Chapter 2361 Missed

As one of the earliest successful companies founded in Silicon Valley, Intel's headquarters is naturally located in the core area of ​​Silicon Valley, 2200 Mission College Avenue, Santa Clara.

As a company that has a huge impact and contribution to the development of electronic technology, Intel's headquarters looks quite inconspicuous from the outside.

Behind a circle of tall and short redwood trees, a white building is looming, and there are some vehicles parked under the trees. Feng Yiping believes that many people must be like him. They must be reminded by others, "This is Intel," before they notice the really inconspicuous sign next to it, which is silver on the top and blue on the bottom, with the Intel logo.

"Tell me, why do many companies in our country always like to write the company name on the building or on the top of the building, and must have a very tall and prominent gate?"

When entering Intel's gate symbolically formed by two simple iron fences, Feng Yiping asked Wu Qian in Mandarin.

"That's for free advertising... No," Wu Qian denied her own answer.

Companies in Silicon Valley pay more attention to advertising.

Take Intel, for example, a company whose products are not directly accessible to ordinary people. It has also placed advertisements on many of our TV stations. Many people are impressed by the pleasant "thump, thump, thump" music at the end of the advertisement.

"I think it's mainly due to the difference in habits and customs," Wu Qian gave the revised answer.

Feng Yiping nodded, this answer is reliable.

The headquarters of the technology giants in Silicon Valley are low-key and rigorous in appearance.

At this time, their car has driven to the building hidden behind the trees. It is a 6-story building complex with large blue glass curtain walls on the white walls.

The building behind the famous Logo sculpture is the Intel headquarters building.

This building is named after Robert Noyce, one of the company's founders.

This is a relatively unfamiliar name to us. We are more familiar with another founder of Intel, Moore, of course not the Moore we see in chemistry textbooks, but Gordon Moore.

It was Moore who proposed the Moore's Law that "when the price remains unchanged, the number of components that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 18-24 months, and the performance will also double."

Mr. Moore is still alive, but he has long retired and is now obsessed with charity work. His charity foundation is committed to protecting natural resources. Because of the high amount of donations, he and his wife replaced Bill Gates and became the "biggest philanthropist" in 2005.

At this time, the middle-aged man standing in front of the building, wearing a blue Intel standard shirt and with gray hair, is Paul Otellini, the current helmsman of Intel.

It was not the first time for Feng Yiping to come to Intel, nor was it the first time to meet Otellini, but it was the first time that Otellini personally brought people to greet him at the door.

Because the current Feng Yiping is not the Feng Yiping of a few years ago.

"Hello Paul," "Hello Feng," the two shook hands and hugged each other, and walked into the Intel headquarters shoulder to shoulder.

"Welcome to visit again," Otellini said with a smile.

The 57-year-old helmsman of the world's largest and most successful chip company has a loud voice.

"Thank you, I feel honored every time I come here," Feng Yiping said.

He was not being polite. Intel's contribution to the development of electronic computers is indeed huge.

And because the company is old, when Jobs founded Apple, he would ride his motorcycle and rush here to ask for advice when he encountered some problems.

Microsoft, which was more successful and more powerful than Intel at that time, was regarded as a company founded by young guys for a long time.

Many people know that Jobs and Bill Gates often quarreled and even cursed at each other.

But neither Jobs nor Apple said to Microsoft, "Your products are weak," or wanted to be Microsoft's teacher in the software field.

People here have said that.

Intel always felt that Microsoft's compiled programs were always full of errors and their execution speed was very slow. Intel's compiled programs were always two or three times faster than Microsoft's.

So one time they said very clearly, "We found that there is a problem with the code in Excel. If you modify it, the speed of the whole device can be increased by 8 times."

We can imagine how Bill Gates, who has been regarded as the king of software, felt when he heard a guy speaking not very standard English to him, so he replied at the time, "We don't care about this, our focus is to add more new features to it."

The man who didn't speak very standard English was Andy Grove, the third employee of Intel, the helmsman of Intel after Moore, the idol of Jobs, a Hungarian Jew, who brought Intel into the chip field.

Many people don't know much about this another strong man in Silicon Valley, but I believe everyone has heard a saying, "Only paranoids can survive," which is his famous saying and the title of a book he wrote.

Not to mention Intel's own achievements, it is very remarkable to be able to give Jobs some advice and educate Bill Gates.

The only domestic person who can be compared with this is probably Lei Jun, who missed investing in Lao Ma and Xiao Ma.

"Haha," Otellini smiled and took Feng Yiping's hand, "Let's go to my office,"

"I have to say, Feng, Facebook is a really good product,"

"Thank you, your dual-core chip has really sharp performance," Feng Yiping also said with a smile.

The two sat down in Otellini's office with a smile. Feng Yiping did not exchange pleasantries and briefly introduced his ideas to Otellini.

"Open Handset Alliance?" Otellini looked at the information and pondered.

"Yes, our main purpose is to establish a common standard for the development of smartphones,"

"You also know how important such a standard is to the development of an industry,"

"In the field of intelligence, chips are naturally indispensable. Since it is a chip, it is natural that Intel must join to be authoritative," Feng Yiping said.

"Among the founding members we plan to invite, Intel is the most important one,"

It's just a polite remark, which must be said on such occasions.

Otellini put down the information, "No problem, we will join,"

Feng Yiping was not surprised by this answer.

"Thank you," he said.

There is no direct conflict of interest between his company and Intel.

On the contrary, Otellini can certainly understand the impact that the alliance initiated by Feng Yiping and his Android system will have on some of Intel's competitors, such as Microsoft.

Otellini can also see clearly what Feng Yiping is mainly targeting when establishing such an alliance, in addition to the so-called "setting standards".

Of course, the most important thing is that this is a "mobile phone" alliance, so Intel has no need to compete for dominance.

"We are always happy to set standards,"

This is natural. As an industry leader, Intel certainly understands what benefits it can bring to itself by participating in the standard setting of an industry.

"But you know, the relevant documents still need to be reviewed by the legal department," Otellini said.

"I understand," Feng Yiping smiled.

Frankly speaking, at this time, Intel's top and bottom did not think much of the mobile phone industry, including the chip business in the mobile phone industry, because relatively speaking, mobile phone chips are a low-price and low-profit business.

So when he sent Feng Yiping out, he mentioned, "Originally, we could participate more in the mobile phone industry, but last year, we sold our ARM chip production line,"

"You know, that is the only ARM high-performance chip production line at present,"

Feng Yiping suddenly helped Wu Qian next to him. Wu Qian was stunned and looked at her boss who was still smiling and talking. What's going on?

"Oh, really?" Feng Yiping smiled easily at this time, but his heart was in turmoil.

At this time, his mood was probably the same as Lei Jun's watching Alibaba, Ma's Penguin, and the development and prosperity of Xiao Ma.

The production line of ARM high-end chips?

You are used to eating beef and regard this piece as a mosquito leg, but I know that it will be an elephant leg in the future, brother.

Mistakes, mistakes, I didn't understand some of the conditions of ARM chips in detail in advance, so I missed such a good opportunity.

As soon as he got in the car, he told Wu Qian, who was still a little confused at the time, "Find out about this matter immediately."

"What?"

"The ARM production line sold by Intel." This was the first time for Feng Yiping, and he felt quite regretful.

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