In the laboratory of Dongxing Company in Silicon Valley, Lin Johnson was wearing a full set of dustproof suits and a nervous viewing tester to conduct chip tests.

Since ibm launched personalputer on August 12, 1981, personal computers have become popular throughout North America with a fascinating power, and this trend is spreading all over the world.

ibm quickly popularized and promoted what a personal computer is to be a blue giant with its huge influence. ibm has instilled in people with its incomparable brand appeal. PC is ibm's concept, and quickly occupied the microcomputer market and expanded its standards to the whole world.

Before the emergence of ibmpc, the microcomputer market was a competition for the production of all parties. Although the market was chaotic, it was also very exciting, and people were happy to buy it.

However, after ibmpc entered the market, it quickly defeated all its competitors, including these companies' technical standards that were painstakingly managed in advance, and used ibm's huge influence to gather countless developers and gathered under its command. No company dared to stop this force.

No company in the market has the appeal of a blue giant, even if it is a marketing genius, Jobs, it is said that he is working with a group of people to study his graphical interface system. After ibm entered the PC field, it immediately squeezed many manufacturers in the market out of the altar, such as the Appleii computer, which has long occupied the sales throne, dropped sharply from 58 to 35 with the launch of ibmpc.

Time has entered 82 years, and the huge resources owned by the Blue Giant have firmly stabilized its top spot in the personal computer market, but the price of up to $3,000 and the production capacity that cannot meet the market also allowed some unique computer manufacturers to see the opportunity to make money.

In January, Conmaode, a contemporary of Apple, launched a unique home computer, Dore64 computer.

This computer has the same exquisite design as Apple computer, and what makes people feel even more unique is that it actually integrates everything into the keyboard, such as the 20kb rom64kb ram for storing sound tapes.

Moreover, the price of this computer is also very low. Compared with the ibmpc of $3,000, the tidore64 has a great price advantage. The price of the ididore company is actually lower than that of $595. Obviously, the positioning of the ididore itself is very accurate. It is aimed at those computer beginners and college students.

In the United States, the 1970s and 1980s were the era of popularization of computer knowledge, and it happened that the baby boomers grew up after World War II. These people were different from their conservative parents, and they were more lively and optimistic. The rapid development of new society and thriving families made many parents who grew up baby boomers willing to let their children understand the updated knowledge. This is not just one or two people but the overall ideological consciousness of society.

The dore64 computer just meets this demand. The low price and the traditional functions of the computer can be reflected in this computer, which is simply a lifelong destination for "baby boomers". Therefore, as soon as the dore64 is launched, many families excitedly took their children into the electronics store and competed to buy this entry-level computer.

It should be said that the emergence of the Dore64 computer has helped many Americans learn computer knowledge. The emergence of low-priced computers has also accelerated the popularity of computers in the United States. This computer is simply the American version of the "Little Ba Wang Learning Machine"

The chip developed in Dongxing Laboratory is now a popular chip developed by the "American Little Ba Wang Learning Machine".

After all, the pentium1 chip is a high-end chip with more than 120,000 transistors. The manufacturing difficulty and cost are high. The price of the p1 chip is $120, which is not suitable for the low-end market. In order to produce a cheap chip that can be mass-produced as soon as possible to compete with low-end chips such as 6502 and z80, Dongxing engineers transformed it based on the p1 chip.

The original pentium1 chip has a clock frequency of 20mhz, and the chip after the cache is downgraded has tested the clock frequency to reach 8mhz. Although there is some loss in clock frequency, the manufacturing cost and manufacturing difficulty have dropped significantly. After calculation, such chips can be priced at US$25 per piece, which is as cheap as the low-priced chip 6502z80 on the market.

Lin Johnson watched the chip with the chip, and he said to Codinan with satisfaction: "Yes, we also have a cheap microprocessor."

From the outside, this chip is obviously rougher than the p1 chip, but its performance is much higher than the z806502. After all, this is a product that cuts off performance from a fourth-generation chip, which is more advanced than the z806502, which is a low-end chip.

