giants of the era

Chapter 200 All in one sweep (second update)
The International Consumer Electronics Show, referred to as CES, is a window for major electronic product companies in the world to release product information, display high-tech levels and advocate future lifestyles.

The products developed by enterprises under the name of Li Zetian often participate in CES and become the star products of the exhibition.

This year, Sun Computer Systems will exhibit the Sun1 graphics workstation using the ARM1.0 processor, as well as Intel's new processor Intel-80826.

Li Zetian is more looking forward to the performance of Sun 1.0 graphics workstations. You must know that the profits of workstations, servers, and supercomputers are very high, and Sun Computer Systems is used to compete in these fields.In addition, Li Zetian has been researching artificial intelligence and will definitely need to develop supercomputers in the future! In 1997, IBM's supercomputer "Deep Blue" defeated the chess king Garry Kasparov, causing a worldwide sensation.However, since Li Zetian has come for such an honor, he naturally wants to grab it!

This Friday, Li Zetian and Dongfang Yuqin went to Las Vegas to attend CES.

It has been 1967 years since CES was held in 15, and its influence is growing, with more than 10 viewers and more than 300 manufacturers.

The scene was crowded with people, and it was very lively.

In addition to paying attention to his own booth, Li Zetian is also paying attention to the product booths of other companies, in order to infer the development of current technology from these products.After all, there is a butterfly effect, and Li Zetian cannot completely follow the memory of his previous life to find out.

Many booths at CES already had ShowGirls in revealing and sexy clothes. When these MMs saw Li Zetian, they all winked, swayed and flirted, hoping to attract the billionaire's attention.

Li Zetian didn't think too much about them, at most he was addicted to his eyes. Dongfang Yuqin didn't look good towards them, and stared at them coldly as a warning.

When the person in charge of the company at each booth saw Li Zetian coming, he must take the initiative to step forward and introduce his company's products.

The CES exhibition is really dazzling, full of technological colors, and can best understand the current situation of consumer electronics.

There are many Japanese manufacturers such as Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, etc., and their booths have attracted a lot of people to watch, which really makes Japanese companies look like no other!

Li Zetian shook his head and sighed, and left calmly.

In the 90s, the Japanese economy developed rapidly, and Japanese companies were indeed very powerful. This is indisputable, especially for automobiles, electrical appliances, and electronic products, which almost beat the United States. During this period, the United States did not know how many automobile companies The company went bankrupt, and how many TV companies went bankrupt... Especially the "Detroit", the city of automobiles in the United States, has almost become a "city of death"!
Li Zetian continued to browse, and after a while, he discovered something interesting—a graphics workstation was also displayed on the booth of SGI.However, the performance is much worse than the Sun1.0 graphics workstation, and no one cares about it.

Li Zetian is quite familiar with SGI company, which was established in 1982 in his previous life.However, it may be due to the butterfly effect, so it was established a little earlier, but not too much earlier.

The founder of the company is Dr. Jim Clark!
This guy is amazing. Li Zetian has seen a lot of news about him in his previous life. He is not only the founder of SGI, but also the founder of "Netscape Browser" and Healtheom. Many people commented on him as "the next 20 years. One of the most influential people in Silicon Valley", many engineers call him a great legend.

In fact, what really attracted Li Zetian was not the graphics workstation product on the booth, but Dr. Jim Clark standing next to the booth.Li Zetian believes that as long as he is given enough funds, engineers and time, SGI will soon become the strongest competitor of Sun Computer Systems under the leadership of Dr. Jim Clark!
In the previous life, SGI was an important provider of high-performance computing systems, complex data management and visualization products in the industry.It offers the world's best series of servers and visualization workstations with supercomputing capabilities.For five years, SGI's average growth rate was 40-50%, making it the fastest growing computer company in the world.

It is a pity that Dr. Jim Clark, as a scientist, was squeezed out of the company in the end, and the legend of SGI company also fell with it!Then, he founded Netscape and started another legend...

Li Zetian smiled slightly, and in his heart he planned to subdue Dr. Jim Clark and make him a general under his command!
Dr. Jim Clark was in a depressed mood for a long time, and Sun Computer Systems also came to CES, and Sun's Sun1.0 graphics workstation was much more powerful than the graphics workstation developed by SGI, almost not at the same level.

Of course, this is a "crime other than war". It's not that Dr. Jim Clark's skills are not good, but that the opponent is not fighting alone.

The SGI graphics workstation was developed by Dr. Jim Clark with several engineers, and the research and development conditions were limited.The Sun1.0 workstation was jointly developed by hundreds of senior engineers, and also used the high-performance processor ARM1 designed and developed by ARM Company based on the RISC simplification instruction set.

How can this be compared?

In fact, when it comes to research on graphics workstations, Dr. Jim Clark is definitely a top figure in the industry. Since 1974, he received a doctorate in computer science from the University of Utah, and began to think about how to enable engineers to use [-]D graphics computing functions.

It's a pity that he was born at an untimely time and met such a perverted person as Li Zetian.

