Seeing that this meeting evolved into a meaning of being unspeculative, Andy Glov decisively offered his farewell, "Tang, we are waiting for your big trip tomorrow to visit the results of the inteliapx432 project."

"It must, it must." Tang Huan sent out the three giants of Intel with a gentle smile on his face, but after turning around, he coldly ordered his assistant to mobilize the most senior professional staff and go to Intel to smash the venue tomorrow.

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After getting on the bus, Gordon Moore said slowly: "It seems that this road is not working. Tang and the six major Japanese semiconductor manufacturers have been in a long history, and it has been at least three years. The interests have been entangled too deeply."

Robert Noyce nodded, but said nothing.

"At present, the proportion of the memory business contribution to the company's profits has dropped to one-third. In sharp contrast, the processor business is growing rapidly. I think Intel must make up its mind to consider how to transform." Andy Glov interjected: "We have the choice of processor business, so why keep holding on to the memory business with smaller and smaller profit margins."

This time, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore remained silent at the same time, so depressed that Andy Glov almost vomited blood, but there was nothing he could do.

Although he holds the position of CEO, he is essentially a manager. Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, two founders who have a net worth of over 100 million US dollars through the appreciation of Intel's stock, are always unsurpassable.

The somewhat disoriented Intel may seem incredible to hang itself on the tree of the memory business, but this is a kind of corporate culture.

When Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore left Fairchild Semiconductor to raise funds and founded Intel, they launched their first product, 1kb dynamic random memory, in 1970, which brought about an industrial transformation.

Computer manufacturers began to replace the original magnetic core memory with dynamic random memory. The former quickly became the preferred solution for computer main memory, while the latter was completely eliminated.

The huge market demand has promoted the rapid development of the semiconductor memory industry. Intel, whose market share once reached 90%, was extremely glorious, and Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore also gained a lofty personal reputation.

However, when Intel launched 4kb dynamic random memory in mid-1972, quality problems occurred. As a result, a group of people who left Texas Instruments caught up and quickly occupied the market for 4kb dynamic random memory, and took the lead in launching a 16kb dynamic random memory chip.

Since then, Intel's dynamic random memory market share has not exceeded forty%.

Fortunately, semiconductor memory products are not only dynamic random memory, but also static random memory and read-only memory, as well as other general-purpose microprocessors and peripheral chips.

Intel has made great achievements in these popular fields, and it will not lose its position as a pioneer in the industry.

Since the 1kb and 4kb stages of dynamic random memory are both controlled by American companies alone, although the industry is fierce, Intel's life is still very comfortable and ranked among the Fortune 500 in the late 1970s.

But when dynamic random memory develops to the 16kb stage, the situation is different. With the support of the state, major Japanese consortiums invested a lot of financial and manpower and flocked into the semiconductor industry frantically.

American semiconductor companies did not take it seriously when it comes to visiting and learning like a lantern. In their opinion, it was difficult for the Japanese to achieve success, let alone compete and compete. They then issued licenses to use American technology to manufacture semiconductor chips.

The proud and arrogant Americans did not realize what kind of wild heart is hidden under the humble appearance of the Japanese "Haihayi".

As a result, the feng shui quickly began to change. The Japanese caught up with the Americans in the research and development of 16kb dynamic random memory, and in the late 1970s, they occupied 40% of the market share.

Against the backdrop of the fact that American semiconductor companies only retained 60% of their market share, Intel was inevitably affected.

But Intel is still optimistic that as long as it develops 64kb dynamic random memory, good days will come back with this unique skill.

But reality cruelly shows that the United States can no longer dominate the development roadmap of dynamic random memory. Japanese semiconductor companies have launched 64kb dynamic random memory, which accounted for 56% of the market share in 1981, while the United States has retreated to 44%.

If the market share indicator is too macro and not vivid enough, the price of each piece of 64kb dynamic random memory dropped from US$50 in 1981 to US$5 in 1982, which is enough to show the bloody storm of market competition.

Japanese semiconductor companies that only focus on price wars and have received national support seem to be a bit unfair, but the reality is that Japanese people who have always focused on quality control and process optimization have increased their dynamic random memory yield rate to 80%, while their American counterparts are 50%.

Tang Huan likes to purchase memory chips from six major Japanese semiconductor companies so much because they have achieved complete victory in price and technology, and American companies are not competitive.

As for the 64kb dynamic random memory that Intel invested huge resources to develop, it did not reach its original level and naturally did not bring the expected benefits to the company. The entire memory business continued to shrink, which further demonstrated the prosperity of the processor business.

But the memory business has almost become Intel's gene. If you want to abandon it and turn to the processor business, it is equivalent to reincarnation and becoming a new person.

To put it simply, once the company's transformation is started, a large number of people will lose their existing position and interests, start from scratch, or even be simply laid off. The resistance generated can be imagined.

Andy Glov is determined to reform, but if he does not get the strong support of Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, he will be unable to move forward.

After returning to Intel headquarters anxiously, Andy Glov personally inquired about the preparations for the reception of Tang Huan tomorrow, and went to the inteliapx432 project team for a walk.

His plan is very simple. Since Intel cannot turn around the memory business that is obsessed with making a fortune, we should try our best to make the processor business shine. Then we will naturally make a decision.

However, the actual performance of inteliapx432 compared to Intel80286 made Andy Glov very confused, especially after Tang Huan came, he went straight to the point of the problem.

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ps: Sweat, the calculation rules of the starting point are so complicated. There are fewer updates in November. I thought it was just that the full attendance award for that month was gone, but I realized that even the half-year award was gone. What a painful understanding^_^.
Chapter completed!