Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 334: Alpha robot?

? Henry's acquisition of DEC's Alpha architecture processor department and the establishment of Alpha Corporation have aroused the great vigilance of Intel Corporation!

  

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

  

   "Henry Williams seems to be ready to compete with Intel in the processor section!"

  

   "Yes, Alpha, with his support, is indeed a great threat to our Intel company!"

  

   "Yes, it must be guarded!"

  

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

  

   "……"

  

  Intel quickly made a major decision to invest 1.5 billion US dollars to develop a new processor!

  

   The processor battle is on fire.

  

   Intel and Alpha have received great attention from outside media.

  

   However, Alpha is generally not optimistic. After all, Intel already 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 the existence of Intel. AMD, the second-ranked company, is almost forgotten in the corner... Henry actually owns the third-ranked company in the world. Cyri company, specializing in the production of cheap processors!

  

   In order to strengthen Alpha's technical strength, Henry merged Cyri into Alpha, but retained the yri department, allowing them to still produce cheap processors.

  

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

  

   In terms of the number of developers, Intel can throw away Alpha for several blocks. However, Alpha is taking the elite route, and the engineers in the company are all outstanding talents. However, scientific research does require a large number of talents, and the number of talents in Alpha is still a bit small!

  

   Even if yri joins Alpha, it is far less than Intel.

  

  The spring is full, Henry walks casually in Williams Electronics. The sun in San Jose is shining brightly, shining on people, and it is very comfortable. Henry walked to the lawn and lay down, squinting at the blue sky and white clouds. The gentle breeze, with the fragrance of green grass, can't help but be intoxicating!

  

   Henry, in order to allow Alpha Company to fight against Intel, he decided to invite "Master" to take the initiative.

  

   The semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley can basically be traced back to a company Fairchild Semiconductor!

  

   More than half of the semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley are basically direct or indirect descendants of Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1957, with the support of Fairchild Photographic Equipment Company, the "Eight Rebellions" founded Fairchild Semiconductor, and subsequently invented silicon transistors and integrated circuits, laying the foundation for the future semiconductor industry!

  

   The Fairchild Semiconductor Company at that time was 10 times more bullish than the current Intel Company. The talents basically engaged in the semiconductor industry came from Fairchild Semiconductor Company. At a semiconductor engineer conference held in Sunnyvale in 1969, among the 400 attendees, fewer than 24 had never worked for Fairchild. The horror is so obvious!

  

  The prosperity is extremely declining, and Fairchild Semiconductor is no exception. As the general manager of the parent company continued to transfer profits to the East Coast to support the profitability of Fairchild Photographic Equipment Company, this caused dissatisfaction with the "Eight Rebellions", and then left Fairchild Semiconductor one after another! The loss of talents eventually led to the decline of Fairchild Semiconductor!

  

   Who is the "Eight Rebellion"? In fact, it refers to the rebellion of the eight geniuses. They were originally well-known physicists and students of William Shockley, the Nobel Prize winner in Physics who discovered the transistor effect. Later, they all left Shockley, and Shockley angrily called them "eight rebellious"!

  

   The achievements of the "Eight Rebellions" have played a significant role in the development of Silicon Valley.

  

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

  

  Moore is even more awesome. He wrote three pages casually, and finally became "Moore's Law", which is called the "first law" of the emerging electronic computer industry! Moore, a genius, once predicted that the number of transistors that can be integrated on an integrated circuit will steadily increase at a rate of doubling every 18 months and will maintain this momentum for decades to come. As a result, he was really hit by...

  

   As the old saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Fairchild Semiconductor Company says it's not working anymore, but the foundation is still there.

  

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

  

   Henry lay on the lawn and couldn't help but become amused.

  

In the afternoon, the person Henry sent to investigate Fairchild Semiconductor Company returned. The report: "Mr. Williams, Fairchild Semiconductor Company is now in National Semiconductor Company. However, National Semiconductor Company seems to look down on National Semiconductor Company. Move it out of Silicon Valley!"

  

   "Where to move?"

  

   "Myanmar!"

  

   "Damn, move to that ghost place!" Henry shook his head unconsciously. The once brilliant Fairchild Semiconductor Company actually moved to Myanmar, which is a shame...

  

   "Go and tell National Semiconductor, I, Henry Williams, will buy Fairchild Semiconductor!!!"

  

"Yes!"

  

In other words, 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. Ever! How can we not be reduced to Burma!

  

   Soon, National Semiconductor Corporation expressed its willingness to sell at a price of 300 million US dollars!

  

   Henry sighed slightly when he heard the price. Look at Intel today and then at Fairchild Semiconductor. The gap is really big. One has a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars, and one has a market value of less than 300 million dollars!

  

  Henry is not nonsense~lightnovelpub.net~ directly ordered people to buy Fairchild Semiconductor.

  

   Currently, Fairchild Semiconductor also has 6,500 employees. What makes Henry dumbfounded is that Fairchild Semiconductor has recruited a large number of artificial intelligence talents. After Henry asked, he realized that it was not long before National Semiconductor took over. Before 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 in the end it did not do so. However, these artificial intelligence talents have been recruited.

  

   OK, artificial intelligence talent, brother can use it!

  

   Fairchild Semiconductor is so famous, 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.)