These young people were originally determined to achieve results as soon as possible, but after Alex proposed the concept of a personal computer PC, they were immediately attracted by this idea.

More importantly, the things given by Alex are very detailed, and at first glance they are a highly feasible design plan. Under his description, in the near future, everyone will have a PC machine, and at least every family will have one.

Moreover, these PC machines can also be connected through telephone lines and fiber optic networks to enter a virtual world called "Internet", which can interact information, voice chat, watch videos, find information, etc.

If another person had said this to them, they might have doubted it for a while, but Alex, who said this, took out $100 million for them to study and use. Could anyone use so much money to fool them? These eight young people don't believe that such a thing will happen.

These eight young men were separated by Alex. One of them was responsible for the department to study a direction, and they were not affiliated with each other, but they had to cooperate with each other to develop. Some were responsible for CPUs, some were responsible for system software, and some were responsible for the research and development of motherboards or other software and hardware. They were all independent departments, but the things developed had to be combined into a whole.

For those of them who are ambitious, the ark company's stage is big enough to accommodate all of them working together and dancing together.

Naturally, Alex still has to hold the company firmly in his hands, such as the finance department, the personnel department, etc., and these major parts were not easily handed over to these young people to manage themselves.

On the one hand, it is to prevent their ambitions from expanding with the increase of power. On the other hand, it is because these young people are not experienced in this area, and Alex does not want to pay tuition for their mistakes.

The headquarters of ark company is built on an open land next to Shockley's laboratory. This land was bought for only a small amount of money. On the one hand, it was bought early, and on the other hand, the local government gave a low price for Shockley's fame. After all, it was not always possible to attract a Nobel Prize winner.

The money for the land was extra for Alex, so naturally it belonged to him in the end. After getting the land, he did not rush to develop it, but only built a building for Shockley as a laboratory. It was not until AKR was established that Alex used the land and continued to build higher and larger floors.

This building is not a regular appearance, not a box-mounted building. It is a group of arc-shaped buildings. When looking down from the air, it is shaped like a crescent moon. It lies flat on the ground.

The arc is the front of the building. It is like a giant with open arms. It welcomes guests from all directions. In front of it, there is a beautiful garden and an artificial lake in the forest. The road leading to the lake is composed of white pebbles, and many flowers and plants are planted beside the road. Then there is a flat grass.

Many ark employees like this garden very much. During the work break, they will run here and lie on the grass to rest.

AKR building and gardens are all works designed by Alex. When he insisted on building the Ark headquarters in this way, people didn't understand it very much. They thought it was a waste of money and there was no need to build any gardens, lakes, grasslands, etc., let alone that strange-shaped building.

However, after working here for a while, they finally experienced what it means to combine work and leisure. Many Ark employees are very satisfied with their work environment and are even reluctant to go home immediately after work. They also spend a lot of time walking in this garden.

There was a similar example once. It is said that there is a lake next to Seattle University, and teachers and students like the scenery here very much. Although the salary of professors at Seattle University is 20% higher than that of other universities, they would rather pay for it in order to have a beautiful working environment.

When Seattle planned to build a building next to the lake to destroy this beautiful environment, not only university professors opposed it, but even students protested. In the end, the matter was left unresolved, which shows how much impact a good environment has on people's hearts and how cohesive it is.

Neus and others didn't understand at first, but soon they admired Alex's design. Some people even speculated that the reason why this building was designed like this was that it seemed that a ship was lying on the ground was a metaphor for the name of ark.

In fact, it is not completely correct. Those people are just right. In Alex's design, the building has not been completely built, and the building complex needs to be slowly expanded in the next ten years. The final shape should be like the Chinese Hakka Tulou, which is surrounded by arc-shaped buildings to form a whole.

In it, gardens, lakes and so on will eventually form an ecological environment, fully reflecting the harmony between man and nature.

However, there is no need yet. Ark has not yet reached the stage of massive expansion. Even if so many buildings have been built, it will be a waste of vacancy. It will take a few more years, or even more than ten years, to complete the construction.

At that time, people will deeply admire the unique and ingenious design of Alex and the long-term foresight.

The arrival of Seymour Clay and Alex quickly alarmed Neus, Moore and others. They admired Seymour very much. After all, Seymour is now the number one supercomputer design person in the world.

Even though the Dragon Slaying Series computers launched by ibm have surpassed the "Clay i-type", the framework of that series of computers is actually borrowed from the "Clay i-type". In this regard, Seymour is still better than others.

"Hello, Mr. Clay! I really didn't expect you to come!"

Neus, who has a big nose, is still the leader of the eight young people. He is the oldest among the eight people and his thoughts and behaviors are the most mature. When they defected to Shockley, they were all under 30 years old, in their prime, and had achieved success in their studies. They are all at the peak of their creativity.

Now these eight people have been pressed by Alex for a few years and have been ready to move. They know how much impact what they do will have on the world. As long as Alex lets go, they will soon be able to completely change people's lives.

Seeing the arrival of Seymour and Alex, they immediately thought of something: "Is the time ripe? Their success is coming!"

"I didn't expect to come here at first. Alex asked for it!"

