Giant of the times

Chips are one of the core industries of the future. All electronic products are inseparable from chips. Their importance is self-evident!

At 9 o'clock the next morning, Li Zetian came to Intel.

Yesterday he made a phone call and requested a high-level meeting of the company.

All the participants had arrived, Li Zetian came to the conference room, and everyone stood up.

Li Zetian nodded to them, then walked to the front seat and sat down.

"This meeting is very important, related to the future of Intel!" He said solemnly, "Everyone must know the RISC reduced instruction set, right?"

Wei Xiuping, a top engineer at Intel, nodded and said: "Yes, we have done research on it. The design idea of ​​RISC reduced instruction set simplifies the number of instructions and addressing methods, making it easier to implement, and the instructions are executed in parallel The degree is better, the compiler is more efficient, the average execution cycle of instructions is reduced, thereby increasing the computer's working frequency!"

Andy Grove, CEO of Intel Corporation, said: "However, RISC technology has just emerged. Since the birth of computers, people have been using the CISC instruction set method. CISC computers have a rich instruction system and have dedicated instructions to complete specific tasks. function, therefore, it is more efficient in processing special tasks. RISC programs generally require a large memory space, and the programs are complex to implement special functions and are difficult to design; while CISC assembly language program programming is relatively simple, and scientific calculations and complex operations are relatively easy to program. , higher efficiency!”

Li Zetian nodded and concluded: "The difference between CISC and RISC lies in the different CPU design concepts and methods. It can be said that each has its own advantages! RISC can make great achievements in the field of high-performance computers, while CISC can make great achievements in the field of ordinary personal computers. In addition, CPUs based on the RISC architecture contain fewer unit circuits, so they have a small area and low power consumption. Therefore, RISC has huge development potential in low-power electronic products!"

Andy Grove asked: "Mr. Li, do you mean to let Intel develop RISC processors?"

"Yes," Li Zetian nodded and said, "Intel has established a wholly-owned branch specifically to develop RISC reduced instruction set processors! As for the name of the new company, it will be called ARM Company!!!"

"ARM?" Everyone wondered what the name meant.

Li Zetian explained with a smile: "Just pick a confusing name to confuse our competitors!" In fact, the full name of ARM was originally Acorn RISC Machine, and Acorn is a British computer company. The reason why Li Zetian named the branch ARM was just to express his expectations for the current ARM company, and to always remind himself of the development direction of ARM company!

After everyone heard this, they suddenly realized.

Li Zetian then turned to look at Wei Xiuping and said, "RISC has huge development potential. Wei Xiuping, what do you think about ARM being put in charge of you as CEO?"

Wei Xiuping nodded and responded: "No problem, Mr. Li, don't worry, I will manage this company well!" Wei Xiuping was very excited when he thought that he could be responsible for a subsidiary at a young age.

Li Zetian smiled and said: "We should dig out as many RISC talents as possible and vigorously develop RISC processors. Intel must seize both hands, and both hands must be strong!"

"yes!!!"

Li Zetian's decision not only changed the fate of Intel, but also changed the fate of the British company Acorn. In the future, ARM, the chip leader in the mobile computer market, belongs to Intel!

It didn't take long for ARM to be established. The new company has more than 350 members, basically all engineers. Intel fully supports the development of ARM and has allocated US$200 million to develop processors based on RISC architecture. The first processor is called ARM1 and is mainly used for graphics workstations and servers.

At this moment, the industry is still wasting time discussing which one is better, RISC or CISC.

Li Zetian couldn't help but be secretly proud. By the time you guys finished the discussion, ARM's products had been developed, haha...

This is the advantage of time-travelers. They are always one step ahead, know what will be popular, and grasp the general trend!

Li Zetian also began to learn how to develop chips at this time. He preferred RISC development and felt that RISC had more development prospects than CISC.

In fact, Li Zetian has been studying artificial intelligence, and the key to artificial intelligence is the chip. The chip is equivalent to the brain of artificial intelligence! Li Zetian now spends most of his energy on high-tech development. When he has time, he gets involved in the entertainment industry and uses his memories of previous lives to point out the development direction for the entertainment industry.

The entertainment industry is very profitable, and high technology requires a lot of research and development funds. Li Zetian didn't want the company to raise funds, so he had to pay for it himself. Records, movies, games, etc. can bring him huge income.

