1991 Starting from the core

"Excuse me, why do you ask for this?"

Mr. Gates looked at Su Yuanshan, and after a brief absence, he became curious.

Su Yuanshan shrugged: "Because we have a very cool idea and can't wait to test it on your new operating system."

Gates laughed again: "What do you think?"

"Create a brand new external bus based on the existing motherboard architecture, adopt serial mode, have universality, and support plug-and-play." Su Yuanshan said with a smile.

Universal Serial Bus, USB for short.

In Su Yuanshan's plan, USB will be proposed next year after his CPU has a breakthrough. But he didn't expect that as Chen Daohua moved the Meijie R\u0026D center to the Special Administrative Region, a motherboard design engineer named Jiang Tianfu burned out the PS2 interface by forcibly pulling out the mouse. So this guy became very depressed and irritable, and started to say whimsical things. Can you create an interface that supports plugging and unplugging without shutting down the machine?

Originally, this kind of thing should not be reported to Su Yuanshan, but unexpectedly, this guy posted the idea to the internal forum of Yuanxin - Meijie (Special Zone) and Zhongxin also connected to the internal forum, expressing their desire to solicit opinions from the general public.

Then a bunch of guys from Yuanxin who work and browse forums came up with suggestions, saying that if they build a new external bus and get support from the operating system and motherboard chipset, it should be fine.

When Su Yuanshan saw this problem, he was shocked by the exploratory spirit of these guys - these people had already begun to think about how to name this bus.

So Su Yuanshan replied: Universal Serial Bus.

…

Gates was immediately startled, and his eyes suddenly became deep.

Although he is a software engineer, Gates is no stranger to hardware architecture - you know, he works on the operating system and deals directly with the lowest level of hardware!

He thought about several rules proposed by Su Yuanshan, and soon discovered that technically, this was achievable.

Gates was surprised, but soon asked, "Sounds good—but what about the use cases?"

"For example, printers, mice - who knows what else?" Su Yuanshan chuckled: "The main reason is that it adopts serial mode, which can theoretically expand an infinite number of interfaces. Similarly, it can theoretically have extremely high The transfer rate...if it can be applied to memory, it would also be excellent."

"Mr. Gates, you know. I think the birth of a new standard or technology is often not due to how many application scenarios it can provide temporarily, but because it provides more possibilities for the future."

After Su Yuanshan finished speaking, he closed his mouth and looked at Mr. Gates with a smile.

Gates smiled slightly and nodded: "Well said, it provides more possibilities. But... the proposing and promotion of any standard cannot be completed by one company or two companies. It needs to take into account the needs of the entire industry. Feeling - you don’t just want to promote this standard with Microsoft, right?”

"How can it be possible... Several major computer companies will definitely invite them, such as IBM, HP, Compaq, NEC, Sony, etc. Of course... if AMD is willing to join, it is also possible."

Gates looked at him with interest: "Why isn't there Intel?"

"Because they are bad people and bully Xinghai..." Su Yuanshan spread his hands: "They are still in a lawsuit with Xinghai!"

Gates laughed.

After laughing, Gates shook his head and said: "Sorry, Su. We are a strategic ally of Inetl, and we cannot ignore Intel's standards for all computer standards."

Su Yuanshan said in his heart that I believe you are a bad old man. Oh no, Gates is not 40 years old yet, so he is not a bad old man.

In the old days, when Intel launched the X86-64 architecture IA64 (also known as 64-bit I-tanium) in 2001, Microsoft also released Windows XP 64bit Edition, which was considered to have fulfilled its responsibilities as an ally.

But when AMD's 64-bit processor AMD64 processor came out, Microsoft also released Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - if you see it, it still comes with Professional - this is also one of the important reasons for the failure of IA64.

When IA64 failed, Su Yuanshan happened to join Intel, so he knew how Intel felt about Microsoft.

You know, it was known as Intel's biggest crisis at the time - its market share was constantly being eroded by AMD. Even around 2006, AMD once counterattacked to a situation where it was divided into two parts.

Of course, as soon as the Core came out, AMD stopped and started to move towards an agricultural enterprise. After firmly sitting on the throne, Intel also began to move towards the toothpaste factory.

Of course, Intel squeezes out the toothpaste and allows AMD to come up with a Zen core and directly make a comeback. That is a story for another day.

And in later generations, Microsoft finally started cooperation with Qualcomm on the ARM architecture. In the eyes of others, this was regarded as the official breakdown of the Wintel alliance.

So, there is no unbreakable alliance in this world.

The reason why it is strong is because there are not enough temptations, and because the dangers encountered are too great, we have to join forces. Now, the PowerPc alliance led by Apple is still the enemy, and Mr. Gates dare not leave Intel.

"Then let Intel join in. It doesn't matter even if you get a little angry." Su Yuanshan sighed: "Suffer the anger, just for the sake of technological progress."

Gates laughed again: "Have you reconciled?"

"Are you referring to Xinghai? Then there will probably be reconciliation. If you refer to Yuanxin..." Su Yuanshan chuckled: "Yuanxin has nothing to do with them."

"But if we can take this opportunity to reach some consensus with Intel, I would be very happy to see it."

Gates smiled and nodded: "I'm also very happy to see it."

Su Yuanshan said in his heart that of course you would be happy to see it... You wish all CPUs in the world supported, and only your operating system...

Next, the two casually boasted and talked about today's weather. Gates also recommended several Chinese restaurants to Su Yuanshan...

Finally, the two talked about the development of the Internet. Regarding the Internet, the two of them had the same opinion. They both believed that the Internet would be a new industry with rapid development and great potential in the future.

When the conversation came to an end, Su Yuanshan asked casually: "Then why don't you develop a browser?"

Mr. Gates smiled slightly: "Because I give you face."

Su Yuanshan was stunned and laughed.

Although this "Oriental characteristics" statement was extremely false, it still greatly satisfied Su Yuanshan's vanity.

He is a person who even gives Gates face...

…

After leaving the gate of Microsoft, Qin Si saw Su Yuanshan smiling happily and asked him why he was so happy.

Su Yuanshan said that Gates gave him too much face to not compete head-on with Xinghai.

"Really?"

"Of course it's fake." Su Yuanshan looked away from the Microsoft gate and said with a smile: "The world has changed a lot. Xinghai has become a force that cannot be ignored in Silicon Valley. This is something I ignored before."

Qin Si was startled by this nonsense.

"Drive, Sister Qin Si, help me make an appointment with AMD tomorrow morning and Compaq in the afternoon."