The MOS Technology Company that Xu Nanxing is going to visit today is a well-known technology company in the United States.
In fact, the United States has many other tech companies. Besides Apple, there's Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates, another trillion-dollar tech company whose market capitalization rivals Apple's. There are also IBM, AMD, HP, Intel, and other well-known tech companies, all of which are just beginning their development. Xu Nanxing plans to contact each of them to explore investment or partnership opportunities.
The main reason why Xu Nanxing chose to go to MOS Technology first was that their company had developed a microprocessor, MOS 6502, last year.
This was a legendary chip and was also the cheapest microprocessor on the market at the time, costing only $25.
This was far lower than the price of other competing products at the same stage. At that time, Motorola's 6800 was priced at US$300, and Intel's 8080 was priced at US$149.
MOS 6502 has an ultra-low price of $25 and stable performance. Such a high cost-effectiveness makes it stand out among many processors!
For entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs who have limited initial capital, this microprocessor is the first choice. The Apple I and Apple II that Apple first launched both used this processor.
In addition to this microprocessor used by many computers in the United States during this period, game consoles such as Nintendo and Atari VCS also began to join the MOS camp.
In mainland my country, the popular Subor learning machines, FC compatible machines, Wenquxing, etc. all used 6502 or its variant processors.
This chip has remained popular for decades and has become the most enduring microprocessor in the history of computing dominated by MOS.
Xu Nanxing went there this time with the intention of ordering this microprocessor. Didn’t Steve Jobs use this low-cost processor to build his first computer?
If Steve Jobs can do it, Xu Nanxing can do it too!
Other things like monitors, keyboards, and mice can be purchased from other brands, and then soldering this microprocessor onto the circuit board is a very simple thing, isn't it?
Isn’t this how the assembled computers in modern computer malls are operated?
Anyway, the computer requirements of this era are not high and the operating efficiency is also very low. You can completely copy this method and create your own brand!
Moreover, the "raw materials" purchased are all American brands. I just assembled them myself, so I will definitely not be targeted by the US authorities!
Xu Nanxing doesn't understand politics, and she doesn't understand the national conditions of the United States. It is not a wise move to compete with Western society at this time, so she can only seek benefits from it without doing anything out of the ordinary!
In fact, Xu Nanxing also asked the Doomsday Boss about the machines they used to make chips, such as photolithography machines, ion implantation machines, etching machines, and thin film deposition equipment. She didn't need the most advanced models, just ones that were still usable.
Anyway, the first generation chips in the 1970s were very ordinary. Even the legendary chip MOS 6502 was really much worse than the later chips. The chip installed in any electronic watch could beat it in seconds.
But the answer from the Doomsday boss was that he couldn’t get the chip manufacturing machine!
Because this kind of high-tech equipment is also a strategic reserve for the end of the world, and is also necessary for the end of the world!
The cosmetics equipment, clothing equipment, snack production equipment, etc. that I had previously helped Xu Nanxing get were all not needed by the authorities in the doomsday world. After all, with the population plummeting, the existing finished products were enough for the doomsday world to use for many years.
Chip equipment and other high-tech equipment are closely related to the future development of mankind, so the doomsday authorities will definitely not allow them to be lost!
Therefore, it would be very difficult for Xu Nanxing to get a set of ordinary chip equipment!
If there is no ready-made equipment, then we have to think of other ways, and the first way Xu Nanxing thought of was to buy the production rights!
That’s right, this time Xu Nanxing went to MOS Technology, not only to buy ready-made chips, but also to purchase the production rights of this chip from their company, so that Xu Nanxing could open a foundry in Hong Kong!
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