While Li Zetian was concentrating on researching chips, Michael Jackson was already very popular in the United States. His MV has been broadcast on the MTV television network. It is super popular. The perfect combination of dance and song is deeply loved by Americans and has established Michael Jackson's status as the king! MTV replays Michael Jackson's MV more than 30 times every day, and the ratings have greatly increased. The coverage of the MTV TV network is like a crazy attack on cities and territories, and it is quickly spreading across the United States. Those "cable TV operators" want to enhance their competition. They all agreed to open the MTV channel.

In front of the Netflix rental store, countless customers came one after another, shouting "Michael Jackson" with extremely enthusiastic expressions! As the coverage of the MTV television network increases, Michael Jackson's MVs are seen by more people. His stunning dance makes people rush to imitate it, especially young people across the United States. They are all learning his dance in schools. Inside, you can see some students practicing skating (space walking) from time to time, and countless students nearby are screaming!

As for how popular Michael Jackson is? This answer is accurately reflected in record and music video sales!

"Thriller" sells for $30 per album, which is very expensive. However, even so, one month later, the "Thriller" album sold 12.8 million copies, the music video sold 2.74 million copies, and Violet Records' revenue reached 400 million US dollars, causing an uproar in the industry!

Violet Records' record production factories couldn't produce it, so they had to ask other record factories to produce it for them.

Starting from April, Michael Jackson's album began to be released overseas, and then immediately swept the major charts, becoming the undisputed number one! With the help of Michael Jackson's popular trend, MTV has successfully entered Europe, Asia, South America and other regions, and has gradually become a music television network with great international influence.

Michael Jackson is the unparalleled leader in the music industry!

Although Yu Jingqiu's album was completed in early April, it was not released immediately. Instead, it was waited for Michael Jackson's popularity to subside before releasing it to avoid confrontation between artists in his own company, which would cause huge losses.

After the album was completed, Yu Jingqiu took a week off and then continued shooting the MV. The investment in each song's MV was huge, even worse than Jackson's MV.

With the songs Li Zetian wrote for her and these MVs, coupled with Yu Jingqiu's appearance and figure, her fame is likely to catch up with Michael Jackson and become everyone's goddess! Li Zetian sometimes couldn't help but think that every night he held the goddess in everyone's eyes to sleep or had sex, and the satisfaction in his heart was almost indescribable!

Nowadays, due to the great success of Michael Jackson's MV, it has undoubtedly promoted the MV to a new level. Only then did the record company realize that the MV could still be shot like this. The more popular the MV, the more famous the singer becomes and the more records he sells!

For a time, many record companies began to re-shoot the MV and contacted MTV, hoping to play it on it.

MTV music television network has become a giant in the music television industry!

At this time, Li Zetian felt that he could produce the program "The Voice", so he wrote a detailed plan and gave it to the MTV program production department, asking them to do it themselves. Li Zetian's only request was to spend a lot of money to produce a high-quality program and invite Four well-known, capable and eloquent singer mentors.

"The Voice" can not only provide high-quality fresh blood to Violet Records, but also increase MTV's market share, killing two birds with one stone!

Now that the entertainment industry has just started, Li Zetian has to worry more. If it gets on the right track and becomes a stable money tree, then he can devote all his energy to the development of high technology.

As he researched chips, he had the urge to integrate the upstream and downstream industry chains of chips.

Gordon Moore proposed Moore's Law, but in Li Zetian's view, Moore's Law can be broken with money. The key to chip manufacturing and technology lies in production equipment. If semiconductor equipment manufacturers can develop more advanced machines in advance, there is no doubt that Moore's Law will be broken!

Since the semiconductor industry has just taken off and chip equipment manufacturers have just started, this is a God-given opportunity for Li Zetian to buy them. If you miss this opportunity, you will never be able to buy them in the future. Even if you have money and want to buy them, but The local government will never agree!

The problem Li Zetian encounters now is that these semiconductor equipment companies are still quite expensive, and they have to invest huge amounts of money in research and development. For example, a chip lithography machine can cost as little as several million dollars per unit, and as much as tens of millions of dollars per unit. Taiwan, how can you afford it if you don’t have money?

PS: This chapter is to make up for yesterday, and there are two more chapters today. The current monthly ticket is 1,100. When it reaches 1,200, I will add another one immediately. Come on and vote.