Seymour looked at the eight excited faces in front of her. Although her expressions were different, she could feel their passion like flames from their eyes.

After hearing Seymour's words, their eyes suddenly focused on Alex, as if they were waiting for his order and immediately took weapons to charge into battle.

It has been nearly 4 years since they still failed to make a name in the semiconductor field. If they were included in Shockley Laboratory, it would take almost 6 years. There are not many 6 years in their lives.

Among them, there are those who have obtained dual doctoral degrees, engineers from large companies, researchers and professors from famous universities. This is also a collection of talents that have never been seen in the western United States back then.

Neuss is the elder of eight people, and is also the most determined person in Schockley. When he flew to San Francisco, the first thing he did was to buy a residence for himself and decide to settle permanently without considering the working environment, conditions and treatment. The experience of the other seven young people coming to Silicon Valley was roughly similar to that of Neuss.

However, he was also the one who "defected". Seeing that Shockley was incompetent in command and poor management, he had to lead the other seven people to find another way out. In the original history, they found a New York photography equipment company to invest and start a business and established the "Fairy Child" company.

Now Alex takes the lead, takes them all into the company and set up ark company. If he hadn't been able to suppress these ambitious young heroes, they would have found another way out.

However, looking at their appearance, Alex knew that the patience of these young people had been almost worn out. Although it was a little earlier, the PC developed by Ark was relatively mature and you can take it out and try it out.

Thinking of this, Alex said to them with a smile: "You can first show Seymour the success you have developed in the past few years, let him see it!"

"Okay! OK! OK!"

They immediately led the way in front of them, as if they were about to go to the battlefield. At the beginning, they did not associate this matter with the attack of ibm, but after this period, they had a vague idea in their minds and became more and more excited.

Among the others, Eugene asked in a low voice: "Do you think..."

"Shh! Don't guess randomly. If you make a mistake, it will be embarrassing!" Moore quickly interrupted Eugene, and glanced at Seymour and the others carefully, and then explained: "I guess ibm is too forced to push us too much, so they want to launch us!"

"It's good that way. If we continue to develop, we may all become old men!"

"Speak quietly, stop talking!"

They came to a spacious and bright room, a room with bright and white walls. There were many busy staff here, sitting on chairs, staring at the screen in front of them, typing on the keyboard with crackling sounds.

"The No. 1 machine passed the test and the CPU speed reached the predetermined ideal value..."

"There are several bugs found by the No. 2 machine and it needs to be dealt with as soon as possible!"

"Doctor x!Doctor x, have you received the message I sent?"

"The xx software test passed, all the basic functions were running normally, and only a few small bugs were found..."

The employees in the room stared at the screen while communicating with their partners, doing intense and orderly work. At the beginning, Seymour found it interesting, but soon discovered a strange problem, that is, they seemed to each have their own computer.

Yes, that computer was placed under their desk, like a black box standing up, with the indicator lights on it constantly flashing.

Thinking of the concept of PC PC introduced to him on the road and then the scene he saw in front of him, he couldn't help but feel excited: "Ai, Alex! Is this the PC you told me? Has ark already made it?"

Alex smiled at each other eight young people, and this was a successful smile: "Yes, we have made PCs! What you see is a series of personal computers. Now the ark staff are testing functions, fixing bugs and improving performance. The PC functions here are varied. In addition to being able to connect to the Internet, they can also share some of the computer's work."

The Internet connection mentioned by Alex is actually just a local area network in later generations, but if there is enough funds, they will be able to build the Internet immediately.

In the past few years, under the guidance of Alex, ark has not taken the path in history, but has a very clear purpose and headed straight for personal PCs. The patent inventions they created can make Ark famous, any one they can take out.

However, in order to keep it confidential and not attracting the attention of companies like ibm, Alex asked Neus and others to wait until the product is fully mature before announcing it. If according to Alex's standards, it would only be announced to the public by the PC performance in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

However, now things are urgent, so I can only launch the PC product that is already basically mature at hand. I believe it will immediately attract the attention of the world and bring back those hesitant users.

"The design of our PC computer is entirely developed based on the needs of individuals and families, such as graphical operation interfaces, word processing software, music audio processing, image processing, etc., which can all be realized at a very small cost. In other words, just buy a PC computer, you can do what you need to buy a supercomputer now."

While walking, Neus introduced the PC function to Seymour. Sometimes he stopped to let the Ark staff demonstrate some functions for him. Seeing such a humanized and versatile PC, Seymour had already stirred up storms in his heart.

"Yes, as long as people or families who buy PCs do not need to use them to calculate some complex problems such as weather forecasts." Moore also missed a sentence next to him and introduced with great enthusiasm.

"That kind of supercomputers are for large companies, but they sometimes need to use printing functions, word processing, etc. If they still use supercomputers to complete it at this time, it would be a waste of computer resources. They just need to buy a PC computer produced by Ark and they can complete most of the computer's work." Nois continued to explain.

"Not only that, our PC computers also have unparalleled compatibility!" Alex once again emphasized the function of "compatibility". He believed that if you want to defeat ibm, you have to rely on PC computer compatibility. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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