Rebirth of America, this is my time

Perhaps because it wanted to participate in the San Francisco Electronics Show in September, MOS Company showed extremely high efficiency in the formation of new companies. Chuck Paido only communicated with Ethan Jones on the phone about the establishment on July 10th. On July 12th, MOS Company sent a working group to San Francisco to select a location for the new company.

Since this company will be engaged in chip production and operations in California, their first goal when forming 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 high-end technology, and the requirements for the production environment must be very high.

But after a few days of wandering around the future Silicon Valley, the MOS team called to tell Ethan Jones that they had found a suitable factory in Mountain View. At the same time, they also wanted to hire Ethan Jones. The second boss of this company went to take a look.

Such news surprised Ethan Jones. Of course, he also admitted that MOS Company did give him a lot of respect, and he was very happy about this. When he arrived at the location mentioned by the other party, what he could see was a factory area covering an area of ​​about two acres. It was originally the location of a calculator company, but since the oil crisis, it could not accept the skyrocketing production costs. They moved the company from California to Baja California.

Since the previous company produced TTL, that is, triodes, their requirements for the factory area were relatively high. Although it had been dusty for a long time and not used, Ethan just went in for a spin, and it was already full of dust when he came out. But at the same time, Ethan Jones also admitted that cleaning the place carefully would be much better than opening a new factory by himself.

"How much does it cost here?" Ethan Jones asked.

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

Wearing a suit, he was currently stamping his feet, trying to shake off all the black and gray on his trouser legs.

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

"If you use Platinum Elmer's technology package, four production lines can be placed here." The team leader replied directly without reading the information.

Platinum Elmer is an instrument company in Massachusetts. He invented the first projection aligner in 1973. When making CPUs, it can directly project the mask image onto the wafer without touching it. The yield rate of the CPU has soared from the original 230% using Kodak technology to 780%, which greatly reduces the production cost of the CPU.

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

"So the company is going to buy four sets at once?" Ethan asked, "Is two million 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 interest in MOS 6502, can help the company clear the legal obstacles for the popularization of computers. Under such circumstances, the company has not let go of production. When the news gets out, the entire technology circle will laugh at us. "

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

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

‘Papa papa~’

Ethan Jones applauded. He liked the feeling of letting go of the boss.

because……

The feeling of waiting to receive 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 responsible for forming the new company laughed and said: "Mr. Jones, our company's board of directors feels that this company emerged because of you, so the naming rights of the company should be given to you."

‘Is it so happy? ’

Ethan Jones was a little surprised.

But after the surprise, he happily accepted the privilege.

"Then let's call him Chuck Peddle inc."

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

"This is indeed a good idea."

"I think no one would refuse to leave a name in history."

Yes, that’s what Ethan Jones thinks!

The world should remember those who changed the world!

…………

After the address of the new company was determined, the next thing actually had nothing to do with Ethan Jones.

Company registration, purchasing factories, ordering equipment, and bank loans are all handled by others, but the only thing Ethan Jones has to do is to sign his name on various articles of association.

In order to protect his rights and interests, he also asked Uncle Thomas Johnson to find a lawyer for him to review documents.

As for why not ask Stanford for help?

Very simple!

Why use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken?

Perhaps because the power of money is strong enough, within a week, the company Chuck Peddle inc. was successfully registered by MOS and obtained a Federal Tax ID (Federal Tax ID) and Sales Tax Permit (Sales Permit).

In terms of patent registration, they also adopted a provisional application method, recording production first, and then applying formally.

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

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

When this fact emerged, Ethan Jones felt like he was walking on the clouds!

MOS 6502 is the only chip in the history of chips that has sold one billion units!

What is a twenty percent gain?

Even if one makes one dollar, he can still get two hundred million for free!

Although this benefit needs to be reflected slowly over time, it is not important, right?

Because this thing is much safer than any federal pension!

"Holy shit! 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 was actually easy to learn!

For example, now, as long as he, Ethan Jones, wakes up at eight o'clock every morning and rests at twelve o'clock at noon, he can achieve all this!

And just when Ethan Jones was about to happily experience the retirement-like life, on the morning of August 3rd, he was woken up by a loud shout. That was the voice of Aunt Linda——

"Ethan!!!"

"Stop sleeping!!!"

"Someone looking for you!!!"

The sudden call almost shocked Ethan Jones to death.

Rubbing his sleepy eyes, with his head like a bird's nest, he dragged the child downstairs carelessly.

"Linda, what's wrong?"

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

Linda, who was cleaning up her home, waved her hand, pointed at the door and said, "If 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 and asked him to get up early in the morning, the guy at the door who was more stupid than him made Ethan wake up, "MFxxk! Steve, why are you here?"

That's right, that person is none other than Steve Jobs.

Thanks to [book friend 20221128004343399] [cjll] for the 100 starting coins.