Chapter 92: The New Standard for CPUs
"What did you say?"
Olson listened with surprise to the voice on the phone, then he dug his ears, making sure he hadn't misheard.
"Intel is willing to invest $10 million... and at the same time acquire 65% of our company, which has already acquired ARD, I have agreed." The other party was Anderson, a good friend of Olsen's and also one of the founders of DEC.
Last year, venture capital firm ARD, founded by Little Rock's Rockefeller family, used a $300,000 loan and partial profits to acquire 65 percent of the company.
Olsen owns only 13% of the company's shares, which is completely different from Catherine's 100% stake (Intel is 95%).
For Catherine, having absolute control is a must.
And Olsen had already given up most of his shares for his own company.
It's also because of this that Catherine is much more convenient. Catherine directly acquired shares from ARD company.
Although ARD made a lot of money from it, for Catherine, there was no better business than this.
At this time, Olsen's DEC was a company that was about to go bankrupt, and ARD did not think much of them.
$10 million?
There could be no better news for Olsen's company.
Without Catherine's interference, Olsen would have made $900,000 this year, a decrease of $300,000 from 1963.
DEC's profit decline will continue next year until the emergence of "Matrix" turns the company around.
Olson, who was still at home, immediately rushed to the company and saw the plan of Ark Group.
DEtel also cooperated with Apple to develop computers in the direction of miniaturization and compactness. The PDP series developed by DEC was originally a small computer (not a microcomputer), which was specifically developed for companies. However, after cheaper Microsoft computers appeared, their computers were no longer as popular as before.
Many companies only need a word processing device, not a full-fledged computer. Since current computers are still imperfect and pure word processing devices are relatively inexpensive, Catherine's machine is very popular.
Especially her machine can also print out computer documents, for many companies, such a machine saves a lot of time, making each company's work more efficient.
DETEL will cooperate on a new generation of microprocessors, code-named Z80.
In fact, Catherine would rather call it MOS-6502, which was also the name of the CPU used in the earliest Famicom consoles released in the 1970s. This is also one of Catherine's bad jokes.
Only Z80 had a higher performance than MOS-6502 in the same era, and Catherine also hoped to imply something better.
In computing, DEC needed to work with Apple Computer to develop a new generation of computer equipment standards.
After all, Catherine changed all the processing equipment from integrated to independent, so many things were not as well done as imagined. Although Katherine had contact with many semiconductor companies, Xiantong Company did not have any ideas about the whole machine, but it was still interested in some hardware parts of computer equipment.
Olson analyzes Catherine's company.
For Intel and Apple, their biggest competitor is not IBM but Motorola.
Olson used to work at IBM, this big dumb elephant with its slow reaction speed and extremely serious bureaucratic style made Olson extremely dissatisfied with the company. In fact, many people left IBM for this reason.
What's more, IBM is now being pummeled by Seymour Cray's combination punches and is dizzy and disoriented.
Motorola, however, was different. Due to its cooperation with the US government in wireless electronics, Motorola's reputation was unparalleled for a time. Motorola collaborated with National Video Corporation to develop the first color TV using a rectangular picture tube, which became the standard for picture tubes.
What is considered a top-notch company's standard is more or less like this. Even the GameTV adopted by Catherine uses their company's standard.
Olsen co-founded DEC and developed a highly successful line of computers, but he was more than just a computer engineer.
Now Catherine is almost Olson's boss. After analyzing these issues, he immediately wrote a questionnaire about the company's prospects and wrote a report.
Catherine felt deeply about the question raised by Olsen.
In fact, Catherine's $10 million is Olson's price.
No Olsen, no DEC. Not just 10 million, saying the other side is worth 100 million or more is not a problem at all.
But for Catherine, the main problem now is not with Motorola, but they need to develop a Z80 8-bit CPU immediately. This is the key.
Catherine's 4004 CPU is a 4-bit CPU, which is now used for Microsoft computers, and its function is not very large.
But with Z80, things were different.
Historically, the Z80 had 8KB of RAM and 64KB of VRAM, with a maximum of 512 colors, 64 on-screen at once, a maximum resolution of 320x448, up to 80 active sprites, and supported AV output and RGB output.
But now Catherine has decoupled the GPU and CPU, at least for a long time, she is not ready to merge them together.
Catherine had low requirements for the Z80, and after stripping away its graphics capabilities, the Z80 became a pure computing device. Meanwhile, Catherine also created a graphics card called MOS-6502 to support output...
These conceptual issues were passed on to Olsen and Jerry Sanders after Katherine had written down the basic reference design.
The cooperative relationship between companies has become a trend, and research in this area is urgently needed. Everything depends on the results of researchers.
Super Mario
Catherine wrote down two words on her notebook and then thought for a moment before adding "Pac-Man".
She still has many things to do.
At this time, Intel also immediately announced its plans for the Z80 to the outside world and decided to make the Z80 the core and standard of Microsoft's next-generation computer.
Catherine now, is about to show off her company's strength at the Pentagon...
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Power cut and internet is down, even laptop can't get online, damn it!
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