Therefore, at the CES show, SGI graphics workstations were overshadowed.

At this moment, Dr. Jim Clark was very surprised when he saw Li Zetian walking towards him.

"Mr. Li, hello!" Dr. Jim Clark greeted him and greeted him proactively.

"You are?" Li Zetian asked deliberately pretending not to know.

"I am Dr. Jim Clark, founder and CEO of SGI Corporation."

"Hello, Dr. Jim Clark, nice to meet you, this is the SGI graphics workstation developed by your company..." Li Zetian turned his head to look at the workstation on the booth deliberately as he said.He can't just come and say, "Hey, Dr. Jim Clark, stop doing it and hang out with me!" This is too abrupt, first look at their company's products, then praise the products, and then Recruiting Dr. Jim Clark, this is the accurate way to recruit talents.

Dr. Jim Clark blushed because he knew that the SGI graphics workstation was far from the Sun 1.0 workstation developed by Sun Computer Systems under the name of Li Zetian.

Li Zetian looked at the data introduction above, and then went into battle to operate it himself. Finally, he turned around and said with a smile: "Dr. Jim Clark, if there is no Sun1.0, this SGI graphics workstation will definitely be the highlight of this CES." !"

Dr. Jim Clark smiled bitterly: "Maybe..."

"Dr. Jim Clark, is SGI a start-up company?" Li Zetian asked.

"Ah."

"It's amazing that a start-up company can develop such a product! Dr. Jim Clark, on behalf of Sun Computer Systems, I formally issue an acquisition invitation to SGI!"

Dr. Jim Clark frowned and said, "Mr. Li, the SGI graphics workstation is nothing compared to the Sun 1.0 graphics workstation. Why did you buy SGI?"

Li Zetian smiled and said: "Dr. Jim Clark, because of you, I want to acquire SGI Corporation. I very much hope that you can join Sun Computer Systems Corporation and create brilliance with us!!!"

Dr. Jim Clark was more than moved.

Dr. Jim Clark might not care much if this was said by the CEO of an ordinary company.However, it is different if these words come from Li Zetian.Who is Li Zetian, a super genius, a billionaire, who has created countless business legends, such a person looks at him differently, can Dr. Jim Clark not be moved?
Acquisition of a company is only for one person!
This is enough to see Li Zetian's sincerity.

Dr. Jim Clark was moved.

At this time, Li Zetian went on to say: "Dr. Jim Clark, Sun Computer Systems has an equity incentive mechanism. With your ability, you will definitely get rich rewards!"

Dr. Jim Clark glanced at his colleagues, all of them looked at him excitedly, waiting for his decision.

"Mr. Li, I've decided to sell SGI to Sun Computer Systems!" Dr. Jim Clark replied after pondering for a while, looking at Li Zetian.

Li Zetian was overjoyed, stretched out his hand, and said with a smile, "Dr. Jim Clark, welcome to Sun Computer Systems!" Then, he shook hands with several other SGI employees, and he couldn't ignore them.

Subsequently, the two parties reached an agreement, Sun Computer Systems invested 100 million US dollars to buy SGI, and the employees of SGI were automatically transferred to become Sun employees. The agreement specifically stipulated that Dr. Jim Clark must stay at Sun Computer Systems. , At least 5 years before resignation, and resignation can not be engaged in related work.As compensation, Li Zetian made him the chief technology officer of the company and offered him a very high salary.

Then, Li Zetian asked Dongfang Yuqin to draft an agreement, and the two parties signed the contract on the spot, so as not to have long nights and dreams. After all, many people saw Li Zetian contacting Dr. Jim Clark and the others, and it would be bad if someone played tricks on them.

After the contract was signed, Li Zetian took Dr. Jim Clark to the booth of Sun Computer Systems, introduced them to Jobs and Wozniak, and talked about the acquisition of SGI.

When it was over, Li Zetian asked Dr. Jim Clark: "How did you think of creating SGI?"

Dr. Jim Clark said with a smile: "The reason is quite funny. I saw Andy Baker Torsen and Scott Marconelli of Stanford University dropped out of school to start Moon Microsystems, and I couldn't help feeling very Envious, so I also decided to leave Stanford University and start SGI company!" After a pause, Dr. Jim Clark smiled, "As far as I know, they probably also came to participate in the CES exhibition..."

"Cough cough..."

Li Zetian couldn't help coughing several times when he heard the words. Andy Becketterson and Scott Marconelli were the founders of Sun in their previous lives...

"Dr. Jim Clark, do you know where their booth is? I'd like to see..."

In fact, Li Zetian didn't finish his sentence, and it should be followed by this sentence: "By the way, catch everything!"

In the graphics workstation market, SGI and... Moon Microsystems will be the two most powerful competitors of Sun Computer Systems. Now that SGI has been acquired, why not also acquire Moon Microsystems to enhance its technical strength and secondly Monopoly the market!

Dr. Jim Clark smiled, obviously guessing Li Zetian's plan: "Mr. Li, please follow me, I know where they are!"

(End of this chapter)