Chapter 27 foreword

Between San Francisco and San Jose on the west coast of the United States, there is a canyon tens of kilometers long and several kilometers wide around San Francisco Bay, commonly known as Silicon Valley. (The part circled in green in the picture) The reason why it is called Silicon Valley is not because it produces silicon, but because it has many semiconductor companies that use silicon, including Intel Corporation, the world's largest semiconductor company.Its central processing unit (CPU) is used in more than half of the computers in the world, and its influence on our daily life is few companies can match.We introduced Moore's theorem and Andy Gates' theorem in the previous chapter, among which Moore was the founder of Intel Corporation, and Andy Grove was the fourth to join Intel and truly develop Intel Corporation into the world's largest CEO of a semiconductor company.Today, Intel has nearly 100,000 people, with an annual output value of 36 billion U.S. dollars and a market value of 140 billion U.S. dollars.For more than 30 years, the key to Intel's success is first of all to catch the wave of the personal computer revolution, especially with Microsoft as a strong partner; It is improving the performance of processors for PC users all over the world. In its own words, it has given each microcomputer a Pentium core.