giants of the era

Chapter 221 Supercomputer (big chapter)

Li Zetian gave the Johnson family a week to think about it. In fact, they gave in within three days.

The Johnson & Johnson family borrowed a lot of money from banks and other financial institutions or individuals in order to purchase shares. If the Gene Technology Company does not pay dividends, they will not be able to repay the loan at all.

Li Zetian made a calculation at this time. He bought Johnson & Johnson with a total of less than 80 billion US dollars.

Prior to this, Johnson & Johnson kept saying that it would cost US$180 billion to sell.

Li Zetian couldn't help but lamented that he was lucky, and just happened to encounter a huge crisis in Johnson & Johnson, so he picked up a bargain.

Buying Johnson & Johnson for $80 billion is incredible!

It's a lot of money!
Li Zetian even felt excited when he was sleeping!
Johnson & Johnson has never lost money since its establishment, and its performance is very stable.Moreover, it is no worse than Internet companies, the bubble is serious, and the market value can easily fall from the top of the cloud to the bottom of the valley.Johnson & Johnson's products are real, and everyone cannot do without care products, medical devices and medicines!

Li Zetian can no longer imagine what kind of a powerful company the Gene Technology Company, which consists of dozens of companies such as Roche Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Genentech, Amgen, etc., will grow into in the future, but he knows that the Gene Technology Company It can change the world, solve human diseases, and create unparalleled wealth! ! !

But at this moment, the industry has been shocked to the point where it cannot be further shocked. Countless people envy Li Zetian for swallowing Johnson & Johnson so easily, and only spent less than 80 billion US dollars.

At present, Gene Technology companies are integrating talents and technologies, and optimizing resources. After doing this, Gene Technology companies will be much stronger than they are now.

This year is only 1982, and there will be plenty of time in the future to develop shocking drugs!
Artificial intelligence and biotechnology are inextricably linked. What is the difference between the human brain and artificial intelligence?These are topics for future research.

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. If you have a powerful supercomputer, you will be able to speed up your scientific research!!!"

Li Zetian walked to the window sill and looked out the window.

It was December, and it was snowing heavily outside the window. Standing behind him, Yu Jingqiu put a black coat on Li Zetian, "It's snowing outside, it's cold, and you still have the window open! I don't know how to add an extra coat." Yu Jingqiu blamed.

Li Zetian hugged her back into his arms, and said with a smile, "It's okay, there is an air conditioner in the study, so it's warm!"

"Jingle Bell!"

The phone on the desk rang suddenly.

Li Zetian let go of Yu Jingqiu and walked over to answer the phone.

"Mr. Li, hello, I'm Jobs!"

"Well, hello, Jobs, is there anything I can do for you? Could it be that the CD-Walkman has been successfully developed?" Li Zetian said with a little excitement.

"Yes, Mr. Li. The CD-Walkman has been successfully developed, and the Ant Factory is working overtime on production now! The company held a meeting and decided to hold a product launch on December 12th, and then on Christmas Day on the 20th. It's officially released in the United States! Mr. Li, are you coming to the press conference?" Jobs asked.

"No! Just let you host the press conference!" Li Zetian shook his head.

"Well, okay, then I won't bother you, I hung up?"

"Ok!"

After the two finished talking, Li Zetian sighed softly: "I just bought Johnson & Johnson, I wanted to keep a low profile, but I didn't expect Apple to release the CD-Walkman soon, so I can't keep a low profile~~"

When Yu Jingqiu heard this, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"You always keep a low profile on your lips, but when did you ever keep a low profile!" she said.

"I'm already very low-key, okay!!!" Li Zetian shook his head, insisting that he was very low-key.

"Well, you are low-key, but your company is not low-key at all. As far as I know, Microsoft will release the Windows 1 operating system in early January next year, and then it will be ready to go public!" Yu Jingqiu laughed.

Li Zetian smiled helplessly: "The company is developing well, what can I do! Microsoft has become the world's most profitable software development company by virtue of Excel spreadsheets, Word word processing software, and Microsoft-DOS operating system. It's time to go public."

"This will be the first listed company under your name. What do you estimate the market value of Microsoft will be?" Yu Jingqiu asked curiously.

"What?" Li Zetian thought for a while, and said, "Wall Street's valuation of Microsoft is about 150 billion U.S. dollars, but once it goes public, you know, stockholders are crazy, and the company's market value is usually higher than those on Wall Street." Valuation is much more! I estimate it could be over $200 billion!"

"200 billion dollars is so much!!!"

"Is it a lot?" Li Zetian touched his forehead and didn't say much, thinking, Microsoft's market value may exceed 6000 billion US dollars, I dare not tell you, for fear of scaring you!The development of personal computers in this life is much faster than in the previous life, plus the two killer software Excel and Word, and the operating system that dominates the rivers and lakes, Microsoft's market value is so high, it is no exception.

