, to launch a satellite, two to three billion dollars is normal.

The communications satellite purchased by SpaceX is classified as a direct-broadcast satellite according to its professional use, and it broadcasts TV and radio programs directly to the public.

Henry's direct broadcast satellite company can be deployed from now on.

What Henry admired was that Motorola launched the Iridium satellite program, which attracted the attention of the world.

The so-called Iridium satellite plan is to launch 77 satellites in space to create a global 360-degree satellite communication system without blind spots! No matter which ravine you are in, you can communicate with your mobile phone by pointing upwards.

SpaceX said that since you want to launch so many satellites, everyone can cooperate.

I will launch your satellite.

However, Motorola does not trust SpaceX ~ lightnovelpub.net ~ tactfully refused. Even if you want to come, you are a novice, open your mouth and say to help you launch a satellite, if the launch fails, wouldn't it be a loss.

So now is the time for SpaceX to prove its capabilities.

On May 1, SpaceX is preparing to launch a rocket.

Most U.S. media expressed their strong concern. At the rocket launch site, thousands of media from around the world came to the scene. At the same time, many heavyweight representatives came, such as the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, the U.S. military, etc...

The rocket manufactured by SpaceX this time is called "Flying Eagle 1". When the time comes to 12 o'clock noon, the countdown begins.

At this time, the whole audience could hear the low voices from the broadcast.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0..."

"start up!!!"

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