Chapter 337 (1/2)
Henry's acquisition of alpha architecture processor Department of DEC company and the establishment of alpha company have aroused great vigilance of Intel company!
Later, they heard that Henry had injected $2 billion into alpha, and Intel immediately held an emergency meeting.
”Henry Williams seems to be ready to compete with Intel in the field of processor!”
”Yes, Alpha Company, with his support, does pose a great threat to our Intel company!”
”Yes, we must guard against it!”
”Invest more, alpha can't catch up with us!”
“……”
Intel will soon make a major decision to invest $1.5 billion to develop new processors!
The battle of processors is on fire.
Intel and alpha have received great attention from the outside media.
However, Alpha Company is generally not optimistic. After all, Intel company is already in a monopoly position in the semiconductor industry. It is very difficult for alpha company to surpass Intel company in a short time!
Industry analysts have their own opinions. However, they all think that alpha is the only company that can challenge the existence of Intel. AMD, who ranks second, is almost forgotten in the corner... Henry actually owns Cyrix, which ranks third in the world and specializes in producing cheap processors!
In order to strengthen alpha's technical strength, Henry merged Cyrix into alpha, but retained the Cyrix department and let them still produce cheap processors.
At present, the media are generally not optimistic about alpha company. Of course, the comprehensive strength of alpha is worse than Intel.
In terms of the number of developers, Intel can dump alpha for several blocks. However, alpha is an elite company, and its engineers are all outstanding talents. However, a large number of talents are needed for scientific research, and the number of alpha talents is still a little less!
Even if Cyrix joined alpha, it was far less than Intel.
In the spring, Henry walked around Williams electronics. San Jose's sunny, shining on people, very comfortable. Henry went to the lawn and lay down, squinting at the blue sky and white clouds. Gentle breeze, with the fragrance of grass, can not help but intoxicating!
In order to let alpha company fight against Intel, Henry decided to invite ”grandmaster” to fight.
Silicon Valley's semiconductor companies can basically be traced back to one company - Xiantong semiconductor company!
More than half of the semiconductor companies in Silicon Valley are basically the direct or indirect descendants of Fairchild Semiconductor Company. In 1957, with the support of Fairchild photographic equipment company, eight rebels founded Fairchild Semiconductor Company, and then invented silicon transistor and integrated circuit, which laid the foundation for the future semiconductor industry!
At that time, Fairchild Semiconductor Company was 10 times more bullish than Intel company. The talents who were basically engaged in the semiconductor industry were all from Fairchild Semiconductor Company. At a semiconductor Engineers conference held in Sunnyvale in 1969, less than 24 of the 400 participants had never worked for Fairchild. You can see the horror!
Xiantong semiconductor company is no exception. As the general manager of the parent company constantly transferred profits to the east coast to support the profitability of Fairchild photographic equipment company, which caused the dissatisfaction of ”eight rebels” and then left Fairchild Semiconductor Company one after another! The brain drain eventually led to the decline of Fairchild Semiconductor!
Who is the ”eight rebels”? Actually, it refers to the rebellion of eight geniuses. They used to be famous physicists, students of William Shockley, the Nobel Laureate in physics who discovered the transistor effect. Later, they all left Shockley, and the angry Shockley called them ”eight traitors”!