Li Zetian poured two glasses of fruit juice, handed one to her, and said with a smile: "If you don't believe me, you will know in due time. Let's not talk about this for now. We just acquired Johnson & Johnson, and many people are jealous of us and secretly slander us. I plan to During the Christmas season, we will go to orphanages, schools and hospitals to do charity activities, on the one hand, we will spread positive energy to the world, and on the other hand, let the American citizens support us!"

Yu Jingqiu said happily: "Okay, and take Xiao Youran with me. Although she is still young, let her see the suffering and misfortune in the world and cultivate her love!"

"Ok!"

Li Zetian nodded with a smile. He also hoped that his daughter would be a caring daughter, not a prodigal daughter who flaunted her wealth.I brought her to do charity together since she was a child, and she has been influenced by her ears and eyes. She must be a great philanthropist in the future!

Li Zetian continued: "Jingqiu, you can arrange the itinerary for the charity. I don't have time to work on it. I have to go to Sun Microsystems and let them develop a supercomputer! On the one hand, it is to provide Gene Technology with supercomputers. Computers; on the other hand, research on artificial intelligence also requires supercomputers, and I plan to build an artificial intelligence laboratory next year!"

Yu Jingqiu asked in surprise: "Can artificial intelligence be developed with current technology? Is it like a robot with self-awareness in the movie?"

Li Zetian explained with a smile: "Artificial intelligence is not what you imagine. It must have self-awareness to be called artificial intelligence! Artificial intelligence is the simulation of the information process of human consciousness and thinking. Research on how to make computers and software complete tasks that previously required humans To give a simple example, let the computer learn to play chess, this is artificial intelligence; another example is voice, image or text recognition, this is also artificial intelligence!

In short, artificial intelligence can do things beyond your imagination, and you will know it in the future!
"

"Oh!" Yu Jingqiu understood.

Li Zetian kissed her on the forehead and said, "Honey, I'm busy."

"Ah."

Subsequently, Li Zetian went to Sun Microsystems, only half an hour's drive away.

After coming to the company, Li Zetian explained his purpose to Dr. Jim Clark.

Dr. Jim Clark thought for a while and said: "Sun has no experience in making supercomputers for system companies. If you develop it yourself, it will be a bit slow, and it will be difficult to catch up with IBM. However, I know that there is a person who makes a supercomputer that is better than IBM's." The company is even better!"

"who?"

"Seymour Clay!!!"

"Seymour Clay of Clay Research?"

"Mr. Li, you've heard of him too."

"Of course I've heard of it," Li Zetian said with a smile, and then he recalled a bit, and continued, "At first, Seymour Cray worked in Control Data CDC. CDC also made supercomputers. At that time, IBM introduced The aggressive 360 ​​supercomputer project. Seymour Clay took more than 30 warriors to hide in the deep forest of Wisconsin. For four spring and autumn, he declined all social contacts and buried himself in drawing drawings and making parts. Even the famous academic group for the West Mo Clay presented the award, and he didn't want to be seen in public. For this, Claybo earned the nickname "The Hermit of the Jungle"

Hard work pays off!
In August 1963, CDC unexpectedly announced CDC8 ahead of IBM360.Its development cost only spent 6600 million U.S. dollars, and the computing speed of the computer reaches 700 million times per second. IBM was shocked, and Watson Jr. couldn't help but wrote excitedly in the memo: "We are a large company with strong capital and personnel. I really can't understand why IBM can't be one step ahead in supercomputers?"You know, the CDC's research and development team has only 300 people in total, including a gatekeeper. '

However, the conflict between Seymour Clay and the company's top management gradually intensified. In 1972, he set up his own company and established the Clay Research Company.In the initial stage of entrepreneurship, there was no factory building, no workers, and lack of funds.He and a few assistants who followed him desperately found a place to stay in the dense forest, and there was a small and simple factory building with more than 40 workers.Even so, in 1975, the Cray-1 he developed was famous all over the world, with a speed of 2.4 million calculations per second, equivalent to 370 times that of the IBM40 computer!
However, with the rise of the personal computer, mainframes and supercomputers were given a certain cold shoulder, and life was not easy for Cray Research. "

"Mr. Li, you know him in such detail!" Jim Clark was full of astonishment, "However, Seymour Cray's talent in supercomputers is indeed unmatched, and he can be called "the king of supercomputers." "Father, if we can recruit him and his entire team, it will be much easier for us to develop supercomputers!"