Professor Zhang Xi said to Lin Johnson lamentably: "A good chip was removed from its performance and made it numb. Why is this for?"

"A rich product line is also what manufacturers should do. It is not as difficult to simply match chips like TVs, refrigerators and other products. Manufacturers all bring out the best products. However, chips are different. This is the underlying technology. We developers can make whatever products we want. I can rely on p1 to develop low-end chips and microcontrollers. Downstream manufacturers have to listen to our command," said Lin Johnson to Professor Zhang Xi.

Professor Zhang Xi thought after listening to Lin Johnson's words. Lin Johnson's statement made him a little confused for a moment. In China, their research institutes usually received tasks from superiors to develop a circuit and rarely came into contact with actual products. They provided products as needed for tasks and never made their own decisions.

Professor Zhang Xi and other domestic researchers do not understand the market, but what they saw and heard here after they arrived in the United States shocked them. There are so many electronic products in the mall that enriched their horizons and impacted their minds. Various research, innovation, patents and inventions also bombarded their thoughts. This is very different from the same life in China.

Lin Johnson carefully put the five packaged processors into the box and packed them. He took the box and went straight to another laboratory and came to another building. This is the assembly and deployment center of Pentium Computer, where the new processor needs to be tested for matching hardware.

There are now four or five hosts on the experimental bench, and the original chips of these hosts have been removed. Here are Pentium computers and ibmpc.

In order to better cater to the market, Pentium Computer is fully compatible with ibmpc. ibm opens the standard and discloses most technical information so that anyone and manufacturer can design computer software based on its standards. Although ibm did not expect the consequences of doing so at the beginning, Lin Johnson knew that the personal computer market would soon usher in a craze of great development. Prepare for the future, the products of his two computer companies are compatible with ibmpc, which is the so-called "compatible machine".

The chip was installed, and the host was spread evenly with its internal organs open next to the monitor. Lin Johnson pressed the button, and the host made a "push" sound. The fan first turned up and the computer screen lit up.

The screen first has a pentium logo with white characters on black background, and then enters the dos system.

This Dos system was bought at a low price from Microsoft. Bill Gates half sold and half gave away msdos to Pentium Computer Company. Bill Gates has not become a big shot yet. Even though ibm used his Dos to make some money, he did not become a leader in the computer industry. At this time, he was still in a very humble career development period and was recommending his low-priced products to various computer companies.

"Haha, it's successful." Lin Johnson clenched his fists happily. He would definitely succeed. He believed from the beginning that it was very difficult to go from low-end to high-end, but it was very easy to go from high-end to low-end.

Although most of the performance on the chip has been cut off, this chip can still support the existing personal computer technology well. In fact, the current hardware technology is a bit unsatisfied with the development speed of the chip. Most of the computing power on the chip is useless and ordinary people cannot use it at all.

On February 5, the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year, Pentium released a popular home computer to the computer market.

This computer has a Dos system. Compared with game models like Dore64, Pentium's products are undoubtedly more like a computer. It has an advanced floppy drive system, randomly comes with 7 floppy disks, its clock frequency is 801mhz and 128kb memory. This computer is also compatible with ibmpc, and there is no problem using the rapidly rich ibmpc software on the market.

This computer can not only help people learn computer knowledge, it is also fully compatible with ibmpc and can use various hardware technologies developed according to the ibmpc standard, which provides a good choice for merchants who are accustomed to ibm products.

Moreover, the personal computer released by Pentium is quite cheap, and it is as cheap as the 1023mhz clock frequency TDDore64. Pentium gave it a super low price of $598.

Pentium used a new brand for this computer, Celeron Computer. The chip it uses is also named Celeron Chip.

This affordable and affordable computer suddenly ignited the computer market in North America. What was even more unexpected was that after the product was launched, many consumers who had already ordered the Dore64 computer, and after some comparison, they quickly defaulted and purchased the Celeron computer. To be continued.

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