Blooming America

It took a full month for the argument.

And this is just a demonstration, the next design is even more choking.

It may take more than half a year for the design time alone.

What designers need to build is a city.

Administrative facilities, school divisions...divisions, etc., these are all very important things.

A scientific city is a must.

So far, only the university designed by Catherine and Catherine’s Eden are the only ones that can start construction so far. These are the things that were designed in the heart of the city.

Of course, besides being Catherine's new nest, Eden will also take care of many other contents.

Take, for example, the supercomputer center that manages the city, that is, the tree diagram designer.

Catherine calculated that the time was about the same. After the demonstration and design, the first batch of students would be able to enter in about two or three years.

The strategic goals have been determined, and then there are step-by-step plans and actions to achieve these goals.

According to Catherine’s idea, the first thing is to assemble a notebook for every student in the school

According to the Pentagon's plan..., the initial goal of the school district should be to make the school district a certain scale.

The number is temporarily set at 30,000 to 50,000, and then gradually rises to about 100,000, forming a community similar to a city.

The cost of the notebook computer now seems to be around four thousand dollars. If calculated on the basis of five thousand dollars, this level will probably need to spend five hundred million dollars.

"There are supporting equipment and so on..."

The most pressing issue is the CPU. Catherine's Taiwan factory is already working in three shifts, but for now, it is barely able to supply it. Although a new factory has been opened, the supply is still in short supply.

The orders for supercomputers are coming one by one, and the output of wafers is really limited. If another 100,000 wafers are ordered, it seems a little difficult.

This is not the 21st century.

And even in the 21st century, Intel has to take out 100,000 i7 chips in one go.

According to Catherine's plan..., they will stay in the 32-bit system era for about ten years and then enter the 64-bit era.

So the current notebook design is just right.

According to the plan, the first generation of laptops will use black and white screens and the first generation of Capricorns.

The second-generation notebook computer will use Pisces and possibly a color screen.

One but E. The screen research of ED does not seem to go so smoothly. The FED plan has been terminated because there is no material-carbon nanotubes, and the development of ED, compared to liquid crystal, does not seem so smooth.

Now, this has entered a bottleneck stage, and nothing can be done without a better process.

"Forget it, it's a big deal to continue to expand..."

Catherine wondered whether she should continue to expand her production capacity. Just building a new factory could not be completed in a day or two.

But Catherine still has up to two years, and she still has time.

After all, the first batch is just for their own needs, and this amount should be around 10,000.

Of course, the demand is about 50,000 units or more.

Katherine didn't just want to put the laptop in the new school district. Katherine also planned to give away some to each university to advertise herself and increase her popularity and computer penetration rate by the way.

The wool comes out of the sheep, and the two hundred million dollars, Catherine thinks it's worth it.

"Then there are various accessories..."

Needless to say, these peripherals in the Can area, hard drives are dispensable.

But there is still a big problem that needs to be solved with a memory.

Yes, memory problem.

Memory is one of the important parts of the computer, it is the bridge to communicate with the CPU. All programs in the computer run in the memory, so the xìng of the memory can have a great impact on the computer.

Just like later, when players assemble a computer, they mainly look at three things.

The first is the CPU, which is very important. The CPU is the brain of the computer. Without the brain, the computer can't do anything.

The second is the graphics card. Without a graphics card, the computer cannot output images to the screen.

Finally, it is memory.

The size of the memory is related to many aspects of performance.

But there is a problem. The only field that Catherine's company does not involve is the memory field. In this area, Catherine did not involve too much.

Because at that time, Catherine's system did not require much memory, so it would be good to use it.

The Microsoft I-type computer and the earliest Xiaobawang learning machine, in short, these two devices only have simple black and white lines and text, and there is no pressure on 1KB of memory.

But with the launch of Microsoft's four-fourth computer, the memory market began to become active.

And they are more active than Catherine's imagination, these people have even come up with the computer technology of the future.

In other words, it should be the technology that has been developed by the laboratory, but it has never been used, and when there is a need, they will be picked up.