Li Zetian couldn't help laughing, but he didn't expect Jim Clark to join him, "Sun Microsystems has made achievements in the field of high-performance computers, and if it can acquire Cray Research, Sun Microsystems will be even more powerful!!! "

Dr. Jim Clark nodded with a smile: "Yes, Mr. Li, then I will make an acquisition offer to Clay Research Corporation later!"

"Ok!"

……

Because of the existence of Li Zetian, personal computers developed rapidly, and Clay Research Corporation was much worse than in the previous life.

Sun Microsystems offered an olive branch, and Seymour Clay couldn't help but think about it seriously.

Right now, Clay Research is short of research and development funds, making it difficult to develop more advanced supercomputers.

"Dr. Clark," he thought all night, and said to the CEO of Sun Microsystems on the phone the next morning, "If Sun Microsystems fully supports my development of supercomputers, I will accept Sun Microsystems' acquisition! "

Seymour Cray's dream was to develop supercomputers, as if he was born for supercomputers, in fact, his whole life has been like this.In the previous life, even the nearly seventy-year-old Seymour Cray wanted to launch the final charge and start the SRC company, but unfortunately, bad luck came suddenly and he died in a car accident.

"No problem at all, Sun Microsystems is willing to fully support your development of supercomputers!"

After the two parties reached a verbal agreement, they soon made an appointment to continue the detailed discussion.

In the end, Sun Microsystems injected 3.5 million US dollars into Cray Research Corporation and obtained an absolute controlling stake in the company, holding 90% of the shares.The other 10% is held by Seymour Cray and his team.

"Mr. Clay, the original headquarters of Cray Research Corporation is too simple, please move to the Sun Systems building as soon as possible. There are still many floors here that are vacant." After signing the contract, Dr. Jim Clark raised his head and smiled. Said to Seymour Clay.

"Well, ok, we'll move there as soon as possible!"

In the afternoon, the two sides held a press conference to announce that Sun Microsystems had acquired Cray Research.

After IBM heard the news, it was shocked!
Due to its excellent performance, Sun Microsystems' workstations not only have a place in workstations, but also reach out to the minicomputer market. This has already made IBM choked up. Seeing that they are going to grab supercomputers and mainframe computers again, this is clearly going to pull on IBM's head. XX!

IBM's top executives were furious, but there was nothing they could do.It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. How can IBM manage whether others are developing supercomputers?

"Chronos Li is against us everywhere, we can't continue to sit idly by, we must take measures to let him know how powerful IBM is!!!" IBM CEO Frank Cary frowned.

"Carrie, what can you do?" asked a director.

Cary sneered: "In January next year, isn't Microsoft going to release the latest Windows 1 window operating system? Just let him know how powerful we are. The operating system of the IBM-PC personal computer will no longer be compatible with Microsoft's operating system. Binding, we IBM also has an operating system, users can make their own choices!"

"Hehe, this is a good idea. Let Chronos Li know that it is absolutely useless to go against IBM!!"

"..."

So at 11 o'clock the next morning, IBM held a press conference. Frank Cary announced at the press conference that Microsoft's next-generation operating system, Windows 1.0, is no longer bound to the IBM-PC, and users can only use it by themselves. Buy, install the system.

As soon as the news came out, Microsoft was stunned. What is IBM doing?
Bill Gates called IBM and asked what was going on.

Frank Cary's tone was cold, and he said unabashedly: "Chronos li caused IBM a lot of losses, so the partnership between Microsoft and IBM is over!"

"Mr. Cary, even though Chronos and IBM are enemies, Microsoft and IBM have been cooperating well!"

"He is the major shareholder, so there is no way. Although I am familiar with your mother, I have to say sorry!!"

After speaking, Frank Cary hung up the phone.

Bill Gates' face sank.

After thinking about it, he still called Li Zetian.

"Chronos, this is Bill, did you see IBM's press conference this morning?"

"Look!"

"Frank Cary said that you fought against IBM and caused IBM a lot of losses, so you decided to abandon the cooperation with Microsoft..."

IBM is involved in almost everything in the computer field, and most of them are industry giants.

Li Zetian said that he was helpless. As long as he was involved in the computer field, no matter what he did, he would have to compete with IBM, which was impossible.

"Maybe it has something to do with me, but it is by no means the most important factor. IBM has realized the importance of the personal computer operating system, otherwise it would not have developed its own operating system. The abandonment of the cooperation with Microsoft this time is actually just I found a high-sounding excuse!"

Li Zetian paused, and said: "It's just that it's too late for IBM to decide to cancel the binding cooperation with Microsoft's operating system. Windows 1.0 graphics operations are shocking, and they will definitely be sought after by computer users. IBM You have to give in to us too!!!”

PS: The update time is too late these days, I am really sorry, it will be updated normally tomorrow, at 12 o'clock noon and 7 o'clock in the evening.

(End of this chapter)