Silicon Valley

The WilliamsX Lab has always been quiet and low-key. This time, the java language was suddenly released, shocking the whole world!

Judging from the name, people will soon be able to discover the relationship between WilliamsX Labs and Henry Williams, the richest man in the world. Obviously, the WilliamsX laboratory was established by Henry Williams. As a result, people can't help but wonder what projects the WilliamsX Lab is still working on.

The surprise that java brings to people is really too big!

The release of java has a huge impact on the entire Internet and the entire computer industry. It is a major milestone!

In addition to java, what other surprises will the WilliamsX Lab bring to people?

Henry Williams is so rich, and the laboratory he built must be extraordinary!

However, the level of confidentiality in the WilliamsX laboratory was extremely high, and even if they inquired, they didn't inquire anything about it.

In fact, the projects researched by the WilliamsX laboratory are java, wifi, bluetooth, and P2P. Henry returned to the United States this time, he is ready to set up more projects, robots, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, high-tech energy (solar energy, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion) and so on...

The first-generation mobile phone of Williams Electronics was first released in the United States and Canada in April 1994. It was launched in Europe in June, and it was launched in China in October. Although the function of this mobile phone is not perfect, it has an excellent appearance design. ——Small and exquisite body shape, built-in address book and wap function, the sales volume exceeded 20 million units, becoming a dark horse that entered the mobile phone market in 1994! A mobile phone costs less than 300 US dollars, but the price is 500 US dollars. The final revenue is 10 billion US dollars and the profit is 4 billion US dollars!

Williams Telecom has gained more than two million new users because of its cooperation with Williams Electronics!

In 1995, Williams Electronics was preparing to launch the second generation of mobile phones-Bluetooth mobile phones. Want to flip Motorola mobile phones and make Williams Electronics the manufacturer with the most sales of mobile phones!

However, it is still in the confidential stage.

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Williams Electronics.

"Boss, DEC only promised to sell the Alpha architecture processor division to us. It sold other divisions to Compaq! It seems that Compaq has taken a fancy to DEC's computer business, and they are paying higher prices than us!"

A middle-aged man in a neat suit with a middle score reported to Henry's office.

"Okay, the Alpha processor department I want to buy the most anyway!" Henry smiled faintly, "How much does DEC ask for?"

"3 billion dollars!" the middle-aged man replied.

"3 billion US dollars? Okay, Smith. Buy it!" Henry nodded after thinking about it, and then said something, "Also, sell their shares in 3dfx to us!"

"Okay, I will talk to them right away. 3dfx is just a humble company. Presumably DEC is willing to sell its shares!"

"Yeah!" Henry responded and asked the middle-aged man to hurry up and complete the acquisition.

Three days later, Williams Electronics acquired DEC’s Alpha Architecture Processing Division and a 30% stake in 3dfx for US$3.01 billion.

Alpha processor. Although the processing speed is the fastest, the price is still a bit expensive, and the key is that it cannot be supported by Microsoft's system, and even Apple's system does not support Alpha processors. Therefore, promotion is extremely unfavorable and must be improved!

Now that the Alpha processor is in Henry's hands, it doesn't matter whether the windows system supports it or not, at least Apple and Linux will support the Alpha processor! In fact, the awkward relationship between Microsoft and Intel. Williams Electronics introduced the Alpha processor, and Microsoft will probably not support it, at least it is impossible to maximize the performance of the Alpha processor!

Henry is going to let people redevelop a stronger processor on the original basis, and DEC has no money to continue to develop Alpha processors. As a result, an extremely good processor that could crush Intel at the time was finally lost, and Henry came to save it!

Now that Alpha is in Henry's hands, the thing that bad money drives good money will not happen!

"AlphaPower"!

The new processor is called "AlphaPower", the more powerful Alpha!

Henry wants "Alpha" to take Intel's fat together and let it know what is great!

to this end. Henry decided to invest US$2 billion in the development of the AlphaPower processor.

Soon, the Alpha processor architecture development department moved to the headquarters of San Jose Williams Electronics. Henry said to them here: "The failure of the Alpha processor is mainly due to problems with the development strategy of DEC. Now, we To develop more powerful processors, and to cooperate with Apple, just like the cooperation between Microsoft and Intel!"

"Intel has Microsoft support, Alpha has Apple support. It seems that their combination seems to be stronger, but I believe that sooner or later, the Alpha-pple alliance will defeat the Wintel alliance!!!"

Henry said: "The Alpha processor architecture department will go out and set up Alpha. The new processor we are about to develop is called'AlphaPower'. I will inject two billion US dollars into the company. It doesn't matter how much money is burned, but we must Technology improvement!"

"In order to make everyone more motivated, the salary of all Alpha employees has been increased by 20%, and the company will launch an equity incentive plan to reward employees who have contributed to the company with 10% shares!" DEC has been losing money in recent years , The treatment of employees can be imagined. Henry was also worried that the treatment was too bad and they would change jobs. These engineers are outstanding talents, and one less is a loss!

As soon as Henry finished speaking, the employees became excited!

"Thank you Mr. Williams!"

"Thank you Mr. Williams!"

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Keep clapping!

Henry smiled, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then he appointed Alpha chief architect and also the head of the department, Richard Richard, as the chief executive of Alpha.

Richard is in his forties, is about 180cm tall, has a flat head, and wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses. He is the first processor designer to propose the Alpha architecture~www.readwn.com~ He said that Henry appointed him as the company's CEO. Very pleasantly surprised, hurriedly said: "Thank you Mr. Williams for your trust, I will try my best to manage Alpha company!"

Henry smiled and nodded.

Alpha is full of talents. In addition to Richard, there are Derrick-Meyer, who will design K7 processors for AMD in the past, James-Keller, who designs K8 processors, and Daniel-Leibholz, who develops UltraSPARC-V for Sun. There are many architects who designed the StrongARM-110 processor, and they have a strong lineup, and they are not inferior to Intel at all!

On the contrary, the StrongARM-100 processor project was proposed by Inlet and cooperated with DEC. However, after the collapse of DEC, the brain drained. Intel itself was unable to complete the StrongARM-100 processor project. In the end, the project could only die. Belly!

It can be seen that Intel can’t do it...

(It's been three-shift, haha, there are only two-shifts in the evening)

(To be continued.)