Silicon Valley

The WilliamsX laboratory has always been unobtrusive and low-key. This time, the java language was suddenly released, which shocked the whole world!

From the name, one can quickly discover the relationship between WilliamsX Labs and Henry Williams, the richest man in the world. Obviously, the WilliamsX lab was founded 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 great!

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

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

Henry Williams is so rich, the laboratory he established must be doing something extraordinary!

However, the WilliamsX laboratory is extremely confidential, and no matter what they inquire about, they have not heard any news.

In fact, the projects researched by WilliamsX lab are java, wifi, bluetooth, P2P. Henry returned to the United States this time to prepare to build more projects, robotics, 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, launched in Europe in June, and launched in China in October. Although the function of this mobile phone is not perfect, it has excellent appearance and design. ——Small and exquisite body, built-in address book and wap function, made the sales exceed 20 million units, and became a dark horse that entered the mobile phone market in 1994! The cost of a mobile phone is 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 2 million new subscribers because of its cooperation with Williams Electronics!

In 1995, Williams Electronics was ready to launch the second generation of mobile phones - Bluetooth mobile phones. Want to flip Motorola cell phones and make Williams Electronics the number one manufacturer of cell phones!

However, it is still in the confidential stage.

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Williams Electronics Corporation.

"Boss. DEC only promised to sell the Alpha architecture processor department to us, and sell the other departments to Compaq! It seems that Compaq has taken a fancy to DEC's computer business, and their price is higher than ours!"

A middle-aged man in a neat suit with a midpoint was reporting the situation in Henry's office.

"Okay, anyway, the one I want to buy most is the Alpha architecture processor department!" Henry smiled lightly. "How much is DEC asking for?"

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

"$3 billion? Well, Smith, buy it!" Henry nodded after thinking about it, and said, "In addition. Sell their shares in 3dfx to us too!"

"Okay. I'll talk to them right away. 3dfx is just an inconspicuous company. Presumably DEC is willing to sell shares!"

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

Three days later, Williams Electronics acquired DEC's Alpha architecture processing unit and a 30 percent stake in 3dfx for $3.01 billion.

Although the Alpha processor has the fastest processing speed, the price is still a bit expensive, and the key is that it is not supported by the Microsoft system, and even Apple's system does not support the Alpha processor. thus. 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, because of the miserable relationship between Microsoft and Intel, Williams Electronics launched the Alpha processor, and Microsoft will probably not support it, at least it is impossible to maximize the performance of the Alpha processor!

Henry was going to let people re-develop a stronger processor on the original basis, and DEC didn't have the money to continue developing the Alpha processor. As a result, an extremely good processor that could crush Intel at the time eventually disappeared, and Henry came to save it!

Now that Alpha is in Henry's hands, he will not let bad money drive out good money!

"AlphaPower"!

The new processor name is "AlphaPower", more powerful Alpha!

Henry wants to let "Alpha" fatten Intel and let it know what it means to be great!

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

Soon, the Alpha processor architecture development departments all moved to the headquarters of the San Jose Williams Electronics Company, where Henry told them: "The reason why the Alpha processor failed is mainly because of problems with DEC's development strategy. Now, we To develop a more powerful processor, and to cooperate with Apple, like the cooperation between Microsoft and Intel!"

"Intel has Microsoft support, Alpha has Apple support. Now 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 be independent and set up Alpha Company. The new processor we will develop is called 'AlphaPower'. I will inject $2 billion into the company. improve!"

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

As soon as Henry finished speaking, the employees were immediately excited!

"Thank you Mr. Williams!"

"Thank you Mr. Williams!"

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Clap clap clap!

Henry smiled and raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet. Then he appointed Alpha's chief architect, Richard, who is also the head of the department, as Alpha's CEO.

Richard is in his 40s, about 180cm tall, with a flat head and a pair of black-rimmed glasses. He was the first processor designer to propose the Alpha architecture. He was very surprised at Henry's appointment of him as the company's ceo, and said hurriedly: "Thank you for your trust in Mr. Williams, and I will work hard to manage Alpha Company!"

Henry smiled and nodded.

Alpha company has a lot of talents. In addition to Richard, there are Derrick-Meyer who designed the K7 processor for AMD in his previous life, James-Keller who designed the K8 processor, and Daniel-Leibholz who developed UltraSPARC-V for Sun. There are many architects who designed the StrongARM-110 processor, with a strong lineup, not inferior to Intel at all!

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

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

(It's been three shifts, huh, there are only two shifts at night)

(To be continued ~^~)