Ok. From the IBM laboratory.

That's right, it's IBM.

The early memory patents have long been in the hands of IBM, which is why Catherine is too lazy to engage in memory.

At the beginning, IBM made money when it had money, and didn't put Catherine in the eyes, so it suffered a big loss. In the end, they did not even plan to land in the North American market.

Even now, IBM's main personal computer business is still in Japan.

The reason for IBM's silence is actually very simple.

First of all, they don't want to compete with Catherine for this market that has been kidnapped by a big interest body.

On the other hand, their profits in the North American market are also sufficient, and there is no need to bother.

They have never pitted Catherine in the computer business, and they never wanted to do it.

But they are the profit organization second only to Catherine in the computer industry.

The guy who is just using a personal computer, just pull one out. He knows that the best memory now comes from IBM...

Compared to Catherine, who works hard for low profits and popularization of computers, IBM doesn't care about the profit and popularity of memory at all, because Catherine is ahead and they just have to follow behind.

This is a bit like the future INTEL and Kingston, the intersection between the two is very few.

Of course, IBM's position is much stronger than Kingston.

And not only the memory, but also the hard disk. With the current hard disk, except for Catherine, who is cross-licensed to obtain a production license, everybody else sells a hard disk, they have to pay IBM.

At the time, IBM wanted to have a monopoly, but unfortunately, they encountered an antitrust investigation, and IBM did not dare to touch this mold.

Therefore, although IBM does not have the same business as Apple, they still have a huge market in Bimei.

Even the next generation of Apple computers is preparing to list IBM's memory as their first choice.

When Catherine disgusted IBM's 360 computer, the shadow of IBM accompanied Catherine.

This is so.

But because of this, Catherine almost has nothing to do with IBM. Instead, she is in PK with Motorola.

It's just that Motorola is busy sending satellites now, and Catherine has no time to pay attention to them.

Memory is very important, and unlike CPU, Catherine needs to go outside for bidding and then purchase memory.

Historically, the first U machine launched by IBM used the 8088 chip, which had only 20 address lines, that is to say, its address space was 1.

So the designer of the original machine used the low-end 640KB of the 1MB as RAM for S and applications, while the high-end 384KB was reserved for M, video adapter cards and other systems. Since then, this boundary has been determined and is still in use today.

At that time, Bill Gates' classic prediction: "640KB is enough" also began at this time.

But will Gates now become what it has been in history?

Catherine is not sure, but Catherine knows that Gates has formed an anti-Microsoft alliance for the sake of Microsoft's Green Dam and minor anti-sinking mí system...

At that time (from the end of 1980 to the beginning of 1981) such a "large" capacity of memory seemed to be sufficient for the user of the machine, but with the continuous increase of programs, the continuous enrichment of images and sounds, and the ability to access larger memory The new CPU of the space appeared one after another, the original machine and MS

The limitations of S design are becoming more and more obvious.

And now, Catherine continues to advance the reform of the computer, the capacity of the memory has almost doubled every year, and the highest capacity that can be reached now has reached 4MB.

It's just an extreme situation. The fact is that 2MB of memory is already considered an ultra-high computer configuration. 1MB is basically the new darling of the market, and the mainstream is still around 512KB to 768KB. Of course, the latter are basically Microsoft computers.

Memory will become a very important thing in the future~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The system is very dependent on memory. Catherine needs to seek a strategic partner who can cooperate with her for a long time. Only in this way can it be beneficial to her own development.

But looking back, although hundreds of companies are contending in the computer memory market, most of the memory is licensed from IBM, and other manufacturers have basically been eliminated.

No one can do IBM. Better quality, lower price and higher specifications.

Motorola does have its own memory chips, but Catherine doesn't plan to kill them.

"Uh... won't you want me to negotiate with IBM..."

Catherine patted her head.

First! There are four more~

Well, today the computer arrives, it can be used without a graphics card, and the graphics card will arrive tomorrow, yang haha~! .