The richest man

Chapter 199 "Suyan" Graphics Workstation
IBM's bureaucracy really makes people want to complain, and it also gives Microsoft a lot of time to improve the operating system.

Not long after, Bill Gates and Paul Allen came to IBM with the new DOS system.

Bill Gates showed IBM the DOS system, and Don Estridge and others kept frowning. Compared with the Hongmeng operating system, this system is simply too bad!
Bill Gates has been cautious since he walked into IBM, and he has been careful. When he saw the faces of IBM executives, he knew that the other party must be dissatisfied with his operating system.

Therefore, after Bill Gates introduced the DOS system, he said: "If you give Microsoft a little time, the DOS system can do better! Moreover, we can license this operating system to IBM for free!!! "

As soon as this remark came out, all the staff of IBM present were taken aback.

The Hongmeng operating system is priced at US$500. Even if it is purchased by IBM, it is difficult to buy it for less than US$300. IBM is definitely not willing to spend so much money on the operating system!
At the moment, several IBM executives whispered about it.

"As long as this system is improved, it should be good. The main reason is that this system is free. What's more, we haven't released IBM PC yet, and Microsoft has plenty of time to improve this operating system!"

"Yes, the Hongmeng operating system is good, but it's too expensive. If we sell 100 million computers, wouldn't we have to spend 3 million dollars on the operating system?!" Another executive shook his head after finishing speaking.

Don Estridge frowned and said, "But the DOS system is much worse than the Hongmeng system. If we launch such a computer, I'm afraid consumers will not be satisfied!"

"Isn't there still time? Let Microsoft go all out to perfect the DOS system, and we can also send people to assist them in developing the operating system. I believe that before we launch a personal computer, we should be able to come up with a comparable Excellent operating system!" An IBM executive said confidently.

Don Estridge opened his mouth to say something, but swallowed it back.He is well aware of the difficulty of developing an operating system. He can't say that Microsoft and IBM's help can't compare to Legendary Technology...

IBM is proud and arrogant, how can it admit that it is not as good as Legendary Technology?
And most importantly, the DOS system is free!

On this one, the DOS system can get the support of the IBM board of directors!

Moreover, Don Estridge also knew that Bill Gates' mother was a director of IBM.Otherwise, Microsoft, a small company, may not have the opportunity to negotiate with IBM at all.

Three days later, IBM and Microsoft signed an agreement to jointly develop the DOS system.

During this period, IBM also negotiated with Huo Jianning's team, but they broke up badly. IBM hoped that Legendary Technology would provide the latest operating system at an ultra-low price of $50.Huo Jianning told Zhang Jun the content of the negotiation, Zhang Jun immediately objected, sticking to the bottom line: the price of the operating system should not be less than 300 US dollars!

So what about IBM, the legendary technology company also ignored it.

If you want to take advantage, there is no way!

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhang Jun believes that IBM will not be the opponent of Hongmeng Computer if it delays the personal computer.

If the DOS system wants to catch up with the Hongmeng operating system, it will not be possible in a year or two.

Moreover, Zhang Jun has many means to attack competitors.

Office and games are the strengths of Legend Technology Company!
Who are the global game giants at the moment?
Classic and fun games can’t be played, why would you buy an IBM computer? !
Zhang Jun will definitely not allow Legendary Technology's games to support the DOS system, and third-party game developers will know who to look at.Because Legendary Technology has almost monopolized the handheld and home console platforms, and these two platforms have a total of more than 4000 million users, and the number is still increasing rapidly.

What about personal computers?
It may only add up to 300 million units, of which, the Hongmeng operating system occupies most of the market share!
As long as third-party game developers are not stupid, they will not offend Legendary Technology.

Although IBM's technology is very good, it is also the overlord of the computer industry.

However, game development mainly focuses on game creativity and platforms.

Legend Technology is the undisputed boss! ! !

Therefore, Legend Technology is not afraid of IBM at all, and its core competitiveness far exceeds IBM.

Zhang Jun also believes that other computer manufacturers will also support the Hongmeng system.

Of course, by then, the price of Hongmeng will be slightly lower.

