Chapter 445 (1/2)

The two-hour press conference officially ended at 12 noon.

Igritte also prepared a reception at the nearby Marriott Hotel. Of course, it was impossible for all the guests with more than 2000 people to come. The number of guests invited this time was less than 200.

There is a work schedule in the afternoon. Simon did not leave San Francisco immediately after the press conference. Instead, he rushed to the Marriott Hotel with a group of senior executives of westrow system.

”The White House is preparing to set up a science and technology policy office. Simon, should we send you an invitation?”

In the crowded reception hall.

Simon got together with James Leibold, Bill Gates and Tim Berners Lee to talk about some recent moves in Washington.

Hearing Damen's question, Simon nodded, motioned to Tim Berners Lee and said, ”Tim will be a consultant in this office.”

Although the U.S. stock market began to recover in the first half of the year, the U.S. economic recession could not be reversed immediately. The domestic property market is still flat, the unemployment rate is still rising, and the proportion of poor people in the United States has also reached a new high in 20 years.

The honor of war cannot be used as food.

We all lamented the heroic performance of the U.S. military in the Gulf War at the beginning of the year. With the continuous deterioration of the economic environment, the honor gained by the Bush administration by relying on the Gulf War has been swallowed up, and the support rate has continued to decline.

In order to recover the rapidly losing support, the White House has to turn more attention to the country.

The listing of Cisco and AOL has created two enterprise giants with a market value of 10 billion. The trend of Internet industry outbreak is more and more obvious.

The rapid development of emerging industries undoubtedly means more employment and domestic economic growth. Two new technology companies that have just been listed and broken through the market value of 10 billion have undoubtedly proved this. In addition, the information highway act proposed by Senator Al Gore reminds us that the White House has also quickly started to pay attention to the Internet industry and is looking for a special office Office of science and technology policy for this area.

Simon had been invited by the White House to serve as an adviser to the science and technology policy office. Of course, he didn't have the time. Because of his position, he was not suitable to do so, so he recommended Tim Berners Lee.

Tim Berners Lee is the CEO of igritte. The most important point is that he is British. He won't involve too much political orientation.

John Chambers and Steve case, CEOs of Cisco and AOL, declined the offer of the title of consultant because they were too busy.

As an adviser to the office of science and technology policy of the Bush administration, I am sure that I can have a crucial impact on the policy direction of the White House in the field of new science and technology.

However, if there is no accident, Bush will only be in power for one year.

Moreover, since he has made a bet, even if there is an accident in this time and space, Simon can not ignore his position for the sake of temporary interests.

After all, people have to take a stand.

Bill Gates obviously can't know Simon's layout. When he heard that Tim Berners Lee would be the consultant of this office, Simon didn't agree, so he decided to give up the title.

Deep down, Damen put himself on the same level as Simon.

After chatting for a while, Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, came up to say hello and mentioned another thing: ”Simon, what do you think of the aim alliance recently established by apple, IBM and Motorola?”

Aim alliance, whose names are taken from the initials of apple, IBM and Motorola, is mainly to promote the PowerPC architecture CPU processor that the three companies have been brewing for a long time.

PowerPC is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, corresponding to Intel's x86 complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture.

In the future, the arm architecture processor in the era of smart phones also belongs to RISC type.

In a popular metaphor, RISC and CISC are just like wild boar and elephant. They basically belong to two 'species'.

Intel later tried to lay out chips on the mobile end, but several attempts have failed. The fundamental reason is that an elephant is stuffed into a wild boar cage, and even a newborn elephant's body will appear too ”huge.”.

CISC has a strong computing power, this era is more suitable for mainframe and even supercomputer.

RISC's computing power is weak, but before the Internet era, RISC is enough to meet the computing needs of personal computers.

The three giants set up aim alliance to promote PowerPC, in fact, is also to fight against the rapid rise of Microsoft and Intel's Wintel alliance.

Although the operation frequency of Intel chips in this era, even the latest 486 processor, is only 50MHz, which is different from that of the processor with 5GHz many years later, in the whole 1980s, because most PCs can only carry out simple word processing operation, and the graphics interface operating system is far from reaching the later popularity, so it is only tens of megahertz Compared with the demand of users, the computing performance of Intel processor with computing frequency is still surplus, and the price is too expensive.The PowerPC architecture processor promoted by aim just ”makes up” for the two ”shortcomings” of Intel chips, i.e. excessive performance and high price.

But a decade ago, the aim alliance against the Wintel alliance might have succeeded.

Now, with the advent of the Internet era, personal computers are developing from simple text applications to multimedia applications such as image, sound and even video. Users' demand for PC performance will only be higher and higher. At this time, aim alliance promotes PowerPC architecture chips based on RISC, and the results can be imagined.

In the original time and space, apple always insisted on the PowerPC architecture until 2005, during which the computer giant, which created the era of personal computer, also declined all the way, and jobs finally had to go back to the new Intel film.

Simon didn't answer Andy Grove's question directly. Instead, he looked at him and his classmates and asked, ”have you read the information about ATI company in Canada?”

ATI is a display chip development company, founded in 1985.

Many years later, people who are slightly proficient in computers and like to play games all know a card and N card, of which a card is produced by ATI.

At present, NVIDIA, which produces n-cards, has not yet been established, but ATI already has a good accumulation of technology. Simon, seeing the company's information a month ago, instructed James Leibold to contact ATI.

Graphics card chips have appeared since the early 1980s, and professional graphics workstations are equipped with graphics card units.

However, the graphics cards of this era have not yet reached the consumption level that can be used by ordinary PCs, mainly before the 1990s, so there is no need at all.

With the advent of the Internet era, if you want a computer to have excellent multimedia functions, PC level graphics card is essential.

Andy Grove and Bill Gates both nodded.

ATI launched a relatively successful professional graphics chip in 1987, and now it is one of the important 2D and 3D graphics chip suppliers in the industry.