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"What did you say?"

Olson listened to the voice on the phone in surprise, and then he picked his ears to make sure he heard correctly.

"Intel is willing to invest US$10 million...and at the same time acquire 65% of our company's shares that they have already acquired from ard. I have agreed." The other party is Anderson, Olson's friend and one of the founders of dec.

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Last year, ard, a venture capital firm founded by Rockefeller Jr., used a loan of US$300,000 and part of the interest to exchange for 65% of the other party's shares.

Olson only holds 13% of the company's shares, which is completely different from Catherine's 100% holding (Intel's 95%).

For Catherine, taking absolute control is a must.

Olson has already given up most of his shares for his own company.

It is precisely because of this that it is much more convenient for Catherine. Catherine can just purchase the shares directly from ard company.

Although Ard made a lot of money, for Catherine, there was no business worth more than this.

At this time, Olson's Dec company was basically a company that was about to stink, and ard was not optimistic about them at all.

$10 million?

There's no better news for Olson's company.

Without Catherine's intervention, Olson would have made a profit of $900,000 this year, a decrease of $300,000 compared to 1963.

Dec's negative profit growth will continue next year, and it will not be until the emergence of "Matrix" that the company reverses its decline.

Olson, who was still at home, rushed to the company immediately and saw the Ark Group's plan.

Dec will cooperate with Intel and Apple to develop computers in the direction of miniaturization and miniaturization. The pdp series developed by Dec is originally a minicomputer (not a microcomputer) and was developed specifically for the company. However, when more

After the advent of cheap Microsoft computers, their computers were not as popular as before.

What many companies need is just a word processing device, not a professional computer. Today's computers are not fully functional, and simple word processing devices are relatively cheap, so Catherine's machines are very popular.

In particular, her machine can also print out computer documents. For many companies, such a machine saves a lot of time and allows each company to get twice the result with half the effort.

Dec and Intel will cooperate on a new generation of microprocessors. The code name of the new generation of microprocessors is - z80.

In fact, Catherine would rather call it mos-6502, which is also the name of the CPU used on the earliest red and white game consoles, produced in the 1970s. This is also a bad taste of Catherine.

It's just that the z80 has higher performance than the mos-6502 in the same era, and Catherine also hopes that the meaning is better.

In terms of computers, dec needs to cooperate with Apple to develop equipment standards for a new generation of computers.

After all, Catherine changed all the processing equipment from integrated to independent. In this case, many things are not as easy to complete as imagined. Although there are many semiconductor companies in contact with Catherine, although Fairchild has no idea about the complete machine,

But I still have some interest in some hardware of computer equipment.

Olson analyzes Katherine's company.

For Intel and Apple, their biggest rival is not IBM, but Motorola.

Olson once worked at IBM. The slow response speed and extremely serious bureaucracy of this big elephant made Olson extremely unfavorable about the company. In fact, many people left IBM because of this.

What's more, IBM is now in disarray after being beaten by Seymour Clay's combination of punches.

Motorola was different. Because of its cooperation with the U.S. government in radio, Motorola's success was unparalleled. Motorola cooperated with National Film and Television Company to develop the first rectangular picture tube for color TVs, which became the standard for picture tubes.

This is pretty much what the so-called first-class companies set their standards. Even Catherine’s GameTV adopts their company’s standards.

Olson founded Dec Corporation and developed the popular line of computers, but he was more than just a computer engineer.

Now, Catherine is almost Olson's boss. After analyzing these problems, he immediately wrote down a question about the company's prospects and wrote a report.

Catherine was deeply convinced by the questions raised by Olson.

In fact, Catherine's $10 million is entirely Olson's price.

Without Olson, there would be no Dec. If it is more than 10 million, there is no problem if the other party is worth 100 million or more.

But for Catherine, the main problem now is not the matter with Motorola, but that they need to immediately develop an 8-bit CPU capable of z80. This is the kingly way.

Now Catherine's 4004cpu is a 4-bit CPU, which is used on current Microsoft computers and is not very useful.

But with the z80, things are different.

The historical z80 has 8k memory, 64k video memory, a maximum color number of 512 colors, a maximum color number of 64 colors on the same screen, a maximum resolution of 320x448, a maximum number of active blocks of 80, and supports av output and rgb output.

But now, Catherine has separated the graphics card and CPU. At least for a long time, she is not going to integrate them.

Catherine's requirements for the z80 were not high. After stripping off the graphics card function, the z80 became a pure computing device. At the same time, Catherine also created a graphics card called mos-6502 to support output...

After Catherine wrote down the basic reference plan for these conceptual issues, she passed it on to Olson and Jerry Sanders.

The cooperative relationship between the companies has been established, and there is no rush in researching this aspect. Everything depends on the results of the researchers.

"Super Mario".

Catherine wrote these two words (in English) in her notebook, then thought about it and added "Pac-Man".

She still has a lot to do.

At this time, Intel immediately released its z80 plan to the outside world and decided to make z80 the core and standard of the next generation of Microsoft computers.

Catherine now wants to show the Pentagon that her company has enough power...

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There is a power outage and the Internet is disconnected, and the laptop cannot access the Internet, which is a scam.