Furthermore, Zhang Jun had to consider that monopolizing the operating system would cause the US government to impose sanctions on him.Therefore, leaving Microsoft's operating system may also be a good choice.Moreover, Zhang Jun himself is also a major shareholder of Microsoft, with a shareholding of 35%, second only to Bill Gates.

However, Bill Gates should not know that Microsoft's major shareholder is actually him.

"Suzaku Capital" is an overseas offshore company, and the behind-the-scenes shareholders are not clear to outsiders.

After being rejected by Legendary Technology, IBM immediately signed an agreement with Microsoft.

Zhang Jun also received the news soon, and told Huo Jianning to only discuss the cooperation of Kunpeng chips with IBM.

The Kunpeng chip is five or six times stronger than the Intel chip, and it is impossible for Intel to supply it to IBM for free, and the price is not much cheaper than the Kunpeng chip. Therefore, IBM is still willing to continue negotiating with Legendary Technology on this matter.

The second-generation Kunpeng processor is named Kunpeng 1979. It has not been sold yet, but the retail price has been set, namely: $250.

Huo Jianning negotiated with IBM for nearly three weeks, and finally finalized the cooperation: a "Kunpeng 1979" processor is priced at US$185, and IBM will purchase 30 chips at one time.

It is only when IBM buys chips that they sell them so cheaply. When other computer manufacturers come to buy chips, the price of chips is generally not less than 200 US dollars.

Zhang Jun can infer from the sales volume of Kunpeng chips that IBM will launch 1980 IBM PCs in 30.

The figure of 30 is relatively conservative. It can be seen that IBM's confidence in IBM PC is not very strong.

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A few days later, Huo Jianning's team returned to Hong Kong.

Zhang Jun held a celebration party for them.

Huo Jianning was a little ashamed because he didn't win the cooperation of the operating system.

But Zhang Jun is already very happy, because he is still a major shareholder of Microsoft, but not a shareholder of Intel.

Containing the development of Intel Corporation may be more important for Legendary Technology Company.

Zhang Jun was very satisfied with Huo Jianning's ability to handle affairs, and then entrusted him with a heavy responsibility. Let him work in China Land as Ma Shimin's deputy, study under Ma Shimin, and take over his class in the future.

Next year, the PC battlegrounds will be filled with smoke.

For the next period of time, Zhang Jun had to come to Legend Technology Company for a long time to assist the engineers to complete the development work.Zhang Jun doesn't understand technology, but he understands application, knows what effect he wants, and can clearly convey the meaning to developers, so that they don't think hard and don't know how to start.

Zhang Jun's joining has achieved remarkable results, and the development progress of many projects has greatly increased.

In order to achieve higher execution efficiency for games or multimedia, Hongmeng OS has developed the DirectX application program interface, which enhances graphics and sound effects, and provides designers with a common hardware driver standard, so that game developers do not have to worry about each brand’s Write different drivers for different hardware, and also reduce the complexity of user installation and hardware configuration.

The independent graphics card has been improved again, and its performance has become more powerful.

The memory designed and produced by Legend Technology has also reached the world's leading level. It has developed a memory with a capacity of 256kb, and is currently actively developing a memory with a capacity of 512kb~1MB.

The threshold of memory in this era is as low as that of processors. Legend Technology spent money on memory development and quickly caught up.And the most important thing is that the memory produced by Legend Technology Company is completely self-produced and sold.As a result, the global memory market is sluggish, and only Legend Technology's memory is developing very well!

In the previous life, with the collapse of Atari Corporation, the global memory was unsalable, there was a serious surplus, and the price plummeted. Countless memory companies suffered heavy losses, and companies such as Intel and National Semiconductor withdrew from the memory field one after another.Fortunately for them in this life, Legendary Technology Company doesn't buy their memory products at all, so there will be no excess memory.

Of course, most of these memory companies can't make money, so they are struggling.With the upgrading of memory technology, the vast majority of memory companies will go bankrupt.

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In the United States, Disney Company obeyed Zhang Jun's order and bought the copyright of "Dune".

Afterwards, the film and television adaptation project of "Dune" was launched, and Legendary Technology Company also began to adapt the game.

As soon as the news got out, good boy.

