Rebirth of America, this is my era

Chapter 58 I am so pragmatic!
Perhaps because they wanted to participate in the San Francisco Electronics Show in September, MOS was extremely efficient in establishing a new company. Chuck Paddo had just communicated with Ethan Jones on the phone on July 10 about the establishment, and on July 12, MOS sent a working group to San Francisco to select a site for the new company.

Since the company will engage in chip production and business activities in California, their primary goal when it was established was to find a factory that could support chip production and a warehouse to store materials and products.

Ethan Jones originally thought that the process of finding a factory would be very long. After all, chip production involves cutting-edge technology, and the requirements for the production environment must be very high.

But after the MOS working group wandered around the future Silicon Valley for a few days, they called Ethan Jones and told him that they had found a suitable factory in Mountain View. At the same time, they also wanted to invite Ethan Jones, the company's second boss, to take a look.

Ethan Jones was a little surprised by the news. Of course, he also admitted that MOS did respect him a lot, and he was very happy about that. When he arrived at the location the other party said, he saw a factory area of ​​about two acres. It was originally the location of a computer company, but since the oil crisis, they could not accept the skyrocketing production costs and moved the company from California to Baja California.

Since the previous company produced TTL, that is, triodes, their requirements for the factory were relatively high. Although it had been dusty for a long time and Ethan just went in for a walk and came out covered in dust, but at the same time, Ethan Jones also admitted that cleaning the place carefully would be much better than opening a new factory.

"How much is it here?" Ethan Jones asked.

"It's very cheap, only two hundred thousand US dollars." The leader of the MOS working group is a middle-aged man.

He was wearing a suit and was stamping his feet constantly, trying to shake off all the black dust on his trouser legs.

"Based on the area of ​​this factory, how many production lines can we put in it?" Ethan Jones, with his hands behind his back, looked like an overseer.

"If we use Platinum Elmer's technical kit, we can put four production lines here." The team leader replied directly without even looking at the information.

PerkinElmer is an instrument company in Massachusetts. It invented the first projection aligner in 1973. When making CPUs, it can project the mask image directly onto the wafer without touching it. This increased the CPU yield from 20 to 30 percent using Kodak technology to 70 to 80 percent, greatly reducing the production cost of the CPU.

Of course, the huge improvement in efficiency means that the purchase price of the equipment is very expensive.

"So the company plans to buy four sets at once?" Ethan asked, "Will two million be enough?"

This question made the team leader laugh and said, "Chuck and the others said that this is not a matter of money, but a matter of face."

"Mr. Jones, who has no vested interest in MOS 6502, was able to help the company clear legal obstacles for the popularization of computers. Under such circumstances, the company still refuses to let go of production. Once the news gets out, the entire technology community will laugh at us."

"Therefore, we have communicated with Wells Fargo Bank. After the company successfully registers to purchase the equipment, we will use the ordered new equipment as collateral for a loan to build four production lines here."

"Mr. Jones, all you have to do is wait."

'Papapapa~'

Ethan Jones applauded. He liked the feeling of being the boss.

because……

The feeling of waiting to collect the money is really great!

At the same time, he was also curious about the name of this new company.

After he asked this question, the team leader in charge of establishing the new company laughed and said, "Mr. Jones, our board of directors feels that this company came into being because of you, so the right to name the company should be given to you."

"Is it so refreshing?"

Ethan Jones was a little surprised.

But after the surprise, he gladly accepted the privilege.

"Then let's call it Chuck Peddle, Chuck Peddle inc."

Such words made the team leader's eyes light up, "Use the name of the chip patent holder as the company name?"

"That's a good idea indeed."

"I think no one would refuse to leave a name in history." Yes, that's what Ethan Jones thought!
The world should remember those who change the world!

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After the address of the new company was determined, what happened next actually had little to do with Ethan Jones.

Someone was in charge of matters such as company registration, factory purchase, equipment ordering, and bank loans, and all Ethan Jones had to do was to sign his name on various charters.

In order to protect his own rights, he also asked his uncle Thomas Johnson to find a lawyer for him to review the documents.

As for why not seek help from Stanford?
Very simple!
Why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken?
Perhaps because the power of money is strong enough, in less than a week, Chuck Peddle inc. was successfully registered by MOS and obtained the Federal Tax ID and Sales Tax Permit.

In terms of patent registration, they also adopted the method of temporary application, first registering the production and then applying formally later.

By the end of July, the production line they ordered arrived.

On August 1, assembly was completed and test production began.

When this fact came out, Ethan Jones felt like he was walking on clouds!

MOS 6502 is the only chip in the history of chips that has sold one billion pieces!
What is a 20 percent gain?
Even if he makes one dollar per coin, he can still pick up 200 million for free!
Although this benefit will take time to manifest, it’s not important, right?

Because this thing is much more secure than any federal pension!

"What the hell! I'm twenty years old and I'm already living the life of a sixty-year-old?"

"This day is so comfortable!"

Looking at the share contract in his hand, Ethan Jones suddenly felt that the pragmatic spirit of working three hours a day and occasionally working overtime until the afternoon is actually easy to learn!

For example, now, as long as Ethan Jones gets up at eight o'clock every morning and goes to bed at twelve o'clock noon, he can achieve all this!
Just when Ethan Jones was preparing to enjoy a happy retirement life, he was awakened by a loud shout on the morning of August 3. It was Aunt Linda's voice.

"Ethan!!!"

“Don’t sleep!!!”

"Someone is looking for you!!!"

The sudden call almost shocked Ethan Jones to death.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, he walked downstairs lazily with his baby in his slippers, his head as heavy as a bird's nest.

"Linda, what's wrong?"

He looked at his aunt in a daze, not understanding the situation.

Linda, who was cleaning the house, waved her hand and pointed at the door and said, "Someone is looking for you, go and see for yourself."

Such words made Ethan Jones yawn and walk out.

Just when he was wondering who was so wicked to wake him up so early in the morning, the guy at the door who was even more arrogant than him woke Ethan up, "MFxxk! Steve, why are you here?"

That’s right, it was Steve Jobs.

Thanks to [book friend 20221128004343399][cjll] for the reward of 100 Qidian coins.

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