Hollywood's major film companies have come to seek cooperation.

Zhang Jun also doesn't want to eat alone in Hollywood, and it's hard to say that movies will be successful. With the cooperation of these Hollywood film companies, we can share the risk.

In the end, Disney chose Warner and MGM for cooperation.

The investment of "Dune" is 3500 million US dollars, and Zhang Jun chose David Lynch as the director candidate.

The script of this movie was written by Zhang Jun. The plot is smoother, there are more special effects scenes, and the investment is much higher than in the previous life. The film will definitely be more popular than the previous life.

The technology of Industrial Light and Magic is much stronger than that of the previous life. Legend Technology even developed a graphics workstation and related graphics software for Legend Technology. The movie "Dune" will be the first time that Industrial Light and Magic uses the "Suan Ni" graphics workstation. to create special effects for movies.

At this time, at the headquarters of Industrial Light and Magic, a row of mainframe boxes similar to Hongmeng personal computers were placed on the table, but the chassis was missing a circle. powerful.

"狻猊" is the brand name of a graphics workstation.

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. With this "Suan Ni" graphics workstation, we can produce brighter and more realistic movie special effects! ! ! "A Chinese special effects designer couldn't help but said happily.

Looking at these graphics workstations, everyone present was extremely excited.

A Yankee couldn't help asking the Chinese: "David, what does this 狻猊 mean?"

"Suanni is a divine beast in ancient Chinese mythology, the fifth son of the 'nine sons of the dragon'. Suanni is shaped like a lion. He likes to be quiet and does not like to move all his life. He is easy to sit and likes fireworks. He is often used to decorate the feet of incense burners. It is very famous in China!"

"Oh, Chinese culture is really extensive and profound, with so many mythical beasts!"

"Of course, China has a long history of 5000 years and has many excellent traditional cultures!"

Everyone turned on the machine quickly, and under the explanation of the technicians, they became familiar with the use of the "Suan Ni" graphics workstation.

Everyone is looking forward to the amazing effects that the special effects work of the film "Dune" will produce with the help of the "Suan Ni" graphics workstation.

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Hong Kong Industrial Magic Light Branch also equipped with "Suan Ni" graphics workstation.

Legendary Films of Hong Kong will also produce blockbusters on its own.

Zhang Jun wrote two scripts for Legendary Film Company before, one is "Resident Evil" and the other is "Death Train" ("Train to Busan").

Legendary Films plans to produce "Death Train" first, and then shoot "Resident Evil", because the latter is more difficult to shoot and requires slightly more special effects, and there will be many characteristic monsters in the film.

Now with the "Suan Ni" graphics workstation, the problem of special effects is not a big problem, but the project can be formally established.

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Zhang Jun still stayed in Legend Technology Company for a long time, and it didn't take long until 1980.

IBM is still in full swing preparations for the IBM PC.

In the past few months, Legend Technology has made great breakthroughs in many products.

However, the real-time strategy game "Dune" has been developed. After Zhang Jun tried it, he was not very satisfied. There are still many places that need to be optimized and perfected. In the end, bugs need to be tested, and the release time has not been determined.

In order to develop shooting computer games, Legendary Technology finally had to find a way to develop the game engine first.

Zhang Jun attaches great importance to the game engine, which is the core of the game. With it, Legend Technology can not only develop high-quality games, but also greatly shorten the development time of the game.

Therefore, Zhang Jun invested a lot of resources in the development of the game engine, which will be one of the core products of Legend Technology in the future.

Legend Technology Company has transformed from a content creative company to a technology-oriented company. No one's ideas will always be popular, but if the technology is leading, it can produce many disruptive products!
The game engine now seems to only render graphics, but in the future the game engine will be a full-featured engine including multiple subsystems such as 3D modeling, animation design, light and shadow effects, AI computing, collision detection, and sound processing.

If you want to realize the real virtual game in online game novels, you will definitely use an extremely powerful game engine to make this kind of game.

The game screen is real, almost real, and the AI ​​intelligence is very powerful.

Zhang Jun wants to try it out. In his lifetime, he wonders if he can develop a virtual game...

(End of this chapter)